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oh my god.

UM THIS PARALLEL ?!

Also, I can't find exactly who posted this, but if y'all do, please tell me so I can give creds !!

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I woke up from a haze and this was in front of me. It was just supposed to be a sketch page I -

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thank you for the tag! 💝

Rebel Rebel - David Bowie

Footnote - Conan Gray

Pleaser - Wallows

Under Pressure - Queen, David Bowie

Brother - The Aubreys

Cry Baby Cry - The Beatles

Juliet - Cavetown

Waiting On A Friend - The Rolling Stones

4am - girl in red

Softly - Clairo

this was fun :)

no pressure tags! @aidyaiden @mike-wheeler-hater @elhaspowers @theymightbeclerics @millandwike @bylrndgm

10 songs 10 people

rules: put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that come up, then tag ten other people

thank you so much for the tag @voidsteffy <33

Unknown/Nth by Hozier

Spectre by Radiohead

Satellite by Harry Styles

Love of my Life by Harry Styles

Misguided Ghosts by Paramore

Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift

Strawberry Swing by Coldplay

Burn the Witch by Radiohead

Francesca by Hozier

80′s Comedown Machine by The Strokes

no pressure tags: @ketterdam-snack-bar @spacebell @sleepless-crows @destielbaited @winterlovesong1 @flythesail @loverswillowed @inkbirdie @daisy-joness @on-the-outside @treasureofmy-heart

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thank u sm @mike-wheeler-hater and @chaoticbyler for tagging me!!

(sorry if any of you have already been tagged. no pressure to answer!)

@aidyaiden @mikeslawyer @byler-alarmist @ofhawkinsandvecna @willthewise7 @mikequeeler @ilistentogirlinred @bylerwillnotwriteitself @strangerthanyou011 @byersdontcry @unrepentant-byler-shipper @wallywise @willuvbot @bylrndgm @thisisvalid3 @millandwike @cosmorom @paladintourcleric @byler-invested @bylertruth3r @theymightbeclerics @demonerds @byersfolklore + all the other mutuals i didnt tag bc it would be too long. even though i love you guys <3

I'm gonna try to start a random chain (it probably won't work because I don't have a lot of followers but idc)

Just tag a few blogs u like and hope they awnser until it takes like 3 minutes to get to the bottom of the post lol

@lalaverdecia @meekspoetssociety @dazeddoodles @eighties-toons @leovaldiva3uwu @mythingsandstuff @spiritual-activity @that-thing-on-your-shoe

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my gender is a fact that we byler truthers and the feeling of being an extraordinary and loving person at the same time

HSJDJWJSH

no pressure :) @aidyaiden @theymightbeclerics @heroesbyler @biggestsimponhere and anyone else who wants to 💝💝

Type "my gender is" on your phone and let your phone finish the sentence, then tag your moots to keep the chain going, I'll go first.

My gender is a little bit more intense than I thought I could have done

@mirukosbitchywife @get-junpeid

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thank you sm @chaoticbyler and @aidyaiden for tagging me ilysm guys!

@mike-wheeler-hater @bylrndgm @willuvbot @theymightbeclerics @mikeslawyer @byleravclob @willthewise7 @byler-alarmist @unrepentant-byler-shipper @cherryclerics @paladintourcleric @byler-invested @wheelersboy @ilistentogirlinred @etherealdany @very-strange-indeed @byersfolklore @wakeupthemembersofbylernation @willthecleric @whenbluemeetsyellowinthewest @demonerds @wallywise @bylerwillnotwriteitself @budstiel @bylertruth3r @mikewheeleriknowwhatyouare @willbyerssupremacist i love so many other blogs that i didnt tag but know that I appreciate you and i love your posts! and this would also be very long so we better leave it like that lol. if we are mutuals and i didnt tag you ily and if we arent but i still did it I love you too

I'm gonna try to start a random chain (it probably won't work because I don't have a lot of followers but idc)

Just tag a few blogs u like and hope they awnser until it takes like 3 minutes to get to the bottom of the post lol

@lalaverdecia @meekspoetssociety @dazeddoodles @eighties-toons @leovaldiva3uwu @mythingsandstuff @spiritual-activity @that-thing-on-your-shoe

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mike wheeler’s library

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thanks for tagging me @cherryclerics and @mike-wheeler-hater! 💝

this song is so true

no pressure! @willuvbot @aidyaiden @biggestsimponhere @bylrndgm @wheelersboy @theymightbeclerics and anyone who wants to join

Thanks for the tag @reijuu ♡

Post the last song you listened to:

@soupheaven @anime-to-the-t @yourdeeprust @k-u-z-u @jake-fromstatefarm

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uh. spidermike origin?

