#but for byler…anything lmao

[emblazons]

I really like fictional couples that actually enjoy spending time with each other. It seems like such a simple, mundane thing. It feels like such a basic thing, but it’s something that I actually don’t see that often.  insp. (x)

[queen-of-hawkins-why-ler]

“Stranger Things will still be a good show even if Byler isn’t endga”—let me stop you right there bc if anything other than Byler endgame happens then Stranger Things will have a worse final season than Game of Thrones and deserves to be the laughingstock of the internet forever and deserves to be shat on forever.

[butterflysonnets]

yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.

[postgleeworld]

anyways. i hope byler makes out until they cant breathe n have to pull away gasping for air in s5

[demadogs]

oh my god guys why the fuck would they kill karen lmao

[bylertruther]

we secured byler in the top four and so many ppl are giving up now................... can't relate i would bite kill lie and cheat for byler i'm their top shooter in these e-streets and i will NAWT lose to a redditor ever in my entire life i Refuse 🫡

[byclairs]

i just think that if you truly believe barely any bylers dislike/vilify el then you’re just turning a blind eye and being naive on purpose

[rotisseries]

"I can see will appreciating all types of music genres" well I cannot. peace and love<3

[cosmobrain00]

thinking abt cannibyler/ canniwill again (.. for no particular rsn<3) n the relationship will would have w eating ppl once he eventually starts, if we're coming from a "came back wrong" perspective. yk I thought at first "ok maybe its exclusively ppl who're not so great ppl/ maybe its a hannibal type think w rude ppl n mike goes "might as well bc they were rude to will, right?"" but there's smthing special abt will having a good relationship, a great, special one even, w another person n eventually eating them anyway. "bc he can't help himself??" well sure in a way, but maybe bc it makes him hungry in a way cruel ppl dont, the urge to consume someone who grows increasingly important to him bc cant love be more powerful then hating someone, esp for will byers himself?

...ill see myself out

[thestobingirlie]

i think stancy and byler have more in common than some bylers that hate stancy want to admit

[emblazons]

Listen. If they wanted me to believe in mlvn they would have had Vecna take Mike from El. They would have her say “it you touch him again, I will kill you, again” before giving them a one-on-one romantic reunion where Mike did something like parallel being saved from the quarry + said “you saved me—you’re not the monster, not to me. I love you.” They would have had him encourage her to her face in a way she could respond to—before she won, or at the very least managed to save him from death the way she saved Max.

Funny how nothing like that happened tho. Instead Mike confessed, the world broke in half, Murray, Steve and Nancy delivered the final blows while El just stood there as Vecna faded away…and then this?

FOLLOWED BY THIS?

I’ve spent an entire year giving y’all the deeper context for the storyline and all it’s subtleties but…lmao this was more than enough on its own, and I haven’t even touched 99.9% of byler, or the return of “there’s more to life than stupid boys” with Max.

But…of course it’s me whose delusional, right? 🙃

[lighthouseas]

chapter 20 of the strawberries are dying, my byler 1930s au, is now up!

Mike has always hated doing things he didn’t want to do, even if said things were necessary in order for him to develop into a normal human being. This was maybe why his parents, particularly his father, had very obviously disliked him more than their other kids when he was growing up—he was stubborn. Unmoving. Unwilling to meet in the middle with most things he didn’t like. “Compromise” was not really a word occupying his vocabulary. He saw the world in black and white for a long time, refusing to even toe into a gray area. Was this a bad thing? Probably. Of course, he’d gotten better with it all since he’d met Will, but he still kind of saw the world like that on occasion.

[heartsgettingwiser62]

Could someone pls care to explain why tf was Will's lego that he stuck up his nose named Larry, such as the corrupt mayor from s3 that had his nose broken by Hopper???

Also:

?????

(Aaalso, is there mayyybe something about Hopper's watch here? The 01 or the 12??)

[shippingfangirl013]

Time to pretend homework doesn’t exist and work on my WIP and give my blorbos depression too!

See y’all on the other side of this chapter. 🫡

[demadogs]

this is my impression of a byler:

“narratively speaking…”

[willbyerswithpowersblog]

kicking my feet giggling twirling my hair over a small detail that means absolutely nothing