#byler sttwt

[blingyu]

THIS HAS TO TAKE THE CAKE FOR MOST UNSERIOUS STTWT DRAMA EVER 😭😭😭 BYLER TWITTER MADE THE FIRST TWEET A COPYPASTA

[luckybyler]

Byler this, wheelclair that, “Will is Mike’s best friend”, “no it’s Lucas”… they’re just different relationships. Lucas is Mike’s bro, Will is Mike’s baby. And Dustin is chopped liver apparently because nobody talks about him

[skeletal-butterflyy]

As a traveler between both worlds this has got to be one of the funniest things to come out of sttwt

[angelwithnightmares]

[finninsprite]

HII if you are here from Twitter ,, :P

[theoriginalsapphic]

Okay, it's been long enough:

Mike was trying to call Will; not El.

The ending scene in season 3 is about Mike and Will; not Mike and El.

How can I be so sure about it? It’s simply by one of the most basic rules of storytelling: show, don’t tell.

To put into simply terms, “show, don’t tell” it’s a technique which transmits information to the audience through actions, words, subtext, thoughts, senses, and feelings, etc., rather than by straight-up telling the audience through surface exposition.

To use a film that probably everyone is familiar with as an example, in Up it’s showcased how Carl and Ellie were deeply in love with each other through a five-minute wordless montage of their life. Without that scene, even if Carl had spent the rest of the movie saying how much he loves Ellie and how he misses her, the audience would probably had not formed an emotional connection with Carl and his story of love and loss like they did with a five-minute scene.

What’s more effective? Which one evokes a more vivid image in your head?

Sarah was sad, so she started crying.

Sarah laid motionless, tangled in a disarray of bed sheets she hadn’t changed in over a week. Tears leaked down her temples and into her ears, but despite the mild discomfort, she remained frozen, glued to the threadbare mattress.

Show, don’t tell.

So, with that being said…

Why do people believe that the last scene in season 3 is about and Mike and El and mlvn?

Up until here, it could be said it’s debatable whether this is about Will or El; El is in the U-Haul truck with Joyce, while Will is in the other car with Jonathan. Both vehicles are on seen on frame driving away, so it could easily be about either of them or even both of them. also, nice parallel with the season 2 finale, with, once again, both Will and El in different vehicles driving away while Mike is framed in front of the Byer's home.

However, that changes during the length of the scene.

What is Mike afraid of?

But what changes he is scared of? The series doesn’t tell; it shows.

The series doesn’t say aloud that Mike is scared of changes related to Will, but it shows it by having Mike somberly stare at the Byers’ house in this scene. If the series wanted to show that Mike’s emotional reaction in this scene is about El then they would have him look at something that the audience can immediately connect with El, like Hopper’s cabin or Eggos or anything that we would immediately relate to her.

The scene that follows this scene just reinforces that this is about Mike and Will by drawing a visual parallel between the two times that Mike felt like he has lost Will.

And even having a verbal confirmation by Mike himself the following season.

Following this train of thought…

Why do people still think that the phone calls were meant for El?

I’m not going to say that Mike told El that they were communicating through Cerebro, or that they couldn’t talk through the phone because the government may had been spying on them because that doesn’t matter.

What matters is what we were shown in the screen, and we were shown is that… El never complained or even mentioned phone calls. Will did.

El never mentions any phone calls or struggling to communicate through the phone with Mike in the entire season. The whole ‘phone calls’ situation is a topic of conflict brought between Mike and Will; not El.

The series has Will verbally express his discontent with Mike’s lack of phone calls while El never even talks about it, so why would anyone relate ‘Mike won’t stop calling’ with El when she never raised a problem about it?

El later appears in the scene that shows the audience that Mike did try to call, but the series doesn’t focus this scene about Mike and El at all. It focuses on El and Max instead.

The series has the chance to relate Mike’s missed calls with El in this scene. Instead, they show two things:

Missed calls were never a source of conflict between Mike and El but is one between Mike and Will, thus confirming that Mike’s missed calls were meant for Will— not El.

El’s priority is saving Max and not her relationship with Mike, just like it will be in season 5.

[samcats]

What the hell is going on in bylertwt calm tf down

[idksjdhshdhd]

Remind me to come back to this confession when season 5 comes out and byler happens, okay? Okay.

[androgynouswizardbanana]

I need to be a hater for a moment bc how can you tweet something like this

while also being a mileven fan acct?

like they realize that Mike needs someone to make him feel self worth and that El is failing in that front but they still ship them together? Cognitive dissonance.

[gay-mike-wheeler]

i’m so glad i’m not on sttwt often bc what the fuck is going on there

[henrysglock]

HELP

[blingyu]

if you guys are coming from twitter and we’re moots on there (my @ is blingyu01) pls lmk your twitter at and i’ll be moots on here with u as well!!!

i’ll probably start using tumblr more since twitter wants to act crazy

[jancysmixtape]

The way people in the Twitter side of the fandom treat El is seriously angering me. Everyday, there’s a new ableist tweet about her. People want Mike to hate her so badly, all over their love for B*ler. They try so hard to “prove” Mike never loved her, and someone just said they are a trauma bond. The same person said El is just a pen pal for Mike and that he’s teaching her English.. why do people want El to be hated by the most important person in her life?? She has dealt with so much abuse in her life, and has so much trauma. She has never done anything wrong to deserve this much hate all for a mlm ship. I can’t handle it. Seriously, I can’t.

[skeletal-butterflyy]

Stranger things tumblr is so much better than sttwt, i love you guys 🫶

[bit-of-a-nerd]

TIPS FOR TWITTER REFUGEES

okay so tbh this is more aimed at STTWT and byler moots coming in from twitter, but here’s some tips (feel free to reblog to add more).

REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG

liking doesn’t boost posts on here, so rebloging is the way to go if you want to help boost a post. byler tumblr especially has a rebloging problem, which makes the tag very dry, so please boost stuff when you can.

2. INTERACT

kinda in the same vein as #1, but if you want to go even further to boost a post, reblog with additional tags, text, or even comment. it makes OP feel 10x more appreciated and is a cool way to keep spreading ideas.

those are honestly my main 2 as of now, there’s a lot more to say about differences in environments/culture of the app, and sub-space. but i’m honestly not the best person to address those so someone who can add on, please feel free to add on!

[paintingformike]

theres no way im seeing posts and paranoid asks about people unironically considering the leaks to be real like you guys cant actually be serious PLEASE EXERCISE CRITICAL THINKING