i exist!!

*hides benign thing I was looking at on the computer when someone enters the room as if it were something nefarious or inappropriate*

see i just don't think mlm ships work with good luck babe because i think that song operates on both the axes of being gay but ALSO being a woman. "when you wake up next to him in the middle of the night / with your head in your hands you're nothing more than his wife" is such a harrowing line because women are socially only defined in their relations to men instead of as their own people especially after marriage (taking his last name, changing your prefix, the physical cost and emotional labor of having children...); women often become relegated to wives and mothers whereas men are afforded agency and personhood outside of their marriages. the line from the song doesn't work for mlm couples because men are very rarely nothing more than a woman's husband no matter how "suffocating" men make marriage seem

admittedly, fanon does tend to reduce characters and story to cardboard cutouts and fanfic tropes and generally just suck ass. however fanon mike wheeler?? we made a mountain out of a molehill. a beautiful fucking mountain...

"mikes gonna hear good luck babe in 40 years and lose his mind" "mikes gonna hear conan gray in 40 years and go crazy" mike is gonna watch dead poets society like a week after will leaves hawkins and in a fit of insanity is going to fly to new york and show up at his door unannounced like the messy gay disaster that he is