#no poll

[spicybylerpolls]

@"we're not pure magical fairies" anon!

Damn, I've been thinking about this topic so much. And getting heated about it. It's no secret that fandoms in general tend to be dominated by women, and in the case of the byler fandom, it's also overall a pretty youthful fandom. Sexuality is such a charged topic, it's so powerful and personal and runs so deep and THAT is why I need to see it portrayed with utmost authenticity. So truly, it's hard to take when people try to censor conversations surrounding a topic that means so much to me (having grown up gay in that time period). I appreciate people's thoughts and interpretations but a hearty FUCK NO to trying to censor or police gay male sexuality. I mean, damn.

Really, when people referred to hosegate as "sexualizing" mike and will, that was disheartening to say the least. It implies imposing sexuality, framing it as something separate from the characters - rather than us just interpreting the scene (and others) as intended: mike and will are hot for each other. Oh lord! Imagine! I just came away from all that feeling quite weird about my own sexuality for the first time in many years. I should seriously know better than to let such things get to me. But shame runs deep. Gays who survived the 80s know. And not only them, of course!

I've actually been looking forward to post st5, because I believe that's really the time when we will get a broader perspective of gay and bisexual men's thoughts and feelings about this storyline.

[theamazingian]

With the Octopath Traveler series and games like Sea of Stars winning RPG of the Year, could Game Freak take Pokemon back to 2D and have their mainstream audience except it?

[bylerpolls]

is it true that u r a mister cloudycleric

i don’t know, IS it true that i am a mister cloudycleric?

[miss-latam-sexy-tournament]

No.

[dungeonmalcontent]

"You approach the line drawn in blood red chalk on the floor. It is five feet away from a wall of dingy mirrors and runs from wall to wall in a straight and parallel line to their reflective surface. The mirrors, despite reflecting the room around you, show that the room is otherwise empty. You do not see your reflection. But the rest of the room behind the line is there, the whole 15 ft by 15 ft empty cobblestone cube of it. Do you cross the line?"

Next >

[is-george-the-asshole]

I Fucked Up

Okay

I'll eat this one.

I'm feeling generous, I know you get tired of judging people all day, so I'll admit it. I went overboard here - I was out of my mind and had no good excuse for any individual step of what I did.

I was on a date with a woman, and she asked me upstairs for coffee, and I said, "nah, it keeps me up". And THIRTY SECONDS after we broke off the date I realized she wasn't asking me to get coffee, if you know what I mean? And I liked her! I asked her out on a second date! If I had for even a second understood she wanted to have sex with me, I would've gone up there - it would've been like the Flash.

So I can't get this out of my head, this absolute gaffe. So I call her the next day, against EVERY INSTINCT I HAVE.

And I don't know WHAT happens with my brain, I get her answering machine, and leave this long rambling nonsense of a message.

So

To understand the next part, you need to realize this was before cell phones. You didn't send text messages and get a 'read' notification. You leave a message and it's out there, in the void, and you might never hear back from the person!

I don't hear back from her, and I give a couple of more calls, and on the fourth day, I just let loose, go on this rant, fifteen years of frustration at endless rejection just spewing all over the machine.

And then she calls me from out of town - she's been gone since the day after our date, so she hasn't gotten the messages.

So they're waiting - a time bomb that could end this relationship before it began.

But a friend of mine had mentioned her cousin or something had accidentally left sensitive information on a guy's machine, and staked out his house to go up with him and switch tapes.

The perfect solution, you know? Because I liked this girl. So I head over with another friend of mine and beg him to help me do the switch - I don't have the nerve to do it myself.

So we get her upstairs and distract her to let my friend switch the tape, and miracle of miracles it works! He makes the switch, and she's none the wiser!

And then she tells me a friend played my messages for her, and thought they were hilarious!

What sort of god puts people through something like this for NOTHING? That's what I'd like to know.

