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#BylerIsBones Thoughts

Okay guys we lost I guess

I’m so confused like genuinly what was the point of all the lead up, the paralleling of other canon couples, the paralleling of other movies that had endgame couples, the foreshadowing, the camera shots focusing on Mike during queer discussions. All of that and so much more just for it to be boiled down to “Gay guy doesn’t get his best friend but it’s okay he’s over it”

This is such a let down because something so beautiful could’ve come from it. I’m so dissapointed because why would the Duffers drag out a slow burn for so long just to put an abrupt end to it. Even with the supposed cut scenes, byler still would’ve been bones.

Honestly Byler aside, Wills coming out and being gay was handled so poorly that I’m not even happy about it anymore like I slightly was in vol 2. I could’ve excused the crazy big coming out party he had because it was plot relevant, he needed to reveal his secret in confidence so Vecna didn’t use it against him. The “me too!” was cringy but HEY at least we got a coming out scene shown in a positive light. But no, Vecna DIDNT EVEN BRING IT UP. There was NO PLOT RELEVANCE.

It just feels like the coming out happened purely to make the fans happy and nothing else. “Hey! We added representation! Look at us go!” But it was bad because who gets over a multiple year crush within a few days because of one lesbian pep talk. This coupled with the foreshadowing of Byler to have no payoff felt so cheap. I don’t feel represented at all anymore as a queer person.

What I see when I look at Will Byers is a cop out of representation. His queerness was used as a draw in for a queer audience then not acknowledged again until a quick shot in the epilogue after the emotional part was over.

And yeah, Stranger Things isn’t a romance, it’s a Sci-Fi, but that doesn’t negate the fact that multiple romances in the series have been heavily built on and developed between the scary parts.

In terms of Mike, nothing about this makes sense to me. Like I said just the camera work, focusing, parallels, and lighting pointed to reciprocated but repressed feelings. His character was so pushed to the side this season that I feel it would’ve been great to explain this with his conflicting if feelings for Will. His character in itself was so thrown away, but also his actions leading up to every season creating more tension just to be “Uhmm… we’re best friends!” I can’t express how annoyed I am. It’s just so cheap.

Again, why all that lead up just to make Will easily get over his crush? This wasn’t a Tammy hallway crush, this was years long with a best friend. The two just aren’t comparable. Will was literally asking for advice on signs a crush likes you back, then we were TOLD then SHOWN signs that Mike liked Will back. Just for it to be all for nothing? The shared look? The bump of the knee? The friendly pushes? I can’t genuinly believe that all that was done to be shown as friendly, I truly think this was baiting to get hopes up because no way there was such a sudden switch between that. Especially without Mikes POV on anything.

But the more I think about it, the Duffers literally get their own facts in the show wrong. Considering Wills birthday being forgotten, Melvads Milkshakes being wrong, and other plot holes, i’m not suprised they didn’t realize that they wrote a heavily queer character.

In a show about outcasts, the writers had an opportunity to make queer love, a heavily challenged and hated topic nowadays, into something of power rather than weakness. But instead they pushed this love to the side, opting for a quick wrap up after it was acknowledged and left to collect dust in leu of an ending that was so fanservicy it left me dizzy.

The way this whole “Byler vs Mileven” war is happening in the fandom space rn, specifically on tiktok is rubbing me in such the wrong way

Honestly, at this point, I couldn’t give a further care what ship ends up being canon. Yeah, if Byler isn’t real then I personally think that the writing leading up to it was really poorly done. At this point though, people have gotten so negative that I just can’t care who ends up “winning” anymore because no matter what people are gonna fight

Idk just the way people who are pro Mike and Eleven are making this such a negative expirience. It’s obvious that Stranger Things got so popular that the average person who’s never been in a fandom before has joined in and doesn’t understand shipping. People will ship anybody. People will ship a character and a background npc. People will ship a character and a rock. It’s not that deep. Mileven people are acting like shipping Byler is the antichrist of a fandom.

On that note, the negativity specifically surrounding the idea that Byler happening is just disgusting. I keep seeing people on tiktok calling Byler shippers “delusional”, “desperate”, “bird brains”, and other stuff along that line. I do believe there’s some good evidence that Byler is bound to happen and I believe it would be a good ending for the characters considering the shows themes and the character arcs/plot points so far. It just feels so … underlying homophobia … to so violently insult people for wanting a queer ship to happen.

As much as people like to claim that queer culture is forced down our throats nowadays, it’s not hard to see that a lot of it is very poorly done or misrepresented. This show is honestly pretty well written and to see characters that have a plot line outside of simply being queer and struggling to come out, that would be such a great breath of fresh air. I don’t blame queer young adults and teenagers to hope for it. The insults being thrown around because some people like to use the clues in the show to theorize about a popular ship is just insane idk

“He will chase you high and low

So find a place he’ll never go” - Siren

“He will burn your house and throne

He’ll find you wherever you go” - Zeus

I think we’re gonna be getting a countdown every sunday and get a new piece of the story because it all leads up to one big thing, possibly a big video to plot

This being Gen0, or the founders story, I’m guessing the guy we saw in the game was the founder, and in the next room was the filming of the inauguration (which I still think is the criteria process for “actors” in the generation, like Hetch)

I’m wondering if all of the different rooms have something to do with each generation. Ya know, infinite stories, seems like the rooms are endless.

I’m wondering if it was the founder who made the game? Considering it’s called the founders game, probably, so I’m playing it keeping in mind that the story in it may be not 100% accurate if he’s made it since our bro the founder likes to edit things.

I’m also wondering who’s perspective this is from.

Like are we dealing with a y/n the game is actually from OUR perspective, or is it formatted in the second person perspective describing someone else who already has a story we’re about to find out.

In the “From the desk of the founder video” code (thank you random deleted channel for the decoding), to me it’s pretty obvious the founder is talking to Ranboo. Talking about how he (Ranboo) was special and could be used for something more, which would be Generation 1

- The founder also talks about how Gen1 was one of his favorites in “Welcome to Gen 0” and considering how special he talking about someone being special in Gen1, we can assume it’s ranboo

I really think that what happened with Ranboo inspired the founder to create the other generations, as it was the first of many. He wanted to recreate a situation like what happened with Ranboo and make it perfect (What perfect means to the founder, I have no idea yet)

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