BYLER FOR BEST COUPLE AND CUTEST COUPLE EXACTLY THANK YOU MAYA, ft Jimmy Fallon Bylering out on main

it's crazy how mlvn could've been good if written better. and will could've fallen for a calfornia boy who went on the road trip with them and they could've gotten together in s5. it's crazy how many issues that would've fixed if the show really was hell bent on not doing byler.

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The nonsensical finale of Stranger Things and the erratic behavior of Matt and Ross Duffer should be setting off alarm bells right now. They are not isolated incidents, but speak to a larger goal of discouraging critical thought from the general public.

Over the last decade, the writers and other individuals involved with the project have stated that there were no coincidences in the show and that it was meant to be analyzed. However, in the end, very little thought was given to the series and the majority of connections that could be made were coincidental. The Duffers were indeed winging the story and writing the safest slop possible to maintain the interest of a mainstream audience.

So why did they claim that the show was deeper? It's a smokescreen. In the end, every character motivation was straightforward and ended in the way the character imagined it would. Will thinks he can't be in a romantic relationship with Mike, and he's correct. El believes she needs to sacrifice herself to end the cycle of abuse, and that's exactly what she does. Mike states that he doesn't want to have anymore regrets, and ends up with nothing but regrets.

By stating the outcome of each character's storyline and following through on the character's exact prediction, the audience is (wrongfully) led to believe that they had accurately predicted the course of the story because of their critical thinking abilities. It tricks the audience into believing that they were the ones who pieced the narrative together. Essentially, it rewards passivity and a complete lack of thought with undue praise to the viewer's intelligence. They gave absolutely zero consideration to the story besides trusting what had been stated previously as the given outcome, and are rewarded with being "correct" for not expecting any surprises.

On the flip side, the Duffers have now begun demonizing the individuals who took their words to heart. The people who actually did analyze the story in front of them are being harassed and mocked for simply utilizing the critical thinking skills that were necessary to understand complex narratives from media in the past.

This is all intentional. The people who were simply along for the ride and took the narrative at complete face value are being told they are intelligent and that the amount of thought they gave to the story (none) is correct. People should not delve deeper or expect any sort of follow through based off of the literary conventions that have existed for centuries. Individuals who utilized critical thinking skills are wrong, and should be shamed and discouraged from their inappropriate behavior.

Media plays a key role in driving the masses. It is a way in which to push certain narratives and societal expectations on to the general public. As a popular show, Stranger Things is being used as a tool to push forward homophobia, misogyny, racism, and surface level thinking. It is being used to shame the very demographics that it claimed to represent.

Do not accept this. Make your feelings about the bigotry and lack of quality presented within this show known. Continue to pursue knowledge, to read, to stimulate your mind and express your creativity. Do not become a passive spectator who takes things at face value and neglects the stimulation that human beings need to be whole, healthy, and complete.

Gripping onto Will wearing jewelry after coming out so so tightly. Him finding little ways to express his identity after sharing himself with everyone :)

I'm still proud of the long analyses I've made discussing Will Byers and female horror tropes and how that interacts with his queerness. I stated before in those analyses that all of those choices were likely subconscious rather than intentional and given this finale that is likely the truth 😂

Will Byers, I still adore you as a horror-heroine-gay-boy that the Duffers accidentally created. Wish things could have been better written for you.

i feel like people forget how central byler is to the whole show. the first and second season are literally about mike's love for will – not even in a romantic way, but there's straight up DEVOTION there in everything MIKE does. he sees will's body pulled out of the lake and can't even accept that it's him and HE'S RIGHT. mike's love for will is literally so important but the duffers threw it out the window and treated it like it was nothing. even if they didn't want byler to happen, they could've handled it so much better. but they're cowards, so scared to make things gay that they couldn't even give the storyline a proper resolution. they couldn't even treat that FRIENDSHIP with the dignity it deserved and the weight that it's always had in previous seasons

someone on tiktok said it best, they BROKE all their own rules of storytelling, all the rules that were established in canon got destroyed, and that's such an enormous betrayal of your fan base it's heartbreaking

they may have CGI’d it out, but i’ll never let the world forget that will byers had an earring in mike’s gay little fantasy of him

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