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Your anxiety ever gotten to the point where you can't even sleep or focus on literally anything but looping back down the same rabbit hole scenarios your mind has created until you feel physically sick.

#yes

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I think im doing everything wrong

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Neo

#neo #the matrix #LOVE THIS

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sum sketches i did of a blonde man in his 50s

#johnny lawrence #cobra kai #LOVE THIS

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post en español porque eliminé Twitter

pero mi miedo al rechazo está cabron porque me dejan de mostrar interés y ya estoy viendo una vida de extrema soledad en donde nadie me va a querer porque esa persona que se fijó en mi va a ser la única en lo que me queda de vida

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Keanu Reeves as Neo

in THE MATRIX 1999

#keanu reeves #the matrix 1999

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i love how this is literally just mike’s s5 hair…..finn wolfhard u will always be famous

#he is so pretty and for what!!! #omg

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me when tender, emotional music plays

#byler #will byers #stranger things #byler endgame #mike wheeler i know what you are

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manifested mileven at the snowball in 2016, so now I’m manifesting byler at senior prom🪻🌻

#byler art

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the party leader, mike wheeler - apoc au character details + poll under the cut!

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mike's role in the party:

a scouter - essentially plans runs, checks areas first to ensure safety, and directs the runners during supply runs

assigns basic survival chores at the beginning of each day (laundry, boiling water, patrol, hunting, etc.)

is the "face" of the party -> always the one to negotiate with people of other groups

even though the party likes to give him shit for being kind of rude and bossy about how he talks to them in "leader" mode - they always hang onto his every word! they love and respect him deeply

kind of like a tired dad whenever he's not fighting with someone else -> basically watches over everyone to make sure they're okay

would never hesitate to do something deplorable to protect the party: family first

skills + hobbies:

considered the designated driver (along with max): nancy taught him when he was younger. he was scared about being useless due to his inability to shoot and aim guns so nancy helped him find something useful. max teaches him how to drive manual so that he can drive her muscle car (its how they get over their distaste for each other)

writes an entry in a journal that he stole every day! he lets will doodle in the margins of the paper :)

loves to read whatever's around - particularly interested in history, sci-fi, and old journals from people before the apocalypse (reads them with dustin and el -> they are nosy as hell and live for the drama)

great at using machetes and hatchets -> do NOT let this boy shoot a gun. he will accidentally hurt you and himself

good at fixing up guns and navigating - lucas (guns) and dustin (navigating) taught him :D

quirks / fun facts:

he likes to switch around the pins on his jacket a lot! the party find pins around to give to him (range from terrible to wearable)

since he's the only boy that likes to tie up his hair, max and el like to doll up and play around with his hair during their downtime

is very annoying and particular when it comes to doing survival chores (out of love) -> makes sure that the chores are divided equally among all of them and that no one gets the same chores twice in a row

--- other notes: mike was the first character i had in mind when thinking about this au (no surprise there) and the drawing of him sitting cross legged with a machete in his hand was the first ever "official" drawing i made for this :D i tried to make apoc mike similar to canon mike in terms of his temperament, his hero complex, his self-sacrificial tendencies, his inability to appropriately process his romantic feelings, his natural leadership and his personality. about mike's inability to use guns -> looking at mike's character dnd sheet, his dexterity is low and s1 mike wheeler cannot aim for shit either (see his rock throw). the reason he's most comfortable with machetes (and hatchets) is because of their versatility as both weapons and tools! just wanted to share because i think mike needed a nerf and him not being able to shoot guns is both in character and funny as hell to me i've had mike and will's char sheets done for a while and i really love the way they look :) i'm excited to post will's next! i'm working on the character sheets in batches of two, so which duo are yall most interested to see next? i'll work on them based on the poll results and post them next week at the earliest :) i'll prob also try out some concept designs for the demogorgon-like zombies sometime soon as well!

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it’s been said a million times but i feel like people don’t see the love story between byler because it’s more subtle and of course people don’t expect the nerdy boy who gets to date a girl with superpowers to be in love with his male best friend… the trope of a character like mike, a leader, dating the girl with superpowers who also needs to be “saved” and is somewhat established as a leader herself because of her superpowers and by association of dating mike is a very familiar one. that trope/dyanmic/storyline/arc or whatever you want to call it has been done to death. we’ve seen it a million times. it’s easy to put characters like mike and el together based on the main standouts of their roles in the show. the thing is, is that their relationship never progresses in the way a true lovers story would. in a way their relationship is kind of poking fun at the stereotypical romances we see on tv and films and how if we were to see how two characters who are just together out of convenience for a romantic subplot would actually turn out. it wouldn’t be a healthy relationship. the characters would clash a lot because they aren’t together for the right reasons, but instead just to somewhat satiate the audience’s need for a love story.

el and mike’s relationship is written to purposefully not be endgame. their arcs and personality types don’t mesh together. and for 4 seasons that’s what’s been developed between mike and el. the only progression they’ve had in their relationship is their demise. that’s done intentionally. the real love story is between mike and will because through the cracks of mikeven’s relationship we see the building blocks of byler.

it’s like what murray says about the curtain. i like that analogy because mike and el are the curtain. mike and will are what’s behind the curtain. and with a curtain you can choose how much is shown. you can reveal nothing, you can show glimpses, or you can reveal everything behind it. a curtain is a safety net and facade. using a curtain doesn’t remove what’s behind it— it just hides it.

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the full party lineup (and their van) - au details + poll under the cut!

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individual outfit details -> pts. i and ii

party outfit cohesion

to unify the group, i purposefully made it so that their outfits all have one piece that shares colors with a different member (ex. mike's jacket is the same color as lucas's pants, max's jacket is the same color as el's jeans, etc.)

the party swap clothes with each other occasionally (el swaps all the time) - sometimes they do it on purpose, sometimes on accident

the boys all share socks and belts with each other + the girls share pants

party dynamics

party started off with just the boys -> el and max join later

very tight knit group, all love each other - max's addition was the most volatile change and did not start off well

group roles are established (still trying to figure out the story, but i do know how each party member fits within the group)

regarding romance atp in the story -> lumax are in an "its complicated" stage (kissed once and don't know what to do ab it) and byler are tentative fwb with a strained friendship bc of it (up to interpretation for what they get up to)

--- other notes: i'm doing a poll out of curiosity's sake tbh - i want to know what you guys are interested in when im making this au! the results of the poll aren't necessarily what i'll post next since i've been making some character sheets for the party to establish how they act with their personalities, but either way, it'll be interesting to see the results. every option on the poll are things that i'm looking to explore anyways so this is really just for me to gauge interest :)

#stranger things #stranger things fanart #I LOVE THIS SM

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waiting so bad for mike's pov

#byler #stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers

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he’s so gone

#Byler #will byers

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“We have a role available for a nerdy teenage boy going through some internalised homopho-“

Finn

#finn wolfhard

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#byler #mike wheeler #stranger things

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I barely have time to draw for myself nowadays because of school, but I've had this screenshot of @androgynouswizardbanana's post saved on my phone forever so OF COURSE i had to jump at the opportunity to finally draw it

#byler #mike wheeler #finn wolfhard #stranger things #REAL I WAS THERE