Thinking about the fact that Mike and Will are insinuated and blatantly shown to be attached at the hip, crying-screaming-throwing up over each other for an entire decade and now fighting / showing signs of romantic interest in each other (one confirmed)….but NOT ONE SINGLE SOUL over the course of this entire show (including their parents) has ever called their relationship brotherly or said they were like family?
honestly I’m still floored. Like.
As someone who has watched a million and a half shows and movies, “you’re my brother” or “they’re like family” is one of the easiest plausible deniability things you can do in writing to give yourself an out for a queercoded friendship (especially one with a confirmed gay character)…and the duffers absolutely refused to do it—and instead gave the familial coding to mlvn. It’s iconic.
like to give will byers a hug, reblog to give him two hugs
yeah the height difference we’ve all seen it. i wanna talk about the hand size difference
There's gonna be a gay Spiderman?? And Noah said he wants to play Spiderman someday??
MARVEL PLEASE CAST HIM PLEASE CAST HIM PLEASE PLEASE-
Ngl I do like the headcanon that Will wouldn't like Eddie, just for the angst, u know??
Like in s3, you can see Will trying to make a DnD campaign to bring the party together
Whereas Eddie's DnD campaign in s4 tears the party apart
I think it's obvious that Will cared more about having time with his friends over actually playing DnD, the game just ended up being the thing he thought could bring them together and the thought of DnD being something to hurt their friendship would definitely hurt Will.
I also think Will would be on Lucas' side with the whole "I don't want to get bullied" thing, even if he wouldn't be too keen on trying to hang out with popular kids. I think he would prefer to stay in the background, which is what he does for like the whole of s4, especially at the start in Lenora High, it's like he was invisible to everyone but El and that one girl who liked him.
Whilst on the other hand, Eddie is all about being proud to be a freak (and whilst Jonathan is similar, he does it in a much more subtle way). Moreover, Will's comments about how he feels 'different' and a 'mistake' as well as his efforts to blend in whilst in California make me believe that he would be incredibly insecure and self conscious about being around someone like Eddie; he obviously doesn't want to be a target.
And so therefore, I think that if Will ever got the chance to meet Eddie, he would either dislike him or try to avoid him when he could. However, in time I do think he would admire Eddie's willingness to be himself.
reddit post is HERE, voting link is HERE
i am voting for bob x joyce this round.
last round, there were some comments about voting for byler that got a significant number of upvotes for the first time since round 1.
so either byler is going to get voted out in the next couple rounds, or we are going to have to share the poll a lot more! if you want byler to be in the top 5, we all have to rb these voting links to get more visibility. if not though, byler has done pretty well and i'm glad byler made it to top 10. 🙂
where's tony n joe when u need them to serve spaghetti on this lovely bella notte
„I didn‘t say it“/„You didn’t have to“
gif by @prettyteenvamp
They are subtly hinting at this idea that Will doesn‘t have to say things outright and spell it out in order for Mike to understand because Mike&Will can understand each other without words:
GIFs by u/flutterstrange on Reddit