#willel blocking

[gayofthefae]

Thinking about how it's only love triangle blocking here

And you know what? I'm gonna argue that's not even what this is as I look at it. No, I'm gonna SAY it. Because if it was about Will's biased narration the consistent blocking throughout the day wouldn't be Will between Mike and El.

It's only even close to looking like Mike is between the two of them symbolizing his emotional state EVER because of this shot, and that's not even what it means.

I looked at it for two seconds longer and realized that this shot is about the fact that Mike as a topic is currently separating Will and El. Will and El's relationship is what this blocking is about, not Mike's relationship with them.

I mean, that's literally what this shot does. They're talking and he slides in between them, silencing them. He interrupts them. The important pairing in this scene is Will and El.

Yeah. So we never get love triangle blocking (except that weird straightbait poster that made it look like El was choosing between her boyfriend and her brother in like a Japan convention or something). Not once. This is sibling fighting blocking and it's the closest thing we ever get: a scene that focuses on Mike being nothing more than an interruption with nothing of pertinence to say then zooms in away from him. Oh, woe is him, he's so torn between this decision he hasn't made.

Edit: the do, actually, in the car home and the hospital. Both times, Mike looks over at El and not Will, and they only happen when he has two simultaneous issues with them - romance aside - or after he's re-trapped himself with El.

So still. Either torn between them platonically or instead of "I'm torn" it's "I have to be standing over here but I wish I was standing closer to you, I'm sorry". Got it...

[gayofthefae]

Or even have her on the other side love triangle blocking! But nope it's Byler and Willel, baby. Also I love how much the blocking is like "but if we put Mike next to both Will AND El, how are Will and El gonna thumb wrestle? Or hold haaaaandsssss."

it would've been...so easy...so....easy...to put el next to mike. but no...will is between them

[chirpsythismorning]

The Hellflire Club Foreshadows Mike's Monologue (and More Than You Think...)

Several fans have noticed already that there are direct parallels between Mike's monologue in The Piggyback, with Eddie's monologue in The Hellfire Club.

While we've been grappling with all sorts of supernatural creatures over the course of Stranger Things' entire run, here Eddie is warning us about forced conformity and how that is the real monster.

This has also led fans to joke painfully about the fact that Max 'died' because forced conforming; that's what's killing the kids, aka Mike's whole speech to El wouldn't have happened the way it did in the first place, had him, Will and El not been trying so hard to be who they think they're supposed to be, instead of who they truly want to be.

However, what I want to add to this discourse, because I haven't seen anyone else acknowledge it (correct me if i'm wrong!?), is that this scene at lunch has two extras with whom Mike sits between, which are very likely meant to represent Will and El.

We've seen a lot of (love) triangle blocking used with these three before, often with Mike between the two. This screen-cap below has gotta be one of the most iconic and so I feel the need to mention it briefly:

What also makes this shot relevant as an example for this post, is the costume choice for Will and El here: the same shade of dark blue (hints of gray), and the fact that this doesn’t align with the colors/style they usually wear as individual characters. However, this was presumably one of the few times Will and El have genuinely interacted beyond supernatural happenings. And so now, with both of them standing on either side of Mike, after two seasons of him having only one of them beside him, and while the other was out of reach, what we're seeing is that these two are more or less two sides of the same coin. Whether Will and El are actually blood related (I'm like 75% sure they could be) remains to be seen. However Mike's bond between both of them individually is causing him to sort of be at war with himself (and his identity).

Now bear with me, because I know so many of you see theories/analysis involving set design/blocking/costumes and you just instantly check out and stop taking it seriously. But I can assure you, this is the real deal.

What follows, is so outrageously easy to overlook. And yet upon thinking about what it actually requires to film a scene, especially a scene like this with dozens of background extras, along with how this scene actually turned out, I'm going to explain why there are several factors which make me feel fairly confident about what these two specific extras represent.

To start things off, we know how this scene begins, with Eddie dramatically reading a Newsweek magazine:

"The Devil has come to America. Dungeons and Dragons, at first regarded as a harmless game of make-believe, now has both parents and psychologists concerned. Studies have linked violent behavior to the game, saying it promotes satanic worship, ritual sacrifice, sodomy, suicide, and even... Murder."

