#like just…..byler

[drangues]

gay tumblr users said they wanted more cleradin i said oh im sure

#byler #mike wheeler #will byers #cleradin #stranger things #my art #byler fanart #ok but howls moving castle au would fit cleradin so well HELLO #ive watched the movie AND read the book #just bear with me #howl is described as heartless cus he legit has no heart and made a deal with a fire demon #howls castle being run by his heart aka calcifer and sophie being the only one able to make calcifer obey her? peak byler #in the book sophie discovers she can actually do magic! while making hats she would say ’oh u look like u belong to a rich woman’ #and viola the person who then buys her hat would become rich #but sophie was so clueless that it couldve been her doing #will like this but instead of a hat shop he paints for people #ppl commission paintings from him and/or come to him for portraits #when sophie sees past howl and screams ’find me in the future!’ and at the beginning of the movie #howl says ’there u are sweetheart ive been looking everywhere for u’ #like just…..byler #thanks #and hi if ure reading this teehee #if u see any mistakes no u dont

[munsons-mutiny]

One of my favorite trope for Steddie is Steve hunting down Eddie when the kids join Hellfire and giving him a long list of dos and donts.

At first Eddie thinks he’s just being a prick, and worried he’s going to turn the nerds into freaks like him. Especially when he says not to mention drugs in front of Dustin.

But then he starts pulling out lists of monsters that can’t be in campaigns. And like what??? Why can’t he use demagorgons? They were gonna be in the next combat! He’s tempted to ignore the warnings, in fact he’s all set to, but something about Steve’s face when he was laying it all out haunts him. Something so deadly serious about it. So first he decides to test the waters to see if he’s full of shit.

When the session starts, he makes a throwaway comment, “you’re acting like there’s a mindflayer around the corner.”

All the kids freeze but Wheeler especially looks like he’s going to be sick. He even grabs at the bracelet around his wrist. The one he always said his best friend made him before he moved.

Eddie curses himself for even trying to test it out after that, and immediately bullshits the whole session so he can scrap any hint of demogorgans from the campaign.

After that session he drives straight to Harringtons house and demands they go over all the things he can’t include again, in detail, while he takes notes.

He doesn’t know what’s going on with these freshmen, but he knows trauma when he sees it and well he’d gotten attached to the gremlins.

When he leaves that night, he thinks Steve is looking at him with approval. Like he trusts him with their well-being now.

#stranger things #eddie munson #steve harrington #mike wheeler #lil bit of byler #just a hint #also I firmly believe there’s not enough Eddie and Mike content in this fandom #like Mike worshipped him too #styled himself after him #and arguably needs Eddie more than Dustin does since he’s already got Steve #idk why I just feel like if anyone can kill season 3 and 4 Mike it’s Eddie #bring back my sweet season 1 and 2 leader who puts his friends before everything else #steddie #mine

[kidovna]

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

#updated haircuts!!! #byler #stranger things #byler fanart #mike wheeler #will byers #artovna #the fact that there were times when I LOVED mike/el so much and now I just get sad every time I see them is crazy #no one talk to me about the l bloody smitten comment. sorry I briefly made you British in 2016 dustin #random fun fact: finn wolfhard liked that old artwork on instagram when I first posted it and I hadn’t even tagged him. #I’d tagged him in a few other mike wheeler pieces I’d done and I guess he was snooping 😆 #back when the cast weren’t so popular and they were so little 😭 #prom byler

[fleursfairies]

"normalize male friendships! just because they are close doesn't mean they're dating!"

yes i agree! but these specific bitches gay idk what to tell you

#its not like we're shipping every male friendship #just the ones that are obviously so in love #byler #destiel #wolfstar #stucky #jeric #etc #idk

[silverliing]

“If byler were both girls nobody wou-“ yes they would! as someone who grew up sapphic I would love them even more!

