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bored pookie

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the spy

that quote is driving me up the walls

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Reminder: Will Byers, Lucas Sinclair, and Dustin Henderson are all visibly different. They're bullied because their respective sexuality, race, and physical condition make them outsiders. They're not bullied because of Mike.

Mike is someone who's different because of his interests. These interests allow him to associate with other "nerds and freaks". Unlike his peers, Mike has the luxury to hide what makes him different, granting him the opportunity to "enjoy" the prototypical, white middle class, suburban lifestyle laid out for him. Whether that path will lead to his happiness is another thing (that the writers will answer in S5).

Mike struggles to live his life truthfully, in spite of and because of his visibly different friends. While he values their differences and sees them as strengths, he's also keenly aware of how it makes them a target.

He saw bullies mock Will for being "a fairy" when Will's death was announced. He heard Will being called "Zombie Boy" which is an epithet referring to AIDS as much as Will's undead escapades. He saw Max's step-brother assault Lucas for being Black. He heard bullies call Lucas "Midnight". He heard bullies call Dustin "Toothless," and he'll soon witness the aftermath of Dustin being beaten for not forsaking the Hellfire Club.

Like Mike said in S3, "We're not kids anymore". He's grown to understand that being different is dangerous. These differences come with real threats that are just as scary, if not scarier, than the supernatural ones the party fights.

Please don't trivialize the struggles of the other party members. Their struggles are significant to the essence of the show, as well as more visible than Mike's, which makes overlooking them deeply ironic.

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Pictures taken moments before disaster

I keep asking questions as if I haven’t been watching this show since 2018 but how many people have actually seen the shadow monster in its whole spider form other than Will and Henry? Like imagine at like 12 being stalked by the scariest 50 STORY TALL MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPIDER while your friends go on adventures and find love AND FORGET YOU 😭😭 give me strength

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will byers sad puppy eyes <//3

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a churchgate drawing I decided to finally finish

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Our clerics Will the Wise and Holly the Heroic 😭 and their paladin, I guess.

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That moment you realise you’re the main character

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“you were my vessel…my spy…my builder…we’re going to do such beautiful things together…..such beautiful things……”

will:

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Oh hi Willen

Source: UpsideDownScoop

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I'm SO TIRED of mike fans trying to put blame on will for not reaching out to mike pre-s4. have you forgotten that will was ignored and pushed aside all summer? have you forgotten that he tried very hard to reach out to his friends and spend some time with them and everyone acted like he was being childish for it? have you forgotten that mike mocked his campaign and belittled him? have you forgotten that mike threw a homophobic line at him??? ("well it was a projection on mike's part" cool! does WILL know that?) have you forgotten that mike never apologized for it? ("well he tried" yeah, but did he apologize to will's face? like we were shown that lucas did apologize, but they never showed us mike doing the same, even though he was the worst to will. he just hyper focused on el again and never acknowledged his shitty behaviour towards will.)

if I were will, I wouldn't try to reach out to mike either. it was mike who should have made an attempt to reach out. ("well he did! he called him all the time!" did he? it's just a theory based on that one line, but there's so much inconsistency with timeline in s4 and cali plot in particular that we don't really know what and when things actually happened! from what we know for sure, mike didn't send letters to him and called maybe a couple times.)

I know you all like to project on mike but maybe you should try to accept that he was in the wrong here instead of blaming will of all people?

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"and then guess what mike said?? its not his fault i dont like girls. like bitch wtf"

"girllll no he diddnttttt"

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I walked up to you and I asked if you wanted to be my friend

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lalala i love will byers because i love gay angst

лалала анґстові ґеї то моє улюблене явище

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But I’m not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado

I’m gonna chase it

Lyric from I Know The End by Phoebe Bridgers

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Me giggling and kicking my feet while Will Byers goes through untold eldrich supernatural horrors in season five that bring up his previously submerged trauma🤭😽