#will Byers

[hazawhite]

“We all have to grow up ”🍂

#byler #will byers #stranger things #byler is real #byler tumblr #mike wheeler #finn wolfhard #noah schnapp #bylerween2023 #finnwolfhard

[taeiris]

the realization that byler will hug eachother regardless of their relationship status next season just kinda hit me and idk why i want to cry

#byler #stranger things #will byers #mike wheeler

[mikeslawyer]

this is still such a crazy shot for me

because not only is mike holding up the phone for will, even though will has already taken it, therefore there’s no longer any need for mike’s hand to be there.

but mike is literally standing in a glass booth, shoved inside, while will is standing just on the edge of it, just barely outside.

mike is holding will’s hand, almost as if reaching outside of the glass closet to will, who has just barely taken a step out.

#my roman empire #byler #mike wheeler #will byers

[claywheelr]

S5 Mike Wheeler confesses his feelings for Will to El because he doesn't know what to do with them, constantly stumbling over his words, fidgeting with his hands, making absolutely no eye contact, totally freaked out by the fact he's saying all of it out loud, and finally El stops him, looks directly into his eyes, and says, "Mike, it's okay, I understand." smiling warmly which immediately calms him down, stopping his multiple attempts to explain himself out of anxiousness

Paralleling this scene S01 - EP03

Also the outfits matching hello?

#byler #stranger things #byler nation #mike wheeler is gay #will byers #mike wheeler #byler endgame #anti mileven #platonic mileven #byler tumblr

[bylertruth3r]

When blue (Mike) meets yellow (Will) in the west (California)

@chirpsythismorning

#stranger things #byler #mike wheeler #mike wheeler is gay #will byers #stranger things 4 #when blue meets yellow in the west

[thai-09]

an attempt at a quick animation of Wil smiling 🫠

#will byers #stranger things #will byers fanart #I'm trying to learn how to do animation and I'm already regretting it #People who can make animations without giving up have all my respect

[fluffyfangirl]

I love each of them. If you even care.

#Stranger Things #The Party #Mike Wheeler #Dustin Henderson #El Hopper #El Hopper-Byers #Will Byers #Lucas Sinclair #Max Mayfield #Lumax #Byler #Stranger Things Fanart #Digital Art #FluffyFangirlArt #This has been chilling on my tablet for way too long

[romainlettusdinnerparty]

byler x shared looks <3

#byler #stranger things #will byers #mike wheeler #byler tumblr #stranger things 5 #byler endgame #st5 #byler art #will byers fanart #mike wheeler fanart #stranger things fanart #art #fan art #finn wolfhard #byler fanart

[seigneurambigu]

Here’s some things I’ve drew during english test and french class today because I was bored !!

#stranger things #will byers #mike wheeler #byler #byler endgame #fanart #miwi #byler fanart #demogorgon #will byers fanart

[hawkinsschoolcounselor]

Call me crazy, but I don't think Will is getting Vecna'd.

I think everyone is going to be expecting it, to the point that they protect Will like crazy. I also think Henry is going to use their preoccupation with Will's safety to try and pick the rest of them off one by one. His plan is to torture Will until he breaks.

What Henry is going to want is for Will to join him again. To that end, he will target everyone Will cares about, all the while taunting him. He will tell Will how pointless it is to fight against him. He's going to win in the end, and he might consider sparing some of Will's friends if he joins him.

I stand by my prediction that Will is going to have a Luke/Palpatine temptation arc.

#stranger things 5 #byler #will byers

[cloudycleric]

hi i did it i finished the byler percy jacok

#byler #stranger things #will byers #mike wheeler #my art #byler art

[hazawhite]

🍂🍂🍂

#byler #will byers #stranger things #mike wheeler #byler is real #byler tumblr #finn wolfhard #noah schnapp #bylerween2023 #finnwolfhard

[conflictofthemind]

Thoughts on "Escape from Camazotz"

Oppressive Suburbia, Conformity, and Season 5 Themes

I've long thought that a major focus of Season 5 will be the contrast between the families of The Wheelers and The Byers, and exploring how non-traditional family environments can be freeing vs the oppressive structure of the nuclear family.

In a Wrinkle In Time, Camazotz is a planet controlled by the big bad of the book, the "IT", who forces the citizens into a conformity that resembles American suburbia. All of the houses the same, the citizens the same, doing the same things at the same time without individual identity. Without anything different. Different means a lot of things, but with Stranger Things dropping different in reference to Will's identity and the presumable themes of this season, it will heavily codify as queerness and how it threatens the cisheterosexual family model.