[somemagicalhips]

Rottytops has appeared! What to do

****

Insult

Make them mine

Kill

"Good luck with that last one. I'm already dead~"

[dirtywrestling]

No Poll For FanFic Friday This Week!

Sadly no poll for FanFic Friday this week! BUT there is a commission fanfic that was requested and I will have published this Friday!

On my other Blog that I have for other random fandoms DOES have a poll up! Follow -> @yunggoblin <- I have a SPN poll this week, this past FanFic Friday was about Simon 'Ghost' Riley from COD MW2 called 'Always Working' Check it out!

Commissions and Imagines ARE STILL OPEN! Just in case anyone was wondering!

[onepiece-polls]

Do you know about the silly tournament polls?

I... don't think I do. Tell me about it!

[onlinebeast]

[alternative-snake]

i must ask you reblog this so said beast, you know. actually has attributes also ping me or something if you draw it i want to see.

[spicybylerpolls]

Here me out, I am not against a byler sex scene cause I don’t think it would be anything remotely explicit anyways so discussing it in depth for me feels pointless, but I have issues with tying a sex scene into the character arcs of mike and will as if it’s the only logical way to wrap up their story, only because had there not been a pandemic and multiple delays, byler would have happened while at least one of them was still a MINOR (maybe both I would have to do the math) and there’s no way the show woulda had a sex scene in those circumstances so it’s more likely to me that having a sex scene—while it would be interesting to go there now that the actors are older—it is not the end all be all for their character arcs and not something that *has* to happen for their end narrative to make sense, since it probably was not going to happen in the first place. So maybe let’s reframe the discussion away from “they have to bone or else all the build up and such makes no sense it’s the only way to end things because blah blah blah” and more as it would be fun/cool/hot to see something more adult now that they ARE actual adults, and it would feel satisfying to their story, but that’s it. cause some people are starting to feel so passionate about the idea that i am concerned they are going to make themselves very angry if there isn’t one …

Hmm, I kinda see your point, but I also feel like there's no real point in speculating about what might have happened in the hypothetical past where the pandemic and the strikes didn't happen because A) we don't live in that timeline lol, and B) the Duffers have always had the ending in the show in mind from the jump and many/most of the beats they knew they needed to hit along the way, BUT I personally don't think they've planned out literally every single detail from the start with no wiggle room.

The writers have said as much, like for example when they tweeted all the crazy things that were supposed to happen in season 2 like possessed Will killing Bob or El mercy killing her mom. They've definitely added and subtracted some things along the way.

Beyond that, regardless of the ages of Finn and Noah, it's not outlandish to argue that sex is still thematically connected to the characters and their arcs. Byler is a story about sexuality, of which sexual attraction and, well, sex play a huge role.

And ST is a coming-of-age show, of which sex often plays a huge role regardless of the age of the actors. During S3, the writers didn't shy away from including sexual themes such as Max's happy screams comment, and the actors were still minors then. Every season has progressed these themes further. The writers and filmmakers are the ones putting the sexual symbolism and jokes into the story, and we're just picking up what they're putting down, right?

Like, I don't think Murray using the phrase "experiment sexually" was accidental, nor was hosegate, nor was Mike checking out Will's ass lol. It's all fair game when you're telling this kind of story (as long as you're creating a safe and comfortable set, of course). Because of this, IMO, there's a high chance the ST writers would've still at least implied that Byler had sex even in your hypothetical scenario. There actually isn't a hard-and-fast rule that prevents actors who aren't legal adults yet from acting out light, non-explicit sex scenes.

You say that, "byler would have happened while at least one of them was still a MINOR (maybe both I would have to do the math) and there’s no way the show woulda had a sex scene in those circumstances," and I understand why you'd say this, but if you look closer at films and shows in media history, that's not always true. I can name several shows and films that call this theory into question.

