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18 ⋆ she/her

[wizardseance]

I obviously love byler a lot but why the fuck is the most popular post in the will byers tag literally about mike

[sophiasrant]

I am not immune to best friends who are in love with each other

[wistfulenchantress]

remember when we thought season 5 would address AIDS??

[miwiheroes]

remember when we thought season 5 would address will's sa after literally showing it

[uncomfortably-introverted]

when someone makes fun of season 3 will byers so i lowkey have to kill them

[lesbianwithchainsaws]

[sameena-sarannah-screencaps]

[wizardseance]

I'm watching the fear street trilogy for the first time ever and sameena I'm pretty sure sameena became one of my new favourite ships like 40 minutes into the first movie

[wizardseance]

I'm genuinely so sick of this fandom. the way milevens will make rape jokes, say they want Will to die of aids, writing an SA victim as a "gay predator" and so many bylers don't say anything about it is completely disgusting

there are always people saying things like "a real byler would never hate on El" all the time in this fandom but when it comes to defending Will because there's a community of people who are constantly being homophobic towards him, then these people are completely quiet

wanting the validation of people who will literally call you misogynistic and a fujoshi in the same sentence is certainly a choice. this kinda reminds me to the homophobic backlash after "the bridge" and how so many bylers were so focused on the fact that episode seven was shit and that byler wasn't canon that they didn't realise they were literally siding with homophobes

the treatment Will gets in this fandom is already awful but the fact that the people who are supposed to stan him or at least say something when antis are saying the most horrifying shit about him just stay quiet and would rather not say anything for some sort of moral high ground is genuinely repulsive

I said it a thousand times but I'm a Will stan first and a byler second, so many mike bylers are constantly pissing me off because they're so deep into fanon mike that they don't realise there's an actually canon queer character who gets homophobic backlash just for existing

[zo0eyy]

i'm crying bc why is it so true

[wizardseance]

Max would rather share Lucas with Will than seeing that both of her best friends are into Mike fucking Wheeler

[wizardseance]

if they don't explain how El knew Will I will riot

[wizardseance]

didn't even get that ok

[wizardseance]

I absolutely hate how mike centric the byler community is on tumblr ngl that's mainly the reason why I haven't been very active anymore

[lesbyler]

too many fanart pieces of byler with straight, small noses. too many instances of will byers with softer nose. loud sigh.

[wizardseance]

I obviously love byler and lumax a lot, they're my favourite narrative based ships and the dynamics are some of my favourites in the whole show but there's something about byclair that has me kicking my feet and giggling like a schoolgirl in a way that only a rare pair can

[newintown52]

what if i said lucas wouldve remembered will's birthday and will wouldve went to lucas' basketball game..

[salvatore--girl]

You're telling me that these two barely even interacted with each other in season 5

When before they were like this

...right, right

[wizardseance]

the comparison of the reaction from the public to "sorcerer" vs "the bridge", is incredibly telling of how it went wrong in the first place

I remember when sorcerer came out I saw a ton of queer people who felt seen and empowered by Robin's speech, they tied Will's story with his identity and his sexuality to the supernatural plot line in a way that is made to uplift the people who see themselves represented in his story. It felt empowering to see a gay character find strength within himself by accepting and loving himself, it showed Will's development with his internalised homophobia and how queerness is finally being portrayed as something positive, that being different is always a good thing when you're able to love yourself and have people who love you for who you are.

then you have the coming out scene on the other hand is quite literally the opposite of empowering. one of the things I had waited for the longest when it comes to this show was Will coming out, I thought it would've been an intimate scene with Joyce and probably Jonathan (maybe Mike and the party but mainly his family) and it would be used as a way to finally, after four seasons, give Will a way of reclaiming his sexuality by finally coming out because he wants to. I was obviously incredibly disappointed when I saw it, not only because it wasn't intimate at all since basically the whole cast was there, but because they couldn't even let Will come out on his own terms at all.

they created a character who was bullied for being queer and outed even before he himself knew about his sexuality and then forced him to come out to an audience of people through a monologue while having a full on panic attack. they are completely comfortable with using Will's feelings as a way to fix their straight main ship, but when it comes to his queerness actually being about him and not being used as something made to uplift other characters, then it's something that isn't worth the trouble to make it an intimate scene but instead a rushed out humiliation ritual in the second to last episode of the show.

[titforatat]

I took the L for season 5 as a whole, but as a Byers family stan, they can NEVER take this from me.