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Linktober day 3 - Companion
"Now, the setting sun’s rays no longer illuminated the princess like a distant, ethereal goddess. In his arms was Zelda, warm and real, with a sunset glow on her cheeks.
He wanted to press his lips to where the light hit. Would she let him?"
A collab with @uncleskyrule !! Read her fic that goes with this art here :)
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I just know they’d have a yearly mixtape exchange tradition
You find their mixtapes here📼 and here📼.
just my four favorite characters in a cyber au :)
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yknow i would’ve called it a coincidence if it just happened once
but when it becomes a continuous pattern it gets kind of sus....
The multiple readings of the Vegas lines, and why Mike was being a jerk: analysis
So, we finally got our script. And this part caught a lot of people’s attention.
There are two ways we can approach reading this part of the script.
The first functions under the assumption that the underlined text - What are you, like 12-years-old still, dude? - is Mike’s actual internal dialogue, hence the underlining of motive in the square brackets. This was my first reading - Will feels the air change, he feels the awkwardness, but he does not know why. The ‘why’ is in the underlined italics - Mike is judging Will for being childish and holding onto traditionally ‘childish’ hobbies. Sounds grim, yes, but there’s an explanation.
The second instead assumes that Will is an unreliable narrator for the entirety of this scene, and the underlined text is what Will thinks Mike thinks, and the motive so heavily emphasised within the next direction is instead something entirely different, something Will has missed completely. Bylers like myself might want to read this as Mike having some kind of Will-related realisation...otherwise, it’s ambiguous.
In my opinion, both of the above share a common thread: Mike projects his insecurities onto Will.
In suggesting such a ridiculous fantasy, Will incidentally gets straight to the core of Mike’s desires: To go back to how things were just as much as Will does, to play DnD and Nintendo for the rest of his life, to not have to worry about his best friend disappearing and getting possessed, or his superhero girlfriend getting arrested, or his family being taken and killed, or the town he grew up in being destroyed.
And that’s scary for Mike. It’s scary that the boy he hasn’t seen for a year has read his mind with an offhand fantasy.
We know Mike still likes DnD and Nintendo.
From Lucas on the Line, after Will and El leave:
“Mike went straight back to moping, but it’s even worse than before...he’s in his basement all day, playing Super Mario Bros...”
And all you need to do is watch Season 4 to know Mike’s heavily invested in Hellfire, passionate about making all the campaign sessions, to the point that him and Dustin are markedly pissed at Lucas for choosing his basketball game instead. He also borrows a lot of inspiration from Eddie for his appearance - longer hair; darker, more edgy clothes.
But we’ve seen this before, we saw Mike lash out at Will over his desire to play DnD while he, Dustin and Lucas were ‘getting older’, getting involved with girls, trying to grow up and be perceived as ‘cool’, to outgrow their nerdiness. In fact, we even saw Mike lash out at Will because he showed no interest in girls. Interesting.
And now, once again, Mike is insecure because what he wants to do - sit and play games with friends, his best friend, the friend whose company I think he has longed for just as he longed for El - does not align with what he is doing, or the way he is presenting himself. And so he lashes out, he judges. Because Will is literally the physical manifestation of who he used to be - his old best friend, the person he played DnD and Nintendo all day with. He’s the easiest target for Mike’s insecurities.
To take it a step further, and to be a little more delusional, maybe Mike’s also insecure about his sexual orientation, and projects his insecurity over it onto Will because he’s figured Will out already (It’s not my fault you don’t like girls!). The DnD, the Nintendo, the shadows of his friendship with Will - they stand on their own as remnants of Mike’s past, but are also a potent metaphor for Mike Wheeler’s greater internal struggles - whether that be with his sexual orientation, or just with his self-image, interests and identity in general.
“Byler is endgame” I say into the microphone. The crowd boos. They aren’t impressed. Suddenly, a spotlight shines down on the back of the room.
“No, they’re right.” It’s Nick Runyeard, from 8flix.
“Yeah, what he said.” Suddenly Noah Schnapp emerges from the shadows, followed by Finn Wolfhard.
“Will likes somebody else in the friend group, and that person likes him back.” David Harbour says ominously as he sidles into the spotlight.
“Love is love and byler is in love.” It’s Brett Gelman. He’s covered head to toe in rainbow clothing.
“Yas queen slay the house down.” Matthew Modine bursts into the room simultaneously wielding every single pride flag known to mankind.
so the bottom line is people have the script they’re just not sharing it?
Do you remember the first day that we thought we were getting the byler script? It was the fifth day of august. I knew nobody. I had no idea what was going on in Mike’s head. I just felt, so alone. And so scared, but- I saw you in the byler tags and you were alone too. You were just posting by yourself too. And I just walked up to you and asked, ‘no byler script yet?’ and… you said yes. It was the best thing I’ve ever done
I drew tina’s recent instagram post!! <3
On the Byler Script
I was in the #bylerscript Twitter space when the 8Flix account finally posted a snippet of the Byler van scene. For the first 30 seconds or so, everyone was screaming, whooping, excited that after 40 hours we finally had a piece of the puzzle, we had our van script.
About a minute in, everyone was silent.
Everyone muted, and one by one, people came forward to voice their thoughts about the script.
We realised this was no “byler script”.
It’s almost exclusively from Will’s perspective, his commentary - I hate who I am - permeating the dialogue. Will doesn’t see anything but Mike’s smile at his mention of El, there are no directions for Mike apart from his face brightening, and him nodding, all Will sees is Mike loving El.
It’s a Will script.
It is an easy assumption to make that a significant majority of Byler shippers identify as queer. So, God, is it heartwrenching, as queer people ourselves, to be sitting in this Twitter space, collectively reading a piece of official media that reveals, more than anything, that Will hates himself. He hates himself for being different - different because he’s always been more sensitive than other boys; different because he’s always been perceived as smaller, weaker; different because he survived a week in a dangerous alternate dimension, was forcefully possessed by an otherworldly being, and still feels its presence - his True Sight - to this day, a burden he must carry with him for the foreeable future.
Most importantly, he hates himself for being different, and he’s different because he’s gay.
It’s crushing, to know that a character so many of us have come to love and empathise with holds himself in such low regard. It’s crushing because so many of us know this feeling, we know what homophobia feels like, both internal and external. Some of us still live in environments where it is actively dangerous to identify as queer.
It’s crushing because Will is kind, and selfless, and caring, and sensitive, and also sometimes cold, sarcastic, a little cruel even, prone to love too hard and then prone to resentment. He’s just like us, he’s human.
So thank you, Duffers, for writing this narrative - the crushing narrative of a queer kid in a society that he believes won’t accept him. The narrative of a kid who can’t even accept himself.
But please, please, let Season 5 bring him love. Let him love, and be loved, by himself and everyone around him.
Themmmm
Them…………
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