#van speech things

[will80sbyers]

STRANGER THINGS 4 Byler & the van speech

#byler #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things #stedit #strangerthingsedit #will80sbyersgifs #mike x will #will x mike #byler tumblr #how many gifset of this scene will I make? An infinite amount #the van speech #byler van scene #byler van speech #the van scene #st 4x08 #Will's painting scene #Will's painting

[ato-dato]

That’s nice sweety :)

#POV: your boytoy/partner in crime is taking things more seriously than you #Dutch’s villain origin story #you better believe that man wrote that speech down and practiced it #bet #my first rdr comic of 2022???? can you believe it #the way I draw these dudes has changed so much #i had the idea for this in January 2021 #making comics is pretty time consuming and exhausting so I never get around to finishing ideas #i have like 100 other unfinished ideas #Anywaysss #vandermatthews #hosea doesn’t know how to deal with verbal affection #dutch van der linde #hosea mathews #red dead redemtion 2 #rdr2 #fanart #rdr fanart #drawing #Art #my art #digital drawing #artwork #comic #rdr2 dutch #rdr2 hosea #fan comic

[its-your-mind]

Van Helsing: Count Dracula is ancient and more powerful than anything else alive. All the forces of nature, fair and foul, have come together in one completely unique combination to create a creature this vile. We must not underestimate him. He has been alive for centuries and will be forever more. His plans are all certain to be perfect.

Also Van Helsing, mere sentences later: killing this dude is gonna be so easy lmao. He sleeps half the time and he ran when jonathan cut his jacket open. idiot jumped on a boat and ran as soon as he knew we were after him. wimp ass bitch.

#count dracula #dracula #dracula daily #van helsing #LISTEN I LOVE HIM #BUT HE STRAIGHT UP SAID BOTH OF THESE THINGS IN THE SAME SPEECH #like listen I’m all for inspiring your friends #but you gotta pick One #either fear or bravado #you cannot do both at once

[vickyvicarious]

We have now had so many changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to think that the journey will be an easy one. Dr. Van Helsing is laconic; he tells the farmers that he is hurrying to Bistritz, and pays them well to make the exchange of horses.

Oh, it's nice to hear that the journey seems to be going smoothly! A well-deserved break, and - wait. What's that about Van Helsing? He's being... laconic, you say?

LACONIC? VAN HELSING????

#dracula daily #van helsing #actually it's very in character for him to not TELL people much #but he still TALKS with them usually. even outside of gihuge speeches #i feel like him being more taciturn shows just how deeply worried he is even if mina is saying things seem to be going to plan #especially when added in with him looking so tired yet resolute #flashing lights

[gayofthefae]

They could have made the ily speech completely disconnected from any previous words from Mike. But instead they might sure that it perfectly paralleled his earlier words to the audience, in a situation where he was more likely to be being honest, that directly contradicted what he was saying in a season with the theme of lying in which Mike was the only one who hadn't lied yet. What the fuck.

"When I stumbled on her in the woods, she just needed someone. It wasn't fate. It wasn't destiny."

"I feel like my life started that day we found you in the woods. - And I knew in that moment that I loved you."

They had him recount meeting her BOTH. TIMES. He EASILY and honestly more genuinely to me could have taken any memory of their past YEAR AND HALF RELATIONSHIP that we've seen. How much he missed her and their reunion after he thought she was dead would have worked great. The first time he felt really understood by her when he told her about his bullies. He could have really brought up ANY memory that focuses on how she treats him or her characteristics as a person, but nope. Better use the one that is directly contradicted (AND we have past proof of him describing better - to Will).

#the van scene #ily speech #elmike callbacks #stranger things #callbacks #byler

[chirpsythismorning]

