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where is the will byers/el hopper edit to "who's afraid of little old me?" edit and who do i have to pay to make it happen asap

#stranger things #will byers #el hopper #taylor swift #text post #mine

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am I stupid or does the TH and the 11-(1?)2 on Lucas's watch stand for the day and the date (Thursday, November 12th) which if s5 takes place in 1987, 11/12/87 DOES fall on a Thursday)

#stranger things 5 #lucas Sinclair #stranger things #theory #mine

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"Byler bonfire scene" but it's the scene with Cyrus and Tj from Andi Mack

#god i feel like my worlds are converging #andi mack and tyrus my beloved #stranger things #stranger things 4 #byler #tyrus #andi mack #text post

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for those of you that wish we could have gotten a regular byler road trip full of mike and will shenanigans and gay pining, look no further! below is a fic i've been working on for a long time (with art by @oceanic-sunsets and @hei-jessi-draws !!) and i'd love if you'd be willing to check it out and leave a kudos, bookmark, or comment :)

summary: “I’m serious, though,” he says, and when he glances up, Mike’s already staring back at him, brown eyes imploring into hazel. Insistent. “We should do it. For real.”

Will’s breath catches at the way it feels like he can see right through him, and he swallows hard at how sincere he sounds, even if he doubts the idea will ever get off the ground, if he figures that Mike will forget about it in a day or two. “Where would we even go?” Will says, humoring him.

“California,” Mike answers, like it’s obvious.

OR: Mike and Will recreate their perfect spring break by taking a road trip to California.

#if you can leave a review i'd v much appreciate it!! #it's probably one of my biggest writing projects and i haven't gotten a ton of comments yet #mainly bc i think the chapters are so long and my updates have been sporadic #but it would mean the world to me if you could leave me a review! #either in my ask box on tumblr or on ao3 #stranger things #stranger things 4 #stranger things 5 #mike wheeler #will byers #byler #byler fic #byler fanfic #ao3 #fic rec #mine

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stranger things fandom culture during 2018-2021 was being delusional enough to hope that they would drop a teaser during the super bowl just bc they did it once in 2017 for s2

#just remembered this as I saw super bowls news #we've really lost a key part to who we are when we stopped being delusional about random teaser/trailer dates #i fear since post-s3 #stranger things #text post #mine

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the universe we dreamt

Ratings: Teen

Author/Artist: @you-were-alone-too @oceanic-sunsets

Status: In-Progress; Ch. 2/4; 24.6K

Tags: Road Trip, Internalized Homophobia, Period Typical Homophobia, Set in 1988, Post-Season 5, Gay Mike Wheeler, Gay Will Byers, Mutual Pining, Will/El Siblings, Mike/Eleven Friendship, Heart to Hearts, Denver, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, California, Mixtapes, Letters, The Painting, Best Friends to Lovers, Miscommunication, Not Actually Unrequited Feelings, Angst, Fluff, Mike Wheeler I Know What You Are, The Closet is Made of Glass

Summary: It's six months after they defeat Vecna and close the Upside Down for the final time, and along with it comes the spring of 1988. When Mike suggests that he and Will try and recreate their perfect spring break in California, it leads to a road trip towards the west coast that stirs up old memories and, perhaps, something more.

#link is in title #please read and review #stranger things #stranger things 4 #mike wheeler #will byers #byler #byler fanfic #mine

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posting a 17k word chapter of my byler fic that i've been working on for ages while wearing the shirt I have of will's painting...life is good

#stranger things #stranger things 4 #mike wheeler #will byers #byler #text post #byler fanfic #mine

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I found the writing notebook I bought in 2018 and I did a ship ranking for several of the ships in the show post s2 and wow if only i knew then what i knew now (ignore how cringy some of this is i was 16 okay)

#im kind of a visionary tbh? #like i wrote this before jopper was a couple and before byler was really even a thing in the fandom #and im still anti stancy and harringrove like so true of me #stranger things #stranger things 2 #photo set #mine #byler

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it's one of those nights where im just nonstop thinking about "if will's the one with the crush why is mike acting weird"

