Reach For The Fucking Stratosphere

Anne || She/Her || 22 Main Blog: https://ms-anne-xia.tumblr.com Just an introverted hispanic aromantic bisexual artist and writer with nothing better to do I post art, AUs, fan fiction, moodboards, thoughts, and rants (not consistently tho)

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They’re so short husband/tall wife coded💛💙

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Mike being a butt spanker cause he loves seeing Will’s fat ass jiggle, and Will being a butt biter cause he thinks Mike’s tiny ass is adorable (that and everything Mike does gives him massive cuteness aggression)

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Something ironic (and kinda sad) i find about the most toxic tenants of this fandom is that they have a tendency to treat Mike and Will in a way they both canonically despise

Like…they make Will out to be this perfect angel who can do no wrong, is this uwu wilting bunny flower who’s constantly babied, cries at the smallest of things, is always Mike’s victim, everyone worships the ground he walks on, he has an ultra harem of boys, everything is about him, he’s the main character, and no one else matters. Basically, a Mary Sue lol. Meanwhile, Will canonically hated being coddled, hates being seen as fragile, has hurt Mike (despite the narrative never addressing it, which i hate) and has the capacity to be an asshole, can defend himself just fine, and doesn’t want to be seen as different for this sexuality. He lowkey just wants to be an average joe who’s one of the guys.

And then with Mike, it is so much worse. Toxic fans see Mike as this bitchless loser who can’t pull, is always in the wrong, is the devil incarnate, can’t do anything right, no one loves him, he ends up alone, is ugly, and is treated as useless outside of his two most popular ships. His only purpose to these dumbasses is to kiss, support, and fuck Will. Not like Mike didn’t have an entire fucking speech about how he hates being the love interest waiting in the wings while the superhero does all the cool stuff. Not like he canonically has self-esteem issues and was bullied for being unconventionally attractive (doesn’t make him ugly btw, he’s also canonically cute). Not like he showed signs of mental health issues even before the whole Upside Down shit happened. Not like the Party and the other characters don’t love and respect the shit out of him.

Don’t even get me started on the whole spicy byler shit where they’re made out to be the most basic yaoi couple out there (particularly on Twitter). Will always is the shrinking violet hyperfemme sub bottom, while Mike is always the ultra daddy dom hypermasc top.

God forbid you insinuate that Will could be a top and Mike could be a bottom. God forbid you think they switch. God forbid you don’t see Will as femme and see Mike as femme or androgynous or have him explore his identity in any way.

Cause haven’t you heard? Only one of them can do that. Only Will can have depression, have powers and a supernatural connection, be loved by everyone, have internalized homophobia, explore his sexuality and gender, etc. All of that belongs to Will, cause apparently multiple characters can’t go through the same thing. And if you apply any of this stuff to Mike and want to analyze him outside of being a love interest, then you’re just stealing from Will.

Apparently the worst thing you can do in this fandom is go against the popular headcanons. Cause god forbid we have our own opinions and views on certain characters and ships

Fuck me🫩🚬

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Sorry but you’ll never see me fall for the “Will is an awesome Mary Sue boss bitch who’s amazing at everything, everyone loves, and does nothing wrong, while Mike is this boring loser who everyone hates, is bad at everything, and is only there to be Will’s boyfriend” propaganda

Bsfr, they’re both pathetic down bad loser nerds who have their occasional cool moments and they are both their own characters outside of the ship

Good night

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This fandom tries waaaaaay too hard to make Will Byers a bad bitch in order to make Mike look worse like bsfr they are both complete and utter losers who are both head over heels in love for each other.

Just because Will is better at hiding his feelings than Mike doesn’t mean he doesn’t simp hard for him and wouldn’t be damn fucking PROUD to have Mike as his boyfriend (obviously the other way around too)

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Genuinely hilarious to me when people say that Mike “fumbled” Will like Will wasn’t the one who took himself off the market and basically rejected Mike cause of some shit Vecna showed him (that we didn’t see cause the Duffers are morons)

Like you cannot tell me this wouldn’t be Will’s reaction upon finding out that he fumbled Mike hard and basically self sabotaged himself for the millionth time

They get together later on tho cause I refuse to give them a sad ending fuck u duffers.

