fuck this stupid baka life - jonathan byers

wdym the one character who all she ever wanted was community and family and love and friends so much so that she risked her life countless times for them is the only one who’s alone in her ending….

wdym she’s always been fated to be alone because of her inherent resistance against conformity and how she’s always been an outcast even in groups of outcasts….

Oh yeah, I don’t really think it counts as queerbait but I do think it wasn’t a completely unreasonable leap for bylers to make, you know?

Like, when I first watched the show I was expecting to ship byler, and when I was finished I just didn’t see the vision. So that leads me to think it wasn’t queerbait. And I read through every byler proof and even watched the videos up until now because I felt kinda crazy for not seeing it. I kept expecting someone to bring up a point that would convince me, but it never happened (and I love noncanon gay ships believe me).

On the other hand though… I know I poke fun at the people that are/were completely convinced byler’s gonna be endgame, but I actually do kinda get it. (Not from a “I believe this too” point of view mind you, but a “I can see you want to believe the best about this show” one.) Like, I can tell that they really thought that the writers wouldn’t do Will dirty like that, that they thought this was a masterfully planned love story dedicated to this traumatized boy. And the duffers never should have let them think that, they should have given you a REAL and a THOUGHTFUL romance for Will, because that is exactly what he deserves!! And I do kinda agree with the people saying they should have shut it down earlier and/or not dragged Will’s crush out like that too. Would it really have been that difficult to put out an instagram post or something that just said “Will’s feelings are canonically unrequited”? Plus Will should’ve gotten a boyfriend that was at least as important as Suzie like what are we doing here.