#and the duffers know this

[cringengl]

The moment Mike said that he's loved El since the moment he saw her, Byler became endgame.

[tryingonametaphor]

thinking about this again

[bangtanthoughts]

me when s5 comes out and mike says "so, el, that painting you commissioned....."

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Huh Max’s hair clip is really cute, I sure hope it’s not foreshadowing to something happening to her two seasons in the future…

[taeiris]

stranger things season 5 is gonna start with the voice of a little boy, singing a familiar song…

and then we see will, singing. THEN we see the demogorgon taking him to the library, everything in between the scenes we know— that we haven’t seen, deleted scenes or new scenes idc.

season 5 is gonna start at the point between will getting to the library and joyce and hopper finding him, what we didn’t see. we get a close look at a tease of how the connection between him and vecna specifically began

and then he wakes up. present s5 time, title card intro begins and the first episode of the final season of stranger things starts.

im CALLING IT BABY!

[a-shade-of-green]

do you think it was weird for mike to go to california and experience his first byers family dinner in months just for it to be far too similar to wheeler family dinners

[harmonictechnicality]

oh my god okay. The fact that Wayne narrates the lore of the Creel House and Eddie narrates the Vecna campaign is so important to me. It means that Eddie grew up listening to his uncle tell stories. It means that those stories left such an impact on him, that he started telling stories of his own.

It means Eddie inherited the storytelling trait from Wayne.

[strangertheories]

sick of people justifying the lack of diversity in stranger things with the fact that it's an 80s small town when they have fucking great poc characters who are either underutilised (lucas, erica) or who they just deleted off the show (kali, argyle). not to mention all of vecna's victims being fleshed out...except the Black one! and all the opportunities they could've used for rep, like vickie. this is a consistent pattern.

[chirpsythismorning]

Is that…

[hellinhawkins]

you know, i’ve been thinking about how s3 byler’s rain fight and the context of that when it comes to the other seasons, and i’ve really been sort of stuck on “we’re not kids anymore.”

this implies that mike thinks that they’re growing up. and they are. they are. that’s true. but when this really makes you question everything is NEXT season, when he’s shown playing the same game he called childish the season before.

dnd is mike and will’s thing. and so when he told will that, obviously will is hurt. and it would have made sense if they’d stopped that right there- mike doesn’t play dnd anymore! because, hey, they aren’t kids. not anymore.

but the only difference between mike in s3 and s4 is that eleven is gone. and obviously will is, too, but he’d never stop playing because will was there. which is the only difference between s2 and 3- eleven is back.

so obviously we know he stopped playing because of her and started again because she was gone. but that’s just crazy. they’ve SHOWN that over and over.

and then when he goes back to cali he’s not himself AGAIN. until el leaves. then he is. he’s nice again, he’s himself, he’s flirting with will and he’s not being an asshole anymore. so they show that el brings out the worst in him. it’s clear. all their fights are about el. all of them, if you really look at the base of them. and will? will brings out the best in him. he smiles more when he’s with will. they’re trying to show us that.

[kidovna]

I wanted to ask you- do you really think that Mike and will could end up together in season 5? Like realistically? I personally wish for nothing more but I truly can’t imagine how they would do it with the other stuff happening around them. At best I can only think of Mike and eleven separating and if neither of them will die, I can imagine that they will leave an open ending for the viewers to interpret if Mike had feelings for will as well. What do you think could happen?

I really do think that they can end up together. When has the supernatural plot ever stopped jancy, jopper, lumax, mileven and stancy from happening and why couldn’t it be a possibility for byler?

I think season 4 and the first shadow covered both Henry and El’s backstories. We’ve gotten confirmation multiple times that season 5 covers Will’s backstory, and Mike is a big part of his life. Other than resolving the conflicts from season 4, giving us more information about the mind flayer /UD, and providing context for will’s involvement in the plot, there’s nothing major (like the Russia plot) left to establish in season 5. Everyone is already in Hawkins and know Vecna’s motives.

[Marvel spoilers…?] Remember how avengers infinity war killed half the universe at the end of the movie and then a) invented time travel, b) brought them all back and c) killed the bad guy all within 3 hours in the sequel? I think byler happening in the 10+ hours of season 5 wouldn’t be too much of a stretch. They’ve already known each other for 10 years and are semi-canon.

Sure, there’s always a possibility that they could leave byler open ended but why would they do that if they wanted every character to have their perfect happy ending?

[fyeaheddiemunson]

[lunabug2004]

It’s so crazy how I can be so confident about Byler being endgame but, even so, Byler doubt hits me like a truck and makes me want to have a full breakdown every other day 🙃

[butterflysonnets]

absolutely insane that mike literally p a n i c k e d when will was like "well what about us?" because will wasn't even really making things gay he was honest to god just inquiring about the state of their estranged friendship and wondering why mike didn't make time to talk to him when they're supposed to be best friends but MIKE was the one having an aneurysm like "🏳️‍🌈⁉️ W H AT!!"

“WE'RE FRIENDS” “i know mike” “WE'RE!!! F R I E N D S!!” “right so why don't you call me — ” “I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND” “… that in no way answers my question"

[strawberrybyers]

the duffers really said “we have TWO opportunities to do something really funny with camera and actor placement”

[toobusybeingdelulu]

Nah i think it’s so funny how Joe and Dacre’s chemistry was so strong that they had to scrap their plotline and never make them interact again 😭😭. How the times have changed; back in the teen wolf and sherlock days, if they had acted together in one of those shows, the writers would have queerbaited the fuck out of them