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buckieduckie2 · 1 year

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why i joined tumblr and why i ship byler- cause i want to info dump cause i can

i wanna tell everyone why i got on tumblr because i can and i want to

so i got on tumblr because of byler during august. i started shipping byler during july.

i was kinda late to the stranger things party and i didnt actually watch it until may of 2022, but funny enough, it WASNT because of season 4 at all actually. my friend just really really wanted me to watch it because she thought id like it. she was riiiiiggghhthttttt.

yeah lmfao i didnt watch stranger things cause there was so much hype around season 4, i watched it because i wanted something gay to watch cause my heart stopper hyperfixation had just gone away and i still needed something gay to watch. i dm my friend saying "hey, do you have anything gay to watch because i need to watch something gay" and she gave me a list and was like "richie from IT is gay" and "will from stranger things is gay" and of course MY brain translated this to "mike is gay" because of notions from before hand i had about this little known to me character mike and also the fact that i knew that finn wolfhard played richie so i mistook will for mike because i was thinking the FCU and- yeah

so yeah i watched stranger things because a) my frined really wanted me to and b) the knowlege that mike was gay and thats what pushed me

anyways to safe to say i was THOROUGHLY confused when they started pulling the mike and el narraitve cause i LEGITEMATELY just thought it was straight canon like genuinelly- i had already imagined what i thougt the coming out scene would be like for him- LMFOAOOOO

anyways back on track- so then mike and el kissed and ill admit i was a lil disappointed but i was like fuck it ig theyre cute and then proceeded to be BLINDEDDDDDD by comp het. twas a very sad three next seasons for me in retrospect 😔

so then i saw the "its not my fault you dont like girls" and then i was like- oh yeah this is the dude my friend was talking about

ANYWAYS

so yeah why i got on tumblr?

cause i got on pinterest andnndndnd yk naturally statrted filling my feed with stranger things stuff and of course i loved will cause he was gay and that made me so like omgggggg yass hes gay and that makes me so happy- but like i didnt ship byler- I THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA GET TO SEE ONE DUDE IN THE VERY LAST SCENE HELP 💀🖐 i now realize im allowed to hold myself to better standards

so everytime i would see something byler related id be like, yeahhhhhhh its cute but not for me </3 cause i was like "yeah will likes mike but obvi mike doesnt like will back 🙄" and i thought it was a lil kookie and also was a firm believer that mike was straight cause yk i love throwing away all my suspicions that were raised while watching season 4 yk i love just forgetting everything 💀

and THEN one faitful day in july i was over at my friends house (The same gril who made me wtch stranger things) and we were watching gay stranger things edits on tiktok (as ya do) and GIRLIE

there was one edit- (and usually as i was watching these compilations i would just ignore the byler stuff and-) it was a rink-o-mania edit

need i say more

i saw that look

i SAW THAT LOOK

and i knew

we paused the video immediately and were like "well- i mean i know that mike is straight-" "yeah exactLy-" "but-" "but-" "but right there-" "yeah i dont know that-" "that seemed pretty gay-" "but mike is straight, right?" "yeah- yeah..- mike is straight..." "yeah..." "...yeah..."

literally how it went

anyways so then im like- its running thorugh my head all evening and like- that sole video was enough to like 99% convince me he was gay- like cmon fellas lets be real here. anyways so yeah i was now 99% convinced that mike was gay or not straight yk (im a gay mike truther now) and we talked about it for a lil and

yeah so then i started paying more attention to the byler posts on my pinterest page and i started reading theroies, all of which were tumblr screen shots and i started really convinceing myself- still was on the fence but-

the one post, and one of the first posts that i read. and the post that conviced me was "Why I no longer think Mike Wheeler is Bi, but Gay" yk the iconic post from @kaypeace21? yeah so i read that and was like "fuck im convinced" and then i proceeded to read the entirety of the byler slides over the course of a 3 day period and fully fully convinced myself

and yeah i kept looking at theories on pinterest screen shotted from tumblr and yk byler was my everything (and still very much is) and i loved pinterest and spent all of my time on there and- 💀 i read- i read w- wh- wattpad fics 💀😟 BUT ITS OKAY because i actually found a pretty good collection of one shots on there but- nah man after one specific fic i found i had to call it quits cause i couldnt handle it anymore 💀💀💀💀

and then i found one poster on pinterest that would just do daily updates on the byler tag on tumblr and eventuallyyyyyy i decided tumblr looked really fun and i was tired of just watching afar tired of WAVING FROM A WINDOW WOOOOAAHHHOWOWAHHHOOOHHH

yeah so i decided enough was enough and i wanted to be directly at the source and part of the action

and now im here <33333

and yeah so i have officially upgraded from Pinterest and Wattpad™ to AO3 and Tumblr™ and thank the lord too 😟🙏

@l0v3c0r3e peer presuring you into reading this entire unit of a post

#byler #byler tumblr #byler pinterest

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frogboyandzombieface · 2 years

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I mean, I guess I can empathize with M*levens being upset if Byler becomes canon, because they have invested so much time shipping them, but at the same time i feel a self-discovering arc for Mike makes so much sense. Seeing as he qas the 'leader' of his group of friends, the dungeon master, the one that said ' we are going out there to look for Will' and his friends just follow him. He has been a trustworthy character, he believed in others, he brought E* into their group. The fact is, his catchphrase of 'friends don't lie' would weight a lot more if all of the sudden his friends discovered he has been lying, even to himself for such a long time. He's been trying all his life to be the person everyone expect him to be, but i think it qill mean a lot if he just turns his life around to stop lying about who he really is. I think the fact that he stopped talking to Will, got invested into D&D and maybe doesn't talk about feelings with Dustin and Lucas could bring a moment of 'i don't know you anymore' from them that would turn to be 'no, you never really knew me at all', to find out he was being his true self with Will and how much it means to him. Using a character that we've seen growing up is key, because it feels like a real process, not forced from one season to another, a thing that kids that age might discover, you know? It makes sense even trio-wise because we'll have one lying on purpose (E*), one lying by omission (Will), and one lying by denial, without realizing it (Mike). Not to mention that if we are looking at the three of them as very central character on the story (which i tend to do because -favorites much-) it makes sense that one was born and raised on the supernatural, one got caught into it, and the third one try as he might to get involved with what is going on, he is the regular one and still, i doesn't mean nothing is actually happening in his life.

OH MY GOD IM SO SORRY THIS HAS BEEN SITTING IN MY ASKS FOR LIKE MONTHS AND I SOMEHOW DIDNT NOTICE IT THEN I FELT AWKWARD ABOUT ASKING IT ANDDHJKFJDKGJKSD im a dumbass sorry anon whoever sent this :((

BUT !! i agree with ur points a lot honestly like.. yeah i feel bad for milk vans their ship is just like turning into shit. like.. i love el and mikes relationship so much though not romantically, and mike is hurting el while he's dealinhg with his own shit.. like GET UR FUCKING ACT TOGETHER BRO just tell her the truth !! its hard but its better than lying and saying u love her and making it all worse. she doesnt even believe you anyway! the way she looked at him at the end of ep 9 like she clearly knows shes lying. i feel bad for her :(

#asks #anon #stranger things #mike wheeler #byeler #byler #el hopper

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