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“Mike can’t tell El he loves her because that’s a Wheeler trait”

You mean when Nancy couldn’t tell Steve she loved him? Stancy, who broke up? Or do you mean Karen and Ted? Karen and Ted, who according to Nancy, never loved each other?

I agree. It’s a Wheeler trait to be with people they don’t love in order to conform to societal norms. It’s a Wheeler trait to not be able to lie and say they love people when they don’t. It’s a Wheeler trait to be in unloving relationships. We agree on this.

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me whenever mike wheeler opened his mouth in season 4 episode 2

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us in november 2025

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"I'll be watching you"

❤️❤️❤️

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all that remained were fields of dreamless solitude

only you can show me this

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he was so jealous here i bet he wanted to kill himself right then and there

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IM IN SHAMBLES

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KILLING MYSELF

finn wolfhard wrapped mike wheeler does not exist in real time anymore i am going to end it all

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still absolutely wild to me that they had el ask if mike would be like her brother right before they had their first kiss. couple goals amirite

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no fucking way this is real

Byler naition we are WINNING

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the fact that i know every single one of these is concerning

I miss this 😂

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the importance of will being mikes shoulder to lean on in s4 is not talked about enough.

mike has literally never received that kind of reassurance, especially at that level, in the show before season 4. will is the one to consistently reassure mike in the whole show. mike is a character who’s often overlooked by the audience for sure, but especially the other characters. all except for will.

the van scene wasn’t some selfish opportunity for will to dump his feelings onto mike like someone else we know *cough* steve harrington *cough*

will was literally reminding mike of the kind of person he is. a leader, an inspiration, etc. he is literally telling mike his capability of making someone feel better for being different. as someone who feels like they’re not meant to exist at all, will doesn’t hesitate to tell mike that he’s the reason [will] doesn’t feel that way when he’s with him.

like that’s some heavy shit guys. and some people are still saying it meant nothing to him?? LOOK AT HIS FACE.

and what’s mike able to do by the end of the season?

reach into the light.

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everyone ready for new lip glances?

i can't believe after s5 comes out we'll have new byler moments to discuss. like mike has probably done some new gay shit that we'll clown on him for in the future but we don't even know about it yet

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hold me, console me.

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Robin and Vickie better fucking kiss

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i think it's interesting that suyi davies (the author of lucas on the line) received the scripts so he could write the book and they said lucas' big game and the d&d campaign both happened on april 4, that's why he dates it like that in the book, leaving mike's trip to california to fall around his birthday (april 7). but on the show we see that mike visits them in march, on will's birthday (march 22, even if the duffers claim that they didnt remember this). like. where were they going with this? were they going to do the same with mike's birthday? why would this trip be around either boy's birthday? was this just a big coincidence?

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i know the painting subplot has been analyzed to death but. i have a thought.

will lies to mike to repair his and el’s relationship through will’s own feelings, with the painting as the medium to exhibit that love alongside his words.

if mileven stay together, that would mean will’s lie, to an extent, worked out in the end. if mike’s monologue is to be taken as a good thing, the lie worked, and mike and el’s love is stronger for it.

if mileven stay together, it would be narratively rewarding will’s lying. and we all know one of the core, explicit messages in this show. friends don’t lie!