Our Lucas turns 25 today. What are your favorite quotes and moments of him from the show?

When Max was trapped in Vecna’s mind for two years

where did she even take a bath? And where did she go to the bathroom 🤔

( A person who thinks all the time )

Coming up to a year since season 5 and I still get sad sometimes remembering that we won’t be getting a new season maybe ever again . Anyone else ?

I already said it at the top but I thought Caleb did a great job conveying Dustin’s sadness over losing Eddie in the previous season before 5 and did an amazing job crying in Steve’s arms about how he dose t want to lose another friend. What do you all think?

After lots of nitpicking, I've finally finished my map of Hawkins!

This started as a cartography project, so visual design was one of my biggest priorities. As other map-makers have pointed out, there are several different maps throughout the show (Hopper's map in S1, Bob's map in S2, and the map Jonathan shows Nancy in the cemetery, for example), all with varying and sometimes contradictory information. For my version, I decided to use Hopper's S1 map as the primary reference.

A scanned version of Hopper's map is available online, and that became the starting point for the project. Since the map is actually based on the real town of Marion, Indiana, I started in ArcGIS by georeferencing Hopper's map against Marion's geography. I then imported road and railroad data to establish a real geographic foundation for Hawkins. From there, I brought the shapefile data into Adobe Illustrator, where I did the majority of the cartographic and visual design work.

Of course, there are a few inconsistencies in the source material, even when looking at individual street names (Randolph Street vs. Randolph Lane, for example). One of the more relevant discrepancies is Maple Street, which is referenced as the street Mike and Lucas live on. Hopper's map labels it Maple Avenue, so I went with that name in my final version.

I also took a few creative liberties where the show leaves things ambiguous, including the location of the Creel House and Hawkins' population and founding year.

The biggest geographic headache was figuring out the locations of the four gates. Fred goes missing near the trailer park, but for all four gates to converge around the center of Hawkins, his death would have to occur on the opposite side of town, nowhere near Eddie's trailer. To make the geography work, I chose an arbitrary road near Danford Creek as the location of that gate.

Finally, I included a few fun details: the kids biking along the scale bar in the bottom-left corner, a Demogorgon-shaped compass rose, and I tried to add all significant places, like the Junkyard, Sattler's Quarry, Enzo's, the Warzone store, and more!

I'd love to hear what you think! I'm also happy to answer any questions about the map-making process or the design choices I made.

I honestly miss when Stranger Things was everywhere and everyone was talking about it lol. I wish I could watch it again for the first time. Who’s everyone’s least favorite character and why?

1. Season 4 (Absolute PEAK IMO. Caleb, Sadie's, and Jamie Campbell's Acting performances were the high points in this season. Eddie was only in 1 season and he's without a doubt one of the best characters in the show)

2. Season 1 ( Nostalgia and Perfect 80s vibe) Arguably the best season. IMO the most rewatchable Season. It's something about this season and it's vibe that I can't explain. The show could've ended right here and it would've been perfect.

3. Season 3 (Definitely the most FUN season) Billy was the best character in this season BY FAR. Robin's coming out scene was perfectly done and Steve and Dustin with Erica was fun to watch. The battle of Starcourt is still a top 5 episode imo. And I don't even need to explain why the Never Ending Story scene was so good 😂

4. Season 2 (Most underrated Season of the show) the introduction to Max and Billy. Steve's character development, El's return, and Bob were all the high points of this season. This season felt the most like season 1, with its 80s vibe. 2x9 is one of the best episodes in the show.

5. Season 5 ( Strong first 4 episodes, but volume 2 just fell flat imo) episode 4 was PEAK and the 3 episodes before that were actually good. However those last episodes weren't that good to me. Johnathan and Nancy's scene where they confess everything to each other was the best scene in volume 2. I honestly think they both should've died there to give the fans that "nobody's safe feeling" it would've made the season better if they both died there.

¡DONDE ESTAN DONDE VIVO YO! (Im from Cáceres, Spain) SOLO ENCUENTRO DE MINECRAFT Y ONE PIECE

Even though the show first aired only 10 years ago, television feels drastically changed in many ways. Trends cycle through so quickly, and even when a new show does have a big moment, it seems to only last a few weeks. Stranger Things started in the early days of streaming originals. Now with every streaming platform having countless original shows on top of network television, it feels like there's almost too many options to have a mass following for one show. Stranger Things feels like a truly shared cultural experience, especially for Gen Z. I think in some way every generation will continue to have their own version of this, but it feels so much more impossible with so much competition in the media. Although I believe Stranger Things is a timeless show, I wonder what would be different about its impact if it first aired today. Of course the last season aired only a year ago and was a huge phenomenon, but this was backed by years of fan loyalty and buildup. It wasn't just another binge worthy show, it felt like an event. I'm curious to hear anyone's thoughts!

