#mike is queer

[fruitybowl]

I don’t know how Will is going to be able to handle Mike once they’re actually together because he’s already getting gagged by all the attention he’s giving him. I swear Will is going to explode not even a week into their relationship.

[puppydogmike]

happy pride month!

mike queerler is NOT canonically straight btw

[w1llowbyers]

i don't think that it's an understatement to say that byler and it's fandom has genuinely changed my life. i saw hints of it from the beginning but didn't know there was a whole community that supported it until i went seeking for it one day. since ive joined this fandom, ive gotten so much better at looking at symbolism clues, stuff in the background people might miss, parallels, etc. and i owe it all to byler. the ship itself is also a great comfort to me because im queer and it gives me so much hope. i love byler and it's community soso much!!!

also happy volume one day!!

[bycharlie]

am i the only one that remembers this form the rink-o-mania scene

so yk how mike was like "were friends WERE FRIENDS!"

and then will said BEST FRIENDS

mike i know what you are you were thinking smth pretty homo in that moment

the sadness in his face was because bro was realizing he was homo for will 💔 🏳️‍🌈

[byler-arts]

NO WAY!!!

[bylrndgm]

The shed scene.

Ok, if Byler isn’t endgame, then explain why in this scene, in the Byers’ shed, there were Joyce, Jonathan and Mike. Wouldn’t have been more intimate to just have Joyce and Jonathan, who are his mom and brother? Why is Mike there?

Let me give a little context here:

We’re in S02E08 and Joyce, Mike, Will and Hop just escaped from Hawkin’s Lab

Will’s unconscious and the characters are trying to find a way to defeat the Mind Flayer

Mike has an intuition which is that Will is the only one that knows how to defeat him

At this point, they need to wake up Will, but doing so would put them in danger as he’s a spy for the Mind Flayer

So they make the Byers’ shed a safe place to connect with him.

We know, from the previous episodes, that the Mind Flayer is increasingly taking up Will’s brain, almost eating Will’s memories. Indeed, he just remembers Mike and his mom.

So, to understand how to defeat the Mind Flayer, they need to talk to Will, but how to, if the Flayer is “commanding him”?

The answer is clear, because we see that: they need to talk, connect to him, through memories of his.

Joyce talks about the moment she brought Will’s drawing to work and Will felt embarassed

Jonathan talks about the moment he and Will built Castle Byers, to escape from the sadness and anger of their household

Mike talks about the moment he asked Will to be his friend and we know for sure that this memory is all about joy and love.

Yeah, any of his other friend could’ve pulled out some joyful memories (e.g., some adventures they had or some DnD campaigns) but could any of them pull out memories that awake LOVE in Will?

Mike’s speech is different: it’s the only one that awakens in Will a positive emotion (and the only one, through which, Will seemed to resurface and have some kind of reaction) and it’s just after that, that Will starts morse coding (he was kinda trying through Jonathan’s speech, but was after Mike’s that he started doing that 100%).

Mike chose their very first memory to reach Will, pretty much what he tries with El*ven in S4, could any other members of the party come up such an emotion-dense memory? I believe not. 

Also you can notice that as soon Mike starts speaking, Will’s face is immersed in light:

The light pushes away the darkness. The light, which is the good, eliminates any shadow (evil). Will is fully exposed to the good feelings that his first memory with Mike evokes in him and this is enough to take away any evil.

Mike’s presence is crucial, through love he can help Will out: shortly after Mike stopped talking, Will was eventually able to code:“close gate”.

As I said, Mike tried to do the same thing when El*ven was piggybacking in S4 but did that work? Not even a tiny bit. That’s because his love for her is not the same love he feels for Will.

And this to me screams endgame.

[nadia-zahra]

Byler tarot reading lmfaoooooo

ok before i tell yall what the cards said, i gotta say

1) i technically did 3 readings because my gut was telling me the first two readings were a lil off (and I ALWAYS aim for the most precise answer), but istg with each reading i got the exact same cards (for the most part). Like i reshuffled them before I began and i get my cards by shuffling them until they turn over, so the fact that 90% of these cards were revealed THREE times is insane.

2) this is just for fun don't take this seriously at all!

3) i will not be explaining what each card means. I'm way to lazy to do that

I pulled 20 cards (cause byler duh) and heres what they said after repeatedly asking the question, "what's byler gonna be like in st5?"

btw this is in fact in order of when they revealed themselves

six of pentacles reversed

seven of wands reversed

queen of swords

So El's choosing to be on her self love journey by becoming single and independent because she's sooo fucking done with Mike's bullshit.

ace of swords

king of wands

four of wands

After El breaks up with Mike, he kinda has an "oh shit maybe I was never in love with El" moment and like things about his sexuality start clicking a lil bit more. This isn't saying what his sexuality is, it's just saying he's finding out he's not straight. He's really happy that he no longer has to deal with his toxic ass relationship with El anymore and that him and Will are a team again. He can breathe a lil.

two of wands

six of wands reversed

five of wands

wheel of fortune reversed

ten of swords

two of cups reversed

three of pentacles

That is until he discovers Will lied ab the painting. He's gonna be really really angry and upset that Will said it was from El-- he feels like this was a huge betrayal because Will's never lied to him before. He and Will will get into a fight over the painting, and it's not gonna be pretty. Like this fight will be the messiest and ugliest fight within the series, and will borderline breakup their friendship-- that's how fucking bad its gonna be.

the hermit reversed

knight of swords

Mike feels like he just lost his bestest friend in the whole wide world and now feels completely and utterly alone.

