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sappiscrying

Mind if I lesbyler your byler

#fanart #stranger things #byler #lesbyler #good art

gardenvarietyhuman

💥🙌👏

ineffablebookgirl

Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs

addressmysol

Oh hey I need this for a research paper I'm writing, thank you!

angstbotfic

i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:

"'fandom' is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture"

Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.

there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand.

#fandom

deeplyunnerving

Thinking about Mike's vol2 monologue again, and something about it makes me... Very scared for El's future.

Basically, we know that in this show, stating your desires out loud dramatically VERY OFTEN means you'll lose said desire. Eddie wanting to graduate, saying it's his year ... Yeah. Hopper/Joyce making date plans s3 and then Hopper getting sent to Russia. Max and Lucas making date plans and Max getting put in a coma. I'm sure there's more examples but this is a pretty classic trope, building some emotional future plan in a moment of tension so it's even more tragic when it's taken away.

So what does Mike say? Well, he's repeatedly said he can't lose El, he couldn't live without her, and even that he was scared that admitting his love would make him lose her sooner. Whether you believe him or not (lmao), this feels a lot like it could be dramatic foreshadowing tbh. He's stated his desires out loud, and very ominously claimed that the very thing he's doing could lead him to losing her. So following the shows internal logic... Something bad might be coming for El.

Pair that with how she's faced her first loss, she's been told she wasn't ready, she's constantly trying to prove herself as a hero rather than a monster, and in s1 she seemed to sacrifice herself, this makes all too much sense. And it would still be shocking to the audience bc if how main of a character she is.

I'm NOT saying this will happen, bc of course not everyone has lost the things they've stated a desire for, and also the Duffers don't seem like they'd want to kill off one of the main children. And maybe it's not death, maybe it's just some other form of loss. But still... I'm very concerned for my girl 😥

(I guess this could also foreshadow Mike dying but my guy hasn't really been in danger of that before vs El literally facing down every monster)

deeplyunnerving

shoutout myself for being correct about the ending 3 years ago 💀💀💀

#predictable ass show #was looking back at my old posts forgot i wrote kind of annoyingly #stranger things

redstonedust

niche type of fan i enjoy greatly: people whos otp gets decanonized so hard its basically been obliterated from orbit (ie. one character is married to someone else and the other is literally dead) yet theyre still just like 👍okay. anyways who wants to see another 50 drawings of my otp in increasingly elaborate AUs.

#cough

lavandulaphoenix

Nobody happy with the duffers for different reasons is actually so fucking funny

#stranger things

wulfhalls

we are now already in google doc conspiracy theory territory. these bitches really speed running this thing 😭

wulfhalls

they are coping really well I feel 👍

json-derulo

despairoftheendless

I feel like this reply sums up how fandom largely treats women characters, specifically queer women, perfectly

deeplyunnerving

Ok but acting like it's the fandoms fault that Robin's queerness isn't well represented is a little dishonest. Robin has been sidelined and her girlfriend wasn't even really mentioned in the epilogue, like they were an afterthought. Same as will and his vague, unnamed, maybe not real epilogue boyfriend.

... I don't believe anything was cut out though. Just that it's another case of "here, happy now? we gave you gay people, that makes us good, right?" rather than actual deeply considered representation.

#also bylers love robin #... partially bc she was kind of assigned to be wills Gay Mentor this seaspn #but even before that #again though she didnt really have a deeply developed relatoonship even though she and vickie are cute #i feel it takes too much criticism off the writers shpulders to be like 'oh fandom hates women'#stranger things spoilers #ignore the typos im almost done with my lunch break 💀 not going back to correct

bebx

loversnoworse

Mike had one of the most heartbreaking endings and the worst part is I don’t even think it was intentional on the writer’s part.

The way he is surrounded by reminders of his past while being all alone is truly haunting. The painting, a WSQK sticker, a photo of El. He was once annoyed that Will couldn’t move on and grow up, and now he’s the one that is stuck.

Also him sitting in front of a sunlit window with yellow curtains and the blinds pulled shut. I don’t hold much weight in the color grading choices anymore, but for the sake of s1-s2 Mike, I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt.

The entire party is shown to have come into their own style in the epilogue. Mike looks like he’s wearing his dad’s hand-me-downs and goes to his dad’s barber. He is not only stuck, but he is losing himself more and more every day.

I’m so unhappy with the direction his character went in and have felt angry at him because of it. But I also love Mike, the Mike that we saw in earlier seasons before his entire character arc became being a boyfriend. And seeing this character that I love have such an unhappy, isolating ending is heartbreaking. Mike ends up alone, surrounded by memories of a time that he can never have back.

thebrokengate

I stick by the idea that he never really recovered from his survivor's guilt from the first time he lost El and it just built and built and built over the years as he felt he owed her, and even in her death he can't move forward from it because he STILL feels like he owes her. He felt trapped in this relationship with her for multiple reasons: survivor's guilt, being closeted, feeling like he owed her, being afraid to break things off with her because the life she could've had was taken from her by being raised in a lab and he wanted to make it better for her but never figured out how, being afraid of ending up alone, and ultimately never wanting to let go of the one girl who liked him because he couldn't face what Will did. He couldn't be that brave to face his true feelings. And Lucas was always right about him when he said he just liked that a girl wasn't grossed out by him.

And now that El is gone and he's still stuck feeling like he owes her and shouldn't move on or chase his true dreams because it would be a disservice to her memory, knowing this whole time he emotionally cheated with Will during their relationship, he denies himself the happiness El would have wanted for him and resolves himself to sitting alone with a past he can never recapture, a past he can never change, and until he makes the choice to try, he will never move forward. He pushes Will away because he feels he doesn't deserve him nor to chase his dreams of being in love with him. He believes Will is better off without him, with someone else who can make him happier. Mike has caused enough damage and he doesn't want to damage Will more than he already has, so he gives Will that one final push to move on without him and sinks into the silence of knowing he missed his chance and he has to be okay with that. He has to find a way to be okay with everything. Mike Wheeler has never liked change, he's not good at change, so he will never accept anything that's happened and he will continue to suffer for it.

#damn #ST5 spoilers #Stranger Things

thewisewill80sbyers

Nancy, Hopper, El just killing people and no one cares that they're killing other humans even if they're soldiers they're just ok with it

deeplyunnerving

killing everybody but they just knock out the lady IN CHARGE of the program and leave the soldier they tortured to live so he can rat them out for plot reasons,,, like

#if ur going to indiscriminately kill grunts you don't have an excuse to leave the head people alive #literal plot armor

ok I low-key was preparing for byler to fizzle out after the whole Tammy speech but honestly. Doesn't matter to me I'm still shipping it for the reason I always shipped it and canon does not matter to me. I'm just sad the final season wasn't able to recapture the vibes of season 1 bc that is genuinely one of my favorite seasons of TV but it.... Just isn't that show anymore.

#byler #stranger things #st5