#byler gifs

[orlastarburst]

Whyyyyyyyy

^tagged by @soctherapy but the post was getting too long

this isnt a win for me.......

Tags!: @rae-unbeloved @lil-gae-disaster @fictionalcharactergraveyard @livelaughlovelams @alexanderhamiltonhasafatass

[will80sbyers]

stolen glances to his crush in the first episode ✅

[teambyler]

The most hypocritical anti Byler argument:

"Why can't two boys just be friends? Why do you have to make everything gay!?"

Whenever I hear this argument or some variation of it, I think back to my two cousins, one a girl and the other a boy. (One from my dad's side of the family, the other from my mom's.) They were maybe six years old at the time, and they were innocently talking and playing and giving each other math and spelling-bee quizzes. ALL my family were giggling, saying they were going to be boyfriend and girlfriend.

I also think back to all the times I see young girls being judged on their physical beauty and told they're going to have a handsome boy when they grow up because they're so pretty.

From childhood, boys and girls have their sexuality assumed for them. Their SEXUALITY and romantic possibility are talked about openly in front of their face. They're made to look at themselves sexually before they even want to.

So when people yell at Byler fans saying "Why do you have to make everything gay?" I want to scream at them:

"Why do you have to make everything straight!?"

Why do you insist on sexualizing children to be heterosexual even before they're ready to start thinking of themselves in those terms?

Why do you have no problem with Mike kissing El in season 1 right after she asks him if he's like her "brother"?

Why do you idealize their relationship when they were children, while simultaneously trying to shame Byler fans for trying to "sexualize children" even though these are fictional characters and the actors who play Mike and Will are already adults?

Why do you shame any thought or possibility of homosexual romance, while imposing heterosexual norms on everyone?

It reminds me of people who say "You can be gay of course... just don't shove it in our faces (by holding forth that you're gay, kissing in public, etc.)." When no one bats an eye when straight people do the same thing. They're willing to give lip service to LGBT+ people, but actual equality they don't accept.

It's Straight Privilege in action: the norms and standards that straight people enjoy quietly do not to apply to us.

This hypocrisy even distorts how Milkvans view Mike and El. We're told that if Mike and Will get together, that would mean Mike "used El" and El would never be able to forgive him.

Not only does this disregard that people can have amicable break-ups and still be close friends: it also shows that the idea of a platonic loving relationship between a Mike and El is beyond their comprehension. To them, the only loving relationships boys and girls can have with each other are romantic ones.

(Now, before anyone objects: sure many people accept Robin and Steve, but that's because Robin is canonically gay. We all know that before she came out many of us (me included!) were shipping those two as a couple!)

If someone ships Mike and El WITHOUT her confronting him about his poor treatment of her in early s4, without there being an honest conversation about that, this definitely raises an eyebrow from me. The "love confession" didn't address this: his fear of losing her did NOT explain failing to comfort her or failing to say he loved her. Theoretically it's possible for these two to repair things. (And if Milkvan is endgame I hope that they do by addressing this!) But for some Milkvan shippers this need to address Mike's behavior doesn't even enter their minds because they're idealizing their relationship. In other words, THEY are imposing their idea of a relationship on these two, much in the same way my family was imposing their own ideas on my two cousins without regard to the people involved.

So if anyone asks "Why can't two boys just be friends? Why do you have to make everything gay?" it's purely hypocritical and dishonest. No, we just want THIS relationship between Mike and Will (which is clearly being built up as romantic) to be gay out of a sea of heterosexual relationships on TV.

No. THEY are the ones who rule out a boy and girl just being friends. THEY are the ones who insist on imposing romance on a boy and girl when they're not ready. THEY are the ones who insist on "everything" being one way.

-teambyler

[paladin1985]

s5e1 lunch table scene where lucas and dustin are rambling then it cuts to byler lookjng longingly to each other

[bylrr-fridge]

jonathan byers is the byler #1 protector.

[dukeofdelirium]

thinks that make you go eughhhh….? brother eugghhh?? what’s that??? what’s that brother??!?!

[radiobyers]

me when i remember there’s a large portion of the stranger things fandom who genuinely act as if monsters from another dimension crawling through joyce byers’ walls is more realistic than queer people existing in the 1980’s:

[itswhatyougive]

A lot of people in the notes are just flat-out wrong, lmao. Not only was Dustin wrong in this gif about Mike only caring about El, he has repeatedly shown absolutely no sense of gaydar at all. And he's going to be dealing with significant grief over Eddie in S5, which I doubt will do anything to make him more observant of The Gay™️

He might notice some Stranger Things afoot, but I doubt he'd realize what was going on with them until it was out in the open.

"they're gonna get Murrayed"

"they're gonna get Hollyed"

"Robin is gonna clock them"

"No, Lucas is gonna clock them"

GUYS.

[mikesbasementbeets]

What, you don't like it? No.

[michaelwheelerdefiodental]

I NEED MORE OF MIKE AND LUCAS AS A DUO!!!!!!!!!!!!GiVE IT TO ME GIVE IT TO ME GIVE IT TO ME!!!!!!!

[bylerworld]

asking will to be his friend was the best thing mike's ever done. mike's hometown is not home to him if will's not there.

[bylerpining]

if this was a scene between mike and a girl everyone would see this in one way and one way only.

HE'S FLIRTINGGGGG. HE'S SO NERVOUS AND FLUSTERED !!!!

not to mention THIS. caught in 4k 📸

[kittykat940]

Stfu.....😭

[will80sbyers]

sad pookies :c

[bylersisendgame]

The teaser is going to be released on march 22 I see in my now-memories.