hi im mojo (joy)

Mojo or joy - she/her | proud gay | stranger things | heated rivalry | survivor | I’m in the 18-25 age range and this blog is sfw | recently changed my pfp

[mojo-yous]

Helloo intro time - I just changed my PFP

She/her, and I go by Mojo or Joy, my username is a play on mojo and joyous, which were/are my users on other sites/have a link to my IRL name :)

About minors and NSFW - i won’t specify my age but I’m in the 18-25 range! Anyone of any age is totally welcome to interact or follow, since I don’t reblog or post any kind of NSFW content! (Please do not DM/private message me anything of that nature either

Other than that, if anyone has any kind, friendly, and constructive criticism to give me regarding pretty much anything, it’s 100% okay to hmu

[mojo-yous]

Does anyone have a link to a site to read the jinx Manwha for free? Mine just got shut down

[mojo-yous]

Every single person but Will in the main cast gets a love interest and season three is so blatant.

They have no hesitation ADDING characters so that the existing cast can have love interests.

Robin was originally Steve’s love interest, and they even add Vickie for her later. Suzie is added for Dustin. Joyce got Bob season 2. Mike and El are established, Lucas and Max are established. Holly gets a crush mentioned. Even minor side characters like Erica get crushes.

But not Will.

They had this really great opportunity to add both Suzie AND a male love interest for Will. There’s so much room for Will to branch out and make a new male friend at the mall this season, especially at the start, even just two-three brief scenes.

Then again in season 4, Will literally goes to a whole new state, California, which is known to be more open to queer people in the 80s. Jonathan gets a sidekick in Argyle, but Will can’t make a single new friend in California?

Will only gets to have his big, emotional, and relationship arcs with Mike, through season 2, season 3, season 4, and even season 5. Everything in his life and character is to do with Mike and about Mike - his character is literally used as a plot device for Mike and Eleven’s relationship. It would feel a lot more realistic for Will to move past Mike if he was actually given an opportunity to have his sexuality externally validated by someone outside of Mike. Will and Mike should have been resolved in season four at the heart to heart and Will should have come out to Mike then. Mike could have a real moment telling Will that no matter what, he’s still his best friend, and that he accepts him no matter what

In season 5, had some events gone differently, I would’ve been so happy to see Will at the end in a big city apartment, with an established friend from California or from Hawkins, as his ‘Vickie’. If everything was recontexualized as him talking to Robin about his other prior established friend and actively trying to move on from Mike, we could’ve had the same character beats and same dialogue but framed differently, with someone who we know likes Will romantically.

That’s what makes people like Bychance - Will’s own friend outside of the group liking him and then he gets to move on from Mike with someone who reciprocates? Thats something fans wanted and still do want.

Just some food for thought I guess.

[bi-disaster-kit-herondale]

the fact that they could’ve showed future Will in an apartment making art or having a career as an illustrator, and then a guy walks in and leans over his shoulder and they kiss. but no. half-assed ending in a gay bar. and mike was imagining it too, where is my creative out-of-the-box storyteller, MY mike would always picture Will as an artist and see that side of him.

[bylrray]

Obsessed with this artist bychance art

- willpyers on twitter

[domi--mi]

I will always love them no matter how much they try to assassinate mike

[spookeart]

Fixed it

[ju-nebugg]

every universe except this one, i guess.

[mangosteens-come-from-trees]

i found a theory, they put it under the hashtag of conformitygate, that actually makes so much sense after episode 8. i still have like doubt but it just makes so much sense.

full thread on X

it sucks that Mike had to be the sacrificial character who conforms. it fucking sucks so bad. this theory left a bad taste on my mouth... my entire body is feeling ill...

[thewisewill80sbyers]

Finale SO bad that I think it's fake and a Mindflayer vision

[thewisewill80sbyers]

The amount of effort put into queerbaiting in Stranger Things is something mind-blowing btw I've never seen so much care and work to fake a character being queer randomly... all the evident parallels ended up not meaning shit but are all still there

[greenfiend]

We gonna talk about how Mike’s ending was literally Will’s Vecna vision in ep7… or…

[90sclubbingbyler]

byler was infact queerbait and if you disagree, you're wrong.

queerbait is when the creators deliberately frame same-gender relationships using romantic or queer-coded tropes to attract queer audiences, but never follow through with it. so basically byler.

if byler didn't have a chance of being endgame, they would've made a statement years ago. they know their fanbase and they know majority of it is filled with bylers. and before u say, "if they made a statement it would've spoiled it." exactly. if it would've spoiled the show, that means there was a VERY CLEAR chance of it happening.

byler was 100% queerbait, it wasn't just us getting our hopes up.

not to mention, they dragged out will's love for mike for 5 seasons straight and then watered it down to a silly hallway crush only a couple days later of him asking robin how she knew vickie wanted to date.

netflix has used byler as promotion MULTIPLE TIMES! such as using the crazy together scene in a slideshow of "101 ways to say i love you without saying it", using mike and will for 'bf material' slideshows, and calling el a thirdwheel and saying byler was the real couple? that IS queerbait. it's relationship framing and they framed byler romantically.

[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.

[jason-todd-loverr]

[p1nkjunki3]

What’s even more f’d up for that gay bar scene is that other characters imagined futures had something to do with their personalities, but all Will’s had to do with his sexuality.

Yes, he should embrace that part of himself that he used to be ashamed of, but holy shit. Nothing to do with his art? His paintings?

That’s even worse. That’s what makes me angry. They genuinely watered him down to the “gay one” of the group there.

[mojo-yous]

Queer stories simply cannot be trusted in the hands of anyone but trusted queer creators and this is why.

It’s one thing for Byler to not be canon but it’s another thing for the creators to drag it out until the last minute - if the true and honest intention was for Will’s arc to be about self acceptance then why not introduce a minor character with some dialogue with Will and allow Will to develop past Mike? The only message the finale and final season gave to their queer audience heavily invested in their queer characters is that queer love is fleeting and fickle, but straight love is everlasting, even in times of turmoil. That straight couples get to exist without the drama and the question of their ability to become canon.

It hurts me to see queer characters still being so sidelined and that they don’t get the same easy love pairings as straight characters. Dustin even got a distant girlfriend, Mike and El got to be in love, and even Lucas and Max got each other. But for Will, it’s too bizarre. I would have love to have seen a love interest for Will from season 4 or even season 3. It’s sick that they used the scene with Mike and Will as kids - it just feels like they are toying with us. From my perspective, that was Will accepting he’s always loved Mike, but without that love reciprocated it’s just kind of depressing.

It baffles me when people still question if homophobia is really as rampant and this ending to the most important show of our time is my answer - queer characters are sidelined and their love isn’t natural. It’s just not. Of course Mike could never love Will, not like that, because that’s way too out there, it’s too strange, too unseen, not normal. The fact that even Robin and Vickie weren’t shown in the epilogue is a slap in the face. When wjll queer love be ‘natural’ for writers to include in mainstream shows without an LGBT tag on them?