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Jancy and Byler parallels are so important to me. Bc WDYM the wheelers are pining idiots. I love them so much.

The Wheeler siblings yearn for the Byers brother.

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And the shame,

the shame

was on the other side.

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what always baffles me about the gen audience for stranger things is how popular a character billy became, because he’s the exact antithesis to the themes this show embodies — being weird, being different, being strange — and he’s just absolutely, unwaveringly rancid for most of his screentime. he’s bigoted and abusive and not once does that aspect of his character change, excluding when he’s literally brainwashed by an eldritch hivemind and putting on the appearance of normalcy (a.k.a., altruism and genuine goodheartedness) for heather’s family

i’m not the world’s biggest fan of steve either admittedly (i don’t hate him, he’s just not my cup of tea) but at least steve got a decent redemption arc — he went from being coded as queerphobic to accepting robin’s queerness and continuing to befriend her, and he went from targeting jonathan for his oddities in his bullying escapades to associating with an entire group of odd societal outcasts as his closest friends

but billy didn’t get that treatment — he never showed an inkling of kindness towards max, he never relented in his blatant racism towards lucas, and he never improved himself for the better like steve managed to. billy is a character with a complicated history and i absolutely hurt for the younger version of him that endured a deluge of abuse at the hands of his stepfather, but those traumas do not excuse the person he turned out to be — and they don’t justify the gen audience adoring and glorifying him to the extent that they do, either

and, not to make everything about byler on this blog — but this is seriously another reason why i so badly want them to become canon. there’s been such an obvious rise in conservatism recently (both in real-world social politics and the scope of online fandom culture) and it absolutely pains me to see people devaluing the validity of a ship for no reason other than the fact that it’s a queer pairing, especially when those same people champion for such hateful characters like billy hargrove, and especially when those same people claim to enthuse a show whose sole aim is to uplift the abnormal and the oppressed

the canonisation of byler in a mainstream series like stranger things would be such a necessary, impactful fuck-you to the current state of the world — it’d make queer kids and adults alike feel seen, and it’d make the queerphobic elite remarkably uncomfortable, which are both so needed right now. because canonising byler isn’t just about affirming a longtime ship — it’s also about showing queer people that they don’t need to suppress their feelings to survive - that it’s okay to love who you love, that it’s okay to want reciprocation, and that it’s okay to be queer

in conclusion - gen audience stranger things fans adoring billy hargrove so deeply is reflective of rising conservatism in media and that’s precisely why we need more queer representation. maybe i’m being that one friend who’s too woke rn but i’m also really tired of seeing gay people in this fandom and in st shipping culture get death threats on the daily when that’s like entirely the opposite of what the show stands for

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just saw a tik tok comment say ‘if Will is confirmed to be gay, I bet Jonathan knew the entire time’… open up the schools

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“mike and el will have a wedding in s5 epilogue”

my honest reaction:

didnt see @castlebyersthoughts just posted similar thing

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THIS JUST CHANGED EVERYTHING OMG?? HER MIND

link: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdaLhYx6/

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what if el is looking for will here.....have we considered this

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future me has watched this scene and knows what happens

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yea sorry i will never shut up abt how much i hate the ST subreddit and general audience

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whoever runs this account im finding ur house im in ur WALLS

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just another tuesday for him

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Some people said what if Mike is hurting Will with this whole burn situation without knowing because no one told him... imagine his rage and despair when he finds out.

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He stole her curls

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"burn commencing" god he is such a fucking nerd i love you mike wheeler never change ❤️

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Managing to have a ship absolutely no one else ships in a popular fandom almost feels like an achievement.

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the party have d&d die, book and figurines on the table omg 😭

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WHAT FHE FUCK ARE THEY DOING TO HIM??