ximena (pronounced hee-meh-na, if you didn't know) (i have so many stories of people butchering my name holy shit)
she/her
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i mainly post about byler and other things i like at the moment
i love asks and tag games so feel free to send them/tag me!
i love film, and would pursue it as a career in an ideal world
i love to watch movies, read, and occasionally write
currently reading: the summer hikaru died manga
currently watching: nothing
last movie i watched: black swan (my letterboxd!)
more under the cut ↓
some of my favorite things:
movies: i saw the tv glow, dead poets society, the perks of being a wallflower, portrait of a lady on fire, bones and all, little miss sunshine, but i'm a cheerleader, bottoms, jennifer's body, the florida project, the spiderverse movies
tv shows: stranger things (but like, in a byler way), heated rivalry, i am not okay with this, abbott elementary, the office, she-ra and the princesses of power, the summer hikaru died
books: the hunger games trilogy, radio silence (and basically anything by alice oseman), the book thief, the outsiders, they both die at the end series, the perks of being a wallflower
characters: will byers, mike wheeler, robin buckley, jane hopper, max mayfield, tori spring, ash fox, hazel callahan, todd anderson, neil perry, shane hollander, pam beesly, lucy gray baird
ships: byler (they're everything to me), anderperry, ronance, elmax, lumax, rockie, hollanov, jennifer x needy, everlark, pam x jim, maren x lee
music artists: conan gray, phoebe bridgers, boygenius, gracie abrams, david bowie, the cure, radiohead, chappell roan, fleetwood mac
devastating when good characters are put into a stupid show. you were born to fly but that evil hag of a showrunner clipped your golden wings. be free on ao3, my little dove. be free
it genuinely hurts my heart that so many people felt fear after watching mike wheeler’s ending. i’ll always believe his character carries deep internalized homophobia, even if it’s never explicitly confirmed, and seeing how his arc unfolded made some viewers recognize their own repression so strongly that they came out because they didn’t want to live that way. that’s powerful, but it’s also heartbreaking. Stranger Things has always been a story about protecting the outcasts and giving the “different” kids somewhere to belong, so it feels unfair that some queer viewers walked away feeling more afraid than affirmed. if you see yourself in mike wheeler, or in will byers, or you’re queer and scared and trying to survive quietly, please know you are not alone. you deserve stories that make you feel safe. you deserve love that doesn’t require shrinking. you deserve representation that feels like hope instead of hiding. you deserve sunshine.💛
