#byler positive

[lesbiansforbyler]

I remember thinking, “I wish I could live in a world where Mike and Will could fall in love for real, be real” back in season two and three.

Like I actually remember THINKING that. I remember the real ache, the sadness and loneliness of knowing that gay people, especially gay children, are seen as alien, morphed, distorted, wrong. They don’t want to see us on their screens. It doesn’t matter that we were queer children and we were real, that we had the crushes and the heart fluttering and the falling in love and the wanting just like they did. We are wrong to them. ‘Other’, even when we really aren’t.

So of course Mike and Will would never be shown in a story of falling in love with each other. Perhaps, maybe in a distant dream sort of way, will will be cruelly made to fall in love with a Mike who could never love him back. Maybe the kid who’s been kidnapped, starved, possessed, haunted, and abandoned will be gay because he’s already different, already other - but then we’d have to watch Mike wheeler, the main hero boy of the show, reject him. Because of course it would be rejection, anything else would be unfathomable; the main hero boy falls in real love with the main girl, the center of attention; the main hero boy goes through trials and tribulations, learns courage, and beats odds. He does not fall in love with another boy. He does not fall in love with the starved boy, abandoned boy, haunted boy. Not in this story. Not in any story. Of course not. That’s ridiculous, unthinkable, on a show this massive and known and loved, there is no way they will show us up there, cracked open and bare and bleeding love like they do. It just doesn’t happen, and hasn’t happened, so it won’t happen.

And now we’re here, on the precipice of the final season of this grand grand story, and it’s not just a possibility, it’s a likelihood. An ‘all signs point to here’, an ‘all roads lead to this’.

The creators are revving up for the plot twist of a lifetime; a reveal of Mike’s thus far unrevealed internal struggle. it’ll be a cultural reset, a shockwave, a disbelief producing outrage and disgust from some but tears of disbelieving joy, from others. That one of THE biggest shows of all time, created slowly over the course of the better part of a decade, watched and praised and anticipated all over the world… reveals that it was the story of the two main boys falling in love, slowly, the entire time. The cultural whiplash will, I think, be unparalleled.

And yea, obviously maybe we’re wrong about how the story will end. If so, I suppose I’ll delete this when the time comes. But I don’t think I’ll need to. I’m more than excited and proud to be a byler and a stranger things fan in general and I love being on this ride with all of you.

Here’s to the grandest grand finale we can hope for. 🎉 XX

#byler #byler hope #will x Mike #Mike x will #stranger things #st #byler is real #byler positive #byler endgame #byler s5

[hothammies]

a quick s5 mike wheelah sketchy

#stranger things #mike wheeler #byler #why did i accidentally draw him in the same head position again oops #i can't help it he's a cutie when he tilts his head like that! he's only a boy! #sammi's art

[jeonthoughts]

me when mike gets vecna'd and vecna pulls out clips of will smiling/just of mike and will as in mikes thoughts in that specific moment and smalltown boy plays in the bg cause yk music provokes memories both good and bad and that's what helps them get away from vecna

#one of them is SO getting vecnafied i am 100% positive #vecna go get mike or will idc just get either one of them #i need to hear the “i know what you are michael wheeler” #byler #byler is endgame #mike wheeler is gay #a boykisser for sure #stranger things

[cannibalismyuri]

noah and millie pics that Exude willel (ft. others too !) energy gotta be one of my favorite genres fr part 2 <3

#they are such precious little guys they don't deserve the horrors #willel #will byers #el hopper #byler #<- god knows y'all need some positivity #stranger things (sara's version) #they mean so much 2 me. i know they're the chaotic siblinsg duo in my heart of hearts

[cleradin-archive]

mike wheeler and the evolution of the overprotective bf death grip™

#stranger things #st #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #🌌 // mike wheeler. #🎨 // will byers. #💚 // byler. #🔎 // analysis. #( bro about ripped the poor kid's shoulder clean outta the socket twice now can u believe #also not the parallels with their positions here and the blue in mike's shirts + will's plaid shirts i'm gonna suffocate )

[azuries]

the kids arent alright

#wip number 2 #ngl this is just a sketch i did and liked but i was. too lazy to color it as per usual #anyway just a bonus doodle to get it out of my system before i start on uni work again lol #byler #byler art #byler fanart #mike wheeler #will byers #i love drawing will comforting mike. can you tell #yes i drew them in a similar position before. no idc!! #piano arts

[alexshethey]

please reblog for bigger sample size !

