ASHLEY KLEIN IS A SNITCH

ST (will byers) sideblog. adult.

[toseesoclearly]

hi. this is a sideblog, likes come from ailufulg.

I tag wanky stuff discourse, st critical, anti mike wheeler/byler/etc, and am happy to tag anything else you'd like to block and avoid. 🫡 this right upfront makes it sound like I hate everything and maybe I do but I really want us all to be able to coexist happily

will showtunes playlist, the only post I've made that matters

fic recs masterpost (mostly byler)

[scullysflannel]

i’m coders

[takemetoohigh]

HALT AND CATCH FIRE || Season 2

[i-heart-scully]

Donna and Cameron + computers

[toseesoclearly]

I am going to read 50-100 pages of the odyssey before I go to see a sports game this evening. accountability posting

[comfortblr]

maya hawke as robin buckley in stranger things season four

[jediwill]

What kind of music do YOU think the gang would listen to?

What music do I think the party would listen to? I'm glad you asked 🙂I know everyone is dying for yet another opinion on this

I made (but will not be linking) spotify playlists for each of them. I am keeping this period accurate. If you want non period accurate, that's gonna have to be another post another day. This got long, so details below the cut. Please note I am limited by my own taste—I did not really do research beyond my own music library.

Will

The party member whose music taste we know most about! We have canon proof he likes The Clash, The Cure, David Bowie, and Little Shop of Horrors. This tells me he likes punk, goth rock, and musicals. I could expand this to allow for new wave and classic rock. The Smiths is an obvious choice. Sad gay music. Unlike his brother, I think he knows who Siouxsie Sioux is and loves them banshees. He would like the Rocky Horror and Jesus Christ Superstar soundtracks. He likely also enjoys the Talking Heads, Joy Division (more than New Order), Depeche Mode, The The, Pink Floyd, Pixies, and Lou Reed. I also think he grew up on Joyce's music, which I think is a lot of Steve Nicks/Fleetwood Mac, Patti Smith, Janis Joplin, and Bob Dylan. (I've always had this headcanon that he used to dance around to "Rhiannon" and pretend he was her...) Many have pointed out that "Lullaby" by The Cure would be terrifyingly relatable to Will. I agree with that assessment. I also think that lyrics would be really important to Will—more so than sound, but his artist self can appreciate both.

Dustin

We know the second most about his music taste. We know he likes movie soundtracks (Neverending Story) and Weird Al enough to wear him on a t-shirt on the first day of school. It's not unlikely that Eddie has introduced him to heavy metal. In season 5 he's gonna be in a dark place, so there will be some new music with darker, more emotional themes—we might start to see some overlap between his taste and Will's. I don't think he's immune to top 40 either, but he will gravitate towards songs with thought-out stories and unique rhythms. I'll bet he listens to Metallica, Michael Jackson, Oingo Boingo, Dio, Iron Maiden, Rainbow, Duran Duran, Black Sabbath, Rush, the Labyrinth soundtrack, the Grease soundtrack, Queen, and Prince. He is also the most likely to share music opinions with Will! I could see him also liking The Cure and Talking Heads.

Mike

We don't have much to work with here. We know he thinks "Should I Stay or Should I Go" is "weird." So, no punk, nothing too alternative or political. We know he likes one song: "Never Surrender" by Corey Hart, and he likes it enough he knows it by heart. This tells me that he listens to the radio a lot. He likes chart-toppers. This was the best-selling single of 1985, and it peaked at #3 on the charts about 6 weeks after the majority of the events of Stranger Things 3. (Source: my dad has 80s charts stats memorized and responds to my texts very quickly) He is going to enjoy artists such as Hall & Oates, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Collins, The Police, Prince, REO Speedwagon, and Bryan Adams--but nothing beyond their singles. His dad seems like the type to be too boring to listen to music, so Mike might feel like he's rebelling by liking music. Listening to "Something in the Air Tonight" really loud in his room is rebelling. He is not going to give a single fuck about his mom's music. Too girly. Cyndi Lauper and Madonna will have him changing the station. Heavy metal is not his thing sorry.

Lucas

We know the least about his taste 🙁. He says he likes Kate Bush, but he follows this statement with "because she saved [Max's] life." He's probably about sick of "Running Up that Hill" by now too. I'm drawing this from his interests and personality and we're well into headcanon- and venturing into projection- territory. So be warned.

If we consider Lucas on the Line to be canon (which we kind of have to—they give us little to work with in regard to his interests beyond D&D, basketball, and Max), then his personal journey with self-love and acceptance is going to come into play here as it does with both Dustin and Will. LOTL tells us that by the events of season 4, this is something he is coming into his Black identity. Hip-hop started to come into the mainstream in the 80s, so there's no way Lucas isn't coming across this and, naturally, seeking it out. I could see him liking artists like Run-DMC, Grandmaster Flash,/& the Furious Five, The Sugarhill Gang, and Public Enemy. He's probably going to like playing and singing along to "The Magic Number" (De La Soul) whenever he's in a group of 3 because he's cute and corny like that. But he's not immune to top 40 either. I think he'll listen to some of the same artists as Mike without much complaint but gravitate toward more upbeat music, and female pop singers aren't going to have him changing the station (his parents, Max, and Erica wouldn't stand for that).  These will be artists like Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Prince, Hall & Oates, & Michael Jackson. I can see him tolerating heavy metal more than Mike can. He’d like Deep Purple.

[yesornopolls]

is there a regional dish specific to the region you live in or grew up in that you particularly like?

Is there a regional dish specific to the region you live in or grew up in that you particularly like?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 hours 26 minutes

[toseesoclearly]

undertaking something quite normal at present: listening to every seasons of love dance remix on spotify to determine which is the right pull for your "pov it's the late '90s you're out in [gay neighborhood of your choice] with will byers" playlist

[lelif]

on survival

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[threemanoperation]

Side A

We're Going to be Friends - The White Stripes

In the Garage - Weezer

Sliver - Nirvana

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire

You're My Best Friend - Queen

I Will Follow You into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie

Fill in the Blank - Car Seat Headrest

I Don't Want to Grow Up - Ramones

We Used to be Friends - The Dandy Warhols

Side B

Hero - Family of the Year

Michael in the Bathroom - George Salazar

Loser - Beck

I Am the Antichrist to You - Kishi Bashi

Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons

Boys Don't Cry - The Cure

Windmills - Toad the Wet Sprocket

Tambourine-N-Thyme - Nana Grizol

A Fairytale Ending - The Boy Least Likely To

[crowley-anthony]

Mike Wheeler & Will Byers | Stranger Things Season 5 (Vol. 2)

[jediwill]

the amount of times i see “i wish there was a fic where ____” and they are describing something that happens in chasing waterfalls

[will-mcfly]

love comes in colors, i can't deny

chapter 5: tony the third is out now!

chapter summary: tony and will talk. tony reckons with tradition of all kinds.

[will-mcfly]

chapter 6: real friends is out now!

chapter summary: the class presents their final projects. will and tony expand their horizons.

note: i have now (tentatively) set the chapter count to 15!

[yesornopolls]

Have you seen a live drag performance?

Have you seen a live drag performance?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 3

[threemanoperation]

i love cheating in fiction i love songs about both other women and scorned partners

[jediwill]

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