rhiannon

the show didn't fall apart because byler wasn't endgame. it fell apart because in order to make sure that byler didn't come across as romantic, the showmakers had to retcon mike's and will's relationship as a whole and one of the most important friendships in the whole entire show... but some of y'all aren't ready for that conversation yet, i fear.

updated again with band au fics and a list at the top of all the essential/famous fics to read :)

Also can we talk about how they reduced being gay to just sex. They made dick jokes while parodying an abused 16 year old who was forced into coming out in front of everybody by his literal abuser and did a whole skit on heated rivalry, dumbing it down to just gay porn instead of the actual story which revolved around two closeted men coming in terms with their sexuality. like it’s just tiring now…

This is genuinely my biggest issue with the hate the coming out scene receives and the SNL skit. People constantly reduce the queer experience down to just sex. “Haha why did Will have to take time to tell his friends he likes dick while the world is ending.” I’m so glad that we live in a generation where people don’t find it to be that serious because being queer is more socially accepted now, but the context of the time and place in which Will’s coming out scene takes place is so important. It was the 1980’s during the height of the aids crisis, in small town rural Indiana. Coming out was dangerous back then, gay men were dying every day while basically being ignored and shoved aside by the Reagan administration or told it was their punishment for being gay. Coming out has always been about so much more than sexual preference. The queer experience is rooted in social pressures, societal expectation, the knowledge that your life will always be slightly different and a little harder because of who you love.