#mileven is bones

[srilankanwillbyers]

if michael ‘she didn’t look fine’ wheeler and jane ‘everyone looks at me like i’m a monster’ hopper don’t break up in season 5 i will start smoking as much weed as argyle

#byler #anti mileven #milkvan #mileven is bones #byler endgame #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things

[justmy-account]

me after m!leven break up in s5

#stranger things #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #jim hopper #eleven hopper #anti milkvan #anti mileven #mileven is bones

[love-byers]

it’s been a year, mike. (MAJOR BYLER REVELATION INCOMING---MUST READ)

mike and will constantly saying "a year" or "all year" when talking about the time since the move when it's only been six months keeps me up at night

i saw people talking about how they say a year when it was only 6 months because they’re idiots in love and are being dramatic. as cute as that is, i didn’t really buy it until RIGHT NOW. i just saw it as a cute headcanon, but now i see that the writers could be enabling you to make this realization by use of subtext.

allow me to explain

^ these are the three times they say it

at first i thought the writers may have just used year because that’s less confusing for the audience because 1 year time jumps have been used before in stranger things and are super popular in books/movies/tv shows. BUT, it clicked for me that that doesn’t make sense. the timeline in stranger things has always been acknowledged. throughout s1 we hear the amount of time will has been missing several times (as far as i remember). in s2, mike counted the days el had been gone. he called her every night for 353 days. when el and hopper argue in s2, el uses specific numbers to tell us how long she’s really been with him. in s3 hopper specifically says ‘6 long months’ when talking about how long he’s been dealing with mike (lol). that's the same amount of time between s3 & s4, yet mike and will don't say 6 months, they say year. there’s a date at the start of every season. and in s4, el says this in her letter to mike. 

185 days = 6 months (almost on the dot)

the writers have specifically told us how long it’s been since they moved, down to the amount of days. and it’s 6 months, not a year. this makes it very hard for me to write off mike and will saying ‘year’ as just the writers slipping up. also in el’s letter, she says this:

this is INSANE. 

mike and will are saying the wrong amount of time. the writers aren’t stupid, they know how much time has passed since season 3. THEY WROTE IT. i’m a writer as well, and i know how much time is passing between what im writing because I CREATED IT. IT CAME FROM MY BRAIN. and like i said, the stranger things writers have proven to be very keen on dates and time. all of this happening in the same season is not a slip up, its on purpose. stranger things 4 had a 30 million dollar budget PER EPISODE. do the math--that’s 270 MILLION DOLLARS. and yes, i know they supposedly forgot will’s birthday, but that’s different. his birthday is a date that was mentioned one time and served no purpose aside from creating emotional tension in that one scene. none of their birthdays are important to the plot, hell, will’s is the only one mentioned in the show and it wasn’t even on his birthday. one date that was mentioned one time and never brought up again is NOT the same as continuous attention given to timelines/time jumps over the course of all four seasons. and some fans theorize that they’re lying about forgetting his birthday anyway. either way, its not the same.  

so....the writers want us to know that emotions can make time speed up or slow down....and that el’s week has felt very fast because of her emotions....and then show us mike and will SPECIFICALLY deviating from the timeline established in the SECOND LINE OF EPISODE ONE “yeah, but you knew she was having problems for months and didn’t tell me.” “its been six months, mike.”, or “it’s been months, mike.” or not even including that line at all, or “the past couple months have been weird” would’ve worked and stayed in check with the timeline we’ve already established. but when writing those scenes, they chose to say year. which is flat out wrong and way off from the actual time they’ve been apart. 

