#mike is very gay

[over-rated-cheese]

That’s all, Ty for listening

#My best playlist #Mike playlist #I’m proud #byler #byler endgame #random #mike is very gay #mike wheeler #Mike angst

[trashm0uthhhh]

Very very very very short angst for my sad gays

TW: they both die

#byler ao3 #gay #angst #Mike is VERY gay #major character death #very short #so so short #shorter than my attention span #writer has adhd #they both die at the end

[astrobei]

in my heart of hearts mike wheeler is absolutely an athena kid but i also have to offer up a concept that i think has extreme comedic and dramatic potential aka: repressed gay teenager mike showing up at camp half blood unsure of who his godly parent is and feeling insecure about not having powers and one day when he’s making not-so-secret heart eyes at his best friend and son of apollo will byers is when a bunch of glowing floating hearts show up above his head. and that’s how mike gets claimed by none other than aphrodite, the goddess of love and sexuality, and is in full denial about it for three days because he thinks it’s some kind of sick and twisted JOKE

(on aphrodite’s end, she’s upset mike is throwing away the gift of true love and keeps trying to trick him out of repression by making more and more improbable and hilarious gifts appear when he and will are hanging out. mike hands will a book and it turns into a box of chocolates and he has to fling it away like a frisbee before will sees it. they’re having lunch and romantic music starts playing. she gives mike the same blessing she used to claim piper and will can’t even look in his direction for a full day because he starts blushing so hard. fifty bouquets of flowers show up at the apollo cabin’s doorstep with a note that says love, mike and by the end of it, mike isn’t even repressed and unsure about his sexuality anymore — he’s just trying to not throw himself into the bonfire out of sheer embarrassment)

#also shoutout to piper mclean bc i think her arc of not believing she is an aphrodite kid bc she doesn’t fit the model for it and having #been teased and made an outcast of sorts kind of jaded her and made her actively rebel against being an aphrodite kid #i just think that is very mike wheeler of her #n then she spends five books learning what love means and what being an aphrodite kid means #again. very mike. to Me #credits to abby bc i said ‘what if mike shows up at chb and he is repressed and gay and immediately gets claimed by iris the rainbow goddess #and she said i see this and raise you aphrodite #and i said oh my fucking god. #anyways might write this. (is opening a google doc) #but we will see. #again like in all actuality i think he is super an athena kid to Me anyway. although i think a pjo/st au is one that is very open to inter #*interpretation #i just think this hc has a little kick to it #before anyone gets MAD and says no that’s STUPID and he would totally be Blah Blah Blah. i don’t want to hear it #byler #mike wheeler #/astro posts #pjo

[blueandyellow7]

happy pride month to this stupid fruit

#we all know it michael #mike wheeler #will byers #byler #stranger things #gay gay gay #so very very gay #almost too gay

[divinisable]

there's something so tragic about mike wheeler that hits me in a very specific place in a very specific way that i can't find in any other fictional character

#something about his eyes #he's so tragic #internalized homophobia? #idk he's just very dear to me #i need to hold him #i need him to hold me also #maybe it can be a mutual holding #maybe i just need to be held #gay #mike wheeler #stranger things #miwi #byler #cleradin

[floof-bread]

all my byler-tober art ive done so far (yes only 4 days HAHA (i was sick))

#byler #stranger things #will byers #mike wheeler #miwi #mike wheeler is gay #very gay #i know what you are #artwork #im sick

[bobokitty]

Skull Island is out, and I'm super happy for the team! Anyways, I had to draw this because like, please tell me this isn't how it goes whenever Charlie brings up girls.

#my art #skull island #skull island netflix #charlie #mike #fanart #mike gives off major baby gay who is in love with their very straight best friend vibes imo #also i adore him

[wakeupthemembersofbylernation]

After S5 drops, you just know Stranger Things/Byler is gonna be all over conservative media and Fox News about how “the gay agenda” and “woke culture” is corrupting the kids. Trump will Tweet something about it. There will be fifty TikTok podcasts about it and twenty YouTube video essays titled stuff like “Stranger Things? More like Woker Things” and “Woke Noah Schnapp FURIOUS After Normal Americans Reject Season 5” and “The Sick End Times Antichrist Agenda of Netflix: They Tricked You” and “This Child Star Gushes After Sudden Gay Romance: Was Finn Brainwashed?” with thousands, if not millions of views. We’re gonna have our very own entry in the culture wars 😍

#byler #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things #stranger things season 5 #byler endgame #like stranger things is wild because it’s very gay but also your conservative uncle watches it and owns a hellfire shirt

[c-is-for-circinate]

Someday I'm going to figure out how to properly shriek about Mike Wheeler growing into precisely the same kind of toxic masculinity Steve is stumblingly growing out of.

