i love us for making up heacanons about how mike would look in the 90s and its all pretty sweaters and fluffy hair or alt looks n shit but realistically this is how mike looking when he shows up at will's doorstep

just in case you want to hear will's soft "mike" without all the annoying background noise :) also please pay attention to will's hand lingering on mike's shoulder.

more scenes w/o background music here

i hate the bg music to this scene so thankyou dearly

one thing I have not seen talked about when it comes to Will's ending and future is: he should have a dog. he had a dog once and he lost it, suggesting he likes dogs, and therefore he should have one. it should be big and friendly and cuddly. it should often barge into will's in home art studio uninvited, messing up several of his sketches in his rush to lick will's face. it should be a reason will has to leave the house and go on long walks (the only exercise he enjoys). it should notice whenever will is having a bad nightmare about vecna and stick its cold nose against his cheek to wake him up. it should have a very nerdy name. please and thank you

im pissed and disgusted by the queerbait so

here is a masterpost on everything that doesnt make sense because byler isnt canon, plot holes that exist because byler isnt canon, all the ways mikes character was ruined by making him straight, AND how it was homophobic. i include explanations and categorize things by color coding! this includes scenes in the show, interviews, and posts from the stranger things team. (note: im not going to include things noah said-explained in tags)

warning, it’s very long because im including EVERYTHING. I found and listed 114 examples here. enjoy—or don’t.

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as someone who literally studied this stuff, i’m sorry but why on earth would the duffers put mike and will’s first meeting on will’s memory tape if it wasn’t meant to mean something. that’s not a random choice. that’s not a cute callback. that’s the kind of moment you highlight when you’re saying “this relationship is the root system.”

and then making mike the first emotional touchstone on the tape? come on. that’s storytelling 101. you don’t give that kind of narrative priority to a relationship you plan to sideline later. you don’t build an entire visual motif around will’s interiority and then centre mike in it just for fun.

so why would they do all of that, the memory tape, the first meeting, the emotional framing, only to turn around in volume 2 and the finale and act like will and mike’s relationship suddenly doesn’t matter. it makes no damn sense. it’s not even about shipping at that point, it’s about basic narrative coherence. you don’t plant a flag that big and then pretend you didn’t.

there’s a place downtown where the freaks all come around

it’s a hole in the wall it’s a dirty free for all

i like this show in a cool ironic detached intellectual way btw

Milevens who romanticise the fact that Mike supposedly can't live without El (spoiler alert: it's not even true) and Bylers who romanticise the fact that Will believes that he needs Mike and Mike needs to be needed (also not true, those are both deeply rooted beliefs that stem from insecurity and need to be unlearned) should all take a few steps back and reflect on themselves.

"[Insert ship] is sooo unhealthy and toxic, [insert other ship] is obviously superior!!1!!!1!" and then you make signs of insecurity in the relationship out to be signs that they're soulmates or whatever the fuck. Get a fucking grip.

I am quite fond of the character it has to be said

The feeling of getting comments on your fics is the craziest thing. Like, I wrote this in my free time because it's something I wanted to read and someone thought it was good or it made their day and they took the time to tell me that??? Incomparable.

College roommates Byler doodles

WHY IS THERE A FISH IN THE SHOWER IM CRINE

because will is a little shit and it was a good prank

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I finished these screenshot studies yesterday and posted them on insta, twitter and bluesky (forgot to post here woops), before watching Vol 2.

I have MANY thoughts about Vol 2. TLDR, I still have faith in Byler, but holy shit. The writers are making some VERY QUESTIONABLE decisions. But, it's not over till it's over. We should really wait until the finale (which I'll be seeing in a theatre on Jan 1st, woo) to fully react. But, I am PISSED at the "he was my Tammy" line. What in the legitimate fuckery. I am banking on the fact that Will has been an unreliable narrator, and that we've not had Mike's POV yet.

Even if the ending is as bad as Voltron or GOTs, we'll still have the fandom <3