@rainyydazze Ty for putting this in my brain

#lesbyler #is this rule 63? are they trans? you decide! #stranger things #byler #rainyydazze #will byers #mike wheeler #unintentional but I just realized hair-do Michelle looks just like Nancy :’-) #I also realized the bike is huge but let’s just say it’s Jonathan’s old bike #I’m usually not big on quote unquote genderbending #mainly because it can get into ignorance and insensitivity towards trans issues #but I also love the idea of lesbian byler bc I grew up lesbian and I relate to these characters a lot! #it’s cute! #but yea I was thinking about adding the rest of the party/el but I refrained from it #bc I want to allow people to decide whether the switch in genders applies to everyone or just byler #st #stranger things fanart #fanart #illustration #drawing #art #artists on tumblr #byler fanart

[upsidedownlurker]

GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!!! I totally just figured out the lip-sync leak!!!1! Mike and Eleven have a very deep and romantic conversation together, and they completely debunk byler!!! so cute and slay <3

[Turn your sound on I promise it's better]

...

inspired by @will80sbyers lovely twilight interpretation :D

#byler #gay mike wheeler #stranger things leaks #st5 spoilers #st5 leaks #lipgate #stranger things shitpost #mike WILL have his six little nuggets just like steve #mike and eleven WILL get married #its been built up for four seasons bro its toooootally gonna happen #toooooooooooooootally #anti milkvan #I mean I guess

[elya-doodles]

🫴

#fanart #artists on tumblr #art #stranger things fanart #stranger things #stranger things fandom #mike wheeler #mike wheeler fanart #byler #byler fanart #listen #everyone’s always talking about mike coming out to Will or El first #but I need him to come out to his mom first #like full on visceral sobbing in his moms arms #there’s no way there just gonna give us Karen trying to get him to open up every season #and not expect me not to want this #imagine Mike comes home already ready to snap #and his mom sees and asks him what’s wrong #and bro just breaks tf down in his moms arms #and like tells her he’s gay or he’s in love with Will idk #do you see the vision #karen wheeler #stranger things season 5 #ignore how sketchy this is #I’m dying #you have no idea #I’ve been thinking about this for weeks #lgbtqia #coming out #angst

[astrobei]

he’s very tired after his surprise party btw

#happy birthday to mike one of my characters of all time fr #u already know how i feel about him so i will keep it short and sweet #thank u for consistently allowing me to crack ur head open like an egg and mess around with the insides #sigh. but like fr #happy mike day 🥳 !! #here’s to many more mike fics from me #ur local mike wheeler enthusiast #(see pfp for reference) #also pssssst #they’re wearing each others clothes pspspspsps #not that it’s rly relevant i just thought u shd know #bc i created this and i said so #mike wheeler #will byers #byler #/astro draws #creating an art tag which is maybe presumptuous of me we’ll see how often it gets used

[chirpsythismorning]

Bringing this back bc I think we as a society moved on too fast

#byler #sitting in silence and thoughtfully listening to the person you're in love with blabbering on and just sitting there like #LET ME PHOTOGRAPH YOU IN THIS LIGHT #you could easily make the argument byler is endgame based solely on the number of parallels they have over the seasons #why is there so much dedication and intricate planning put into scenes for them? #why do i have to have almost every scene have at least one frame by frame callback to another scene with them? like?? #literally more parallels and callbacks than all the existing romantic pairings combined... #and the parallels are always deep and pointing to it being requited... #friends? #it's not that deep? #except with byler it always is

[mroddmod]

cutely bylers your scream

#byler #scream au #byler scream au #byler ghostface au #stranger things #will byers #mike wheeler #mods draws #my art #heheeeeeee i've been sitting on this au for like forever basically #since like august i think #just never finished any of the sketches or ideas i had for it until now #so here :3

[musicalchaos07]

Jonathan and Argyle in the front seat: Sleep deprived, stoned, have been driving for hours looking for El

Mike and Will in the back seat: 500k words, childhood friends to lovers, slowburn, minor angst, hurt/comfort.

#picture byler with the infamous yaoi dont like dont read disclaimer #they're just really having their own moment in s4 huh #another byler-jancy parallel 😌 #stranger things #byler #will Byers #mike wheeler #jonathan byers #Argyle #cali crew

[paintingformike]

yknow i would’ve called it a coincidence if it just happened once

but when it becomes a continuous pattern it gets kind of sus....

