fenix ✨

she/they | 24 y.o | eng/esp | 🇪🇸 | ace spec | sometimes i write | mike wheeler defender |

[karust]

my favorite feminist with boba eyes, he'd look so good kissed by a boyfriend he likes begrudgingly.

[gaysforbyler]

Why do people think that Dustin is eons smarter than Mike? Sure, he went to science camp one time, but he canonically fails classes just like Mike. The two of them just have different skillsets. Dustin is an engineer while Mike is a physicist. Dustin built a radio while Mike built a bomb.

They’re best friends. They’re in the same clubs. They have the same interests. They’re friends because they’re both equally smart.

[byjove]

Heterosexual relationship culture is so alien to me and I don’t know if it’s the fact I’m not cishet or the fact I’m autistic but I hear so many things that make me go “Am I insane or are they?”

There’s a lot of hate on widowers and I saw a woman say “You cannot compete with a dead woman.” which is perhaps a reasonable statement to say if he’s constantly comparing you to his dead partner but that wasn’t what the post was about. And I realized “Oh my God, these people genuinely feel like they’re constantly in competition with their spouse’s exes and the ex being dead makes them feel insecure that they cannot best her.”

There’s also been an uptick in the ‘men and women cannot be ‘just’ friends’ rhetoric which I feel like is extremely dangerous and reflects the rise of fascism and sexism. Some of these stories of women feeling threatened by their husband’s female best friend have some merit and others are like “I feel angry that my husband still talks to the girl he grew up next door to and she and her wife are invited to family gatherings and included in family photos sometimes. Am I right to be suspicious?” No. No you’re not. I cannot imagine being you and living with that high level of stress and paranoia and constant torment and jealousy about your husband having a positive relationship with anyone who isn’t you.

[covington-shenanigans]

okay look i know this isn't relevant to this post past the second paragraph but. here's the thing. the facts of the case are as follows:

1) I am widowed. my Beloved Wife of Blessed Memory(tm) died in 2019

2) I got together with my current partner about 18 months later

3) when I am committing acts of Foolishness my current partner loves to gesture at the sky to my dead wife, like "do you see this shit, my liege" and regularly says to me things like "[wife's name] was right about this" when my Foolishness inevitably comes back to bite me in the ass

4) this happens. all the time

more importantly:

5) my current partner is on tumblr

6) they love to incessantly send me posts

WHICH MEANS:

7) they just sent me this post with this commentary:

8) they really, really are ganging up on me with her. god help us if there's an afterlife and those two ever actually meet. "eternal rest" my ass, i will never know peace again

[caddited]

I'd like to finish this one day, but for now it's just a sketch.

artist 🕷️

[fenixashes]

i have seen people arguing about who is bottom and who is top in byler, honestly I don't care because I'm a verse byler thruther.

BUT, I want to remind everyone of one thing:

bottom=/= sub

top =/= dom

don't tell me that you think one character would be a top because he would want to have control because being a top doesn't mean you are the one in control and being a bottom doesn't mean that you are being submissive!

[poetryofapollo]

If it's a female character she has too little substance to be considered interesting but if it's a male character he can show up for five minutes in the background doing absolutely nothing and suddenly he's the most interesting compelling character of all time

[wakeupthemembersofbylernation]

I’ve never understood why some try to downplay Will’s jealousy in the first place. Will has been explicitly jealous on screen in canon multiple times. AND he clearly loves El as a sister and wants Mike and El to be together if that’s what makes them happy. Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive. Jealousy is a natural human emotion, especially if you’re a teenage boy in love with your best friend who is taken, and it doesn’t make Will a bad person for it. Nor does it make Will a homewrecker, as he’s the type to actively build a building with shaking hands. I do love jealous Mike as well. They are both jealous for each other, and it comes out in different ways.

[sundropcass]

jealous mike fics are great and all, but i once read a fic where mike gets a boyfriend before will does and then WILL is jealous because mike likes boys but just him?!! come on!!! and it was the buzziest shit i’ve read in my whole life.

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

y'all are rlly missing out on jealous will btw

[sweetieprophet]

Jealous Will is my GUY. MY REASON TO LIVE, MY BONE MARROW, MY SOUL'S ESSENCE, the deepest desire in my existence!!!

Like. He's such so mmmmm, he's so quiet, and insecure, indignant in silence. While Mike can't help his own haughty and huffy puffs of offense, Will can't help his mental bristles, and subtle eye rolls. He can't help his thinning lips, his grinding teeth as he fidgets with his bunny incisors, intrusively wishing he's biting someone else's throat out instead. Can't resist letting the tension seep out when he flexes his arms only to find the physicality more enraging as his dam bursts, and he just has to cross them, tight, and protective now, over his chest and over his heart—as he watches someone else enrapture his actual heart—lest he literally, fucking breaks everything. (Hashtag castle byers. I swear, Will is such a venomous and affectionate beast and no one can take that away from me)

[spaceoddity6]

mike and will in college (not dating yet) go bar hopping. eventually they see a gay bar (will knows it’s a gay bar because he goes there with his art friends sometimes) he tells mike they shouldn’t go and mike is like “why not??” cause he wants to be supportive and shit

once they’re inside mike gets hit on like crazy and he gets really flustered and will gets really jealous and then mike is really sad he made will jealous and then idk at some point they kiss idk i’m making shit up

[adampov]

Screw you, Wheeler

[gaysforbyler]

I feel like a lot of people have had bad experiences with an unrequited crush and project their own feelings onto Will. Will does not think that Mike is evil. Will would never need to “escape” or take a break from Mike. Will would never resent Mike or hurt him out of spite. There IS no spite. They’re best friends.

There was no big fight between them. Mike has never hurt Will on purpose and Will knows that. I’m sorry that someone hurt you, but you are NOT Will. Your toxic crush was NOT Mike. That’s some weird, made up agenda that you’re pushing.

Will adores him. He’s not some incel that insults his crush the second his feelings aren’t returned because he feels entitled to Mike’s love. He respects Mike as a friend first and foremost. He would NEVER let his own feelings get in the way of their friendship. He thinks that his feelings are his own fault. He wouldn’t punish Mike for that.

[fenixashes]

if will byers saw how some of the fandom talks and treats mike he will hate it

that's his best friend you are talking about!

[sillylittleouppy]

I LOVE MY PLUSHIES REBLOG IF YOU LOVE YOUR PLUSHIES

[gaysforbyler]

Why do people act like if you don’t figure out your sexuality by 18 you’re doomed to be straight forever? As if 18 y/o isn’t practically a baby. My roommate was experimenting with his sexuality at 20.

Even if, god forbid, Mike never sees or speaks to Will again, do you really think that he’d never find another man attractive for the rest of his life? Like “oh no, there goes Will, his one and only chance at a gay awakening.” There are other hot men, I promise.

[free-my-mindd]

[thepeacefulgarden]

That opportunity may come in your 40's, 50's, and beyond, too.