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this picture is me with byler when i saw someone on twitter say no one shipped them before season 4. u have no idea.

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Mike Wheeler + textposts (part 6)

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i love remembering this exists

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jason would have been a very valuable member of the group for killing vecna because he had all the motivation and rage and determination to avenge chrissy, if only he had the right information and knew who the real enemy was. his only problem was he was after the wrong guy. thanks for coming to my ted talk

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I need them to have sibling moments and some happiness

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I can't stop thinking about the parallel of Joyce Byers having a scholarship to go to theatre school, which was her dream since she was a child, but her putting it aside and not going because Lonny told her she'd never leave Hawkins and made her feel like she couldn't leave him behind.

And Jonathan Byers always dreaming of going to NYU to study since he was a child, but putting that aside and telling Nancy he would attend her dream college with her.

And, despite doing that, he still applies for a college close to Joyce, Will and El because he feels like he can't leave his family behind.

The Byers all deserve so much better. They've been made to feel inferior their whole lives, and they deserve some happiness.

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hello?

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which would you rather have happen?

a) the season SUCKS but Byler is still endgame

b) the season is better than Season 1 and 2 combined but Byler isn’t endgame

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Something i will never understand is some bylers thinking that a scene where El calls Nancy pretty, where she sees her picture is about El being a lesbian. Imagine having such a shallow opinion and not understanding the entire point of this moment

Do bylers understand that El calling Nancy pretty wasn't about her being attracted to her? It was about El seeing a beautiful girl with a long hair who had everything El would want to have. El who was trapped and treated as a slave in a lab,who couldn't wear feminine clothes,but instead had to wear hospital gown. El who couldn't even have a long hair,but was forced to have a buzzcut saw a girl who was a complete opposite of her. So yeah, El called her pretty cause El herself wanted to be pretty like her. It was probably the first time El even saw a young normal girl like Nancy. Why do you think El starts screaming when she sees her refelection in the mirror cause she's dirty and her blonde wig is destroyed so she has to reveal her buzzcut again. Why do you think she's sad when she looks herself in the mirror at Wheelers house and asks Mike if she's still pretty? Cause El wants to be pretty herself,she wants to be pretty like Nancy and all other girls and women who had a chance to have a normal life while she didn't.

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i don't think people understand how insanely disgusting it is to see multiple people post "rumors" of noah sexually assaulting male actors (caleb, finn, gaten, etc.) on the set of stranger things — which btw i'm not gonna even bother showing screenshots of the rumors, because it's legitimately sickening. these rumors are getting thousands of likes on social media (i've seen one with 400k likes), with people in the comments either wholeheartedly believing in them, or knowing that it's fake but pretending it's real anyway, because apparently making fake rape allegations is just a game to them. this is literally feeding into the stereotype of gay people being predatory towards other men. and the fact that people are 100% eating this shit up or having fun with it just because "noah is EVIL!!!1!!11!!1" is abhorrent. it's straight-up homophobic, and yet, these people will somehow find a way to justify their repulsive behavior.

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read whatever you want, write whatever you want, imagine whatever you gd want. im not interested in moral high grounds, giving shifty "hmm pedo watch!" eye to anyone exploring sexual themes in media esp in fucking fandom fanfiction of all things, and deciding what's too explicit and what's Actually™ good and acceptable to write or talk about.

i have my standards for what i read and enjoy and those things absolutely include M and E rated fics, even when written about characters like mike and will who are, at current, canonically 14/15-year-olds. i enjoy fics in all sorts of genres and subject matter, and for some i enjoy them when aged-up (implied and explicit). have your thoughts, i know my business.

i'm not gonna automatically assume everyone else is getting off to the idea of real kids just because they read an E fic for that same ship. readers could be teens themselves or writing for themselves, and i'll have no way of knowing. just because someone somewhere was adamant that they got off to fanfic about two characters in a story when they were 11 does not mean everyone who writes about them gets the shifty eye. also the assumption that everyone reading/writing explicit fics or having sexual headcanons only because they're horny/horny for the characters (tho like, do you, boo) is wild. have you BEEN IN FANDOM?? i can't know everyone's mind and heart, and it's none of mine or anyone's fucking business to traffic control how and who gets to figure out a dynamic or get off to it or explore some deep seated trauma or just have fun.