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Underrated bitchy Will Byers moment: when a lady calls the party 'exterminators'

I love him sm😭😭😭

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OMG THIS IS SO GOOD

wheeler sibling angst where spidermike is somehow involved in barbs death (didnt save her in time from a villain idk) and nancy becomes convinced that it’s spidermans fault, writing articles against spiderman and trying to catch him to get justice for barbara and then one day when mike Saves People Again, he suddenly hears nancy behind him with a gun in her hand. he takes off his mask to show her that its him, and tells her that he didnt kill barb, getting more desperate to get her to believe him by each passing second, but nancy is silent the entire time until she fires off her gun in the sky to silence him ❤️

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Oh. “Zombie Boy” is a homophobic nickname

I guess this should’ve been pretty obvious. I mean, Will is a confirmed gay character, who is walking around town and having a mean nickname constantly hurled at him. Clearly there is some queercoding in that.

But does that mean that the nickname is homophobic in universe? If that were the case, why not just call him homophobic slurs in the first place?

The nickname Zombie Boy always was kind of strange to me as well. Why make fun of a kid for coming back to life? Wouldn’t that be a cool thing? Maybe it’s a little odd, but why be so mean about it?

Unless it’s not the only they’re making fun of him for

TW for discussion of rape below cut

To understand the intent behind the Zombie Boy nickname, we need to go back to Will’s dissapearance in season one. Our boy Troy lays it out pretty plainly what everyone in town thinks happened to Will.

Not just that Will was killed, but clarified as “killed by some other queer.” The emphasis on sexuality adding an implication to his statement. What Troy is really trying to say is that Will was raped and then killed by a gay man, otherwise why bring up sexuality at all?

And to be fair to Troy, that is kind of what happened.

But of course the town doesn’t know this. The story that was told is that Will only got lost in the woods. That was the story published in the Hawkins Post, so that’s what everyone believes, right?

This is the version of events that Lucas tells Max, and he is immediately met with skepticism from her. Lucas then tells Max not to ask Will about it because he’s very sensitive about it.

I’m not saying that the town believes that there is something supernatural going on, but rather I’m thinking that the people of Hawkins at least suspect that there is something about Will’s disappearance that is not being talked about openly. Let’s not forget that the “Zombie Boy” note that Will receives in his locker is a desecration of the news article sharing his story.

So here’s what the town initially believed happened: Will was kidnapped and raped by a gay man before being thrown into the quarry.

And here’s what the town knows: Will went missing and was found in the woods before being hospitalized. He is very sensitive about the topic and doesn’t like to talk about it. After being released from the hospital, he is now occasionally pulled out of school early for doctor’s appointments—

Oh.

I mean, it is any coincidence that all of this is happening while Reagan’s name is plastered all over town? Is it just a coincidence that the anniversary of Will’s disappearance falls right on Reagan’s reelection day?

And just to cut through all the shit and stop being vague, I’m talking about the AIDS epidemic of the 80’s, and yes I think that part of the town believes that Will has it.

I recently read a post from @emblazons that struck me with just how laden the AIDS metaphor is in season. To quote the post as best I can, there is something described like a disease attacking Will’s body and slowly killing him, and the Reagan administration government scientists are trying their best to prevent the truth from spreading and view the possible death of a queer person as a non-issue.

Starting to think about it through this lens, a “zombie” is the perfect metaphor for how Hawkins now views Will. He isn’t technically dead, but they suspect he has a disease with an incredibly low life-expectancy at the time, so he’s essentially a walking corpse.

The nickname doesn’t start and end at simply making fun of Will for having a disease. What do zombies do? They try to bite and turn other people into zombies.

The town doesn’t just see Will as someone who has been infected by someone else with an illness, but as someone who has been infected and is going to spread his illness around.

The rhetoric regarding queers as people who spread disease and kill continues in season 4, when we see Eddie reading the article that links sodomy with satanic practices, violence and murder. We then go on to see the entire town blame Eddie and his group of “satanic” outcasts for spreading death in the town. This attitude is certainly not lost on Hawkins, and the show doesn’t shy away from showing it.

