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I'm still not over this 😭

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what is bro doing 💀💀💀

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Me when byler is endgame

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HES SO POOKIE

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October 31st, 1984

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halloween costumes for today

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I hope it doesn't suck 🧛

waiting for Byler to come home 🥺🥺

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What I mean when I say that Mike is heavily associated with opening doors. Whenever there's a door that needs to be opened and Mike is present... there's a 90% chance he is the one opening it, or at least trying to.

Mike is the key to Will's heart and to saving Hawkins...

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If "Heroes" by Peter Gabriel plays during the Byler kiss, I'm gonna have to keep pausing the show for a few minutes, because it's gonna be a LOT for me emotionally

I'm gonna pause like, 5 times because I'll be bawling my fucking eyes out lol

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ex milkvan ride-or-die shipper and i am convinced the majority of modern day milkvan shippers are people who didn’t watch the show until it became super popular in 2022 when s4 was coming out.

like, there is a difference between binging all four seasons of a show and having years of wait between each one.

the time between each one gives you time to reflect on what you might see next season. as a milkvan truther after watching the first 2 seasons of the show in 2018, i was super excited for season 3 because we could see mike and eleven finally be together after their sweet reunion in the s2 finale.

and then…they literally break up in the first 2 episodes 😭

all my expectations flew straight out the window. i remember sitting there like “oh…wait what?” not necessarily disappointed (probably idk i was like 13) but super confused. even when they kissed at the end i hated it because it was just such an awkward kiss omdsssss😑

fast forward 3 years then i’m 16 and in a lesbian relationship and milkvan is just not hitting any spots. can’t remember what my expectations were for them, but i hated their reunion and didn’t have high hopes for them after that. (high hopes looked at the “i love you” scene, laughed, and left forever)

it was after vol2 was out and marinated when i started to see byler for what it was, because much like milkvan itself, each new season broke down all the expectations i had for them whilst byler only thrived.

binging all four seasons completely in one go strips this kind of trial and error experience away from you, you’re less likely to have grown accustomed to the writing and predict what will happen next time. (not suggesting bingers who joined in 2022 and post cant have picked up on byler too, it’s just a bit more difficult for the average person so pat yourself on the back if that’s your experience)

hence why i see so many new milkvans claim s5 is gonna be the season where they’re finally the power couple we thought they’d be back in 2018…and they weren’t.

“they’re gonna get married and 🤫 and have superpowered babies!”…what in the muthr fokc?

the only power they ever had was the power of heteronormativity

still love their pairing, but they’d be so much more powerful as friends like they were in the beginning

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I swear if there's a deleted scene somewhere of them realizing they're holding hands like lumax s3 im gonna lose it

reminder that byler held hands in a different take of the shootout but it was scrapped because it was just too gay too soon

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the fact that Mike was trying to make things less gay but he made it gayer by acting weird around his "best friend" who he has "no feelings" for... like all Will wanted was a hug from his best friend of a decade.. homotron 7000 can't even hug his "best friend" anymore who may i remind you has NO IDEA WIll is gay and literally thought Will had a crush on a girl and made the painting for her and Mike got jealous and petty about it...

and this was Mike 6 months ago..

It was confirmed by Finn twice that Mike has no idea Will is gay and he thought Will had a crush on a girl so why was he acting like that? Cuz he was jealous of the girl and gay panicking about Will's glow up, if it was because they drifted away they would've made Will act awkward around Mike too but they didn't

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Yeah people really don't understand how much time it takes to put a show together, but we also def aren't getting a trailer when they're not even done filming

i hate to be the bearer of bad news but i don't think we're going to get a trailer on stranger things day, even though one would be awesome. i think it's more likely that we get a teaser, maybe short cast interviews with some bts? or maybe posters? the release date? anyways. only 8 days left to find out.

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The fact that Will is in the scene when Mike says I love you to El for the first time will always make me confident that byler is 100% endgame. (Also will looking at mike when mike says i love you 😭😭)

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I made a shrine <3

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I really think Noah wouldn't be all that smiley while talking about Byler if it wasn't happening, and the faces he made in that video at the convention are really promising even without counting the fact that he's scared to spoil ANYTHING about it to the point he's not sure if he can say again that Will has feelings for Mike (thing that is 100% confirmed by the Duffers themselves in multiple interviews, as we know)

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What's so crazy too is that Will WAS the younger sibling in danger and he'll be getting a whole new side to the story and also may get insight into how badly it messed up Mike the first time

nell fisher’s double and jamie campbell bower filming at the creel house… oh something is so cooking over there. holly is 100% disappearing which means we get “over-protective big brother” mike wheeler with will byers by his side trying to save holly’s life. yup season 5 is 100% going to get me admitted to the psych ward