#willthecleric

[byler4vida]

I miss LesbianMindFlayer 😕😕

[tsugarubecker]

^ @willthecleric just summed up everything concisely (part of this reblog)

[mikeslawyer]

"Tell me a secret?"

Mike asks, like he's come to do every day, late at night, when the darkness can swallow the guilt and the regret rushing out of their hearts, when their sides press together, the floor long forgotten, ever since the first Will, please, come up here.

Will is a terrible person.

I'm in love with you. I'm having visions. I'm in love with you. I'm not really having nightmares, Vecna is tempting me with a version of you that loves me back. I'm in love with you.

“I think my death is the easiest solution to everything. The Upside Down will die with me."

Will can hear Mike swallow next to him.

“Will, I would let the world burn down to ashes if it meant keeping you in it."

or

They're back in Hawkins, everything is the way it's always been, except - yeah, it's still the middle of an apocalypse, Will is having nosebleeds and Mike would sacrifice the world for him but is still losing him.

there’s one bed, forehead touch and protective mike while will slowly succumbs into madness. enjoy! updates every monday x ALSO THIS IS A LATE BDAY GIFT TO THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE TAL ILYSM ILL BE MEETING MY DEADLINES FROM NOW ON I SWEAR

also tagging everyone who wanted me to i think: @foodiewithdahoodie @id-rather-be-home @deathgate @byers7wheeler @fluffyfangirl @honeypoetsposts @gayregina @willthecleric @thegaycat @fairyrona @sollovesmichealqueerler @queermarzipan @stfubyler @taylorswiftshipsbyler @turningsoft

[suzieburself]

Bylerween Day 2- As You Mike It

(Based on the prompt of Halloween party)

"I've only dated one person before," Mike continues, unaware of the turmoil going on behind Will's sheet and skin. "And we weren't even very romantic! I mean, I don't even think I know how to be romantic. And if I screw up, then what? I really, really like this person. I don't want to lose them!"

The rant just makes Will feel worse. His brain is overthinking and yet the alcohol can't contain every thought as they spill over. Mike needs to stop. He needs to get him to stop. "Just say it to me," he blurts. The blades of his own stupidity dig deep into his heart. Take it back take it back take it back.

"What?"

Take it back.

“Just," Will swallows again. "Pretend I'm the person you like. Try to flirt with me."

Or

When Will realizes Mike doesn't recognize him in his Halloween costume, he decides to have a little fun. That is until he learns Mike has a secret crush and they're supposed to be at the party...

Warnings: underage drinking

Tagging: @bylerween2023 @bookinit02 @microwaveonwheels @blu-3-winter-spring-world @willthecleric

[jaegerisim]

Screaming And Crying (and kissing in the rain).

*enters your dashboard visibly disheveled* heeeeyyyy y'all, it's me ya girl w a new AU!!! haha dw all of my fics will be finished, um, eventually. Someday.... Anyways this is for my moodboard that got waaaayy too much attention than anticipated. Enjoy! 💕🌈

TW: smoking

Tagging the lovelies interested: @foodiewithdahoodie @mikeslawyer @will--byers @aidyaiden @big-sad-for-byler @booksandpaperss @over-rated-cheese @embarrassing-nerd @maru-chu @callmetheidiot @moviebyers @chic-ultimate @conanssummerchild @rotessaboggs @willthecleric @sageyshideaway @melaniesmpo if anyone wants to be tagged too just tell me in the comments!

Link to AO3

One of these days Will was going to fire his manager. The manager in question being his beloved stepsister, El Hopper.

"So I'm supposed to believe you forgot Mike fucking Wheeler is gonna play my love interest? You just conveniently forgot, right? Fucking great!" Will paced his living room back and forth. He was on the verge of hysteria. It didn't help his mood that Dan, his boyfriend, had cheated on him. That fucking asshole.

"Just calm down, Will. I know you and Mike have a complicated history between the two but you need to do this" reasoned El, calmly sipping from her mug of coffee.