My first initial reaction when seeing the hermit reversed was "oh Vecna's gonna be all over his ass", but I'm not certain about that at all. Like this is a reading only about byler and how its gonna play out-- not about how Mike's gonna be dealing with Vecna.

(side note-- idk why this is pretty much only from Mike's pov. I was honestly thinking about them both equally, so maybe this plays out from his pov in st5)

queen of swords

ten of cups reversed

El and Mike are gonna have a heart-to-heart! El's gonna help him come to his senses and get him out of this funky ass headspace he's in. He's gonna open up about the fight and why it hurt him so much finding out Will lied. She's gonna remind him that even though he had this big ass fight with Will, Will is still his bestest friend and still needs Mike.

king of swords

three of wands

The hierophant reversed

Idk if its gonna happen because of Mike and El's heart-to-heart or if it's gonna be Will that tells him himself, but one way or another Mike is going to find out that Will's in love with him. Suddenly the clouds part and everything clicks for Mike: he's realizes he's in love with Will too. They're gonna reconcile and finally get together, regardless of what anyone else thinks.

The End.

I can not fucking believe that my cards told me THREE times this is what's happening. And like the fact the reading starts with El gaining independence and the fucking HIEROPHANT REVERSED is the final card. plssssssss byler's so canon it's ridiculous asdhsdfl

[hessolivagant]

God, this scene tells me a lot about how mike is feeling. Mikes micro expressions from el to will, is so??? Mike seems to have some conflict going on but we don’t exactly know what it is yet, which i 100% think is going to be addressed in s5. All of the looks, heart eyes and speeches are all going to add up to mike being a gay man. I know that Will isn’t going to be used for his queerness to help a straight relationship. This will ruin all three characters arcs, it would not make sense and it would also be harmful to the queer community:(

Mikes arc: this is based off my interpretation of mike and what i think his conflict and how he’s going to end up in s5. His conflicts are his queerness and his internalized homophobia that causes him to push everyone away while also watering himself down to the standards of “normal” mike is actually a gay man who loves to play dnd with his friends, he also loves star wars and writing :) but his father makes fun of him a lot, he was bullied in middle school, and he is associated with the “occultists”(dnd group💀) at school, he’s pretty much been outcasted his whole life for being different, so of course the poor boy is gonna have internalized homophobia and he going to repress who he actually is to impress el and to seem straight. He even pretended to not gaf about dnd but immediately after s3 he joins a dnd group, clearly he’s pretending to be someone he is not. At the airport he’s wearing his silly little outfit, and argyle points out that it’s a shitty knockoff, which is a double meaning. The clothes are knockoffs of ocean pacific and mike is a knockoff of himself. He was pretending the entire day. So his conflict is pretending he’s normal. Even though he stated in the first episode(with his gay montage) that he doesn’t want to be normal but then he turns around and does this? Interesting.

Mike and eleven: why i think mike and el won’t be endgame, mike won’t have his arc of being himself again and he’s gonna repeat the same thing his parents did(nuclear family) which is boring as hell and also ew? Why are we romanticizing this possibility?? Mike changed for el, mike changed to impress el. He also feels inferior to el and he’s said “i love you” twice to her for the past?? 4(?) years(I don’t remember I don’t pay attention to milkvan) mikes arc would be useless if he was just pushed into this other than, accepting himself and being who he was in s1 and s2 where he didn’t feel the need to pretend.

Mike and will: will, doesn’t pretend to be someone he is not. He’s still in the closet but he’s still himself. He doesn’t want to pretend to be anything else whilst mike is pretending. Mike needs will to fulfill his interests and accept who he is. They need each other to be themselves and they need each other in general because they love each other. If mike ends up with will, we will see our beloved s2 mike. And we will see a more interesting version of mike than mike with el.

Mikes s5 ending: none of us know but one thing i do know is that he’s gonna have his gay little moments, and i want it to be NOTICEABLE. I want people to be like “ohhh, okay that makes sense” LMAO YK?? Also byler kiss!! I’ll take anything, as long as they kiss and confess to each other. I don’t think theyll pull a reddie or all of us bylers are going to riot💀 so i want mike and will alive, they deserve a happy ending.

Also in s5 i want mike to be with another queer character where they open up, like robin orr vickie(?🤨) or maybe even just a conversation with will. OR SUPPORT, ANYTHING FOR THE POOR BOY😭😭 el could be like “mike, ik what you are” and it would work. Please, he needs comfort 😢

(Im in class and my teacher has been showing us monkey photos for like 30 minutes, so um😭???)