i miss them 😔💔

i know for a FACT that if i rewatch s4, the sheer homosexuality of it all is going to feel like a gunshot to the chest and i’m going to fall straight back into byler hell all over again

fun fact about me is that i ditched tumblr for months for no real reason but i miss this app but also my fandom(s) r ALL over the place rn like What is even going on idkidk i just miss it here and i miss my wonderful mutuals Sigh…

HEY BYLER TUMNLR???

HEY BYLER TUMNLR???

i got a brain wave a few days ago and decided to make the edit myself and after 6 hours of work, i finished it! so here it is! i felt younger when we met by waterparks + these idiot losers in love

tagging the wonderful eevie @new-ronantics (who happens to be a fellow byler parxie) and @booksandpaperss bc you see my vision and YOU GET IT <3

reblogs are appreciated 💫

sometimes i just jolt awake in the dead of night and remember “let’s start a new party, you and me.”

what is its meaning. who is speaking, if they’re speaking at all. who is you. who is me. why did they choose to reveal this line when they did. if it’s not about a ship, what is it about. when will i be free of this madness.

STRANGER THINGS 2 (2017) | STRANGER THINGS 4 (2022)

(insp)

i never should’ve learned like and literally

Stupid for you

LMAOA thank you 🫡

Exclusive pic of me looking for Mike's heterosexuality

Exclusive pic of me looking for Mike's heterosexuality

mike never really unpacked if you even care

little ramble about will

i wish there wasn’t such a heavy association that heroism = violence. even if that violence is for positive intent, it isn’t a requirement to becoming a hero or a savior or freeing himself from constant victimization.

will has the unique trait of never engaging in violence throughout the show. every character has a different relationship with violence and what the line is for when it needs to be used. el often reacts with violence regarding her emotions and to protect her friends. hopper will use violence to get what he wants from people. mike is adamantly against all violence unless it’s for the sake of protecting others. almost every character has some sort of line they’ll get to from when violence isn’t okay to when it is okay. will doesn’t have that. will can’t shoot the demogorgon, he offers his friendship to dart knowing he’s a creature from the UD which he’s never had a good experience with, the only time he ever actually physically hurts something is when he’s throwing fireworks at the meat flayer which is a creature he knows isn’t alive and can’t feel real pain. it’s made of dead people. he isn’t actually hurting anyone by helping take down the meat flayer.

will is steadfastly against violence to the point where he won’t even hurt living creatures he knows are dangerous. will, while struggling against the hold of the mind flayer, still feels such intense guilt about being forced to lead the demodogs to the lab that he breaks through the possession again. it takes deep emotional reactions for him to be able to do this, as we see with him only reacting to the people closest to him and through mike’s monologue. he feels guilt for what he’s done deep inside him in a way that allowed him to overcome the possession. he was struggling to recognize his own mom at this point, but he still broke through to say sorry. will’s feelings about violence run to the very core of his person, it’s something that has not changed over the entire course of the show.

will’s path to becoming a hero doesn’t mean he learns to use violence to protect others. will’s hero arc doesn’t come from protecting others or being their savior. he’s already done that, over and over and over. he tried to sacrifice himself in S2, he ignored his own feelings in S3 and embraced the feeling the MF triggered so he could warn others. he has been protecting others, just through non-violent means. him being a central victim doesn’t erase the way he has been selflessly protecting people just like how him not using violence doesn’t get rid of that fact either.

will’s path to heroism has nothing to do with violence or protecting others. what he needs to learn in order to be a hero is selfishness. he needs to learn to care about himself as much as he cares about others. he needs to learn that he doesn’t need to give up everything about himself to protect others. his life is important. his feelings are important. his safety is important beyond just because henry wanting him. will doesn’t see himself as worthy of escaping this constant cycle of giving himself up to protect other people. he cares so much and he’s give up everything to keep the people he loves safe. there’s someone in this story who wants him to be this way, who benefits from his sacrifice.

if will wants to be a hero and finally escape this ever present victim-status then he needs to be selfish. there are so many important things he can achieve through this, but the most pressing one is this: henry wants him to give up. henry wants him to sacrifice himself to protect the town. henry has always been going after will because he needs him, and if will tries to give himself up because henry will leave other people alone then he will have doomed the entire world. in that act of selfless protection of others, he’s giving henry the exact weapon he needs to continue his plan. what will needs, more than anything, is to be selfish. he needs to prioritize himself. he needs to learn to love himself because he loves others.

defeating henry doesn’t come through violence either. that clearly doesn’t work, based on what we’ve been shown. henry has been subjected to violence his entire life and not once did it prevent him from ending up where he is. no attempts to kill him have worked. will needs to break through to henry’s emotions and show him the compassion he’s never experienced. he shouldn’t forgive henry, he shouldn’t say he loves henry or anything, but he should show that same kindness he’s always had within him. henry doesn’t deserve any type of redemption arc, he doesn’t deserve to be saved, but he deserves to be understood. listened to. it won’t be violence that ends henry, but will’s compassion.

everything will needs to be a hero lies in loving himself. that’s how he can protect others. that’s how he can defeat henry and free himself of his most prominent abuser. it doesn’t lie in violence but in love, and i don’t think those concepts coexist in will’s mind.

NOOO BC I JUST REMEMBERED THAT WILL MUST THINK MIKE IS SO COOL AND MIKE SEES HIMSELF AS SOME NERD LOSER BUT WILL LITERALLY PAINTS HIM AS A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR IM SO SICK

they are so cute!!! these promo pictures are the best

Choose your fighter. High Finn or drunk Noah

These pictures are so fucking funny to me LMAO.