#oops typo

cain exorcist OC, her name is Camelia, she's a beast and ardence

loooooook. i am a person who genuinely thought mike was queer. literally until the last moments. i do understand this sentiment, but sometimes you have to use a bit of critical thinking in order to at least try and understand. to try and reevaluate, if not for your own interpretation then to at least know where you are diverging from canon. this is something @fleetwood-will especially has made some great posts about.

there are many moments that don’t make much sense to me. but to act like there is genuinely no alternative explanation for any of those things is a bit disingenuous. obviously straight mike will be confusing if, like me, you have spent several years defending the opposite interpretation. you can kind of get sucked into looking at things through a certain lens. but once you accept that the creators of stranger things DO have coincidences and DO make mistakes, and that actors DO act poorly and have bad chemistry, it explains A LOT. it doesn’t even take that much rationalisation from that perspective. there are always alternative explanations. to argue otherwise i just think is a bit narrow minded.

the thing is, you aren’t obligated to engage in that kind of analysis if you don’t enjoy it. personally i’m at a point where i prefer to move onto enjoying fanon and sticking with my queer mike interpretation rather than rationalising why he is or isn’t canonically straight.

the truth is, his straightness is pretty straightforward (lol) and it takes seconds to be like ‘you know what, the duffers probably were not observant enough to pick up on the ‘queer coding’ they unintentionally created, and even so, they probably didn’t care enough to rectify it’ and then move on to enjoying the ship or the version of the character YOU prefer. really, if mike was supposed to be queer we would know that flat out. you can be incredulous and you can question that, but to deny it wholly is just stubborn and kind of annoying.