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So Finn's new st playlist (for s5) is really interesting.. Mike is gay, "it's a passing phase" "give it a hundred years, it won't go away' "I don't want to be the one whose coming out first" Mike wants Will to come out first and to confess first, the songs are really gay btw and "angst in my pants" is about being gay and.. frustrated
Will is what Mike needs, they need each other
Mike tried to lie to himself and pretend that he could love El but he can't (because he's gay and in love with Will), these lyrics are about a failed relationship with a girl
Mike and El are gonna break up
Mike is down bad for Will
this is why Finn put this song in his Mike playlist (STurn), it's Mike's pov of Byler, Mike wants to feel needed and Will needs him, they love each other in the way they want to be loved
Caleb confirmed STurn is about Mike Wheeler
Mike when he's with Will:
Mike when he's with literally anyone else:
That moment when the eldritch monster haunting your city hits you with the gay thoughts instead of the horrific visions 🤕 (I just wanted to draw byler as stock images)
Do people seriously think that a show centered on nerds and social outcasts...
... shows how awful the popular kids can be...
... villainizes anti-gay bullies...
... sides against abusers...
... supports LGBT+ people...
... has interracial romance...
... embraces being different...
... turns an expected hetero romance into a beautiful platonic friendship...
... criticizes moral panic/evangelism...
... makes the "town freak" our hero...
... shows that love can overcome hate...
... and whose characters don't want to recreate the nuclear family...
... do we really think that show will let a suffering, traumatized gay boy's love be the device for a conventional white hetero couple to be the show's "main relationship"?
Has the show even set-up Mike and El, who met through trauma and circumstance while they were children and have repeatedly lied to each other, for a lifelong commitment?
Who's actually delusional?
And who sees this show for what it is? And what it's clearly setting up?
-teambyler
(This is a companion to "How the Duffers have set Will up for a happy ending in Season 5")
"Mike didn't love El at first sight. He treated her terribly."
"Well, he had just met her/didn't know her yet/was upset about Will!"
The analysis I'm working on is really opening my eyes...
mike making dustin feel better, saying he has superpowers,
mike defending el when they called her weird, praising her like a superhero
mike calling will a super spy and empowering him
all while he's only felt like a nobody that's not needed in anyone's life
that painting meant way more than will could ever imagine
Ok, we love our short king
but wouldn't it be extremely funny if union man Chilchuck had a quiet quitting daughter?
Edit: artist is kakaocho.tumblr.com
When tall-cel says something so monster pilled you have to hit them with the empty pipe stare
Inspirational words for freelancers, hourly paid workers and salarymen alike
(There will be stickers, watch this space :,,)
For @bylerween prompts for day 3 & 5 (young and old byler, costume contest)
Yeehaw Byler 🪑
my piece for @bylerbigbang w/ @willelworld