I know what you are

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I put on the Sweden vs Tunisia game and genuinely started tweaking when I remembered Sweden is byler colours (also 5-1 let's goooo sweden-byler nation)

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Genuinely like 8 months after originally posting my willnance fic, the Mike POV is promised is finally here! The willpower it took to finally decide to complete this was insane.

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I'm still working on the time travel fic, I just needed a moment to wrap up this abandoned chapter. The next time I update the time travel fic, it'll likely be several chapters.

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Lesbyler portrait of a lady on fire au where Michelle is about to be married off against her will and Willow is the painter assigned to paint her wedding portrait

I need 20 fics NOW

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Been a minute, but chapter 10 of my time travel fic is up! Mike and Future Will finally get to talk, yipeee. Also omg shoutout to this girl called Sophia on tiktok because she made a tiktok about how she loved this fic and I'm soo flattered tysm for the love <3 Genuinely never been more excited than when I saw that in the wild on my fyp. Sophia girl if you're on here ily and you made my day

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Chapter 7 of my time travel fic is done! Ngl this chapter is highkey me just expressing my love for the wonder twins, even though Future Will’s unconscious the whole time. My perfect angels <3

And Mike’s stupid jealous because ofc

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Chapter 6 of my time travel fic is out! More of Future Will using his powers. Like, that's basically the whole chapter.

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Finally picked up my time travel fic again after wrapping up my long fic! At last, the aftermath of everyone witnessing Future Will's powers...

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FINALLY wrapped up my estranged-byler-jennifer-hayes fic. I never imagined when I started it that it would be 100k words, but here we are. My longest fic ever, finally done!

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Never forget that Will's words in the van scene, where he confesses his feelings by labeling them as El's, was canonically what resolved Mike’s insecurities in his relationship with El. This is reinforced again when Will references this speech during the mind fight ("Remember, you're the heart!") and that, AGAIN, is canonically what pushes Mike to finally say 'I love you' to El.

Not anything El does that shows him he doesn't need to be insecure, not anything Mike does himself that enables him overcome this block, but Will’s words, which are a manifestation of HIS feelings. El was crying in front of Mike, actively begging him to say he loved her, but Will’s feelings were what made Mike change his tune. You can't make this shit up, how do you write yourself into a corner like this?

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Okay but imagine El first learning how to do makeup in Lenora and seeing that girls sometimes draw on/enhance moles on their face, so she started to occasionally draw Will’s mole above her mouth because she thought they made them more like real twins. And Will thought it was adorable, and they took a bunch of pictures and sent them to Mike asking if he could tell who was who because 'We're identical now!' (And Mike had a mental breakdown over it)

And whenever El wanted to feel really pretty, she insisted she had to have the 'Will mole,' and Will thought it was the most flattering thing ever.

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Chapter 2 of my s3 time travel fic is up! I fear 18-year-old Will is very annoyed with having to deal with this shit again, but he finds motivation eventually. And Mike's going through it, because ofc.

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So, that time travel fic idea I made about 18-year-old Will Byers being sent back to s3 and Mike crashing out over older Will... I started writing it.

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I can't believe some people need to be told this, but shipping Byler is not the same as shipping Stobin because in shipping stobin, you're invalidating a canon queer identity, taking away important representation, and also taking away a core part of the character in general (as their queerness is often central to their emotional arc, which is definitely true for Robin). Whereas shipping byler is shipping a canon gay character with a presumed straight character (who he's canonically in love with but whatever). You're not taking away 'straight representation,' and you're not invalidating their identity because their presumed straightness is not integral to their character and arc like a queer character's queerness is. Mike's character is not invalidated by perceiving him as not straight. Robin's character is invalidated by perceiving her as not lesbian.

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Me making a fun time travel fic idea where 18-year-old Will Byers is sent back to the s3 timeline and sends 14-year-old Mike into cardiac arrest that people want to read:

Vs me realizing I have to rewatch s3 to write it:

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I finally reached 100k words on this fic! This chapter is pure indulgence + me showing my love for Nancy Wheeler + embarrassing the hell out of Mike because that's what I love to do <3

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Only one more chapter to go, and then my longest fic ever is finally wrapped up.

A little snippet:

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I remember finding it so weird that they dragged out the "reveal" that Mr. Whatsit was Henry because it was just so obvious??? Why would the characters not think it was Henry? Anyway, it made me think of something I would've eaten up instead, where they could have actually made the Mr Whatsit thing feel like a twist:

The characters immediately assume that Mr. Whatsit is Henry, but the twist is that Henry is doing it physically THROUGH Will. As in, Will is being intermittently possessed and seeking out these kids, and doesn't realize it. He experiences time loss and repeatedly ends up in places not knowing how he got there but chalks it up to sleep deprivation due to nightmares and is too afraid of seeming like a burden to mention it to anyone.

Holly is then the first victim because she lives under the same roof as Will, making her the closest target. Will and Holly get close over the 18 months of living together and regularly spend time playing games alone, where Henry takes the opportunity to take over. Holly thinks that these moments where Will introduces himself as Mr. Whatsit (he doesn't give the name Henry because why tf would he do that) is some sort of roleplay game, so she plays along and invites her friends to join in on the "game," expanding Henry's pool of victims (ig in this world Derek is either a friend or learns about her "game" and makes fun of it). Holly (and the other kids) think it's a fun secret between her and Will, so she doesn't tell anyone that Mr. Whatsit is Will. It's not until they capture Derek to protect him and he refers to Will as Mr. Whatsit that the pieces start to fall into place, and Will slowly regains memories of what Henry made him do.

The kids, once captured by Henry, under hive mind influence, don't notice that Mr. Whatsit doesn't look like Will until Holly runs into Max and Max helps her see that Mr. Whatsit isn't a friend at all.

And at some point Will falls fully into possession and tries to hurt Mike, and Mike has to pull him out of it.

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Headcanon that Jonathan becomes a filmmaker who gets known for making very dark, gritty films with a lot of political commentary, and one day, he announces that he's making a film focusing around a nonverbal little girl who's just run away from her abusive household. Because of his reputation, everyone expects it to be a psychological horror, but instead, it's all about this girl running into a group of kids and discovering friendship and real family love. Her abuse is never shown on screen or even explicitly discussed, and her abuser never appears in the movie. It's not dark at all, it's just a little girl learning to be a girl and making friends. It's not actually about abuse, it's almost ridiculously feel-good and happy the whole way through.

It gets flamed for 'not being dark enough' and 'not tackling the depth of her abuse,' but when an interviewer asks him of what he thinks of these opinions, he just says that he doesn't believe an abuse victim's story needs to revolve around suffering, and he just wanted the girl to experience happiness.

He gets called idealistic for acting like an abused girl could so easily find happiness and peace with no issue, but Jonathan doesn't care. This is the one area where he's not interested in realism. He lived that already.