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The most unrealistic thing in Stranger Things is the concept of someone fumbling Will Byers.

The month between volume 1 and volume 2 was the best and most hopeful month of my life and then the week between volume 2 and volume 3 was like 15 9/11s

maddiemell

Always one of them present in the jealous Mike fics

the-lost-seven-7

more scream au

my-castles-crumbling

nevyobjects11

"we really need some magic up here"

Close ups and gradient map version under cut

Wow, I haven't logged into my account in such a long time...

thewisewill80sbyers

I'll say this again but JUST IN CASE you should also prepare yourselves for the possibility of a fake rejection/perceived rejection in volume 2 or them keeping Mike's side ambiguous again... the writers could be pushing the avalanche to the finale because even if I hope that's not how they're going to handle it and they will make it more and more obvious that Mike is reciprocating from ep. 5, we have to keep in mind how gay slow burns are handled usually in TV and how they push it to the final episode to confirm it (korrasami, catradora etc)

Hopefully they didn't accept that and went all in from ep. 5 but better have a reminder of this anyway!!!

billieblackbird

Huh

So I just watched vol 2. I really want to believe in this but... for now, I'm keeping my Byler hopes really low. The Will coming out scene was beautiful and I sobbed like a baby but when he mentioned Tammy... Ugh, I lost all hope, really.

If they don't go down the Byler route for the epilogue —being one of the most interesting routes for the final pairings because M*leven is fucking BLAND— I'll simply quote Erica: "what a pussy"

thewisewill80sbyers

I don't blame anyone for not having hope after that, my own hope has decreased ngl, I still think they can do it but I don't know if they will do it because I don't know if I can trust them anymore after that shitshow... I still think there is foreshadowing that Mike is like Vickie and not like Tammy but I am asking myself if I can really trust them to deliver on it

miwiheroes

Guys do u remember when Tammy Thompson said "asking you to be my friend was the best thing I ever did" to Robin? Remember when Tammy said "its Hawkins, it's not the same without you" to Robin? NO? Oh right... right... :)

miwiheroes

WILL BYERS READ THIS FUCKING POST

mikeslawyer

OH OH ONE MORE THING!

will’s love for mike wasn’t reduced to a crush, Will reduced it to a crush, to make it easier for his friends. because, yeah, everyone has crushes, crushes are innocent, right? right

but what would happen if instead of ‘I had a crush on someone’, will had said ‘I was in love with someone’ and then followed it by ‘he’? questions would be asked. uncomfortable ones. and while will has come to terms with mike possibly figuring him out, he doesn’t want to be pitied. saying he’s in love would expose a lot more emotional pain and torture than saying he has a crush already did.

mike isn’t just a crush, will is just unwilling to show all of his cards like that. and honestly, good for him.