Ok, ok, I know this is pedantic, but in Stranger Things fanfictions when Eddie is selling weed and they give absolutely outlandish prices, not just for the 80s but for today too, it makes me laugh and disengage with the narrative.
Below the cut is some information that will help you write about Eddie selling weed. I've been around stoner culture for over 20 years at this point so feel free to ask questions.
Eddie is NOT charging $25 for a joint in 1986. Eddie would not be charging more than a few dollars at most for a joint in 1986 since you could get an ounce for $100 or less back then. An ounce makes about 56 joints of about half gram size. Now blunts, on the other hand, would be a little more expensive as they contain more weed, and you could get about 28 blunts of about a gram each. There are 28.35g in an ounce but most stoners just say 28g to an ounce.
So, he'd charge $2-3 a joint, and $4-5 a blunt, depending on his own markup.
A joint is rolled in white rolling papers, kinda like the thin sheets of a bible or like those oil blotting papers for makeup. Job or Raw are popular brand options.
A blunt is rolled in brown cigarillo paper, sometimes mixed with tobacco but not always. Think Swisher Sweets or Dutch Masters or Zigzag...you can Google those if you need.
Weed, by itself, is usually sold by quarter or half or full ounces but can also be sold by the gram. Usually, it costs just a bit more to buy by the gram because it's more work for the dealer. So, Eddie would have to be somewhat good at math and doing math on the fly. He'd also have a scale to measure it out with.
Weed is sold in a variety of containers, but the most common is cheap sandwich baggies. The 100 for $1 ones. Usually twisted and tied with a knot. You can also find dealers who use shopping bags, jars, paper towels and more depending on what they have on hand. From what we see in the show, Eddie uses cheap sandwich bags.
Eddie also wouldn't be selling high quality weed. He's probably selling "mid" or mid-grade weed. He might on occasion sell dirt/ditch weed, which is lower quality usually with seeds and stems instead of just bud/flower. He would probably not have access to loud/high tier weed. However, Argyle would, being from California, which was at the time, and remains, a stoner's paradise.
Ok, I'm going to end this here but if you have any questions please ask! Accurate fanfiction scratches my ND brain.
im losing it these are so fuckin funny
Hey, sorry, I died for a hot minute. Anyways, I bring some more RE tweets.
Books: Main characters must follow the plot.
Fanfiction: Okay but what if they went to IKEA and fought over furniture instead?
God I love old man yaoi
I think I'm obsessed with over the garden wall
just a lil bit tho (that's a lie)
cw: U.S. government transphobia
So I just read (through tears) the disgusting executive order "Defending Women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government". I'm asking for help if anyone wants to join me.
They've already removed every webpage from whitehouse.gov that had anything to do with gender equality, and I imagine will enforce the removal of the specific pages listed in the EO across other .gov sites and anything else they find.
For the last several years we were told that "anything you put on the web will be there forever" and we're learning if you have enough money and power that can be changed.
I'm starting to archive resources and documents on an external hard drive in an attempt to maintain records of resources for LGBTQIA+ individuals. I'm keeping it out of the cloud to ensure no one can cut me off from accessing it. I'm utilizing archive.org to save the items listed in the EO and resources across the web at the larger organizations that may be targeted directly.
We learned with the shutting down of TikTok that our information can be turned off and VPNs won't work (if the account was created in the US it got turned off so VPNs didn't get us around that). After personally being hit hard from a security breach at work in January of 2023, I've learned, the hard way, that having physical copies of everything is critical.
We're going to need to create a physical copies of things. We're going to need to go back to creating zines, creating leaflets, to handing a physical document to someone to spread information. If anyone wants to help me, we could create a discord or even a tumblr community since this app is kind of flying under the radar at the moment.
I support us using Jeanne Scheper's Five Key Principles: Towards a Critical Zine-Making Ethos in the journal article "Zine Pedagogies: Students as Critical Makers:"
Repurposed Productivity
Critical Recycling
Anti-Copyright
World-Making
DIY Skill-Sharing
They can erase legislative progress but they can't erase us.
Fuck water, man titties are the real source of life
the real reason why they didn't use this design is because TWO nerds with terrible clothing combos would've been too much
seeing all the shit happening in my country is making me consider changing my name to luigi
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Quick pre-farm Kyle ref i threw together
☆ he/they/it☆ 19 ☆ I ramble about the video game characters I simp for. That's it, not much else to it tbh. MDNI with suggestive content
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