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Heyy some old drawing about stranger things for the spooky seasonnnn
I was able to witness the most cinematic sunset of the Blue Ridge Mountains recently. For a moment, it looked like the Upside Down was cracking through the sky.
The Cool Significance of Will Byers's Birthday in Terms of Astrology
Will's birthday is about fire, water, beginnings, endings, and the in-betweens. Stick with me on this one if you're interested lol...
Will's birthday as of now is canonically March 22nd. Side Note - This is around the Spring Equinox, the beginning of spring (which is March 20th or 21st depending on where you are).
It is also the second astrological day of the Aries season on the Zodiac wheel.
This is cool because Aries, which is a fire sign, marks the BEGINNING of the ENTIRE zodiac wheel as the first sign. In astrology Aries is described as embodying the essence of initiation, sparks, ignition, spontaneity, strength, courage and action.
However, March 22nd is very close to the pisces season since it is two days after the Pisces season ends. Pisces is the END of the zodiac wheel. It is the last sign, as opposed to the first sign Aries, but because this is a circular cycle like the calendar year, Pisces and Aries are right next to each other. Many astrologers would consider March 22nd the CUSP between Pisces and Aries (although some would only consider March 20th or 21st the technical cusp dates). I talk about the significance of this below this image from Britannica.
So knowing that Will is on the cusp and therefore is connected to both of these signs, let's talk about Pisces traits as well.
Pisces is very different from Aries in most ways, they're almost opposites despite being right next to each other. Pisces, a water sign, is known for its connection to the mystic and spiritual world, its all-encompassing and universal essence. It is associated with sensitivity, emotions, wisdom, empathy, passiveness, compassion, and art (pisces tend to be said to be good artists). Aries is often referred to as the symbolically "youngest" of the zodiac, fresh and inspired, with masculine energy, and pisces the "oldest" with feminine energy. According to astrology, Will being born on the cusp means that he would likely take characteristics from both these signs, but at heart he will be an Aries.
I just find that interesting. Also, they are represented by fire and water, which is cool because water is known to be THE connection to the upside down, and the void that El goes into is dark, watery, and looks like outer space (pisces is associated with space/the universe). Whereas Fire is the thing that DEFEATS the upside down creatures, and there have been some connections between Will and fire, the most obvious one being that Will the Wise, his DnD character, has fire powers. He is also associated with light. There are several times when the light very obviously is shining on him in an intentionally dramatic way.
Also since he's the cusp, it's almost like the place between the upside down and the real world... caught in between slides of a viewfinder, if you will. Caught between the beginning and the end, the ancient and the new, between the wise/old and the young/innocent/naive. Just interesting...
Also thinking of the quote "beginning of the end"... hmmm...
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(((I also find it interesting that he's so close to being a Pisces. I don't know how much thought the writers put into this or even if this is all a coincidence. But I feel like according to astrology it would make more sense for him to be a Pisces given his very passive and selfless personality and his connection to the supernatural and art, like that's literally a textbook pisces for you. But no, he's born with the sign of the strong-headed, strong-willed, courageous, certain, action-taking, direct, blunt, confident Aries. It shows that despite his passive personality, he ULTIMATELY is a courageous being who never backs down, the essence of Aries. Also, he's so close to being a water sign, but by a few switches perhaps of fate, he ended up being born a couple days later with a fire sign, the first-born sign of the wheel... this shows in the end, maybe he will find his inner fire or use fire powers in some way. The world wants him to succumb to the upside down, let the water engulf and suffocate him, but he will still choose fire, choose to fight.)))
Just thought I'd put this here for anyone who was interested.
I'll probably make a post in the future about beginnings/endings and their significance in stranger things, but not for a while lol. Will's birthday is just one piece of many...
WILL HAS POWERS - MORE EVIDENCE -- THE WRITING'S ON THE WALL... LITERALLY
Yall ready for this? *dances*
So ya know how in the very beginning of season 4 ep 1, Brenner is shown talking to 010 in the lab room in a flashback? And what Brenner's doing is DRAWING on a paper (with Crayola crayons) and asking 010 to tell him what he's drawing by using his powers, not by looking?
