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guys I'm losing my mind I'm crazy

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i haven't been posting about Stranger Things for awhile (hiatus but I'll come back) but MAN

When it comes to ships, after taking a step back from the insane micro-analysis of every frame from the show and looking at more bigger picture stuff and the overall story....I genuinely just dont see how byler WON'T happen?

Like it makes so much sense story-telling wise, and yes, while all those details and finer-print analysis IS byler evidence...the overall framing of the show just paints it in a way where I can't see how byler WONT be canon....there's just....no way mileven is endgame in my eyes?

That's all, I'll be back on my hyperfocused ST bs soon though, stay strong for S5!

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the actual s5 ending is will and el winning thousands of dollars at a casino using el’s powers

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thinking how whenever nancy looks at her hand she’ll be reminded of jonathan😭❤️

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Instagram seemed to like this one so I'm posting it here as well

It's the album get awkward by be your own pet , I first drew it in 2022 but redrew it now

Here's the old one I drew :

Go listen to the album now!!

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Chat it might be time for the bi-annual stranger things rewatch that inevitablly drags me back into the fandom and doesn't let me go for a good 5 months at least 🔥🔥🔥⁉️⁉️⁉️

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Friendly reminder that if they wanted to give Will a (endgame) boyfriend who isn’t Mike they would have at least introduced him in the 4th season like they did with Vickie for Robin. They would’ve shown us Will was gay by having him crush on a random boy, but instead they showed us Will was gay by showing us his love for Mike. They directly paralleled Will with Robin pretty much showing us Mike is Wills Vickie (but obviously much more intense) Mike is Wills season 5 love interest and if Will has any other crush or boyfriend, he will be used as a plot device to have Mike realize his feelings.

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So anyways, byler

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if we get byler bts on that fucking swingset in that park i will shit myself and lose my fucking mind 

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UR ART IS SO PRETTY

Nice to see you ⭐️🩷

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FINALLYYYYYYYY AHHHHH MY BABIES I MISSED THEM SMMMM

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Byler doubt? When Mike Wheeler said with his whole heart, tears rolling down his face, that meeting Will was the best thing he’s ever done?

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My observations on the VR game re: Byler, including a couple of things I haven’t seen mentioned yet

I just saw part of a game walk through on YouTube (I can’t afford VR), and hoo boy!

1. The Mike that says El is so amazing and Will wouldn’t get it isn’t the real Mike, it’s the Mike that Vecna shows Will to terrorize him: In Chapter 3, Vecna possesses Will. Will resorts to a happy memory (Mike and him in Castle Byers), where Mike gives him a a ViewMaster. Will starts playing it, but Vecna makes every memory awful, full of spiders and particles. He distorts scenes, showing things like everyone ditching Will after calling him weird and other things that blatantly didn’t happen. Then he tells him he’ll show him suffering and shows that scene where Mike talks about El while particles fall down.

2. Will is confirmed to be a human being with wants and needs of his own: During that scene, Vecna goads him to tell Mike how he feels, and that he doesn’t want to meet El at all. At this point Will and El hadn’t met in the real world, and Will didn’t wish harm on her or anything, he just didn’t want her to be there, which is a normal and natural thing to feel about your crush’s hypothetical crush.

3. Vecna’s full of shit: In chapter four, Vecna tries to possess the four boys from the Party, and fails. He tells Dustin he puts double the effort into the friendship than the other three boys do, but Dustin turns him off with the TV remote (is Dustin’s happy memory watching tv?). Then he basically tells Lucas “you’re black and people judge you for it”, but he’s in a memory of a movie date with Max (at a drive-in theatre somehow) watching happy memories of the Party. Lucas does see the monster (so it somewhat hits?), but Max says it can’t do anything and they easily shut Vecna down. He also taunts Mike by telling him he’ll never see the most awesome person he’s ever met (El) and it’s his fault because he didn’t try hard enough, but he’s in the middle of a DnD battle with the boys and doesn’t even pay attention. A couple of dice bring Vecna down no problem.

4. Mike lovingly tends to Will’s nosebleed: Vecna does almost succeed in possessing Will, but he’s with the boys playing DnD, and Mike soon realizes Will’s nose is bleeding. He takes Nancy’s shirt and uses it to clean the blood/attempt to stop the bleeding, and admonishes Lucas and Dustin for not going to get a towel. Notice that in season 1 the boys saw El have nosebleeds and Mike was never as precious about it, unless she passed out of something and then they all helped. Lucas and Dustin are even heard in the background pointing out that nobody dies from a nosebleed. There’s a funny moment when Vecna tells Will he will always be alone right as Mike sweetly asks him if he’s ok while holding his face.

5. Brenner is training Vecna (???) and points out that he’s full of shit: I don’t know if this means anything for the show’s canon, but it’s interesting. Before Vecna tries to possess the boys, Brenner points out that they’re too young and untroubled, and afterwards he makes fun of Vecna for losing against children, again.

6. Will isn’t the weakest link, he’s the link Vecna knows best: Brenner points out to Vecna that the reason he could possess Will easier is because he already knew him (from the Upside Down) and knows the nature of his fear. When Vecna tries to possess Will, he does tell him to help him find out about Lucas’, Dustin’s and Mike’s fears, and actually asks him “what is Mike afraid of?”, indicating that he knows jack shit about them. Which leads us to:

WHERE THE LEDE IS BURIED:

7. LOSING EL ISN’T MIKE’S BIGGEST FEAR. OR SOURCE OF GUILT.

It might be a fear or regret of Mike, but it’s not THE fear.

Turns out Vecna was attacking Lucas, Dustin and Mike based on superficial knowledge, suppositions and stereotypes (Dustin’s the newest of the group, Lucas is black, Mike met El), not an actual, deep knowledge of their minds. Yes, good memories helped them keep Vecna at bay. Yes, those things Vecna told them might bother them. No, those aren’t the things that are at the core of their fear and guilt, or the right angle to drive them to either the dark side or suicide if pushed about them enough.

P.S.: At some point (that I haven’t seen yet, Max tells El that she doesn’t need to be a superhero all the time, that she’s more than fine as Jane, her friend. I think this might be literal, as in, superpowers are not the key to defeating Vecna. This is a psychological thriller disguised as supernatural horror, therefore the weapons to defeat him might be more psychological.

TL; DR: Vecna will be defeated with the power of Cognitive Behavioral TherapyLove and Friendship.

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A video of the place that seems to be a destroyed Castle Byers or a very old one... not yet ready?

flashback to when little Will gets taken by the demogorgon there? Vecna vision to scare him? dream? we'll know only when the season drops I guess

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will byers is my muse and he also runs the cult that i’m um. in 😁