#girlboss will byers

[friendsdontlieokay]

It made me think of you

[starry-eyed-steve]

I don't like how the Jancy fight got resolved here. Basically, Jonathan said it was okay for Nancy to be an ass to him about his financial situation because she was ultimately right. His problems got never addressed by the narrative because, yes, Nancy was right about the story, but Jonathan wasn't in the wrong either to call her out on her privileges. Unfortunately, Karen's pep talk prior to that did nothing but reinforce Nancy's behavior because ultimately Karen told her to keep going no matter who you hurt. Nancy didn't get a chance to grow because the show treats her as someone who can't do wrong. She still doesn't understand Jonathan and his struggles, and the show doesn't care either for this.

Neither of them really apologized. Nancy said she didn't mean it but couldn't say sorry, and Jonathan abolved her from it because in his mind, he deserved it. And definitely, the icing on the cake was Nancy's comment about him "better not doubting her ever again," destroying the small apology she gave. Again, showcasing she didn't learn or grew from this fight/situation.

[memes-saved-me]

Something something Billy resorts to violence and reacts positively in violent situations because he can predict how it'll feel and how it'll go

[hazmatazz]

YOU want to vote will byers in the wizard contest.

look at him. he just wants to make it a few rounds in. he's so nervous and scared, c'mon

don't look at him to closely, i'm tired

[jonathanbyersphd]

Don't cry Don't raise your eye It's only teenage wasteland

[straight4joekeery]

It’s really hard to fit writing a fic into my schedule when I have to read other peoples fics 20 hours a day 😔

[byler-prompts]

Byler Cinderella!AU, except Mike wants nothing to do with the ball, so he purposefully gets in trouble to stay home, (his parents also punish him by telling him to do the chores), and Will is the Prince who (temporarily) runs away from his own ball, not wanting to “marry a nice woman and settle down”, as Hopper put it. (No one in his family knows he’s gay… yet)

Will successfully escapes from the Kingdom, making sure to leave behind no trace of where he was going. And why should he? He’ll just be back later anyways. Now, Will has never really been in the eye of the public, not being as extroverted as his adopted sister Jane, (they called each twins though), and not having to be out there like his reluctant older brother.

He sits there for a while, before the other wakes up, and then begins the interrogation, starting with, “Are you hurt anywhere?” Will is at first flabbergasted. He doesn’t know where he is, where wouldn’t he be? He shifts uncomfortably, before shaking his head. “Are you mute?”, comes the next question, and Will just gawks. After a few more weird questions, Mike finally asks the other for his name, and what he was doing passed out in front of his home. “My name is Will, and as for your other question,” he makes up an excuse for it, not wanting to know he’s a prince. After all, it might be a freeing feeling. They actually hit it off after that, and although Will does offer to help with the chores, he’s completely useless in that area - all off the servants normally do all the work, the only thing he really excels at is painting and drawing. So Mike just eventually tells the other (after many mistakes), to sit down and he’ll take care of it himself.

They get to know each other a bit more, and they find out each other’s hobbies, and interests, and dislikes. Mike tells him about his in royalty, Wills says they are not bad, “pushy sometimes, but not bad.” Mike just shrugs at the comment and moves onto something else. “Hey. Do you think you can show me one of your paintings sometime?” Will nods ecstatically. He was glad to have recognition for his hobbies and not his status for once. Poor Buff Byers. :(

Will then looks at the grandfather clock, it was way past midnight - the ball has ended. He turns back to Mike and smiles. “Well, I better go. My family will be worried, and they are a bit overprotective of me.” Mike snorts, “Why did you sneak out if you knew your family would be worried?” Will’s smile widens. “I already told you, I wanted some space from home.” Then, after a beat, he says, “hey, do you think I come over tomorrow?” And thus becomes the start of a beautiful romance.

Also, Jancy happens at the ball because I say so, and they are so adorable together, just like Lumax, Rockie/Vibin and Duzie. TwT

Plus, another plot device! :0

It’s not like Will and Mike could get publicly married anyways, but Mike would definitely be freaking out about it for no reason. (Mike also checks out Will’s muscles on the second visit, lmao)

Another throw away prompt, I’m getting good with these spontaneous ideas.

Anyways, use this as you wish, and again, I’ll be stalking AO3, waiting! UwU

[mimi-saurio]

I was re-watching 13 going on 30 and I need to know if someone already made an AU with Jancy because is literally their characters with no Upside Down. If you have the information, don't keep it to yourself, please shareeee 😩

[flowers-that-sing]

jonathan byers i love you

[lynx-224]

instead of wip wednesday, chapter 2 of i love you (i meant it) is up! (this is still the last Christmas fic I've been bitching about)

this fic is based on last christmas but also an abundance of taylor swift songs bc anything byler is also abt taylor swift tbh so pls enjoy !

