#it’s about. byler fic

[wayward-sherlock]

can’t decide if these absurdly long sentences are run ons bc i suck at writing or if they are pure literature, liquid gold streaming from my consciousness through my fingers and onto my doc

[wooneygoblin]

favorite scene favorite scene favorite scene, I start shaking when it comes on

[kidovna]

anyone else go crazy reading the latest @campbyler chapter?

bonus:

[miwiromantics]

Hear me out but Mike getting vecna’d and El using her powers to get into his mind place and save him. She gets into his mind but isn’t able to find him anywhere until she hears soft crying. It’s Mike holding Will in his arms, blood dripping from the other boy’s eyes.

El can hear Mike whispering something to Will, something along the lines of ‘don’t leave me’ or ‘please come back’. He’s clutching onto Will’s hand and placing it towards his lips, fully sobbing now.

El places a hand on Mike’s shoulder and he quickly turns around. ‘Mike, it’s not real’ she whispers but Mike is inconsolable. He breaks down holding El’s arm, repeatedly choking out ‘it’s my fault, it’s all my fault’. She pulls his arm hurriedly and tells him ‘let’s go, it’s not safe hear’

But before she could insist further, a voice booms ‘why do you love someone who doesn’t love you back, Eleven?’ And El is transfixed while Mike holds Will’s body closer to his chest. ‘Why do you waste your time trying to save him?’

In the background the beginning of ‘small town boy’ plays as El can hear the real Will’s voice talk to her, saying ‘quick El please, find him’ and she can hear the desperation in his voice. She stops to look back at Mike, who was still on the floor, cradling fake Will’s body. And she understands.

She understands everything.

Just think about it.

[romainlettusdinnerparty]

HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO BIRTHDAY GATE CODED

[astrobei]

he’s very tired after his surprise party btw

[fandom-rants-here]

Byler and Milkvan fans are so fucking different and it's in a way that pisses me off.

I'm not even going to touch on how Milkvan's have no media literacy and whatnot- we know. But I will talk about how they fucking hate Mike for some reason.

In "love triangles" (it's never a love triangle but instead a love point but y'all don't wanna hear that" you are SUPPOSED to love the person in the middle and be rooting for either of the other love interests, right?

Bylers do this. They love all the characters but the want to see Mike and Will in a romantic relationship.

Milkvans do not do this. They hate Mike. I have never seen a person who ships Mike and El actually like Mike as a character. They hate him so much. But they hate the idea of him being gay more, that is why they ship him with El.

I know nothing about Twilight, but let's use that love triangle at an example. People either want Jacob or Edward with her, and their reasons (from what little I've seen) always involve her chemistry with either boy.

Bylers do this. They focus on how Mike is queer coded and his already standing relationship with Will. Just look at The Byler Slides, it's mostly about Mike.

Milkvans do not do this. The only reasons I've ever fucking seen are about how "Mike isn't gay" and "they're canon". That's it. Never about now they work together(cause they don't), fucking nothing.

If you hate one of the characters in your own "totally canon and endgame" ship and can't even give proper defense to it, pick a new ship cause yours is not fucking happening and you need to stop saying it is.

[nymphus-fan-account]

I need Will's trauma after the Upside Down to be recalled in season 5.

Imagine s5 Will Byers with a gun acting cool and confident whenever he faces any kind of danger in Hawkins but freezing up when he's in the same situation except it's the Upside down. Like there's a demogorgon casually towering over him or he gets tangled in demo-roots and it's enough to pull the trigger cause now the air smells like his long-buried memories and cause it's darker and colder and he's not home. And all of a sudden everything starts to feel weirdly familiar - he's 11 yo all over again shaking and tearing up and hyperventilating. He points a loaded gun or holds a knife but can't do anything. He goes deer mode and just watches until Mike intervenes.

[willow-lark]

WAIT i just rediscovered this byler soulmate au in my drive that i haven’t looked at since 2019 and never posted. it is 40k should i post it

[palettehao]

When you sense a dark energy from your neighbor, so to keep an eye on him you befriend him and Lowkey (highkey actually) take him on several dates

[phoebebuggers]

modern party high school/college headcanons that will maybe kind of end up in my text au if i ever go back to it

mike is a tote bag user and a letterboxd fanatic!! he listens to alternative rock especially weezer but he's not a music elitist he likes pop and stuff too. he still plays dnd and i feel like he probably reads like classic fantasy book bro books u know (brandon sanderson, GOT, LOTR, prolly also like steven king and stuff which the rest of the party also like.) cat person. he is such a film bro it's obnoxious and he has to shove his letterboxd account down your throat every 5 minutes after meeting you. says he's bitter and evil but would do anything for his friends (canon.) video essay watcher. dirty-ass pair of falling apart converse at the end of their life begging for mercy that he refuses to replace. ADHD diagnosis.

