✩ruru✩

byler endgame truther since that one global pandemic- she/her ❤︎︎

[kaypeace21]

You know what : f*ck it , I’m turning this into a positive New Year’s resolution!

I have my qualms with some of Noah’s past political comments. But , he was right about one thing : a lot of us theorists and fans “are better writers than the Duffers.”

Maybe, I should actually try to write some of my (fantasy/sci/fi) novel ideas down on paper . I’ve had like 3-4 stuck in my brain for years. I haven’t written anything in a very long time . And I’ve only written short stories for fun as a kid or for college assignments . So an actual book may be challenging . I definitely could improve (in terms of grammar) . But, you have to start somewhere. :)

Some of you guys should try writing the stories you want to see in the world - even if at the current moment it’s just for fun. This fanbase has had many cool theories , which frankly shows some of you are creative enough to craft a fulfilling story.

So , I guess, my resolution is to try and write the type of story I want to see in the world. Love ya’ll .

[the-lost-seven-7]

a quick drawing I can't draw it any better

[dykespeare-deactivated20181228]

reblog if ur mom is smart and beautiful

[confident-fear]

This is one of my favorite sites on here because everyone who reblogged it truly believes it because their moms won’t actually see it

[shardlily]

And it’s the opposite for Byler who almost had every romantic trope there is 😭

[hawkinsschoolcounselor]

They really went and crammed that relationship down our throats without ever giving us a reason to support it. That they stayed together as long as they did is perhaps the biggest plot contrivance in the entire show.

And they did it all while presenting Lumax in a much more realistic and healthy manner.

I'm convinced this entire show is just a series of accidents with no real cohesion in the storytelling or even the writing room. It's not like they were concerned about continuity.

[chocolatemilkbear]

Here is a compilation of Netflix Stranger Things queerbaiting examples that I found (and there's probably more)

[hawkinsschoolcounselor]

They have a lot of fucking nerve telling us it was never even hinted at, that we were always just noise to them.

[bylertruth3r]

homotron 7000 yearning for his situationship

[miwiheroes]

RHEHEHEHEHHEHEEHEHEHEHEHRHEHEHR

[mikewheelerisaqueerler]

oh so he "understands her better than anyone" but even in his deepest imagination he still envisions her in the colours that reflect the costume she had to dress up in to conform to society when he first met her

[shardlily]

Everything was so perfectly set up…

[eddichie]

finn in a rarry skit he is NEVER escaping the gay childhood best friends to lovers typecast EVEN ON SNL

[luuvely]

it still feels very unreal to me that we got miwi swingset flashback but no byler endgame. like i thought those 2 were a package deal

[4rielle]

Dustin would have said “I love you” back to her

[angelsfirstblood]

remember when max was preparing herself to die in s4 and subconsciously wanted to die and how el was planning to die in s5 and their was that moment where they were both in the mindscape together……. yeah imagine how beautiful it would’ve been if max was the one to talk el out of it instead of hopper’s when you have a daughter some day speech

[gayofthefae]

This Leigh Janiak thing is actually SO validating. I know it's not confirmed but the Matilda Effect is so real to this day. And guess what she wrote? Fear Street. A supernatural horror series centering acclaimed queer representation.

For those who don't know, she was married to Ross Duffer...until season 5. When suddenly and confusingly, setups stopped being paid off, plot themes seemed to stop being understood, and queer representation got worse.

I feel so vindicated at that idea. Mike telling he loves her was his CAVE - the place in the story where every character is at their WORST. Him not being with Will was narratively to Max DYING based on the timing and structure that is REQUIRED.

The painting was CYRANO. They stopped in the MIDDLE of the Cyrano trope and DID NOT COME BACK TO IT.

And something recently irking me in reading The Duffers' interviews is they never seemed to understand their characters, abuse themes, and queer representation in interviews as much as they demonstrated in the show.

Maybe now we know why.

It reminds me of a post I saw recently about how to tell when writers use AI [or just didn't write their own work]: ask them about it. Ask them about details, ask them to elaborate on things - big things, little things, it doesn't matter. They will be SO. EXCITED to tell you at LENGTH.

I always thought The Duffers were just holding back and would do that once the spoilers were out. But maybe they just didn't have it in them in the first place.

In all recent interviews I've seen they have lacked an understanding of their characters to the depth their writing from season 1-4 represented. Now I think we know why.

Byler was intended. Every basic narrative structure pointed directly to it, I said that a million times. I originally said it would betray their writing quality in a way queerbaitors never have, incomprehensibly demonstrate a sudden loss of skill.

But that's not what it was. It is very possible that it wasn't a loss of skill. But a loss of the one person who had that skill.

They understood queerness with extreme depth until a sudden point never made sense. Someone else did and she left makes a hell of a lot more.

And it did not.

[demadogs]

stranger things created one of the most interesting love triangles of all time and then shot all three of them

[bylerworld]

finn wolfhard please call mike wheeler mike queerler on snl and you'll be reincarnated as a lotus flower

[narrativelogicofbyler]

i’m just saying: if byler wasn’t meant to read as romantic, then noah and finn accidentally delivered one of the most precise romantic performances i’ve ever seen. and that’s not how acting works. micro expressions, breath work, eyeline, emotional pacing, vocal softness, proximity, those choices don’t happen by accident. they’re the language of longing.

pair that with the cinematography, which is absolutely complicit. the intimate two shots, the warm colour shifts when they’re together, the framing that isolates them from the group, the emotional close ups that linger just a beat too long. the pink sky in the field scene, which is literally textbook romantic visual symbolism, doesn’t just happen. these are intentional aesthetic choices that support the emotional reading the performances are already giving. you don’t get performances and visuals aligning that perfectly unless the story is steering you there.

so if this wasn’t deliberate, then they somehow created a fully coherent queer romance through sheer instinct alone, which would be iconic, but also wildly unrealistic.