#im already confident enough in byler even without these deliberate pairings but this just confirms it even harder sooo #the real endgame couples i know thats right!! #also apparently mbb was available for that s3 (?) photoshoot but they somehow never paired her up with finn? 😭 #its so obvious like... #byler #byler proof #byler evidence #stranger things

[formosusiniquis]

When Mike Wheeler, red faced and still faintly tear stained, asks him how he knew he liked both Steve doesn’t know how to tell him it was his sister.

Before Nancy Wheeler it had only been boys. Before Nancy Wheeler Steve had been sure he was gay and knew well enough to keep it to himself; dating around enough to earn himself a protective reputation. Before Nancy Wheeler there’d been Marcus Summers, from the baseball team, during freshman year. Steve had gone to every game, and had been forced to make up excuses about schoolwork and his other commitments when asked why he hadn’t tried out for himself. Before Nancy Wheeler there’d been Tommy Hagan. The summer between seventh and eighth grade had been very kind to Tommy, he was sunkissed and boy next door sweet, Steve had wanted to hold his hand and count the freckles across the bridge of his nose. 

Before Nancy Wheeler there’d been his first love, a boy who only visited one summer, the year Steve turned ten. His name had changed every time they hung out but he’d favored E’s. Eli, Emmett, Elliott, Eric, Excalibur, Excelsior, and once for about an hour Wayne. His hair brushed his chin in pretty brown curls and his big brown eyes were always bright with excitement. He always got storm off mad when any of the other boys they’d played with that summer said he was acting like a girl, E would run off to the woods and Steve would always follow. E always came up with the best games anyway, he didn’t like playing soccer or HORSE or anything else with rules that couldn’t be bent; he preferred imagination games where they were knights or wizards. He didn’t laugh when Steve said he always liked playing house, but never wanted to be the dad because why would he want to be someone who never wanted to spend any time with his kids. E who, while insisting on being called Samwise all day, was his first kiss.

Cause he knows what Mike wants to hear. He’s seen the way Mike and Will have danced around each other since the last portal closed. He’s heard the things Mike has said to and about Will. He’s heard all about the week that Will was in the Upside Down. He’s heard all about the summer of ‘85. He’s heard all about the final off again that seems to officially mark the end of Mike and El romantically. He knows that Mike wants him to say that he’d never even thought about boys before he met Eddie. That there’s just something special about Eddie that makes him want to give up his lady killing ways. That Eddie was different. That it was okay that he was having these scary new thoughts, maybe Will was just an exception.

And Steve doesn’t know how to have that conversation. When he realized he liked both it was a relief, that maybe he could have something normal and wouldn't have to spend his life lying or hiding. 

But Eddie was different. Eddie was special. Eddie was probably it for Steve which is scary in a different way that he’s not ready to touch yet -- not when it’s only been three months.

There’s never been another girl since Nancy Wheeler, not really

There will never be another boy after Eddie Munson.

So he tries to help, as best he can. It’s easier with Eddie there, not quite dozing against his shoulder -- the kid’s emergencies always seem to come so late at night these days. “When I was ten, there was a boy whose name kept changing who decided prince charming should get to kiss his faithful knight. And when I was sixteen, your sister-”

Mike’s goodwill diminishes quickly as his sister gets introduced to the conversation.

“Stevie,” Eddie says. It’s not an admonishment for bringing up Nancy. It’s awestruck and watery. “You remember that?”

“Of course I remember the first boy I ever loved," that word catches up with him a second later. Remember. 

Cause there's Eddie with his riot of brown curls and his Bambi eyes. Eddie, who has explained why soft feminine words chafe against his skin leaving him itchy and anxious. Eddie, who has an Uncle in Hawkins. Eddie who moved to town the summer before he entered high school with a buzzed head and his mother's last name. Eddie who finally settled into an E he liked best.

"Wheeler, here's a tip from me to you," Eddie says, his advice is always better received than Steve's anyway, "if you have to ask you probably already know."

