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starbuck

“…to me” is one of the most powerful disclaimers we have on here… is this character analysis accurate? debatable. but it’s real… to me.

sometimeswritingsometimesdying

speaking my truth

a little cleradin sketch from my math class today 😝

#byler #byler fanart #cleradin #stranger things #will byers #mike wheeler #will the wise #mike the brave #mike the heart wheeler #i miss them so bad

fwnbyers

so a gay boy having a successful love life in the 80s is unrealistic but him coming out to a room of like 20 ppl with no complaints is fine? gotcha

sentrysvoid

Community Comparative Religion | 1.12

higuysetc

Real Bylers never speak ill of Platonic Elmike

kwadlayns

Good detectives do what they need to in order to solve a case. 💀🔎✨

viktorpartner

Haven't been able to think about anything other than the victorian/edwardian/WW1 twink and his 80's punk almost-boyfriend for a week, send help

kwadlayns

Off on a case! ✨

appalachiananarchist

I have an end-of-life patient to whom I spoke today. She burst out laughing and said, "It was all such fun. I just had so much fun." I wish this for everyone. I wish that we each would meet death laughing, with little regret and even less fear.

appalachiananarchist

It makes me smile every time I see someone reblog this post with commentary about how it made them happy or changed how they look at life and death. This little old lady had no idea how much warmth and comfort she brought to thousands.

being a high schooler is so humbling bruh wdym I have to go to bed while it's still light out to get my full 8 hours

#hell is a teenage girl #mommy says i have to be in bed by 9 #honk shoo mimimimi

applesandbannas747

Fence Challengers: Long Shot

sensurround11

Seiji and Jesse: WTF?

OK, so here’s my Fence essay (Fencessay?), entitled “Seiji and Jesse: We Still Have No Idea What the Fuck Happened.”

First off, what was their relationship? Were they mutually in love? One in love with the other unrequited? Dating? Only hooking up? Just a seriously fraught friendship? I could make a compelling, evidence-based case for any of the above. I know many readers are pointing to the two-page Jesse-narrated spread culminating in Seiji and Jesse reclining on a haystack (??) in Chapter 20 as evidence that they were mutually in love, but I could totally see Jesse saying all that stuff to lead Seiji on because Jesse needs everyone to be in love with him.

And secondly, what happened that caused Seiji to leave the country and cut off all contact with Jesse after Nationals? Presumably just the fact that Jesse beat Seiji for #1 is not enough because, like, dudes, you had to have known that one of you would win and one would lose, right? And I don’t really believe that Seiji is just a sore loser and that’s the entire explanation.

Here’s one possible interpretation, backed up with citations where possible:

They were more than friends - at least hooking up, possibly dating. Evidence: in Chapter 13, when Jesse comes to Kings Row and tells Seiji, “I’m here to ask you back,” Seiji responds, “You mean you want me back on your team?” (the implication being “instead of back with you romantically”). Also in Chapter 13, when Nicholas says to Seiji, “I didn’t realize you and Jesse were friends,” Seiji responds, “We were… something.” [though that could also mean “I thought we were friends but we weren’t even that.” In theory.]

Seiji was really in love with Jesse and thought it was mutual, but Jesse was just casually hooking up and didn’t really care about Seiji. Evidence: In Chapter 13, when Nicholas asks Seiji, “What really happened between you and Jesse?” Seiji responds, “I had the wrong idea about something… Sometimes I… take things too seriously.”

Something else bad (a “fight”?) happened between them beyond just Jesse beating Seiji at Nationals. Evidence: In Chapter 13, Jesse says to Seiji, “The way we left things… I hate fighting with you.”

The something else bad that happened must have happened very, very close in time to Nationals. Evidence that it could not have happened earlier: In Chapter 20, Kyle says, “They used to spend all their time together. They were inseparable. Then Seiji lost to Jesse at Nationals and just–lost it.” No reference to any period of time before Nationals when they were not inseparable. Evidence that it could not have happened later: In Chapter 20, Kyle says, “Seiji left the next day for France and wouldn’t speak to Jesse again.”

Also in Chapter 20 Seiji says, “I must have practiced that parry a thousand times. I kept thinking that if I could just beat him, I…” Some readers are choosing to interpret this as Seiji practicing the parry before Nationals and thinking that if he could just beat him at Nationals he could [what? Get over him?]. But if that’s the case, then whatever fight they had must have happened far enough before Nationals for Seiji to practice that parry a thousand times (which I guess, given what we know of Seiji, could have only been a couple of days, LOL). Another option is that Seiji is talking about practicing the parry after Nationals and thinking about beating Jesse in the future. That would be consistent with the timeline requirements inherent in Kyle’s narration of their relationship, and with Seiji’s current obsession with beating Jesse.

My not-fully-fleshed-out theory is that the fight was about Seiji realizing that Jesse didn’t love Seiji the way Seiji loved Jesse, based on either the way Jesse beat Seiji (I originally thought “taking Seiji’s blade” was somehow a uniquely horrific thing to do, but discovered in Volume 5 that it’s just another fencing move, so it’s probably not that) or the way Jesse treated Seiji after he beat him (e.g. gloating rather than comforting him), but I have no evidence for this theory.

Thoughts? WTF did happen with these two?!? Tell me your theories!