what about the storyteller?

why is noah kahan’s new album cover lowkey giving miwi and why do i know it’s going to emotionally devastate me

That’s what happens when you build your characters’ arcs surrounding the success of them falling in love. Byler wasn’t just getting Will and Mike to kiss in my screen. It was about the queer character who has been abused since childhood by both the natural and supernatural to finally get the happy ending he deserves. It was about showing a queer love story in a mainstream show and making history. It was about letting that queer love story be more than just a “lesson” the queer community HAS to learn which is you only get to come out and explain yourself to the rest, but you don’t get the boy, that’s just not realistic. It was about crafting a character who was also queer but closeted and have an arc about how conformity is never the right option. How Mike Wheeler could’ve been an inspiration for all those people who hate themselves for being different and who hide themselves in what society can accept. It was about having rounded characters with wants and goals and flaws instead of flat carton boards. Byler wasn’t so much than just Byler in this show, and I’m tired of pretending I didn’t hate the ending because Byler was ruined.

this comparison is killing me oml

it's so much wasted potential to give mike a fictional version of himself that is much braver than he is then not use it to push his character development at all...

And Will Byers never got kissed. Will Byers witnessed queer love, queer joy, and queer intimacy through a kiss at the beginning of the season, wanting that for himself because he's a romantic... and never even got kissed. Not even by his epilogue boyfriend.