After they give us a short introduction to some of the faces of the Hellfire Club (notably Eddie), they cut to this point of view shot from Mike:

Here we are instantly introduced to the two extras that are going to dominate a majority of this scene outside of the main characters themselves, aka Willel...

note: interesting they don't include Mike in the shot for that specific sound bite below... almost as if he considers himself a freak for a different reason...

Yes, on the surface this scene is establishing that Mike and Dustin are finding a place in High School, as the freaks and geeks, but a place nonetheless.

Though, is that really all there is to it?

You'll see what I mean.

note: there's no meaning behind the circles touching here. i just wanted to acknowledge here that the El extra is visible at first, only for her to become hidden the moment that the Will extra becomes visible.

Now, this shot right here below is kind of iconic, because it's what made me realize that this girl extra here in the scarf represents El.

To provide a little more context, the Will extra next to Mike has already been picked up on by a decent amount of fans. I've even posted about it at least once. This guy definitely resembles Will at certain angles, to the point where he could arguably be a stand in/stunt double for scenes that don't require a close-up of him.

Also keeping in mind, this is a scene of the party in high school, in a D&D club. Assuming Will could have stayed in Hawkins and went to high school with the party, he would've more than likely been right here beside them. So that's what I initially got out of this scene and still partially do get out of it, regardless of these other observations I'm discussing here.

What's so fascinating about the Will extra though specifically, is that they avoid showing his face as much as possible, which is a unique choice that we're just not seeing be applied to the other extras in the frame. They even let us see the face of the guy across from the Will extra (blue/yellow striped shirt guy) multiple times, but apparently they really wanted to avoid showing this guys face (there are a few notable, but fleeting side profiles from an outside POV), almost to keep up this guise that we could imagine this is Will and hell, it could be him, bc it's pretty damn close.

However, upon recently rewatching this scene, I remember looking for other points when this Will extra might have been prominent, to see if I could find anything else.

And that's when I realized this girl in the scarf, directly blocks the Will extra at the most convenient time.

And that's when it hit me...

FORCED CONFORMING!!!!!!!

The following images below is when it really starts to get obvious that there was an intended direction going on here with the blocking of these two extras, in accordance with Mike's placement in the frame.

What sealed the deal for me, was noticing how the other extras surrounding them (excluding Willel), do not seem to be granted much importance in the continuity of this scene.

Continuity between shots is pretty essential to filmmaking. It's gotta be the main thing about film that just bugs me, which is that you can tell very visibly when a shot is followed by another shot, but from a separate take (has the capacity to ruin the illusion that this is real and not all fabricated).

For example, what I gather from the beginning of this following conversation, is that there were at the very least 2-3 takes done for these reaction shots of Dustin and Mike, and it's because the extras in the background give it away. Sometimes they're in the frame, sometimes they're not.

The Will and El extras provide a contrast to all the other extras, in that the continuity for their blocking in the frame is fairly spot on each time, equal to the standards of the main cast arguably. Meaning they had a mark and they had to stick with it.

Check this out:

side note: star wars reference (luke & leia??)

The most obvious thing that gives away the importance of these two extras, besides the blocking, is them both sporting an almost identical color in their costume. While the Will extra wears a maroon shirt, the El extra wears a scarf in that same color.

This is so simple yet sort of genius, because again, from what I understand, no one has noticed this, and so it's pretty epic once you finally do pick up on it.

The Will extra is almost always in the frame on Mike's right? The El extra is facing the the opposite direction as them (not on the same page), and wearing a scarf, which is there to represent the tentacle choking her during Mike's monologue...

This theory does take a turn for the hilarious, when at a later point Eddie starts monologuing again, while Dustin and Mike look at him fondly (w/ Mike in focus), the Willel extras are now nowhere to be found...

I think this choice was made to indicate that Mike's attraction to Eddie is based on the most basic type of attraction, while what he shares for Will and El is so much more complicated (and deep). When you're just experiencing everyday attraction, you're not thinking about your significant other or your hearts desire in that moment, because this moment is just a blip encounter that isn't going anywhere, it's attraction and that's all there is to it. Whereas what he feels truly for Will is true love, while what he feels truly for El is familial love. This tiny moment isn't about his conflict over his romantic feelings, it's about the fact that Mike is attracted to men.

And then what follows directly after this, is that little snippet of Eddie's monologue, which echoes Mike's monologue to El at the end of the season...