🎨 🖼️ 🌈 🩹 🧍🏽💡 🔮⚡️☄️

You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

#byler #stranger things #bizarre love triangle playlist #will byers #will's pov #will is so petty but honest i love him #'i dont like you. but i love you 🙄. seems that i'm always thinking of you' #'though you treat me badly. i love you madly. you've really got a hold of me.' #this whole song is just this back and forth battle of someone in love while simultaneously being frustrated af with said person #'i dont want you. but i need you. don't want to kiss you. but i need to. though you do me wrong now. my love is strong now.' #i also love this part bc it highlights the main difference between will's feelings for mike vs el's feelings for mike #it's not as simple as liking or wanting bc yes it is all of those things but more than that it is a NEED #you'll notice a lot of songs on here in will's pov highlight need in terms of his feelings for mike #which fits with his whole speech to mike in the van #'(i) need you mike. and (i) always will.' #there's also this juxtaposition of el and will both experiencing mike pulling away #el wants to hold on as hard as she can but she knows that it's not going anywhere and she is ready to let go by the end of s4 #will wants to hold on as hard as he can but he knows (assumes) that it's not going anywhere and yet he can't quite let go #'i want to leave you. don't want to stay here. don't want to spend another day here. oh i want to split now. i can't quit now' #leading up to their rain fight in s3 it's as if will is getting to this point where he is ready to leave #and then mike says what he says #and now he really has to go bc it's all too real ('yeah. i guess i did. i really did.' #then a whole season later when will is at his limits again up to their rink-o-mania fight its as if he is trying harder than ever to hold o #it's bc he can't quit now #'you've really got a hold of me' #will is in love now folks

[see-arcane]

AU where the initial plan for Jack and Van Helsing to be the ones to stake/behead him in Varna happens... and to their horror he doesn't turn to dust...

Dracula, pulling the stake out of his chest and plopping his head back on: :)

Van Helsing to Jack:

#I truly believe his big villain speech at the heroes in the window was meant to be delivered MUCH more coolly #probably rehearsed it to himself the whole time #not counting on Jonathan 'Kukri Cryptid' Harker screwing up the whole thing #he's a Premium Fancy Scholomancy Vampire! they're just some guys with crosses and crackers! he's beat that for 400 years!! #stupid solicitor and his supernatural makeover >:C #abraham van helsing #jack seward #dracula #what-if

[thunderon]

I think the cruel part about present Van/Tai’s dynamic is that if Van didn’t actively have cancer, she would for sure wait for Tai. 

yes absolutely!!!! like as if the taivan relationship wasn’t tragic enough! their dynamic tears me apart it’s so good and sad god i need van to beat the cancer allegations

and we dont really see too much on screen but i get the feeling van had accepted her death (or at least told herself she accepted it) and taissa showing up into her life again i think sorta is the catalyst for her shifting back into her teenage mentality of “we need to find a way to survive no matter the cost, we owe it to those who died for us etc etc” and i think (at least i hope) it’ll be a bigger focus in s3

#asks #Yellowjackets #van palmer #some people are van haters #but i LOVED what they started doing with her character #the speech she gave to Travis really revealed a lot of how she views everything #also i don’t hate the cancer plot. which i know is a controversial thing atm #sorry i know i kinda got off topic #anyways yeah absolutely agree with you

[chickentunasalad566]

how do you ship byler and then not care about will's journey w grappling w his sexuality like...😭

#stranger things #byler #will byers #when i see people saying to not vote for the jonwill talk bc we wont get anything we don't already know from it #yeah and youre not getting anything but a corny paragraph from the monologue either bro #if it was indeed supposed to reference wills van speech(which it does)obvi theyre gonna remoge that before posting it to twitter #and youre not getting hints or spoilers from these scripts im sorry #its not anything interesting... to YOU... TO YOU MAYBE #srry got heated 😋 #mike wheeler #st4 #will x mike #text post #and idc if u voted for the monologue like im curious too! will and jonathan take priority sawry

[andthebeanstalk]

Today I learned that, pound for pound, weasels have one of the strongest bites in the animal kingdom.

Then, upon further investigation of that family of animals, including wolverines and honey badgers and otters and stoats, I was reminded once again that this whole family of animals was created on the 8th day of creation, when God woke up and chose Violence.

#original #honey badger #Wolverines #stoats #weasels #ferrets #otters #Badgers #honey badger don't give a shit #the motherfucker got bit by a cobra and then just fell asleep for 4 minutes and got back up #I mean what the fuck. #these things have been known to kill massive predators apparently just out of love for Bloodsport #LOL speech to text capitalized Bloodsport so I guess honey badgers just really love the 1970s Jean-Claude Van Damme movie #which makes total sense because they live their whole lives like they are in a martial arts tournament to the death #otters are cute but they will kill your dog for fun apparently #and on the 8th day God woke up and thought let's get fucking weird with this. let's get nasty

[will80sbyers]

STRANGER THINGS 4 & the painting

#byler #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things #st4 #stedit #strangerthingsedit #st 4x08 #van speech #byler painting #will's painting #will80sbyersgifs #byler tumblr

