Piper

Call me Piper | Stranger Things | ao3 sometimes /p>

[maniacrow]

@zukkaweek Day one: spirits/spirit world

I wanted this to be a bit canon compliant. So in this little comic, Sokka is already gone too early, Zuko is old and tired and thinking about all the things he's done as a Fire Lord. He closes his eyes for the last time in the land of the living, and opens them again in the spirit world, where he's reunited with his lost love.

[trc-annotated]

"It was the gnawing suspicion that you were leavable, that you were too much trouble, that you were better off dead. It was the shame of wanting something you shouldn't; it was the ugly thrill of nearly being dead [...] That was back when [Ronan's nightmares] wanted him dead." (The Raven King pg. 355).

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Ronan's dreams are him. That boy was real life suicidal, the nightmares that wanted him dead were him.

[mela-a]

byler fic recs (as someone who is rlly picky)

he chased me, and he wouldn't stop by anonymous – this one is vip but oh my god please read it, it's a gothic take on season 5 and you can just tell there was a lot of thought put into it. read the warnings tho

silly me, waiting by circumspectral – post season 4, will living with the wheelers. the angst got me, and idk it felt so genuine, i literally had to walk it off.

in between things that made sense by qulizalfos – the aftermath of the sorcerer. what can i say, i love the way this author writes, i'll read everything they post

the sky opened up by algeadee – hypothetical season 5 written pre-season 5, will byers has powers!! love how everyone feels like themselves and the way their relationships are depicted here.

boy you turn me (inside out) by percyandthepen – in which mike is injured and drunk, but it's not nearly as angsty as it sounds.

[i will] dislocate my jaw to fit it all in by vvalentine – mike wheeler's character study. this one is an emotional roller-coaster oh my god, just shoot me already.

if you bleed, then i'll know by sunbleachings – post season 4, the end of the world, robin and will bonding, hopper-byers siblings, byler, what more do you need?

[capyclara]

blood under fingernails

[arbreboy]

people are talking about adam’s waist here but no one’s paying attention to ronan’s big ass bicep and hand and how adam is embracing him

[arbreboy]

people are talking about adam’s waist here but no one’s paying attention to ronan’s big ass bicep and hand and how adam is embracing him

[industrations]

​i really wanted to draw them exploaring cabeswater

[mitrakats]

Soldier Poet King

Hello people of tumblr it’s my first day here….hope that’s okay…….

[scapegods]

How's it going to end?

[raggedyclaraa]

"Oh, Mike would be Will's art muse".

I counter that and raise you: Jane being Will Byers' art muse. So much so that she's so recognizable in his work as a famous artist that everyone in the world knows her face.

She lives on forever.

[waterandsilver]

crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it

[waterandsilver]

i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage

[fatfatgaybitch]

My personal favorite Byler Proofs that keep me believing that might help others with doubt as well:

EDIT: post V1 S5😝

- The difference of Mike calling El a superhero versus calling Will a sorcerer. Will won—El didn’t.

- Elmike rooftop scene discussing the happily ever after of the whole party, rather than secluding themselves like all the other couples have done when they make plans.

- Mike called El a superhero because of her powers. Will became a superhero because Mike said he had the potential to become one.

- “I knew right then and there that she was the one” —Robin regarding Tammy—“I knew right then and there that I loved you”—Mike to El.

- Mike returning to referring to El as Eleven…whilst Hop called her Jane.

- Will thought of meeting Mike first to restore his self-love and find powers because Mike made him feel loved. Like he wasn’t a mistake one might say…

- Mike in danger is the last thing Will sees before activating his powers—and the first thing he sees when he does activate them.

- Before we see Will being sexy and aura farming—the camera pans to Mike looking at the demogorgan—then back at the demogorgan as if we are seeing through Mike’s eyes, and then the camera pans towards Will. Showing how Mike sees Will.

- The look of absolute pride and love that Mike gives Will after Will snapped all of the demogorgan bones—versus Joyce being terrified of and for her son.

