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They're sharing clothes what if THAT prompts some of the bullying

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VERY old beef, the peter Gabriel version of the David bowie song heroes would NEVER be played during a romantic moment because it's an intentionally depressing version of a happy song alluding to a happy ending of a depressing situation. Mike sees Will's body be pulled out of a lake and the song starts alluding to him being alive, why would they say they can be heroes for one day? They lost. They can't be heroes bc hes dead. But he's not. They play it when moving out of the Byers house right after they "put hopper to rest" . They can't be heroes bc hes dead. Bc Mike is losing his best friend forever right after figuring out he's qu- but he's alive. But they're reunited. It's a depressing sheet laying over the happy ending. If you want them playing heroes and actually kissing when they swore it would fall. It NEEDS to be David Bowie, their happy ending. Everyone's.

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this is so unbelievably stupid

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Still obsessed with Mike learning about the painting but not immediately telling Will he knows so they have at least one interaction where Mike knows but Will doesn't know he knows and so Will is totally normal but Mike is maybe looking at him/watching him a little differently but he doesn't notice which just puts even more viewer emphasis on Mike dealing with it (bonus points if he knows Will had feelings for him then but doesn't know if he still does)

Thanks for asking

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The REAL elephant in the room is the fact that I'm a Steve/Kali truther djdbdbdb

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Something something S4 shows through Nancy how someone can be pressured into a relationship by well meaning people, how easy it is to project your significant other onto someone familiar when they're gone, something something Nancy only started giving Steve eyes during situations he reminded her of key moments in her relationship with Jonathan, how you could see all over her face that she was going to reject him, how the audiences emotions are lined up with Steve and not her and the fact that Steve wants a girlfriend so badly means the audience wants him to have a girlfriend too bc he deserves it ! He's grown so he can do better this time ! She CAN love him ! Look ! The people who just officially met them this week think they're true love ! But Nancy is in love with Jonathan. But Steve wants a white picket fence life at the end of a cul-de-sac with 6 children, which Nancy said herself is like her worst nightmare. But Steve was never the problem in their relationship. Nancy didn't love him. Nancy is not a prize. He doesn't deserve her for changing. And the people trying to matchmake them DO NOT KNOW BOTH PARTIES WELL. Robin JUST officially started talking to Nancy, all she really has to go off of is whatever Steve has told her and EDDIE met BOTH OF THEM officially like three days ago. All he knows is their reputations really, and that "act of true love" was entirely typical of Nancy's character and she would've done it for just about anyone she cares about, he doesn't know that though because he doesn't know her. And she ended the season in her bf's arms setting up their conflict in s5 while Steve ended the season alone but with his friends.

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I don't want to be mean but you all sound batshit when you try to convince milkvans byler is real by talking about pure subtext and color theory and "Mike was checking Will out in this scene!!!" there's CLEAR plausible deniability in your own interpretation of someone's acting. The duffers intentionally kept it all vague enough that most people wouldn't figure it out until they get the chance to shove it into people's faces and if the majority of people look at the scene you're analyzing and go "aww they're finally friends again yay" and you go "Mike was blatantly checking wills ass out in the beginning" when...he was taking a breath to settle and prepare to reconcile with someone he's been "off" with for a year... you end up sounding a little insane. Those types of takes are subjective, and you can make a funny video with zooms implying that that's what he was doing but actively trying to convince someone your headcannon is canon will almost always make you sound deranged.

There's a reason you don't go up to milkvans and go "b-but blue meets yellow in the west" and start talking about the intricacies of making film and how everything is on purpose, that stuff isn't for normies. Analysts love that shit but to someone who just watches the show for fun they hear you say all that and go "you're reaching" because you took someone who is at a zero and shoved them into a thousand without showing them why you ACTUALLY ship byler and just tried to prove that it's real

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henry in st 5 when he tries to communicate smth to the hive mind but will can literally hear everything

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someone made a byler edit to good luck, babe by chappell roan so i’m bringing it from tiktok because everybody and their mother has to watch it.

lives were fucking changed oh my god

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“i love you on your bad days” you don’t. you don’t though

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Mike in his room, Mike at the school, Mike with the bullies, Mike with Dustin, Mike with the party, Mike in the field with El. Mike, Mike, Mike. Mike main character doubters will look very foolish after Stranger Things 5.

And everybody knows about the secret first two days of Byler filming that we will not get any pics from until after the season is out.

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There's something in Finn wolfhard being a breakout star in s1 and humongous names like Steven Spielberg saying that the kids changed the limitations of child acting bc they're so good. And then suddenly Finn wolfhard after S4 being known generally as the worst one, as the guy who can't act, just "not as good" as everyone else. Because of the monologue. The monologue the writers praised and hyped up as his best work, as something they didn't know if he could do bc he hadn't ever done it before, generally something they were really proud of.

So, if his supposed "best work" is something that people come away from feeling like it's his worst? That means there's a disconnect in the way the writers are looking at the scene vs the way the general audience sees it, which is funny bc if we look at that scene at face value, he's confessing his love. So if theres something deeper about the scene that changes the meaning, that changes that scene from bad acting to great acting, from a love confession to...

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MIKE WHEELER + A MEDITATION ON BOUNDARIES

"Back when I thought I was straight I would go on dates with boys. The boys would usually want to kiss me. I disliked kissing, but I thought that their preferences deserved to count as much as mine, and I reasoned that they probably liked kissing more than I disliked kissing. So kissing was a morally good thing to do. I also reasoned that if I told them I disliked the kissing then they’d feel guilty and enjoy it less. So I did not tell them.  I am certain I was making some kind of critical error but it has taken me a long time to figure out what it might be." (x)

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"did mike see it? then it doesn't count"

will tells mike about the seven. the demogorgon gets him

will tells mike about vecna/henry/one being alive. the ominous end of season sequence on the hill begins

i know mike hates not knowing things but STOP TELLING HIM THINGS

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el has known that mike is the source from the beginning and she still chooses to protect him at every turn. haters can try to make their friendship unimportant but they will never succeed

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S2 shed scene -- Will/Vecna POV -- part 1 of 2.

[I bit off more than I could chew with this piece, so I had to split it up to get something done in time for @bylerween2023. Maybe if we're lucky I'll have part 2 done in time for bylerween2024. :p]