the7thsilvercat
the silver cat feeds when blue and yellow meet in the west. "it was a seven. the demogorgon. it got me."
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marriage contracts 😭
zoom in and first word you see is what will happen in season 5 of stranger things
i be seeing numbers and colors and i'll start thinking of them (i'm officially cooked)
glad to know that out of every infinite universe with infinite possibilities, I'm in one where byler is canon <3
shoutout to byler artists (every kind) they all make me want cry
in my "literally starts choking on air when I see byler fanart" phase <3
nothing just the thought that season 5 will probably have flashbacks to previous byler moments just to really shove it in the milevens' faces that byler has always been canon. not some quick change for the last season, but a carefully, well-planned slowburn that has lasted YEARS.
THIS IS LITERALLY AMAZING?
this took me like forever and I don't even know if I like it
don't talk to me btw </3
PLEASE tell me yall the vision 🙏
(I definitely did not put will as rowley bc of the bowl cuts)
(and can I just say I love both their bowl cuts they're so cute 😭 <3)
THEY'RE MEANT TO BE (based off the research of a random website 😔🙏)
best will edit ever hands down
shoutout to the byers (every single person in that family is an angel)
guys I don't think I've fully grasped the idea that season 5 will be THE LAST SEASON.
one reason I love the byler community so much is that we'll literally turn anything into byler like I can say "byler is like a pickle" and instead of thinking I'm weird or smth (I am btw) they'll be like "omg yess!!" "REAL" "exactly because will is yellow and mike is blue and blue plus yellow is green and pickles are green which means that byler is like a pickle" or even "pickles are pickled and pickling takes a long time just like it has taken a long time for byler to blossom into what it is now"
one of my favorite byler moments was the lumax double date one in s3 like mike was being so gentle with will 😭 <3
Ampert's death RUINED me oh my fucking gosh. What the fuck Suzanne.
bro no way suzanne actually used this for inspiration 😭
MICHAEL BYLER AND WILLIAM BYLER
amazing idea what if will and mike got married but liked their last name's sm they MERGED THEM TOGETHER AND MADE BYLER😭😭😭💚💚💚
"It's not my fault you don't like girls!!"
*loud incorrect buzzer*
actually don't know how I survived before byler like literally can't imagine a world without them
should I stay or should I go
Fairly certain Mike did see Will crying, he just didn't say anything. Like I don't think he realized it was because of Will feeling sad over him specifically but I thought it was obvious he did see Will crying but didn't draw attention to it. I also think it is very important for both of their characters and their relationship, as well as very telling of how deeply Mike cares for Will to not say anything when he is crying, to just act normal and move on without addressing it.
Every time in the show that Mike notices Will's emotions and behaviors, especially his negative emotions, Mike never brings it up until after (unless he thinks Will actively needs help like when Will looks scared). This is the same Mike Wheeler who noticed every eyeroll and time Will was moping at Rink-o-Mania when he was literally there hanging out with his girlfriend, but he didn't bring it up until later when the two of them were fighting. The same Mike who, in season 2, said he knew something was off with Will because ‘he was quiet today’ when his friends just wrote it off because he’s always quiet. Mike always notices Will acting up but doesn't usually say anything in the moment unless he thinks Will is in trouble, he just lets him feel things and if it’s relevant later he'll bring it up.
It’s implied he’s very perceptive when it comes to Will's emotions and behaviors and he is always watching, especially when Will doesn’t seem like he is doing well, so it would be so bizarre if he didn’t notice Will crying beside him. It's likely he just didn’t see a reason to bring it up, so he didn't. For all Mike knows, it may have just been that talking about El makes Will think about his sister who is currently missing and in potential danger, which is a justified reason for someone to cry. Or even that the painting reminds Will of the time in his youth he missed out on due to the mind-flayer and upside down and that his childhood of campaigns in Mike's basement is over, or Will could be grieving the party he is no longer near and his friends he is so far from. Or he could be so overwhelmed by many emotions over many different things that he doesn't know how to articulate.
