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I AM WATCHING STRANGER THINGS! IT IS GOING VERY WELL!

By which I mean I am the world's huuuuugest wuss and so of *course* I'ma watch the horror tv series alone, at night, in a rainstorm with lots of creepy wind effects outside the house, in the dark, in a house that's not mine so is technically even creepier!

Also the set up of the TV and the windows and curtains means that I occasionally spot the reflection of the TV in the window to my right, just out of the corner of my eye, and it's just...*shivers* Noooooo. No random little whisps of movement, please and thank you.

I'm quite enjoying it! I should do this to myself more often, ideally with even creepier media! Theoretically, that's what I've done gradually over time with creepypastas. Now I hardly ever get creeped out when I read a hundred scary stories in a row HAHAHAH THAT IS A TOTAL LIE YEP.

(Actually, I haven't been reading all that much horror fiction lately. My quiet steady binges of r/nosleep and r/shortscarystories have shifted over almost entirely to r/unresolvedmysteries which is horror *non*fiction. And sometimes not-horror. To be perfectly honest, I'm most excited about the non-horror threads, just because the endless press of missing persons and unidentified bodies makes one weary.

((to say nothing of Jon-Benet Ramsey. Can we just...not? I'm really not keen on her. FWIW on other big mysteries: EAR/ONS = fascinating because serial killers, Maura Murray = died in the woods because Vermont in winter, Elisa Lam = I'm so so sorry that people are trying to make you supernatural because you don't deserve a harder death than you already had in life.))

But yes, The Max Headroom Incident is awwwwwesome, and I ought to go see for reals some Tonybee tiles sometime.)

BUT THIS WAS A POST ABOUT STRANGER THINGS!

I am four episodes in and entirely happy about it all. I like...pretty much every character thread, which is a fascinating thing to have happen in an ensemble piece. Obviously, the kids and Eleven are the best-best-best, but Jonathan is exactly my kind of awkward weird eye-candy (STOP JUDGING OKAY. HE WAS TOPLESS BRIEFLY, AND IT WAS GOOD), and Nancy is *also* suitable eye-candy (as well as completely understandable to me, even though that's not who I was in high school), and I don't hate the sheriff (which is shocking), and oh gods, Joyce is so perfectly tragic. IT'S A GOOD SHOW, IT TURNS OUT!

There are not many jump scares. Instead, I just start twitching every third scene or so, knowing that something awful is coming.

I'm probably not going to watch any more tonight --it is after one in the morning, and I shouldn't encourage myself to do terrible things with my body and sleep schedule-- but I look forward to powering through and finishing the series tomorrow. I am...not likely to read LJ until after I've finished, because spoilers.

(I am entirely indifferent about spoilers for things, until I am actively and rapidly consuming the thing at which point NO NO SPOILERS TELL ME FUCKING NOTHING! And I mean, if I could avoid knowing the length of episodes or how long they are (or how many pages I am from the end of a book) I'd take that too. Nothing objective or subjective, damnit!)

I have nothing else useful to say. If you haven't seen it, have Netflix, and like horror, you should go watch it sometime!

~Sor
MOOP!