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As much I love Mike being a pathetic down-bad loser simp for Will, if you’re not gonna make Will equally as pathetic and down-bad and are only making Mike a loser just to make Will look better, then respectfully, I don’t want it

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Power bottom Mike Wheeler feat. Service top Will Byers I know that’s right

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Idk about you, but literally nothing has convinced me of androgynous Mike Wheeler more than Finn Wolfhard rocking full-on stiletto boots

Like go off king💋

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If I had a nickel for every time I shipped two characters named Mike and Will, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

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✨🏳️‍🌈I love queer ppl🏳️‍🌈✨

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With all due respect.. but in what world would w*seone be more interesting than Henry interacting with his literal sisters??

In what world would Vecna/The Mind Flayer consider Will more of a threat/priority than El, aka the girl who literally made Vecna??

In what world would Henry have more parallels with Will than with El and Kali, aka, the girls who literally share his blood and whom he grew up with and helped raise in the lab

I’m sorry but you will never convince me that any w*seone interaction or parallels would have been more engaging than Henry interacting with El and Kali

Henry honestly has more parallels with El, Kali, and Mike than Will tbh but whatever

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Alice Creel will forever haunt me because what do you mean we don’t see her death in either the show or the play? What do you mean she clocked Henry not being himself (aka being possessed by the MF) in TFS? What do you mean we barely know what her relationship with Henry was like? What do you mean she’s the Alice to Henry’s White Rabbit?

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Unfortunately unable to do anything for Mike’s birthday because of personal things and I’m working on other ST-related stuff (particularly my S5 vol 2/3 rewrite), but I just wanted to wish a very Happy Birthday to my absolute bestest boy, Mike Wheeler!!!💙💙

EVERYONE GO GET MORE MIKE-PILLED RIGHT NOW AND CELEBRATE THE ABSOLUTE SHIT OUT OF MY BABY

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Gay aroace Henry Creel you are so real to me

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Coming out as an unironic Scott Clarke and Karen Wheeler shipper.

Like I dont condone cheating, but if Karen was gonna have an affair with anyone, I would have rather had it be with Scott than B*lly (weird ass choice by the Duffers btw). They literally could have been the perfect popular girl x nerdy boy ship.

That and you cannot tell me that Scott wouldn’t have been a great stepdad to Nancy, Mike, and Holly just like how Bob would’ve been a great stepfather to Jonathan and Will.

Also I can totally imagine Mike forever bragging about the fact that his awesome middle school science teacher is his stepdad, meanwhile Will brags about his stepdad being the founder of the AV club.

Like Mike and Will are nerds, let them brag about their respective stepdads being awesome nerds

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i think it's just because of noah schnapp's teeth (i'm neutral on the surrounding discussion, but as far as 'where it came from,' i'm p sure it's just the teeth and snowballing from there)

I assume you’re referring to this post where I talk about how I don’t get bunny!Will and wolf!Mike. And yeah no, Noah does not have bunny teeth. Like, at all. I literally have two teeth in the middle of my lower jaw that are separated from the rest. So I know a thing or two abt bunny teeth because I actually have bunny teeth and Noah sure as hell doesn’t have them

Besides that, yeah no, I still don’t get bunny!Will. To me, Jonathan and Henry will always be the characters most associated with bunnies. It’s why I see Will as a tiger and Mike as a blue jay, because they have that animal imagery associated with them in the show (tigers for Will, birds for Mike). Idk, to me the majority of the fandom seeing Will as a bunny just feels like them trying to keep him in this wilting flower/eternal victim box.

Honestly, I feel like Will would be insulted at being called a bunny lol he hates being perceived as fragile (thats just me tho)