#byler s5

[love-byers]

🚨🚨LOVERS LAKE ABOVE MIKES HEAD THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT LOVERS LAKE ABOVE MIKES HEAD THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL🚨🚨

[bonskidin64]

Will freaking Byers people

[partypooper1324]

what are y'all bringing to the byler party after its canon?

[miamc]

“a return to season one dynamics” “rewatch season two before season five” yeah this isn’t looking good for milkvan

[wheelerslvr]

for the last time LEAVE OUR SON ALONE. PLEASE. he’s just a baby pls 😢 first you make him get dragged into an alternate dimension at the age of TWELVE for like a week and then maybe about a year later you make him get POSSESSED like WHAT IS THE NEED and then if all of THAT isnt enough you make him move away from his best friends to california and when his best friend hes also inlove with visits you decide “haha lets bully will!” and make him THIRD WHEEL and then his sister gets ARRESTED and while on a little trip to go save her u make him sacrifice his love in order for a SCREWED UP UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIP. after all of that ur still not done. STILL. i dont even know what ur gonna do to him next season but i SWEAR if you make mileven endgame after ALL OF THIS i will absolutely go insane. thank you 😇

sorry for the crashout yall #justiceforwillbyers

[onewaycloset7]

GUYS!!!!

[babybluebae-933]

okay but hang on does mike not know that will is lying about the painting? It’s one of the first things eleven tells him in s4; Will is painting something special and she thinks he must like a girl and that’s who it’s for. whyyyyyy would she tell him that if it’s a painting she commissioned for him?

I don’t think the disappointment in the van scene is because he thinks the painting was actually commissioned by el, I think he knows it’s from will, for him. And his wildest dreams have told him that it meant something special. That he means something special to will. It would be crazy for him to say it out loud because they’re best friends. They’re just friends. And he has a girlfriend, who he… cares about.

But somewhere deep inside of him, he was hoping that will would be the brave one. That he would be the one to do it, to say what’s unsaid, to make mike feel better like he always does. Find a way to explain what’s been happening between them the last two years. He wants to talk to him so bad; he calls all the time, but the line is always busy. Is it normal to be this upset over a best friend? He doesn’t know but he can’t think about it, not really.

He thought will would be brave, the one to admit it. I’m not joking, unless you are. I would be with you forever if you just asked, but if you don’t then I never will either and we’ll just stay like this. The only thing worse than loving you would be losing your friendship. Have you ever felt guilty about how much you cared about a friend that was actually just a friend?

He has just realized what he wanted. It came the closest to the surface that it ever has, he was as hopeful as he ever has been. But it turns out its from el. Or at least that’s what will wants him to think, and why would he lie about that? Friends don’t lie. Will won’t say anything; it was stupid to think that he would anyways.

If mike wheeler had one fucking brain cell to spare, he would figure out that will lied about the painting because he loves him. He made it for him because he loves him, and he lied about who it’s from because he loves him. But that sounds too good to be true, so he concedes within himself and says okay, maybe will made this for me because he cares about me but more important than that, he wants me to be with eleven. It doesn’t even occur to him that will could want to be with him but would rather mike stay with el and never find out the truth if that’s what would make him happiest.

He’s smart enough to figure out what’s really going on in the van scene, he’s just not confident enough to believe that it could be real. It is too good to be true, so it must not be.

Mike is realizing in this moment that he is upset that the painting is from his girlfriend not will. It’s obvious if he did have any feelings for mike, he doesn’t want to share them. And he wants mike to be with el. And because mike cares about will more than anything, that’s what he’ll do. Will told him to say the thing to el? He’ll say it. Will told him el loves him and needs him? That’s where he’ll be.

It’s the same look at the end of s3 after el kissed him and said she loves him back.

Wasn’t that exactly what I wanted?

Why does it feel like this?

Why doesn’t it feel good?

Why am I thinking about will?

There are some desires held so deep within us, you can’t even acknowledge the possibility of it until it’s actually physically happening, it would be too devastating otherwise. To admit even to yourself, that you want this thing that is so stupid and so impossible and so weird and so unacceptable. It’s better to never acknowledge what you want than it is to really really want something that you can’t have. Especially about this stuff. Because it doesn’t end at feelings for will, if this happens it means the entire rest of his life is different. And that sounds dramatic but really it’s not, what if I acknowledge my feelings for this person and what they really are, and what if I can’t have it? My world is shattered, the bubble is burst. And I don’t even get what I wanted. Especially in the 80s. he would be ostracized, judged. Different for life, weird for life. If he can’t have what he really truly wants, why shouldn’t he have the next best thing? A normal easy uncomplicated life with eleven. With a girl.