- Mike don’t gaf that El is in the Upside Down😭🙏and not that it is the same situation but it’s a vast comparison from his need to find and save Will in season 1–not to mention she went into the UD to find his sister.

- Lucas talks more about El and more highly of her than Mike does.

- The same flowers Mike gifts to El in 4x02 are the dead flowers that El holds up in the last moments of 4x09 and now at the beginning of 5x01 when Vickie is throwing away more dead yellow and purple flowers.

- “We’re hoping this emotional arc for Will is what ties this whole series together” -The Duffers

- “The show is to empower outcasts” -Shawn Levy, The Duffers, Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Ma- I could go on.

- “You could never really tell if it was something romantic or just a special friendship” -Noah Schnapp on Mike and Will’s friendship at a Comic Con

- “Mike goes on a journey this season…” -Cara Buono following Schnapp’s words from the bullet point above.

- Midleven kiss at the end of S3.

- “They [Mike and El] have such different paths in life” -Finn Wolfhard on Mike and El’s relationship

- “Does he still see her as just the superhero?” -Millie Bobby Brown (2022 or 2023) saying her favorite Midleven scene was their fight over “From, Mike” with Sarah D. (Forgot her last name, she’s the hair stylist for the show)

- Mike’s behavior in the airport scene.

- Mike and Will’s Rink o’ Mania fight, specifically Mike saying Will not having a good time or smiling was what sabotaged the day, and not El being severely bullied and humiliated.

- Will’s feelings were what made Mike confident, and they are the reason for Leader Mike’s return in season 5–only Will disguised those feelings as El’s.

- Mike being paralleled to Brenner and Hopper. Especially Brenner.

^would love to put every single parallel on this list but that’ll take too long LMAO

- No midleven scene post the ‘love’ monologue in season 4, and instead we get confirmation that El didn’t talk much to Mike for two days after it on their way to Hawkins.

- Mike’s arc has been failing to please El for two seasons straight whereas she is able to forget Mike for the majority of her seasons.

- Familial Parallels. Obviously. And ew.

- Will was the one to push Mike to say he loves El, and Mike still hesitated, as well as lied about experiencing love at first sight.

- ‘The Heart’ being constantly associated with Mike’s character, tying him directly to Will’s love for him. Every time they say it, it is tied to the ship.

- Mike and El, although unintentional, continue to hurt each other and make one another feel inferior and less than.

- “Maybe I was worrying too much about El” To Will, after El was severely bullied and then taken away to a top secret location to get her powers back. Like dude.

- Final shot of season 4, and jancy, jopper and byler being coupled together.

- “We ask Finn to carry a lot of weight, we ask Noah to carry a lot of critical emotional content” -Shawn Levy at the ST5 LA Premiere.

(Will add more later when I think of them)

[daniartonline]

They’re arguing about which path to take 🫣

[rabbithearteddd]

“September” by Jennifer Michael Hecht

[gnomebud]

[image description: a poem titled "September" that reads:

Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.

I let my oars fall into the water.

Good for them. Good for them, getting what they want.

The night is so still that I forget to breathe.

The dark air is getting colder. Birds are leaving.

Tonight there are people getting just what they need.

The air is so still that it seems to stop my heart.

I remember you in a black and white photograph

taken this time of some year. You were leaning against a half-shed tree,

standing in the leaves the tree had lost.

When I finally exhale it takes forever to be over.

Tonight, there are people who are so happy,

that they have forgotten to worry about tomorrow.

Somewhere, people have entirely forgotten about tomorrow.

My hand trails in the water.

I should not have dropped those oars. Such a soft wind.

/end id]

[nerdsandbabyteeth]

Redraw of a piece from 2021

[mopeyopie]

Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan's worship into one downtown block.

[h-isforhome]

they don't tell you this but if ur really lonely for a long time, a hole starts forming in ur heart and the longer u feel lonely the bigger the hole gets and it doesn't matter if u feel less lonely when ur older bc the hole stays forever and ur life just grows around it. But the hole is always there.