While it's true that most modern shows with teen sex scenes do tend to also have adults already playing teenagers- there's a whole page on TV Tropes about this phenomenon called Dawson Casting- (and these tend to show a lot of skin, i.e. Euphoria), which makes it easier to explore sexual storylines, that's not the case across the board.

In your hypothetical scenario, the Byler sex scene obviously wouldn't have been an explicit one (and no one's saying it will absolutely be that way now either), but that doesn't really mean it wouldn't have existed in some form. There are many examples of coming-of-age shows/movies where the actors were technically still underage at the time of filming, and it showed them making out intensely before cutting out (and sex was implied) or it showed something slightly more (closer to Stancy) but still not anywhere near HBO-level.

McLovin's sex scene in Superbad comes to mind (his actor was still 17 at the time, and his mother had to watch while it was being filmed). Thora Birch was 16 when American Beauty was filmed. More recently, there was the Jevon sex scene in Chucky this season. Devon's actor recently turned 18, but Jake's actor is still 17. And yet the season was non-subtly building up to the scene, it was 100% tastefully done, and it cut away before anything super specific happened.

Now that both Finn and Noah ARE adults, and we know there will definitely be a time jump, this hypothetical is extra meaningless. And if the Duffers want to go further and bolder with a Byler sex scene, they can, even if this wasn't the original plan. And there's lots of brilliant analysis that argues the Duffers have been planting the seeds for a while for at least some kind of sexual resolution.

But your assertion that, "some people are starting to feel so passionate about the idea that i am concerned they are going to make themselves very angry if there isn’t one" doesn't seem based in reality either. Spicy bylers might want a sex scene, and many might believe there at least will be something implied like Jancy, but I don't think anyone will actually be angry if there isn't one. Correct me if I'm wrong? I think most people are just happy there's a space to talk about Byler in unfiltered ways, to analyze the mature themes of the show, and also to have fun while doing so, especially since the season is still a ways away. It's not like people will actually fist fight the Duffers if Mike isn't moaning and giving Will backshots in S5 💀.

What do y'all think?

[theamazingian]

Sonic fans I have a question: I was listening to a podcast and both hosts agreed that Sonic Adventures controls were floaty.

I’ve never thought this in my life LMAO I always thought the #1 Sonic Adventure complaint would be the camera, and that the controls were tight.

Anyway, are they right? Does Sonic feel ‘floaty’ in Sonic Adventure/DX?

[bylerpolls]

sry more of a question, are you the same person that runs the "Spicybyler polls?" if not, whats ur opinion on it....

oh no. we are not the same person whatsoever, a lot of people in the more 'edgy' (so to say) byler community have me blocked i'm sure/do not like me very much, which is fine.

personally i have them (spicybylerpolls) blocked because every time i see a poll from them i feel a little icky. (well more than a little icky.) it did make me a little upset when i first saw it to see someone took my idea & used it to make that kind of content, but that's the way the internet goes, so i just try not to think about it now. a poll account isn't exactly a unique idea either.

will is 15 & mike is 14 in canon, so it's just, a wee bit odd. i was asked some of those weird questions that some people submit to that account at that age, & i remember they made me viscerally uncomfortable, & i get that they're fictional characters. it's more of just my own trauma i guess. i'm not trying to be a prude either... i get that nancy & steve were shown to have a sex scene when nancy was 16, but 16 is not 14, & nancy was the younger person in that relationship. again, i'm not trying to be a prude, it is more of a preference within myself & a moral code to not try & sexualize underage characters.

also––i feel like if stranger things 4 was filmed when scheduled, if covid wasn't a thing, a lot more people would be against so much nsfw byler content.

do whatever you wish, it's the internet, just... personally, i do not agree with or feel comfortable sexualizing them.

[miss-latam-sexy-tournament]

KADJAFSADKAJAJAJJAAJJAAJJAJAJAJAAJA Please please please send the edits. This is the first time I've seen someone call Lelouch a whitexican, but god does it fit him