"Do what? A gay rom-com with Mike Wheeler playing my boyfriend? How is that gonna help? How is that gonna change the fact that him and I detest each other. How?" demanded Will, throwing himself on top of his couch, like the dramatic person he is.

"Oh, the tragedy! You and Mike have to make-out! Oh, the horrors!" interrupted Max Mayfield, Will's best friend, eating a baguette.

Will plucked the baguette from her hand and took a bite from it.

"Oh, shut up. Besides I doubt you guys want to see Lucas anymore than I want to see Mike!" snapped Will, knowing he'd hit a sore subject for both girls.

Max pressed her lips in a fine line. "Lucas will probably ignore me, which is what you should do with Mike! Ignore his antiques and live your life."

"Besides why do I need to do this?" spoke Will while chewing.

"Ew, gross. Swallow before talking, for fucks sake!" Max gagged.

"Will, I need you to get this through your thick skull, m'kay? You are an actor, right? Well your job is acting then. Not living off the press and media like a leech." scolded El, and she did have a point. Will had been living off the press for the last 2 years with romantic scandals and modelling jobs.

"Fine, I'll do it. Whatever. I don't care, but if this movie flops it's your fault!" Will wags his finger between Max and El, for emphasis.

"If you'd even bothered to read the script you would know this movie isn't going to flop." The red haired huffed

"I don't need to read to know it's gonna flop 'cause Mike and I are gonna play boyfriends and we are rivals! He is my nemesis, even! I can't stand his smug, freckled face!" Will let out a frustrated groan. "I need a smoke. Max, you coming?"

Max gave El a small kiss on the lips and followed Will to the garden.

"How can I play Mike's boyfriend without gagging. We have 0 chemistry! Who the fuck casted this shit?" said Will lighting his cigarette and passing the lighter over to Max

"First of all, the casting was done by Robin Buckley and the director is Murray Batman, so you keep your mouth shut." snapped Max, she was Mr. Bauman's greatest admirer. "Second of all, you guys used to have loads of chemistry. Remember when the 6 of us used to interviews together?"

Will turned over to look at Max, whose eyes glinted with nostalgia in the moonlight.

He took a long drag and exhaled slowly, Max mimicked him.

"That was when we were 15, Max. Nine fucking years ago. We haven't talked since then. How are we supposed to show chemistry? Anyways, it's not like I have much of a choice, do I?" Will sighed, softly. He remembered his teenage years with Mike. The both of them were wild and free. Not worrying about scandals and reputations.

"Do you want to be my friend?"

"Yes."

"Nope." she answered.

"Ok. Well, I'm guessing the both of you are characters too, right?"

Will threw his cigarette on the floor and stepped on it. The red-haired woman did the same.

"Yeah, El plays your childhood best friend and I play the antagonist. I'm Mike's stepsister and in love with you." Max rolled her eyes.

"Ew."

"I know, thankfully you only kiss Mike. Lucas plays your coworker and El's love interest. Dustin is your kind neighbour who happens to be Mike's best friend." explained Max, entering their house.

"These are gonna some complicated years of filming, it better be worth it" Will thought.

[runninguplenorahills]

Mike not understanding that Will was talking about himself in the van scene is actually an impossible scenario because the concept on it’s own doesn’t make any sense for those two characters!!!

We know from season 2 that Mike immediately picks up on changes in Will’s behavior even when they’re really minor! Will is being quiet and while others brush it off as Will always being quiet, Mike recognizes the difference between Will’s usual quiet and his unusual quiet and he also picks up on every single one of his expressions at rink-o-mania in s4! Mike is observant of Will’s demeanor, he knows when it differs from how Will usually behaves and he is able to recognize his emotions! Will has also never lied to Mike before and so I doubt he could pull it off unnoticed! Mike is incredibly good at reading Will and together with the fact that he also knows El’s side of it all, there isn’t a single chance that Mike did not realize that Will was talking about himself in the van scene!!

