Pinned
i was thinking about this last night so it’s not fully fleshed out but it’s bothering me that people don’t want to or cannot imagine will being more than accepting of himself and actually fully comfortable and solid with who he is and his understanding of the world. i think this can make it harder for them to envision byler. it feels like for many, that is all his love for mike relies on. i too understand what unrequited or complicated feelings can do to you in the long-run. i don’t like this when it feels like will is being held back for years into the future when we know that isn’t true because it just feels cheap. even in a situation where lines are blurred, they can still see will as pure and naive with somehow no complex thought process. there’s this loss of innocence that people subconsciously feel, and that they’re uncomfortable with in regards to will moving away and when his feelings for mike are no longer as present or as consuming and change. he will grow and that is inevitable and i think their relationship is even more interesting that way
Byclair come homeeeee
The byers family will always be special to me💡
little will... uhuuu 🥹
brown women are not expendable bodies that you can just throw away for the sake of furthering the plots of white characters who get happy endings. ESPECIALLY not after an episode full of fake-out deaths and ESPECIALLY not to a character fully capable of faking her own death. but no, that had to be real because brown women don’t deserve to have their traumas acknowledged like white characters do.
mike being in awe of the parts of will that will had trouble accepting in himself. his sensitivity. his tears. his art. his role as a magic-user, a sorcerer, not someone with a sword.
because will has been told his whole life that that’s wrong. weak. that he needs to be stronger, louder. but mike never saw it like that. he just saw his best friend who is so good and so vibrant and so himself it never even occurred to mike that any of that could ever be bad. because it’s will.
will with a gun sure whatever. but mike sees strength and beauty in the very source of will’s insecurities and internalized issues. he’s more like a sorcerer. his powers are as innate as the things that he’s told make him weak. they’re intertwined, even.
will doesn’t have to change himself to be powerful. he doesn’t have to use a book of spells. he doesn’t have to be a superhero. mike and eventually will believe with all their hearts that will is better for being different. and that gives him the strength to fight on.
all i really need is to know that you believe // (i would die 4 u)
Oh my mistake I thought characters had motivations for their actions. Thought things mattered, that’s my bad gang!
