Chapter 4 of Win or Lose is out!

I hope y'all enjoy the byler jealousy angst and messiness in this chapter :)))

Happy birthday again 🩷🩷🩷😩😩😩😩

What a lovely dream

But that what it’ll always be. A dream.

Close ups and stuff lmao

I'm late (cause of some personal personal shit), but HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE ONLY CHARACTER EVER. THE ONLY BOY EVER.

I will love no one more than him ever:

They styled him so beautifully woah (referring to his hair especially). Mike Wheeler just fell to his knees in a walmart parking lot.

THIS IS A BOY THAT IS GETTING HIS FIRST KISS IN SEASON 5. THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION.

You can take the boy out of Hawkins,

Not the Hawkins out of the boy.

Song: End of Beginning - DJO

Well respectfully: No.

Mike was very much in the wrong in season 3, and it's clear as day. Mike literally owns up to it himself. And the fact that Mike treated Will badly for his relationship WAS THE WHOLE POINT.

Like I don't know how you expect Will to be so invested in a relationship that causes Mike to lie to and ditch his friends all the time- even his friend that he hasn't seen all summer. Mike in season 1-2 would genuinely hate this behaviour if he saw that. Not to mention him mocking Will's campaign to act like he's too cool for it now ("owww lucas my arm"). Honestly if you did that to me after all we've been through, I would say far worse things than Will there.

Also the whole "Will didn't treat Mike's breakup seriously enough" and "Will shouldn't call El stupid": I agree to an extent. But also, it kind of strikes me as ironic when Mike literally sat on his couch burping chips and saying misogynistic things about women's intelligence after his breakup. I mean, maybe Mike shouldn't be out here calling El an unintelligent species and should be serious himself first, then we can worry about Will who finally lashed out after being mocked and after months of feeling disregarded for this immature unhealthy miIeven relationship. Also: Will genuinely never asked for much either. And he never has. Like did he tell Mike that he should break up with El and spend ALL his time playing dnd? No he didn't. Will went through a year of literal hell, excruciating pain, and intense fear and seizures and whatever else, that Mike himself witnessed. So if your friend like that wants to do something together that you both loved at a time, for just one day out of the summer while you can do whatever else any other day, I don't think it's that hard to participate and be good about it. And if someone thinks it is, yes I do think they're being a shitty friend. Which is essentially what Mike was in season 3. And honestly, I think that was THE POINT of his character change. They were showing how his relationship with El doesn't bring out a good side of Mike, and doesn't helps him grow or become a better person. Instead it makes him act like someone he's not, showing no real loyalty towards his friends by ditching, mocking, lying to them (a sharp contrast from season 1 to 2), and pretending to not care about the stuff he actually really still loves like DnD in an attempt to seem "mature" and "less nerdy".

"Mike treated Will like garbage in S3"

LMAO where?

If Mike doesn't want to play D&D,he doesn't want to play it and that's it. Will was also a shitty friend when the first thing he asked Mike was "can we play D&D" when El dumped Mike. Sorry,but you don't do that to your friend who just went through break up. I don't care if Will is in love with him, being more empathetic in that moment would show what a good friend he is,but he was thinking about himself only.

Will calling El stupid was also awful and Mike had every right to feel offended that Will insulted her. Mike overreacted when he said Will doesn't like girls,but he never meant it in the way that Will is gay,just that Will is not mature enough.

Why did Ronance had to eliminated in the ship elimination game?

Only to make sure Byler was in first place?

I love Byler, but this is unfair.

Ronance deserved to win!

??? what game?

You can take the boy out of Hawkins,

Not the Hawkins out the boy 💔

Song: End of Beginning - DJO

I like how the one dude had to sit down twice he was so overwhelmed

dreamt of this the other day

Us going on YouTube in 2026 and seeing a video with 400k views entitled “‘Stranger Things have Happened than Hidden Queer Love in the 80s”with a thumbnail of the Byler kiss posted by a channel called “Cinema Scope” or “Film Universe” or some shit run by a cishet white guy who has 2M subscribers and the runtime is 37:09 and it’s a bunch of stolen tumblr analyses that are five years old that the dude passes off on his own with no credit whatsoever and the comments are like “Wow, dude, amazing analysis, I could’ve never come up with any of this on my own, you’re so smart” and the guy replies like “Haha thanks it’s all in the name I guess :)” as if two years prior he wasn’t calling Byler shippers delusional on reddit

elevator mirror selfie with the bf🌈

will byers hard launching his boyfriend on instagram lol

okkkk im sorry...... but personally i think the 'H' on lovers lake is just them labelling locations like: a, b, c, d, etc, to reference them. as is common on maps.

would love for it to be byler related though

please tell me will byers s5 sketch is comingggg we need you

well

would mike call will baby?

A) yes, it would come naturally to him

B) no, it would give him the ick

C) yes, but only as a joke/ironically

D) no, that just wouldn’t be in his vocabulary

E) yes, but he’d have to build up to doing so

F) no, because will wouldn’t like the term