will loves thrifting and coffee shops and museums but not in a performative pinteresty way he just genuinely likes these things. had an art hoe aesthetic phase around 2020 and will never live it down. subverting all gay stereotypes by not knowing anything about gay/stan twitter and being happier for it. kind of a music elitist ('can i see your spotify wrapped??') but not as much as jonathan who he learned from. still loves the smiths, the cure, etc but i think he would also be into modern indie nowadays. i feel like he would have a huge chapsticks/lip balm collection bc his lips are chapped all the time and it's just like a running joke atp. major art kid draws all the time we been knew listens to podcasts while he does art. goes to therapy

lucas is still kind of a jock but i'm kinda anti jock lucas because he will never truly fit in with them he will always be a nerd first!!!! still plays basketball tho and runs cross country (all men who run cross country are a little bit unhinged and free.) wears a hairtie on his wrist in case max needs one. kind of matches will's evil music complex from the other side with objectively good music def likes tyler, brent, frank, SZA (max likes the same their music taste kind of bled into each others.) very good social media presence like color coded feed, highlights, pinterest worthy pics etc (digital camera user.) likes to cook. chronic notes app list user. wanted to be a youtuber as a kid. type of guy to say "um, guys, that was awkward!" etc etc and everyone clocks him for it

dustin is a reddit user but not in a weird incel way in a genuinely helpful and knowledgable way. he also wanted to be a youtuber because he fucking loved matpat as a kid. he also would love the green brothers. a sneakerhead. keeps his keys on a carabiner (max tells him he looks like a lesbian.) also very up to date on pop culture like max is, probably quotes that one baron trump suitcase video daily among other things. does a few very good very niche impressions. i feel like everyone in the party is a good student but dustin is definitely the best a genuis future engineer or smth. he's the friend who always has those party games but can't read a cards against humanity card without laughing (max has to read for him)

el knows it's trash but loves reality TV (real housewives) and also glee. probably volunteers a lot. she was probably like the most boy-crazy fictional man/celebrity obsessed tween but ended up being bisexual/questioning lesbian. chronic story liker and responder so everyone thinks she's in love with them but she's actually just really nice and maybe doesn't 100% understand the social cue. she was also in theater because i want her to be her own genre of nerd maybe not in big roles because i don't see her as someone who loves being the center of attention but in ensemble. type of person to make goals like "try a new type of apple every week for a year".

max is up to date on tiktok/internet memes and kind of speaks fluent reference. probably watches real housewives and dance moms with el (will will join in occasionally for glee.) she also thrifts a lot of her clothes and has very cool style in kind of an idgaf what anyone else thinks way. huge flannel collection. does stage crew. i know she skateboards in canon and she still would but i feel like she would also do roller-derby or like speed skating or something. similar music taste to lucas but also a swiftie from a young age. had a panic at the disco phase and did crazy 2020 eyeliner (it's not a phase, mom) and will never live it down. keeps a journal. goes to therapy

bonus:

mike and max never shut the fuck up during class and always have to whisper something objectively hilarious to each other/one of their friends while the teacher is talking

will el and max have a book club where at least someone lies about having read the book every month and they spend the whole meeting gossiping and eating snacks

will forced them all to get airbuds and airbuds reacts mike listening to mcr with mildly disappointed faces and cat emojis

mike and dustin had a phase where they were really into like conspiracy theories and UFOs and cryptids and stuff

lucas bought a stanley cup with no shame because 'it's so functional'

el is an ex-larry

[hellinhawkins]

hot take but I don’t think that lucas or dustin (or anyone, for that matter, other than maybe robin) are going to see what’s going on between mike and will until it happens. they don’t suspect ANYTHING. when they actually get together everyone’s going to be shocked

[campbyler]

i know you guys have a few companion fics planned, and i read through the faq/answered questions and i may be stupid but i couldn’t find anything asking if you specifically have a companion fic planned about the music festival the party went to in chicago (between chapters 1&2 i believe), when mike and will got stuck carpooling together? i’m just curious if that’s something you’re planning on going into further detail about ☺️

i’m so excited for 10.2!!

we either haven’t been asked this before or haven’t been asked it in a Long While so it’s definitely not in our FAQs, don’t worry! we unfortunately don’t have a companion fic planned for this, we just thought having the party go to the eras tour together would be a silly little piece of lore to develop and write in given the premise of the fic and all. the gist of it is that max and el (resident swifties) + lucas (token boyfriend) would have planned to go anyway since the timing of it being during orientation week/weekend ended up working out, and i don’t think it would’ve been very hard to convince the others to go via promises of lower priced tickets and good ol’ fashioned friendship time. the companion fics we have planned are more so to expand on some turning points or important moments in the timeline, because the idea is that the fic should make sense without reading them, but reading them would provide a lot more context and hopefully flesh out our versions of mike and will and their motivations/intentions a lot more. i don’t think that really applies to this piece of lore, but as per ujhe we would be happy to talk about it on here whenever teehee

[kidovna]

Favourite fandom trope of the day: wisdom teeth removal

[miwiheroes]

why is my taste in byler fics so specific compared to other fics i read of other ships? LMAOOO

Me with other ships fics: eh as long as its not a highschool au i'm fine with that, i like long fics and short fics, omg enemies to lovers trope! now they're teachers? cool. now they never knew each other? nice! non-canon compliant? fine :)

Me with byler fics: SO UR TELLING ME THAT THIS IS SET IN 2024 ARE YOU KIDDING???? THEY AREN'T CHILDHOOD BEST FRIENDS??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS FIC IS NOT BETWEEN 5,000 - 30,000 WORDS??? THE UPSIDE DOWN NEVER EXISTED??? STFUUUUUU get your non-canon universe away from me and give me ALL the post-season 5/post-seaseon 4 fics RIGHT NOW. WITH ANGST AND NOT WITHOUT AT LEAST ONE OF THEM SHEDDING A TEAR.

[chirpsythismorning]

Me when I’m reading a fic that’s a little too OOC for my taste, but the writing is superb and the angst is top notch…