#i love byler so much

[lordystrange]

When Byler is finally canon after s5, I will not try to convert or prove wrong anyone whining about it being fan service. I will simply reply ”go cry about it” and then go cry about it myself but for very different reasons.

[iugens-byler-blog]

whether these leaks are legitimate or not, i feel like the duffers have left enough crumbs that some of these "leakers" may actually piece together scenes in s5 that quite frankly have been set up to happen.

and this is one of those things that i see and i immediately go "wait .... YEAH THAT MAKES ... COMPLETE SENSE" to see Will do something like this.

not only is it thematically congruent with what the duffers have done before with Will ( concealed displays of romantic affection ) but also, the witness scene reminds me of Mike's 'love' confession to El with the whole "i love you Lukas please wake up" thing, so since Byler parallels mileven so much who's to say that we won't see a parallel to the sbp 'confession' but as a subtle byler moment?

maybe Will whispers to mike 'i love you' and then kisses his forehead and ta-da! we get the 'true love's kiss that brings you back to life' trope ...

i wouldn't be surprised if this turns out legitimate (whether the leaker in and of themselves are, which i sincerely doubt but i think it might be an enthusiastic analyst!)

so yeah!!! i believe in this leak <3 and i hope we see it in our screens in 2025 or 2026, whenever it comes out

This would be everything and it would parallel Mike staying with Will at the hospital in s2 (this a leak so it's not 100% reliable but it's cute.. watch me be wrong and this actually happens) it would mean that they're already dating because there's no way Will would just kiss Mike's forehead if they're not dating yet, plus it would explain why Karen was at the hospital and why they needed an ambulance

edit: it would be another eyewitness parallel and we already have one(and the Duffers are fans of the series) and Lukas and Mike both have internalized homophobia (Lukas then breaks up with his gf and starts dating Philip,his male best friend). in eyewitness Lukas gets injured and his boyfriend stays with him and he kisses his forehead, Lukas' dad sees it (he's ok with it)

gifs here

[kidovna]

manifested mileven at the snowball in 2016, so now I’m manifesting byler at senior prom🪻🌻

[bylerpining]

years from now after byler has become canon milkvans will be waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night and hallucinate them sitting in the corner of their rooms like sleep paralysis demons

[radiobyers]

i’m never shutting up about this.

it’s the same fucking outfit 😭

[wiseheartted]

Will invented longings, love sighs, desperate love beats and heartfelt glances. He is the most lover-boy of the lovers-boys.

[hothammies]

"a fact so true, so loud, that he can’t believe he’d been able to hear anything else before now."  (fic by @campbyler)

[crxzytogether]

Listen im a mike defender through and through BUT MIKE WTF DUDE, go give your girlfriend a hug or reassurance or literally any comfort my goodness😭😭

[apocalyptic-byler]

i know we always talk about mike putting his ear against will’s chest to hear his heartbeat but we should also talk about lucas’ little “byers!!!”

HE’S SO EXCITED AND HAPPY TO SEE HIM HIS EXCITED LITTLE YELL OF “BYERS!!!” GETS ME EVERY SINGLE TIME 😭😭😭 THIS IS ONE OF THE CUTEST SCENES IN THE WHOLE SHOW SOMEONE SEDATE ME

[cleradinscloset]

STOP I LOVE THEM SO MUCH 😭

[gayofthefae]

You know how I know Mike is queer?

These are the same person. Mike is an inherently caring, loving, and protective person. It's what Will called out in 4x08 and reminded us of with Mike's desire and practice in attempt to be a "hero" and be able to help the ones he loves.

But when El tells him she feels unloved by him, he doesn't comfort her. At all. He defends himself. He doesn't even say "yes I do". He says "I say it". Even when he's arguing that he loves her, he is defending himself, not comforting her. If he was comforting her he would have reacted to her crying at all. He doesn't. He just becomes increasingly desperate and escalates the tactics that are making her cry more.

Because the accusation is that important to him. Not many things could be so important to him that he would deprioritize her or taking care and protecting and comforting those he loves. He even does quite well at it at the start of the scene. We have PROOF that he is pretty stable these days with any sort of accusation or invalidation with how well he takes "you don't understand" and simply asks questions without any sort of offense. So he CAN take it. He takes it IN THIS CONVERSATION.

But when she says he doesn't love him, he stops the "they just don't know you". He stops the "don't say that about yourself, you're lovable," which is what this is really about for her. If he had said that even if he couldn't say it himself, it might have still helped a little bit: frame it as his own fault if he can't. But he couldn't do that. Instead, he went with how it reflected on HIM that he couldn't say it and defended himself AGAINST her. FOUGHT her on it.

There are few things that can make him fight a person. And they've all actually been pretty similar. They're all El:

"You're prioritizing El over Will"

"There is something off about your relationship with El"

"You're prioritizing El over [Will]"

"He's right that your and [El's] relationship wasn't a good one"

"Your and El's relationship wasn't a good one"

"You're prioritizing El over [Will]"

"You don't love [El]"

He is comforting. He is kind. He prioritizes others' comfort and safety consistently. He takes other accusations fairly lightly and focuses back onto the person making them and their emotions. And yet, what does he say in those instances and only those instances?

"SHUT. UP."

"You lying piece of shit. You're crazy!"

"It's not my fault you don't like girls!"

"He's just some crazy old man"

"You're conspiring against me!"

"We're friends! We're friends!"

"You're being ridiculous. What is this?"

People who say his character has gotten worse are stating it under the idea that he is always like this. The entire discovery so many people, including myself, had that he's queer was because we noticed that his outbursts were consistent. People think he's random and angry because they think the situations are random: Lucas, Hopper, Will, Max, El. But they're forgetting to note what each of those people questioned about him right before.

The biggest proof is that he doesn't ever talk like this outside of these situations. It's lighthearted debates and empathetic conversations.

Mike Wheeler is a kind person. If he said "You're being ridiculous. What is this?" it is not just because he's scared of vulnerability or commitment.

[mikesbasementbeets]

Sometimes I think it's just scary to open up like that. To say how you really feel. Especially to people you care about the most. Because what if... what if they don't like the truth? // Sometimes people don’t really say what they’re really thinking. But, you capture the right moment… it says more. // I didn't say it. // You didn't have to.

[remake of my very first gifset one year later]

[demadogs]

When a typical virus attaches itself to its host, it duplicates, right? It spreads, essentially hijacking the host… What is so unusual here is that this virus, the infected hosts seem to be communicating.

Stranger Things season two (2017)

[imactuallyreallycool]

Animal AUs by @bujomoss and @retrovhsguy

[noihavenosanitythanksforasking]

HES JUST A BOY HES JUST A BOY HES JUST A BOY HES JUST A BOY

[lunabug2004]

I always feel kinda bad when reactors I watch cry to the monologue scene because they're being so misled!

Like, I can't watch the monologue without cringing in pain (Finn is so relatable), but I can't imagine listening to it/watching it and actually being moved by it!

^literally me and every other Byler out there^