and what did el say makes time speed up or slow down? emotions? oh, okay got it 

the first two times mike and will say it’s been a year are in the same scene: the rink o mania fight. emotions are high. they’re in a pretty serious fight. its not about something dumb, it’s about their ten year friendship and how they’ve grown apart. their friendship is VERY important to both of them. (remember when mike said asking will to be his friend is the best thing he’s ever done?) the third time it’s said is when mike is opening up to will in episode 4. it’s a very emotional scene. mike is being honest and vulnerable with his feelings. in this conversation he apologizes and admits that will didn’t deserve how mike had been treating him, which mike never does to anyone else. he admits his relationship with will is different and home isn’t the same without him, and that he feels like he lost will and wants to be best friends again. 

and the obvious: emotions making time speed up or slow down doesn’t just apply to in the heat of the moment occasions. (in theory) mike and will are in love. the six months they’ve been separated felt like a year to them because of their emotions, just like el said in the letter. and mind you, will is canonically in love with mike, yet they’re both acting the same way about this. it’s not just will. it makes sense for six months to feel like a year to will because of his emotions, because he is in love with mike, right? well, mike feels the exact same way. this isnt even about the characters as people. narratively speaking, mike and will both doing this doesn’t make sense if it’s unrequited. one way writers show how characters aren’t on the same page about something, a relationship for instance, is whether they’re on the same emotional page about different plot points. something major and emotional happens to all the characters---now we watch how they react to it. and i don’t mean small disagreements & such, characters are allowed to feel differently about things. i mainly mean when whatever happened is painful and important to one or more of the characters. for example, steve and nancy. steve and nancy didn’t feel the same about barb, barb’s parents, and everything that happened in general. steve wanted to keep on like nothing happened while nancy was literally eaten up with grief, guilt, and trauma. jonathan was the one who was on the same page as her and made her feel better about carrying that baggage around all the time. they understood each other. and who was nancy in love with? jonathan. narratively, that makes perfect sense and even further sways the audience into understanding they’re in love.

so...what? the emotions that made mike and will’s six months apart feel like a year to them is....friendship? not a fucking chance. mike and el are a couple, and according to mileven fans, they’re the main couple of the show who are in love and are going to be an endgame couple. why save this incredibly romantic coded trope for will and mike, the best platonic bros? idk, you tell me. and the fact that the line about emotions came from someone in the love triangle?? and it was said to someone else in the love triangle?? not a coincidence.

edit: someone reblogged and pointed out how el said 185 in her letter to mike that we SEE him reading. there is no reason for him not to know how long it's been. so either he isn't paying attention to a damn thing el says in her letters or he is just extremely in love with will

another edit: i keep seeing reblogs of people saying they're probably referring to the time since mike and el started dating, which i used to think too. but the context when mike and will say a year makes it hard for me to believe.

"but you knew she was having trouble for like a year and you didn't tell me"

here mike is specifically talking about el's bullying problem which has only been going on since the byers have been gone and she enrolled in school. what he's talking about is something very strictly related to the time since they moved, and it's been six months, not a year.

"you called maybe a couple times. it's been a year, mike. meanwhile el has like a book of letters from you."

will is again, very specifically talking about something that strictly happened between the time since the byers left and the start of s4. he's saying how crazy it is that it's been a whole year and mike has barely called. but it hasn't been a year, it's only been six months.

"the last year has been weird, you know? and you know, max and lucas and dustin, they're great, they're great, it's just..it's hawkins it's not the same without you. and i feel like maybe i was worrying too much about el...i don't know maybe i feel like i lost you or something."

this one i will cut some slack, i think he could be talking about literally the last year, as in since the beginning of 1985. but immediately after he starts saying how home hasn't been the same without will (and separates his relationship with will as being different than his relationship with max dustin and lucas and even el), something specific to the time since they byers have been gone, six months, not a year:

in conclusion: mike and will referring to their time apart as a year when it’s only been six months is not a mishap on the writer’s part. they go out of their way to make sure you know exactly how much time has passed, down to the number of days, and they put this much attention on time in every season. and in the same season mike and will do this, there is a line in the SECOND LINE OF THE OPENING SCENE OF THE SEASON about emotions making time go by faster or slower.

