healing my inner child via the queer media I didn’t get to have as a kid. they/them. Mid thirties. ND af. mostly byler, i write fics sometimes :) otherwise memes & analysis - specifically picking apart queer subtext. And anything else I like, e.g. birbs 🦅
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I'm still at the restaurant 😩

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Mike didn’t just “profess his love” for El, by the way.He sacrificed his own happiness to save her.
Because saying “I love you” meant committing to a real relationship , something he was trying to escape from.
And of all people, El would be one of the last to want to see Mike unhappy.And she deserves the best for herself.
I can’t wait to finally watch their beautiful friendship.
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you have to be able to defend people who are receiving unjust treatment even if they annoy you even if you personally find them extremely annoying you still have to be able to stand up and say "well thats fucked up"
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predictions for when byler becomes endgame
the stranger things subreddit will crash (maybe(hopefully) it'll be deleted)
tumblr will surely crash
let's be real almost the entire internet will be down
some people will owe their friends and family money - imagine the giggly "i told you so"s
the duffers will win awards for writing the greatest lgbt slow burn love story to date
everyone will celebrate!!
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Finn did an interview for Variety! Looks like it went up yesterday. Couple interesting moments below.
Fascinating that this interview question draws attention to Will's abilities - basically puts El's power's and Will's UD connection on par!
#stranger things#stranger things season 5#stranger things 5#st5#mike wheeler#finn wolfhard#variety#interview#target audience ->#byler#byler tumblr
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I don’t know if it’s just me, but even though I’m pretty convinced Byler is going canon, I still know I’m gonna lose it the moment we start getting Mike and Will scenes — both the subtle ones and the intense ones.
Like… I know it’s coming and yet I’m gonna react like it’s the biggest plot twist of my life.
I don’t know if that makes sense 😭😭
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Does it ever hurt you guys to know Erica got attacked in the same way Lucas did with Billy. Except not only was she 11 while Lucas was 12, but she was by herself while Lucas had Steve, Dustin, Mike, and Max to care about him.
No one in the party/older teens/ST adults but us, the audience, knows that Erica had to fight off an older boy that used to play basketball with her brother and most likely partied with her brother after winning the championships. She had no help, no backup, she just had to survive being overpowered or else.
Out of all the ST kids, Erica was truly alone in that and while everyone got to get comforting reunion hugs from willel, mlvn, bywheelclair, jancy, the Byers family and so on - Erica got nothing.
And I know s5 is not gonna address that at all. She started s4 surrounded by Hellfire and she ended s4 prioritizing Lucas's grief about Max and putting her own painful experience on the backburner
#this is a very good point#specifically important to name since Black women are constantly expected to tolerate things - without complaint - that no one else would#tolerate#from a young age Black girls are treated as 'more adult' and it's bullshit#and if Black women say they're angry or hurt or uncomfortable or express those feelings they get the 'angry Black woman' stereotype thrown#at them to invalidate their experiences#yeah it's fucking nonsense#good post OP#Black women and girls#Black women#erica sinclair#Erica sinclair stranger things#st4#stranger things 4#stranger things analysis#stranger things
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Two of my favorite shows using wise women to set up in-universe laws that will dictate how we should interpret gay subtext.
In Andi Mack the lookback was used specifically to allow subtextual indication of gay romantic interest, while subverting censorship as much as possible.
In Stranger Things we have “love makes you crazy” and “love makes you stupid”. Mike foreshadows his own dawning realization of his love for Will being more than platonic by saying they’ll go “crazy together” (they’ll both be in love - together). And later on Will looks at a photo from that day and probably remembers Mike saying that, which is the moment Will probably thought that Mike might like him back. And he calls himself “stupid” (repeatedly) for having that hope. Since “love makes you stupid”, it’s clear that Will is indicated to be in love. Considering that during the same moment Mike is riding his bike through the rain to chase Will down and apologize, which to me is both crazy and stupid, I’d say Will is less alone in this than he fears.
(Credit to @kaypeace21 for being the one to pick up on the in-universe law in ST.)
#if you think you or someone you know was the first to figure this out in ST no you weren't - it was KP#name a thing the ST/byler fandom figured out and I can pretty much guarantee KP noticed it first#love makes you crazy#otp: crazy together#andi mack#stranger things#tyrus#byler
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''Matt Duffer says Mike Wheeler is the leader in Season 5.
“The way Finn has matured into this very confident young man is mirrored in the show and in Season 5 in particular. You see Mike become that leader again that he was in Season 1, but a more mature, confident version.”''
Precisely as we've been saying for years. I'm laughing.

Source: Variety
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ツバメ(Barn swallow)
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I walked up to you and I asked if you wanted to be my friend
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Ooh is it NOT Holly?? Interestinggggg.
Oh I love hearing how proud they are 🥹 that makes me even more excited.
Can't tell us the run times?? 👀 That makes me think David Harbour's assertion that we're getting something like 3hrs per episode can't be far off 😂
Episodes 1 & 2 are done !!



Best first episode?? Ok okkk, I’m invested now.
Craziest cold open?? One of the best sequences???? I’M SAT. SCARED. BUT SAT.
i wish we got to know the runtimes, i wanna see them SOOO bad.
also… “yeah yeah you think you know who blah blah” 😭😭
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you have to admit it: most if not all animals are very brave. they do a lot of things and dont always know whats going to happen. they have beautiful eternal souls because of this
#as I've gotten into birds I've felt my empathy lurch like..... any of the babies on my porch could get hurt at any moment#they're always on alert#they are all VERY VERY BRAVE just for existing#animals#nature#birds#maybe we're included in that too.... just a thought
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EL HOPPER & MAX MAYFIELD Stranger Things — Season 4 Chapter Nine: The Piggyback
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“why are you like that” well i picked up that big book of illustrated greek myths as a kid and i’ve been this way ever since
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people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW
#have not read percy jackson#d'aulaires' book of greek myths#daulaires book of greek myths#Ingrid d'aulaires
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