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An important message to heterosexuals, listen carefully: you do not, and I repeat do NOT, have to marry someone you actively dislike, don't enjoy spending time with and/or whose hobbies you despise. You do not have to do that!! stop doing that!!!

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Mike is just lawful evil.

like he's not an evil person, but because he follows the letter of the law (heteronormativity) so strictly, the results are that many people are hurt

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remember?

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Thinking about established older Byler being dads and how funny it would be if their kids turned out opposite of them. Their kids are sporty and popular and maybe aren't that into dnd or nerdy stuff but know all the LOTR lore bc that was their bedtime stories.

And instead of Byler being like their parents, where the Wheelers were all about conformity and Lonnie couldn't accept Will for who he is, Mike and Will are supportive of their kids' differences and encourage them to be their own person.

They're the nerdy dads of the Homecoming king or Prom queen or the kid that throws the best parties when Byler leaves town for a weekend. The only thing is Will laughs at Mike's distress that they're basically raising mini Steve Harringtons.

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i headcanon that mike saw someone had graffitied “zombie boy” on the bathroom stall so he made sure will wouldn’t use that one bathroom and took it upon himself to scribble something on top of it to cover it up so will wouldn’t see it. but he got caught. he managed to cover most of it, though

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The Show is Telling Us That Will Shouldn’t Have Survived

Inspired by a conversation with @aemiron-main I wanted to point out how it seems that the show is deliberately telling us, that Will shouldn’t have been able to survive the Upside Down.

In season one, there is this brief exchange a lab worker and Joyce.

He makes note that the atmosphere is toxic, to which Joyce remarks “But my son’s in there.” There isn’t really a resolve to this line? We never hear how Will was able to survive, just this suggestion that his survival is odd without much elaboration.

And Will does seem pretty weak when he gets to the hospital, but this is also post-agressive Hopper CPR. Either way, Will was at least keeping alive until he was taken and had a vine shoved down his throat. Who knows how long he could’ve stayed alive without intervention.

And then we get this line about water from Erica in season 3—

So the human body will die without water, and yet Will survived in the specifically waterless Upside Down for a week?

I feel like these lines are here to plant the seed in the audiences mind that Will’s survival in the Upside Down is strange, and that there is something that is yet to be revealed in season 5.

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ik we always joke about “what painting” and talk about it like thats for sure whats happening but what if it didnt go down like that. lets be creative for a sec how else could this go down

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“Will fell first” this “Mike fell first” that but what if they actually fell at the same time?

To be honest, I don’t think it really matters who “fell first” and who “fell harder,” but I do actually believe in a simpler and possibly cheesier truth— they fell at the exact same time.

The moment in question is of course, the shed scene. Specifically right at this moment— right after Mike tells Will that meeting him was the best thing he’s ever done.

C’mon, just look at them!! The intense stare, the fact that they are the only two in frame, the shaky breath, the tears, the lack of score, the quiet, intimate moment between them, I think there were feelings bubbling beneath the surface, but to me this is definitely where they both “fell,” so to speak.

So I don’t think that they fell at different times, I think they just handled their feelings in different ways. It’s a similar struggle, but contrasting ways of dealing with it.

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one of the things im sad about is that theres more fics of mike with abusive parents than will when will is the one with a canonical abusive dad that we still dont know the extent of said abuse

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magic system where “dark magic” and “light magic” are literal terms - dark magic consumes photons, making an area around the spell visibly darker, sometimes to an Extreme extent, and light magic releases photons.

because of this most dark mages tend to work in very brightly-lit areas (either artificial light or outside in the daytime) to fuel their spells and wear and use lightly coloured clothes and tools so that they’re easier to see in the dimness their spells create, whereas light mages wear heavy, sometimes leaden robes (depending on the work being done) and the magical equivalent of welding masks to protect themselves from what can be an extreme amount of light, and sometimes other kinds of electromagnet radiation!

needless to say this is incredibly confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the culture

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AUTISM RULES.

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Genuinely asking because i saw the notes in arush's post but how is what the Wheelers do to Mike not emotional neglect? Not the not knowing where he is part, that's true for all the kids, but Joyce's disregard of Jonathan is widely accepted as emotional neglect so what's different here? Why would they find it important to give us a scene where the phrase "Emotional value?" is said mockingly if not to infer something that isn't present in other families of the show? Mike's issues are obviously not at the level of other characters but we still are intentionally shown Mike's feelings being invalidated on the screen by multiple characters constantly which is definitely a choice, just as much as the choices for other characters

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Byler-heartstopper parallels my beloved

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It still bothers me how in s2, most of the fans understood that Will is traumatized and needs help bc we saw his pain on screen, but the minute we don't see him in a physically tortured state anymore (s3/4) then suddenly some Will antis call him pointless or a crybaby

Pretty sure we'd all earn the right to tear up and silent cry if we experienced what s1/2 Will went through (adult or not)

It really shows the programming about how Will can only be sympathized with if he's living that sad gay in pain role. Cuz why was it when Will isn't going through it, where we're showed him being at probably at his most chill in s4, do some fans find him useless to the plot to the point they wish his character dies for s5?

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"Well are you a [controversial identity] supporter???"

My friend I do not know what to tell you here. My rule is and remains "I don't care what you call yourself because your actions and who you are as a person is more valuable to me" and "as long as everyone in the situation is an adult and is giving enthusiastic consent I genuinely do not give a fuck what you do" and "words are stupid and people are complicated so it doesn't matter if The Words Are Wrong as long as it makes you happy"

I'm a longer tables not higher walls kind of guy. Have a seat. Break bread with me. Tell me a story over dinner. I think that'll be better for the both of us.