#mike wheeler i know what you are (in love)

[taeiris]

take me to church

churchgate has invaded my brain

[throne-of-crows]

Poor Will never stood a chance. How could you not fall in love with someone when they look at you like this?

The look of pure love and adoration on Mike's face kills me. How can anyone look at these expressions and not see how in love this boy is?

Not to mention how devastated he looks in some of them; he's so close to what he wants most and yet believes he'll never be able to have him.

[byler-alarmist]

You're gonna sit there and tell me that Mike had feelings for El, yet when El was crying for reassurance that Mike loved her--

He couldn't have gotten the fck up and went over to comfort her??

Like this????

This is where the "he couldn't say ily because he was afraid If he said it-" yadda, yadda, yadda, falls apart.

Even if he couldn't say the words aloud, we have seen that he is able to show his affection and love through physical touch.

(Which did wonders for Will feeling cared for and supported, btw)

Also, even if he couldn't say the words "I love you", he could have spoken softly to her, gently reassuring her of how she was special to him.

Like tbis???

Singling her out from the rest and assuring her his feelings haven't changed and home isn't home without her??

There are so many ways that conversation could've gone to make El feel loved, even if he couldn't say it. We know Mike is capable of showing it.

But he did not use his love language with El. He wouldn't even go near her to hold hands or even put an arm around her, nor did he try to say he missed her or that they were a team.

TL;DR: Mike Wheeler, I know what you are.

[hessolivagant]

lesbian byler because I don't know how to draw men

Roller rink fight

Random kiss and s5 fem byler

Van scene <33

[rawrx3kaitxt]

Me analysing every little detail in byler scenes be like

[silverliing]

i have an art prompt: imagine lesbyler at senior prom!!

(thank you for drawing lesbyler im fucking obsessed)

Class of ‘89 let’s go!

[love-byers]

↬ 1x01

↬ 2x01

↬ 3x01

lovers doomed to fail...

i could write a think piece about how the first you see of a couple being them making out does not give you any reason to really like them or think they'll work out but i've already done that...and i don't even have to because clearly it's a theme in stranger things across multiple seasons

[nicxxx5]

imagine what if all the byers (or at least will and jonathan) are staying with the wheelers during the upside down apocalypse in s5. holly, being the little 6 yro that she is knowing no personal boundaries, has been snooping in mike’s room when he’s not home and found the letters he wrote to will. 

as the byers are moving into to the wheeler household, holly beams and  jumps up to hug will because she hasn’t seen him in so long ”will!” and greets her just as enthusiastically “hi holly! how are you?” still smiling she says “good! i have something for you!” will looks at her surprised “you do?” she grins ”yeah!” she starts bounding up the stairs to get whatever it is she has for him. as she gets to the top of the stairs she yells down “i found it in mike’s room!” 

mike who had been half listening whips around when he hears what holly just said. realizing what she might be referring to he yells and tries to stop her “hey! holly! wait! stay out of my room!” but its too late as holly is now coming down the stairs with a stack of envelopes in her hand and she hands them to will “see! they all have your name on them”

will takes them from her hand and looks at them confused. meanwhile, mike behind him has turned white as a ghost and started to panic as he looks at all his letters to will that are signed “love, mike” and where never meant to be sent are now in the hands of their recipient 

[queen-of-hawkins-why-ler]

I just finished my s3 rewatch yesterday and I need to talk about how heartbreaking Mike's sequence is in the final scenes. You can literally see his reaction to figuring out that he's gay evolve from initial confusion, to shock, to devastation and distress as well as immense fear about what comes next.

When El kisses him, he realizes right off the bat that something about the kiss is "off," though not necessarily bad. He's kind of left wondering, "Huh? What the hell was that about?" asking himself why the kiss didn't mean more to him and why he couldn't bring more passion to the kiss, especially in light of the fact that he's not going to see El for a very long time. It's not the reaction of someone who just realized something about themselves, but the reaction of someone who realizes that something is just not quite right. Mike does not immediately realize he's gay, he's just like, "I wonder why I feel this way."

It's not until the kids are outside watching the Byers family leave that Mike is starting to put the pieces together. He's just had his final interaction with both Will and El for the time being. He's just said his goodbyes, and as he's watching the moving van drive away, he's realizing that his feelings about Will and El leaving are not what he expected them to be. "Will can come, too," is what he told El when El was talking about coming to visit over the holidays, but he's realizing that he didn't just invite Will to tag along as a third wheel to what would essentially be a romantic reunion between El and himself. He's realizing that Will is not secondary to his relationship with El and never has been. Will is the one he finds himself thinking about and pining for as he watches Will and El slip out of his life. Mike is the last party member to leave the Byers' residence, and we see him glancing back at the house, the place where he's shared so many memories with Will, and as he starts biking back to his own house, he realizes that he has a lot to contemplate and come to terms with on his ride there.