And the whole van scene also makes so much more sense if you look at it from the perspective that Mike understood that Will was talking about himself:

1: Mike’s expression falls when Will says that El commissioned the painting

-> Some people say that Mike’s expression falls because he would’ve liked it better if the painting really came from Will but I don’t think that’s the truth. I think his expression falls because it immediately doesn’t make sense to him that El commissioned the painting!! He’s confused by that statement right away because Mike knows that El isn’t interested in his nerdy side!! Mike just expressed his insecurities about El always dismissing his nerdy interests [one day she’s gonna find out that I’m just some random nerd…] so why would he all of a sudden believe Will that El asked him to make a painting about dnd of all things??? Right, he wouldn’t! Mike is confused as to why Will claims that the painting is from El even though it’s painfully clear that it isn’t. So he waits for where Will is going with the conversation to make more sense of it.

2: Mike’s facial expressions throughout the whole scene

-> He looks so tender and in love and he hangs on every word Will says! He looks at Will when Will isn’t looking, he has little sparkly tears in his eyes and he’s genuinely and gently smiling. There’s so much gulping and staring and it’s just all so tender and intimate. And the intimacy was obviously between Mike and Will!! This was not about El! We as an audience know that and Mike knows that too! It wasn’t about El for him either! Mike contributed a lot to the intimacy between him and Will in this scene so this clearly was about Will for Mike! He just simply wouldn’t have been so involved and mesmerized if he thought Will was really talking about someone else. Someone who isn’t even present. And they simply wouldn’t have created such an intimate atmosphere around these two characters in this scene if this wasn’t strictly about the two of them, for both of them!

3: Mike asking for confirmation

-> Mike asks Will for confirmation: “yeah?” But when Will had told him earlier that “of course she’ll always need you, Mike.” He said “I keep telling that to myself but… I don’t believe it.” Meaning that Mike literally doesn’t believe that El needs him and why would that just suddenly change in the span of like 5 minutes? Why would Mike all of a sudden believe every word Will says about El after he just dismissed Will’s statement that El needs him?? It just doesn’t make sense. And that’s because Mike doesn’t ask Will for confirmation that this is really how El feels, Mike asks Will for confirmation that this is really how he feels. And when Will says “yes” that’s a moment of genuine happiness for Mike.

4: Why Mike didn’t comfort Will

-> @willthecleric has suggested before that Mike’s misunderstanding in this scene wasn’t about him not understanding that Will was talking about himself. It was about Mike not understanding why Will used El as a cover up!!! Mike essentially misunderstood Will’s intentions. Will was using El’s name because he recognized that what he felt for Mike was what Mike needed to hear, but he thought that it wouldn’t mean anything to Mike if it came from him! He pushed Mike closer to El. Him using El’s name was an attempt to “rip off the band aid” but Mike didn’t understand that!! For Will the van scene was the death of any chances for him and Mike, but for Mike it was the confirmation that they have a chance together! And so as @/willthecleric also pointed out, Mike thought Will was using a cover up because they weren’t alone! There were more people in the van than just the two of them so Mike thought Will was just being cautious! Will used a safe way to confess his love to Mike! Of course Mike realized that Will cried! Mike looked back at Will because he wanted to comfort him! But as he thought Will’s major priority was to be cautious, Mike was being cautious too and didn’t initiate any physical contact to not expose themselves.

The reunion scene with El also starts to make more sense now:

1: No kiss

-> The reunion was the first time Mike and El saw each other again after the van scene, so if Mike actually believed that Will was talking about El, which gave him the biggest confidence boost for his relationship…..don’t you think he would’ve kissed her upon reuniting? Don’t you think the reunion would’ve had more of a romantic undertone? Don’t you think that Mike would’ve told El right on the spot that he loves her so much and is happy that she’s safe again? I mean, it would’ve been the perfect thing to do in that emotional moment! But he didn’t. Mike didn’t kiss her or told her that he loves her. There were no romantic undertones whatsoever and the scene was more platonic: Mike rushes towards El-El is happy that he’s there-he tells her that he’s really here-they touch foreheads. It’s pretty obviously paralleled to El’s reunion with Hopper so it’s all strictly platonic behavior. This scene was Mike and El reuniting as friends! Because that’s what El has always been to him, a friend! And after the van scene Mike realizes that he doesn’t have to act like he’s in love with El. He can be happy without pretending to be straight and so he’s not pretending anymore!

