#byler lines

[gayofthefae]

Thinking again about:

“You saw that girl and she was in the sandbox, and she was crying"

"You gave her your tonka truck"

"And i told you we couldn’t afford to buy another one."

"You said she should have it"

"because she’s sad. She’s sad, Mommy.”

@sspiderj: x

[hothammies]

acswy is a hell of a drug thank you @campbyler for making (and continuing to make) such a good rivals byler fic

[royal-they]

chatting about dnd probably

[kidovna]

Creative minds being creative together ✍🏻✍🏻

Collab with @spacedru1d! They did the lines for this and I did the colours. Here’s part 2

[thranduel]

[mimymomo]

In ‘Lucas on the Line,’ Lucas Sinclair experienced countless bouts of racism and micro aggressions including but not limited to:

Had children run away from him and refuse to touch him because they thought his Black skin color would rub off on them. This happened IN THE THIRD GRADE! And he never told his parents about it!

Calmed his anxiety about being the only Black kid in his homeroom class by coming to the realization that since there was no other Black kids that meant he most likely wouldn’t be bombed

Had to install a camera in his locker because his property got defaced by a glitter bomb

Lost his first and only black friend/mentor who supported him thanks to an ACTUAL MAKESHIFT BOMB being installed in his locker that caused a janitor to go to the hospital for 1st/2nd degree burns (and the white boy who did it barely got punished)

Got teased that the only reason he got on the basketball team was because he was Black

Comes to the realization that he might’ve actually only gotten in the team because the coach has a history of recruiting Black boys for the team regardless of their skill level

Gets called an Oreo (for uneducated: white on the inside, black on the outside) by racist bullies. Erica (who apparently has also been called this) sticks up for him and is the only one who understands what the insult means which means Mike and Dustin don’t know/understand the lengths of how deep the racism Lucas experiences in Hawkins on a daily bases

And these aren’t even all of them! These are just examples I had from the top of my head!

And despite all this happening in the book, “fans” have STILL FOUND A WAY to turn this book about Lucas and his struggles as a Black boy in a mostly white suburban town and his deteriorating relationship with Max and make it about Byler!

The fact that Lucas, one of the only characters of color on this show, can’t have ANYTHING to himself without people using him to push their ships is so aggravating!

He and Erica constantly get shit talked and miss characterized by fans, get excluded/cut out of group shots, and barely get any fanart/fics about them and their struggles compared to the white characters (I could make a whole new post about the terrible way this fandom treats Erica but I won’t do that here). Hell don’t forget that the fandom constantly tries to dispute the racism Lucas received in S2 from Billy was either not really racism, just a moment that Duffer Bros. put in to “ruin” Billy’s character and ultimately can be tossed out and ignored.

The only time I ever see Lucas get any large amount of attention is either due to 1) Lumax (but let’s be honest: 90% of the lumax tag on here isn’t even about them and has now become Elumax 2.0 and most post are people praising ElMax and then being like “oh Lucas/lumax is cute too” in the tags and that’s it). 2) people creating “parallels” of Lumax to their ship of choice (mostly Byler and Mileven) as a way to say that their ship is gonna be canon or 3) to say that he’s bisexual.

And all that is fine and whatever, ship and headcanon things to your hearts content, but if you only care about Lucas if he’s helping push you ship narrative or because you think he’s gay (to the point where some people actually read snippets of the book that talked about Lucas coming to the realization that Black boys like him can be considered attractive and only acknowledge the “queer” reading of the text and completely ignored the big race element that was the main focus), I’m sorry but, that’s not cool. The fact that 95% of the Lucas Sinclair tag isn’t about Lucas himself but white characters like Steve, Eddie, Byler says everything about how the fandom treats him.

I’m just so tired.

Lucas Sinclair deserves the same respect that the white characters get!

I leave you one of my favorite sections of the entire book: Lucas learning to become unabashedly himself:

Rant over.

Edit: in my blind rage I realized I forgot to edit out the Twitter handle. That’s completely my fault. Please don’t hate that Twitter user. I’m just coming back to fix that.

[astrobei]

more jurassic park au !! (inspired by me and my friends clearing out the jurassic park section at universal this week)

+ also:

[kaiminluu]

no wonder his calls to cali never went through

happy late birthday to my favorite character in the world michael wheeler

[medilies]

For yet another round of Is It Canon or a Fandom Wide Headcanon, I present to you Will Byers hating/not being very good at math

I often see this in fics, does anyone know if this is mentioned in the show?... or is it just ppl's hatred for math showing?

[muppetbyers]

this shot. this shot right here encapsulates their s4 dynamic perfectly

[solisevart]

art block sketch dump!!!! doodled whatever byler thoughts were on my mind over some days and it helped me power through 🤗 now do I play with any of these concepts..

click for better quality :) also on instagram

[gayofthefae]

"It's like a 70/30 split thing"

It's like a 70/30-

Okay, so it's like an 80/20 split thing. That's fine. That's still okay.

It's like an 80/20-

90/10-

95/5-

That's okay. You know, 5's still salvageable. So it's like a-

It's like a-

It's like-

oh

[chirpsythismorning]

Mike Wheeler and Will Byers… Run.

[azuries]

fellas you ever thought of a scenario where mike had a terrible day in school and so he decided to try to contact will after trying for so long, thinking itll be different this time and his fate being kind to him, but then getting nothing. well now you have

[tender-emotional-music]

sometimes I’m having a perfectly normal, happy day, and then I remember that Will feels like a mistake, and Mike makes him feel like he isn’t, like he’s “better for being different.” Like that’s an actual line that he said. That is how he feels, and we’re gonna see that pay off in one way or another in s5

[bylrlvr]

byler shippers 🤝 mileven shippers 🤝 jancy shippers 🤝 stancy shippers 🤝 steddie shippers 🤝 ronance shippers 🤝 elmax shippers 🤝 lumax shippers 🤝 multi shippers 🤝 the universe

loving jopper