#mike wheeler is achillean

[lucasinclair-appreciation]

! Not L7cas S9nclair !

Spoilers for both F.R.I.E.N.D.S and Stranger Things!

Ok but. I was watching F•R•I•E•N•D•S with my family earlier this day, and something notable came up during the episode.

Does this scene remind you of anything, dear reader scrolling through the byler/stranger things tag?

This scene.

For context, the guy on the left is Ross; about to marry Emily, the woman on the left. The one behind them is Rachel, who is in love with Ross.

...yeah.

At first, it seems both Will and Rachel are supposed to accept that the one they're in love with is not with them; and both of them do try to commence with it for a bit.

Now, there is interesting context to be added.

Ross is in love with Rachel. He was since he was a kid. However, they never seemed to work out, going through random drama I'm too tired to explain, and later he ALSO fell in love with Emily, while away from Rachel, choosing to later marry her. But then he sees Rachel again just before his wedding, and during the wedding ceremony, he accidentally says Rachel's name instead of Emily's, causing and inflicting drama, and making Rachel realize he still loves her.

Rachel and Ross get together for good, after ten seasons of will-they-wont-they.

And so - if me imagine Ross as Mike, Rachel as Will, and Emily as El...

Who do y'all think is getting together?

I'm not sure if FRIENDS is on Stranger Things inspiration board or not, this could've been a pureeeeeee coincidence, so let me know if this is the case.

There are much, much stronger arguments for Byler - but I just wanted to make this post as a small thing to notice on the way.

#friends #f.r.i.e.n.d.s #byler #byler is endgame #stranger things #mike x will #will x mike #not l7cas s9nclair #< sorry !!! i just didnt want stranger things on my main and this is my only st blog #filter that tag if youre only here for lucas #in favour of #mike wheeler is bi #mike wheeler is queer #mike wheeler is achillean #mike wheeler is a boyliker #will byers is gay #will byers #mike wheeler #not tagging el bc this post isnt abt her and im sorta tired of *some* bylers crosstagging her #anti milkvan #byler proof

[ronancebyler]

im so jealous of the wheeler siblings i could never be as confusing about my sexuality as they are with theirs

#literally cannot decide i love all hcs #unlabeled mike wheeler #unlabeled nancy wheeler #bi mike wheeler #bi nancy wheeler #gay mike wheeler #lesbian nancy wheeler #pan mike wheeler #achillean mike wheeler #sapphic nancy wheeler #all ik is that nancy is a girlkisser (robin) and mike is a boykisser (will) #byler #ronance #<< you guys get it #i have seen the best of queue and the worst of queue and i choose both #virgil shut up challenge

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

mike wheeler from stranger things is gay (headcanon)

submitted by anonymous

#mike wheeler #stranger things #byler #mike x will #gay #mlm #achillean #gay characters #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt+ #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia+ #queer #queer characters #queer headcanons #submission #ask #anon #anonymous #your blorbos are queer

[oangesprite]

blue and yellow is for the gays, red and yellow is for the lesbians. its offical. 💛💙💛❤️

#mike wheeler #stranger things #will byers #byler #young royals #prince willhelm #simon eriksson #nick nelson #charlie spring #heartstopper #willhelm x simon #charlie x nick #narlie #Achillean #sapphic #wlw #mlm #gay #lesbian #elmax #catradora #tara x darcy #darcy olsson #tara jones #the half of it #she ra #catra #adora #cazzie #atypical

[wallofweird]

69k people I’m adjfldjfljdfjjdsjdnj

#byler #mike wheeler 69k people know what you are #gay bi pan unlabeled queer still figuring out whatever it is just not-straight and achillean yeah #glorious number btw

[glitchinginhyperfixis]

am i right or am i right

#unlabeled achillean mike wheeler #yes i found a way to project onto him even more than i already do

[alex-the-bringer-of-chaos]

The party and other "kids" - my Stranger Things hcs

Obv if there are any canon confirmations I will be uptading this.

Angela (she/her)

Cis girl, Pansexual and Monogamous.

Dating Jake. Had a crush on El (and couldn't handle the sapphicness).

Dustin Henderson (he/him)

Cis boy, Polyromantic heterosexual and Ambiamorous.

Dating Suzie. In a wavership with El. Polyaffective with Lucas and Max.

Is part of The Party.

El Hopper-Byers/Jane Ives (she/her)

Nonbinary girl, Panromantic homosexual aceflux and Monopoly - no preference.

Dating Lucas and Max. In a wavership with Dustin and Suzie.

Is part of The Party.

Erica Sinclair (she/her)

Cis girl, Sapphic aspec and Mesoamorous.

Lucas Charles Sinclair (he/they)

Cis boy, Bisexual and Syndeamorous.

Dating El and Max.

Is part of The Party.

Max Mayfield (she/they)

Cis girl gnc, Bisexual and Polyamorous.

Dating El and Lucas.

Is part of The Party.

Mike Wheeler (he/him)

Demiboy, Achillean demiaroace and Monogamous.

Dating Will.

Is part of The Party.

