Bylers doing tjlc "the finale was fake we're gonna get the real [ship] endgame one later!" is probably the most devastating thing to come out of this for me. The fact that, nearly 10 years later, people still have the capacity to love and believe in a ship so much they simply cannot accept that the show creators literally do not give a fuck about them is devastating. No matter how many times we're burned, we still carry on with hope and love in our hearts.
I hope that when the dust settles and the smoke clears, bylers are able to see stranger things as simply a community. You did that. You built this. You saw yourself and your friends and your identity in this show. You made byler compelling. You made Will and Mike complex and interesting. You made it all human. The duffer brothers are just another example in a long, exhausting list of creators that use the queer community to accumulate wealth and power. Without you, they would be nothing.
So I truly hope that you will realize this community has nothing do to with them and everything to do with you all. Be proud of that.
RIGHT now I have your attention let me badly explain a realisation i came across when thinking about stranger things.
So, we already know that within stranger things the numbers 4 (4 deaths, Hawkins split in 4, 4 original party members you get the gist) and 12 are important (12 spaces within the weird vecna mind cave discovered in S5)
And I was thinking about the numbers
1. There are 4 points on a compass, and the clock has 4 main numbers and 12 hours in total
Or
2. (Churchgate!) In Christianity, there are 4 gospels within the Bible 12 apostles?
I just thought this was interesting and wanted to point it out because some smart theoriser could theorise using this probably actually quite obvious info that most people probably already know 😭
everyone knows that i cannot help but this that original flashback was so Weird to have mike in it... but the fact that they reshot... AND ESTABLISHED THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME VECNA CURSED HER...
Welcome to byler tumblr! You're for sure going to have SO MUCH FUN!
But, if you don't want to get lost here, here are some things you might want to know 😜
Unspoken rules:
-Dont spread byler negativity here
-Always respect people, don't send bad asks if you disagree with a headcanon (as long as the headcanon is appropiate)
-Don't send inappropiate stuff, otherwise, someone will probably tell everyone and you might get blocked by a lot of people!
-Don't steal theories
-Don't start beef (I'm looking at you bylers vs bychances)
Fun fact:
-We're all a hive mind, if someone is having byler doubt, we all have byler doubt, somehow it just happens
Byler tumblr crisis:
-Disrespectful shippers sending asks nonstop
-Lobegate overdose
-Content drought (common)
-BYLER DOUBT
Byler doubt is like a virus, as I said earlier, If someone has, somehow we all have, you will notice when there's one because the vibes of the tag are overall...negative. It happens when:
1- There's not been content for a long time
2- Disrespectful milkvans
3- We had a byler almost confirmation moment and now we have to compensate
What to do in a byler doubt crisis:
-Get out of the tag for at least a few hours, everything will remain calm afterwards
-Watch analysis
-Just do other stuff until it's gone
-Visit @nobylerdoubt
BYLER GATES:
Byler gates are such an inportant thing in this fandom, here's a masterlist. "Gates" is what we call our theories.
There are also satire gates, like, for example:
Lobegate: fake milevens were sending fake asks, so we made up a gate for it, it happens every 2 months aprox, but try not to flood the tag!
Some of the divas here (I missed a lot of ppl so tell me in the comments) : @willfreakbyers @thewisewill80sbyers @ifistayitwillbedouble @bylertruthr @4rielle @bylerrhugs @lorax-devito @miwiromantics @nymphus-fan-account @hawkinsschoolcounselor @liminalgayhorror @liviesjuno @caitlinpillar @carmenilla @bylersisendgame @yourlocalbadgerscales @kittykat940
Pinterest Icon: @nymphus-fan-account
I hope you enjoy, before you go, here are the communities I made for yall:
BYLER NATION Just scream about anything byler related and have fun
BYLER PROOFS: Share your biggest byler proofs or just read 'em
Nah yo, I didn't expect my dad to cry watching the Byler Lawyer vid, shit's crazy 😭
We’re just vibing, watching the vid, right? Halfway through, I glance over at my dad and this he has tears in his eyes. At first I was like, “Okay, he relates to Mike, already knew that.” But nope. Next thing I know, he’s crying. Not ugly sobbing or anything, but definitely crying.
Now, my dad had already told me he related to Mike, but I didn’t realize it was this deep. And then when the video ended, he turned to me, eyes all watery, and said:
“I’ve wasted more than 50 years of my life.”
…and I swear my heart shattered into, like, 87,000 little Lego pieces. That line hit harder than Mike's "love" monologue.
✨ Lore drop for the uninitiated ✨: My dad is gay (slayyy🏳️🌈), but he was in a lavender marriage because, well... points at self hello, evidence! He got married at 29, divorced four years ago, and only came out then too. So when he says “wasted,” he means he spent most of his life pretending to be “normal.” He even lost his own “Will” along the way 😞
The only thing he says he doesn’t regret is having me and my sister. And yeah. That’s when I cried my eyes out later, because OH.MY.GOD.
But also… plot twist: he’s officially a Byler now! We literally share a hyperfixation. My dad is out here, gay and thriving, but also ready to fight Netflix executives if Byler doesn’t end up canon.
Anyways...THIS. This right here is why Byler needs to be endgame. Stories matter. Representation matters. My dad saw himself in a teenage boy fighting to be honest about who he loves: and it broke something open in him. If Stranger Things has the chance to give people like him, like Mike, like Will, a happy ending, and they don’t? That’s not just disappointing. That’s cruel.
Because for my dad, it’s too late to rewrite the first fifty years of his story. But for Mike and Will? For every queer kid watching them? It’s not too late. They can have what he didn’t. They can win.
So yeah. This isn’t just about shipping. This is about giving people hope.
And if Byler isn’t endgame… then honestly? The Duffers have wasted our time.