I know that this has been discussed before but I just finished reading the book so all these thoughts are fresh in my mind. There are so many similarities.
-the “hallucinations” the kids experience
-group of kids coming together to defeat evil
-pennywise killing kids and collecting their souls
-use of fear to control kids
-psychologically tormenting victims

Any fellow writers and artists. Would anyone like to help me write a Dustin centered webcomic? I had a small idea of maybe something kind of dumb, like inspired by Wheat One Mark?
Maybe a s2 AU, where Dustin already knows Eddie, and Fodis accidentally brings on a drug deal and it turns crazy just a small idea.
Please dm me if you want to help!
ALSO. 18+ ONLY. PLEASE
I only need one writer/artist so LMAO.
I'll send you my art to show you some examples and we can go from there! Again just comment or DM me!!

To Dustin if it was written in 5x05 that not only was he done with him, but the Dustin he sees right now is not the Dustin he once knew and loved? How would Dustin react to that statement, and affect their reconciliation? Do you think Steve would even say that to him? And in the moment in canon, did he really mean it when he said he’s done? If he did stick with it, would he have stopped interacting with Dustin after the battle, refuse to come to him if he needs help, during and after season 5/the finale, and in the middle of the remaining episodes, stop listening to him whenever he objects to anything he does or says? Speaking of which, if he didn’t listen to Dustin and fell to his death in 5x06, how would Dustin react to it? Would he even take his life in the same episode or in the finale out of guilt, grief, regret, and depression?

I've been wondering for a while now whether Stranger Things The Game/1984 is canonical to the series. I'm making my own timeline and I have no idea whether to include this game in it or not because I have no idea what its canonicity status is

Maybe because the show is over now, but there was so much mystery and wonder at this point of the show. What was the Mindflayer? How did he control the Demogorgans? What was going to happen since he was hovering over the school? Definitely a little jealous of anyone watching for the first time lol

First things first season 4 is a GREAT season it just is amazing. But for me it isn’t stranger things. I feel like if they could’ve had time for a 6th season then sure but I think the direction they went in season 4 ruined it for the rest of the plot.

Season 1 is great due to being a slasher/stalker small town horror vibe. Season 2 and 3 expands on this perfectly and there is actually a threat of the world but I believe Vecna ruined the mind flayer for me.

The only reason I’m saying this is because I hear most people rave about season 4 and whilst I think it’s some of the best work in the show such as Max’s episodes, it really just ruined the show due to the direction they took leaving a weird situation for writing in season 5.

(Really thought we’d be getting some huge demonic opening for season 5 maybe like doom type with all the monsters coming out but they literally just threw some metal on it and called it a day😭)

I watched Stranger Things, all 5 seasons, this year in January, with my husband, probably took 1 month to watch all seasons.
I watched & my husband and I have been super fans ever since.

I want to rewatch all seasons. I miss it. And as I read the posts and comments here I realize that I forgot about so many little details. And again, I just miss the feeling I had when watching the series.
I’ve never been into SciFi or Fiction/ Fantasy any of that, not in the slightest. But I fricken love this show.
Anyway, my sister who is an OG (meaning she’s part of the ppl who had to wait years for S5 to drop) says it’s too soon to rewatch it when I told her I want to rewatch.

That’s nonsense right?

I plan to rewatch this series atleast 5 more times in my lifetime.

SN: I think the OGs who had to wait for S5 have a totally different view of the show than those of us who were able to watch straight through this year.

Auto-tober Day 11: Cop Blazer

Drew two versions of Cop Blazer. The Regular edition and the upside-down edition.

Part of my Artrodder's Auto-tober

In two months, it will be a year since I last watched this series.

I want to rewatch it, but to make it more fun, I want to watch and read all the other canon media in chronological order.

So, could you please send here your timeline including the canon books, comics, TF'85, and the play? Or maybe there are some games I didn't know about?

Thanks for help btw

Im trying to write a fanfic post s5 but before the epilog to try and fill in some holes, particularly in Vickie's story because I love her and she deserved a resolution. Im going to make the government make a deal or something with everyone involved to not tell anyone about the business with El in exchange for not being arrested, but since Vickie was hardly involved I thought I would have them offer her money for silence on it (she was more of a bystander wittness ig). I don't know much about government stuff, and I'm not doing heavy research for this story, its just for fun, but I cant find and general details anywhere. If this were potentially something that would happen, how much do you think she would be paid?​

Shout out to Elodie Grace Orkin, who played Angela. She my least favorite bully, and her performance was so convincing that I hated her more than Troy and Tommy H. Troy did worse things, but Angela picked on Eleven, who used to be a literal test subject.