what about the storyteller?

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[wheelercurse]

some bylers really act like mike's queercoding was a mass hallucination now, and yeah whatever, I saw what I saw.

[wheelercurse]

I'm gonna say the hottest take ever and then vanish, but "It's not my fault you don't like girls" still, with context and knowing Mike's characterisation and his relationship with both Will and El, still sounds more like Mike is gay than homophobic.

[wheelercurse]

Me on my deathbed: I thought byler was endgame because I expected the bare minimum from the writers, that they would bring up the painting to resolve the lie. It was common sense, but they were so stupid.

[realreallove]

How it feels to be violently reminded over and over again that the world hates women and men especially hate women in a way that is so cruel and heartless and genuinely evil

[andiwriteordie]

why is noah kahan’s new album cover lowkey giving miwi and why do i know it’s going to emotionally devastate me

[andiwriteordie]

and while we’re talking about it the lead single (the great divide) is mike wheeler

[chryza]

Dear video essay creators. A video analysis is when you analyze a piece of media. No no look at me. A summary, no matter how thorough, is not an analysis. An analysis requires you to draw conclusions about the media such as authorial intent, real-world parallels, discussion about themes/worldbuilding/character motivation, and so much more. You have to stop summarizing something and saying that’s analysis. The Gaylors are doing more critical analysis than you. Is that who you want to lose to? The gaylors?

[miwiheroes]

actually yknow what??? mike wheeler is going to listen to good luck babe in 2024 and he is going to wince and look over at will in the passenger seat who is also looking at him going “you better be fucking glad you didn’t fumble me”

[booksandpaperss]

”he’s not like me” except mike was drawn to will at age five bc “you were alone too” and mike feels completely lost in season 2 before will helps him find a purpose again and they don’t need words to communicate bc they’re always in sync and “welcome to my world” and they’re always visually paired together and they understand each other better than anyone and will may be the one with feelings but mike is always the one who initiates. and more than anything else they make each other feel less alone. but mike isn’t like will okay sure

[bad-heads]

since they will be living in the subtext forever, I am now free to say that this is sexual

and this was a kiss

[wisermoon]

“Everyone saying I just hated the ending because Byler wasn’t endgame, but-" well, let me be really honest with you, I did hate the ending BECAUSE Byler wasn’t endgame.

That’s what happens when you build your characters’ arcs surrounding the success of them falling in love. Byler wasn’t just getting Will and Mike to kiss in my screen. It was about the queer character who has been abused since childhood by both the natural and supernatural to finally get the happy ending he deserves. It was about showing a queer love story in a mainstream show and making history. It was about letting that queer love story be more than just a “lesson” the queer community HAS to learn which is you only get to come out and explain yourself to the rest, but you don’t get the boy, that’s just not realistic. It was about crafting a character who was also queer but closeted and have an arc about how conformity is never the right option. How Mike Wheeler could’ve been an inspiration for all those people who hate themselves for being different and who hide themselves in what society can accept. It was about having rounded characters with wants and goals and flaws instead of flat carton boards. Byler wasn’t so much than just Byler in this show, and I’m tired of pretending I didn’t hate the ending because Byler was ruined.

[wheelercurse]

finn wolfhard getting homophobic and gay allegations at the same time... that's so mike wheeler.

[roxstarrs]

this comparison is killing me oml

[wheelercurse]

I can't believe people were arguing that Mike wasn't queercoded when the pipe scene from the last season exists.

[unicorngunter]

[wheelercurse]

people saying tumblr bylers are doomposting, no, we're rageposting, get it right.

[talkingbyler]

does anybody also think about how 'mike the brave' was lowkey useless??? he enabled mike to do exactly... nothing, right.

'holly the heroic' was central to holly's arc because she learned that she's way stronger than she is and it helped her be able to save the other kids from vecna.

'mike the brave' is absolutely pointless to mike's arc. it would have a been a perfect set up to use 'mike the brave' to help mike overcome his fear of his feelings for will, but they decided against it. they could have also used 'mike the brave' to overcome mike's fear of being useless to the people he loves and left behind, which they also didn't.

it's so much wasted potential to give mike a fictional version of himself that is much braver than he is then not use it to push his character development at all...

[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.