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the rink o mania scene is the gayest scene in cinema idc

its so camp like having spin me right round aka google's top 5 gay songs from the 80s? i love contact sports? brother

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El: "What is... gay?" (Byler talk)

This show establishes that El grew up in a lab and doesn't know basic things:

Pretty much all she knows about romance is what she's been exposed to on TV:

She naturally assumes that, if Will likes someone, it's a girl:

The fact that Will and Mike might be gay isn't even on El's radar.

Remember that this is the 1980s. Robin hasn't come out to the party; Robin had to explain to Nancy that she and Steve weren't dating, and even then she DIDN'T come out to Nancy.

I saw a poll here recently asking, if Byler is real, does El know? Can she sense the tension between them? Or is she completely oblivious?

I think El already KIND OF knows, in the same way she knew something was off in how Mike couldn't say he loved her. But she understandably thinks both Will is straight (it's established above) and Mike is straight (because they're canonically dating... hell many of us thought that, too!). Also, for too long she has always found the problem in her relationship with Mike to be herself.

If Byler happens, I think El putting the pieces together would be (1) completely in character and (2) the most effective way to lessen backlash against Byler.

Once she becomes aware that loving people of your own sex and gender is a thing, the mental floodgates will open. El, as someone who knows Mike and Will well, will probably (together with Jonathan and Robin) be the first to put two and two together.

It might even be a RELIEF for El -- and be part of her own process of self-growth -- when she realizes that Mike doesn't love her romantically, not because there's something wrong with her, but because he's gay and/or has an incomparable love for his childhood friend Will. She will learn that she can trust her instincts. And she will KNOW that she was RIGHT that something was MISSING between her and Mike, and there's something RIGHT about Mike pairing with Will.

She'll learn about the PAINTING LIE. She'll see that Will sacrificed his own happiness for Mike and El. She would have ZERO resentment toward Will and want to do whatever she could IN RETURN. She's finding friendship, family, and love in all her relationships. The anti-Bylers who think Will would "steal" Mike from El and that she'd hate him, not only think too little of Will, but also underestimate EL.

El, as someone who ALWAYS has been goodhearted and had a strong moral compass, and who from her own experience supports the marginalized and abused, could be the #1 Byler among the characters in the show.

-teambyler

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it's just so special to me when like a character is a massive loser and yet they get someone who falls head over heels for them. like yeah boy pull some bitches with your weak-ass game and cringefail demeanor

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has anyone done this yet

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Fanfiction is free therapy, except the therapist is making you suffer on purpose and you're thanking them in the comments.

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Any queer man in fiction can’t have a healthy relationship. All they know is pining, divorce, cause the apocalypse, wear silly costume, fight they homo boyfriend, trauma, be disastrous, eat hot chip & lie.

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my stupid ass JUST realised that Jonathan heard both monologues in s4: wills AND mikes. thats why he looked so fucking pressed when mike opened his BITCH ASS mouth and started confessing his love to el by throwing wills words in her face

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me n zack flicked up hittin our hashtag hard pose:3 (da wind kept messing us up n da sun made my face look so bright</3)

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i love what you once were

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watch me devour dis can of Coca Cola!

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haiiii, first post ! newish to editing also lolzzz T_T

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me and her

Together 🩵 Forever

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EMO SUMMER!!

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ig: depriveskullzz 🍭

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me irl >:3

💙💙blue scene queens<3💙💙 XD