[mazojo]

Joyce’s plots in a nutshell

winona ryder's character in stranger things has never been wrong even once and every time the fucking gravity turns off or whatever she says "hey thats weird right" and everyone in a 10 mile radius is like "woah category five woman moment incoming"

[queerlikeyou]

joyce byers appreciation post because she is the only girlboss ever and just look how cute she is

[henrysglock]

anyway. i can’t wait to watch Will be the worst version of himself in st5. because we all know what he’s like when he’s stressed/upset. “i am a freak” “stupid girl” [takes a bat to castle byers] “what friends?” “we have to kill him”

can’t wait to see Will be an absolute cunt and NOT in the fun, sassy, girlboss way.

[rigginsstreet]

honestly narratively the fight at the byers is so boring like

the only reason billy isnt clued in to anything is because they needed the kids to be able to steal his car and get to the tunnels. the only reason he beats steve as bad as he does is to get theyre little hee hee ha ha moment of max driving. also so they can do their little max girlboss moment “putting down” her brother who like... isnt even that bad to begin with. its a power fantasy. and im not buying into it

you can also argue this is all to keep billy in the dark for his eventual possession in season 3

you know whats more fun? having billy beat steve ass but in the process finding out about the monster in the fridge, driving everyone down to the tunnels, have billy and steve almost get caught in the stampede and have an “oh shit we almost died together” moment. have billy lifting max out to her safety. end the season with billy having a half truce with everyone. this all still works with him getting possessed in season 3 NOT TO MENTION IT PACKS MORE OF AN EMOTIONAL PUNCH WHEN PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY STARTING TO CARE ABOUT HIM

these writers are so lazy. making a teenage abuse victim your ~big bad~. go to therapy you weirdos

[urlocalbylershipper]

ICB 😭😵

when jonathan says “you know what? you are a freak” and will snaps out of his self-pity long enough to stare at jonathan like he has all the audacity in the world 😭😭😭

[riveatstoes]

the idea of finn wolfhard’s roles being somehow related has been beaten to death already but i do enjoy the concept of richie tozier and mike wheeler being twins separated when they were young, and then being forced to endure their own interdimensional horrors with their groups of Loser Buddies.

i also like the idea of how they’d react to each other’s aforementioned interdimensional horrors. personally i think if richie had to deal with anything remotely upside-down related he’d Flip The Fuck Out and just scream a lot. if he came face to face with a demogorgon he’d try to hit it with a baseball bat or a stick or something, and then max or lucas (or maybe even el) would have to go out of their way to save him from his own dipshit decisions.

alternatively i believe that pennywise would be a cakewalk for mike and the party. mike would simply hit it with the “it’s not my fault you don’t like girls 🙄” and it’d be so confused it would have no choice but to back off. i also am a firm believer that if the losers club had max with them they would’ve fully defeated pennywise in the first movie. she would’ve figured out the “make it small” shit SO FAST.

at her core max mayfield is a Thirteen Year Old Girl and i applaud her for it. i love her.

anyway i’m working on my own twins!richie and mike fanfic so we’ll see how that goes. i don’t want to post it before i have something super solid because i have a tendency to abandon fics if they don’t interest me enough the entire time. we’ll see.

bonus—some stranger things/IT pairings that i want to see more of in crossover fics:

STANLEY AND WILL!!!!!!!!! trust me

bev and el

dustin and richie

if you’re gonna do the bev/max thing i also strongly suggest doing lucas/ben as well because what’s the point of writing the ginger girlbosses without their Stupid Goofy Men?

bill and mike w

idk i just feel like eddie k would just hate eddie munson. crossover where the losers club have to climb through that portal in the munsons’ trailer and eddie k refuses purely because of the state of eddie m’s mattress

i get the feeling that stanley would be the one constantly being stuck with steve and robin and forced into ridiculous tasks. imagine the stranger things 3 russian elevator scene but instead of dustin trying to set up robin and steve it’s just stan uris panic-reciting bird species

stan’s first thought would be “oh she has a bird name :) nice” and then the rest is “what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck”

honestly any pairing other than reddie/byler because even though i love those boys to death it’s just so OBVIOUS atp

and also i can appreciate that they’d relate to each other but mike hanlon and lucas is far from the best mike h pairing. for example imagine him being stuck with (throws dart at board of ST character names) murray

erica sinclair and eddie kaspbrak world domination

adding onto the richie/mike twin thing the idea of nancy having to adjust to +1 brother is both funny and interesting to me. i think she’d lose it one way or another

jonathan byers and bill denbrough guilty older brothers bond

also imagine hopper reacting to a Second Mike being in his general vicinity. i think that would force him off the edge, ESPECIALLY after getting to know richie