Suzie Bingham (she/fae)

Genderfae, Omnisexual and Polymonoflux.

Dating Dustin. In a wavership with El.

Will Byers (he/him)

Cis boy gnc, Gay (canon) unianthrosexual and Monogamous

Dating Mike.

Is part of The Party.

Other hcs

The teens/young adults

The adults

#stranger things #st hcs #the party #angela #dustin henderson #el hopper #el hopper-byers #erica sinclair #lucas sinclair #max mayfield #mike wheeler #suzie bingham #will byers #angela x jake #duzie #henderhop #elumax #hopclair #elmax #elzie #lumax #duelzie #byler

[spencers-hyperfixation-station]

All the stranger things characters are queer.

I don’t care that it’s not canon they’re all queer.

And most of them are neurodivergent in some capacity

Here are my personal headcanons (as a queer, Nonbinary, neurodivergent indivdual) :

Robin Buckley - Lesbian, Gender Diverse in some capacity (Probably a Demi-girl or something similar and uses She/They), Autistic and possibly also ADHD

Steve Harrington - Bisexual/Pansexual, Cis Dude(He/Him) Probably has ADHD (would explain a few things you have to admit)

Eddie Munson - Gay, Trans Masculine (He/They) (And this definitely is linked to why he doesn’t live with his parents, there’s just something about him that makes me so sure he’s trans) Autistic and ADHD

Max Mayfield - Bisexual (I mean did you see the way she looked at El?), Genderfluid and uses all pronouns (I don’t know there’s just a vibe you know), maybe ADHD but I’m not totally sure

Lucas Sinclair - Thought he was very much straight till Max came out, now identifies as Pansexual, Cis guy (He/Him), one of the very few neurotypical characters on the show

Eleven (Jane) Hopper - Pansexual (She also looked at Max like that, and she’s clearly in love with Mike), Probably Asexual, until recently I thought she was cis but I’ve seen a lot of people hcing them as non-binary. They grew up in a lab that from the snippets we’ve seen was very gender neutral and I don’t think El would have had a firm grasp of gender. She did really like the concept of femininity though so I’m going to say She/They, probably something along the lines of a Demi girl, similar to Robin. I think she’s Autistic but I don’t know for sure whether it’s that, the lab altering her social development or both, probably both though.

Nancy Wheeler - Sapphic in some capacity, Cis girl (She/Her) and neurotypical

Jonathan Byers - Pansexual (S4 Jonathan just doesn’t give a fuck, earlier Jonathan probably ID’d as straight), Trans man (He/Him, maybe He/They) (I mean have you seen the boy, I mean the slouch, the outfits!), Autistic, definitely Autistic

Mike Wheeler - Achillean in some capacity (Byler forever), Cis guy (he/him), I think neurotypical but honestly I have no idea when it comes to Mike

Will Byers - Gay, Very, Very Gay, Cis man (He/Him), Autistic (which by the way is genetic so makes perfect sense for both him and Jonathan to be Autistic)

Dustin Henderson -AroAce (I know he’s with Suzie right now but he’s still figuring it out), maybe trans masc I haven’t entirely decided regardless he/him, also definitely Autistic.

So yeah. I’m open to discussing these respectfully. As you can see some of these I’m still on the fence about and I’d love to hear peoples opinions. And I’m aware it’s the 80’s and therefore this ‘isn’t accurate to the show’ they’re headcanons if that’s your thought process you can kindly fuck off.

#stranger things #stranger things is queer as fuck i don’t make the rules #this is all canon now I don’t make the rules #queer headcanons #neurodivergent headcanons #trans headcanons #headcanons #steddie #Byler #trans #queer #neurodivergent

[frogwheeler]

my mike wheeler sexuality and gender head-canons:

flags:

achillean; men who are attracted to men, inclusive of gay, bisexual, pansexual, unlabeled, and queer men and nonbinary people who identify with manhood.

(personally believe Mike falls under the unlabeled achillean)

nonbinary; people whose gender identity doesn't sit comfortably with 'man' or 'woman'

pronouns: he/him

#nonbinary mike wheeler #nb mike is very personal to me #byler #mike wheeler #gay mike truther #st5 #stranger things 5 #byler mike #mike wheeler is gay #byler season 5

[deeep-sea-system]

Howdy!

we're the Deep Sea System!!

we're a newly discovered system so please be gentle with us!!

current members:

☁️Finley: host/body, 16, he/xe/end/it/she, genderfluid, aroflux, achillean, single

🌱Eryn: trauma holder, 18, they/it, agender, panromantic, asexual, single

🦈Mike: Protector, fictive of Mike Wheeler from Stranger Things, 16, he/it/she, demiboy, mlm, demisexual, taken(?) (only willing to date will byers)

💉Wilbur: Hypochondria Holder?, fictive of ycgma Wilbur, 19, he/it, cis boy, unlabeled, single

👾Sydney: mood booster?, 15-17, she/zey/ghost/bug, demigirl, lesbian aroace

BYF:

-most of us are dyslexic, so please be patient with us!

-please use tonetags with us!

