lucas sinclair you are so kind and so gentle and so soft and so sweet and so unbelievably courageous and i adore you

just realized that the only type of a bigger promo s5 had post finale is that damn SNL where finn just acted gay and mocked fragile masculinity

like this is truly the universe we live in right now

I mourn the golden age that would’ve been ushered in had byler been endgame.

i was thinking why it was looking familiar

ohh dramatic mike wheeler how i miss you. overly-dramatic mike wheeler i so miss you

LMAOO THEYRE MAKING FUN OF CONFIRMITY GATE ON SNL 😭 NO I BELIEVE IN CONFORMITY GATE vecna is manipulating them all i promise youuuu

I think this is the closest we ever got to a byler kiss.

for make a terrible comic day

i hate the criticism of "oh it makes me so mad that y'all prefer byler, a mlm ship, over rovickie, a wlw ship, this is misogyny" because while that might be true for some people and it is absolutely true for many ships in other media, byler is way more developed than rovickie. like i'm sorry i like the childhood boy best friends to 80s internalized homophobia angst arc to lovers more than one of my favorite characters + one girl who was introduced in the second to last season and was barely developed. like i don't think misogyny is the reason here sorry.

"mike was the first person to treat el with kindness and like a human being"

put some respect on his fucking name please

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again

it still feels very unreal to me that we got miwi swingset flashback but no byler endgame. like i thought those 2 were a package deal

Just got a chatgpt ad where the use case was "can't decide a new years resolution". I can't think of anything more sad than needing a robot to tell you what your own ambitions are. Loser shit.

mike wheeler is gay and in love with will. im sorry but nothing the duffers or the show can say could convince me otherwise i just simply cannot see him any other way. he yearns for that boy and if it remains in the subtext, so be it

Vallaki was Mike's Litmus Test

So, a spontaneous thought I had. We all know by now that in the final DnD campaign, Mike sends Will to Vallaki to find "deep happiness" or something - and that this is strange because (anachronism aside), in DnD, Vallaki is apparently a place of illusion and fake happiness. I don't need to dive further into how this fits with conformitygate.

However, whereas I believe all other mistakes/inconsistencies in the finale are coming from sources/people outside Mike, this seems to be the only one coming from Mike himself. (I haven't done a rewatch of the lackluster finale, so please feel free to correct me if I am wrong here.) Which is strange, if he is in an illusion. He wouldn't be making mistakes himself, would he? It would be Vecna constructing his surroundings (like the graduation robes, malted milkshakes at Melvald's etc.).

So...what if Vallaki is not meant as a sign to the audience, that something is wrong - but as Mike already suspecting something is wrong with this world (having had an epiphany after talking with Hopper, realizing that he couldn't have been talking with El in the mindspace with the jammers active, which he clearly references during his campaign's ending's speech) and that this is his litmus test?

Will loves DnD - he would protest if Mike said something like "you are happy in Vallaki", not smiling and acting all touched - if things were normal. So, in the end, Mike may be all melancholic because he has already figured out that things are amiss?

Thoughts?

When I say that I love Mike Wheeler I mean fanon Mike, not whatever the fuck appeared on my screen recently