I love Byler

Just a straight teenage girl who's overly obsessed with Byler!

[vampirementality]

mike cannot say "i love you" to el, even when she is breaking down crying, begging him to just say it.

he can say "i love you" to el after being encouraged by will's speech to him in the van. will's speech to him about will's romantic feeling for him.

mike cannot say "i love you" in response to el's feelings, he can say "i love you" in response to will's feelings.

mike can only say the words when inspired by will's love for him -> mike feels loved the way he wants to be by will's feelings for him -> mike is in love with will's feelings for him -> mike is in love with will. and he doesn't even know it. canonically.

that's why they didn't address the painting.

[eilissxx]

homophobia so bad you ruined the number one netflix show

[0r1g1np01nt]

"mikes gonna hear good luck babe in 40 years and lose his mind" "mikes gonna hear conan gray in 40 years and go crazy" mike is gonna watch dead poets society like a week after will leaves hawkins and in a fit of insanity is going to fly to new york and show up at his door unannounced like the messy gay disaster that he is

[luuuvelyagain]

"what did you think, that you were going to have good queer rep and cherish it fot the rest of our lives?"

"i guess i did. i really did."

[ivysillygame]

HELP 😭

[underthemoony]

what is taking me out is the duffers claiming no one predicted the ending but it was the most obvious ending in existence that has been the most talked about, like that could’ve been an email I fear.

[stopiwanttotalkaboutcheese]

i may just be thinking too america-centric about this but i am Not comfortable with how stranger things is clearly villainizing a brown woman who was illegally kidnapped and tortured by the US government. like in this political climate specifically i feel like this goes way beyond "it's just a show it's not that serious."

[mikesbasementbeets]

i will die on this hill

[howtobecomeadragon]

noah mentioning that lonnie was abusive when on the press tour despite lonnie not being mentioned once in s5 really shows how much better noah understood and cared about will than the duffers did.

[jesslikestowrite]

Oh, they're never getting over each other, I fear

[crazytogether4ever]

I genuinely love the fact that Will’s love isn’t that soft, lovey-dovey teenage kind like “oh he’s so handsome, I can’t take it” or “he could never do anything wrong.” Instead, it’s more like: “bro… what do I even see in this guy.” Will doesn’t hesitate to call Mike out on his bad behavior. He allows himself to be disappointed, hurt, even angry. And still — he stays. He would stand by Mike to the very end, be the one to point out his mistakes and work through them with him, not ignore them. Because he loves all of Mike. Even when he questions why he loves this dude who wanted a hot orange mohawk. And yes — he’d still love him with that thing on his head

That kind of love is honest. It’s strong. It’s messy. And it’s real

He is so done with this man but still loves him

[ibrakeforrainbows]

they could’ve denied that byler was happening YEARS ago btw but they decided to string us along for profit

[miwiromantics]

It’s always gotta be some fuckass painting,

that godamn swing set,

a traumatised gay boy

and finn fucking wolfhard at the crime scene

I quit.

[sticklystag]

So Will was in pain. he was feeling everything. EVERYTHING. he was getting stabbed, burned alive, shot at and split apart but that didn’t matter right? because god forbid you focus on the character that started this series because you wanted to focus on a bland, flat battle. great going

[rockmerobin]

just saw a tiktok comment that said steve would be arrested if he talked and looked at dustin how mike does with will

[andrewthegaynerd]

I love that conformitygate is either our most brilliant fan theory to date or an exhibition of how badly the Duffers fucked up their own show.

Because imagine ending a show in a way that is so the opposite of what the show is supposed to be about that fans decide it must be an elaborate scheme concocted by the show's villain.

That's so embarassing, I would drown myself.

[whatshappeningistg]

imagine writing an ending this bad that people think it's a fake ending and there's literal EVIDENCE to it