byler is going to be a s5 surprise, but its not coming out of nowhere. there’s piles of subtext in every single season---enough that when you look back, it all makes sense. small details like this aren’t outlandish because this is without a doubt the length writers will go to keep something hidden, and in byler’s case and many other tv show plots case, to keep something a surprise. and for christ’s sake, WATCH THE SHOW! the amount of attention to even the TINIEST details in stranger things is insane. they put so much thought into everything---not just ships, and not just byler. idk how many times the writers are going to have to say details matter and that there are no coincidences until people believe them. 

anyways, byler is endgame. thanks for reading :) 

#another day of proving byler endgame done #all in a day's work #they are in love and they are dramatic #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #byler s4 #byler s5 #byler endgame #byler is endgame #byler is canon #mileven is bones #milkvan is bones #stranger things #byler analysis #stranger things analysis #stranger things 4

[byler-is-endgame7]

that goddamn curtain man

“People don't spend their lives trying to get a look at what's behind the curtain. They like the curtain. It provides them stability, comfort, definition.” - Murray s2ep5

#curtaingate #byler #byler endgame #byler is endgame #byler is real #will byers #will x mike #mike x will #mike wheeler i know what you are #i know what you are mike wheeler #color theory #when blue meets yellow in the west #blue and yellow #murray bauman #anti mileven #mileven is bones #byler evidence #byler st5 #mike wheeler #stranger things s5 #byler is canon #byler proof #byler parallels #byler>>>> #byler nation #byler better be canon #byler tumblr #byler rights

[byleriscanon713by]

Toxic M*leven shippers really be like “Mike and Will shouldn’t kiss that’s disgusting. Stop sexualizing minors.” Then proceed to be like “Mike and El will have passionate intercourse in st5 and we will all cry.” SMH.

#stranger things #byler #will byers #stranger things 5 #mike wheeler #byler endgame #mileven is toxic #mileven is bones #milkvan slander #anti milkvan #milkvan is bones #anti mileven #platonic mileven

[madlovesbyler]

This text single handedly confirms that the monologue of Mike in Season 4 was a lie or atleast some parts were lies. Why would Mike say he fell in love with Eleven in the moment he saw her, when he didn’t even see or treat her as a human being at first???

This text is from the Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down book on the pages 80-81. (sorry for the bad quality lmao 😭)

Make it make sense please.

#byler proof #byler #stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers #byler analysis #byler endgame #byler nation #byler tumblr #byler is endgame #anti mileven #mileven is bones

[claywheelr]

The comments being turned off tells me everything I need to know

#byler #will byers #byler nation #mike wheeler #byler endgame #byler s5 #byler tumblr #anti mileven #mileven is bones #stranger things

[paladintoyourcleric]

I have a serious problem with "fileven" shippers. It's not the fact that they ship them, it's the fact that they do not respect Millie or Finn. Some of them reach so far.

There is a page on Instagram called "love_mileven" some of you might know them.

A few days ago when The Aubrey's new song "Kato" released (the Aubrey's is the duo/band Finn is apart of) Millie happened to post a picture of Jake (her fiance) on her story (almost 24 hours after Kato released). love_mileven went and immediately posted about this on their story.

Basically saying that Millies team posted this picture on her story so Jake wouldn't get taken over by Finns new song coming out. And how this is all a cover up because Millie and Finn are in love but their teams won't let them be together.

If you guys saw some of Millies recent stories, you may have seen a small bruise on her arm. This account posted this picture saying "Do you see that bruise? I am concerned for her safety" And we all know what they were implying. I dm'md them saying that they really need to stop jumping to conclusions. And they basically said that they weren't implying anything about Jake, which we all know is a lie.

I was sitting there like "wtf is wrong with people 💀💀💀💀" .

Millie is LITERALLY ENGAGED. If you wanna ship 2 friends, fine. But at least respect Millies VERY REAL relationship with Jake.

