#*I somehow mistyped ‘feelings’ as ‘feeling’ three separate times wtf lmao | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mikesbasementbeets · 2 years ago

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just here to say again that gay people can and very often do experience “crushes” on people of different genders, particularly when they’re young and don’t understand the difference between romantic and platonic love, and that doesn’t make them any less gay

stranger things has done a fucking phenomenal job of displaying this through mike wheeler, whose entire romantic arc has been about discovering what that difference is, specifically through his two major relationships, will and el. he mistakes the platonic feelings for romantic ones and the romantic feelings for platonic ones before (VERY gradually imo) realizing that he’s had them mixed up the entire time

#i used to make up crushes to tell my friends bc i thought I was weird for never having crushes #(i just didn’t realize same gender crushes were a thing despite DEFINITELY HAVING THOSE)#and whenever I did or whenever friends assumed I had a crush on someone I convinced myself it was real #like for YEARS I could do it #i had long term relationships bc I found out someone liked me and assumed my platonic feeling must actually be romantic #it’s EXTREMELY common and I genuinely applaud st for the way they’re portraying it with so much nuance and complexity it’s incredible #again: this isn’t a story about someone choosing between two equally likely romantic prospects. it simply isn’t #it is not portrayed that way at all and ESPECIALLY if you think mike is an oblivious character (i don’t) it makes way more sense that his #journey is about REALIZING the true nature of his feelings for both el and will #that they WEREN’T what he thought and assumed they were but rather that his feeling for el have ALWAYS been platonic #and his feeling for will are surprise surprise…. ACTUALLY romantic #*I somehow mistyped ‘feelings’ as ‘feeling’ three separate times wtf lmao #beets posts

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