stupid things have good outcomes all the time

｡𖦹°‧⭑.ᐟ maggs | 24 | she/her ｡𖦹°‧⭑.ᐟ i hyperfixate on fictional characters

[ghostlypawn]

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LANGDON/ROBBY + DOGS

[buckleyreid]

The Stranger Things ships let's talk about it

I'll start this off by saying that I do ship byler and there will always be a bias because of that but what the Duffer Brothers did with the Will/Mike/El dynamic is appalling to me.

To start off as surface level as I can, if the plan wasn't to get Will and Mike together, why not develop Mike and El with more care? Even in this last season, why couldn't Mike have followed El to the Upside Down to find his sister? Why did they have a total of 1 scene in vol 1 and then some really weird ambiguous scenes on vol 2? I mean he's happy to see her when she returns, hugs her but no kiss? Why the really awkward scene where he tries to make conversation by complimenting her wetsuit only for them to start arguing again? Why can't they just have him fully commit to them running off together when he's giving her his repetitive speeches and, instead, insist on involving the rest of the party? "He's the heart of the party" "He's the leader, he would never leave them behind"

I'd say I agree with that but we're so far away from that character that we might as well fully lean in to him just being a love interest, no? Instead we have this weird limbo where he somehow exists by being a little detached from both of the people that have feelings for him.

If Will's endgame was to discover and accept himself without having his feelings reciprocated, why have Mike be the object of his affection? Why make people root for them for years on end? It's only logic people would want Will to be happy and therefore root for a potential relationship with Mike, no? If they were going to chalk up his feelings for Mike as a simple crush, any other character would do, right?

I think it's so lame to present this as a "self acceptance", "you have to love yourself before being loved" bullshit when you've been leading people on for years. And I don't even speak for myself because I definitely don't have the strongest attachment to these characters but it's so disheartening for the people that have been showing up for these creators and supporting them for them to pull this shit and call it good representation.

And even if I don't particularly connect with Mike and El and their relationship, I also think it's shitty for them to have built them the way they did, by constantly separating them, having them arguing nonstop, only for it to not even pay off in the last season because they're once again apart or feel distant.

They could have given either of these couples an epic love story and in the end all we have are three characters that feel extremely fractured in their respective dynamics.

[buckleyreid]

These Stranger Things episodes were laughably bad... the season as a whole feels way too disconnected from what the show was known and loved for, the characters aren't lovable anymore. I understand the world is ending and naturally the characters would all feel that in some way but Dustin, El, Steve and Hopper are such anger ridden characters now that it's hard to enjoy them when they're on screen.

Mike feels like an abandoned project, he had so much spirit and so much drive in the earlier seasons only to now be the one lingering in the background with the occasional flat motivational speech. Literally the shell of the character he once was.

Lucas has no arc, nothing. They never did anything interesting with his character besides sticking him with Max and calling it a day because they're cute together.

Will is the punching bag over and over and over and when he does get his moments of relief they feel outright disrespectful to his character.

Max, to me, is the best character on this show and for the last season they ship her off to spend the whole time with Holly who, frankly, I couldn't give less of a shit about. Being Mike and Nancy's sister doesn't make her automatically an interesting character.

Speaking of Nancy she might be the only one who gets a satisfying arc but it's at the expense of Jonathan's. Firstly, their break up needs to be clarified through an interview because it was that ambiguous. Secondly, Jonathan is never developed beyond his relationship with Nancy and his love for his family so now what? We had to sit through him and Steve fighting like idiots for nothing?

Ultimately, and in my opinion, the problem with this show is how big it got, in every sense of the word. Too many characters so you don't get to develop any of them sufficiently. Too big of a scale when all people wanted to see was the eeriness of season 1 back. I could go on...

[buckleyreid]

I guess the fundamental thing bylers had wrong this entire time was thinking mike wheeler would be in any way relevant to the plot of this show

[buckleyreid]

the way i just hinge matched with an olympic skater with half a million followers on instagram… am i gonna be a wag in 2026?

[andrew-garfielld]

I've always wondered how you'd taste, Margaret Tozier.

IT: WELCOME TO DERRY S01E08 | Winter Fire

[leighanne]

IT (2017). IT: WELCOME TO DERRY - 1x08 (2025).

[buckleyreid]

stranger things / byler socmed au!!

[buckleyreid]

as someone who’s in this in between space of not really being GA but also not being fully on board with some of the fandom’s byler analysis, i think it’s so funny how the tables have turned on byler

ive been seeing a lot of GA be totally convinced that byler is gonna happen solely because of ep 4, even though they thought it was stupid before. then im seeing a lot of hardcore byler shippers doubtful and looking for any micro hint to justify their belief that it’ll happen

im really rooting for yall, those two boys need to get their shit together

[thewisewill80sbyers]

#when the person you already love becomes even cooler

[fivendandelions]

STRANGER THINGS 5.04 — Chapter Four: Sorcerer

[buckleyreid]

an epilogue boyfriend is exactly the type of shitty writing i’d expect out of jenny han as a resolution for a love triangle. and even she introduced the random girlfriend of her show at the beginning of the last season so people could connect with her a little bit

maybe i’m giving two straight white men too much credit but i don’t think they’d be that stupid to waste an opportunity like the one they’ve built with will and mike

[d4jamso]

STRANGER THINGS SEASON 5 EPISODE 4 SPOILERS!!!

"Time slowed down."

"And (s)he was like, perfect."

[loveallthegays]

[daniellarusso]

WE WERE LIARS (2025-)

[buckleyreid]

just finished we were liars (show) and i wish i hadn't let a friend spoil the ending of the book for me a couple years ago i was already devastated but it would have absolutely killed me if i had gone in blind

[buckleyreid]

what i would give to be in a fandom where people don't constantly mischaracterize my favorite characters