how can i physically consume my hyper-fixations

stranger things (aka byler), pjo, and whatever else i find funny

[tearsofsaudade]

hello internet strangers my name is mack, i’m an adult, she/her, fanfic writer w/ ✨mental illness✨ so pretty much fanfic imaginer. i make byler edits with taylor swift songs

any original posts of mine are tagged with #mack makes shit up and my sideblog is @joyofsaudade

(my ao3 account and all my edits in one place below the cut)

my ao3 account:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

my edits:

peace (taylor swift) - byler

the story of us (taylor swift) - byler

ghost (justin bieber) -byler

you’re on your own kid (taylor swift) - will byers

high infidelity (taylor swift) - byler (short version)

high infidelity (taylor swift) - byler (long version, feat. karen wheeler)

faking it (sasha sloan) - mike wheeler/byler

you’d never know (blü eyes) - will byers

WYD now? (sadie jean) - will byers/byler

i knew you were trouble/phantom of the opera- vecna/henry/001

if i killed someone for you (alec benjamin) - el hopper-byers

ME! (taylor swift) - byler

two is better than one (boys like girls ft. taylor swift) - byler

forever & always (taylor swift) - byler

out of the woods (taylor swift) - byler

ivy (taylor swift) - byler

wish you were gay (claud) - will byers/byler

boy in the bubble (alec benjamin) - will byers

exile (taylor swift) - byler

mystery (jeris) - byler

you’re losing me (taylor swift) - byler (long version)

you’re losing me (taylor swift) - byler (short version)

angels like you (miley cyrus) - eleven hopper byers

DEATH (melanie martinez) - titan!luz (the owl house)

bonus:

my little mike wheeler anti hero clip

[kidovna]

yearly rain/lake scene manifestation post 🕯️

[kidovna]

okay update

[kidovna]

2 days to ST5! collab with @scapegods (I drew will, she drew mike. and the blood)

based on this painting. process gif below:

[bylerworld]

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

[thisgameissonintendo]

SEASON 5: will in every episode: 5.05 - shock jock

[purpleduckcoffee]

Okay so we all agree that it’s inevitable that all of Will’s future boyfriends will have beef with Mike right? Mike who is not Will’s friend but his best friend, Mike who saved him when he went missing as kid, crazy together Mike, Mike with all the inside jokes, Mike who can understand Will without words and vice versa, Mike the Heart, Mike with the special Will Voice, Mike, Mike, Mike, it’ll always be Mike for Will, and one by one they’ll all realize that

[williambvers]

the duffers are just straight up not smart enough to come up with conformity endgame on purpose. they definitely wouldn't have blown part of their nearly billion dollar budget on such terrible marvel adjacent action scenes with green screens and CGI. for nothing. i do like the idea in a meta way, to contemplate how each of the characters have actually confirmed to expectations of society and now no one will ever be free. love the potential that we have to play with there

[quentin-lukewarmwater]

el: you dont love me anymore? you cant even write it

mike: i can only tell you i love you when my best friend rubs my back and calls me the heart because i dont want the day i lose you to hurt me. my life started the day my best friend was traumatically kidnapped into a wormhole. i dont know any of your personality traits, but i believe you can fly.

mike 18 months later, hallucinating apparently:

el: you understand me like no one else does. you always saw me. i love you

mike: el dont do this, at least wait for will to tell me im the heart!!

[rhiannonwinterphoenix]

Hi, Byler fans. I don't usually post here but I just finished the Stranger Things finale and wanted to get something out that I feel needs to be said. My grandmother had an older brother named, coincidentally enough, William.

He was born in 1919 and he was gay.

Everyone in the family knew. It became an unspoken secret. And here’s the part people don't really say about the past: he wasn’t cast out. He wasn’t beaten. He wasn’t disowned.

They loved him. They were a close‑knit family.

What they did instead was play a game called pretend.

They never said it out loud. When the family gathered for holidays, his siblings brought their spouses. Uncle Bill came alone. His partner wasn't invited, of course. They didn't even want to know he had a partner. When children asked why Uncle Bill wasn’t married, the adults smiled and said, “He’s just a bachelor.”

That answer was given to my mother in the 1950s. To my sister in the 1970s. And to me in the 1980s.

People like the Duffer brothers seem to imagine that the past was only made up of violent, cartoonish homophobes. And sadly, there were a lot of those, just like there still are today. But some families were “fine” with gay people—as long as they were quiet. As long as they didn’t ask for the same things. As long as they didn’t bring love to the table.

Uncle Bill was accepted on one condition: He sat alone.

So when a modern show frames a gay boy’s arc as “learning to accept himself without expecting love in return,” that’s not radical. That’s not brave. That’s not new.

That story is over a hundred years old.

It’s the story of being tolerated, not chosen. Of being loved in theory, but denied in practice. Of being welcome—so long as you don’t make anyone uncomfortable.

My Uncle William lived that life a century ago. We don’t need to keep calling it progress.

I know a lot of people on here are young. So take the pain you're feeling now and remember it as you get older. Write your own stories that embrace what this show denied. Write the story you wanted Byler to be. Be the generation that stops telling this tired old story.

Do it for my Uncle Bill. Do it for Noah. Do it to give the middle finger to the Duffer brothers. Most of all, do it for yourself.

[noyouwerebeautiful]

s5 really felt like

volume 1: go white boy go

volume 2: no white boy not like that

volume 3: white boy i've never seen anyone fuck it up like that

[tearsofsaudade]

i don’t think the duffers are smart enough for conformity gate however i am gonna need 20 fics on my desk by next friday

[wllbyers]

byler is endgame because if the writers can choose to ignore plot points then so can I

[byluverz]

the byler fandom is separated to three rn

1) ppl who are miserable abt the finale and the queerbait and buzzed to ao3 for fix its

2) ppl who are having shit and giggled with conformitygate, as a way to cope with this finale

3) ppl who have buzzed to both

[iamforbylerifbylerisforbyler]

Me at Conformitygate and cutgate:

[regeditt]

What was going through everyone’s mind during that one scene (S5E8):

Will: But what matters is that you're still here, and you still think we can be friends.

Mike: Friends? No, thanks.

Will: *freaking out in his head*

Mike: Boyfriends. *pulls him in for a sloppy kiss*

[pisshandkerchief]

everyone's "well-adjusted" and "mentally healthy" until the "sometimes I wish I'd never been born at all" part of Bohemian Rhapsody comes on

[miwiromantics]

Saying that us wanting queer representation was just noise, telling Noah to shut up when all he wanted was a happy ending for his character, not taking his consideration to the coming out scene like he isn’t a gay man himself, saying El just represents childhood wonder and killing her off, not caring about any of her trauma and depth, telling Noah to be ‘less gay’, disregarding Kali as her own character and giving her the most traumatic backstory with no happy ending. Duffers, I know what you are.