#they managed to make most milkvans and bylers convinced of endgame

[chirpsythismorning]

Thinking about how when I joined Tumblr last summer I became mutuals with another byler from the tag and we hit it off, sharing theories and evidence w/ each other. Only for them to switch up at the end of the year, deactivating and starting a new account, making a post about how bylers are setting themselves up for disappointment, with their main evidence being that Mike’s monologue ‘clearly’ inspired El & because Finn said in a panel ‘we all know how Mike feels about El’…

#byler #stranger things #fallen hero #we lost a real one that day #hope they're doing okay #i'm pretty sure they're bitter bc they think the duffers ruined byler #maybe s5 has the capacity to open their minds to byler again? #that would be bittersweet! #but full serious... #i feel like some of you guys expect the story to just start and everything be resolved and then end... #there would be no show without conflict #it's a matter of creating conflict that is shocking but still manageable in the grand scheme of things #like with Mike's monologue #it HAD to be done that way #they managed to make most milkvans and bylers convinced of endgame #that takes skill #if they didn't go with the monologue and broke them up #EVERYONE even the redditors would know that byler is the obvious endgame #and having like 2-3 years before that revelation would make it something everyone would fully be aware of as likely #and the show would likely suffer bc so many people would feel cheated #they needed to tear down milkvan while always building them up in a disingenuous way #they needed to give the people what they wanted only for them to realize it wasn't what they wanted when they got it #because it was more about the idea of it and not the truth behind those moments and what was truly going on under the surface #and that comment finn made about how everyone knows how mike feels about el... #mike when confronted about not being able to say i love you to el in s4: #'yOu KnOw WhAt I tHiNk Of YoU' #like... that was obvious gaslighting #really everyone has been downplaying millie's interviews post-s4 #shes out here saying el needs autonomy away from the men in her life and that her arc in s4 was about her being her own superhero... #is that what the ga got from mike's monologue? I dont think so...