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Happy birthday Mike, your creators didnât deserve you, youâre so loved! đ
I wanted to take a walk through memory lane for his birthday but also think of where he would be in the 90âs (sharing a dorm in NYC with his boyfriend), where he would be now (I think publishing comics he worked on with Will) and in the future (retired, married the love of his life and happy) đĽ˛
Have a wonderful 55th birthday my child đŤ
it was brought to my attention (by me) I never drew girl miwi and this canon event in every saphhic's life came to mind
WELCOME TO WILLDAY
happy valentineâs day to byler who are in their 50s right now and get to celebrate it by not having to hide who they are anymore, their promise rings sitting in a heart shaped box as a new, matching set of rings replaced them. theyâre currently in their apartment that they shared for years, david bowie playing on their dusty vinyl player as they slow dance in their kitchen to the smell of pasta and red wine.

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We've exited the Dark Ages and entered the Byler Renaissance
And it's beautiful
Please don't let this dictate your year guys. I know the finale is buns in every way possible, but that doesn't mean the whole year will be shit. We can look at it in a positive way: it can only go up from here. There are gonna be SO MANY amazing fix-it-fics, maybe we can even come together to find one that we consider official canon or something. And we'll continue supporting each other, and being an even more amazing community than before. Love you guys, stay safe and take care of yourselves. <3
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To those who don't understand why what Stranger Things did is so painful and so harmful to the queer community, or who lack the words to express it themselves:
They showed so much queer pain. From episode one, they were calling Will a f*g. Hopper thought he might've been hate crimed and that's why he went missing. In season 3 even Mike was homophobic toward him, and that was never truly addressed. The scene right after, where Will destroys Castle Byers, his safe spot, with the baseball bat his abusive dad gave him trying to make him man up, yelling fuck as he does? I know that feeling, that fear that I won't be loved, that I will never be accepted, that I will always be other. The pain that comes from that. Everyone queer does. It's like he's taking the bat to my heart, like I can feel the bruises all over my body. In season 4, when he all but confesses his love for Mike, just substituting himself for El, and cries after? I cry with him because I get it, I understand. And I'm mostly accepted by the people around me, the people I care about; I can't imagine how much more people who don't have that acceptance relate to it.
These scenes are cathartic to me. Or at least they were, when all signs pointed to a happy ending. But for all the queer pain they showed, they didn't show queer love. Queer joy. They could have told every queer kid that they're worth it, their stories are worth telling, their love is worth showing, their lives are worth living. That no matter how hard it is now, it will get better. That we can have those epic love stories. That we can defeat monsters, not in spite of who we are, but because of it. But all they gave us was a vague "he and Robin might end up in relationships." Nothing good ever confirmed for the queer characters. So now when I watch those scenes, all I see is never ending pain. And I can't imagine the scars that will leave on people who need that happy ending even more than I do -- especially when the finale is very easily read as romanticizing suicide to escape abuse.
They gave us hope, that suffering is not all there is, that queer people can be happy and joyous and loved and worthy and powerful, and then they ripped it all away and left us with nothing but the pain.
To every queer person reading this: They are wrong. We are all of those things they denied us and more. Don't give up, and don't lose hope.
okay people LISTEN UP
WHAT IS THIS THING GOING AROUND????? CONFORMITYGATE???? I FEEL LIKE JOYCE IN SEASON 1 IM PROBABLY JUST PSICOLOGICALLY WEAK AND SLEEP DEPRIVED BUT LIKE?????
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you know what actually im done being all nice about it. fuck the duffer brothers. fuck netflix. you had the opportunity to do something incredible for the queer community and instead you diminished and sidelined queer characters and storylines when you claimed everything would be resolved. you used the feelings of a queer character as development to benefit a cishet relationship. you wrote an extremely tone-deaf and borderline homophobic coming out scene which compared two completely different characters purely because they were both the love interests of a queer person â essentially boiling down every queer journey to the same thing despite being vastly different. you gave the queer character who has been through hell and back a lazy epilogue boyfriend after getting over his lifelong love in a single day. and you got away with it. you got away with it because its a queer storyline. so yeah, fuck you. you ruined what the show was supposed to be about. you forgot who the real audience was.
Someone just wrote in a tag âWe are finally free from canonâ and you know what? Thatâs really fucking beautiful.
The Duffers have had their final say, Will and Mike are ours now. And just like every queerbait ship before them, we will continue to tell their love story for years after the credits roll.
Letâs stay crazy together, fam. Byler is forever đđ
Hi, Byler fans. I don't usually post here but I just finished the Stranger Things finale and wanted to get something out that I feel needs to be said. My grandmother had an older brother named, coincidentally enough, William.
He was born in 1919 and he was gay.
Everyone in the family knew. It became an unspoken secret. And hereâs the part people don't really say about the past: he wasnât cast out. He wasnât beaten. He wasnât disowned.
They loved him. They were a closeâknit family.
What they did instead was play a game called pretend.
They never said it out loud. When the family gathered for holidays, his siblings brought their spouses. Uncle Bill came alone. His partner wasn't invited, of course. They didn't even want to know he had a partner. When children asked why Uncle Bill wasnât married, the adults smiled and said, âHeâs just a bachelor.â
That answer was given to my mother in the 1950s. To my sister in the 1970s. And to me in the 1980s.
