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The fact that Bylers are called delusional when Steve spent the whole season 4 convinced that Vickie likes girls, even when he found out she had a boyfriend, just because she paused Fast Times at 53 minutes and 5 seconds! And guess what? He was right! He only had one clue and believed it with all his heart! We, Bylers, have WAY more clues but we somehow are seen as being more delusional than Steve!

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MESSY?? THESE ARE 😩🙂‍↕️🙏✨😭🙌

messy teaser doodles because I love my main character

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Dear diary date:July 19th 2025

Entry #1

In my personal opinion I believe that the hate behind hosegate is hypocritical and can even be considered puritan.

I think that you’re allowed to be uncomfortable with the sexual innuendo as long as you are also uncomfortable about the sexual innuendos and explicit scenes from Mike and Wills straight counterparts.

Examples being Lucas hiding something suspicious under his bed, Dustin referring to Phoebe Cates as hot, Max staring at Steve’s chest and Jancy and Stancy both having their respective sex scenes in seasons 1-2 when they were only a year or two older then season 4 Byler.

Apparently we’re able to tolerate sex scenes and sexual innuendos about the straight people in the show however an innuendo about two queer boys is too much? Are you aware that you’re singling out Mike and Will by placing them on a different standard then their heterosexual counterparts?

You may use the excuse that anything sexual about Mike and Will is wrong because they’re minors but so were Max,Lucas and Dustin (correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t all three younger then Mike and Will being born between May-July of 1971) and Steve and Nancy were the same age as season 5 byler when they had sex to Barb dying.

Does anyone find it odd how certain people in the ga and byler community alike are only uncomfortable with the sexual innuendo about the two queer boys and not their heterosexual counterparts?

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he has TEARS on his cheeks mixed with sweat and i'm not fucking ready for this kind of pain

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Suck it losers 🖕 —Erica Sinclair, probably

Not seeing enough talk about Erica Sinclair owning being a nerd tbh

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It truly is and you did it so much justice 😭

what can i say? it‘s the prettiest shot from the ST5 teaser.

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Cause it's 110% intentional 💀

why does it lowkey look like they're sitting on an open closet

the jokes....they write themselves with this show i can't

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byler endgame

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The Sistine Chapel is calling; they lost A WORK OF ART 🤯

WILL BYERS in the teaser of Stranger Things Season 5 (07/16)

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All this focus on Jonathan is either because he is bones OR he's the red herring and Nancy is dying instead, one of them is not making it :( I'm sorry 😔

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All the shots of Will are just art like are you kidding me?? MY SON

this just easily became one of my favorite shots of all time

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He has not quite nailed the death drop 💃💀

diva down 😔

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will byers my comfort character I love u and can’t wait to see u be psychologically and likely physically tortured on my screen again this fall 🥰🥰🥰

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I've never been more excited MY GOD

it’s his season!!! that’s our main character!!!

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Ok, real talk.

None of these clips looks comforting or hopeful.

Mike and Nancy have almost identical expressions here, even if Nancy's is more enunciated.

It's GRIEF and GUILT.

Both feel like a goodbye or an ending, one way or another.

Especially with how Jonathan's voice overlays both clips, like they're showing the same thing happening.

Also, both El and Jonathan look like they're trying to reassure Mike and Nancy through it.

To me, they both look like break-up scenes, or the kind of moment you might have after one. A really vulnerable conversation at the very least. Is Mike coming out? Are jancy breaking up? Or finally talking?

Teasers and trailers are intentionally misleading, so it could mean many things. But the looks of guilt are pretty damning for both couples.

Paired with the blood on Nancy's hands and her tears in the bathroom...

... someone close to her might be biting the dust.

This season is going to kill me.

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HOLY FORKING HELL IT'S HERE

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Oh right, I haven’t posted this

There’s this sculpture, Maman (1999) by Louise Bourgeois that immediately reminded me of the mind flayer when I saw it.

The title literally translated to “mommy” and it’s about Louise’s mom (as an ode to her, in a positive way). “The continued motif of the spider in her work often represents her mother.”

That’s not the artist’s only spider art, she also has another one called Spider (1996), also about her mom.

I thought huh what if it was the inspiration for the mind flayer? After all, the mf is purposely spider-shaped, and everything going on with Henry and mothers (mothergate), etc…

But, I decided to look into her life, see if there was something interesting

Check this out:

Louise Bourgeois was also actively involved in the AIDS crisis. Her first AIDS-related work was made in 1989. In this exhibition you see a later work, namely a small dildo-like sculpture lying in a box.

In 1994, Bourgeois collaborated with six other artists to raise money to benefit ACT UP (Aids Coalition to Unleash Power).

Inspired by the pop artists, they made a box with seven different objects in it, all of which in one way or another are about the body. The idea was to break the silence surrounding the AIDS crisis, and counter the stigma of gay sex and sex in general, with art that explicitly celebrated the body and sexuality. (x)

And

One theme of Bourgeois's work is that of childhood trauma and hidden emotion.

Destruction of the Father (1974) is a biographical and a psychological exploration of the power dominance of father and his offspring. / one day my brother and I decided, 'the time has come!' We grabbed him, laid him on the table and with our knives dissected him. We took him apart and dismembered him, we cut off his penis. And he became food. We ate him up ... he was liquidated the same way he liquidated the children. (Reminds me Lonnie, even of Henry killing his mom)