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come and find me cause they're shouting in the house that always shakes

don't that explain why we're afraid of love?

okay here is my byler the cure edit that I could’ve spent a million more hours on but I didn’t want to!!!!!!!

watch it on tiktok

The van scene in season 4 was so iconic at the time, and seeing how they reduced this to a simple "He's just my Tammy" kills me.

and mike was never afraid to be himself when he was little, but then that fear was quietly taught and suddenly he was a shadow of the man he could have become

Maybe one of his girlfriends initially teaches him as a joke, and he’s bad at it, so he keeps trying to get the hang of it. Soon enough, he realizes it grounds him. So he starts knitting random things like cozy scarves and sweaters for his boyfriend, matching socks, and funny hats for their dog.

(pictures below are from henripurnell on Insta + Pinterest)

People tend to like more the funny and cool character than the emotional and deep one with trauma, because the funny character is more easy to understand, you don't have to activate your empathy or think deeply that will make you connect with deeply emotions that people with no emotional intelligence don't like to explore, you just have to laugh and move on.

People don't like Will Byers because he shows the part of humanity that people try to avoid so hard but that everyone needs to accept to be an emotional and stable person.

Will Byers is the perfect example of how society treats victims, they blame the victim "why does he cry so much!?" Instead of understanding his pain, it shows the lack of empathy and emotional intelligence, but it also shows that society still thinks that showing emotions like sadness trough crying is something bad when crying is one of the most satisfying things to do when you are overwhelmed. Society doesn't like victims and doesn't treat them right, especially cis hetero white men who have never suffered discrimination in their entire life, but also privileged women who blame other women for man validation.

"I'M SAVORING CIGARETTE BUTTS THAT YOU LEFT ON THE PORCH, A ROSARY BEAD OF THE HEADPHONES WE SHARED" OH OKAY SO THIS IS JS FLICKERGATE POSSESSIONGATE AND CHURCHGATE ALL MIXED UP... FMLLLLL

"I LOVED A VERSION OF YOU THAT YOU'RE WASHING AWAY AND I'VE BEEN DROWNING MYSELF TRYING TO COVER THE DRAIN" OH.

"NO TOUCH, NO KISSING, LET'S JUST TALK IT OUT" SOOO BASICALLY JS "TO MAKE OUT?" "TO DATE." MIXED WITH WILL REALISING THAT "I DIDN'T SAY IT" "YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO" DOESN'T APPLY TO HIM AND MIKE ANYMORE AND THEY REALLY NEED TO START ACTUALLY COMMUNICATING W EACH OTHER