Byler is just as tragic from Mike's pov as it is from Will's, but some of y'all aren't ready for that conversation yet I fear

IM READY IM READY IM

METOOMETOO DO IT DO IT

NAH BECAUSE WDYM MIKE PUSHED WILL TO DANCE WITH THAT GIRL AT THE SNOWBALL BACK IN S2 AND IMMEDIATELY REGRETTED IT AFTER??? THE LOOK ON HIS FACE AS HE WATCHED WILL WALK AWAY BRO. bro. JUST THINKING ABOUT IT MAKES ME WANNA CRY BRO DONT EVEN JOKE LAD 🥹 And wdym in s4 Mike was trying to discreetly let Will know that he wanted to break up with El without actually telling him but WILL JUST WOULDNT TAKE THE HINT (more like he wasn't willing to set himself up for disappointment by allowing himself to even consider taking the hint, BUT MIKE DOESNT KNOW THAT) AND THEN HE FUCKING PUSHED MIKE TO TELL EL THAT HE LOVED HER 😭😭😭 AND MIKE HAD TO JS MAKE UP SOME BS ON THE SPOT AND THEN HE SAID THAT THING ABOUT HOW THE DAY HE MET EL WAS THE DAY HIS LIFE BEGAN AND PROBABLY IBSTABTLY REGRETTED IT AND KNEW THAT WILL WAS HURT BY IT BUT NEVER BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE HE DIDNT KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN WHY HE DECIDED TO SAY THAT WITHOUT REVEALING THE REAL REASON WHY HE HAD TO MAKE IT ALL UP TO BEGIN WITH 😭😭😭💔🥹💔😭💔😭💔

WDYM Mike called Will while he was in Lenora but the phone line was always busy and he wouldn't stop whining to his friends about it?? WDYM HE DIDNT TELL WILL THAT DURING THEIR FIGHT AT RINK-O-MANIA IN S4??? What do you MEAN he BIKED ACROSS HAWKINS IN THE POURING RAIN TO APOLOGISE TO WILL FOR BEING AN ASSHOLE IN S3 BUT HE NEVER GOT TO FUCKING DO IT???? WhAT DO UOU MEAN BRO.

WDYM WILL FLIRTED WITH HIM JN S4 AND GOT HIS HOPES UP JUST TO TTHEN PUHS HIM TO TELL EL THAT HE LOVED HER, AND WDYM HE DIID IT AGAIN IN S5 JUST TO THEN CONFESS TO A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE THAR MIKE WAS HIS TAMMY ALL ALONG?

DUDE AND THEN AT THE END MIKE TELLS WILL THAT HIS HAPPY ENDING IS TO LEAVE AND FIND SOMEONE BECAUSE HE THINKS THATS WHAT WILL DESERVES BC HE JUST CANT PICTURE WILL LOVING HIM AFTER EVERYTHING BUT HE HAS TO SEND WILL AWAY BECAUSE HE CANT STAND TO SEE IT HIMSELF AND AND AND

the moment when he leaves the basement and strokes his and will's binders because he's accepting that that chapter of his life is over and maybe he'll never ever be able to tell will how he feels because it's a story he can never tell

and and and he looks back at holly and her friends and remembers when him and will were the first ones to discover dnd together and he really wishes he could have told will the truth when he had the chance and the time so they could sit in his basement and play games for the rest of their lives

but he cant so he puts up the one thing that made him feel loved on his wall at college so he can remind himself of the version that will saw, even if it's in the past, even if will doesn't SEEEHIM THAT WAY ANYMORE FUCKCUFKCUFD

scrolling through mlvn vs byler twitter there's such an extreme difference to how mileven fans treat will's character vs how bylers treat el's character and it's disgusting af!!!! they need jobs!!!