Oh and look who it is?! The El extra has made a reappearance, just in time!

This is one of the few times they made a point to have the El extra in the frame while the Will extra wasn't, which I also think is intentional because it could be a hint to how Mike's speech about falling in love with El the moment he saw her is a fabrication (copyright to be exact), and it also doesn't resemble the love that Mike has for Will, hence why he was almost entirely left out of those shots. (Also similar to Mike's monologue at the end of the season, where Will was in certain shots but not others, because the words did/didn't match Mike's feelings for Will at those points).

Lastly, we get a Gap (gay and proud) reference for Mike. And low and behold, the Will extra is making a reappearance, just in time!

I think what makes this scene easier to understand on a basic level, without making it too complicated for yourself, is comparing the implications that come with it, to the implications that came with Mike's monologue.

The choice to put Will in most of the shots, directly behind Mike as he professes his love to El, who is lying before him unable to look in his eyes or even respond, leads those truly paying attention, to the conclusion that this is not how you shoot a satisfying love confession. Therefore it can't be a genuine love confession.

Instead what this scene more so depicts is a character having a confession practically wrenched out of him. And because of all the other details happening over the course of this season and just the series overall, we can gather that Mike feels pressured to go through with this because he thinks he has no other choice.

They didn't beat the big bad this time, instead they lost. Because forced conforming, that's the real monster.

With only one season left, they're going to have to face the truth if they want to make it out alive this time (and happy!).

[byclairs]

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[taeiris]

do you guys ever think abt how in st4 they introduced the concept of nina and blocked out memories to protect someone from trauma… and now we know they’re filming unseen scenes from will in the UD… wouldn’t it be RLLY cool if el brought nina up, and idk?? like?? meditated with will to access his memories in search of the key to defeat vecna? maybe from something that happened in the UD that he blocked out? would high-key be a bomb ass scene and so cool for some willel bonding🤞

[weirdo09]

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nimona (updated)

deadend (updated)

the school for good and evil (updated)

atsv (updated) <- that one’s THE main

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byclair

bywheelclair

wheelclair

lumax

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ronance

elmax

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henclair

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rio morales x me (😝)

punkflower

goldenflower

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goldenpunk

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gwiles

jess x miguel (eh i’m fine w romantic but they have such bi4bi hostility)

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madwheeler [given]

willel

willelmike

elmike [yk just acquaintances]

madcleric

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[phinamina]

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[willel]

You can ship whatever you want and that's all well and good, but please use the correct tags.

WillEl is specifically a PLATONIC name. I was there when the name came to fruition. We who didn't romantically ship Will and El came up with the name "WillEl" to separate ourselves from "Wileven" shippers.

That made it infinitely easier to find regular old platonic WillEl content and people respected that.

WillEl shouldn't be used for romantic shipping please. Use the appropriate moniker, "Wileven". I would like to be able to avoid that content. And if I can't, I will start just... blocking people because I DON'T want to see that.

The internet is all about curating your own experiences and if people can't be respectful and put things where they belong, then I will take drastic blocking like measures.

[gayofthefae]

This scene is iconic for the background reactions partially also because of the lack thereof like they are all just so tired atp and they've been on the road forever so when Argyle just says she has superpowers Will looks at Argyle for a second and El looks at Jonathan like "can he say that?" but then they both just kinda...go back to normal and stand there bc they don't care enough right now and that's hilarious and iconic.

They're mildly concerned at best but mostly probably just want to go to sleep. I mean, she just blew up a helicopter with her mind and he is very dehydrated from a combination of desert heat and crying, and they give the energy of it. Iconic.

[spicybylerpolls]

Did Mike get hard when he saw WIll in the airport scene?

Yes, he was fully bricked up and that's why he was so sweaty and nervous and reluctant to hug Willel

Maybe a half chub

No, he wasn't turned on at all

No, but he was in another scene (say which!)

Mike has never had an erection in his entire life

Please note that the purpose of this blog is not to be creepy or to make anyone uncomfortable. That's why I created the #spicy byler tag (I will tag all polls with this). If you don't want to see this blog or anything related to it on your feed, please block that tag. Not everyone is comfortable with this sorta stuff, and that's okay.

