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byler + mike wheeler enthusiast • i 🫶 talia • pfp by @paladian-n-cleric • she/him

[mike-wheel]

edit i made a while back but its my favorite thing ever

[clowncatonacloud]

I gotta admit that for a second I had hope from that fuckass tower scene

when mike goes "I guess I was just so self absorved" instead of "I guess I was worrying too much abt El" like in s4, I thought we was abt to adress his internalized homophobia, bc what elese would he be talking abt

[hawkinsschoolcounselor]

They managed to make Will's arc more about Mike feeling better for being a jerk.

[karust]

Stranger Things epilogue tweak - Mike the Wise

bonus below

[mioakem]

wills epilogue bf when he keeps waking up in the middle of the night screaming cause of nightmares and instead of trying to go back to sleep he keeps going to his best friends house and spends the night there and tells him “not to worry about mike”

[noreasontobeupset]

Vecna's cult

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Is this really the ending you envisioned a decade ago?

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Well, in that case...

...my inner 'Dipshit Derek' has only one thing to say to you:

[90shorrorpaperback]

Did anyone else notice that there wasn't actually more to life than stupid boys for either El or Max?

[the-yappstronaut]

WHY did they make mike of all people react to max noticing her vecna symptoms?? WHY did fred have a scar in the same place as where mike got sliced in s3?? WHY is mike under lightning bolts in the s5 poster? WHY is mike under vecna's eye in the s4 poster??WHY is mike drinking so much coffee? WHY does mike keep disassociating?? WHY does a distorted clock chime play when mike sees vecna for the first time?? WHY has mike been filmed through stalker shots since literally season one?? WHY does the pattern on mike's sweater look like the creel window?? WHY is mike the only wheeler family member who hasn't been attacked yet?? WHY has the cliff jump STILL not been brought up?? WHY does mike have a full scene in the first episode explaining how and why he masks his emotions?

WHY DOES FINN CARRY A LOT OF "EMOTIONAL WEIGHT" IN SEASON FIVE??

[prfctmxxnlight]

what's all this then?

[hawkinsschoolcounselor]

It was all an elaborate ruse to fool both us and Will. Otherwise, Will wouldn't have ever gotten the idea to hit on Mike after Robin talked about the signals she was getting from Vickie.

Will fell for it just like we did, and that was the idea.

[lover-never-dies]

This is taking me out 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[longstoryshort-143]

Yall owe Kali an apology btw. She deserved her happy ending too.

[audii-the-starry-eyed-wise]

why did mileven parallel fucking stonathan

[wcndertwins]

romantic byler aside, what really upsets me is how they managed to fumble platonic byler too. they barely interacted and mike wasn’t even shown to be worried for will. that just contradicts everything we’ve seen of mike’s character and their friendship in the past seasons.

[underthemoony]

what is taking me out is the duffers claiming no one predicted the ending but it was the most obvious ending in existence that has been the most talked about, like that could’ve been an email I fear.

[nerdydaughter]

mike saying “but there is a story he can never tell” and then later on running his thumb down the middle of his and will’s binders.

that boy was in love and he didn’t work it out fast enough.

[crown-prince-zuko]

"I think it's important to show younger people that not every crush they have will work out" Yeah because queer youth truly struggle with thinking that all their feelings will be requited.

[akuvvv9]

i still love the mike wheeler that was pre s5. he’s still my gay internalized homophobia repressed little bucket of misunderstanding. it’s too bad the duffer brothers misunderstood you too.

[your-ivy-grows13]

went right from getting rejected by the love of his life to being his relationship counselor once again! awesome writing

[y4-na]

this pissed me the fuck off. this.

[dukeofdelirium]

All we are good for is uplifting straight people. That was what they said to us all. They are fucked up.

[insomniacsimp]

Instead of finally being his own character, he still ends up being used as plot piece to drive the toxic straight ship forward only for Mike to fail to say 3 simple words in the end of it all.

Never had Byler doubt (especially after the Vol. 2&3 leaks), but I've had a lot of Duffer doubt... Sadly, I was correct.