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just finished dead boy detectives, i guess i’m adding that to the list of shows that i will forever be salty they cancelled….it’s always the most interesting ones. hate u netflix❤️

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I've said before that Eleven represents fight and Will represents flight, but I just realized:

Billy represents fawn.

Eleven defends herself physically to survive; Will is adept at running, hiding, and his powers are allegory for vigilance - the ability to acutely anticipate danger; Billy obeys.

They all survived much longer than everyone else. And look how. El was able to physically overpower him.

Will was able to evade him

And Billy was able to appease him

And the the most fatal encounters they ever had each were when they were, what?

Unable to fight

Didn't flee

Stopped obeying

You even see where it came from: what they did with their original abusers

"No"

"He's good at hiding"

"Yes, sir"

And that's the truth of why they have different ones in the first place. A combination of their physical abilities but more importantly their separate original abusers who developed them: El was able to overpower Brenner and his men, Will was able to run and hide from Lonnie, Billy was able to appease Neil.

It kept them alive. We have physical embodiments of every trauma response and its validity. I love this show <3

[note: freeze may not be represented because it can be either 'play dead' to survive OR the response your body has when it determines that you have no chance of survival and should dissociate to avoid experiencing your own death. Of course, Holly could also be our incoming freeze, surviving through figurative invisibility. You could also qualify Will as freeze in some moments, though it has not been represented specifically as saving him in the moments he has experienced it]

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"Will is such a whiny little helpless scared boy"

Excuse me what?? Are we talking about the same Will Byers? I really have no idea where those opinions come from... someone's ass I suppose.

There's a lot of talk about Will being traumatized and all but can we please acknowledge that he is also one of the strongest characters in ST? Tbh he's kinda badass if you think about it... but just more of a quiet, resilient, selfless kind of badass...

Ok, let's recap:

01. Will at age 11 beggs his mom to let him see Poltergeist. Fucking Poltergeist. I know people who couldn’t sit through Coraline at that age… This kid is a horror and punk rock fan, that doesn't really scream "snowflake" to me

02. After being followed to his house by an unknown creature at age 12 he doesn't hide under the bed... noooo, he goes outside and grabbs a shotgun - a fucking shotgun! I'd like to remind you, that the only other kid to hold any kind of weapon in S1 is Lucas and it's a slingshot... In S2 Max holds a bat and Mike holds... well... a lamp and a goblet xd To this day I believe he's the only one to hold a gun among the "kids" generation and probably is the only one to know how to use it (though I wouldn't put it past Max tbh)... and it was S1

03. Kid somehow survives a week in another dimension that killed multiple adults during that time... not only that - he manages to figure out a way to communicate (smart kid) and one of his first messages to his mom is not "HELP", it's "RUN" - his priority is to save her, not for her to save him

04. After waking up in the hospital, the very first thing he does is ask Jonathan about a bandage on his hand as if he didn't just almost die... "Don't mind me! There's a cut on your hand, are you sure you're ok??"

05. Will at age 12 starts seeing things that brings him back to the other dimension that tried to kill him but this time there's another creature following him... Then gets possessed by that creature at age 13 and in both instances decides at first not to tell anyone about any of it bc he doesn't want others to worry about him or treat him like he can't take care of himself

06. While being possessed at age 13 he manages to find a way to communicate (again) with a fucking morse code (smartass) and apparently he's the only one aside from Hopper to know it by heart (while being possessed, mind you). And what does he communicate you might ask? Well, he figures out a way to kill the thing that attacks the town knowing full well that it will probably kill him too. Does he say it might kill him though? Nope. He'd rather get himself killed than put his loved ones in danger. Gladly Mike was able to figure it out...

07. After all of that at age 14 he finally can live a "normal" life while still feeling the presence of that thing that possessed him and took control over his body... and he is so fucking patient and tries to keep a level head with his friends that straight on dismiss him and he is able to take so much shit from them (especially from his best friend he is in love with) before he finally snaps. Then again he sweeps that under the rug and doesn't hold a grudge bc there are more important stuff happening which he can feel thanks to that lovely bluetooth connection he has with his former supernatural abuser

08. At age 15 (shortly after his birthday that everyone forgot) he buries his feelings again for (what he believes is) the greater good. He "sells" his own love and a painting that he poured his heart into to repair his best friend's relationship and to cure his insecurities. After that he encourages said friend to make a grand confession at his own expense bc he believes that it might save the day.

And after all of this you want to tell me that he's whiny, weak and helpless? Did we watch the same show?

