you said yes :)

- sav, 20, she/her - forever on my byler bullshit

[crazytogether05]

season 5 spoilers

hi you guys 😔

for the sake of my mental health i will not be reading any posts on here! i’m just putting this post out bc i’m going to delete tumblr for the time being. obviously we know how important byler becoming canon was, for so many reasons. i had a generational crashout in my car after watching the finale. DON’T let anyone tell you it’s stupid for feeling this way!!

anyway, i’m logging off for a while so the doomposts don’t worsen my mental state 😭

i’m NEVER leaving this ship. i’m choosing to believe requited love between will and mike was the writer’s intention since the beginning, but that they were censored. we were still queerbaited and dragged on until the very end; they should have told us a long time ago it wasn’t happening.

this is my first true queerbait experience, but from what i’ve heard from others, it’s far different and far worse than other queerbaits.

mike and will’s characters were done so wrong. yes, i think the ending was beautiful. they pulled it together very well. what wasn’t pulled together well was mike and will’s relationship— even just their friendship, which was so crucial in the first two seasons— and i’m extremely disappointed. they know how important the two of them are to SO many people, and they half-assed the conclusion to their story. don’t get me started on the epilogue boyfriend.

i hope the show creators will come out and explain themselves, but i don’t think they will.

my new year’s resolution is to never trust a white man ever again!

please, i suggest that, if you’re as invested as i am, you get off social media for a while and take some time to yourself to heal.

personally, i’ll be rewatching heated rivalry for the fifth time and rereading the power outage fic while pretending it’s what happened in the epilogue!

remember that this is fiction at the end of the day. this is hypocritical of me to say since i always take fiction way more seriously than reality, BUT it’s an important thing to remember. the thing i’m most upset about is the lost chance to start a chain reaction of queer representation in media, making storytellers realize that queer love stories don’t just belong on the sidelines like will’s and robin’s.

i’m so sorry to all of you, but thank you for the wonderful few months you have given me on here. remember that we are NOT delusional, and who said we have to stop shipping characters just because they aren’t canon??

okay everyone, have a happy new year!!! read some fan fics, drink some ice cold water, and watch some good queer representation with HAPPY gay endings. love you all! kisses! deep breaths you guys, everything is going to be okay.❤️❤️

-sav

[august-shops]

My final stranger things theory before the finale:

BYLER ENDGAME!!!

Get your photos ready folx🫶🫶

[crazytogether05]

[crazytogether05]

i’m going to start prematurely sobbing

i can’t believe it’s ending

it’s been a long time coming 🥲

[rowan-the-sorcerer]

regardless of what happens tonight, will byers you WILL be going down in history as one of the best queer characters and strongest, bravest people of all time. you will always be loved by thousands of queer people who have felt empowered by you, regardless of who loves you in the finale and regardless of who dares to be homophobic in real life.

[rowan-the-sorcerer]

before the finale, here are things they can’t take away from us:

- representation for people who are mentally ill, proof that you can be loved even if you struggle with mental illness, and that it doesn’t define you

- representation for those who suffered trauma. proof that life keeps moving, proof that you keep growing, proof that people will always be here for you

- queer representation where queerness is accepted and gives you strength. it makes you powerful. where it’s okay to be yourself. you are not a mistake.

- representation for those who had terrible family lives. proof that you can find love anyway. you can have found family. and the good parts of your family, they have your back. it’s not all rotten.

- subverting stereotypes. people will say your identity makes you weak. bad. worthless. but you’re not weak. you’re smart, strong, amazing.

never forget what this show taught you—what it made you feel. you belong.

[crazytogether05]

one hour.

[camrlart]

he’s gonna pick a new record/rewrite the ending

[bylerlockdown]

interviewer: are you guys proud to be part of a show with such well-received queer representation? and that includes portraying allyship?

gaten: absolutely. especially in the time where it takes place, which is really rare. that's really cool because there's like this weird notion that people that are critical of it bring up, " that didn't happen in the eighties " and i'm like it didn't happen to you because no one felt comfortable telling you. there were out gay people constantly in the eighties. queer culture existed in the eighties. you just didn't happen to be a part of it.

— ( source )

[crazytogether05]

this!!! everyone is saying that so many people being accepting of will is “unrealistic,” but they’re forgetting that this entire group is filled with outcasts who are much more likely to be accepting than the average hawkins resident

[crazytogether05]

[weicecilia]

Have something to share with the class Steve?

[strangeronance]

the state of byler nation waiting for the finale pretty much

[crazytogether05]

LMFAOOOO this is so accurate

[buckleybeat]

Breakup parallels clocked on first watch

Bc I know Milkvan fight by heart

Let’s break our trauma bonds with the Wheeler siblings and Byers kids!

Oh we are so back Bylers.

[crazytogether05]

THE “you’re being ridiculous” AND “not anymore” ARE 100% INTENTIONAL PARALLELS

[funky3207]

mike wheeler it's time to lock in

[crazytogether05]

maybe i shouldn’t be drinking an energy drink on the day of the finale release

my anxiety is going crazy rn

[byerswheeler]

will byers had his entire childhood ripped away from him and has been tortured both mentally and physically since the day he was taken. if his ending denies him the one thing he’s wanted for most of his life, i fail to see the point of the entire show.

[ceremonyn087]

final episode in less than 24 hrs… i’ve been listening to eulogy over and over again on repeat and also crying occasionally. this show means the world to me