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mike: what no we cant

paladin!mike: cant?? i know not of cant. why pray tell can we not?

mike: hes in california..?

paladin!mike: what the everloving fuck is a california? is it some type of baneful magic spell?

mike: no...its just a place very far away.

paladin!mike: ...

paladin!mik: then we must go to this california immediately. where, i ask again, is your steed???

mike: i dont have a fucking horse and we cant go to california its like 7 million miles

paladin!mike: then we must hail a carriage of some sort

mike: hello?? we cannot go to california??? its like really fucking far

paladin!mike: This means nothing to me. do you mean to say you would not travel the great expanse to see your beloved?

mike: uhhhh i mean he probably doesnt want to see me like itd be weird

I've seen some people saying "even if Byler isn't canon, this is still amazing representation that will push forward acceptance for the LGBT community" etc.

And like... No. It really won't.

I'm sorry but having a queer main character in 2025 isn't revolutionary. There have been so so many big shows with more queer characters in them and with better executed storylines. This isn't changing shit. Y'all don't understand. It's not revolutionary unless it's widely controversial.

What could have been revolutionary is if Byler won the love triangle against a popular heteronormative couple in said big TV show. Because that would be actually controversial.

This isn't controversial.

Homophobes can just ignore it. Or they'll say woke is being shoved in our faces bla bla. But at the end of the day they can watch the show without their worldviews being challenged because all they see is a sappy gay character who doesn't get a happy ending anyway but is just there for woke brownie points.

This is literally nothing new. We've had main gay characters before. We've had main gay characters in sci fi and fantasy. We've had self acceptance. We've seen this all before. And a lesbian side couple? Yeah that ain't fucking new either.

Sorry. But this isn't revolutionary.

They just killed us quick. Painfully. Discarded.

The painting? Not fucking addressed.

Mike the love of Will's life? "he was my crush just tammy"

Mike: did fuck all

Im gonna go cry yall. (I acknowledge that they might make it a plot twist for ep 8 but hoenestly to have will's feelings all boil down to 'just a crush' after hes been longing for so long is so, so fucking cruel, and still no mike pov. Literally what the fuck duffers.)

Atp even if they are canon, we were robbed. It is still very much queer bait they kept us all on board, didnt shut down anything. Let Will suffer, sacrifice himself, his feelings, his everything only to have that torturous coming out scene where he was so incredibly heartbroken, and what we are meant to see it as 'hey gang i like boys, I am not in love anymore and lets go defeat vecna im empowered now'. I just...wow. All that volume 1 for a nothing burger? It is incredibly upsetting. We can never have a queer ship that ends up happy can we? This hurts me deeply. I dont care they are canon atp, they have to condense so much in the last episode...I fear there is no time. What the fuck was volume 2 for, what the hell was "finn has to carry a lot of emotional weight" what the fuck was mike's obliviousness "will pay off" what the fuck was "you'll be hap-satisifed". WHAT THE FUCK WAS SEASON 4 MIKE WHEELER FOR?

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