I believe he has the ACTUAL realization that he's gay on his bike ride home, once everything starts falling into place for him: El kissed him and he felt nothing. Will was the one he was thinking about as he watched the Byers family leave Hawkins; not El. He took one last good look at Will's house and realized that the most important and tender connection he has in his life is the relationship he has with Will: not the one he has with El.

And then, by the time he gets home, he's successfully figured out what it all means and he's in shock. Not only is he in shock, but he feels trapped now. Horrified of the implications of what this means for him, what it means for his relationship what his family, and what it means for his relationships with both Will and El, neither of which he will very easily be able to nurture or work on now that Will and El will be across the country from him. He's just discovered the most shocking, life-changing fact about himself--something that will change the trajectory of his life and will be a great source of suffering and oppression for him--and he's going to have to navigate it and figure it out all by himself, without any help, understanding, love or support from his own family, the Byers family, or his friends.

He hugs his mom and feels the weight of it all hitting him at once. He's thinking about how his mom may love him and want to be there for him now, in this moment, but there may come a time when she will no longer be there for him. He's realizing what this means for his relationships with El and Will. No doubt he feels a huge amount of responsibility to love and be there for El. El loves him and depends on him, and the fact that he's been there for her this entire time, he's already set the precedent for El herself, Hopper, and his own friends that he's going to be that for her: someone who loves and defends her. He feels the crushing guilt of knowing that he's going to let every single one of those people down by being gay. Of knowing that El loves and depends on him and that he can't love her back.

And then there's his relationship with Will, which he no doubt believes will be negatively affected by these newfound feelings. In his mind, Will is his best friend but also someone who is "normal" like the rest of the boys. Will may be a bit of a late bloomer, but he's going to grow up, start talking to girls, and have a girlfriend of his own soon enough. And Mike probably believes that from this point onward, his relationship with Will is going to be awkward, distant, and emotionally stunted by the fact that he's secretly in love with Will.

My poor BABY. I just can't even imagine the weight he must have felt once he realized he was gay and all of these crashing, painful realizations just slammed him all at once. In a matter of minutes, he realized he was going to be ostracized, alone, and a huge letdown to everyone in his life and that he'd have to face this all by himself.

[axquiva]

[anthrophile1-blog]

Out here doing the Lord’s work for bylers on the accursed internet space known as Facebook.

[bangtanthoughts]

el: *is upset with mike*

mike: tf she want me to do?? women these days....

will: *is upset with mike*

mike: omg no will please bbg take me back i realize i was wrong you're right i'll change for the better for you sweetie pie please take me back

well.

[byler-alarmist]

📣📣 PUZZLE TALES NEW CHARA DROP

It's GRANDPA SWEATER MIKE WHEELER!!!

Very amazing and we love to see the throwback! It's nice to see Mike in his element again (blue) and solving problems. Plus, his in-game descriptor is "Codebreaker," a reminder that Mike Wheeler is indeed the dude that puts the puzzle pieces together. Indeed, he has not one but two abilities related to patterns.

(family ties, eh? 👀)

But here is how I know they are throwing treats to hungry Bylers specifically:

The event is called Lost Connection, and JUST LOOK at how they describe it:

HELLO???!?!?!?!

This is soooooo a nod to Mike calling Will in Lenora.

The truth is going to come out eventually!!!

Also, it's really cute that they have now released both Mike and Will from the Miwi season. Spy and Codebreaker 💛💙

[theprettieststar87]

I love mike so much, his hate feels like a personal insult to me

I MEAN HE'S SUCH A CUTIE PATOOTIE I CAN'T

[hawkinsunderground]

pretty minor but in the new bts, from the angle of all their hands, it looks like Mike and Will are across from each other. Great angle if you want to do a shot where Mike and Will catch each other's eyes, exchanging glances and the camera lingering on it to show that there's a more intimate understanding between the two. Maybe with a little smile at each other before the moment fully breaks??? As a treat?

[sophskullz]

Mike’s OPENING scene for season 4 having him being framed inside of a closet, the closet light is on, there’s a one way sign pointing to the closet, and in the frame before this we can see rainbow on the bottom of the letter is insane. They were basically screaming at us “HE’S GAY AND IN THE CLOSET”