2: the focus

-> If the van scene had actually pushed Mike and El closer together romantically, the focus of the reunion certainly would’ve been on them! But it wasn’t! The focus of the reunion was clearly on El and Will! They prioritized the familial connection in this scene which was used as a contrast to El and Brenner! Brenner told El that she’s his family but then there is Will [and Jonathan] who is shown to actually be El’s family!!! A part of the reunion was to show that Brenner was being manipulative by telling El that she’s his family because we clearly see those people who went above and beyond to get El safe! That’s her true family! And Mike is included in that!!

The talk at surfer boy pizza:

-> Neither El nor Mike have been initiating anything romantic because Mike knows now that he doesn’t need to anymore and El knows she doesn’t want to anymore. They just need to tell each other that. And that’s what both of them were about to do at surfer boy pizza since that was the first time they were alone since the reunion [and the van scene]. Will’s confession of love gave Mike the courage to finally approach the breakup with El. Unfortunately Argyle interrupts Mike and El before they can break up with each other and the story takes a turn.

The monologue:

-> El is fighting for her life and needs encouragement though Mike is totally overwhelmed. He doesn’t know that El doesn’t love him romantically either so since he wasn’t able to break up with her beforehand he thinks El needs the encouragement a boyfriend would give her! But he can’t. He doesn’t want to lie to her and that’s why he struggles to start talking. But then Will encourages him…..and from then on everything goes down hill! Will references their talk in the van: “Mike! Don’t stop, you’re the heart! Remember that! You’re the heart!“ and “you’re the heart” was the crucial part and core of it all! It all lead back to Will thinking Mike is the heart but now Will tells Mike to encourage El because he’s the heart to her. And all of a sudden the whole world comes crashing down on Mike because he “realizes” that he has totally misunderstood Will in the van. But instead of actually realizing Will’s true intention behind using El as a cover up, Mike thinks Will was actually genuinely talking about El! Mike “realizes” that for Will it was all about El and not about himself at all. And so Mike forces himself back into pretending. It doesn’t work as well as before though because having had a glimpse of what could’ve been impedes his ability to mask all of his emotions. Will’s selflessness broke Mike’s heart and Mike’s monologue broke Will’s. The monologue was a step in the wrong direction.

What becomes of the painting?

-> Well, it all gets a little complicated. At first Mike understood that the only lie was Will saying that it all comes from El. So Mike knew it’s how Will feels and that he loves him. But then Will pushed him to tell El that he loves her and now Mike is distraught. So now from Mike’s perspective Will didn’t lie at all because Will said it was how El feels and that’s the truth. So that’s our standpoint at the end of s4. But when Mike talks with El and breaks up with her in s5, he’ll realize that it’s not actually what El feels, but he’s is too distraught too let himself think again that it is what Will feels, so Mike will think that Will lied about everything! And so I honestly believe that the thing that will hurt Mike the most when the lie about the painting comes out, is that Will had no other choice but to lie to comfort him, because there isn’t a real life example of someone who actually needs him… because nobody does.

The whole conflict with the painting essentially feeds into Mike’s fear of being himself but also into his insecurity of being useless/worthless which makes Mike an incredibly easy target for Vecna….

[sollody]

Happy Bylerween! 🎃

Crazy together!

@runninguplenorahills @willthecleric

[wackywriterwhowriteswhenever]

Greetings, all, and Happy 2024!

It's been a little while since I've shared a fic with you all. I've been writing other stories behind the scenes, I just haven't been publishing near as much as I have in the past (I hoping to change that this year and do lots more writing and publishing!).

However, I am excited to share with you all a new story that's mostly written! This is my NaNoWriMo 2023 story, titled E Pluribus Unum. In this story, Speaker of the House Karen Wheeler announces her plan to run for President of the United States. In a similar move, House Majority Leader Joyce Byers announces she intends to run for the Speakership should Karen win the election and become President.

