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hi, this is a new (side)blog, it's gonna look a little empty for a bit so bear with me. i'll probably mainly post about mileven/stranger things
OTP Meme: Quotes → Different Ways They Express Love (They're so intense it's like they've been married for 50 years)
Mike Wheeler in Stranger Things S05E08 The Rightside Up (Epilogue)
just remembered that in s3, Mike’s outburst was the first time in El’s life that she could remember someone saying they loved her.
I have known Stranger Things was misogynistic since the pilot episode when Nancy wanted to have sex with her boyfriend that she really liked and Barb was like “This isn’t you🥺” and we as the audience were supposed to agree with Barb. And then Nancy was narratively punished for this via Barb’s death
No but do people realize the reason that Mike and El's romance was so intense was because the party was so tight knit and all loved each other that much?
Like, all of them (El included) went all in to find Will. Lucas got insanely jealous of El but set aside his pride to help her and made peace with her and Mike. Dustin bound the group together despite believing he was the least liked of the entire party. Mike talked with Lucas over walkie talkies every night and planned hours long campaigns and spearheaded the plan to save Will and dispelled all of Dustin's intense self-doubt . El revisited a place that traumatized her to help save a boy because it was important to her friends.
Mike and El are 1000X more intense than other people in romantic love because they are like 1000X more intense in their other relationships. Just fucking look at their friendships.
If you told me back in 2017 that Stranger Things would turn into MCU slop while basically promoting eugenics and submission to authority I would’ve laughed in your face.
Mileven x Orbiter by Noah Kahan. <3
This song is so Mike Wheeler coded in so many different ways
OTP Meme: Looks → Heart Eyes (They're the personification of the quote 'When a girl is in love, you can see it in her smile. When a guy is in love, you can see it in his eyes.')
Side note I keep seeing on Twitter circulating that allegedly the Duffer Brothers gave Finn and Millie freedom for the Purple Rain scene and now I am like ohhhhh so Mileven really was the actors
Also I rewatched that scene and holy shit it is sad beautiful tragic and iconic
I think it'd be so funny and perfect if Karen got into writing erotica in her spare time and ended up publishing it after S5. Because, like, she got mauled by an interdimensional monster, so... why the fuck not submit her work after that? And it's actually pretty good, and Mike and Nancy aren't the only writers in the family, and she's got this whole secret career writing steamy romances under a wafer-thin pseudonym, and it's nice to have this for herself.
Another day of me being on my bullshit and thinking of how at 12 years-old, one of Mike Wheeler’s most traumatic experiences was losing El. And just four years after meeting her, at 16, he helplessly watched her disappear in front of him for the second time in his life.
Top of my list of grievances and things I will never move on from.
no because it literally goes like this. she is this incredibly intelligent girl who was taken from her mom and forced to be a science experiment. for the first 12 or so years of her life she never felt the need to speak much besides "I understand", she called Dr.Brenner papa because he had introduced himself as such and that was the closest she had to an actual father. she was abused and stripped of her agency, she didn't know anything about the outside world but knew that what was happening to her wasn't right. when she finds an opportunity, she leaves and doesn't look back.
she may not know what "friend" means but knows she would do anything for mike, lucas and dustin. she is given a name, a name that doesn't remind her of needles and monitors and pain. el. she likes the sound of it. they give her a comfortable place to sleep and food and a feeling of safety and warmth she has never felt before, in turn, she defends them from their bullies and helps them find their friend. during the one week she spends with them she learns so much more than she did in 12 years. she has her first kiss with mike, she doesn't yet know the importance of a first kiss, but knows that it feels right. that mike feels right.
when she sacrifices herself, she thought she would die. but she didn't. she spends an undetermined amount of time with nothing but the pink dress mike gave her, hopper's jacket and hat, and her powers. until hopper himself brings her in, out of guilt or shame or some other unnamed emotion that gripped his heart when he thought of the little girl he sent to die. with hopper, she learns even more words. one of them is patience. she also learns that she doesn't have much of it. she could have easily stayed in the cabin, safe from the bad men, warm and comfortable. she is used to being alone after all , but she wants more. she wants to see her friends. she wants to see mike. she starts to understand why she misses him more than the others.
el has a mom and a sister. she had to have come from somewhere, she knew that. but the knowledge still knocks the air right out of her chest. she wants to find them and so she leaves. rules be dammed. she's not an idiot. she finds her mother easily enough, except the woman that greeted her wasn't who she expected. and it will take years until she is able to erase the image of her mother sitting on an armchair, motionless, mumbling words from a past life. that was not what she wanted. she leaves again.
her sister is different from el in more ways that one. well, she's jane now. or she's trying to be but that name doesn't make her feel like the other one did. she can't stop thinking about her friends, even when she's told to leave them behind, she is tethered to them, to mike, in a way that she doesn't have the words to explain. she probably never will.
it doesn't work out, her and her sister. they want different things from life. she leaves again. this time, she goes home. despite trying to find it elsewhere, she now knows, her home is in hawkins. it's with hopper and mike and dustin and lucas and the people who, despite the danger, chose to help her anyway. that is what she wants. what she has always wanted since first leaving the lab.
I’ll say it: The worst of the Byler shipping has elements of incel culture and misogyny.
The idea that Will is owed Mike, that El’s own feelings don’t matter, that Mike is an emotionally abusive boyfriend but it can be explained away because he’s closeted?
Y’all should be ashamed.
May delete this in an hour, but I said what I said.
I hate to be the person who says this, but if anyone involved with Stranger Things has been queerbaiting Byler shippers, it's Noah Schnapp post-finale.
Telling fans that "Mike would have explored" and that Will was the only other option for Mike if El isn't around...
He knows what the narrative presented. He surely knows what Finn Wolfhard has said over the years about his feelings over Mike and El's relationship, how he feels Mike is probably not where he wants to be in life post-series, and his general discomfort with the Byler phenomenon.
Noah, of course, is free to interpret things as he pleases, but it's frustrating when shippers take his words over Finn's, Mike's own actor. And I'm sure he knows that fans will take his words as gospel, since confirmation bias is strong.
I understand that Noah is frustrated with how the Duffers (mis)handled Will's coming out journey, making it revolve too much around his feelings for Mike. The coming out scene is one of the worst scenes of the series. I'm totally sympathetic to both of these sentiments.
He's also feeding young shippers what they want to hear, regardless of whether he really believes it. It won't end well.