Will Byers Fan

***Spoilers for the maps in the Target Exclusive book and the Arrow Video Blu Ray box***

The map in the Target Exclusive book looks like a tourist map. (Thank you @itswhatyougive for sending this to me!)

Example of a tourist map:

It's the same map that's introduced in S5.

The S5 map isn't the same map that we've seen in previous seasons. It's also not the same map that's in the Arrow Video box.

I know maps in ST have changed over the seasons, but the S5 map is particularly atrocious.

A tourist map reminded me of this comment from Holly:

Tourist maps aren't regular maps. They're designed to orient you to specific locations and highlight what the mapmaker wants you to notice.

In real life, this could be landmarks, amenities, transportation, etc.

wilbran but it’s byler

"and love is love, is love, is love, is love, is love, is love, is love, is love

cannot be killed or swept aside

(…)

now fill the world with music, love and pride"

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

FREE LOVE!!!!!! QUEER LOVE!!!!

I'm not going to tell people they have to hate Will's ending, but they should stop acting like it is praiseworthy. Will got the absolute bare minimum. I'd expect such an ending 20+ years ago when gay characters getting such endings was commonplace, but not now.

At the end of the day, Will and his feelings were treated as being a tier below his straight peers. The only hint of him finding love, which was something he wanted throughout the entire series, was a flash forward (which may or may not have just been in Mike's head) that would've taken place no less than three years after the epilogue, seeing as how Will is in a bar. And it's a very brief moment of what was him meeting a guy, possibly for a first date since they arrive separately.

Even Noah mentioned he wanted an ending better than Will meeting a guy at very end for a brief scene.

The problem isn't even that it isn't Mike (though it's related). It's that Will never got even the slightest of romantic development with any other character than Mike. Not a brief glance at a cute boy in Lenora Hills. Not a tease at him liking a guy at Hawkins High. Not even celebrity crushes, like when Max and El talk about Ralph Macchio. Hell, he doesn't even give any of the other guys at graduation a glance. They at least could've had him talk about how excited he was to go to college and meet cute boys if they were going to give him that ending.

No, his entire story centered around Mike, right up to the end, and that was their own fault for writing it that way if they had no intentions of doing anything with it. They made his story all about Mike, not me. Even after his coming out, where I guess he was meant to move on for real, he still is focused on Mike, reassuring him about El yet again.

This is so Will at the barn taking to Joyce coded