#Adult!Will Byers

[imactuallyreallycool]

Adult!Will Byers 😁

Here’s some designs might make some more, like a new version of his dnd costume :)

Idk why but he’s really giving Spider-Man vibes, it’s probably because of the hair lol

Adult! Mike Wheeler

[morganbritton132]

Eddie is just trying to film a Tiktok to remind his fans about some upcoming shows but trails off when Steve says off-camera, “Hey, remember that RadioShack guy that was banging your mom?”

Eddie: *flips camera around to show where Steve and Jonathan are sitting on the couch*

Jonathan: …Bob.

Steve: Yeah, him. That toe guy from Lord of the Rings looks exactly like him, right?

Jonathan: …

Jonathan: Gollum???

Eddie: Toe, as in Po-tay-toe. He’s talking about Sam

Steve, snapping his fingers: That’s the guy

Jonathan: Oh.

Jonathan: I don’t see it.

[doriandrifting]

Rewatching season two and its wild how they literally have Owens explain anniversary affect and PTSD symptoms like irritability, lashing out, etc. and we see Joyce listening to Hopper about it and being really concerned about Will only to fast forward FOUR MINUTES to the dinner table with Mike’s family describing how he’s been acting out and chiding him for his behavior because the last year being tough isn’t going to cut it as an excuse anymore. They really drove that comparison home.

[steddiesucker]

Everyone sitting in Steve’s living room, high off their minds

Nancy, very seriously: Is having a penis fun?

Jonathan: It has its ups and downs.

Argyle: it comes in handy outside, though.

Eddie: Sometimes it’s a little hard.

Steve, snorting: It’s a pain in the ass, is what it is.

Eddie, full on laughing now: Sorry babe!

Robin: Oh, Jesus, fuck, guys, come on.

[weird-an]

Joyce Byers creeps Billy out. Even a bit more than Steve Harrington with his stupid pretty face and all the dreams that followed.

He's just picking up Max and waiting outside. He can't go in. She holds the door open, golden light and laughter spilling out from the inside.

There it is again, her smile that makes Billy feel like he's five again, like that time when he got lost in the supermarket and Neil drove home without him and he just wanted to hug his mom.

"You wanna come in?" she asks - not for the first time. She asked last week and the week before. Not in the way Karen Wheeler did with too much lipstick and hunger. In a way Billy doesn't get.

"No, thank you, Ma'am." It's not even a lie. Billy doesn’t know what to expect when he goes inside. What would he even do in there? It's fucking scary.

"Okay," she just says. Like it really is okay. Like he isn't one giant disappointment. "But next time you're welcome to join us for dinner."

Billy wants to tell her no again, but he only had a chocolate bar for dinner and the thought of sitting in front of a plate full of steaming hot food makes his stomach churn.

"I'll think about it," he says. Then Max shoves past him, bitching about Neil's stupid ass curfew and well, that's one thing they can agree on.

Next time is the most inconvenient moment, because it's the day his mom left and Billy tries to forget the exact date, but he can't. It's a day that hurts, that's always gray. There's a giant hole inside him and he's aching, remembering her favorite summer dress and laughter and screaming and a plate's shards on the floor.

He's earlier than usual and she's opening the door. He hears the kids' chatter and can't.

"Not a good day?" Joyce asks, seeing right through him and it's so much like a fucking mother - or what Billy has the vague idea of one to be like. He wants to bolt and to stay at the same time.

He snorts, but it's more of a sob. Not a good day, not a good life.

"Do you wanna come in?" She pauses. "If you don't want to, I already saved some for you."

Years full of memories are clogging his throat.

"Next time," he hears himself say. He can't, not when a mother that isn't even there and never will be, is still holding his hand.

She disappears and comes back a few minutes later.

"Sorry, I only had Will's old one..." She gives him a sheepish smile. "You're always welcome, you know."

It's a kid's' food container, a giant green turtle.

Billy takes it.

It's stupid. It feels like a hug.

[curseyouperrytheplatypus]

Gay or not gay people above the age of 19 writing/writing smut about teenagers is weird and creepy.

[howtobecomeadragon]

i wonder how it'll feel for will to pick out a house as an adult. if he'll wonder about escape routes. wondering if he wants a first floor bedroom to be able to escape out the window easily or if it'll make him feel too vulnerable to intruders. if he needs a back exit instead of just a front door bc ofc, what if something is coming in that front door, what if the lock is moving on its own again. can he feel safe with a shed in the backyard? he doesn't want to go in there, not even at the open house with mike by his side. is it silly if that’s a deal breaker? mike says they can tear it down but there's still a squirm of anxiety in will's gut. this house is drafty and too cold, that house has a fireplace with a poker that makes will touch the scar on his side through his shirt. this one doesn't have a bathtub and they need that just in case. this one has too much of an open layout and will remembers a wall being the only thing between him and mike and jonathan and a bullet from a gun.

but also. mike points out that that room in that one house has really good lighting for painting. there's a big enough yard to build a fort or a castle or a tree house, big enough for them, fun enough for kids. mike leans in and whispers in will's ear, "cozy basement, huh?" will has a shiver at that. this house doesn't have a fence and will states, "well, we need a fence for a dog." mike offers to build one if will really loves this house. one house has just enough bedrooms, for guests or for kids.

maybe it takes a while but maybe they'll eventually find one that's just right.

