every time someone posts shit like ābyler becoming canon wouldnāt be that significantā or ābyler isnāt adequate queer representationā or āitās not that deepā in reference to the extent of their impact i want everyone to remember that not even a month ago japan officially criminalised same sex marriage. i want everyone to remember that american legislators were just as recently debating taking similar action and i want everyone to remember that the parliament of the united kingdom has been enacting laws to erase the english trans community in its entirety. slowly but surely the most culturally and fiscally progressive countries in the world are beginning to repeal rights for queer individuals and itās becoming increasingly more dangerous to exist as queer anywhere in this political climate so i donāt want a single person to claim that canonising byler would be anything less than monumental for us. maybe byler isnāt perfect representation and maybe stranger things isnāt a perfect show, but mainstream television rarely is, and the fact of the matter here is that the biggest show in the worldā a statistic which includes countries that still criminalise homosexuality and same sex marriageā is currently setting up a developmental arc which could end in two of its pivotal main characters finding love in one another and expressing their queerness on a global stage, and that is so immensely important right now. film is an art, and art is irrevocably politicalā you cannot take the social politics out of stranger things. you cannot take the cultural politics out of a dynamic like byler. and you cannot deny that for what is presently the most popular and influential show in the world to so openly promote a queer relationship wouldnāt be of titanic significanceā in the same way, you canāt deny that for them to strip their only central queer character of any happiness and conclude his story with the mantra that queer individuals can only find love and solace in themselves would be terrible and abusive writing, especially right now.
itās always that deep.