[reikunrei]

very sad realizing im gonna have to watch all of stranger things again w my parents so all of the stuff w mike and will is at the forefront of their minds before s5 comes out bc otherwise they will literally be so blindsided by them becoming canon. like when we watched the van monologue in s4 my mom’s takeaway was “ooooh will’s sad bc he’s also in love with el!” ??????? first of all, his sister? gross. second of all, that was one of the most closeted speeches ive ever heard a character make??? mother. you cannot be this fucking dumb

#i think abt that every time i think abt the van monologue #like hello? what? #like even forgetting that it's the most blatant Closeted Queer Kid speech ever #that's HIS SISTER #i just wanna watch the whole show again by myself but i know that i wont wanna watch it 2 more time before s5 comes out jsdkf #i mean maybe i will. maybe i'll have a crazed moment where i watch it 4 more times before s5 comes out #like the time i watched spirit stallion of the cimarron 5 times in 1 week #but like shjdkfg i know it's gonna be So Weird when s5 starts #and i just KNOW that my parents are gonna be like 'ummm why did they do that??' #and i'll have to put on my tinfoil hat and be like okay listen so it starts here-- #i say things #stranger things // #i also think it didnt help that like #i guess she didnt pick up on all the Gay Shit in vol1 #and like i watched vol1 again before vol2 came out #but my parents didnt #so like. idk man idk straight people. are the bane of my existence #dumb things that make me wish i could move out on my own with my negative dollars

[veryintricaterituals]

This whole season was the Nandor loves Guillermo back season. He loves him so much. He adores him. We had so many moments, big and small.

He realized something was wrong and organized a birthday dinner.

He bought him a present (foot locker) that Guillermo used as a coffin.

He asked him for bedtime stories and enjoyed Guillermo doing his hair

He got so jealous of Laszlo getting a bit of attention that he flew to outer space

AND admitted he was only doing it to impress Guillermo.

He tried and failed to replace him with Alexander just because Guillermo didn't want to go to the gym with him

and THEN he still took him to the movies with him

When he got in trouble with the news he kept looking and calling for Guillermo and got so angry at him for not being there

How giddy and proud he sounded when he spoke about Guillermo killing a theater full of vampires just to save him

The way he pleaded for his life to the Baron

The way he clung to the Baron's cloak just to stop him

His ridiculous plan with Nadja to kidnap them both and negotiate

The fact he spent the whole episode doing EVERYTHING in his power to save him

And he was so relieved to find him safe and sound in his own coffin

His little speech when he was begging for the Baron at the end, just saying over and over that Guillermo was true and loyal

His safety blanket being one of Guillermo's sweaters

The little boop at the end

The fact that he had Guillermo's card memorized and could recite it (he probably has it saved somewhere)

"I know you better than anyone" and he proceeds to prove it in the last episode

The way he kept including Guillermo into the family dynamic all season

How he wanted to hunt with him and kept calling for him, first to hunt and then for help

His face when he found out he'd been betrayed

The fact he was the only one who'd thought about the Van Helsing DNA interacting with the vampiric transformation (because he'd thought about it so much beforehand)

The way he had to turn the heartbreak to anger

He was a scorned lover

Him destroying Guillermo's things (he destroyed the pillow)

All his dramatics

How he went back to Panera Bread to wait for him night after night

The way he realized he loved Guillermo too much to kill him

How for all his dramatics and threats, he knew from the begging how to get Guillermo to come to him and didn't do it until he knew he wasn't going to kill him

How he probably sat and hung out with Guillermo's mom for a while, probably making conversation

The fact he was looking at his baby pictures (because he's Guillermo's significant other and Sylvia could tell)

Him promising Guillermo he wasn't going to kill him. His word as a vampire, his word as a warrior (season 3 episode 1 parallels much?)

The way he formally introduced him as fully fledged member of the family to the other vampires

How he, again, was the only one who knew what Guillermo needed to complete his transformation

The fact he gave him human blood (he helped transform Guillermo in the end)

The way he knew, almost straight away, that Guillermo wasn't going to be happy as a vampire

How he tried to get the Djinn to fix it for him

How he managed to do WITHOUT the Djinn's help

How he made up a whole ceremony to turn him back

The way he asked Guillermo if he'd rather be a vampire or a human

How he killed Derek when Guillermo couldn't do it

The fact that he knew Guillermo so well that he had his old glasses ready for him

The way he comforted him in the end.

Last season's theme was be careful what you wish for and this one was just love.

And Nandor loves Guillermo so much. And he knows him, he knows him so well.

I think, I think we ARE getting Nandermo next year. There's no other way the show can go on. There's no other direction for these two characters to go.

