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mike who works a mindless desk job and his life has literally no meaning until it’s raining cats and dogs one day and he’s forgotten his umbrella so he ducks into the closest building he can, a random art exhibit, and is flabbergasted when he wipes the water from his glasses only to be met with dozens of portraits of himself. he’s more than a little disturbed, looking around and worried he’s being pranked or something. he walks to the center of the room, slowly turning and taking in all of the pieces and halfway through his mindless spinning, pauses when he makes eye contact with the only other person in the gallery. will fucking byers. “mike?”

i just finally read sunrise on the reaping and something chemically altered in my brain so i might be deviating from stranger things content for a while because my thoughts are almost entirely consumed by haymitch abernathy, ampert latier, maysilee donner, and lenore dove baird

#hunger games #sunrise on the reaping #sotr spoilers

incorrect-tbosas

“they will not use my tears as entertainment.”

ilikebooksanstuff

i love how suzanne just gives us a little treat by mentioning the katniss plant every book. like here u go. ik u miss our girl. she's fine. enjoy lowercase katniss

slayianthe

i’m so appreciative to suzanne for reframing the rebellion from the original trilogy as a “they saw their moment and took it” type situation and showing us that they’ve been trying, over and over, with so many failed attempts, to break the arena and incite a rebellion for decades. in this current political climate never giving up hope is so essential. haymitch wasn’t the first nor the last, and they kept going even when it seemed completely futile, and that’s what counts, and what ultimately saves them all.

eaglerayys

Suzanne Collins just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

saucefunk

dirty dirty dirty

halflitpages

I may just be late to the party but I genuinely believe Mike Wheeler is awful at reading social cues and Will was easy to read (up until s3 I guess) because they understand each other so well, but then Will (canonically) starts hiding his sexuality and repressing them around Mike between seasons 2 and 3 so he can’t read him as well as he used to which is one of the reasons why they start to grow apart + Mike’s internalized homophobia also makes it hard for him to understand and articulate his own feelings so really he’s just growing away from his old self and Will in one swing

smallstarrybox

Oh nothing, just me remembering that when Will left for California Mike saw him like that…

And the next time he saw him, he looked like that

No WONDER he was a flustered mess 😩😩😩

sweetcreatureeternal

I can’t imagine watching all five seasons of stranger things and missing the entire heart of the show. like byler was literally woven into the core of the story from the first moment. whatever season 5 was, if it didn’t wreck something in you, then you weren’t paying attention. byler was and is and will always be the entire point. the love between mike and will is everything. the entire point of the show was that there are STRANGER THINGS than boys who love boys, FUCK WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE IT ALL

a Byler kiss on screen would’ve been revolutionary. Idc if that sounds dramatic, I really don’t. It’s true. to have mike and will defeat the depths of internalized homophobia (the UD, vecna, the mind flayer, all of it) after a lifetime spent at war with themselves…god, my heart breaks thinking about it. it’s always been that. It has always been the war between your heart and a world hell-bent on destroying you. It has always come down to that. the show has always been a physical story of horrors, used to represent the internal war being waged in their hearts.

queer love IS revolutionary. queer love IS valid. queer love saves, and queer representation on a scale as large as stranger things had the power to change everything.

a side note: the reason the story gets so big and loses sight of the s1&2 vibe is because the longer Mike avoids his true feelings, the more elaborate his story has to get.

floresmoth

‘It has always been the war between your heart and a world hell-bent on destroying you’

this. this a thousand times over.

#beautifully said op #byler #stranger things #byler endgame #mike wheeler is gay