Schneckna

Shipping the Gays since 2013 she/her, pansexual

[schneckna]

I'm currently planing some unhinged spicy Byler fic because I need a tiny little break from my rewrite.

As a hint: It has to do with tarot cards. And I'm drawing the cards as I'm planning. This is way to much romance already and way to little smut. LMAO.

[schneckna]

Wheezing Wheeler....

Fuck, that made me cry so so much.

[pjo-tvs-version]

I'M NOT CRYING YOU ARE 😭

Super Soaker ending has me sobbing with my head in the pillow. Mike and Will just being happy together makes me feel so....hopeful that perhaps that I'll find my happy ending too. This fic was such a roller coaster ride- how we went from "inappropriate use of a water gun" to them dancing together in the light of the refrigerator of their apartment while wearing blankets. These collections of such impactful lines from each chapter really shows how far this fic has come and how Mike and Will's relationship has progressed and how much they've grown. Wheezingwheeler I hope you know that your work is nothing short of a masterpiece. I will miss how excited I used to get every time a new chapter was out. I will miss dissecting every colour used in the description. I will miss shouting at these two idiots to just talk and kiss instead of being miscommunication final bosses. I feel honoured and thankful to be a part of such a wonderful journey.

[auracobaltblue]

…..

[oliveespineapples]

something about

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[schneckna]

My wife and I were talking about chocolate bars and Stranger Things.

We're unsure if Dustin would be a Milky Way (because science and stuff) or a Bounty (you like it or you hate it).

Then, my wife said: Mike would be Twix.

Me: Yeah, and Will would be the other one.

[schneckna]

Chapter 4 - Vecnas Warning

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85084931/chapters/227942536

Sneak Peak:

“Hey Henderson, five bucks if I lick that dead spider in the hallway?”

“Ew, Eddie. What the fuck?”

“Come on, I need money for some new guitar strings!”

“Fine, I’ll give you five.”

That’s all it needed for Eddie to go back to the dangling corpse, studying its long limbs before he stuck out his tongue and licked it. Barely.

“You licked a dead spider. Dead spider. You licked it. That’s a thing that happened.”

“Guys! We found something!” Robin shouted from upstairs. Dustin immediately sprinted past Eddie and charged up the stairs.

“Hey, you owe me five bucks!”

[kidovna]

blue, yellow, green

[kidovna]

happy pride to bi mike wheeler hehe

[loserrsquad]

How to Disappear Completely

[miwiheroes]

EVERYBODYYYYY

[schneckna]

The concept of Mike being bad at s*x/s*x related problems is so funny and head canon to me.

Yes, I think he would be bad or not turned on with someone not right for him (like for example with El or another woman). Not even in a "Mike Wheeler IS gay" kind of way (I like to think he's under the bi-umbrella) but in a "I repress my true feelings because conformity" kind of way.

So, I guess Eddie was right because conformity is "what's killing the kids". Literally.

[schneckna]

I am in a love/hate relationship with my style of writing.

Like, while I am writing, I am like "God, this is horrible". And when I am fine tuning, as well. Like, why do I even do this?

And when I am done and reading the Chapter as a whole, I am like

:-D

"Look, I did that. And I made a stupid fun fact and a reference to Back to the Future!"

Anyhow... I am currently working on Chapter 4 which is way more plot heavy. I am looking Forward to Chapter 6-8. I can write way more fluff then. :)

[transparentbeardmentality]

Why was Mike involved in all the dick jokes and water burst symbolism for uncontainable feelings??

Why is Mike calling Will "magic"?

Why does he compare Will to El, that if she is in the upside down (something he seems unconcerned about), he could use some magic up here?

Why does Will come up in so many conversations with El?

Why is Vecna stopping El and Mike having a happy ending, and then Mike calls Will sorta "Vecna"?

And Will didn't create the burst symbolism pipe, MIKE DID. By himself. And Mike wanted Will to help him repress it, but then makes Will take off his jacket (which represents making him more vulnerable and truth). And I think this is because Mike is very much flustered by the flirting they just did and is getting frustrated at not knowing for sure, even if he is scared of knowing the answers either way. (Nobody is mentoring Mike)

Why have Mike have multiple seasons worth of giving the "signs" Will, and thus the audience, has been told are signs Mike wants to date? Signs Mike, nor Will, have with Lucas or Dustin.

The show was telling us Mike has big feelings that he wants to go away, but they just get more intense until it is written all over his face in "Sorcerer".

In the immediate aftermath, Mike can't contain how into Will he is. Then suddenly he becomes much more muted about it, as if he has realised it's too obvious.

He withdraws from touching Will, and from showing more care than anyone else when Will is unconcious.

It's like a recycled season 2 and Snowball thing. Mike realises he is too deep in his feelings and tries to create distance in s3 and over performs heteronormativity with El. There is no other reason for the awkward "Santa has good taste" line in to El in s5 about her clingy wetsuit, which El receives poorly.