[musicalchaos07]

You know the thing is I think the pitfalls of Joyce's relationship with Jonathan would be a lot less severe if we knew what they were like before. Like in s1 we have a series of flashbacks of her relationship with Will (partially to make us love Will partly to showcase Joyce's motherhood)

But we don't have that with Jonathan and Joyce. From the jump, we see the parentification. He's helping find her keys, he's making breakfast, he's supposed to know where Will is. And their next big interaction is her admitting that she's checked out as his parent.

But baring one brief moment at the end of the season we don't see them interact outside of this structure. We don't see Joyce interact with Jonathan as her child!

[imactuallyreallycool]

can we get some adult will in makeup sometime? 🥺 I didnt expect it on mike bc it wasnt on your will one, and it would be nice to see since will is the creative and could be part of his gnc exploration…

I might do more designs :). I love my 90s byler Au :))), might be posting something else soon ;)

[artthoufruity]

If s5 doesn't end with adult byler creating a comic book series based on their experiences with the upside down I'll throw hands

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

All the Black Femmes || The Great North

This is my favorite new cartoon at this moment in time. If you like cartoons that are for adults but wholesome, this is that.

[super-nova5045]

(tw for mentions of rape, sexualization of minors, nsfw and smut)

i'm sick and tired. when i was 12, i was sexualized for the first time. it hurt me so much that that's the only thing i'll ever be seen as - an object for sexual pleasure that has to appeal to those who want me.

i didn't understand why people would say that. and i don't understand why people say this now.

for years, we've failed kids - mostly girls - that grew up in stardom or rose to fame at a young age. from marilyn monroe, to britney spears and emma watson, and now millie bobby brown - and it doesn't stop at girls. so many young actors have been treated like shit - sexualized privately when they were minors, and then the moment it strikes midnight on their eighteenth people are out here saying the most awful things because "it's legal now".

how, i ask you, can you be a fan of byler and continue to fail these child stars? how can you praise noah and finn for their abilities and then turn around and do the exact thing that has hurt them and other minors for eons? how can you claim you hate people who do such awful things to these actors and then do the same thing? how can you watch as these poor children who were once excited to start acting get torn down by the industry - to the point where millie and finn need therapy for their anxiety, and noah's getting threatened with rape at university, where he's supposed to be safe - and believe you're hearing minors' pleas for help and change?

you hide behind this mask of "liking darker fiction". fine, then. read lolita - which deals with the horror of pedophilia in the eyes of a pedophile. that's darker fiction. or if you want smut so badly, read a YA sexual novel or watch riverdale - at least the minors in that are played by adults.

you create this façade of wanting to explore things, of projecting your personal experiences in "harmless" ways. fine, do that. if you want to see byler - two FOURTEEN year old boys - getting it on, go create original charcters!! create characters that are carbon copies of byler, or whatever - making them 18+ so you can write your mlm smut with characters that are old enough!! or just go watch some other mlm fiction story where the characters are old enough!! red white and royal blue, young royals, heartstopper - all mlm pieces of fiction with similar dynamics and characters that are over 18 and have sex. go read that.

but you won't - because you people have an obsession with minors having sex. you claim it's realistic - it might be, sure, but it isn't YOUR business to claim a minor's intimate life justifies your creepiness. admit it - you don't want to watch or read adults having sex. adults aren't "innocent". adults can make mature decisions, adults age into "ugliness", adults aren't "pure" and "youthful" like teenagers are. age them up, sure, but you're still writing about characters that are canonically minors - characters that have the developing body of a minor. characters that have a developing mindset of a minor. unless the character is yours, no one but the writer knows how a minor character would develop and grow - and so assuming how, again, as a way to justify sexualizing teenagers, is so, so wrong. you change the age, but you don't change the character, or the dynamic, or the mindset, or anything.

finn wolfhard was 14 years old when he had to tell people to stop calling him daddy.

noah schnapp was 17 years old when people were making inappropriate comments on his body and were making plans to drug and sexually assault him.

millie bobby brown was 13 AND 16 when she was groomed. by men who were supposed to make her feel safe, and no doubt saw the awful comments about her and took that as motivation.