Mike usually just registers what Will is feeling and not why Will is feeling that way. Mike never needed to know why because him and Will are a team and, before this season, Will was, to Mike's knowledge, always open and honest with him (hence where Mike got the 'friends don't lie' thing he told El in the beginning) and Will would come to Mike when he wanted to talk about things, so Mike probably figures even if their relationship feels strained right now, that wouldn't change and if Will wants to talk about it, he will come to him, much like how Jonathan doesn't push Will to come out.
I think it's important to draw parallels between Jonathan and Mike's behaviors, how both act towards Will: both are overprotective of Will, both very adamant early on in the show about how being 'weird' does not equate to being bad, and also about how Will doesn't have to feel negative about being different because they are weirdos as well (making it a shared experience so he doesn't feel alone). Both are also careful when it comes to making sure Will feels safe and comfortable which includes not forcing him to talk about things unless he wants to (while still reassuring him they are there for him should he want to).
This is probably why Mike doesn't bring up that Will is lying (he knew El's letter well enough to know she missed the flowers and brought her some he handpicked so they would be Hawkins flowers, so he would also know about the painting and how El had no idea what is was or who it was for, because Will wouldn't even let her see it), but he doesn't bring that up because he thinks Will probably has a reason for lying, and he trusts Will, so he is happy to let Will share in his own time. This is another parallel to Jonathan and Will when Jonathan hints he knows Will is not straight but doesn't force Will to talk about it, instead letting Will come to him at his own time when he feels ready. I don't think it's a coincidence both Jonathan and Mike act the same way towards Will because both probably witnessed first-hand how Lonnie treated Will.
When Will came back, we know Mike was protective, which we don’t know if it was him trying to cope with the trauma of not only losing Will for a long time but also the recent loss of El, or if he was always that protective over Will, but it is implied in season 1 this was a status quo of sorts from before Will went missing. Mike would feel protective over Will and he would fight back with no self-preservation in mind, especially when people would act in similar ways towards Will that Lonnie did (like the bullies making fun of Will for being gay just like what Joyce brings up Lonnie would make fun of Will for, which prompted Mike to shove them before getting saved by El), which is most likely due to Mike being around during the abuse Will faced from his father which caused him to be protective of Will, and to a lesser extent all his friends (not lesser in extremes, I mean season 1 he jumped off a cliff about to kill himself for Dustin and from Dustin immediately screaming for him not to do it, fully convinced Mike would, and to be fair he does without even knowing El is there to save him, we can infer it is a common thing that Mike is willing to go to great lengths, even risk his own safety, in order to protect. But in terms of frequency instead of amplitude, he is chronically protective of Will while only really protective of his other friends when he feels they need particular protection he can provide).
Mike said he became friends with Will on the first day of kindergarten which means they were likely around 5 and Lonnie was still in the picture. This was before Lucas and Dustin, as Mike says Will was his first friend, so Mike probably knows more about it than either of the two of them, and like Jonathan, was there helping Will through it and supporting him/protecting him to some extent, for longer, which is why he is likely so perceptive of Will's emotions and what Will is feeling, even if he can't pinpoint why.
We are told this whole time that Will is a ‘sensitive boy’, and Lonnie would abuse him and try to change him for that as well as his perceived sexuality, so actually I think it’s important Mike didn’t say anything and let Will cry because it shows Mike provides space for Will to feel, space that others didn't and sometimes still don’t. He lets Will be sensitive and cry even though both of them have had people trying to teach them to suppress their emotions, especially their fathers (Mike's parents, especially Ted, did not respect Mike's grief over Will when he was missing and was not taking him seriously because Mike was not following those same ideals of toxic masculinity Ted and Lonnie were both trying to enforce, to different degrees, in their sons).
