#asexual will byers

[trans-gay-arospec-mike-wheeler]

“The ace Will Byers headcanon is so homophobic and idk how anyone even headcanons it bc there’s no basis of it in canon”

You can headcanon a character as ace without having evidence

Noah fucking Schnapp said it’s possible Will could be ace, which surprise surprise, is where the headcanon even COMES FROM

You can be acespec and homosexual

[ollsonline]

the party hcs bc yahoo!

[urstfaveisqueer]

Asexual Will Byers! 🖤🐘🤍💜

will byers from stranger things is asexual!

[skythanlmao]

i think we should spread mike wheeler and will byers is asexual agenda more

[the-dungeonmaster]

cutely headcanons will byers as someone from the ace spectrum

[sockpuppethistorian]

I kinda feel like we really got jipped out of an asexual Will, tbh

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Hi! i wanted to say your post about aroace Will is spectacular, and i can’t believe i forgot about my aroace headcanon of him! it makes so much sense, especially from previous season where Will expressed sadness about how much attention Mike was giving to his romantic relationship instead of his friendships.

thank you for posting about it :) makes my aroace heart happy.

(also i used to be efficacious-aspirations! hi)

Oh my goodness, hello there! (Please read that in an Obi-Wan voice if you feel so inclined 😂) So good to hear from you again!

I'm glad you enjoyed the post :) Will's story has really resonated deeply with me (often painfully), so it's nice to hear that other people also relate to that--and that I'm not just depressing everyone haha! Here's hoping that Season 5 keeps up the stellar characterization...and who knows, maybe, by some miracle, he'll be confirmed as aroace!

[shaniacsboogara]

Fucking love when tumblr is a website.

[rogueddie]

The fruity four(s) and the expanding queer-verse

[micaathogwarts]

Why media has always to "fix" asexual/aromantic characters?

(this is a little rant. I don't wanna seem rude or trying to ignore certain identities so please read till the end. maybe I am just overanalysing things but...)

When a character shows little to no interest in love matters there is always a common pattern in their evolution. First they are ridiculed or treated like a child. Then their arch and growth is shown through "fixing" them: they start to catch feelings, get in relationship and so on and that becomes a methaphor of their maturity, healing or "regaing humanity".

I am thinking of BBC Sherlock that after stating many times that he doesn't want nor like those kind of relationship he kinda "regains humanity" by actually engaging with Irene. Watson litterally tells him to go out whit her, like if without romantic/sexual love his existance would be wasted.

I am thinking of Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. His friends always make fun of him for his approach to relationship. Then magically he has sex with Amy as a way of showing he is matured and had a "fundamental human experience".

I am thinking of Will Byers that in a season doesn't understand why all his friends are falling in love. And in the following season the show makes clear that he is not heartless but actually he is in love with his friend. (I know he is supposed to be really young, is still a good representation and his asexuality/aromanticism was just a not-so-wide-spread headcanon....but the way all of that is portait still fit this annoyng narrative)

I am thinking of people saying Loveless or even Heartstopper by Alice Oseman are childish and immature or irrealistic.

And I know that asexual people can have sex, aromantic people can be in relationship, demisexuals and demiromantics exist and all of this is valid but I am tired of seeing that a "full no" is never a really valid option in media. A person who doesn't want no kind of relationship is always shown as a flawed starting point in need of fixing. And then, eventually, they will grow, make up their mind, fall in love, realising they where just holding back, scared or in need to explore themselves.

[missretrosthrowbackdiner-archive]

Happy Ace Week From Some Totally Canon Ace Characters

[maroon-poet]

Do you know why I love Stranger Things so much? Because all the characters are just like me: autistic and queer.

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Idc if I get hate but season 1-3 Will Byers had the PEAK potential to be an aroace character buh-bye.

[ohfallingdisco]

You guys, El and Lucas are the only characters who haven’t known what something allosexual meant onscreen—that something being “happy screams” both times, actually. El and Lucas. There are your options for asexual icons lmao, not Mr. Hosegate-Shovelgate Airport Up-and-Down himself, or the guy who came back from Camp Knowhere with a girlfriend “hotter than Phoebe Cates,” the actress who goes on to be talked about for her topless scene and have a cardboard cutout in a bikini 💀

[pinkeoni]

thoughts on asexual will?

Hooooo boy okay let's get into it.

I know this wasn’t your intention, sweet anon, but you just opened a whole can of worms that I’ve been sitting on for awhile.

I wanna start by saying that I'm not against any asexuality hcs, nor do I think that Will being asexual in the show would be a bad thing, but I do think that people who read Will as canonically asexual may be ignoring what is actually happening in the text and is erasing his sexuality.

I was on twitter when season 3 dropped, and I remember it being popular opinion that Will was asexual despite all the of the incredibly clear queer coding that was going on with him. “It’s not my fault you don’t like girls” like come ON! My 70 year old dad knew what that meant! But he’s not a repressed gay! He's asexual! He doesn't like anyone!

Could Will be asexual and still in love with Mike? Absolutely! But that isn't what's happening in the show! Will isn't portrayed as sexless because he's asexual, Will is portrayed as sexless because he's a gay guy at a time when gay sex was especially vilified and demonized. No one says “AIDS” outright in the show, but there are still clear indicators that this is what’s happening in the text. It was assumed that Will was kidnapped and killed (and possibly raped, based on Troy’s line about “another queer”) because he was gay when he was just twelve years old, and this is reiterated a couple times in season one. At the top of season four Eddie is reading a magazine article that links sodomy with Satanism and violence.

I’ll just say it— there are certain people that would rather Will be asexual than gay because they view homosexual desire as a bad thing. There seems to be this rise of conservatism online in regards to queer sex, including amongst young queer people. “No kink at pride” and “No sex in movies” are all popular opinions that I’ve seen in queer spaces on twitter.

I remember when Heartstopper came out there was this tweet that went around, where the op essentially said he was glad that there was gay rep that was “wholesome” and “nonsexual.” Does there need to be sex in Heartstopper, no! There never needs to be sex in queer media, especially ones where the actors are young! But it’s these opinions, the ones that put sexless queer rep as superior to queer rep with sex that snowballs and begins to vilify queerness as a whole. Queer rep shouldn’t have to purify itself and become palatable to conservatives in order to be valid.

I understand why queer people hold this opinion of themselves because I was also a gay teenager, and the reason is internalized homophobia. With right wing media ramping up their homophobia, it’s hard not to let their messaging crawl into your brain. especially when your peers start to say something similar. Queer teenagers are constantly being told that their natural sexual desires are harmful and they start to believe it themselves. I know, I’ve been there.

To reiterate, I don’t think that all people who hc Will as asexual hold the opinions of all the stuff I talked about above, I also don’t want to make it seem like I’m putting down ace rep either! I wanted to bring all of that up because it is still a problem and very much happening. Like I said before, Will being asexual wouldn’t be a bad thing if it was the case, but that isn’t what’s happening in the show. Will is TEXTUALLY a HOMOSEXUAL!! HE LIKES MEN!!

I always need to clarify with these types of post, but no I don’t want to see an explicit sex scene with Will. HOWEVER, I do think that the sexuality part of his sexuality is something that can and should be explored in a mature and tasteful way. We know that season 5 is going to be his “coming of age” story, and I believe that his sexuality is going to be a big part of that, and it’s already part of the text.

[melancholic-frog]

i’m making a list of characters i head canon as aro and/or ace and i would like to hear other peoples headcanons, some of mine are in the tags