Nvm I take back all the hopecore posts I'm gonna rant, gimme a sec.
This is from the recent interview btw.
FOLKS YOU CANNOT FORGET THAT THESE FUCKERS LED US ON FOR YEARS. YEARS!!!! This has got to be the biggest queerbait of the decade if not the century. We asked so many times and not once did they have the balls to come out and say "byler isn't endgame". It's just three words.
They fucking chose to do this.
They fucking chose to queerbait us.
My bad for thinking the Duffer Brothers were good writers. My bad for thinking Shawn Levy would keep his promise. My bad for intellectually and logically analyzing the scenes. My bad for keeping my faith in privileged white men.
It's ironic that the Duffer Brothers' greatest wish was to go down in television history and now they're officially going the nothingburger route. Literally no one is happy. Not us, not the milevens, not the non-shippers, not the GA. No one. They've screwed up royally.
Ykw? Fuck them all. My blood is boiling rn you have no idea. I was merely disappointed before but after reading their interviews I'm enraged.
They basically told every queer person watching their show to go fuck off and that being alone was alright as long as you accepted yourself? What kinda bullshit message is that? Let's have no hope? I have feeling it's self-projection because Matt literally said none of my crushes worked out, so JUST BECAUSE YOUR CRUSHES FAILED MEANS THE GUYS WHO'S BEEN SUFFERING FOR SO LONG SHOULD ALSO FAIL AT GETTING THE PERSON HE WANTS??? ARE WE BEING DEADASS RN???
It's literally all the denial in the world. The only difference is that they still won't say "byler isn't canon" because they KNOW we have a fuck ton of hope and we'll still try and watch the Finale. They're milking us for as long as possible.
"Story for the outcasts" my ass. It's a story for three privileged cis white men and their corporate overlords. Oh and let's not forget the entire chunk of their bigoted fanbase that will RELENTLESSLY vilify us for this. But hey, at least they got their money right?
Fucking disgusting. I hope they never get to touch a director's chair or a script ever again.
And remember when Shawn Levy said that it was a story for the outcasts and people who didn't fit in and that he was dedicated to naver make that happen again?
Yeah, I guess we really did believe him. Shame on us for doing so.
This comment really just sums it up.
This is what makes it so fucking bitter for me. Two straight men writing this and telling us what we need…..by doing a story that has been repeated as nauseam since queer people were again allowed to be portrayed obviously…should we clap that they didn’t bury their gays or something?
What queer people need is to be shown that we can love and be loved. That we are capable of and deserve our storybook ending as much as straight people do.
What part of "We are more than just our pain" did they not understand?
I'm not in Byler doubt because Episode 8 is still left and this is probably the plot twist they were talking about but I'll never forgive the Duffers regardless.
I give up.
Fuck all of them.