Okay, now keeping that in mind, you know how the upside down is stuck in Nov 6, 1983? So when characters are in the upside down version of Hawkins, they can't see any physical changes that have been made to Hawkins since that very day (and probably second) Will went missing? As shown when Nancy goes to her house in the upside down in s4, and she doesn't have any guns and everything is completely frozen to that snapshot in time?
This Means there is no way when Will was stuck in the upside down in season 1, that he could have seen the alphabet letters Joyce wrote on the wall for him, because it was after Nov 6 that she did that. And yet he somehow saw them? When they couldnt have shown up in the UD? There is no way he saw them, unless......
The writers screwed up
...... unless......
Will has powers that are the exact same as those demonstrated by 010. 010 sees drawings, Will sees the letters.
Let's look a little further here, at just some parallels that reinforce Will's similarities to this scene.
Parallel #2
What does papa draw first? The sun. Will is associated with what? Light, and the color yellow. In Will's scene where he communicates with the letters Joyce wrote on the wall, he uses what as a medium? Lights. Further establishing a connection between these two characters, and these two scenes.
Now let's look at the context of the scenes and a parallel with vecna (who's will's evil brother from another mother, apparently).
Parallel #3
What happens after papa asks 010 to identify the objects he drew? Papa then asks him to look and see what is happening in the other rooms. 010 sees signs of henry creel/01's massacre (red, blood) and tells papa about it. So basically 010 acts as a spy who warns papa of the danger that is vecna. Will does the same when he warns others of the mindflayer, particularly mike, who's the one who called Will a "spy" in season 2. Oh, and mike and Brenner just so happen to be heavily paralleled together these season.
Parallel #4
What does 010 like to use to answer to papa before he goes in the private room to run tests? A magic eight ball. Those are known to magically give answers about any question you have, especially if it involves an event that will happen in the future. 010 likely purposely controls the answer. What does Will have in his self portrait as Will the Wise? A blue crystal ball. What do crystal balls do? They either reveal what is going on in another place, or another time, particularly in the future. And will displays his ability to show things that are not physically present through his drawings, and he potentially predicts the future with his drawings. DnD also predicts the future, which he clearly plays and is the most obsessed over playing out of the friend group (at least in s3). Atleast, he's the most dedicated. Dedicated for life. Basically, magic 8 balls and crystal balls both show supernatural psychic shit.
Parallel #5
Now, jumping ahead to when Lucas and Max are in the creels house and waiting for vecna to come. Lucas and max show notes and DRAWINGS to each other to communicate. What does vecna first say when he gets a hold of Max's mind after that? "You think i dont see everything you're doing?" Either he's bluffing here about it and wasn't actually able to read the notes (he could only read their minds), or he really is able to see what they wrote along with everything else they were doing, which we as an audience know woukd be thanks to his POWERS.
Basically, Will can't have seen Joyce's letters on the wall without powers. Only one character has been able to see what people were drawing in the real world while they were in the upside down, and that's Vecna, and he used his mind powers to do it. And 010 is a character that perfectly encapsulates and reminds the audience of the idea that one CAN in fact read things between the UD and the real world (since he can read it from the void), but only with powers.
Parallel #6
And on top of that, they deliberately show that Papa is using Crayola crayons to draw for 010, and Joyce specifies in season 2 that she got Will Crayola crayons for his birthday.
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Why would they purposely show a character (010) reading random drawings, of all things, when they could have shown him doing something else, unless it's foreshadowing?? He could have been doing any other puzzle, he could have been identifying photos like Brenner did for El in season 1 flashbacks to the lab, but no, it's drawings. I think the writers want to show us that it is only possible to see what someone in the real world is writing/drawing if one has powers.
Also, I mean come on, they purposely threw in a completely new character just for the beginning of the show, who's a polite and quiet kid, and right off the bat associate him with drawings, powers, the sun, and vecna. Will is in one way or another associated with all those things too.
Idk what powers Will will have, how much they will tie into time/the upside down. Can he control the UD or the future with his drawings? What is he capable of seeing in the UD? What can he reveal? Idk what I'm saying anymore lol but I want to see him with powers!!! I want to knowwwww
~sorry this was sloppy~
To those interested, I have a post coming up about birth and memories and will/el!!! This post was just actually an offshoot to some other theory I was thinking about (you know, came up with it while I paced around outside barefoot mumbling to myself about theories, normal things)
Sorry if this has been said before
Peace!!
