Is He An Angsty Bisexual Teenage Boy With A Shitload Of Trauma That Could Kill Me In A Heartbeat If He

I just listened to TTPD and why does literally every song fit Wolfstar so well? Like…. Before I supported the MsKingBean is Taylor Swift theory as a joke… but I’m kind of starting to think it might be real.

Guys I cracked the code. Mike Wheeler is demiromantic. He’s only ever had a crush on Will which is why it took him so long to figure out that he was in love with him, but he always knew that his relationship with Will was special.

Yes, yes this is me projecting onto Mike even more than I already was.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IM SAYING IT DOESNT FEEL AT ALL LIKE WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN PROMOTING

okay, actually at this point i'm wondering whether or not vol. 2 actually was supposed to be something else. ignoring the queerbait, they literally didn't add the other things they were going to, for example, the incomplete letter and the "let's start a new party together, you and me" thing. also, mike never "tried new things" like finn said. like...what are they even doing?? it honestly feels incomplete...am i being vecnaed right now?? because holy fuck this is my worst nightmare.

Maya, Joe, Joseph, Noah, and Finn really be carrying this show on their backs

ever since maya and natalie have been talking about leaning into ronance & joseph quinn has been saying a lot of things about how he changed eddie’s characters from the original creation done by the duffer brothers (his rings, being more friendly than mean, his queerness), i’ve been thinking a lot more about the way that fandom perceives writers opinions v actors' acting choices.

i think that fans tend to value the opinions of writers more than actors because we have been taught by some fandoms *cough cough* that actors' decisions are unimportant. when in reality, i think characters' personalities heavily come from the way the actor plays them and perceives them. this is very evident in joe and maya discussing the bathroom scene in s3 and joseph creating eddie's image.

no way in hell the duffer brothers intended for eddie to be a queer character. they have shown time and time again they don’t care about queer characters, let alone enough to make them well-written queer characters. however, joseph has stated that he intentionally played up eddie's attraction/flirtation to steve because he thought it fit his character.

i think in fandom we’re very easily dismissive of ourselves and our interpretations of media because we’ve been so harmed in the past by creators and writers of shows. i think a lot more emphasis needs to be placed on the way that actors interpret characters, because generally they are the ones that know the best since they play them.

this was long and rambly but heavily inspired by @wastedonyoursmile 's post about the duffers & queerbaiting.

An accurate representation of what happened today 🥲

“gay people didn’t exist in the 80s,” someone says into the microphone. we all boo.

“no,” someone calls from the audience. “he’s right.” it’s the duffer brothers.

I hate Netflix so much

#🤬netflix

no but hear me out:

i want robin to kiss a girl in season 5 so badly and no matter who it is, in the end of the day i will take it because she needs a gf already BUT

it has to be nancy. like it has to be. it's not that i dislike vickie or anything but i just (i better not get canceled for that one) feel like her character was kind of poorly written? no hate to the actress at all, but to me it just felt like they copy-pasted robin's entire personality and turned it into a new character?? i don't know maybe that's just me? robin deserves a complex character by her side (nancy god damn wheeler) and i am dying on that hill. nancy is and has always been such a complex character and giving her a girlfriend would only EMPHASIZE this complexity. from s1 one until now nancy has been captured in this love triangle and it is pretty clear that she never felt fully understood in neither of those relationships. like she always had to prove herself you know what i mean? with both steve and jonathan. now guess what? she never had to prove herself around robin. ROBIN EVEN PUT HER IN CHARGE HELLO??

and robin...well the way she rambled around nancy?? the way she looked down when she saw the way nancy was looking at steve?? the way she called for nancy when she went after steve?? the way they held hands??? they both deserve each other so much. i could literally talk about this for HOURS oh my god. the ronance hyperfixation is going strong!

hello anon i understand u so strongly, and im sorry this took me so long to get to! i promise it wasn't intentional!

i will forever be on the train that even if vickie was done better than she was, she will always be a character introduced to give the lesbian character a love interest, she was doomed to this position from the start because she had no other real purpose! rockie will always feel inorganic because vickie is nothing beyond a love interest for robin.

this is. such a common problem, ESPECIALLY in wlw ships, and that's why i love ronance. nancy wheeler is immune to this phenomenon because she and robin were both created independently and with different purposes, and their stories come together so well its actually insane

nancy wheeler is one of those characters that is so hard to understand if you don't look at her through a queer lens, or at the very least an anti-misogynist one. i think the best thing the duffers could do for her is finish the arc she started in season 1, which is focused on self-realization and discovery.

the entire show she has been told who she is, what she should do, who she likes, who she loves, by everyone! it is never nancy who says these things, it is other characters telling her, even barb, even robin. how insane would it be if she came to the conclusion on her own that she liked women? or at the very least had looked at her own feelings not through the lens of someone who didn't understand her or the situation they were talking about.

robin falls into these same patterns, but the more she gets to know nancy, the more she really understands her, the more she backs off on those kinds of comments and the more she uplifts nancy's voice. there is SO MUCH POTENTIAL in them and the fact that it will more likely than not be ignored is so. agonizing. please duffer brothers see the vision

Sonia: You are not good enough for my son, and I don't want you around him. End. Of. Story.

Richie *at the door with a guitar*: So why don't you give me one more-

Sonia: *slams the door close*

Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

Literally 💀 and ppl still think we r delusional for thinking that Mike is fruity too.

Bylers who’ve been saying Will was gay since S1: