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she/her • 20 creator of the will byers lover boy and monstrous coming of age agendas

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Hi! I’m Ari. Welcome to my dingus life!!

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Analysis Menu

Stranger Things

⭐️ Internal Conflict and Will, Mike, Jane/El 🩸 Twilight & The MikeWillEl Love Triangle 🕰️ Laufey's A Matter Of Time / Stranger Things Tether 🥀 That Season 4 Final Shot ↩️ Trope subversion... for most characters

Byler

❤️ Will Byers & The Lover Archetype 💙 Mike Wheeler's Happy Ending Is Byler 👾 Mike Wheeler's Fear of Change 🥪 Byler and Rovickie 🌱 Byler and Monster (2023): Growing Up Queer Two Ways 🌊 Byler and Percy/Nico are (still) not the same 🛼 "We're friends": the Byler proof that stays standing 💐 The Jack McPheeification of Mike Wheeler ☎️ Jack McPhee Part 2

Stranger Things Fandom Meta-analysis

💻 Media Literacy & the ST Fandom 🚲 The ST fandom and Will Byers

Stranger Things Parallels

Jancy/Mileven Breakup Mike, Hop, and Uptown Girls Mileven & Born Sexy Yesterday Mileven/Dustin and Eddie Mike's Looks x Canon Love Interests Mileven x Bellyjere Andi Mack

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i finally feel sun bleached flies in my soul

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biblically accurate s3 will

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plot twist: it was from r/CPTSD

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biblically accurate s3 will

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The “Pisces and a Gemini” line is actually the genius of Olivia Rodrigo’s songwriting and here’s why: both of her exes before Louis were also Geminis. She knows from the beginning that this relationship might not be any different, but she repeats their incompatibility to herself, blind to it because she wants it to work out even though she knew it was doomed from the beginning.

Add to that “5 beers in the fridge” and “I hope you never finish that beer” with six packs of beers being a common thing. One is missing because he never finished it.

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the mixed messaging of st4 and st5 max: don’t die! your life is worth living!!

el and kali: fucking die!! it’s the only way to break the cycle.

el: you aren’t the monster, your abuser is!!

will: your abuser was a kid just like you.

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will byers who was the quiet kid for so much of his life that when he finally starts to find his voice, it comes out tactless and snarky and all wrong because he was holding in so much.

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mileven in a purple by olivia rodrigo way

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if she’s superman and i’m her ace reporter

we must be playing gin rummy

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And I wish the only time I cried was out the car window

But I ran my mouth in the rain and lost everything I loved 

I know

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POSTING ONE LYRIC FROM MY WILLSONG AND ONE FROM MY MIKESONG TODAY

TODAY IS BYLER DAY!!

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Byler in their 30’s (inspired by How To Disappear Completely)

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happy byler day!! I got bored and made this 💛💙

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sometimes i wonder why people are so fiercely positive. i’ve learned sometimes it’s because they learned they can’t afford not to be.

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and just like that the fog lifts and i snap out of it and i know what i robbed myself of and i want to impulsively leave the state

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you’re gonna have to violently love your life because saying “i’d rather be somewhere else” will cost you so much.

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"do it scared and unprepared" they said but if you do you fuck it up