SEASON TWO ➩ BROKEN RECORD
Eddie Munson x OC!Fem!Reader
SUMMARY: a new year typically means a fresh start. Well, not for Hawkins. New dangers arise, secrets and lies emerge, and new residents must confront hidden truths. Navigating these challenges, will uncover deeper connections and face even greater threats, testing bonds and resilience.
chapter one: new neighbors, new nightmares
chapter two: unforgettable encounters
chapter three: if darkness had a son
chapter four: problem child
chapter five: trick or treat, freak
chapter six: rock n’ roll dream
chapter seven: the awakening
chapter eight: thunderstruck
chapter nine: hells bells
chapter ten: cherry flavored
chapter eleven: maneater
chapter twelve: one step forward, three steps back
chapter thirteen: made for lovin’ you
"I love you." Robin's eyes were dead, emotionless. Her eyebags only added to the effect, like straight charcoal was rubbed underneath her eyes. Like she hadn't slept in a week. And she probably hadn't, Steve remembered. Her voice was raspy from misuse, the only sounds Steve had heard her say since he found her being screams and those three simple words. He held her bloody hand, rubbing the joints on her fingers. Too thin fingers. He suddenly realized she wouldn't have had anything to eat all week unless she was eating the monsters corpse.
His eyes trailed down her arms. Covered in inhuman bites and scratches. He could feel splinters in her fingers. That explained the mediocre stake she had. That she swapped for her hands halfway through the fight. He shivered, remembering the gruesome fate that the monsters were doomed to. Even evil creatures didn't deserve such a horrible death. He glanced at the desecrated corpses surrounding them. What had she gone through to make her fight like... THAT?
The thing that really caught his attention was the cut on her forehead. A large scratch, mediocrely covered by a strip of her jacket.
With a start, he realized he hadn't responded. "I..." His voice cracked with emotion. Tears welled up in his eyes as he pulled her into a bone crushing hug, breaking down sobbing. "I love you too..." He mumbled into her shoulder.
The corpses surrounding them didn't matter anymore. The sulfur in the air of the upsidedown didn't matter anymore. Not even the fact that they were still in the upsidedown and anything could attack them at any moment mattered. The only thing that mattered was Robin back in his arms.
OR Robin gets dragged into the upside-down and can't be found for a week. Steve finds her and they fight a pack of demidogs (more of Steve watching in horror as Robin decimated them)
Mike + going to his mom for comfort after losing Will, losing El, and having to say goodbye to them both at once.
isaac dustin harrington - munson headcanons
isaac is the oldest of all the harrington-munson kids
and when seeing their dynamic it’s quite obvious
when he was younger he was steve harrington to the t
he was sweet, outgoing, charismatic, a leader
and while he hero part never changed, once he got to middle school he became a little more closed off
mostly because of the awful bullying
god bless american public school
but through the bullying he became a true munson
he ran the schools first dnd club, was the lead guitarist for his band, and edged up the skateboarding population at his school
so he was pretty much the king of the losers
as a kid he used to have terrible nightmares about his pop (eddie) dying
and he was also terrified of bats…for some reason
his love language is acts of service, he couldn’t remember the last time he told his brother he loved him, but he fixed his car when it broke down two decembers ago
he really admires his uncle dustin (not surprising) and thinks his nasa job is super cool
he’s always freezing but does nothing to warm himself up
drives his siblings, especially his sister, anywhere they want to go. he likes driving
can’t sing very well, but loves playing the guitar. he used to go to sleep to his dad playing
wasn’t ever good at sports, but could play water polo really well
he doesn’t talk very much, but more than his sister
he also doesn’t like being shirtless. he’s not self conscious, he just doesn’t like the feeling of air against his skin
isn’t the biggest fan of physical touch, but always let his sister climb into his bed if she had nightmares
hyper emotional and cries if people around him are upset
was definitely a fnaf lore kid
really good at arcade and video games, but awful at card games
used to start quiet games to make his siblings stop arguing
makes the stupidest jokes known to man to make people smile
goes to sleep late but wakes up early
does quite well in his classes, but nothing spectacular
