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also it’s kind of wild to me how many people take barb’s line of ‘this isn’t you nancy’ so seriously when nancy’s intentions that night where to fuck steve. but also because we just assume that they’re friends for a while we just think they know each other like the back of their hands but do they? we don’t get enough insight into their friendship to actually know what their dynamic was like. there’s not enough information given to say ahh yes they know each other in ways that no one ever could know. because this isn’t the dynamic that we get!! the dynamic we get in canon is more ‘we’ve set up this girl’s best friend to die and this is going to haunt her’. we only see their friendship in a few scenes which is when they’re in the halls where steve comes in, in barb’s car, when they’re on the phone, and at the party. that isn’t enough for the audience to understand what this dynamic is actually like.

it’s very likely that the two don’t actually know each other that well even when they were friends. we just don’t know who they are as friends. even when they are shown together on screen you can feel the distance and then the dynamic we only get after one and a half episode is nancy being haunted by barb’s death! it’s just that their dynamic wasn’t actually supposed to be well developed and we weren’t actually supposed to see them as these close friends they claim they are. to me their dynamic has always been more about the haunting of barb’s death than what their dynamic is actually like because we never know what their dynamic/friendship is!!

the audience isn’t actually connecting and emotional with nancy and barb’s friendship - the audience is more connected and emotional by the fact that nancy looses a friend. not the fact that it’s barb and weren’t not actually mourning this friendship - we’re mourning nancy’s innocence and the fact that she has to go through someone she knows dying

also in slight of that post about nancy and barb’s friendship: the friendship is only seen through nancy’s side and only actually deals with nancy. the fandom only cares about nancy in this dynamic they in no way care about barb and what them being friends meant

Stranger Things name meanings

Just had the revelation that if Barb hadn’t been taken in season 1, then Steve would have gone missing.

Think about it. If he hadn’t invited Nancy, and by association Barb, then he would have been left alone with Tommy and Carol, who definitely would have snuck off together and left him outside alone as a prime target for the demogorgon. If he hadn’t had anyone over at all that night, then he would have been home alone while the demogorgon was hunting in his backyard, which he still wouldn’t have been able to get away from.

Moral of the story: if Barb hadn’t gone missing in season one then it would have been Steve.

Missing them hours

So many fics where Eddie finds Billy alive in the Upside Down post S4.

Meanwhile, I keep thinking that maybe I should eventually return to my fic where Billy gets a surprise rescue from Barb, the first person to survive in the Upside Down after being left for dead, and who teamed up with a still living Bob Newby after S2.

Then Billy gets a loving and supportive parental figure in Bob, Barb and Billy both get a queer sibling who they start off hating and end up protective as hell over, and Bob doesn't have to rethink the nerdy 'team name' he came up with after Barb saved him and they started working together to survive the Upside Down.

They get to help each other process their various sources of trauma, experience lots of found-family shenanigans, and argue over whether it's Steve or Nancy who has bad taste for their interest in the other one (though Barb does have to concede the point a little bit upon learning that Nancy eventually dumped Steve for Jonathan) while Bob indulgently attempts and fails to mediate.

And with the addition of Billy, maybe The B Team can finally find their way out of the Upside Down.

B-B-B-BARB!

SO MANY THEORIES IN MY HEAD 💀💀

WHAT IS IT??

like - DO YOU SEE THESE PARTICLES AT THE END OF THE VIDEO?

AND WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FLYING BY?