there is no way this was not intentional. this scene definitely had an underlying meaning. their feets facing each other and the light?? oh this scene definitely has a meaning
I’ve never been one for saying ‘I told you so’ but I cannot lie..
I am so looking forward to say I told you so to the Michigan Minion shippers when Byler is canon and they can’t do anything about it
I guess it needs to be said that I don’t hate people who ship Mileven. I don’t even think they’re stupid! I just genuinely don’t understand and frankly, I don’t care enough to seek understanding. If you feel the same way about Byler, I don’t care. I’m definitely not getting paid to convert anyone. Y’all do you, and I will do me.
It just doesn’t make sense if it’s not romantic because it wasn’t just a best-friend loving stare it was an: IM IN LOVE WITH YOU OMG YOU’RE SO PRETTY IN THE SUNLIGHT WHILE YOU’RE PULLING OUT THAT PAINTING THATS JUST FOR ME stare
I mean C’MON Mike
And yeah they spent so much time.. for what?? For Mike to stare at Will like he’s just his best friend..? I DONT THINK SO 🤨🤨
no but like I get that irl you can stare at your best friend and even smile at them with love even if you are not in love with them but we are talking about a TV show people.... they shouldn't put random stuff in it they spent hours filming that damn van scene that has ruined my life
Mike Wheeler why are you staring at your bestie
manifesting the last line of the show being “stranger things have happened in this town” and having it be referencing byler— come on it’d be so PERFECT
nobody can tell me im wrong
Steve helpfully offering his hand to everyone boarding the boat, only to get ignored or unnoticed every single time. that’s it, that’s the post
Mike Wheeler I know what you are, because I have looked at my best friend of the same gender like that too.
And it was NOT platonic.
Prompt: Mike kisses Will’s spidey sense spot on his neck when he’s freaking out to ground him
funny. but not funny haha. funny sus🤭
the karen wheeler homophobia allegations need to die because i know she would love him endlessly
the sun after putting hearts in mike and wills eyes bc they ship byler :
The thing about this gif is that Bob and Joyce are literally right there!!! And Will doesn't even flinch!!! It's so subtle, Joyce and Bob would never have noticed it. Just so delicate. This is a version of Mike flirting. He just wants to be close to Will, and I think that's so beautiful.
We see more flirting in S4, however it's little moments like this in the earlier seasons that make this ship sail. S2 Byler is just ✨✨
(not my gif, credits to whoever made it)
queer people sees stranger things as this slowburn gut wrenching coming of age sort of adventure story. while straight people.... i actually dont even know what they see in the show bc. how are they pulling these insane opinions up.
my brother in christ michael sorry to break it to you but you are in love
the way he’s desperately searching for will’s eyes and gulping- i cant im jumping off a cliff
the fact that queerbating exists is so annoying, like can you actually not do that please. 🙄
HELP NOT TUMBLR POSTING THIS ON INSTA 😭
I just read the most out of character-never-happening Byler fic but i am absolutely bawling my eyes out 😜
But I’m okay now because I mean Byler is canon and it’s happening so I really don’t have anything to worry about 🤭
in s5 i bet any interaction between mike and will is going to be evidently much, much more gayer and noticeable to the other audience (cishets). this is BYLER'S season now and im guessing after that shoulder touch from the end of ep 9 (also to end a season only minutes after this scene is... very telling of what s5 is going to be focused on), this is confirming that mike and will's interactions throughout s4 have made them closer than before as mike reaches from his darkness to the beam of light will was basking in. s5 is going to be very gay!!!!! and im very excited!!!!!!!
Inside you there are two wolves:
I need Will to have a gun and for Mike to just have a full blown gay panic in the next season
This had to be done.
idek if ill survive endgame byler like itll be the sweetest thing imaginable and ill probably just collapse
I was thinking about the fact that the duffer brothers still wrote one of the most positive characters ever portrayed in the media.
Will Byers is good, sweet, wise, understanding, empathetic, selfless and very thoughtful, which is good because it is balanced by his emotionality.
He is therefore a creative artist. He definitely has some flaws, maybe he's jealous (of Mike), inclined to be a bit melodramatic but overall I think he's a wonderful character and the fact that he's gay is a positive addition to his character.
Sorry but I've never seen a character so well written and I can't think that the Duffers will miss the completion of his narrative arc right at the end. I don't want to think that. especially because before them we don't have many examples of well-written young gay characters, they are always stereotyped or characterized only by their sexual orientation and not by their personality .
the Duffers have created something new and beautiful from which everyone(writers and directors) will have to take an example. I hope they don't miss this opportunity!
Will have to be happy together with the love of his life: Mike Wheeler
at first i was like “if byler doesn’t get to be happy im never recovering” as a joke. i don’t think it’s a joke anymore
i feel like everyone under this tag has said this but i'm really going to miss this era we're in after stranger things ends :(( like it's not going to be the same because we know byler will be canon, so no one is going to be chaotically freaking out over new evidence or typing out ten-page-essays or making "i know what you are" jokes about mike :(( and like :((( it makes me so sad to think about
long story short i love the big family that we have under the byler tag and i'm really afraid/sad that it's going to change eventually :(
Mike and Will sometime in s5 probably:
Mike: but you said they were El's feelings
Will: yeah, i kinda used her as a proxy, sorry
Mike: but i thought i was using El as a proxy
Will: what?
Mike: what?
POV: vecna finds the byler docs: "damn they make some pretty good points on here, might have to use this against them later."
I'm joyce byers level of protective over el and will, I would go to war for them, those are my kids fr.