can’t take my charm

call me sunny! | she/her | 19 my brainrot in blog form

[susie6annion]

Male humor be like rape 😂😂😂 aids is a punishment for sinning killing my blorbo who has tortured and assaulted several children including the gay man who I victim blame

[wiseeggos]

Will occasionally gets postcards in the mail.

No name. No address. No matter where he is.

Always of art.

Postcards of paintings from all around the world.

He likes researching them and learning about the artist, what the paintings mean, where the paintings hang now.

He knows she wouldn’t be there if he went, but he still looks into the cities that the galleries are in. Reading about the history and imagining her telling him about it. Imagining her exploring. Learning. Existing freely.

He doesn’t tell anyone because he knows she trusts him not to. Trusts him to not try and find her.

He likes to think she still checks in with him as occasionally the meaning or subject of a painting will hit too close to home with him and whatever the current thing that was bothering him.

He wishes he could write back. Wishes he knew how to check on her as she checks on him.

But since everything ended, his powers lay dormant. Only evidence they still exist are the small ‘electrical faults’ that are perfectly timed with big emotions and always end in a nose bleed.

[pinkeoni]

The more you resist, the more this will hurt

[givehimthemedicine]

I guess I misheard

[honeysunzz]

if i ever put faith in a straight white man again just take me out back for the old yeller please

[bylerlockdown]

i'm going to be sick. "i started bringing it up again and they told me "noah shut up. it was one. it was one time."" that's them having to be begged for the queer character's storyline to have closure. then noah, someone that's actually from the queer community you should at least pretend to want to represent correctly, tells you it's still not right, not enough, and you shut him up because you allowed it one time already.

[fleetwood-will]

Since nothing really makes sense anymore, I don’t want to focus too much on any of this. However, I will say that the interaction with Mike on that tower is exceptionally cruel.

Will has just reclaimed his agency in the coming-out scene, and it is immediately softened by his brushing off Mike’s comment about feeling like an idiot. To preserve Mike’s comfort, Will again takes the blow and reframes his pain as confusion and something that was inevitable. At the same time, Mike remains self-absorbed. Instead of taking accountability for hurting Will, he talks about how he didn’t notice and how he feels like an idiot, which prompts Will to sugarcoat his suffering to make Mike feel better about himself.

The avalanche metaphor is there to illustrate the lack of an actual avalanche.

Yes, I mentioned before that we, as the audience, stopped seeing the signals because Will stopped looking for them. But I hoped he would be proven wrong -- after all, Mike’s inconsistencies had to mean something. It turns out we needed to see that Mike really does not reciprocate, which reframes the entire series for me. It reads to me as if the writers are confirming all those claims online that Will and his fans are delusional.

Robin explicitly tells us what to look for, and those who paid attention before know that the snowballs were there. We did not invent shared looks, interrupted intimate moments, vulnerable admissions, teary eyes, lip glances, and so on. They were there, but then there was nothing. Even if it was meant to show that Will accepted Mike as his “Tammy” and stopped looking for inconsistent signals, to the audience, it reads as if Will and his fans imagined everything. They were projecting their desires onto the story. What a way to uplift outcasts!

Also, Mike saying “Friends? No, thanks. Best friends” is diabolical.

After all the hot-and-cold interactions, Mike’s ignorance, and Will being shown to be miserable over the course of multiple seasons due to Mlvn bullshit, Will continues to soften the blow for Mike’s comfort. Mike gets to enjoy the emotional intimacy without any self-reflection or accountability. He has all the pieces of the puzzle to realize he’s Will’s “crush,” yet we don’t even get a “gentle rejection.” Instead, we see him basically say, “I will continue enjoying our emotional intimacy and pretend it is purely platonic. You should be grateful that we are not just friends, but best friends.”

The problem isn’t that Will doesn’t get the romance; it’s the way Will’s pain is used to teach Mike how to love El better. All his suffering is portrayed by the creators as something “beautiful,” but it also reads as delusional. Despite the ambiguity and awfulness of Mlvn, Will really never stood a chance -- he really “was stupid.” In the climax, the mediocre heterosexual romance takes center stage, featuring a montage of their controversial moments set to one of the most beautiful pop songs ever written, while Will, who kept this relationship alive, steps aside.

As a result, homophobic viewers and Mlvn supporters are not forced to confront uncomfortable truths, but rather are rewarded. Mike and El’s romance is portrayed as tragic but real! Will is secondary and learns his place, while Mike and Will’s romance supporters are labeled as delusional or reading too much into things.

