Will Byers Vs Subtitles

The reason seasons 12 and 15 are so Destiel heavy is because they were building up their closeness knowing they were going to kill Cas at the end and leave Dean behind heartbroken. They were making the audience as invested as Dean is in their relationship to make us as heartbroken.

I should also include S6/7 in this. Everything leading up to the pinnacle TMWWBK episode, and ultimately Cas' death. Dean's depression and first widowers arc in S7.

nick vs duffers rn

I cannot believe gay love will save the world in ST 😃

it's time, isn't it? we already have too many stories with "straight love saves the day"....

Trying to crack the code like

you know we've made it as a fandom when the affiliate and self-promo marketers are using #bylerscript to push their stuff

Prompt: Mike kisses Will’s spidey sense spot on his neck when he’s freaking out to ground him

Bylers leaving the tag after seeing it's going to take even longer for scripts:

Nick from 8flix:

the fact that queerbating exists is so annoying, like can you actually not do that please. 🙄

This is our Villian origin story, my people

“queerbaiting” vs “straight-baiting”

with all the recent “controversy” surrounding the whole “mike likes el” thing, i just want to say this so that people don’t get in over themselves. 

as others have said before, doubt is important for both sides to stay engaged. they need us to remain hooked in so we’ll watch s5 and generate revenue and blah blah blah. 

but just remember (looking at u heteros) queerbaiting is a very real thing, and “straight-baiting” does not exist. like at all. 

queerbaiting is a term used to describe our very real exclusion from mainstream media. it’s honestly quite malicious, because showrunners and filmmakers use queer audiences as a pawn. they never intend to represent us, they just want to lure us in so they can maximise their views and profits. 

which just means, yet again, that mainstream media will invariably pander to the GA, which is why “straight-baiting” can’t exist. ur already the majority, everything is already made for u. why would mainstream media need to hook u in, when u already make up a significant portion of their viewership anyway?

like lets not forget that stranger things currently has a 0:4 ratio of leading queer couples and leading het couples. they currently have a 2:12 ratio of explicitly leading queer characters and leading het characters. 

this means that yes, if byler doesn’t happen, it will be queerbaiting. why? queer audiences do not have rich, complex, fully developed relationships in this show otherwise. sure, we have will, who is indubitably a complex and rich character, with seasons-worth of development, but… 1:12? is this really the type of representation that queer audiences deserve? and if byler does happen, that’ll change the ratio to 1:3, which really isn’t that significant because yet again, u are the majority. 

u cannot be baited with rich, complex, fully developed representation pouring out the show for u. u cannot just use a term that is rooted in our historical prohibition from media, just because the ship u want isn’t canon. ur personal disappointment cannot even begin to mirror the collective betrayal and rejection that is felt when queer audiences are intentionally mislead and cast to the side.