I’m Still Thinking About This

buff byers this, buff byers that, blah blah blah... ENOUGH! what is YOUR slightly ooc will byers headcanon you refuse to let go of?

i'll start: i really enjoy goth and horror fan will (there is some evidence to that in the canon, but it's not as important to him as it is in my head 😭 i'm talking "tries to get everyone to watch a slasher on a movie night" and, subsequently, "is banned from picking movies for a movie night for several months" kinda horror fan)

60s Lesbyler wip

Would a mlvn endgame ruin the entire show?

A) Yes, I would never watch it again

B) It would not ruin the show but it certainly is going to be one of the worst written romances and a questionable choice to have them endgame

C) It would ruin the show if their relationship stays as it is right now. But if the relationship is somehow better written in the last season it may be acceptable although disappointing

okay not to be corny but i feel like byler is the shows portrayal of that large scale “movie love”. here’s what i mean,

lumax is a great portrayal of real love. it’s grounded. even when they encounter obstacles, max and lucas don’t give up on each other. they don’t rely on grand gestures to prove their love.

jancy/stancy is a typical (not a bad thing) television love triangle. nancy goes back and forth between steve and jonathan throughout the show. it generates discussion in the audience.

jopper is a classic portrayal of two characters who you basically know will end up together in the end. you see it all the time in movies. they dance around each other until they finally realize and accept their feelings for one another. even when joyce was either bob, the audience was hoping that she would end up with hopper.

dustin and suzy are a juvenile and lighthearted portrayal of young love. they aren’t a major focus.

mileven is a teenage relationship that just doesn’t work. it’s a train wreck. sometimes it’s supposed to be comical and sometimes it’s supposed to be frustrating but more than that, it’s unserious. and it directly contrasts,

byler. the relationship that has been building since season one that will tie the entire show together. it is the culmination of the shows core themes and message. it’s the logical conclusion of a story that has been anti-conformity since day one. mike and will have been put through through so many classic romance tropes. they’ve fought, they’ve risked their lives to save each other, and their relationship has been treated as “different” and “special” since the beginning of the show. every season has an intimate byler storyline that separates the two of them from other characters. byler is the stranger things love story and i do believe that it will play a key role in defeating vecna.

for all its similarities and parallels to the other romantic couples on the show, it is also inherently different. no other couple encapsulates the heart of the show quite like byler does and there’s a reason they left the “reveal” for the finale. byler has always been the show stopping love story of the show, not mileven.

WHY IS JACK'S (Jack McPhee, aka gay guy from Dawson's Creek who is heavily paralleled to Mike Wheeler) FIRST TIME AT A GAY BAR SCENE LITERALLY RINK 'O MANIA???? WTF

I know the duffers LOVE to parallel Mike to Jack, but idk if those were just a common combination of lights or if this means something lol, I know that the rink 'o mania scene is EXTREMELY queercoded with all the music and queer imagry in the background so I think the Duffers did this on purpose

ah, since karen is working as a hairdresser, mike is going to be the one who's responsible for taking care of holly now, right?

the implications of this have me kicking my feet and biting my fist like omg not only we're gonna have byler & holly cute babysitting moments, playing dnd and riding bikes, but also mike's crushing guilt for failing to keep holly safe and letting her get taken away while she was under his watch-

my fear is that one day i'm gonna say will bylers instead of byers and not notice and people will point and laugh at me

oh my god stranger things and the beatles i think were meant to be best friends ur so cool

omg hello hi i have two things to say 1) i love you 2) which beatle do you think is will's favorite