Will is in a fkng coma and El is focused on trying to save him, and has not been able to so far, and Mike wants to comment about her sexy figure? Gross, Mike.

And the water bottle sharing? The lightning happening just as Will drinks to emphasise it? This indirect kiss trope is so unnecessary.

And then it leads to a tragic scene with El sacrificing herself. They are clinging to each other, but look like they are put off by each other at the same time. The whole narrative to this point has told us that the emotional spillover is meant to be Mike and Will, and yet we are with El and Mike. And El is still wearing Santa's sexy wetsuit...

Nothing new is revealed with El and Mike either. For a climatic moment, their relationship doesnt become any more meaningful. It actually becomes less.

She didnt trust him with any of this. Didnt care for his input on anything. Actively had rejected his advice prior: "you don't get to write the ending'.

And Mike doesn't even show that he can say "I love you" and mean it after Will forces him to finally say it in s4. Nothing is fixed.

And the song choice.. "Purple Rain" is not about romance, but severe dysfunction and letting go of those relationships without bitterness. The same-titled movie Prince starred in, wasn't a romance either.

Also, Prince was an awful person.

Prince was a Jehova's witness after 2000s and against homosexuality while profiteering off cosplaying queerness. He groomed a 16yo. Openly was known as an egotistical bully to anyone he saw as "beneath" him. Forbade his wife to talk about their stillborn child and left her to grieve alone, etc.

Anyway, the ST story would have felt right if it was Mike falling apart over Will in it's climatic moment. Everything had been building to an emotional reveal for Mike. THE HEART. MIKE THE BRAVE.

And he wouldn't have to say "love" to Will. That word is diminished now that it has been used as a lie to his gf, and made familial by saying it to his mum (the dialogue was pretty forced for it too). And this is because we have an easy callback of "I didnt say it." "You didn't have to." We were being told that Mike can say "love", but just didn't to El. It's not subtle.

And we also have Will foreshadowing that a kiss is a good way to end an argument.

With Byler, we were narratively being prepared to-

1. See Will struggle with his connection to the hive mind. Life and death. (He got put in a coma already and Vecna did some weird shit to him, and it is never relevant again?)

2. See a kiss ending an argument.

3. Feel intense, romantic love -without the word "love" ever being said. It would be shown very very clearly. No room for doubt like El.

And they make us feel insane because they just don't deliver on the most emotionally critical part of the whole show.

And this is the primary reason I can't let go of there being at least some sort of additional content to resolve this coming. They set me up not to!

I honestly side-eye anyone talking up how satisfied they were with the ending, because it shows a severe inability to connect narrative dots..

If someone was drawing a crocodile. And you see them drawing the teeth, long body, scaley tail.. and then you suddenly get shown a completed drawing of a horse in a swamp? You should have questions!

Anyway, I just want the byler cookie that had been narratively promised for about a decade.

Who I thought I was going to be going into Vol 2:

[hawqueer]

I always like the kind of characters that have brown hair, are convinced that they are a monster, love david bowie, have a bf with black long hair that is super dramatic and is part of their group of four

[smalltown--byler]

remus and will being two of my favourite characters of all time says so much about me. yes i am cripplingly insecure, convinced i have something wrong with me, and majorly depressed, but i have a great sarcastic sense of humour and i'm gay so... you win some, you lose some

[bvleraddict]

My friend and I couldn’t remember what direction the sun set in and then all of a sudden muscle memory kicked in and I said

“when blue meets yellow in the west, OH so it must set in the west”

He clocked me immediately “did you just use a Byler reference to find out where the sun sets?”

I’m way too Bylerpilled please help me OML

[polka-dottedsilkk]

I’m still gonna stand on this hill and I’m willing to die on it: this was Mike’s “Oh.” “Oh.” moment.

JUST LOOK AT HIS FACE BRO

[miwiheroes]

“mike would just act that way with all of his friends”

they didn’t show that, and they had plenty of room to do so. dustin’s face got beaten to a pulp and mike said “holy shit” and believed dustin’s lie and patted him on the back. lucas was hurt and mike went “he more than just saw” about will while they both looked after him. while will got a little dizzy and he ran at lightning speed over to him just to check on him, and they had him try to fight off military guys to get to him as well like i’m not fucking crazy stop telling me im weird for this

[smalltown--byler]

were all the writers just totally lacking in self-awareness regarding the scenes they were writing??? like, how do they step back and see these scenes next to each other and not have the realisation that mike and will have been written to have a more intimate bond than mike and the rest of the party? will was literally just dizzy in the scene where mike came flying over to him, but dustin had his face all beat to hell and lucas had a huge bleeding cut from a fucking demogorgon on his chest and mike barely shows fear/worry. the writers did nothing to show that mike interacts with lucas and dustin the same way he does with will - in fact, we get shown the exact opposite where will is treated with a tenderness and concern that mike reserves for him