#writing this healed me #he loves him so much #that's the point #wwdits spoilers #wwdits #nandermo #nandor #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #mine

[lovestuckyhatemarvel]

An au where Steve and Eddie are openly together in Steve’s senior year. And people at this point knew Steve was kind of needy since they’d all heard his ‘I missed you’ to Nancy Wheeler after being away from her for like 5 minutes (Steve always pouts and points out that it was way longer than 5 minutes but no one really listens except for Eddie, who mostly just grins at him) but everyone is still surprised by how intense it gets with Eddie.

They walk down the halls with their hands wound together or in each other’s pockets or pulling the other along by a belt loop. Steve starts wearing metal band shirts cut into crop tops. Eddie wears cozy sweaters in the fall and winter when he’s not performing.

Steve gets almost stupid defensive of Eddie and since Eddie is Eddie, that means he’s always defensive of Eddie. Eddie meanwhile has taken to annoying homophobes by including long, drawn out descriptions of Steve’s beauty in his cafeteria speeches that make more than a couple jocks blush, especially as Steve just stares adoringly up at Eddie. The thing that draws the most eyes is when they sit on each others laps. More than one person has caught them making out under the bleachers and in the back of a car (or van) in the parking lot. Rumor has it, despite winning prom king, Steve missed prom because him and Eddie were going at it in…honestly no one can agree on where it was but people definitely saw them arrive at the school together only for them to disappear from the dance floor.

#stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie

[gayofthefae]

Do you ever think about how, to Mike and Will, this isn't the "in the meantime" or the "until we get together". They are finding ways to make this way of being sustainable. That's why they do the things they've done. They're giving up, or trying to give up. They're practicing giving up and, like so many queer people, trying to find ways of living with it in silence because they've com to terms with the fact that nothing is going to change. They tried getting rid of it and that didn't work. They tried going after it and that didn't work. The only thing left is to find the best possible version of settling.

Mike and Will aren't waiting like we were. As I said in a post once, they're unlearning their childhood dreams. They can't give up their feelings but they can give up any tie they had to an idea of their future.

Will had to learn to support Mike and El at some point, it might as well be now, all at once. Mike won't get who he wants and if he doesn't commit, he'll lose his best second option, so he stops holding off on committing - because what was he holding off for? Silly to think that something else would come, really. That he should keep himself somewhat open for it. Silly.

To Mike and Will, they aren't self-sabotaging. They're just committing to what their lives were always going to be, a little late, even, from their perspective. They dreamed a little too long in the first place. "We're not kids anymore". Those dreams are just fantasies for children to have. You grow up and give them up...even if you never stop wanting them.

#byler analysis #mike analysis #will byers analysis #motives #stranger things #byler #van scene #ily speech

[chirpsythismorning]

☎️🎲 🤼‍♂️ ✈️🚪 ➡️ 🫀🎮⌛️

Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA

previous ⏮️ now playing ⏭️ next back to playlist

#platonic elmike #stranger things #bizarre love triangle playlist #mike wheeler #mike's pov #mike is still a hard nut to crack for me... #this scene in particular i'm still not certain about #i do think it was riddled with his very consistent tactic of stalling #but he's also of course relieved to hear el say she missed him #perhaps this is him thinking "oh thank god she doesn't hate me' #while also having to accept in real time that will was perhaps right that el still needs him... but is he up for the task of el's bf?... #and so he's sort of trying to work out how he can finally just do this to do right by el #which comes with the fear that he is indeed going to lose her when it all comes crashing down inevitably like it already has and is #either way i think he's contending with the fact that losing el may be inevitable #that's why he's having such a hard time lying to her in the first place #bc he knows lies lead to the truth eventually being revealed #and so he just feels her slipping through his fingers no matter what he does #he imagined this future with her (and will) where they stayed connected to each other no matter what #but mike's scared that future won't be possible once all is revealved #i think will's whole speech in the van has mike even more conflicted #bc his feelings for will are very strong at this point #and so even if he believes that this is truly how el feels as of now... #he also probably knows deep deep down that he wishes (still hopes) it was will's feelings #which makes going through with this even harder #not to mention all the parallels between mike and hopper ('not hopper...not mike... you!') #these two male figures in el's life who rescued her from a horrible situation are having a hard time coming to terms with her growing up #like yes she's growing and 'slipping through your fingers' but that's okay! #you don't have to lose her forever just because she doesn't have to rely on you anymore! #4x09 #gif