[chirpsythismorning]

The last shot featuring 012 in 4x01 perfectly transitions into the first shot featuring Will in the following scene 😭

[mayahawkeswife]

writers block begone. here’s proof i’m alive and writing again + sneak peak of quality willel content coming your way 🔥🔥🔥

[cannibalismyuri]

def the writer mutual and wholesome willel/elmax supporter mutual!! A lot of the elmax art ending on my dash comes directly from your rbs and itʻs always a nice highlight to my tumblr experience! ALSO the mutual with excellent font taste for your fic excerpts?? I donʻt know much about typefaces but the one you pick is always so good to read AND to stare at!!

WRITER MUTUAL ?@@?!!?;:;@?? ok. normal abt that . and ohmygod so True. elmax are my loves 🫶 the girlies 🫶 and like thats so. light of ur tumblr experience??? im jumping off a cliff ok thanks thats the sweetest thing Ever . 😭😭💓💓

OHMYGOD YES !!!! um ok so thats actually the font that taylor used for the writing on the folklore album cover? and it makes my writers block disappear ! and it also looks heavenly so. thank u so much for the praise 💖💖 the font is called IM Fell Dw Pica on Google Docs and i use size 13 if u wanted to know <33

[rotisseries]

The end of the year is near! Give a shoutout to your favorite blogs and tag them to spread positivity before the year ends!

yay!!! right before the new year!! ok lemme put this under a readmore aldjdsslf here's all my favorite blogs (mutuals lmao) in no particular order

@bittersweet-taffy! jayme you are a ride or die mutual!! we were each other's top blogs for a REASON!! you are a delight on the dash, I love your fics, and I love that we can always dm each other posts we don't like and be haters together<333 that is maybe a weird thing to be loving about but I do not care my life would be SOO much worse if I made a tumblr post everytime something pissed me off I love bitching to you!!! and you are so nice and sweet to me the duality of man honestly!! and you made me a riotgrrl essentials playlist!!! one of the best new friends I've made this year I would lavender marry you honestly, hope you have a great new year!<333333

@milf-harrington hii theo!! you are so cool!! I love all your artwork!! and you are so chill which is great bc when we first became mutuals you were a little intimidating akdjfhdjs. you are the best mutual to talk about a steddie ghost au with and I love the writing snippets you've shown me! I also still love that my meme is on your wall akdjdjjssk! and I'm still not as familiar with the nobodies hero characters and lore as I am with tbos but I love them so much!!! they are great!!! you are also so funny and nice and I just love seeing you on the dash! I hope your 2023 is amazing<33333

@hella1975 HI HELLA. LOVE YOU AND YOUR MONSTER OF A FIC!! I ALSO LOVE [redacted bc I'm tagging the main and not the side blog but you know what characters and world I love so so so so so so much]!! your writing is so awesome but if we're being honest I did not follow you for that I actually followed you bc you are hilarious in your author's notes you are SO funny and you have such a vibrant personality you are so much fun to talk to which is great for the intimidation factor you initially had of "oh my god I'm talking to a cool fanfiction author" I'm still so amazed we are mutuals but it's proof that being annoying in the inbox will get you somewhere! also I love your taste in music admittedly I do not actually listen to the recommendations very often bc I take forever to listen to new music but when I do it rocks my world I will never be the same again after you introduced me to ethel cain! love you hope your 2023 is great!<33333333

@gloomybirdie GLOOMY. YOU ARE THE EPITOME OF "LETTING THE MUTUALS GET AWAY WITH THINGS YOU'D INSTA BLOCK ANYONE ELSE FOR". YES THIS IS ABOUT THE ICED MILK. BUT IGNORING THE ICED MILK I LOVE YOU AAND YOUR ART YOU'RE ALSO SO FUNNY I HAVE LOTS OF HILARIOUS MUTUALS AND YOUR ART IS SO NICE TO LOOK AT I AM STILL OBSESSED WITH THE GARFIELD PFPS YOU DREW BTW!! ALSO LOVE THAT I HAVE AT LEAST ONE MUTUAL WHO CARES ABOUT MY LOZ POSTING! I HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD NEW YEAR<33333333

@andiwriteordie hi andi!!! you are my sweetest mutual, you said such nice things about me on your post!! everyone else on this list is a little bitch (affectionate) to me sometimes but you're always sincerely like "yeah rori is great" it's just lovely! anyway more importantly, I love your writing omg everything you write is so good and you write SO much it's SO impressive and you are another mutual who is DEFINITELY too cool for me but I am so glad the hadestown byler post led to mutualism akdjfjsjkf. also you have great taste obviously! love seeing you on the dash and I hope you have a good new year!<3333

