#and and and both el’s drawing from s1 and will’s painting that he holds in his hands are on el’s right

[stranger-chichka]

#el made contact with the demogordon -> the gate opened #mike went to california and vecna made contact with crissy -> the gate opened #but i don’t feel good about these scenes at all #i needed screenshots of brenner and mike giving el flowers for one of my posts and noticed this #as soon as argyle mentions mike’s sister we see the man who looks just like brenner on the background #right after that we’re shown el and the whole situation us called ‘awkward’ #i decided to google the origin of the word and it was definitely worth it #because ‘awkward’ came from late middle english in the sense ‘the wrong way round/upside down’ #UPSIDE DOWN #‘awk’ means ‘backwards’ or ‘clumsy’ in middle english #‘you’re going backwards eleven’ #and if i’m not mistaken el was called clumsy by one of the numbers #WTF???? #and and and both el’s drawing from s1 and will’s painting that he holds in his hands are on el’s right #is it smth intentional??? what was the reason???? #byler #anti milkvan #stranger things #mike wheeler #martin brenner

[bylrlvr]

reminder that karen wheeler told mike wheeler, “all this, that’s been going on with will, i cant imagine what its been like for you. i just... i want you to know that you can talk to me. i never want you to feel like you have to hide anything from me (meanwhile el is hiding in the closet in mike’s room!!!!) i’m here for you, okay?"

reminder that mike wheeler has a ‘one-way’ sign pointing towards his closet in his room!!!

reminder that mike wheeler has a binder full of will’s drawings that he looks at for comfort and absolutely adores it when will gifts him paintings

reminder that mike wheeler has will’s art hung around in both his bedroom and basement (meanwhile el’s room is a mike shrine, mike barely has anything that represents el in his room)

reminder that mike wheeler is ‘the only one who’s acting normal here, the only who cares about will’ (his words, not mine)

reminder that mike wheeler stayed awake at the hospital, all nervous and his feet jumping up and down, because he wants to be the first to get to see will and make sure will is alright. when he saw will, he ran towards his bed and hugged him, putting his head softly over will’s chest

reminder that mike wheeler got completely furious that he pushed a bully to the ground in front of everyone at school because he couldn’t handle will being called homophobic slurs

reminder that mike wheeler held will’s hand when will needed him the most and reassured will that the shadow monster can’t get to him, that ‘we’ won’t let it get to him (this was in the same episode where the following convo between dustin and lucas took place; dustin: “i saw you [and max] were holding hands on the bus” lucas: “she was just scared. it wasn’t like that” dustin: “but i could feel it” lucas: “feel what?” dustin: “the electricity”)

reminder that mike wheeler told will on halloween night that if they’re both going crazy, they’ll go crazy together

reminder that mike wheeler stayed at will’s house for days and slept beside his bed, just to make sure he’s with will in case something bad happens

reminder that mike wheeler’s catchphrase for will is “are you okay? are you hurt?”

reminder that mike wheeler said while vulnerably crying that the best thing he’s ever done in his life was asking will to be his friend at the pure age of 5

reminder that mike wheeler biked all the way to will’s house in the pouring rain to apologize to him (in the same episode as this, max told el “dont worry, he’ll come crawling back for you in no time” which mike in fact did not for el, and instead did for will)

reminder that mike wheeler always keeps looking at will’s lips, because my dude what is the deal with that

reminder that mike wheeler stayed lingering in front of the byers’ old house, when everyone have already biked away at the end of s3, while the hopper narrates “i don’t want things to change”

reminder that mike wheeler went home to hug his mom after will has moved away, because he felt like he had lost will in a way. that scene parallels to the only other time he has hugged his mom which was in s1 when he thought he lost will for the first time

reminder that mike wheeler wasn’t able to be physically affectionate with will (the airport scene), when others were around (uh-oh, comp-het is typing)

reminder that in season 3 the sauna episode, mike wheeler yelled “boys only!” and then the camera pans onto the sign that reads “MEN”

reminder that mike wheeler said “we’re friends. we’re friends!” a liiiittle bit too defensively, like who are you trying to convince fruit boy (this was his response to will asking him, “what about us?” will meant us, as in their friendship, but mike probably thought the question had romantic implications)

reminder that once mike wheeler is alone with will and el is away, he is just himself (that scene in jonathan’s bedroom)

reminder that mike wheeler feels like he lost will because he was ‘focusing too much on el’ and that hawkins, the only place he has ever known of, is not the same without will

reminder that mike wheeler nodded in agreement when will said “[…] to say how you really feel, because… what if, what if they don’t like the truth?”

reminder that mike wheeler looks at his best friend this way:

reminder to mike wheeler that i know what you are

#byler #did not expect it to be this long #and i can still go on #there’s a lot more #i wrote ‘reminder that mike wheeler’ like 100 times in 10 mins 💀