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i know people hate this take or whatever but i really really specifically believe mike is gay not bisexual because if mike likes men, he likes will. and if he likes will, then we know EXACTLY what he acts like when he likes someone, and it's absolutely not the same way he acts with el. not even close.
he doesn't look at her lips or anywhere else. he doesn't get all soft-voiced. he doesn't look at her like she's the most amazing thing he's ever seen or cherish her letters, doesn't confide in her the same way, doesn't even look for her when she's missing
i don't understand how so many bylers will point out the cousin thing, and the nancy/el parallels, the "sister/brother" convo before they kiss and him calling out for nancy directly after, and the brenner-hopper-mike parallels, and in general all the family coding "it's a family discussion" et cetera, lucas saying "glad that a girl's not grossed out by you" as opposed to "because you like her", mike being pressured to think of her romantically by lucas/nancy, not showing ANY signs of lying when he says he doesn't like her vs nancy showing EVERY sign of lying when she says she doesnt like jonathan, mike and el not having a healthy relationship in general , him liking her most when she's being constantly confused for being a boy, and the fact mike canonically 100% lied about when he fell in love with el which means he never did, and people will still conclude mike is bisexual.
mike's only ever expressed ""interest"" in el, and al of his interest in el is at best deeply tainted by blatant gaycoding, and you'll see people acknowledge that but be like "it's only proof he's into men" like okay... but he's not into el.
she kisses him in front of a closet and he realizes he doesn't feel that way for her. he doesn't feel that way for her then we have no evidence he could feel that way for any girl. like he's going to have el, one of his favourite people, who loves him, as a girlfriend, but doesn't like her... but somehow still could hypothetically like a different girl? even though we've never seen that? not even phoebe cates?
like it's not even like there aren't characters who genuinely seem like they could be bisexual because there are. lucas, max, jonathan, possibly el. they all have things in their coding that seem to have potential but mike just doesnt imo.
even just the fact there was SO much emphasis on "boys only" and "my species vs your species" with mike and el is just... like, i feel like i'm going crazy because the only evidence is mike and el kissing. and mike pushes her hands off of him. he's singing a non-romantic song and keeps pulling away. idk why people are so opposed to him being gay
#this#been saying that making mike bi would just be kind of uncompelling#there's tons of fictional characters that are explicitly bi coded (even in st itself)#meanwhile having mike the guy who seems to actively not be into any girls including his girlfriend be bi wouldn't really do much#it wouldn't add any unique conflict to his characters that being gay wouldn't entail and it wouldn't bring anything interesting to the#'bi characters' table because his attraction to girls would have been entirely off screen for 4 whole seasons#but mike being gay would wrap up the sibling coding And let them break down/explore el and mikes relationship way more than if he#went from first liking el to then liking will#i think a lot of it boils down to people grouping bi and gaycoding into a general queercoded category without thinking about the#difference the specific sexuality would have on the character and the overall story#tale as old as time that you have a gay or bi coded character and then the fandom somehow agrees on the opposite#direct counterpoint with the it book and richie being obviously bicoded in there only to have the fandom debate whether or not he's#gay for actual decades
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maybe a hot take but i DO NOT want nancys new bathroom scene to be about jon or steve dying
i HOPE its her finally breaking
no one is dead yet and yet her vision is coming true and she knows they will and she has so much to lose and SHE is the one with blood on her hands
i want it to be about nancy
#too real (and not a hot take To Me so correct op)#last time she cried in a bathroom was because all the barb trauma got triggered again#with the vecna vision warning on top of that she's already got more than enough going on#they really don't need to make up new contrived ship drama for Nancy specifically#she's one of those characters that have SO much interesting things to dig into already#her best friend died (which she blames herself for) and now apparently her mom Holly and Mike are in some undefined danger too#it would be kind of ridiculous if they focused a major part of her arc on romance drama/angst now out of all times
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people can never prove they're friends with dustin normally, it's always 'let me jump off a cliff for you dustin,' 'let me throw a car at the evil russians trying to shoot you dustin,' 'let me bike eight miles for you dustin,' 'let me hear your voice from an alternate dimension dustin,' 'let me die in your arms dustin.' leave him ALONE why does he make everyone CRAZY
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something something el no longer fits on the bike something something el and mike have outgrown their relationship something something el doesn't need to rely on mike anymore
#literally#sitting on a package carrier is so normal and also such a TropeTM in romcoms too#(never even seen the type of actual seat Mike had on his bike until ST actually lmao)#and it would have been neat too if they wanted to lean into their relationship growth#cute callback to s1 AND upgrading from kid bike feature to classic romance trope of girl sits on guys passage carrier#if they wanted s5 to be about their relationship solidifying and maturing that would have been such a good progression#but then they give Dustin the only one#rip to their relationship but what's new
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I can't keep doing this... Pretending like everything's okay.
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natalia dyer always does a great job but ik iK she's going to eat she's going to DEVOURRRR THIS SEASON
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WHY NOT EPISODE 7????
#is ep 7 just less flashy/calm before the storm as a ramp up for the real finale so not ass much trailer bait material#or is the whole ep a break from form and a spoiler#my fear is just another badly placed s2 situation with the kali cut away being crammed into 1 ep and taking the momentum out of the story#but it'd be kind of crazy to pull something like that in the penultimate episode#so what lots of mindscapes? flashbacks? something changed in their surroundings like the UD or the town that means they can't#show a single frame anymore?#very curious about ep 7 now#(or maybe they already had enough flashy explosions and demogorgons and it's a coincidence. who knows)
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i was mentally prepared for 1 minute of footage. not all of that. jesus fucking christ.
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So they're travelling to the UD by car now. I'm crying
#they're upgrading every seaon now the bikes weren't comfortable enough for them ig 😭#good thing the show ends here because by s6 they'd start paving highways down there
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can we. can we take a minute
#don't even need to know what's happening or where all the blood came from#Nancy Wheeler breakdown in a bathroom is enough to know it's good#oh s2 Nancy we're really in it now (never stopped being in it my poor girlllll)
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more leaked stills for Stranger Things 5 ahead of the new teaser
#Ericaaaa she's so cute#hated her fits in some of the older seasons but they're finally doing her justice#st5 spoilers
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Girl what do you need a chainsaw for
#they're giving steve all the zomie apocalypse classics as is traditions#but did they finally decide that bullets don't do shit on demogorgons and wanted to try something new or are they just doing construction
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Don’t play with me
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literally wghat the hell, this is so much more than i expected, i was totally ready to get blue balled by a 1 minute intro of 'remember all these other seasons, yeah good times'. we got so many good looks holy shit
#yes i'm watching the teaser back to back with headphones in in the vet's waiting room#need to show my grandmas cat all the rabid democreatures so she knows what kind of beast she is (-> cat filled with evil)
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