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Sep. 20th, 2023 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayalaenThere's a Stephen King-ish feeling that washes over me when I think of the Stranger Things 'verse actually being set in modern day but this stupid little town is stuck in the 80s for some reason and everybody just lets them be.
Like people pass through and there's no cell service and when the dude in the brand new Tesla asks where he can charge his car and why are there no bars in this town the residents are like
"but... we have... a bar? right there. go ahead and get a drink they've got great sandwiches too"
Somebody asks Eddie if he's into grunge or nu metal and he's like dirt doesn't bother me but like I'm not INTO it and sure I like a dude with piercings.
The lack of kid car seats freaks out EVERYBODY.
Billy gets into an argument with some random woman over smoking inside public places because wtf that's not a law!
Hop's having trouble finding replacements for the crank mechanisms on his truck windows and somebody's like have you checked eBay? And he just stares at them like they've grown another head.
Everybody in the surrounding towns like yeah just let them be they're not hurting anybody.
That's why the lab is in the town. Not because they're interested in the giant gaping hole between our world and the Upside Down but because wtf is wrong why are all these people under this mass delusion
yeahyeah mindflayers are so last year get over it and tell me why these people think nothing new has been invented since 1986.
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on 2023-09-20 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2023-09-21 02:19 pm (UTC)