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Do not think I posted this one here....

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Mike Wheeler in season 3

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"Mike cant say 'I love you' to El because he grew up with parents that never said it to eachother and had never showed love towards their kids"

El grew up in a lab that was constantly experimenting with her and she can say it what the fuck are you on about

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this is so random why is nancy so insanely pretty?? like she’s genuinely STUNNING 😭😭

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Thinking about how Mike Wheeler went from…

“[Lucas is my best friend] but so are you. And so is Will.”

to

“Max, Lucas and Dustin — they’re great. It’s just… it’s Hawkins. It’s not the same without you.”

Something has definitely shifted in how Mike sees Will compared to his other best friends, hasn’t it? 🙃

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Endgames 🥹 ❤️

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Mike wheeler

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Mike wheeler

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the one thing that reassures me that mike is actually gay is because fans were right about will being gay.

before season 4 (specifcally part 2), even suggesting Will could be gay struck fans’ nerves so deeply. It was so weird.

The ‘Will being Gay’ theory during S3 era and its reaction was horrid.

im gonna be completely honest with you, i was not a byler back then. i was a melvin because if everyone else is rooting for it, then it had to make sense, right? i was younger and lacked lots of media literacy, then on top of that internalized homophobia.

however despite me being a melvin shipper, i never really cared for byler or byler shippers. but i did notice how people would react to it

this is exactly how it went during S3 era:

“i think will is secretly gay and likes mike.”

“umm.. what? 🤣 the lgbtq community is getting out of hand now. will is NOT gay. he is traumatized from being in the upside down, he lost his childhood. he misses his best friend and feels left out that they all have girlfriends and are growing up. why do you people see two boy characters and immediately assume they are gay? boys can’t even be friends now because of you people. not everything has to be gay. youre erasing will’s trauma. also, hes 13 YEARS OLD! thats disgusting calling him gay.”

people who believed the theory were called delusional because god forbid there just be even a little chance of a character being… [shutters] gay…

and guess what? this theory ended up being right in the end. the clues and subtext they found that pointed to will’s sexuality that were deemed delusional and ‘manipulating the narrative’ were RIGHT.

the ‘Mike is Gay’ theory is supported with evidence found by the SAME people who guessed Will’s sexuality right. fucking hell, theres even triple the amount of evidence for mike than there was for will. (will was more explicitly implied… yet still so ignored… wonder why… homophobia)

the similar theory is recieving the same reaction as the Will one.

THATS why i don’t doubt mike is gay. the cycle is just repeating.

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@midnight-drip

kim sketch from his portrait

real interesting, using a piece of art as a reference when it's already in a style adjacent to mine. feels good, even tho i didn't get him down entirely accurately or put in a lot of polish. (in retrospect, i could have left out his glasses, and his face would have been in better proportion considering the magnification i missed)

similarly, the yellow/orange colour pallette is something i would normally avoid, even moreso the desaturation and green accents in skin. but the game sets the precedent and uses quite a restricted pallette. i accidentally restricted mine more ^^; the game art has more contrast between lights and darks. but i loved the pallette!

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But you don't... you don't love me anymore? Wha- who- who said that I didn't?

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.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。. a doe and her two fawns .・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

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the blatant difference between "when i stumbled on her in the woods, it was not fate, it was not destiny, just simple dumb luck" and "but i saw you on the swings and you were alone too, you were just swinging by yourself. and i just walked up to you and i asked. i asked if you wanted to be my friend. and you said yes. you said yes. it was the best thing i've ever done" kind of makes me go insane

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the first 3 images are from a YouTube video where GQ magazine was interviewing the stranger things costume designer and she was talking about the costumes for each character especifically on season 4, and for Robin she said that they added triangles to her outfit because it's lgbtq imagery and it makes sense to her character, it reflects who she is and is kind of an easter egg. Now, do you see any resemblances between Robin's and mike's clothes on season 4? Remember, the stranger things crew is known for being very detail oriented, nothing in the show is a coincidence.

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Sometimes I forget this picture exist like— the core four? (Byler at close proximity compared to Dustin and Lucas<- they are never not beating the stand together even at worlds end allegations)

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One of the main things I find telling about Mike's conversation with Will about his fight with El is the phrasing of it.

He said that his argument with her felt like something he couldn't come back from – which obviously implies he didn't think a solution or an answer could exist.

Let's remember that said argument had two core issues a) that he views El as a monster b) that he doesn't love her.

We know Mike doesn't see El as a monster - on the contrary -. Did he react well to her hitting Angela? No. But that doesn't mean he sees her as evil or monstrous.

The other issue, however, is that he can't say he loves her. We know that the argument made by Mil*vens is that because of how he grew up, he was scared. And we know that Mike's own case and argument rely on the fact he has always known he loved her (since, according to his own narrative, the day they met).

So if we treat that as a fact and as true, we must start to wonder why he would say his argument with El, and argument that consists of how he can't say he loves her because he doesn't feel that way, would be an argument he can't come back from if he knew he loved her then and if he knew all he had to do was tell her that.