dopamine Laboratory

erasing vickie in the finale and saying high school love doesn’t last, except for max and lucas because theirs is “deep”???? but ur queer relationships weren’t??

having will get over a lifelong crush in 3 days? the queerbaiting? THE “FRIENDS? NO THANKS” *long ass pause* “BEST FRIENDS”????????

using rovickie as a plot device for byler and then using byler as a plot device for mileven??

This is not about wanting two boys to kiss. This is about writing two characters who care about each other more than anyone else, who feel most comfortable and themselves with each other, having it develop into something romantic, only for it to amount to self-acceptance on one side, and a relationship built on “love at first sight” and a lie on the other.

so they really just used will to push along the toxic relationship that only seemed to work out in the finale.

we will never get an explanation about the painting, the veiled love confession from will…?

why did mileven not kiss at all for 7 episodes? why were they referred to as “friends” multiple times?

why did will and robin have a heart-to-heart about how to know someone wants to date you? why did will and mike have shared looks, brushes of the knee, arms rubbing against each other?

i have so many questions and the writers offer no answers. the avalanche was, in fact, nothing. they told us to look for hints, “coincidences”, shared looks. they told us everything we needed to search for, and they gave us nothing in the end. we didnt even get a dusting of snow.

i am just so angry they knew what the fans were rooting for, encouraged it, implied it would happen, and then ultimately left us with nothing. they never told us byler wouldn’t happen. they told us to keep our eyes peeled, read into the show. they never dispelled us. they encouraged us.

so, i am ever so delighted to say this with my full, full heart:

fuck you matt and ross duffer, fuck you shawn levy, fuck you to all of the writers and directors who made us look like desperate queer people who are so fucking stupid to believe we would get a beautiful gay love story on a mainstream tv show. you have let us down. you will let others down. byler isnt over. byler will live on.

you will live on as some of the greatest queerbaiters in television history, writers who feed off of queer people’s expectations and give them absolutely nothing. you are disgusting cowards who have tumblr users that are better writers than you. you deserve none of the fame, none of the praise, none of the love.

But I promise you there is never, in any fandom, a secret “good” version that’s being held from you. you need to come to terms with the fact that writers can disappoint us. It’s not some grand conspiracy, sometimes it just sucks to be in fandom and get a crappy product. But please don’t spread lies people made up on twitter about it okay? that’s how they divide and kill off the fandom.