"Straight people don't really spend much time wondering if they aren't really straight," Steve agrees.

They don't rush Mike out the door, a crisis is a crisis and even in the wake of new discoveries Mike deserves to be heard out. Deserves a chance to cry and rage and feel those emotions someplace safe from his Reaganite father -- just as much as Will deserves to have someone who knows what they want come to him, deserves better than experimentation.

They cross the bridge from late into early by the time Mike sets off. The sun is creeping up over the horizon and Mike looks solid, certain; the dawn hints at the man he is growing up to be. Though every instinct of Steve's begs him to drive the kid home, Eddie's soft hand lingering at his hip holds him fast. They wave instead, encouraging Mike to go home and to bed before he does anything; knowing his front bike tire is already pointed toward the Byers-Hopper place.

"The first boy you ever loved, huh, Stevie?" Eddie teases before the door has even managed to click shut.

"And the last, I'm hoping, if I play my cards right."

"You were always pretty good at that. You were the only person that summer who called me by my name, except Wayne."

"It was your name." He knows that's too simple. Knows how hard Eddie has had it, continues to have it. But that summer it had been that simple, Eddie trying on names like shirts each one fitting until they didn't. "For what it's worth, I like Eddie a lot more than Excalibur."

"Oh fuck off, I was going through a fantasy knight phase. Which I know you remember."

"Right a phase, and how much longer is this fantasy 'phase' going to last?"

They're the kind of tired that makes you feel drunk, when Eddie tackles Steve and sends them both to the floor and to giggles. Eddie might not have been his bi awakening, but Steve is pretty fine with him being his everything else.

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #trans eddie munson #implied byler #steddie fic #my fic #i do worry that sometimes i come across as a nancy hater #which i cant emphasize enough is not the case #nancy is a complicated character and i love her and she and steve are not good for each other #also eddie trying on wayne because wayne was the first adult he told that he wasnt a girl and who handled it well #wayne at the breakfast table like okay then what is your name if its not [redacted] and eddie does not have an answer yet #so wayne says well just tell me when you get up what youre going by #so he decides while playing that day that its wayne #and that lasts exactly as long as it takes for steve to call him that before hes like nope thats weird #eddie is short for edmund but also short for eddie the head #eddie contains multitudes

[hothammies]

"if you say that you are mine, i'll be here till the end of time" playing over mike's segment when he was trying to get to will is genuinely one of my fave pieces of byler evidence that i heard while rewatching

#just randomly thought of this and i loved it so much i had to share it #i remember losing my mind hearing this and my parents calling me gigil LMFAOOO #like the devotion in their relationship is INSANE i love them #byler #stranger things #not art

[shinebrightlikeanarwhal]

Will: I can hear him, feel him…

Mike: is he… is he saying anything now?

Vecna: personally, luv, I wouldn’t waste time on him. That outfit he came in was atrocious and you know it. He wore her favorite colors and didn’t even offer you a handshake or anything? Dearie? Do better you deserve much more than that. Anyway your mom friend is gay and my new puppet boy is madly in love with him. Steve ain’t it? A beauty that one.

Will:… I don’t.. I don’t feel comfortable saying everything. But he judged my life choices..

#stranger things #stranger things season 4 #stranger things 4 #will byers #mike wheeler #steve harrington #vecna #henry creel #001 stranger things #vecna/henry/one #byler #steddie #eddie munson #I just love the idea of vecna being offended for will #like you don’t have to be lgbt to hug your anxious friend #and that outfit??? appalling #vecna outting Steve and Eddie’s one time fling when Steve was a junior-

[demadogs]

i fucking love how max barely interacted with el before s3 to the point where she was confused that el even said hi to her but the second she told her about mike she was like “that lying piece of SHIT you do NOT deserve this i cant believe youre being treated like this DUMP HIS ASS!!!! ok now lets go shopping :)”

#they both were in such desperate need of a girl best friend #and max knew it but el didnt #i think ​ive posted something just like this before #stranger things #elmax #el hopper #max mayfield #byler #1k