Ly’s Dreamscape

Queer alien with lots of thoughts, anxieties and a Byler addiction. I try to function, and succeed sometimes ⭐️ | currently they/them

[lyl4c-is-confused]

About Me

Hi! This is my little space for info about myself 🤍

I'm 23 and I go by Lylac or Ly. AFAB genderqueer. Autistic, with Byler as my current hyperfixation.

I'm a writer, too! I post updates on here sometimes, and my AO3 is lilacs_in_May55 (currently empty, but that’s where I’m planning to post finished writing)

Fics in progress/planning:

The Stranger I Chose; The Lover I Kept - 90s, NYC, Byler as starving artists who meet in the city, fluff, 18+, kink involved

Marked - werewise fic set in 2000s Hawkins, angst, coming of age

a direct AU that will be 5 seasons long to match the show - queer angst, coming of age, growing pains + some tragedy

Stuff on the back-burner for now:

I'll Be Your Oxygen; I'll Be Your Nicotine (we love semicolons here) - canon-divergent, set between ST4 and 5, oneshot, fluffy, midwest emo-ish, summer, confessions, tiny bit of gay angst

unnamed 2010s oneshot - Byler + Elmax (Henderclair, Stonathan, Rovickie, Nancy paired with Barb), it's June 2013 and everyone's gay, and ByElMaxLer are crushing

Crazy together 💙💛

[lyl4c-is-confused]

My first fully-drafted scene from my 2000s AU Marked (werewise)

I'm so excited, and wanted to share! A bit long, but I thought the full text gives the best idea of the story.

[lyl4c-is-confused]

Started character notes for my big AU/rewrite (half of which may or may not be general headcanons)

These are my children, and I will be deciding their fates (they're all going to be so happy and loved, trust)

[tiny-wins-and-gold-stars]

⭐To all the fanfic writers out there, a little gold star!⭐

[lyl4c-is-confused]

Me realising that I’d been headcanoning Mike into the boy part of me wants to be, and in turn that the Duffers had essentially been doing the same thing, ruining him in the process because they’re not very interesting men, was certainly one of the trans awakenings of all time.

[lyl4c-is-confused]

I'm done, guys.

I can't go back to this show anymore. It makes me upset, and then it just leaves me numb. It really lacks substance in terms of character, and given where the plot ended up going, I can't enjoy that either.

On the one hand, seeing m11 as romantic feels really forced to me, but on the other hand, it doesn't really serve the mistaken-crush-to-platonic-besties storyline that would satisfy me.

And on the one hand, Byler is really sweet, but on the other hand, it could be so much better - Hell, I've read better in fics.

So, I'm divorcing canon for my mistress, fanon. I don't even want to think about the show we got, to be quite frank.

Stranger Things will forever be the show that I pretended was a different one because that alternative was infinitely more interesting.

[auracobaltblue]

Will: “I haven’t had my first kiss yet”

Mike:

[ssentinl]

[lyl4c-is-confused]

Femboy Mike.

That’s the post.

[lyl4c-is-confused]

Guys, I think I don’t really like Stranger Things at all. I love Byler, and I like the other characters, but I kind of feel like the show just sucks - there are some parts I still like, but as a whole, it’s just kind of meh, and I much prefer AUs and reimaginings.

Basically, I saw real talent when I joined the Byler fandom, and realised the Duffers weren’t all that great.

Even S1 - there’s just too much misogyny and heteronormativity, sorry. Maybe we should’ve suspected Jane’s ending wouldn’t be great after they tried to convince us she fell in love with the second person she met after escaping the trauma lab…then again, we were coping by expecting all that to be subverted, because we’re better writers.

Anyway, I’m tired and I hate Netflix.

[miwiheroes]

who remembers when "bullshit" was a signifier of nancy not being in love with steve and their relationship being a fraud, and dustin used that word to describe m11's relationship in s3, the season after this happened 😭

[michaelqueerwheeler]

I will never forget the amount of HOPE I had when this scene first came...

Then I was shot 47 times..

[alisbyers]

[lyl4c-is-confused]

Byler having their first kiss, and Mike being like, ‘ohhhhh *that’s* what that’s supposed to feel like’

Sorry Jane (ily 💜), but you’ll get that someday too, because I’m not letting you be dead 💪

[yr-favorite-mom]

@mike-wheels-the-brave @askwillthewise @ask-janey

soo… what do we (you guys) feel about this

[mike-wheels-the-brave]

Agree...

@askwillthewise? :]

[askwillthewise]

we've kissed????????!!!?v ????????? ? ? ?

[mike-wheels-the-brave]

Not yet...?

[askwillthewise]

oh okay you scared me

[mike-wheels-the-brave]

Is that a yes tho??

Will it happen? 🥹🥹🥹🥹

[lyl4c-is-confused]

It was just a suggestion, guys, but if you both want to…

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Decided that, in my long AU based off the show, I'm gonna make Carlton an Eddie-type whom Will meets through Jonathan and Argyle in Lenora, and Byler will be having parallel "learning it's okay to be gay for your best friend, and totally miss him and stuff" arcs throughout S4

[lyl4c-is-confused]

It actually pisses me off so much that El and Will had to be ‘romantic rivals’ instead of being there for each other through a trauma only the two of them really knew

From my memory, Jane never even got to share her guilt with him over opening the gate

I understand that Will was angry and upset, but him calling Jane “some stupid girl” in S3 just hurts, given that she helped save his life, and I honestly feel like better writers would’ve had him acknowledge that - the more I think about this, the more I feel like the Duffers just didn’t care that much about these characters

I mean, it would’ve been *better* if all this was in service of Byler endgame, but if you think about it, that would still mean that Mike got to have his arc of realising his sexuality at the *expense* of both his and Will’s friendship with El - that’s just not good writing, in my opinion

And I love Mike, I actually adore him, and he deserves all the story he can get, but he’s not more deserving than WillEl, and I just don’t think that even Byler was worth them milking this love triangle bs for as long as they did

Idk, I just love all these characters, especially Elbyler, and they’re all worth a novel in my eyes, including their relationships with each other

Maybe there wouldn’t even be this animosity between Bylers and milevens if WillEl had a stronger friendship in the show - that would be nice

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So Mike based everything off the Snow Ball in season 1 - “oh no, El, we can’t be brother and sister, cause you can’t go to the Snow Ball with your sister!” (paraphrasing)

But then Dustin ends up dancing with Nancy, who probably sees him as another brother because he’s one of Mike’s best friends - and both of them acknowledge that it’s platonic, Dustin’s not there like “omg she’s in love with me”

And what’s more, Dustin only ends up with Nancy because he’s sitting alone and sad after the girls he had a (potential) romantic interest in rejected him

You know who that reminds me of? Right, it’s Mike

Mike and Dustin are direct parallels throughout this whole scene - Dustin watches Lumax the same way Mike watches Will and the other girl, and they both end up sitting down, alone, visibly sad

Dustin gets cheered up by dancing with Nancy, and Mike gets cheered up by dancing with El, and in both cases it’s because the opportunity presented itself to them at the last minute - in the script, Mike is described as “just want(ing) to go home”, not as waiting for El

Mike and Nancy are also kind of paralleled, because Nancy invites Dustin to dance, and Mike invites El to dance - and remember, Nancy sees Dustin like a little brother

So after Mike’s *whole* thing about how he and El can’t possibly be brother and sister because of the Snow Ball, the “couple” they’re paralleled to by the narrative is a platonic duo who have a brother-sister relationship

There was one person Mike really wanted to dance with, or at least spend the night with, and it wasn’t El…