#Stranger Things #it's #'the only emotional focus or outlet a Man is allowed to have is his girlfriend' #and it's #trying to cope with being the very very Ordinary Guy surrounded by geniuses and marvels #and it's how you look at your gay best friend who you will never ever date #and how you admit to loving people and things #and whether you think you can be better #(and it's Hopper too #facing this same conversation from thirty years farther on #but y'all are not ready for THAT discussion yet) #anyway I continue to have a surprising and annoying number of feelings about Mike Wheeler

[emblazons]

And when Jonathan is looking at Mike and Will in S5 with his classic 🤨 and Nancy keeps wondering wtf he’s thinking about so they nearly get into another argument borne of their lack of communication—

—until he finally admits “there’s something going on with our brothers” and she does that like what? no *smile-laughs uncomfortably* head shake of hers…until some time passes and her inner investigative journalist, “I thought you were acting weird because of Will” self puts the shit together? What then?

#I honestly think this is a very likely scenario #right before her gently trying to talk to Mike about it and getting a cactus LMAO #bonus points for Robin asking HER what’s up and her being like ‘do you think my brother is…gay?’ and opening a WHOLE OTHER can of worms LOL #byler #jancy #stranger things

[mikewhoreler]

me giving customers blue n yellow salsa bowls with their chips: 'so THIS is spreading the gay agenda '

#gay #byler #queer #young royals #st #bylerr #rah #gayy #lgbtq #blue #yellow #blue n yellow #gay color coding #hesrtstopper #nick and charlie #mike and will #simon and Wilhelm #ignore all the tags plsplspls #i just want more people to see this because im very funny #pls reblog.

[reineydraws]

i have a soft spot for fics where billy sort of ends up adopting el and will alongside max. like, these are the kids that get dibs for rides in the camaro haha.

also im unfortunately not participating bc prev commitments but #harringrove for turkey is happening right now if yall want to donate to the earthquake relief funds for turkey & syria and get some art/fic back from harringrove fans! :) check out the tag if you're interested!!

#stranger things #stranger things fanart #billy hargrove #max mayfield #will byers #jane hopper #st eleven #eleven #eleven stranger things #obviously the ones where the party as a whole adopts billy are also very good #but i think it's cute when they end up getting split like this #it's precious when will asks billy for gay advice and maybe has a tiny crush on him #where billy and el bond over bad papas and containing anger and billy learning to find childish innocence again through her eyes #where max finds out about neil and stubbornly decides to get through to billy and when billy starts reaching back that's it. #theyre ride-or-die now. #i like those kinds of fics :') and steve gets the other half and then they co-parent together #billy's all right w the other kids too but whenever i interpret his relationships with lucas & mike #it always comes off more to me as 'these are the significant others of my kids so they are automatically on thin ice' #and with dustin it's always 'this is my boyfriend's little brother' #but will and el and max are billy's directly #i digress! #sometimes i dont post at all and then i post two things in a week! consistency who???

[mikesbasementbeets]

mike wheeler in stranger things 2 + girls, girls, girls

#michael 'what's exciting about this?' wheeler #mike thinks his nonchalance about lucas and max dancing in the second to last one is character growth on his part.... and then #dustin goes to look for other girls to dance with and he's back to complete confusion...... still absolutely lost on the girls front #spent the rest of this season looking at will like 🥺🥺🥺 though #(the halloween one is such bad quality sry it's a very small and dark shot but look at his face come on) #gay mike wheeler #anyway. gifs!!!! #mikesbasementgifs #mike wheeler

[chirpsythismorning]

Some of the evidence supporting Mike not being in love with El is brutal. No, but seriously.

In s3, when El's leg is injured, instead of Mike putting his arm around her waist, allowing him to take some of the weight off her injured leg, he puts his arm around her shoulder, basically having the exact opposite affect of taking the weight off of her, instead just adding more weight for her to have to carry.

Now, I’m not coming at Mike here, I’m actually coming at the writers, because this choice here has everything to do with them using this gesture to signal Mike’s lack of feelings for El, even at the expense of realism.

I say this bc any person with common sense, including Finn and everyone around him and Millie filming these shots, would've known it looked unnatural for Mike to be adding more weight onto El as opposed to taking some off of her.

This means that what Mike did here, Finn was directed to do, and therefore it was for a specific reason.

And we know they could have easily made the opposite choice, because they show us Max AND Lucas doing it.

See how putting an arm around El's waist looks so much more natural? Because homegirl is injured and clearly needs help taking weight off her leg to qualm some of the pain she's experiencing there, which is why Max and Lucas are shown here doing it the correct way.

And so, why can't Mike do the same? Why are the writers making a point to show Mike being incapable of simply taking some weight off of El, instead doing the exact opposite?

I don't think it's as deep as Mike not being able to do something intimate, and that's bc, again we see Max and Lucas doing it.

I honestly think what they're trying to convey with this choice here, is that Mike thinks he's helping El, when he is in fact doing the opposite despite his best efforts. The implications of that and how that sort of aligns with their romantic relationship and what it leads to at the end of s3, going into s4, is pretty spot on.

