jelli (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

they/them ⋆ 19 ⋆ infp ⋆ byler is still canon to me

[jelliicatt]

wait a minute……..

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

over the garden wall is just like. here is a cartoon. it is ten ten-minute episodes and is about the length of a movie. you can watch it in a little under two hours. its a masterpiece with incredibly beautiful backgrounds and perfect pacing and an absolutely charming autumn atmosphere. it's only seasonally appropriate to watch for about two months out of the year because It's The Autumn Show. you hear the opening song and your heart fills with so much nostalgia it floods into your throat and you want to start crying. it's a rock fact

[pickletqueeler]

The way im seeing mileven's coping with the ending by creating AI reunions while bylers are coping creating art, music and rewriting their own stories is just so facinating, and makes me so proud to be part of this community even if we don't see those beautiful characters have justice on screen. They are always gonna be in our hearts.

[jelliicatt]

pls byler fandom don’t leave you guys are so fun + we can marauders this fandom

[sihain]

Having a queer character believe he won't find love and proving him right is not good writing.

Having a character grow up in solitary confinement and then ripping her away from the only family she's ever known to live a life of solitude once again is not good writing.

Having a character be in love with his best friend and then just compare it to a high school crush is not good writing.

Having Eleven say that Mike has always been the person who truly understood her after showing us in the previous seasons that he only sees her as a superhero IS NOT GOOD WRITING.

Having two girls be abused by a man with power for the majority of their lives only to leave them dead and alone as a direct consequence of the trauma they suffered IS VILE WRITING

[jelliicatt]

has enough time has passed for me to say that fanon byler was always better then canon byler ? 😔

[jelliicatt]

wait when they’re putting their books on the shelf, dustin then lucas then will put theirs down and their initials are on the books… DL…. then W … flip it around it’s an M…. dl mike wheeler confirmed

[jelliicatt]

mike calling el superman in s4 and then murray calling her supergirl in s5…. are they still playing in our faces or is ambiguous ending byler canon

[jelliicatt]

michael wheeler hears this song in 30 years and has the biggest crash out of the century

[maycelah]

cutgate son or conformitygate daughter

[nancysflamethrower]

stranger things has become a show for right-wing “people” while disguising itself as a show for freaks and outcasts.

the repeated emphasis on calling women and girls bitches/whores. the constant disrespect towards kali and the extremely graphic depictions of her suffering. constantly tying el’s storyline back to a man (brenner, hopper, mike). keeping a tired love triangle that treats nancy like a trophy going. multiple casual remarks sexualizing girls (el and max). making karen stay with ted after everything that happened.

the lack of explicitly romantic mileven scenes to keep bylers watching until the end, just for mike and el to kiss to a prince song. mike saying “friends? no thanks” to will and leaving enough room for people to hope before saying “best friends.” playing heroes in the end credits scene as a fuck you to the queer fans of the show.

the eugenics plot??? where henry and el’s blood “works” to make more kids with powers, while kali’s blood makes the pregnant women SICK??? HOPPER (A WHITE MALE COP) CONSTANTLY THREATENING TO KILL KALI????

[thewisewill80sbyers]

you were right, this show was never for the outcasts in the first place

[jelliicatt]

but despite that, the fandom genuinely became such a beautiful place with intelligent, amazing people and even tho the duffers should lowk die, i love all you bylers i’ve had so much fun

[bylerworld]

"you don't have to be sorry and you're not an idiot" will byers is so much better than me because not only would i have said you should be sorry and you are an idiot i would also have pushed mike off that fucking tower and watched him die with a smile on my face

[pinktitanic]

rb if you think byler was THE biggest queerbait ever!!! And you are super pissed about it!!!!! Reblog if you're devastated that Will didn't even technically get an epilogue boyfriend AND rovick broke up! Reblog if you're mad that there was not a SINGLE queer couple in the end!

[kat-in-a-trashcan]

Yes I know many of us are upset over Byler. I’ve been a stranger things fan for a long time and it was a let down. But for the love of god please take this as a lesson.

stranger things is still a show written/created by 2 straight white guys. Even though I had hope, part of me knew that they would not deliver.

they do not know this experience, they do not know what it’s like to be queer.

take this emotion, wether it be anger or sadness or whatever, and put it into supporting media made by queer people.

Read a comic written by a lesbian

play a indie game created by a trans person

watch a movie directed by a queer man

If we put attention on stuff like this it grows into representation and gives us power

[muduus]

they started the show for the marginalized and ended it for the conformists.

[fluffyposting]

Glad I already planned on cancelling my Netflix subscription after the finale so I could save money but now I’m even more glad. I’m so tired of queer characters just being there for decor. Like if you took out Will being in love with Mike nothing would change it’s such an unnecessary plot point and for what? To fix the strife between Mike and El? That’s awful.

I don’t care that byler didn’t happen but I do care that the gay boy was pushed to the side, used as a plot device and written to be in unrequited love with his straight best friend. And for what? For ‘realism’? I’m so sorry to my queer brothers you deserve better than to be treated like this.