Mike is smart we’ve seen that. I think he knows el didn’t commission the painting. He's upset that will said the painting is from el, and he’s upset that deep down he really wanted it to be from will. But he doesn’t know what this kind of upset means, and he doesn’t know what to do with it.

mark my words s5 will be PACKED full of anxious overthinking overanalyzing mike wheeler and i cannot fucking wait.

[marinhosh]

I want to understand how this

Become this

like where's the messy hair? where's the volume? where's the curls? where did the shaggy bowlcut go? 😭

[bylerpining]

I think what I need more than anything in s5 is a scene where will casually leans against mike or his arm brushes his while he's showing him something and mike is visibly freaking out trying to keep it together

[j3llyyy]

OMG MY SHAYLA WHAT 😭 HE ALREADY HAS ENOUGH TRAUMA 😔🙏

I also see the party behind him 🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥

Praying we get over protective Mike wheeler after this scene

[love-byers]

this leak got me thinking...

mike tells holly (who's entire bedroom is rainbow btw) that he casted prismatic spray to defeat vecna's acolyte

here's what a prismatic spray is in d&d and what it looks like

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MIKE KILLED THE ACOLYTE BY BLINDING IT WITH A FUCKING RAINBOW

ARE WE JOKING

AND THERES MORE

we know mike lucas and will are at the middle school at one point early in the season. and this is a board that is also in the middle school

PRISM - obviously we just talked about the prismatic spray

FILTER - a big part of mike's arc has been pretending to be someone else

MIRROR - in s5 mike is finally taking a look at himself and recognizing what he wants and needs

REFLECTION - mike is looking back on the last few years and figuring out why he changed and where he went wrong

SPECTRUM - 🏳️‍🌈

DISPERSION REFRACTION - dispersion and refraction is the process that creates rainbows

WHITE LIGHT - white light is the combination of all the colors of the rainbow. it appears white to the human eye

LUMINOUS - this is a stretch but idc we have fun here

this leaked pic of mikes heart shield with a star and the moon

curious...

LIGHT RAYS - ...

and the whole light theme reminds me of what max said to lucas:

"But it's my mind, not his, right? So I should be able to control where I am. I just need to...push him away. Find a happy memory and hide there. Hide in the light."

light represents truth, happiness, warmth, etc. and in the cabin, mike is carefully avoiding it.

until, of course, he reaches out to touch will, something he'd been too scared to do only a few days before. its only when mike stops avoiding will and fearing physical contact with him that he can enter the light. the truth.

the primary colors (aka the love triangle colors mike blue, will yellow, el red) right next to a literal pride flag and the word "SPECTRUM" in rainbow colors

plus that diagram of the primary colors shows the overlap, which also occurs here:

and of course the purple and yellow flowers mike gave el at the airport where mike said he realized there was too much yellow. 70% yellow, 30% purple

70% will, 30% el (their relationship, blue + red)

he can't balance will and his relationship with el. it can't be 50/50. there's too much will in mike's head

and lastly, circling back to the prismatic spray, there was that leak from when they were filming at the hospital and paparazzi saw flashing rainbow lights coming from inside. is someone casting prismatic spray?? is it mike???

anyways s5 is gonna be gay af it seems

[sweetenerly]

byler playing dnd with holly byler playing dnd with holly byler playing dnd with holly byler playing dnd with holly byler playing dnd with holly byler playing dnd with holly byler playing dnd with holly

[bonskidin64]

Mike initiating the hands in scene is funny for some reason cause just imagine him being like “Okay guys, to defeating vecna…hands in!”

[partypooper1324]

im so excited for after byler is canon the edits are going to be amazing and we're going to have a huge byler party on this app I'm bringing the party hats

[miamc]

WAIT IS WILLS HAND OVER LUCAS OR MIKES?? MIKE INITIATED IT AND THEN WILL WAS THE FIRST TO PUT HIS HAND OVER MIKES??