Mike is actively trying to stop the cycles Will, and himself, endured. He is trying to be conscious but accepting of all Will's emotions so Will doesn't have to go through what he did with Lonnie. He refuses to give up on or abandon Will when he went missing because Will had a dead-beat dad who stopped caring and abandoned him. And Mike not only praised his art but kept every piece given to him, with binders of it in his room and hanging it on his walls, keeping and displaying it proudly when we know Lonnie didn’t like Will making art because it fueled the ‘sensitive kid’ who was queer narrative he tried to force out of Will.
That's also why Mike immediately looks so guilty in the rain scene when he said what he said about Will's sexuality, because he realizes it is something Lonnie would say. That is also why he immediately goes to apologize despite the same rain he was telling Will not to leave because of. Why he prioritizes making amends and admitting wrong-doing when it comes to Will in a way he doesn't even do with his girlfriend. He is trying to break the cycles and not enforce the toxic masculinity Will painfully had to endure with Lonnie for years and he is trying to, despite feeling the effects of toxic masculinity himself that he is trying to overcome in his own 5-season arc, make sure it is not in his relationship with Will, especially not by his own hands.
Overall, I guess I think it’s not that Mike didn’t notice, but that Mike lets Will feel whatever he feels without judgement or trying to change or 'fix' it. He just sits beside Will and acts normal because he doesn’t want Will to feel like it’s bad to cry; he wants to normalize emotions between the two of them because he wants Will to have a safe place to express emotions, which is important for someone who’s dad abused him and enforced toxic masculinity before abandoning him because he saw him as ‘too sensitive’. It shows Will he is not 'too sensitive' for others and that people won't try to change him or abandon him for being himself, or even for being 'too much' or 'emotional', like his father did and probably convinced Will everyone would do. I don't think Mike realized the crying was because of him, but I think he did notice that Will was crying. He noticed the what and trusted that Will will tell him the why when he is ready.
I LOVE BYLER ANALYSISES SO MUCH
i think the thing that ppl dont grasp abt mike's internalised homophobia is that it's primarily pubescent and there is a real FEAR to it that i really hope they play on in s5. that fear is of sexuality as a whole, as an uncharted territory that is frightening and overwhelming and gross, and i think this is emphasized by the shot of the boys looking at the lingerie shop in s3, and it's also why s4 is the most potent with gay tension - i am definitely not the only one who noticed how much noah schnapp/will hit puberty between s3 and 4. his voice dropped significantly, his shoulders totally bulked out and he got a new haircut. he looks a lot more like a man now, and if you were a pubescing mike wheeler having been in a cute relationship with a girl for long enough to feel confident that you already knew what sexuality was because you guys kissed all the time and you understood how it was supposed to feel, you would be FUCKING SCARED when you saw your best friend in the airport and you felt something physical happen inside you. because you wouldn't know what it was! you wouldn't be able to tell the feeling apart from any of the other weird feelings you have about that guy! so you would just be awkward as hell about it. i think mike's look between will and el at the end of the scene is him looking at will, feeling the pang again and realising there is something fundamentally different that he feels towards will than he feels towards el (when previously both relationships could have been understood fairly similarly to him as platonic and deeply loving and caring, whereas now there is a sexual element to them that he cannot remove, and that scares him) and he can't un-realise it. so i think his gay awakening is fundamentally a sexual one and a frightening and disconcerting one.
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2/2 (not in order)
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1/2 there's 16 pics (not in order bc I'm too lazy 😭)
200 days until the leaked release date for st5 vol 1 (Oct 10th)
the prime factors of 200 are 5 2 2 2 5 so obv double 5, plus how there are 5 numbers, which is extra secure confirmation for how the leaked date is accurate. and the three 2s refer to the three couples on the hill at the end of s4, so jopper byler and jancy are all endgame, with extra emphasis on byler bc '52225' is symmetrical, and byler was the couple in the middle, and this also shows how byler is central to the entirety of s5. therefore s5 vol 1 is in fact dropping on oct 10th and byler is endgame