mileven the world 💕

Hating on Will when he is the pillar of Mileven is crazy btw, if it weren’t for Will’s selflessness him and Mike would’ve been dating by season 4 but instead of getting with Mike Will gave up his feelings for El’s happiness.

Accusing Will of being whiny when he’s literally the most traumatised character in the show is crazy behaviour btw. how would you feel if I said that El was whiny in the roller rink?

calling will the "pillar of mileven" is genuinely braindead behaviour. not only is it further taking away el's agency (just like her abusers in the lab btw) you're also acting like mike can't make his own decisions. when has mike "the x-men were weirdos" wheeler ever cared about what society wanted from him? you people genuinely make shit up about this man being repressed just to keep your white bread ass ship afloat.

will is the most traumatised? wow have you ever considered going into stand up because that's hilarious. el grew up in a lab, never had a chance to control a single thing about her life till she was 12, was isolated from all her friends as soon as she got the chance to make any, watched all her siblings die horribly... must i go on? will being kidnapped and taken to the upside down doesn't make him any more special than derek or holly or any of the other kids.

also el was the opposite of whiny in the roller rink lmfao. she was literally hiding her true feelings to not be a burden on mike are you fucking kidding me. will crybaby byers could never.

you think will is underrated? okay, let's talk about how much attention will gets in the fandom. will byers whose season 4 plotline was so unimportant it was entirely excluded from the season 5 recap, by the way. will byers who spends the entirety of the first season as more of an object than a person. will byers who - at the end of the day - was a terrible friend to mike and a terrible brother to el.

here are el and will's tumblr tags. now you'll notice that el, the actual main character of stranger things, has less than 1/30th of the amount of followers of her tag that will has. that's terrifying and really shows how much this fandom hates women.

now, you may be thinking "well that's just one website" so let's move on to tiktok.

as you can see, on tiktok there are almost 40 times as many posts about will as there are about el. that's fucking insane.

now let's do one last one: ao3. tumblr refuses to let me attach my screenshots because it's a terrible app held together with chewing gum and dental floss, so i'll simply have to state my numbers and you can either believe me or fact check for yourself. since you're a byler, i'm assuming you'll pick the former.

as i'm writing this, there are a total of 128,606 works in the stranger things tag. the will byers tag shows up on 50,174 of them, while el hopper shows up on 35,581 of them. this means will is in about 39% of fanworks on ao3, meanwhile el is in about 28% of them.