Henry was raised in the 1950s, a decade still revered by conservatives for it's traditional family dynamics that supposedly were the peak of culture and happiness for all. That was all a lie, of course, and Henry knew so as he shows to Nancy and Eleven during his monologue. The second most conservative decade aside from the 1950s in American society is widely considered to be the 1980s.

The Creels will serve in parallel to The Wheelers; the worst example of what they could become and the damage that this type of family could do to a child that is different in any way. Notice how Vecna selectively shows Nancy visions of The Wheelers dying, but not anyone else she may consider family or friends (like Jonathan).

That is; unless they change their ways and come together as a healthy functioning family facing their traumas, The Wheelers will be toast.

Karen has been moved up to a main character role this season. Ted's actor says the father starts to show up more for Holly (hold that) and realizes he wants to act differently. Holly has been recast. Finn has said Mike goes on a much more personal journey this season, and steps up as a leader.

Oh, also: the catalyst for all of this is that Holly goes missing. The contrast will help show how the Byers (including El and Hopper here) were able to pull together and help solve Will's disappearance, versus how the Wheelers as a closed off nuclear family grapple with Holly's vanishing.

Each of the Byers is in some kind of a non-1950s conformist relationship, but particularly Will (not in one now but we all know he will be). I think El might represent, after she breaks up with Mike, the fear of the unmarried woman being satisfied without a husband. The above shot really emphasizes my point.

I predict that Will will end up coming out to his family rather early on, and we will see all of them immediately accept him with little surprise or push-back. Will is a visible gay man who comes from an open minded non traditional family (divorced, non-married, adoptive) that is willing to have honest conversations.

But this theme will place the most focus on the Wheelers. Mike is the main character of said family and this will particularly focus on his arc, and his acceptance of his queerness in the midst of suburban conformity.

He is not visible, he comes from a Reagan-supporting family who don't communicate with each other. He is not particularly close with his family like Will is. He pushes his feelings down and tries his damn hardest to be normal despite it all. His trauma hasn't really been addressed at all. He is falling back into his usual habits - the one thing he dared to do different (grow his hair long) has gone back to how it was.

It's not all doom and gloom though. This season above all will be a redemption arc of the American nuclear family, how they choose to escape their conformity and learn to be there for each other, thus overpowering Vecna. Not that the Wheelers are going to end this personally.

"Great, more hysteria. Just what we need". "It's the news, now indistinguishable from the tabloids".

#stranger things #mike wheeler #the wheelers #the byers family #byler #will byers #st5 speculation #henry creel #the specificity of this title alone and the themes gives me no doubt that these are all real #i also think this is the episode where byler is canonized and where mike finally escapes conformity #holly wheeler #ted wheeler #karen wheeler #i didnt really mention nancy at all sorry girl #if youre reading this PLEASE search up my username on youtube you will find it SO RELEVANT

[alcalystrasz]

I know this has been said many times but... Except Kali and Byler, what exactly are we supposed to memorize from this season?

#stranger things #byler #noah schnapp #will byers #byler tumblr #finn wolfhard #mike wheeler #byler is canon #love #byler is endgame #byler nation

[mikeslawyer]

thinking about how next season will is gonna discover that mike jumped off a cliff in s1 and had it not been for el, will would’ve come back to his best friend being dead. and that everyone except for will knew about it but no one has ever told him. jesus christ.

#no bc like #nobody has ever told will mike tried to khs #my god. #byler #mike wheeler #stranger things #will byers

[bylertruth3r]

Will saying "Mike is gonna find out and he's gonna be mad" to El is foreshadowing about Mike finding out Will lied about the painting in s5 and being mad about it ,the Duffers are so smart for adding the painting subplot because Mike has to thank El for the painting and El is gonna be like "what painting?" and Mike's gonna figure out the painting really is from Will and that Will really meant those things that him feel so loved, plus Finn said Mike is gonna have leader moments in s5 and that's what Will wanted for Mike because he's known him for more than a decade and he knows the real Mike who Mike felt like he had to repress to become a different person because it's what he thinks people expect from him and i think he's also a people pleaser and he has a really low self-esteem and Will makes him feel loved while El makes him feel insicure and Mike wants to feel needed and Will needs him and El doesn't

#stranger things #byler #mike wheeler #mike wheeler is gay #will byers #stranger things 4 #stranger things 5 #wiseheart #el hopper #eleven hopper