#autism #autism spectrum condition #autistic positivity #autistic spectrum #byler #< target audience

[tender-emotional-music]

*boops the duffer brothers* pssssttt…. drop a list of movies and books which have inspired s5… a new whiteboard please… or video store Fridays again 🙏🙏🙏

So far we have A Wrinkle in Time (which I am currently reading), and what else? I know there are more, I just can’t remember them 💀

#I’m positive that the original Star Wars trilogy will play into it #Like Will or El as Luke #and Vecna having a Vader-type ending #imagine if we got a “’I love you’ ‘I know’ byler scene #byler Tumblr #byler #<- tagging because you guys are active in the theorising side of things #imagine if brokeback mountain was on the list #what then?

[miwiromantics]

why do milkvan's hate will??? he's their biggest shipper.

#will byers #stranger things #antimileven #anti mileven #byler #byler nation #milkvan bones #byler endgame #but like i don't understand #he ships them as much as they do #he was the literal backbone of the ship is season 4 #they just hate him coz he has a crush on mike #calling him a homewrecker and for what #if you're positive that milkvan will happen #why hate him? #he didn't do shit to u #😭😭😭

[ifonlyicouldrun]

We love to see all of the support ✨🤗

#byler #noah schnapp #joe locke #Bringing a bit of positivity

[coldninjaruins-blog]

The scene of El searching through the void for Will in the UD and piggybacking on Max's mind are parallels.

Mike parallels to Joyce and Max to Will.

"This will keep it dark for you."

"Okay, so hopefully this blocks out any peripheral light, righ?"

Joyce and Hopper started holding El's hands when they noticed something was wrong.

Mike started holding El's hand when they noticed something was wrong and pulled her out of the water.

Joyce: "I'm right here with you."

Mike: "I'm right here."

Will-Max parallel

"We're/I'm coming. Just hold on a little longer."

#It's always 'Mike being parallel to El parental figures' in a negative way #so here's a post of 'Mike being parallel to El parental figures' in a positive way(??) #byler

[deathon1leg]

finn and noah both saying they think will’s storyline ends perfectly… <3

first pic from finn’s interview with indiewire, second from noah’s interview with forbes

#i’m just saying that will not having the boy he’s in love with love him back would NOT be a perfect ending #finn “mutual understanding and acceptance” wolfhard is at it again #the way the whole cast seems so positive about what’s supposed to be an unrequited love situation.. ok sure!! #i trust their judgement on this #byler #byler tumblr #byler meta #finn wolfhard #noah schnapp #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things

[v-i-r-i-d-i-a-n]

Sometimes I worry I’m like super super fucking weird and then I look around at the people I share a fandom space with and realize, we’re all fucking weirdos

/pos

#stranger things #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #henryposting #henry creel #henward #this is positive I promise #it makes me feel more normal

[yellow-n-blue-hyperfixation]

What l want for s5 is a parallel to the van scene + that heart-to-heart scene in Will’s room where this time, Will and Mike are talking in Mike’s room and Will off-handedly mentions that since his house got raided so all the art he made last year (we all know it’s 6 months but these two are so dramatic-) is probably gone by now and that’s a shame, and then Mike goes “Can I show you something?” and pulls out a binder of all the art Will had given him over the years, and Will just flips through it in shock but he’s smiling with every page he turns and Mike watches Will with a soft smile of his own too and then they share a look but before they can talk they get interrupted-

#tender emotional music out of all things starts playing in the bg again #and the camera comes closer to focus on the boys as each second passes #would it be too much to ask for them to be ‘coincidentally’ positioned in front of Mike’s open closet #byler #look the idea of Mike having a bundle of letters he never sent to Will is nice and all #but l want solid proof of the art binder’s existence pls-

[runninguplenorahills]

How is this-

– literally the scene that introduces Mike to us in s4 and there are still people who think this boy is straight??? And there are still people who think the duffers don’t have the guts to make byler endgame??? And there are still people who think Mike’s sexuality won’t be addressed in s5???

#in retrospect they were actually so fucking wild for putting the rainbows there like?!?!?!?!?!? #they made sure that we knew mike is a homosexual before we even saw him lmaoo #i know that the sign is kinda a stretch #but then again not really #because that’s how it’s framed throughout the whole time we get this perspective! #and that’s done deliberately! #you don’t just accidentally position a camera like this lmao #gay mike wheeler #mike wheeler #byler #will byers #stranger things #st4

[emblazons]

MATT "YOU'VE LOST THE PLOT" DUFFER

or: Matt's absolute inability to hide when he thinks someone isn't understanding something about their character or the show in Beyond Stranger Things

#byler #< target audience #yes...two gifsets in an hour but this one is soley for my own amusement lmao #he's literally my fave for reactions now. right up with Finn LOL #this was him shading Millie for misunderstanding / giving a positive spin to El's relationship with Papa #AND when he called Finn out for saying DnD was childish lmfaooo he was READY to fight before that little smile I'm dead #my correct canon!interpretation defender king #matt duffer #duffer brothers #st interviews #stranger things #my gifs #also...if you ever see me judging tf out of an interpretation please know it is with this exact energy LMAOOOO