-feel free to interact with us! we try our best to be friendly to everyone :D

-if you ever wanna talk about some of our interests, just ask!!! we love chatting :D

DNI:

-basic DNI criteria (racist, homophobic, transphobic, pedo/map/whatever or pedo sympathizer, Nazi, fakeclaimers, etc)

-proship/anti-anti/fujoshi/fetishizer/whatever

-endogenic systems! but also syscourse blogs.

-anti self dx

-anti neopronouns and anti xenogender

-18+ blogs. most of us are minors and we're bodily a minor so.... BUT!!! we are ok interacting with ppl bodily 19 or younger :D

this may change or be added to, but this is t for now!!

#osdd #system #introduction #deep sea system

[cookiepotofchaos]

Sapphic Fandom Stats: Problems with Looking at the Data

When I was looking through the data gathered on the works tagged with the F/F category, I saw a few things that made me wonder how many of the works were focused on sapphic relationships, and how many had them as background relationships.

This is something people looking for WLW/sapphic works have commented on before; that background tagging can make up the majority of a day's updates in some pairing tags.

A month or two back, I saw a few people commenting on it regarding looking for Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler fics. Interested in what the numbers said, I did some basic analysis of a sample of most of the F/F tagged works (>,5000 works) in Stranger Things on AO3 and found a few things that did indicate a fair bit of background tagging. Tagging is tricky at times; ask a group of fans how they'd want a work to be tagged and you'd probably get so many conflicting responses that you'd leave the group still unsure how to tag your work. This really isn't meant to single out people for wrong tagging or anything of the sort; it's to highlight how it makes analysis of sapphic-focused works more difficult, especially in bigger fandoms. This is why I have not tagged any fandoms on this post as well. Note: The tag: #Cookies Sapphic Fandom Stats can be used to filter out or follow these types of posts.

Stranger Things - F/F Categorised Works

There were 5,890 works included in the search with the following findings: ~7% of works had no female characters tagged as characters at all. ~10% of works had no F/F pairing at all tagged in the Relationships tag section. ~26% of works did not contain a single one of the combinations of F/F between Stranger Things characters that I could think of, including Rare Pairs like Robin Buckley/Kali Prasad, and Reader/You works which could be written either as gender neutral or female self-inserts. If we were being very generous with considering misspellings and errors that the Tag Wranglers wrangled under single tags (e.g. Something like "Robyn/Christie" as a misspelling) we could take that down to 20% of the works in the F/F category containing no sapphic relationships tagged between Stranger Things characters. The F/F pairings that make up the difference between this section and the above section, were non-Stranger Things characters (in crossovers, drabble collections etc.) There were ~3.5% which contained just one of the following tags without another pairing tagged: Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson, Will Byers/Mike Wheeler, and Steve Harrington/Johnathan Byers. This percentage was also the result of a quick manual review to check the characters were written as male (i.e. not trans head-canons or gender swaps).

Finally, the stats above don't take into consideration the works where the relationships are tagged but are given very little page-time. For example of the 5890 F/F works: 1,810 works were tagged with Steve/Eddie, 1,151 were tagged with Will/Mike, and 439 were tagged Billy/Steve. A quick check of random pages from those filters suggests that as many as 40-50% of the works tagged with those relationships (especially Steve/Eddie) have those relationships as the main focus of the story-line with the F/F relationship as secondary.

So, the numbers also indicate that background tagging of pairings and F/F categories happens, at least in some fandoms.

Back to the week's works and the background tagging problem there

So, with that background information in mind, Stranger Things being up in 5th made me wonder if that was at play here. When I scrolled down and spotted fandoms I knew to lean strongly achillean in pairings like Heartstopper and Teen Wolf ranking fairly high up, I decided to check manually. I checked the summaries for each work and used the tag cloud extension to see which names were repeated most often throughout a work (indicating which characters the work focuses on most). Just over 1/3 of the F/F works in the Stranger Things tag for the week did not mention any sapphic characters or pairings in the summary, and female characters were much smaller in the frequency tag cloud, indicating they were secondary/tertiary characters. In Heartstopper, around 2/3 of the works did not mention the sapphic pairing or characters in the summary and female characters were much smaller in the frequency tag cloud. In Teen Wolf, 5/6 of the works did not mention the sapphic pairing or characters in the summary and female characters were much smaller in the frequency tag cloud. So, it did indeed look like the total original 7,750 works tagged with the F/F category, were unlikely to majority be focused on F/F works.

This is why, for the stats back on the week's F/F works, I ended up opting to filter out works that were also tagged with M/M and with F/M. This means that some sapphic-focused works with background relationships for those other categories were missed, but did highlight more fandoms with a sapphic skew to their recent works, which is ultimately what I was interested in. It also suggested that in some fandoms, if you want to find works about sapphic pairings, you may need to resort to completely excluding big M/M or (in some other fandoms) F/M pairings entirely, or use "otp: true" in the search box of AO3's filter menu along with your preferred pairing.

#Cookies Sapphic Fandom Stats #sapphic fandoms #AO3 #Data Problems