characters are not actors, characters are not people, characters are not real. they are vehicles to explore ideas and emotions and situations for yourself and your audience. you can use your imagination to make them exist in any which way, shape or form, or yes even age them up, beyond canon. they are not any certain age because they're not real. you can make them as old as you fucking want them to be. again, these are things for you to decide. my opinion is irrelevant.

sex is a often a big part of a relationship and these are fucking fandom ships we're talking about. you are not automatically creepy and unreasonable for wondering and coming up with your own ideas about what those dynamics might be. people can laugh at them if they want, sure, but you're not automatically these things. same as you're not insane for imagining what careers they might like or what kind of house they might live in when they're adults. it is the same to me as figuring out who likes cuddles more and who holds whose hand first. THEY AREN'T REAL PEOPLE, its not a fucking violation or a transgression to suppose about them, regardless of how vague or detailed you decide to get. there is no "correct" way to handle the characters until a point of "until" or "unless" in the canon material that gives the go ahead. you are making fanworks, you do not need to strictly adhere to the source or genre. that's ridiculous. if you can only think of characters within the context of what you can see on your screen, that's not everyone else's problem.

the claims that critiques of this are all just critiques and personal preferences stop being just that when i get messages *warning* me about *questionable* mutuals—who haven't done a damn thing for me to blink at. fiction is fiction and to act like this is The Normal Website where very specific media/characters/ships don't put you in a chokehold and possess you for who knows how many years is wild to me.

no one has to like teen sex in media OR the discussion and hcs of it for underage characters. there's a lot of things that would make me pause in fanworks and i'm sure some could make me hurl. but my line is drawn at the generalization and suggestion that explicit hc or writing in fiction is automatically sexualizing fictional OR real teens, or at anyone being on the receiving end of pedophile jokes, implications, or accusations without substantial reasoning for it.

'well maybe i'm just built different'—CONGRATS!!! welcome to baby's first fandom! oh, it's NOT your first one? then why are you still acting like it. call me when actual Real Life Kids are in danger In Real Life—or fucking DON'T because if there was an actual problem happening, the law would be involved, not tumblr blogs.

all that's said above is my bottom line. i've heard the arguments (they've not been addressed here). i've seen the points (they simply do not connect). i used to have tons of rules for how to be "correct" about this stuff. i've had months and years and reasons to ponder this and weigh my own opinion. if you think the hosegate nonsense and witch-hunting was only about analyzing media and not also about the very existence of teen sexuality in fiction (*joyful, life-affirming, healthy, queer* teen sexuality at that), idk what to say at this point. with bad faith actors, with anyone really—im done arguing.

tldr; read/write/talk about whatever you want in fiction. characters are not real. welcome to fandom 101.

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@emblazons recently made an excellent point about Jonathan in S4 -- that there are lots of little hints suggesting he's not only been picking up on Will's queer-coding, but Mike's as well, and could be in the process of connecting the dots on Byler.

I'd like to add some more evidence to the pile, because while dual-meaning throwaway lines like the above are easy to dismiss as coincidences...

...it's harder to ignore the fact that the van scene is explicitly shown from Jonathan's POV.

You might be wondering how this tells us anything about Mike -- after all, Jonathan's observations here lead pretty directly to the pizzeria heart-to-heart, so surely this is just about the Byers brothers?

But as I've pointed out before, the pizzeria heart-to-heart was not in the original script, and was only added after they'd already filmed the van scene. [source]

So if a heartwarming affirmation of brotherly acceptance wasn't the reason for the van scene to be shown from Jonathan's POV... then why Jonathan POV?

Jonathan, amongst others, has been showering Will with love and acceptance since S1 -- but nobody has ever bothered to tell Mike that they're proud of him, and he's been spiraling into depression and comphet because of it.

In the van, Will came so close to breaking Mike out of that spiral by assuring him that he's valuable for being exactly who he is... but his own internalized homophobia sabotaged the whole thing and only served to shove Mike even further into the closet.

So isn't it interesting that the Duffers felt the need to spell it out for us that Jonathan was watching all of this go down?

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Is Byler your favorite part of the show?

A) Yes, it’s always been

B) Yes, it wasn’t always, but it is now

C) No, it’s never been

D) No, it used to be, but it isn’t now

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