#and mike witnessing it...

[chirpsythismorning]

What they're saying is s5 is going to have Hawkins High School as one of the locations for the plot. What I'm hearing is jealous Mike opportunities...

[one-eternal-sigh]

give me more mike and joyce interactions

[miwtual]

@lgbtqcreators​ creator challenge — typography + poster (insp)

[mister-anomaly]

my magnum opus ... my shining star .. my piece that i spent like almost a month on because my motivation for drawing 6 people in one piece was NONE EXISTENT BHDSHJDJHBS <3

[mikeslawyer]

mike’s favourite book is “the picture of dorian gray” and he’s read it a million of times, but he never told anyone about it.

once they’re dating, will finds out and even though it’s absolutely not his genre, he reads it just because it’s mike’s favourite and mike is his favourite. when mike asks why he’s reading it, will just shrugs and says “i just love you is all”

[thefirstlioveyou]

i remember when people were saying nothings up with the wheelers and theyre a normal family and wont be a focus in s5 just for them to be filming so much shit w them, especially cara lmfao

[kurtcobaingirlie]

I swear once stranger things comes out, my byler demon/phase grows

[cazzyf1]

Last footage ever taken of Peter Collins at the 1958 German GP

[poukimart]

barbie arrest scene but it’s an elmax au where they both get arrested for the rinkomania incident

[jimmyandthegiraffes]

Where’s that post I made about Mike being the companion that broke under the horrors bc I’m still right. When I think abt the THINGS some companions have had to endure and have still seemingly been fine, and then I think of mike losing himself and his values to a festering psychological wound that left him open to radicalisation, it’s like he is the evidence that actually everything isn’t fine.

Which is why it’s so important that he should be next seen in meditation, in the seeking of peace, in quietness and healing because not only is he a character that needs it he’s also a character that knows he needs it and seeks it out for himself, because he doesn’t recognise who he is anymore and he wants, not to redeem himself in the eyes of others (he won’t even go near UNIT, not even when he needs their help, he goes through Sarah Jane instead!), but to become a better person, to stop being a threat, and to heal for his own soul’s sake.

And so he goes from someone who was willing to see the entirety of human history erased, to someone who will risk his life for one person and the fact that that ultimately saves his life always imo comes across as a bit easy if you watch planet of the spiders without this context in mind. But when you do think about where Mike has been, psychologically, from the green death through to planet of the spiders, it doesn’t seem easy at all but actually a significant if understated character moment.

[chirpsythismorning]

I’m sorry but nothing will ever beat Finn’s drive playlist that he made during s3 filming, with songs like Me and Michael, The Basement, Gay Thoughts and No Woman lmaoooo

[bylertruther]

mike ultimately not being a soft dude makes it harder for people to empathize with him or like him as he is, which is why people either lean into that and make him out to be the worst guy in the world even more terrible than brenner or they turn him into the sweetest softest cotton ball of a boy in fanon, because it's easier to reduce him to a caricature than to accept that he is a realistic depiction of a human being aka capable of doing good and doing harm, and it's so unfortunate either way. 😞

[schlocklasa]

[duskkodesh]

Has Morb been hanging with Misty, Conners, and this gal for MONTHS? Did they just gain him like a pet. "He's a stray, we're keeping him." Or was it more "We cannot let you go unsupervised, you do not make good decisions."

Preview pages are many places but I like the format here.

[byers-bowlcut]

It's crazy how the byler fight in season 4 literally serves ZERO PURPOSE to the narrative or characters, for the people who believe mike is hetero and/or mi*even is endgame. Like do those people ever even think about that??

Because the fact is: Mike and Will already did the whole "coming of age, romantic relationship gets in the way of friendship" fight AND resolution in season 3.

"But it's a story. The characters need to face some conflict and drama."

Yes. And we already have that?? Mike has his whole relationship conflict with El. Will has his queer self acceptance arc. And their house gets shot up. There was no need to add this additional random conflict when there's enough drama and action to go around.

"But it was to make it realistic. It's hard to keep up friendships when you're long distance."

No story writer values unneeded realism to the point of redundancy, and simply bad writing.

Mike and Will keeping up a good friendship long distance doesn't defy any laws of the universe that the writers felt forced to have them fight again. In fact it might be MORE in line with realism if they had retained a strong friendship despite the distance, because they left on a very good note in season 3!

For them to do this song and dance again, where Mike seemingly repeats his mistakes from season 3, going back on how they already wrote that he developed and learned from that incident, is called character regression.

Not to mention the fact that the fight doesn't add anything to Will's queer arc. We have the painting, and van scene, and talk in the desert + pizzeria with Jonathan, actually covering that.

So the question is: WHY? What was the true reason to write the season 4 byler fight? What were the writers trying to show, and accomplish for the characters?

The answer is already quite blatant in the scene.

[will80sbyers]