and the list goes on. the list has been going on for centuries now and people still fail to see the flaws in their way.

millions of minors have been saying it for years - that you, as a grown-ass adult, shouldn't be thinking about us this way. shouldn't be writing about us this way, and using censorship as an excuse. this isn't about proshipping, or darker fiction, or puritans, or any other discourse - this is about basic human morals. this is about what children have been screaming and crying about since the dawn of time, and you still won't listen to us.

sincerely, a girl who was told at age 12, that i had "big tits" when i complemented a man on his stranger things t-shirt.

sincerely, a girl who has been sexualized her entire life - who has watched her friends be sexualized their entire lives - and is now watching people use the world's shared love for fiction as their excuse for sexualizing more and more underaged characters.

sincerely, a girl who is tired of it.

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

Mike hated Steve. Steve, with his perfect hair and perfectly ironed clothes. Steve, who drank beer after beer and was the King of Hawkins. Steve, who somehow seduced Eddie and stole him away from Mike.

Mike wanted Eddie all to himself. He didn't want to share him with Steve, especially not Steve. He wanted Eddie, so Eddie can teach him to be "cooler" as Mike always put it.

Mike thought that if he was cooler then Will would want to be friends again. But until then, he needs his Cool Lessons, but he can't have them because Steve fucking Harrington is shoving Eddie into walls every five minutes to make out with him

[thestrangestthing89]

I feel like for the most part, the show has done a great job showing what life was like in the 80s but that doesn't mean they aren't allowed to take artistic license with some things. It's not a documentary but a fictional show being written in 2023. They are allowed to add a more modern approach to certain things since that's where the audience is coming from.

I think the main message of the show is supposed to be about found family and overcoming adversity. The bullies always lose, and not only that, the bullies aren't ever part of the main cast. Billy was there for two seasons and was the bad guy and he dies. The middle school bullies lose. Steve was a bully in Season 1 and reformed and is likable now. Jason dies.

All of the main characters are outcasts in some way and find support with each other. I don't think this is unrealistic. People who don't fit in tend to band together. But I also don't think it's a problem if people who would have normally been homophobic IRL aren't shown to be on this show. A cop in real life would have likely been homophobic, but that doesn't mean they are required to show Hopper as that. He already knows Will is gay because Joyce told him in the first episode. His "is he?" comment in response to this was not judgmental, he was looking for clarification. He's gone out of his way to help Will. He could have ignored that he went missing and no one during this time would have questioned it. But that didn't happen. He's consistently show as someone who doesn't do things in the conventional way (a major theme of the show). This show likes to invert tropes and not having Hopper be depicted as the cowboy someone like him frequently is shown as, isn't a bad thing. It's keeping in line with the themes of the story. He's messier than this and he frequently questions and works against authority/institutions to protect his family.

Same thing goes for the Wheelers. They are shown to slowly start questioning their conventional upbringing even though they have a Reagan sign on the lawn. Karen almost has an affair and isn't happy in her marriage. She is also shown to emotionally support her kids. She isn't going to suddenly start shouting homophobic things at Mike because she mentioned Margaret Thatcher's name one time in a vague conversation. They are allowed to show the complexities of human behavior. Even Ted starts to question the media propaganda at the end of the season. He's realizing that the normal explanations aren't holding up. It doesn't matter if this would or wouldn't have happened IRL. It's a story. And showing them questioning convention falls in line with the themes of the story they have been telling from the beginning.

I think the Reagan sign is there to show what kind of town Hawkins is and how the Wheelers fit into that. But when the whole town starts hunting Hellfire Club we can plainly see that the parents are not on board with this and are worried about their kids. They are questioning the mindset of the town. They are questioning the conventional ideals they were taught. They think separately from the masses because the masses are hurting their kids.

The bullies have consistently worked against the main characters. The whole point is that they work together as a team to overcome their problems. I think Season 4 was meant to be a set up for what's to come for Mike and Will next season (and obviously for the rest of the characters too but specifically with regard to homophobia). It's showing how these characters are outsiders in their own town, but not within their group. Like it always has. It has consistently done this since the beginning. This isn't working against the 80s backdrop in any way. They are using familiar themes from 80s movies and giving them a modern twist. They aren't trying to write another 80s movie as if we still live in that time.

[w1llb7ers]

It's my birthday guys 🫣 big 2 0 🌚

No longer a teenager, sigh. Well, it was fun while it lasted. I plan on being an equally goofy adult LMAOO no, but for I'm still processing this

Anyways I'm super inactive, but I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy!!!

[eggsaladstain]

speckle my beloved ❤️❤️❤️

Source: Tuca & Bertie, Season 3, Episode 7