@broadwayninja sure, but i just picked the first ones i found for this particular post. here's what comes up when i search "mileven will" on twt

all of these are so disgusting. i could fucking vomit

oh will you were too good for this world 😭

May the first count as Willvember day 2

Also Miwi learning to ride bikes lore

🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏

I get more upset about this everyday but the way abusive and racist Billy Hargrove got a more impactful death than Kali (who deserved the whole freaking world). He gets to go down saving his sister and her friends from the mindflayer while Hopper just lets Kali get shot and bleed out in Jane’s arms in the very lab she was trapped in for so long. And then she’s barely mentioned ever again.

and while we're complaining i would have liked for El to have had a moment of self determination where she definitively chooses her own name.

whether that be by choosing to go by El, the nickname given to her by the first person to actually treat her like a human being and is then used by the rest of her found/chosen family,

or by choosing to go by Jane, her actual given name, and the last connection she has to a mother she will never know. reclaiming what was stolen from her as an infant.

or even choosing her own name. a new name. something she came up with on her own, with no outside influence. something that leaves everything else behind and says "this is who i choose to be."

but god forbid we give her any actual agency i guess. jesus fucking christ.

remember when we all wanted a painting confrontation scene LMFAOOOOOOOO and what we got was mike not even knowing the truth behind it im so miserable

They remembered the jancy lie and resolved that but they couldn’t bring up the painting lie without making byler canon because Mike is in love with Will’s feelings and there’s no hetero explanation lol

ADDRESS MEEEEEEEEEEEE WHYD YOU PUT MIKE AND WILL IN THE BATHROOM THAT REPRESENTS DICK

ADDRESS MEEEEEEE WHY ARE HIS EYES WIDE OPEN IN FRONT OF WILLS OPEN CLOSET

ADDRESS MEEEEEE WHY WAS MIKE IN WILL’S FILM REEL IF IT WAS UNREQUITED?!?!

ADDRESS MEEEEEE WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS

ADDRESS MEEEEEE WHY COULDNT MIKE HUG WILL AT THE AIRPORT WHAT THE FUCK

ADDRESS ME WHY DID FINN ACT MIKE LIKE THAT

ADDRESS MEEEEE WHY DID MIKE SAY THEY WERE JUST FRIENDS WHEN WILL NEVER SAID ANYTHING ROMANTIC WHILE A SOUNDTRACK TITLED “in the closet” PLAYS

ADDRESS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHY DID MIKE SAY THIS AND THEN IN S3 SAY “they do say it makes you crazy” TO EL IF IT MEANT NOTHING

ADDRESS US DUFFERS YOU FUCKING COWARDLY ASSHOLES!!!!! EXPLAIN WHY MIKE IS SO FUCKING WEIRD FOR NO REASON NOW

ADDRESS US

WHY DID MIKE HAVE THIS DOWNRIGHT FLIRTY PARALLELED SCENE WITH WILL TO HIS GIRLFRIEND SAYING SHE LOVED HIM WHERE HE ACTED LIKE THAT??????

ADDRESS ME WHY THE RAINBOW IMAGERY

ADDRESS ME WHY THE GAY BAR PARALLEL LIGHTS WITH DAWSONS CREEK

ADDRESS ME WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS DOING AT THE WRITERS STRIKE

ADDRESS ME WHY THE PARALLELS AND THIS ISNT EVEN CLOSE TO ALL OF THEM

ADDRESS ME WHY DID MIKE SAY THEY WERE JUST FRIENDS UNPROMPTED WHEN WILL NEVER SAID OTHERWISE IF HE REALLY DOESN’T LOVE WILL BACK????

ADDRESS US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ADDRESS THE FUCKING PAINTING LIE

okay so its an old au but the flower shop clerk x tattoo artist au but the subverted version that we all love is literally perfect for byler.

mike working in a flower shop not because he's all soft n shit but because he's an extreme nerd about types of flowers and is sort of pathetic and can't flirt for shit unless it's literally about his favourite kind of fauna. he calls will a specific scientific name for a flower because it means Something in latin and that's how he flirts maybe maybe

will working in a tattoo/piercing shop not because he's rough and tough but because he loves drawing on people's skin and creating something special for someone else to carry with them all their lives. he also kinda wants to pierce mike's lip and see him squirm and whimper a little bit maybe maybe

seeing s4 byler is like running into your ex at the grocery store. oh we thought we had it all💔💔💔

ok i saw the scene…wwwwwwwhy are yall mad at finn exactly????? that seemed very obviously from the snl writers rather than finn himself. it wasn’t in perfect taste tbh it felt very 2010s humour to me but like. stop hating on finn for the show’s bad jokes….?

Guys we have so much to live for🥹