(also this account"love_mileven" is always so quick to say Millie doesn't run her account, every single time Jake is even mentioned on Millies Instagram. Can any of you find an article from RECENTLY confirming that she in fact does not run her account?)

#byler s4 #byler s5 #byler proof #mike x will #Fillie #Bonjillie #Mileven #byler #bylerweek2023 #byler theory #byler tumblr #byler is real #byler nation #anti mileven #anti mileven #mileven is bones #mileven is endgame #pro mileven #platonic mileven #millie bobby brown #finn wolfhard #and they say bylers are delusional

[bonkerstogether]

LOOK GUYS I FIXED IT!! :D

#anti milkvan #anti mileven #mileven is bones #target audience #byler #byler endgame

[lottieishot]

milkvan is bones

#byler #mileven is bones

[bylerspookie]

look at the way El looks at Mike <3

#el/jane hopper #el hopper #eleven hopper #jane hopper #mike wheeler #byler #will byers #midleven is bones #midleven #mileven slander #mileven is bones #anti midleven #anti milkvan #anti melvin #anti mileven

[justmy-account]

mike’s part of the best ship in st(byler) and the worst ship(mileven) at the same time lol

#i know it’s not that funny #stranger things #byler #anti milkvan #anti mileven #mileven is bones #byler endgame #mike wheeler is gay #mike wheeler

[royalsy-queen]

Me: Mike and El work best as friends, Mileven should've stayed platonical, it's clear that them breaking up on good terms and byler being canon is where the whole story is headed

Milwakees: Will's love is unrequited, Mike and El didn't fall in love in six days, the fell in love the moment they saw each other, they have a supernatural bond 💀 Bylers are delusional

Me: *byler proof in hand, backing up sources* care to share your evidence? Is the supernatural romantic bond here with us? Are the delusional takes here with us?

Mildews: You have a brick wall for a brain, I'm going to touch some grass, is byler all you think of?

Me: yes, do you want a link to my byler playlist? also, may I have directions to my delusions? I wanna frame them lol uwu <3 *insert byler memes*

Milkvans: *disconnected*

#like pleeeeease #they're so pathetic it's hilarious #they really just like to argue #and when your sources aren't “I made them the fuck up” they panic #and when you get on their level and start fucking with them they poof #these guys are probably ripping their hair out because they couldn't make a byler stan mad #and I just had a fucking blast messing with them #and ill do it again #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #byler endgame #byler nation #byler tumblr #stranger things #mileven is bones #anti milkvan #anti mileven #platonic mileven

[byleriscanon713by]

“They wrote m*leven to be endgame before stranger things even started.” BITCH THEY WERE GONNA KILL ELEVEN AT THE END OF SEASON ONE BUT THE DUFFERS STILL KNEW HOW THEY WANTED IT TO END

#stranger things #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things 5 #byler tumblr #byler endgame #byler is canon #mike wheeler is gay #mileven is bones #mileven is toxic #anti mileven

[miaisagirllover]

y'know that scene at the end of s4 where all the couples are together?

its not like that's the only way they could've framed it. they could've had hopper, joyce, jonathan, el and will together to represent the byers-hopper family. then have mike and nancy together to show the wheeler family.it would've been a nice family moment in the face of a dark post-apocalypse setting. a bit of love before the fall of hawkins.

but no. they chose to have joyce and hopper together, nancy and jonathan together, mike and will together, with el being at the front alone.

#st #stranger things #byler #mike wheeler #anti malooban #anti mileven #byler endgame #will byers #anti milkvan #mileven is bones #byler proof #byler is real #byler is canon #byler evidence

[claywheelr]

When Robin see's how Will and Mike interact with each other she's gonna clock them IMMEDIATELY. turns to Steve and say's "are you seeing this?"

#byler brainrot #robin buckley #ronance #stranger things #byler endgame #mileven is bones