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I really wanted to make some art about this fic, it’s so beautiful!
Mike’s character development in it is exceptionally well written and the poetry is a very powerful vessel for his feelings
The poem on the painting is from the fic, it’s the authors
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more than anything conformity gate is like. the tumblrina's final revenge. "just noise" huh? okay fuck it *mobilizes the entire internet into calling out the 10,000 plot inconsistencies and production errors you left in your $400million slop finale*
the duffers calling bylers just "noise" that they have to tune out ----> bylers on twitter coming up with a theory based on the massive amounts of plot holes and conformity messaging in the finale that has become so large there are multiple news articles being written about its evidence and everybody's talking abt it online.
proud of us..????
the concept of everyone and their mother thinking the finale was so bad that it must be fake is fucking frying me
based on a tweet i can't find about max realising that her new bestie is also mike obsessed and she'll never be free
after three years i successfully cracked mike wheeler’s head open and it turns out that if you hold it up to your ear you can kind of hear the ocean in there
Just a reminder that many hit novels and movies have been based off fanfinction picked up by publishers, with some minor details swapped out like names, etc…
Go write that Byler fanfiction. Manifest the slow-burn queer romance we deserved. Maybe it’ll actually be published or brought to screen one day.
No, there is no secret ending. Yes, the weird fourth wall breaking and Truman references are still intentional.
The point is, Mike Wheeler the storyteller is unhappy with his ending, and that's why he's a storyteller. He'd rather write fiction than live his reality. He is the narrator of this story, and always has been. He has little to no interiority because he's not supposed to be a character in this story. He's just there. Will and Jane are the main characters.
The show always used recurring door imagery and metaphor, and we are told quite explicitly which doors Jane, Mike, and Will chose in the end. Jane chose the first (death), Mike chose the second (acceptance of fate), and Will chose the third (escape).
Jane represents childhood magic apparently, and although I feel her character was done injustice, I can dig a character being tied to an allegorical concept. So really, that means Jane was an allegory in Mike's story. Perhaps representing childhood wonder, first loves, and innocence? Therefore her death signifies the loss of childhood, and even the death of love itself.
Mike imagines an ending where She (magic, wonder, love) lives on. She's free but she's also isolated. On her own like that, it's not so different to being kept in Mike's basement or Hopper's cabin. Mike must associate something very shameful to these concepts, otherwise he wouldn't constantly hide her away in his story, despite loving her so much.
Still, he wants to believe in this alternative ending where Jane, who is love, and innocence, and magic, lives on in relative peace. He implies that simply believing it can make it true. Will believes too. They share a meaningful look before being interrupted by an opened door, and it's their last ever interaction on-screen.
No, there is no secret ending. There are many endings, and it's just that we've only been shown one of them. The bittersweet one. Mike killed magic, first love, and childhood wonder. Then he gave Will the good ending. Mike thinks the good ending is having Will no longer love him, and sending him far away from him.
Finally, he chose the second door. This means he didn't write the ending he wanted, but the ending he felt he deserved. He will never tell the true story of the mage. As in, he will never clarify what Jane actually represented, and what her death truly meant to him.