hates reading long novels, but could read 80 articles a day
takes naps on occasion
only wears the color black, sometimes red
a master at bowling
has a really loud laugh
started family movie nights (even though it just started because thomas and matilda intruded on his star wars marathon)
once tried to grow his hair out about as long as his pops when he was his age, but cut it the second it got to his chin
cried when his sister got sick cause he didn’t wanna see her sad
doesn’t really know what he wants to do with his life
master of puppets is his favorite song
loves lord of the rings and watches the movies religiously
painting his nails calms him down
has an old street cat he domesticated living in his room
skateboards around town
his siblings are his best friends, even when he wants to kill his brother
has a stutter when he gets nervous or mad
sleeps with one leg on his bed and one off
oddly strong
hard exterior but soft on the inside
doesn’t get flirting and has many people like him without him knowing
overly protective of his sister
cried the first time he saw her perform
would never say it but loves his little brother and is extremely proud of him
ok hear me out
I can't edit, but hear me out----
Just before Eddie's death with Oh Ana by Mother Mother playing. Grabbing his guitar, playing Master of Puppets, cutting the makeshift rope before he can climb, riding the bike with the bats chasing after him, fighting against the swarm. And finally, his death. All while the song plays, "I'll be God, I'll be God I'll be God I'll be God, today."
Its probably out there somewhere but I thought it was kinda cool.
Okay, strange theory, but I feel like anything in the Upside Down, likes things that start with B… like first first, the Demogorgan killed Barb, then in Season two, it killed Bob, then the Min’s Flayer killed Billy… they are also relationships that start with B. Barb was Nancy’s BEST friend, Bon was Joyce’s BOYFRIEND, and Billy was Max’s BROTHER (I know not technically but just roll with it)… so Barb = Best Friend, Bob = Boyfriend, and Billy = Brother.
See a pattern? It may just be a coincidence but, I may be wrong…
Thinking about that moment when they discover the magic light and they are like "Do you guys know Morse code??" And then Eddie goes "what do you think darling 💋" and just goes Morse codding. Like, a close up of his face, doing SOS in Morse code, on a magic light.
I love this show. He needs to come back like Jesus or sum. 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Stranger Things - 01x08:
The Upside Down 📺
Creepmas (6/7)
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Happy 4th of July!!
(But also the 5th anniversary of Stranger Things Season 3)
throwback to this iconic scene from season 1
Like I said in a recent post I have been reading lots of humans are deathworlders, humans are space orcs, and humans are space Australians but for MHA. However, I had an idea for Stranger Things!
The Party and Co. (mostly) Are Human Space Orcs
PLEASE look at my other post that's similar to this that has some tips and reminders for writing fics like this!!! ↓↓↓
Maybe not deathworlders or maybe Eleven and those from the upside down are also from a deathworld?
Yes, Eleven, the other numbered children, and those of the upside down are the aliens!
Eleven was abducted by humans– how the turn tables– Why does One/Vecna hate her tho???
This also means Will was abducted by aliens.
Anyway, Steve Harrington is so perfect for this trope or whatever– he is the ultimate choice imo lmao
The government I feel would be exactly how it is in the show.
Eleven could look like a human or be a shapeshifter. Idk I think people would be more likely to help her if she looked or appeared human.
Eddie can join earlier on (Robin too) and I feel like he would so be a conspiracy theorist and so would Dustin.
Omg the Russians– it'd be like the space race!
I don't have anything else rn but if I do I will put it after this lol
What if the upside down aliens did experimentation on Eddie (kinda like Will but not really) and brings him back to life???
Imagine them ever going to space, they would traumatize so many aliens lmao
Omg Argyle would have always believed aliens are real and he's really bummed that this is the kind of experience (close encounter lol) he has with them.
Joyce would be fucking up the aliens just as much as Steve. The moms are killing it, slay those aliens lmao
Maybe the government not only was trying to like make the numbered children into super soldiers but like indoctrinating them to act like humans, abide by human customs only, believe in what they do, etc (just generally horrible things)