I do think Mike thinks he's doing the right thing by being with El instead of voicing any doubts at the end of s3, because he is under the assumption that she is in love with him. I do think he believes he is indebted to her and that this is the least he can do after everything they've been through together, which has mostly been riddled with romantic pressures and so continuing that instead of disputing it seems like the only option anyways. Not to mention, he does care for her deeply, so it's not hard to imagine that he's a teenage boy confusing deep care for love (he literally tells us this is his problem when he can only say care and not love to El's face... but that's a whole other conversation).

Still, when it's all said and done, Mike's not actually doing El any favors by being with her romantically, if that is not what he truly wants.

Because that's the sad truth about all of this, which is that you would never want someone to be with you just because you want them. If you knew that they truly couldn't have those feelings for you, you'd want to know, right? You don't deserve someone just because you have deep feelings for them. And I think there's so many layers to this idea, bc many people are capable of not giving Byler a chance bc they truly believe Mike could never return Will's feelings. Will also feels this way atp, so though it hurts, he rips the band aid off, because he would never want Mike to be with him just out of pity or something. No one would want that. And so it all really comes down to who Mike truly loves romantically and wants to be with. And the right thing to do, even if it hurts someone, is to be honest, because being with them just bc you think that will make them happy is never going to be enough if you aren't truly feeling it, or worse, feel it for someone else.

We see how Mike's inability to be honest with El at the end of s3, leads to a season of Mike feeling deeply insecure and undeserving of the love El has to offer him, and even though he does try, he always comes up short. Despite Mike putting up this front that they are the perfect couple, the details are telling us something is off. And it gives him away.

Another example that I think is very similar to this loaded gesture from Mike to El in s3, is the scene in s4 when they hug in the airport.

Common sense ppl, picture this: You're reuniting with your long distance girlfriend. Then suddenly, she runs up to you, with her arms wide open, and instead of opening your arms wide to embrace her properly, you take the bouquet of flowers you brought her as a gift, and shove them against your chest just as she approaches to hug you, effectively squishing the present you got for her (a pretty delicate present at that) for no reason other than to... what exactly?

Like?? El isn't even squishing the present Mike, she's trying to hug you, dude! Your gf is trying to hug you properly and you threw the gift you got for her in between you so you could throw in a careful! x3??

Again, this has less to do with Mike's thoughts and reasoning behind this gesture in a literal sense, and more to do with the simple fact that this is a narrative choice! Mike is not a real person! There are real people sitting down and writing this and actors are having to do multiple takes to act it out. What feels natural for a situation is going to be what is often chosen 9 times out of 10, because of realism and wanting the audience to see stuff happening that is believable. That 1 time though, when it's not being done the way it would usually be, is usually because there's a specific reason for it.!

So the question really is, not why is Mike doing this, but why are the writers having Mike do this, and what message are they trying to convey about Mike's feelings based on his behavior, in these moments where he's just not capable of committing to El genuinely, one way or another?

#byler #no but most of the gay subtext is just so like... you really didn't have to do all that? #gay subtext at the expense of realism? check #mike thinks he's helping el by not breaking her heart and just being with her despite feelings for will he can't deny #very reminiscent of mike's 'maybe you thought you were helping but you weren't. you hurt me! what you did sucks!' #i do think it would be epic too see that moment come full circle but with el saying it to mike this time #bc i'm sure el would much rather have her heartbroken finding out that mike is incapable of loving her romantically #than to find out he was with her bc he didn't want to hurt her even at the expense of his own happiness #like no one wants to have someone be with them out of pity or obligation #we want someone to love us truly and deeply and genuinely! #we see how much el struggles in s4 bc of all the hints she's getting from mike that he doesn't genuinely love her #bc that's the most important part of a romantic relationship #it being equal #and it didn't feel that way #sure she's gonna be pissed #but she's gonna be more pissed he wasn't just honest #friends don't lie obvs

[booksandpaperss]

Saw this gay alignment chart (lmao) going around with the Nancy&Co fruity four, and I couldn’t resist doing my own version with the OG fruity four bc it fit them too well not to 😌

Anyways it feels so good to be so right 💅

#idc what anyone says these are MY fruity four #one is canon one is basically canon and the other two are very sapphic coded idk what to tell u #byler #elmax #mike wheeler is queer #bi max mayfield #lesbian eleven hopper #gay will byers #obviously #mike wheeler i know what you are #mike wheeler #max mayfield #el hopper #will byers

[bludhavensbirdboy]

I work hard (ignore canon) to make this house (fandom) a home (a gay fandom)

#me making steddie and ronance everyone’s problems #actually basically anything these days I can make more gay and that’s very acceptable imo #stranger things 4 #stranger things #steddie #ronance #byler #steve harrington #eddie munson #robin buckley #nancy wheeler #mike wheeler #will byers #the fruity four #lgbt #lgbtq #st4