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[anodymalion]

The Summer Hikaru Died is like. what if you believed you were a disgusting monster for being gay. but then you meet a real monster, and over time you start to believe that even this monster deserves to be safe and happy, and it's the first time you start allowing yourself to believe that maybe you do too. what if I cried one million tears forever

[mona07]

michael..

[clericscauldron]

THIS IS KILLING ME OH MY GOD

[strangee00]

EVEN WILL IS HOLDING HER WAIST MORE THAN MIKE’S HOLDING EL’S LMAO

[you-didnt-have-to]

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[peanut-says-stuff-deactivated20]

SO HAS MIKE OML IM CRYING

[strangee00]

OMG BYE GE ACTUALLY HAD

[your-ivy-grows13]

went right from getting rejected by the love of his life to being his relationship counselor once again! awesome writing

[iloverobinbyckley]

Not only is byler bones but they made Will sympathize with his abuser and rapist

Like I’m actually dead this is not my timeline someone pls tell me this is not real like pls nooooo

[bylerworld]

the fucking flashbacks as the mileven scene is happening made me laugh out loud like oh here's mike being a shitty boyfriend oh here's them not understanding each other oh here's them sharing no interests oh here's them being the worst couple on earth oh here's him saying he loves her after being talked into doing so by his best friend and because he's literally in love with his best friend's feelings what the hell sure

[bylerworld]

"mike didn't say i love you back to eleven" of course not will wasn't there to talk him into it 😭

[strangee00]

El dies in his face and he STILL can’t say ily 😭

[strangee00]

I’m glad some people enjoyed the finale, but I feel more like the need to hide who I am than express it now, what

[fatfatgaybitch]

Wow do you outcasts feel empowered or what

[byerswheeler]

mike wheeler how did you fumble the sweetest most beautiful boy in the world

[byerswheeler]

this mike wheeler is not the same mike wheeler that recognized the sound of will’s breathing through a walkie talkie, stood up to his bully in front of the whole school after he mocked will’s death, who wouldn’t leave will’s side all of season 2, and who told will meeting him was the best thing he’s ever done

[strangee00]

So you’re telling me that Mike, my favorite character, is actually just really poorly written. He actually just struggles to tell the girl he is in love with that he indeed loves her. He just talks softly and carefully to Will because Mike sees him as his best friend.

You mean to tell me that all of those hints, all of those parallels, were really just for Will to quickly get over Mike and pretend everything that had happened between them was nothing. You mean to tell me “shared looks” was to express their friendship. You mean to tell me that “to date” was because Will was willing to break his sister and best friend up for his own feelings.

Yeah, okay.

[ezkel]

ok so mike IS just badly written. ok. yeah I'm not upset that my favourite character doesn't make sense

[eeriesilkworm]

I'm... so confused?

What was the purpose of the scene about queer signals, if Will was never going to receive queer signals? Why was the question concerned with the obviousness of signals, and not the mere presence of them? Why use the term "shared looks" when that was a known call and response on set for Noah and Finn?

What was the meaning of the snowball and avalanche metaphor? Why include that scene at all? Where was the payoff?

You're going to write an entire meta scene on queer signals of attraction, include examples that we have already observed, indicate an eventual pay off... and not let it pay off? Why? To be malicious?

You tell the audience through Will that Mike was just his Tammy this entire time and expect us to believe it? Was Tammy in Robin's video tape? Did Robin know Tammy since she was five? Did Tammy run after her in the rain or recognize her breathing over the radio?

And Will Byers never got kissed. Will Byers witnessed queer love, queer joy, and queer intimacy through a kiss at the beginning of the season, wanting that for himself because he's a romantic... and never even got kissed. Not even by his epilogue boyfriend.

[wisermoon]

Byler writers and artists please don’t go anywhere. Please don’t let go of Byler. Please keep creating because this ship is so real, fuck the show and the stupid brothers. I love Byler with my entire heart. Their story is solid, even if its canonical ending was shit. But the foundation is there. Their story is real, so please don’t let go of them. Someone has to give them their deserved happy ending so please please please keep loving and creating more Byler.

[theskyissosad]

The fact that after the coming out scene everyone got up to hug Will and touch him was so important. I know a lot of people found the "and me" parts corny. But let's not forget that during the AIDS crisis in the 80s people were scared to even be standing near queer people.

And Jonathan even kissed Will's cheek with tears on it.

We shouldn't overlook how important and healing the touch part of that scene was.