Funny thing about Will being "saved" in both S1 and S2 is that it didn't come from Will... he didn't ask to be saved. It was Joyce's and Mike's love that saved him, that brought everyone else on board. It was all those people who cared and went out of their way to save him even if he didn't care to be saved.

That is not a testament of Will needing to be saved, it's the testament of how much he means to all of those people for them to love him this much to save him.

He is not weak, he is loved. <3

*I know he goes through so much more shit but I really tried to focus on him handling situations and how it shows his character and not on the stuff that happens to him that makes us feel bad for him if that makes sense xd

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im starting to think the only reason people have byler doubt is because they have mosquitoes in their ears calling them delusional 24/7 (especially bylers on twt cause theyre surrounded by toxic milkvans) like before fully joining the fandom i never once had doubt and the only times i do have doubt now is when i see a lot of byler hate and it lasts for very little, but the actual show has never made me doubt it

and that’s why when i see people have byler doubt i tell them to just rewatch the show, you don’t need deep analysis or anything to see byler

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Every cry boy cry needs his boys don’t cry

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its so funny to me when people compare max x dustin and steve x robin with byler in order to disprove it. how are you going to compare one sided CRUSHES that got resolved in the same season they began with will being IN LOVE with mike for how many years that still hasn’t been resolved and it’s been built since s1?

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how did i just now realize shawn levy played a role in st???

i was rewatching it and thought he seemed strangely familiar

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Ever see a take so bad it feels like you’re reading a really bad fanfiction?

(milkvans who see will as a jealous monster that wants mike all to himself and think he’s a weak, useless crybaby that unhealthily clings to mike for protection, this is for you. mischaracterising and demonising will won’t make your bland ship better)

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ranking stranger things seasons cause i havent seen a ranking that satisfies me yet

1. s4 (but im 100% sure s5 will take this spot when it comes out)

2. s2

3. s3

4. s1

i feel like s4 is kind of overhated, ppl usually rank it low but i loved it

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They’ve BEEN saying that Will is going to be an important character this season and a central part of the story in s5. Hmm, interesting the way that the focus of Will’s storyline in s4 was all about his queerness, sexuality, and him being in love with Mike. It’s almost like Will is one of the main characters and that it would make sequential, chronological sense for the writers to continue exploring the themes and plot threads that they already laid the groundwork for in s4. It’s almost like Will’s sexuality and attraction to Mike will continue to be explored. It’s almost like Will reckoning with what Mike is to him is pivotal to his arc and that Mike and Will getting together is the climax of the story and basically the whole point of it.

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Will got put a soteria on his neck in season 1, likely.

Will is awake. This is important. This is explicitly shown to us.

Joyce is (rightfully) freaking out because Will isn’t breathing until he finally does, and not only does he breath, but he also wakes up with a gasp and sits up. Eyes open, coughing. He’s not just alive and breathing, he’s also awake and moving.

The next scene with him, however, he’s sleep/passed out.

He quickly wakes up and asks where he was (so it’s possible he passed out before they got out of the ud into the hospital, or he doesn’t remember the journey towards there). It’s such a small thing, a stupid thing, there’s so many things going on with his body and mind rn, how is he gonna remember?

But it’s funny how waking up is immediately associated with no memory.

It was on purpose. It was a medically-induced sleep.

See it here, they showed they were able to medically-induce someone into passing out/sleeping in s2. And they did it. On Will.

And we know they most likely also did the same thing to Henry

Why? Good question.

I think it was for two reasons. One, maybe to erase some of Will’s memories of the ud (he was dangerous, he could go around talking about it), and two, to put a soteria on him (cause they knew he had powers).

Whatever it is he feels on his neck, that didn’t appear with the possession, he feels it since the start of s2 and it continues even after the possession (however, it’s not a side effect of it. He feels it BEFORE being possessed)

So if it’s a soteria (and it is) then when did they put it on him?

Well, isn’t just after the upside down ideal? Many things going on, Will almost dying and needing medical care, they just needed to take him away to check on him and just like they put the catheter on his nose they could have as easily put the soteria on his neck.

(I don’t buy that Will was in the hospital at the end of s1. You think the lab let him? He needed medical care because of the ud, no normal hospital can take care of that. After all, the lab refused to let him into a normal hospital in s2. The doctors would be suspicious, things wouldn’t make sense. I don’t believe it, he likely was in the lab’s hands before he arrived to the actual hospital)

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“If Byler happens I’m not watching it!!”

This show has and always been for people who feel as though they are “outcasts”, or “freaks”. If you can’t handle two boys being in love, then this show was never for you in the first place. So bye-bye, you will not be missed!

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To everyone calling us delusional for saying Will Byers is the main character of season 5: I hope you enjoyed the trailer