People like the Duffer brothers seem imagine that the past was only made up of violent, cartoonish homophobes. And sadly, there were a lot of those, just like there still are today. But some families were âfineâ with gay peopleâas long as they were quiet. As long as they didnât ask for the same things. As long as they didnât bring love to the table.
Uncle Bill was accepted on one condition: He sat alone.
So when a modern show frames a gay boyâs arc as âlearning to accept himself without expecting love in return,â thatâs not radical. Thatâs not brave. Thatâs not new.
That story is over a hundred years old.
Itâs the story of being tolerated, not chosen. Of being loved in theory, but denied in practice. Of being welcomeâso long as you donât make anyone uncomfortable.
My Uncle William lived that life a century ago. We donât need to keep calling it progress.
I know a lot of people on here are young. So take the pain you're feeling now and remember it as you get older. Write your own stories that embrace what this show denied. Write the story you wanted Byler to be. Be the generation that stops telling this tired old story.
Do it for my Uncle Bill. Do it Noah. Do it to give the middle finger to the Duffer brothers. Most of all, do it for yourself.
Before the finale airs I want to tell everyone that no matter the outcome, Byler will always be endgame in our hearts. Canon doesn't define that. We don't need Byler to be canon to have legitimacy.
Byler being canon is not the be-all-end-all for the Byler fandom. Fans built this beautiful community with thousands of queer people and allies coming together, analyzing, creating fanart, writing fanfics, and engaging with one another. And that sense of community is one of the best things about fandom.
Fandom isn't defined by canon. It's defined by sharing art, by community, by connecting with one another.
That being said, I do have strong confidence in Byler happening in the finale. It's written into the bones of the show. It's more than cinematography, set design, costuming, couple parallels, dialogue choices, it's in everything. Stranger Things ending without a Byler conclusion will leave thousands of unanswered questions, and will show that it was truly the writers own fears of backlash that got in the way of Byler happening.
We were never delusional. The show, the writers, the cast, the crew, have actively encouraged us to dig deeper into the show, to find the subtext, to analyze each and every tiny detail.
I sincerely hope Byler is endgame, for the sake of queer rep, for the sake of embracing the show's core themes, for the sake of fulfilling Mike and Will's character arcs, and for the sake of media literacy.
The curtains were never just blue. It always is "that deep" especially in a show like this that encourages us to scrutinze everything.
On behalf of those who feel seen and heard by Mike and Will's relationship, Byler will always be real to us, in our hearts and minds. Whether it's canon or not.
The Bridge is currently sitting at 5.4/10 on IMDB. This is because 40% of the user reviews are putting it at 1 star.
I'm to understand that people like Elon Musk have started an anti-woke campaign because of Will's coming out scene. We can not, and should not, stand for this.
Regardless of what you may feel about the episode as a whole, I'm sure you don't see it as a 1 out of 10. Please, I am asking that people go and give The Bridge a high review to help offset these review bombs.
Don't let homophobes send the message that creators shouldn't make gay storylines in hit mainstream shows.

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OPERATION 7.0
(because ofc, byler=7)
Okay byler tumblr. Weâve had four days of (justified) doomposting. NOW, itâs time to do what we do best and bond together.
The Issue: Season 5 Episode 7 is currently sitting at an IMDB rating of 5.4. If youâre unfamiliar with IMDB, generally anything under 6 is BAD, anything over 7 is GOOD. 6 is just kinda average.
The Reason: We all know this episode had some glaring issues, and the coming out was handled poorly. HOWEVER, it is still an openly gay main character on the biggest television series today. THATâS why this episode is bombing. Not because people see the actual issues. ELON MUSK himself commented on how low the ratings are, claiming itâs because woke ruined Stranger Things.
Operation 7.0: I believe if we band together we can get the 5.4 up to a 7.0, Bylerâs number! This sounds ambitious, yes, BUT, there are currently 77k ratings on IMDB and⌠312k signatures on the cutgate petition. If even a QUARTER of the people who signed gave a 10 star rating, weâd be sitting COMFORTABLY near a 7.0
For the skeptics: A 7.0 rating on a Stranger Things episode is STILL LOW. Ignoring âThe Lost Sisterâ (sorry Kali), the next lowest episode is 03.01 which is still a 7.8. A goal of 7.0 proves that there WERE issues with the episode, without letting the homophobes win.
The plan of action: Give episode 7 a 10 star rating on IMDB, then either reblog this post, OR tell three of your friends (on tumblr or irls!) to do the same.
The motivation: I am not an artist or an author, but I WILL reblog this post with a fic rec, an edit, or a piece of fan art I like for each decimal point the rating increases. If there are any artists or authors who would like to be of assistance, either with previously posted work, or new snippets, message me!!
I wholeheartedly believe if we work together, we can fix this dumpster fire of a situation, to prove that we are here, we are queer, and we are not backing down.
THIS IS THE ISSUE WITH REVIEW BOMBING ONLY EPISODE 7
This is what is being taken away from the reviews of episode 7, and I'm begging you all to reconsider celebrating this.