And yes, there will by Byler. Because it's me, lmao

This story is highly inspired by Red, White and Royal Blue. I love the book and have had the movie on my to-watch list ever since it came out; hoping to see it soon!

Enjoy!

Tagging some friends: @byliever @poweredbycreativityandcake @willthecleric @seizetheedays @general-kj @w1llb7ers @dany-is-bored

[paladin-n-cleric]

tag game! :-)

last song you added to a playlist? head over heels

current wip (art, writing, etc)? i’m working on a self portrait. nothing fancy but i’d like to draw more bodies

describe the style of your current outfit? it would’ve been cool and sporty if i didn’t change my shirt for comfort. so it’s pretty chaotic idrk

appearance wise, which celebs are you a mix of? jenna ortega and malina weissman

go-to pair of shoes? white converse

what’s something you love about yourself? i think i’m hilarious. and i know my worth

MBTI type? intp

@willthecleric @thesapphicbard @theonebyler @angelwithnightmares @axquiva @downbytheriversside @demadogs + anyone else

[soliss-occasus]

What accounts do you guys consider to be like the "main" byler acc's.

Not even that they post more or anything they just. are.

Mine are @cmollyo @mike-wheeler-is-gay @paladin-n-cleric @byler3is9jesus4 @beepboop358 @willthecleric

You guys are amazing

[delusional-dingus]

PT2 TAGS

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[byler4vida]

I need Byler to not only be a cute/adorable/wholesome couple but also a badass, power couple as well, fighting monsters and defending themselves and each other, similar to Jancy,

I want to see Will using a gun and Mike using sword or whatever ( since Mike always fights with whatever object he can find lol)

The heart of the party and the leader of the party, badassss ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[byliever]

Hey, Internet pals!

In honor of the anniversary of the beginning of the Stonewall Uprising, I have written another one-shot.

Thanks as always to @willthecleric for being a beta reader and helping with editing! I really appreciate the help!

I hope those who read, enjoy.

[mikeslawyer]

It's that time again! Tell me about some of your favorite blogs, why they are your favorite, and tag them to fill the dashboard with positivity and love!

omg hang on

@wheelersboy @blingyu @afterglowsssss: my three besties i don’t know what i’d do without you<3 three fav ppl on this app truly

@andiwriteordie: love her !!!!!!!!!!!!! best author plus amazing blog plus we’re bonding over taylor swift in byler so real

@foodiewithdahoodie: also amazing blog and just super nice and all idk in my heart forever

@junkoandthediamonds @livsmessydoodles @frogsdontcry: amazing artists

and some of my fav blogs in general @angelwithnightmares @emblazons @embarrassedwithapicketsign @willthecleric @willow-lark @howtobecomeadragon @wallywrite @pinkeoni

[notebooknonbinary]

I was tagged in This post by @boredbyler and @ohfallingdisco thank you to you both☺️

(I feel like such a bad fan that I’ve not really listened to Maya…)

Here’s mine:

This part was difficult to do bc frankly I’m more of a Find one or two songs for a band/artist kinda person and so l had to go searching for artists that I have lots of different songs of theirs I listen to lol.

Anyway, absolutely no pressure tags (sorry if any of y’all have been tagged in this one before): @andiwriteordie @booksandpaperss @buck-yyyy @cloudycleric @connect-dots7 @demigirljoycebyers @doriandrifting @evil-ontheinside @estelinhabb @evil-gay-person @fruitloooop @frodohaven @hoteadepresso @kiirotoao @ki-flor @khunkiseia @magentamee @mlchaelwheeler @perpetualexistentialcrisis17 @paladin-n-cleric @reluctant-fandom-participant @starsarefire824 @the--neurodivergent--witch @toria-hanny @wiseatom @willow-lark @will80sbyers @willthecleric and any and all of my mutuals and followers🥰

[howstrangethingshappen]

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