@elmaxed hi lumi! we admittedly do not talk too much which is something i should fix but I love seeing your posts on the dash!! you are so nice and sweet and the willel ceo to me!! I also love your blog theme it always looks so pretty! hope your new year is great!!<333333

@lyoshaland hi lyosha one of my mutuals from BEFORE the st insanity hiii!! love you and love seeing on the dash even though I Do Not know what's going on with andor, but you don't know what's going on with st so it's great it's literally parallel play aldjdjsksks have a happy new year!<333

@lordrei hi rei I love your art!! and I love that you're a serial zukka commenter I love when I read a fic and see you in the comments like oh hi!! we don't interact too much on tumblr but I have NOT forgotten the debate on my marriage to yue in the taob discord aksjddhdjjsbdb love you hope your 2023 is awesome!!<33333333

and then anyone else I follow or who follows me that I didn't tag, I also love you all you're all great aksjfhsks have a happy new year<333333

[apatheticlexicographer]

4. Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?* 7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?* 23. Unpopular character you love?

oooooo awright awright

4: do you have a NOTP in your fandom

i... well i don't care for st3ddie, i think they had like the teeniest tiniest smidge of chemistry which ppl took and ran with. i also do notttt care for h3nclair or whatever they ship name is. no offense to ppl who like it but it gives MAJOR pair the spares to me. there is not the tiniest smidgen of romantic chemistry there. i have the bycl4ir and wheelcl4ir tags blocked too but that's mostly bc i'm not a multishipper in this fandom. those are all just ships i don't rlly like tho; the only absolute NOTP that like makes my skin crawl is romantic willel

7: is there anything you used to like but can't stand now

mmmm this is probably a more #controversial answer but... i used to enjoy the various gate theories but i'm hella burnt out on all of them now. they were fun concepts for fic or whatever but they're pretty much worn into the ground and i don't /srs believe in any of them. they stopped being fun to me months ago so i just ignore them now, i might block the tags tbh.

(also technically m1leven counts as something i used to like but can't stand now lmao. we don't talk about 2018)

23: unpopular character you love

well mike is an unpopular character for most of the fandom but idk if i would say i "love" him bc even tho i've grown beyond the mike hater arc i entered after s3 dropped i still kind of want to shove his head in a blender. for science. will is also unpopular with a lot of people and i would murder for him in a heartbeat so. (honestly there aren't rlly unpopular characters in the byler side of the fandom that aren't either extreme assholes/villains or eddie)

[blueeandyellowmakesgreen]

something that really annoyed me abt stranger things was how they left the og monster hunting trio pretty fast. I love the jancy team up and steve/dustin team up. but all three together hunting the demogorgon in the byers supernatural and christmas conflicted house was rlly something else. so. I´m sure they´ll get ALL the older teenagers together next season (robin, nancy, jon, steve n possibly vickie who knows) so even though i wish it happened we won´t have the original trio back. BUT. as others have put it out there already, the kids are now teenagers, pretty much the same age as their older siblings in the first season.plus. the duffers did say they want the old dynamics back, and though I do want the old party back together, I´m still a sucker for a good old monster hunting trio. SO. what I´m saying is willel+mike monster hunting trio. I mean, the parallels are already there, romance wise (bizarre love triangle if you will), but also we get willel and byler interactions proving 1)jancy/byler parallels 2) willel team up 3) shows the audience that even though there is a bizarre love triangle, these kids are friends who love each other and make a pretty good team. again. if we get byler referencing the jancy team up? great, my initial thought. we get willel having their wonder twins moment? my deepest want. we get both? sign me up

honestly a will el mike monster hunting trio paralleling the steve, jonathan and nancy trio is another genius idea to add to the table bc we literally get a win in every side. will more screentime, mike proving himself with his intellect and strategy, and el protecting them both. and alongside that we got such good interactions between them because they care about each other so much i just really really want a scene where el teaches will if hes ever revealed to have powers and mike to finally have his gay panic seeing will protect him by blocking him w his arm or something im jsuejdjs

but yes i 1000% agree with you this is something i rly need