Years of coded intimacy invested the queer audience in this ship. The writers, knowing this, allowed hope to linger until the very end.

By focusing Will’s arc on Mike, they failed miserably to let queer audiences invest in Will’s story without being misled about Mike’s orientation.

This is a significant misstep for the creators who claim that “the story is about Will.”

[willbyersanti]

they remain one of this season’s saving graces

[honeysunzz]

the final battle could’ve been an email

[honeysunzz]

none of them ever called her jane btw

[b0nkcreat]

2026 I Will Not Obsessively Ruminate On Stupid Bullshit That Makes No Sense And Is Not Real

[thewisewill80sbyers]

I genuinely think the Mindflayer won and they're all dead

[caramelwhim]

so..! to recap !!!!

we don't know why will was taken specifically

hopper and joyce just happened to conveniently forget going to school with henry

the painting lie hasn't been addressed

we don't know why el recognized will in season 1 without having ever seen him before

we don't know who opened the door the night will was taken

mike and will's colors just HAPPEN to be blue and yellow and the cast, crew, and WRITERS THEMSELVES telling us to "pay attention to detail" was deadass just generational queerbait

after everything, mike STILL couldn't say i love you to eleven

patty newby is non-existent and creelby just happens to parallel byler for literally no reason 🩷

will was about to FORGIVE henry.

the duffers genuinely forgot their OWN MAIN CHARACTERS BIRTHDAY AND AGE MULTIPLE TIMES

the russian involvement in s3 and s4 was never explained so it was prob just capitalist propaganda except they don't want us to realize that so they gave jonathan an entire anti-capitalist film storyline for the sake of "screwing conformity" i guess

ohhh but! critiquing society???? fuck that! because they also didn't show us vickie in the epilogue at all, giving her and robin a completely ambiguous ending in which 90% of the fandom believe they broke up off-screen!!!!!!! A+ for representation !!!!!!

not only that, but will doesn't even have a CONFIRMED epilogue boyfriend. that is full well a cute lil headcanon that MIKE has for him.

terry ives, lonnie, enzo, max's mom, suzie, argyle, dr kay, the turnbow family, the school counselor with the clock necklace, and dr owens just vanished into thin air, ALONG WITH ALL THE DANGERS OF THE UPSIDE DOWN???? where were the demodogs, the demogorgons, the demobats????

max's letters were just completely insignificant and had no reason to be mentioned again i guess

november 6 just happened to be a funny coincidence

they ALSO happened to forget that nancy had a vision of mike being killed by vecna in s4 bc that boy wasn't even remotely in danger at all while every other wheeler was put through hell

dr brenner's obsession and fascination with the upside down and abyss stemming from how his father was involved in project rainbow was also not addressed

not to mention that the dude is literally horrendous at drawing animals but when it comes to the flipping hexcore he's da vinci

melvalds, the general store, just happens to sell milkshakes

will adores getting lost in the woods because that's such a fun activity for him

henry just gave holly her favorite song because he was feeling kind

they never actually defeated the mind flayer !!!! which is wonderful

we actually never find out whether or not will lost his powers

el's water tank in the upside down being completely full although there has literally NEVER been water in the upside down before

mike is somehow the only one who has ever understood el even though she was 10x happier with max. could they not have just admitted that they made the elmax reunion so incredibly lackluster because they refused to let ANY gay ships win regardless of how much chance they had of being canon?

the 'lovebirds' parallel between jonathan + steve and mike + eleven??? what was that even for

all the dick jokes, mike listening the a band called the BUTTHOLE SURFERS, the camera panning to mike 7000 times during will's coming out scene, mike not being able to touch will, all just happened to be fun coincidences

not only that, but the mike-will-eleven and nancy-jonathan-steve love triangles were resolved by none of the couples working out! wow.

they really just made us wait 3 whole years for something BEYOND mid.

[chirpsythismorning]

The Duffer's had their unsatisfying ending planned since 1x08 in a season that ran 10 hours and 8 minutes you can't make this shit up

[honeysunzz]

the fucking. so what about the season 4 finale placements then

[spitefulwill]

The way we were told not to believe in coincidences and then everything was either a plothole or a continuity error LMAOOOOO FUCK OFFFFFF

[mybodywakesup]

The knight and the zoomer, they retire from battle, and they settle down in a small village. With each passing day, their love grows stronger.