#but it's fun and I desperately need more byler content

[weepywhalewatcher]

Heyy I'm gonna do some writing now bc I'm bored :) it'll be short (oneshots) and byler/implied byler. Idk how many people will see this BUT leave a request if you'd like :)

Nothing NSFW but I will write gore. If you ask for angst I will write a happy ending, because if not I'll cry 🫶

[helpimstuckinafandom]

Idk if I've posted about this in the past but I genuinely don't even like stranger things. I watched it because my friend said it was "so me" and it was a nightmare to get through. Too much and not enough at the same time. Changing characterization just to use them differently. I was here for select characters and was hating what they were doing with them. I am so amazed that it was/is the big pop culture moment like truly. Do i even post this or leave it in my drafts i'm just so fucking tired i hate it here

[voydhund]

I feel like i've watched every video and read every theory about Stranger Things, i need more content immediately.

If you too are suffering in the content drought like I am here's some recommendations from me (For YouTube, mostly Byler-centric.)

Cloudycleric / Ollie! - One of my favorites when it comes to Byler or just Stranger Things in general. He also has a miniseries where he answers asks on here! (@cloudycleric, if you wanna toss him an ask or a follow :))

MarshmallowSketches - Their most recent 7 videos have been about how Mike Wheeler is a boykisser. I watch their 3 'Mike Wheeler queer coding' videos over and over again when i get desperate lol

LesbianMindflayer - Way too many (97.) videos that are almost all about Byler. The longest is about 53 mins while their shortest is 40 seconds. They aren't all super duper long, but they're still awesome either way. (I also think they have a blog somewhere on here, not sure though.)

Gayer Things - A variety ranging from just silly stuff to making it into an 80's sitcom. It's all fun :)

Truckstoptiger05 - A few fun animations about their comic series based on Stranger Things! It's Will and Mike centric (i think they're the only characters.) and rlly funny, i'd check out the comic if you can find it.

[greenlikethesea]

oh yeah like obviously if i'm in fandom it's because i'm all for doing queer readings of non canonically queer characters, and i do enjoy sapphic nancy fan content but i'll never really buy it as a like, very realistic plausible interpretation of her in canon

same goes for mike just a million times more because it's so very clearly just not the direction the show is trying to go with him, like there's only so much blatant ignoring of reality my fannish goggles let me do. nothing but love and respect to the shippers who don't let such foolish considerations stand in the way of their fun though lol

you get exactly what i mean, especially regarding these two characters. i've read some queer nancy content that i have enjoyed (@dallae wrote an incredible gift for me that had nancy in a somewhat fraught and difficult relationship with a woman much later in life, and it was, to me, the most realistic portrayal of how that trajectory would go for her). in general, though, i just do not see her as even a little bi. she enjoys the company of men, and enjoys sex with men canonically, and seeks these interactions of her own accord. while that does not necessarily a straight woman make, it's just a feeling i have for her! sometimes people are straight and that's okay. i think she really just needs a friend who is a girl.

and omg, thank you for saying that about mike. like, all love and light to byler shippers, but it's so abundantly clear that they're going in an unrequited crush direction with will and mike -- and a good thing too! stranger things is not heartstopper. it's semi-rural indiana in the mid 1980s. and i don't think mike is a closeted bisexual by any means. i think he's just a sensitive boy who went through trauma. there's a lot of interesting potential with mike as a character who has grown up and not really found his lane, unlike his peers -- he's not athletic and affable like lucas, or tough and resilient like max, or a whiz kid like dustin, or artistic like will, or superpowered like el. he's the only boy in his family, and has been given preferential treatment by his parents and been the leader of the party and now he's just...not that special. wouldn't having the romantic attention of more than one person be appealing, even if you don't feel that way about one of them? i find that sort of young desperation for any kind of validation so relatable and so interesting.