#its rattling around in my head like a loose marble #stranger things #stranger things 4 #mike wheeler #will byers #byler #text post #mine

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i dont even remember whose post this was but i think all the time about how someone said "what would everyone think if el *didnt* get to mike in time to save him from jumping off that cliff and it looks like he killed himself bc his 'best friend' who everyone secretly suspected was gay died" like can you imagine how that would have looked to everyone in hawkins....it makes me actually so so sick nobody look at me

#stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers #byler #text post #mine

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thinking about how argyle tells mike "surf's up, romeo" when he and el are trying to talk at surfer boy pizza and then there's also the stove behind mike during his monologue that has the name "montague" (romeo's last name) on it.

at first glance most people probably assume this detail is pro-milkvan because mike and el are being compared to romeo and juliet, a pair of star-crossed lovers who fell in love with each other at first sight. this is what romeo and juliet's relationship appears to be on the surface, but the whole play is actually making fun of teenagers who claim they're in love when they don't really know each other. (almost like how milkvans and general audiences tend to perceive the show versus fans that actually try to read into the deeper meanings).

something something "i've loved you since that moment i saw you in the woods" paralleling romeo when he first sees juliet and thinks he's in love with her. (this combined with mike actually not falling in love with el at first sight as he claimed during his monologue because in s1 he wants to send her back to a mental hospital so they can go back to finding will. and if we compare this to romeo thinking he's in love with a different girl and crying over her moments before he sees juliet and then decides he's actually in love with her instead, well, it doesn't take much to put two and two together)

anyway i just find it really interesting that mike is referred to as romeo both textually and visually moments before and during his i love you monologue to el. definitely coincidental of the writers and set designers and this surely doesn't mean anything

#can you tell im doing a unit on romeo and juliet with my freshmen right now #stranger things #stranger things 4 #mike wheeler #byler #text post #mine

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with that deadline article pretty much confirming a 2025 release, my prediction is still for a november 2025 volume 1 release and a december 2025 volume 2 release, probably over the respective holiday breaks to increase their streaming numbers, plus it seems to align with the winter setting this season is set in

#stranger things #stranger things 5 #theory #text post #mine

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so we all know the titles of the synth tracks are always super specific and used within the appropriate context, right?

so how exactly do milkvans deal with the fact that they played a track called "eulogy" (which is specifically used in scenes relating to death/mourning) over the milkvan fight in s4 which mike later tells will is "the kind of fight you can't come back from" like what is their reasoning/defense there? seriously im curious??

#the jokes write themselves atp #like it's so funny to me and it's one of my favorite byler proofs #stranger things #stranger things 4 #will byers #mike wheeler #byler #text post #mine

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so we're really in our s5 filming era...the last one we'll ever have for stranger things....huh.

#i've been here since dec 2017 how did we get here #this is my third filming era for st and it's gonna be the most painful i just know if #god #feeling emo about this #stranger things #stranger things 5 #i can actually use that tag for the first time holy shit??!

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dear will, love mike: the letter

aka what an unsent letter from mike to will would have said (in my opinion)

(based on the lettergate tweet from the st writers)

#praying tumblr doesn't destroy the quality #but here is my interpretation of the byler letter using the lettergate tweet! #pls like and rb if this made you feel crazy cause i know i did. writing it #stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers #lettergate #byler #photo set #mine #stranger things 4 #stranger things 5 #st writers #stranger things writers

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i love how all these "leaks" spoil things that were already confirmed to happen in s5 by the writers (vickie having a bigger role, learning the reason that will was taken) as well as obvious things that were left hanging for a reason (the importance of the letters, byler/milkvan resolution) like if we're gonna make fake leaks for s5 let's at least be CREATIVE about it

#like seriously vibrantwaters I'm missing you #stranger things #stranger things 5 #stranger things 4 #byler #stranger things leaks #stranger things spoilers #text post #mine

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reminder that @/ch*rrypr*line was literally posting fake leaks during s4 which was proven once vol 2 was released

#don't believe anything they say #or anything else you see for that matter #stranger things #stranger things 4 #stranger things 5 #stranger things spoilers #stranger things leaks #byler #text post #mine