The way that characters in the show use and react to Zombie Boy match this as well. There is a certain level of vitriol that comes with Zombie Boy, and the nickname is what leads Jonathan and Will into their extremely coded conversation about being a freak.

If Zombie Boy is an intentionally homophobic nickname, then does that mean that in this scene she's actually saying...?

So I actually don’t think that Snowball Girl is being intentionally homophobic here (although, saying what is essentially “Hey f*****, wanna dance?” is still CRAZY)

I think it’s less realistic if the entire town is in on this conspiracy and more believable if say, the nickname was started intentionally as a homophobic jab by some of the townsfolk, but is ambiguous enough to be picked up by more naïve kids like Snowball Girl who may not realize the actual meaning behind it. It may seem like it’s only about his ressurection on the surface, but when you peel back the layers you see just how offensive it really is.

Using a vague nickname is also very intentional by the Duffers as well. If they wanted to be subtle about Will’s sexuality before later confirming it, then having a more ambiguous moniker rather than just having the entire town call him an evil queer.

Even if the town really is just making fun of him for coming back to life and nothing else, and there isn’t actually this rampant rumor spreading across Hawkins about Will spreading disease, the heavy coding and intention from the writers is still be there.

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thank u for the tag!

stranger things: will byers, robin buckley, mike wheeler, eddie munson and there are probably more

harry potter: the golden trio, fred weasley, luna lovegood and remus lupin

fantastic beasts: newt scamander and jacob kowalski

the simpsons: lisa simpson

heartstopper: darcy olsson, elle argent and nick nelson

anne with an e: anne shirley, matthew cuthbert, miss stacy and sebastian “bash” lacroix

it: richie tozier, eddie kaspbrak and beverly marsh

the office: jim halpert and dwight schrute

the owl house: amity blight, willow park and king clawthorne

the queen’s gambit: beth harmon and benny walts

gilmore girls (just started s4): lorelai gilmore, lane kim and dave rygalski

cruella: cruella de vil and artie

tags! (no pressure) @bylrndgm @mike-wheeler-hater @theymightbeclerics @biggestsimponhere @mikeslawyer @aidyaiden and anyone else who wants to join :)

My comfort characters from each fandom:

PJO/HOO/TOA/TSATS: Nico di Angelo

Six of Crows/Grishaverse: Wylan Van Eck

Criminal Minds: Spencer Reid

I'd love to hear yours :)

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the president of byler nation

Who's the number 1 byler shipper? This guy right here 👏 😂

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hi byler tumblr i missed you 💝

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I'm seeing a lot of people talking about what Maya said (I'll put the tweet at the end of the post) but I feel like the statement is being misinterpreted.

I don't know if this is controversial, but I think she's correct in saying that Steve and Robin's friendship in S4 was not given enough screen time. Maya's point was not that Robin should be single, it's that her character should be allowed friendships outside of romance. She wants love to be a part of Robin's character, not all of it. I think painting her, a queer woman, as saying that queer people should be single is just the worst faith interpretation of what she said and I did not think of it like that whatsoever when I read her statement.

I wrote about this in my post on S4 Steve because his character shines mostly through his relationship with Robin and other characters, which became noticeable when Steve and Robin started hanging out less in S4. I think the lack of moments between the pair slightly harms Robin's character too, even if to a lesser extent. All we got to see her and Steve talk about in S4 was romance and dating and girls, and we didn't get to see nearly as much of them as we did in S3, where they got multiple heart to heart moments and saw their friendship build up outside of their love interests.

Romance is part of who Robin is, but Maya's right; Steve and Robin's friendship isn't about Steve and Robin anymore.

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We all already know how Mike treats Will's paintings different from El's letters, however, I've just noticed it's not just her letters but Mike never even acknowledged El's "Mike Box" like??? be so fr 😭😭 if that was my gf assembling a whole BOX for ME with letters, pictures, personal things, decorations and all, idk, but personally, me, I'd cry on the spot. I would probably sit infront of that box inspecting every little detail and falling in love all over again. But Mike literally glanced at that box once and simply ignored its existence.

if the writers really wanted Mike to care, they surely would have had him look at it in either a separate scene or even just when he came into her room like they easily could have made Mike's gaze linger longer on the box, but nothing like that happened