going through some family albums has really resurrected my ire at STRANGER THINGS and how that show represents life in rural indiana in the 80s because at no point do you get to see eleven excitedly snapping polaroids as hopper field dresses a deer hanging in the garage (i'm not going to show you any of these, don't worry, but there's a full page of them)
My grandma's note in the bottom left reads "April 16, '83 / Biggest snow flakes ever saw" (also I love that you can see the shadow of my phone as I take this, that's MEDIATION baby)
me, learning in 2003 that southern gothic, the literary genre that most accurately captured the feeling of the world around me, was definitionally exclusive of the place where i lived: what