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fellas, is it gay to date a girl that looks exactly like your homeboy? asking for a friend.

Random Incorrect Stranger Things Quotes,

𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘀: Guess what I’m about to get!!

𝗠𝗮𝘅: On my nerves.

Mike: Shut up, You’re messing with my train of thought!

Max: I thought you didn’t have a brain, And now you tell me you have thoughts?

Will: You have to apologize to them Mike.

Mike: Fine! But I will warn you, this might make me a better, nicer person and that is NOT the person you fell in love with.

Steve: You guys don’t know about my knife stick. It’s a knife taped to a stick and it’s the ultimate weapon.

Eddie: Spear?

Steve: BLOCKED

Nancy: I owe you one.

Steve: That’s okay. You can just date me and we’ll call it even.

Steve: If I punch myself and it hurts, am I strong, Or weak?

Max: Strong

Robin: Weak

Nancy: An idiot, is what you are.

Mike: Can I bother you for a second?

Will: You're always bothering me, but go ahead.

Max: You have an impressive pain tolerance.

Will: Thanks, it's the trauma.

Max: Your future self is talking shit about you right now.

Will: Jokes on them. I'll ruin their fucking life.

will, the golden retriever boyfriend, who’s a people pleaser and can’t say no to people for the life of him

mike, the black cat boyfriend, who can read will like a book and wraps an arm around him while saying “he doesn’t want to talk to you, fuck off” rolling his eyes.

tiny byler,,,,,

I’m praying we get tiny byler in s5

Least delusional m*leven tbh because 1) Yeah, he’s supposed to be comfortable with Will after all those years but… the hug? He’s not comfortable with him at all and that’s suspicious. 2) El clearly does show love? I was talking about Mike?

Why have they just started lying and spouting random bs?

Thinking about how it makes no narrative sense to have Will confess romantic feelings and then Mike flat out say “I’m not gay, man.”

Yes, this happens in real life, but what would this accomplish for the show? When would it happen?

All it would do is change (and likely ruin) the dynamic of their relationship for the remainder of the show. You could argue they could have a “RobinXSteve” confession —but Steve’s tender moment with Robin is different because he thought he liked Robin and didn’t know she was gay. Will would be risking more than Steve or Robin. And nobody wants Mike and Will’s friendship walking on eggshells for the wrong reasons.

There are a few other possibilities:

1. Will’s romantic feelings for Mike magically resolve themself, despite spending all of his time with Mike. Therefore never feeling the need for a confession. Alt. A non-existent new love interest appears

2. He never comes out to Mike particularly, or if he does, does not express his feelings. In this scenario Mike might end up with Eleven. However, Mike ending up with Eleven is contradictory to a focal point of the show where Eleven grows into herself and her identity as a human, rather than an experiment. Mike still sees her as the “superhero” that landed on his doorstep that needs him to protect her from the bad. While the show has kind of played itself off as almost anti-will the past two seasons, it really has been rooting for him. The first two seasons were about saving him. So an ending where he is “trapped” in his childhood with his trauma behind the closet would not be satisfying to the audience for a core character. This is a coming of age show at the heart. Not The Tragedy of Will Byers.

3. Um, Mike dies. I’ve seen this one. It’s possible ig but it’s highly unlikely.

4. Slow-burn MikeXWill romance throughout the season in the different ways people have been predicting. Which at this point it would take a lot to convince me is not going to happen.

5. Will realizes his feelings for Mike are him romanticizing his memories of a time before he went missing.

My unhopeful Stranger Things S5 prediction is that Will will not come out to anyone and there will be no explicit romance. The Duffer Brother’s will just have laid out a bunch of queer subtext (picture Mike having his own conversation with Nancy about how he feels about Will like the teasing conversation they had about El in S1). Then, afterwards in interviews when they ask “so are they gay?” (Y’know the way they did during S4 press tour) they’ll be like “well let’s just say any context you were picking up on was intentional, but it’s up for your interpretation ;)” And then congratulate themselves on their inclusivity. I’m so excited y’all

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my fav ships :)

Oh god probably..

rain fight

It was sad but idk

what are y’all’s favorite byler moment (mine is season 5 byler kiss) but fr mine is probably Mike telling will becoming his friend was the best thing he’s ever done or when Mike saw will at the hospital after he was back from the upside down

Why is the GA obsessed with “having unrequited crushes is realistic.”

It’s a fictional show with fictional characters. This is a story, not a documentary… characters can be realistic for relatability, sure. But the weight they’ve put on Will’s “unrequited crush” story isn’t just “realism.” If they wanted to do that, they would’ve shut this down in the story a while ago. This isn’t how unrequited love stories are written. They easily could’ve had Will confess and have Mike gently reject him and then gave Will a new love interest we could root for.

Writing wise, having him be rejected would do damage to both Mike and Will. Will suffered this much already and Mike would be an asshole for genuinely no reason then.