kilby

they/he | 20 | lesbian byler pilled and jane hopper defender

[gnocchiinthesink]

intro post(?)

hi i dont really know how tumblr works but i wanted to move off twitter so im looking for mutuals (if that's a thing on here???)

my name is kilby, he/they, 20, and here are my interests !!

marvel (esp carol danvers & spiderman)

yellowjackets

scream

atla & lok

stranger things

fnaf

percy jackson

all our hidden gifts

shakespeare

and more i'm just blanking rn lol but i like lots of nerdy things :)

anyways i dont really have a plan for this blog or know what my niche is yet i just wanted to start somewhere !!!

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when i show up to the lowkey suicidal competition and my competition is dr robby and mike wheeler so ive already lost

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santos and langdon have to hate each other because their combined smartassery would be entirely too much for the ed

[eddieripps]

lord im 500 miles from my home

[faxcollector]

the great thing about the pitt is that it's a show of infinite nuance where every character has moments in the right and in the wrong and no one is irredeemable but also no one is unassailable. the terrible thing about the pitt is that you have to watch people raised by the bad faith no nuance everything-contains-a-moral-failing social media landscape of the 2020s interact with it and enough of that will make you want to join robby and abbot on the roof

[whylee-wheeler]

WORD FOR WORD OH MY GOD😭

THIS WAS A YEAR AGO

[mikeandwillsweddingofficiant]

😭😭😭😭😭

[gothicosmic]

i wanna carry s2 el in my pocket forever

[bylerworld]

i've held pieces of paper more lovingly than this so has mike was a generational interaction by the way

[b0nkcreat]

i'm your only friend (realizes that's statistically unlikely) i'm not your only friend (considers my positive qualities) but i'm a little glowing friend (suddenly gets cold feet) but really i'm not actually your friend (remembers to be confident in relationships) but i am

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max “i know what you are” mayfield seeing mike and will dancing at stacys party:

[iloverobinbyckley]

im crine who signed off on this

[actuallyphos]

The way I immediately picked up the pencil when I saw this

[miwiheroes]

legend has it.... dustins still trying to find stacey at that party with that champagne still in his hand

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today my cousin hollered across the room and stopped me mid conversation to ask if i shipped byler…

mind you it was at my graduation party. i just got my bachelor’s degree. and she wants to know if i ship byler. honestly i have to respect the grind.

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haven’t bylered out in a while. been consumed by het ships. release me.

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just saw roy and keeley on my tl for the first time in years and im gonna be sick

lock in and get them back together. why else are you making a fourth season.

[narrativelogicofbyler]

from a character logic and narrative construction standpoint, the idea of a byler rejection scene simply doesn’t hold. I’ve genuinely tried to imagine what that would even look like on screen, and every version collapses under the weight of the existing text. the writers didn’t avoid a rejection scene because they “forgot” or because it wasn’t narratively relevant, they avoided it because even they knew it would break the internal logic they’d already built.

and this is where that “friends? no thanks, best friends” moment becomes crucial. people love to cite it as if it’s some kind of pre emptive friend zone, but if you actually look at the blocking, the delivery, and the emotional framing, it reads the opposite. mike isn’t friend zoning will, he’s friend zoning himself. he’s scrambling for a label that lets him maintain proximity without confronting the emotional stakes. it’s a classic televisual deflection: the character tries to shrink the relationship into something safer, but the scene language betrays him. the camera, the pacing, the tension all point to the fact that the category he’s reaching for doesn’t fit.

so when people say “they could’ve just written a rejection,” the problem is that the show had already written itself out of that possibility. if will had a confession scene, the emotional grammar of the series, the way mike’s arc has been framed, lit, scored, and structured, would demand reciprocity. there is nothing in mike’s established characterisation that supports a believable rejection. not in the text, not in the subtext, not in the performance.

the absence of a rejection scene isn’t an omission. it’s a tell. the narrative can’t sustain that outcome, and even they clearly understood that.

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atla fandom is BACK which means i can bring back my reaction pictures from my stan twt days