#oh my gay heart

[sentient-forest]

#cecilsweep and Welcome to Night Vale trending #1 in 2023

[madspeed]

riku your pasta riku the sauce is burning riku the stove ri (sketches based on @candyriku's fic, you can read it here!!)

[7roaches]

aggie doodles with my brother @cloudy-dayys

[b0tster]

thinking about,, her,,,,

[onceandfuturelesbian]

is there like,,,, a psychological reason my favourite ships are men ????

merlin and arthur. nick and charlie. alex and henry. even geralt and jaskier.

like hello ???? i’m a lesbian ????

[cloverconsolass]

hi!! Love your ducktales art! Question: do you ship weblena?

Hmmm………maybe 🤗

[titfairy]

"I got sick of having the same old thing."

[bylrlve]

Warning! Spoilers for Stranger Things 5 mentioned,

Rewatching episode 2, and I’m genuinely staggered by how many times Mike peeks at Will. It’s very clear his mind is on Will, in fact. I am also staggered by just how many small byler details are in here.

His whole face drops after no. 4 too, as @starbylers observed here.

I also want to include these @chirpsythismorning gifs from the roller rink scene, as they’re brilliant:

Mike watching Will get out of the van, and seemingly offering a hand to him.

Mike openly watching Will as they take their skates.

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These are very deliberate acting choices from Finn Wolfhard, and he was certainly doing it on instruction.

Some other notes on 402:

The transition from Mike and El being fake -> Murray looking up looking like he’s experiencing his Seeing Clearly -> Robin talking about Vickie laughing ‘and not like a cheap, fake laugh, but a real, genuine laugh’, right after we saw Mike hiding his genuine disgust at burritos for breakfast behind a tone of fake laughter.

Mike’s whole face just drops into an unhappy, spaced-out espression when it zooms in on El - this is after Will ignored his sock joke (video here by @buckybxarnes)

As many have observed, Mike and El look genuinely miserable when viewed from Angela’s perspective, as opposed to the shot of them skating with Will miserable behind them

It’s occurred to me that in s2, 3, and 4, the byler plot really takes off in episode 2. I’m wondering if that’s also the case with s5 - I’ve reconsidered my theory that the Mike + El rooftop scene takes place after the hospital plot in ep 2, as I’ve heard that the paparazzi at the filming site were told it was in episode 1.

The door slam/open transition between Joyce going to the bank to get the 40k random for Hopper, utterly singleminded, and Mike barging into the womens’ bathroom, being kicked out, and subsequently starting an argy-bargy with Will as opposed to continuing to prioritise El… well!

The disparity in time is so interesting. El counts off 185 days since she last saw Mike - which is roughly six months, as is canon within the show (Sept-Oct 1985-March 1986). And here Mike is, saying ‘you knew she was having trouble for, like, a year’ and Will saying ‘it’s been a year, Mike’ and, in 404, Mike saying ‘the last year has been weird.’ It’s pretty obvious the last one is Mike referring to their fight nine months earlier, plus the time prior that Mike had spent pulling away from the rest of the Party to focus on El. The second one is Will potentially referencing the time that elapsed since their fight - even if it’s moreso subtext from the writers. What, then, to make of Mike saying Will knew El was having trouble for, like, a year? What subtext could be meant by this? I’d love to hear your guys’ thoughts because u can’t quite deduce this.

Mike listing off everything Will did is so hilarious given the surveillance he carried out all day on the boy, and given the fact that poor El being humiliated publicly and assaulted with liquid before she skated off bawling did not, apparently, ruin the day. On second thoughts, I understand what Will meant… she’s in trouble having Mike’s gay ass for a boyfriend.

What’s striking me now is that this fight + El’s iconic roller skate moment, are the real emotional climaxes of this episode’s M/E/W plot. It could have been Mike finding El and comforting her before she lashed out at Angela. It could have been him talking to her afterwards. It could have been at the house - him following her up to her room and silently comforting her until she fell asleep. No, no. Mike and Will airing out their grievances (and Mike betraying which of the two truly emotionally affects him more) + El handling her own shit, while Mike thoroughly disapproves.

The way that Will just wants to be Mike’s friend, but it’s Mike making it so deeply weird.

The way, also, that they stick together at the rink even after the fight, and Mike openly is more preoccupied by Will in the van. I’ve seen it observed before: the parallel between El and Will staring out the same window in the van crying: Mike looks at Will in the shot. He does not look at El in the shot.

I think it’s hilarious that Mike ends the fight by feigning concern for El - he offered her no comfort whatsoever, actively stood away from her when she was waiting for Jonathan and Argyle to arrive, ignored her crying in the van, and of course:

She didn’t look fine.

Mike and Will are blocked together, not Mike and El

The sincerity of Mike’s concern over El juxtaposed with the rank falseness of ‘no, that’s…that’s not true, maybe I was a little upset in the moment’ etc really sticks out - the defensiveness is reminiscent of the tone he took with Will during the fight, but even then he was more sincere-sounding because he was more emotionally affected.

Bylers don’t talk enough about the insanity of ‘who… who said that I didn’t?’ In context, thinking logically, Mike is very likely referring to Will here (the bullies were shouting at her, he could hear what they were saying)- and why would his mind immediately go to ‘Will thinks I don’t love El, and has told her his suspicions?’ Why would he take a defensive tone?

Seriously, 402-403 M/W/E may well be the plot that (potentially) spells out byler endgame the most.

[hyper-cryptic]

Redraw of a sketch from a sketch page I made a whiiiiile ago. :)

Bonus below!

my favorite thing is when certified aroacehog becomes the gayest animal in mobius when it comes to shade and only that guy

[laurrelise]

if i had a nickel for every time i saw a beautiful woman named delores who is not alive but was at one point married to a very old very grumpy man who deals with death a whole lot i would indeed have two nickels.

which, as per usual, is not a lot of nickels, but it is peculiar that it happened twice.

[yellowvixen]

Some edits :]

Credit is appreciated but feel free to use!!

[justaregularken]

Ok fine here, chaining your werewolf boyfriend up and teasing yourself in front of him, only to underestimate the strength of those chains and get fucked absolutely braindead all night long

[zarophod]

do you know what i find crazy? yeehan is more popular than reaper76.

like i adore them both but before i started reading ow fanfic i assumed reaper76 would have so many more fics, but yeehan has more. and the 4(?) most kudos’d reaper76 fics are all yeehan fics first. justice for the sad old angsty gays i say.

everyone send me ur fav reaper76 fics i am in dire need of some angst. with a happy ending maybe

[dubiousdisco]

I hope goncharov's success will give scorsese the push he needs to finally let Robert de Niro and Al Pacino kiss

[the-mad-prince-of-denmark]

Asteroid City, 2023, dir. Wes Anderson

[this-is-krikkit]

lmao i literally went "ugh if life was fair to queer people he would kiss him right now"

and in the next second guess what happened

GUYS

GUESS WHAT HAPPENED