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byler aside, i truly believe that the only way el will have a satisfying/happy ending is if she is single. she has spent her entire life being controls by others. first it was brenner and everyone else at the lab, then it was mike, then it was hopper. the only time we see her truly happy is in season 3 when she goes on the mall trip with max. i think season 4 really made her realize that being with mike is not the best thing for her happiness. i mean, she has mind powers and has killed like 2 dozen people, she doesn't need some suburban 14 year old boy to protect her. so whether byler is endgame or not, i really really hope the duffers let el truly find herself away from the control of others. she has been through so much, she deserves to be happy and fulfilled, surrounded by friends and family. she deserves the chance to discover who she is and who she wants to be.

well i saw a tweet saying that hopper, el, lucas, dustin, etc their stories were over with the finishing of stranger things. no mention of mike or will though…

Original : https://twitter.com/gloombyers/status/1780720768998953201

yall i can so imagine mike accidentally walking in on will kissing someone else and mike gets really angry and storms out and will thinks it’s coz he was kissing a boy and it’s actually because a boy was kissing will (who was not mike)

still in disbelief this is real and not something i imagined- found on my netflix 3 hours ago

ok, i’ve been doing some thinking and my mind keeps going back to that airport scene!! you know the one, The Awkward Hug scene. what confuses me is that it would have been so easy for mike to be as if everything was normal (if he had only platonic feelings for will) and WILL to be awkward. why did that not happen?! after all, everyone is pretty awkward around their crush/“unrequited” love of their lives, but instead it was mike who was weird and distracted and awkward. he was the one who struggled with touching him and eye contact and pretty much standard teenage boy with a crush, not will. and this is what doesn’t make sense. this scene is intentional, it’s highly important and it is at the beginning- meaning this is setting up the season pretty much. yeah i know i’m definitely not the first person to bring this up but i don’t really have anything to post and i thought this was pretty interesting.

y’all i was recreationally scrolling through the m*leven # (no bad vibes sent i swear i just feel like getting both sides of the argument is best to cement my belief) and something i saw was someone saying how el is always at her best when she is with mike. which imo is very untrue. let’s go on a deep dive together, shall we?

season 2

at the end of season 1 we know el disappears off into the upside down. separated from mike. by the start of season 2, she is trying to understand more about herself and her powers and her origins, and all of this is done seperate from mike, on her own. this solitude allows for her to find her individuality without being ‘the weapon’ or ‘mikes crush’. i think that while the 08 stuff is kind of silly, it is important to note that during that, she did begin to understand the root and significance of her powers, as well as feeling accepted properly by like-minded people for the first time possibly ever. she also finds her mother and learns about her origins, just beginning her journey of curiosity about herself. we know that finding mama was very important to eleven, and she did all of this away from mike. while she was at hoppers, she mourned losing him, yearned for him, pined, etc, and that caused tension, upset and drained her. NOT mikes fault, btw, he is my actual child and i do not believe this is anyone’s fault, just the facts. when she is back reunited with mike, yes it is a beautiful beautiful scene i cannot deny that but she is a different version of herself than when mike saw her last and therefore this separation was very beneficial to her character.

season 3

we all know how this season goes. mike and el making out left and right, no communication just sucking face. during the m*leven breakup, mike is pretty nonchalant and uncaring about it all, and max helps el on her journey of self discovery. during this time when we’ll bd mike are broken up is the first time el is introduced to trash mags, silly games, something other than being the girl with powers or mikes girlfriend. she begins to understand her likes, her dislikes, herself. no one ever tried to help her find her individuality before, not like this. this is when el also starts ‘making her own rules’ and really coming into her own, maturing into her own wonderful person without mikes presence. in fact, the breakup is very necessary for this to occur. not to mention the fact that she also solves majority of the billy mystery without mike there, in fact she solves it while ignoring and icing out mike, with max’s help. this breakup is essential for elevens character development, and that’s not an accident, certainly not since it is a frequently reoccurring then throughout the entire series!! the ending scene with the ‘i love you too’ is an awkward way to summarise a season spelt apart and i think it may also because she is still learning what she likes and dislikes, this is all extremely new to her.

season 4

oh boy. i mean, obviously el hasn’t been fitting in at school, that’s very obvious. i mean what could mike have to do with that? directly, not much but indirectly??? everything. i believe that just the fact she is in a relationship with mike is throwing her off balance and we are supposed to notice that!! then when mike arrives i mean first of all the flowers and the ‘from’ is a whole other post but immediately her situation worsens, she gets abused by angela, ridiculed by her and her friends, then literally attacks angela with a skate, and it’s all so… out of character? and the ‘you never say it’ argument… it’s all meant to make us look at the couple and go ‘these guys aren’t working anymore’ (!!!!!) i mean, el is, emotionally but also to a point physically, hindered in this relationship with mike and it’s neither of their faults!!!! they just aren’t working!!! and that’s okay!!! they need to be seperate to develop as characters and this is proven by the separation when el gets taken to get her powers back. a great way the duffers could have utilised this plot point was by making mike go with her. think about it! he learns about her while she learns about herself, all while regaining her powers and mike gaining new understanding and appreciation of her as a person! what a great way to deepen an ‘endgame’ couple’s relationship! will also could have had great development, having self-discovery with jonothan and argyle! who doesn’t want some brotherly bonding time? but that’s is not what happened. el needed the time away from mike, broken up, no contact, to focus on her self and improve and discover. this was more than essential. el thrives on solitude to become more powerful as an individual person. she needs to separate herself from mike to be the best version of herself. and that is why m*leven is not endgame. they are a a couple who do not work, they do not make each other better, and while i think a mike-el friendship dynamic could be really effective, as a couple they clash. even during the monologue, mike didn’t really achieve anything. he was kind of just saying words. i mean he canonically lied, what kind of confessional speech by a love-struck teen would be full of lies?? it doesn’t make sense. it is not supposed to make sense. we are supposed to notice these things.

i’m not even using this as byler proof, more just as the fact that i don’t find mike and el compatible, like at all. maybe as platonic buds, but not as a couple, and certainly not as a thriving endgame one. in conclusion, m*leven bones.

thank you for coming to my ted talk.

TLDR; el needs to be seperate from mike to improve upon herself in every way.

WE USED TO PRAY FOR TIMES LIKE THESE

oh no you are definitely right. this is a super straight, heterosexual way to look at your homie. m*leven endgame

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respectfully, may Michael Wheeler (my favourite character not sorry) go thru HELL. his worst fears come true. make him SUFFER. give him all you got duffers. because it will all work out it the end 😊

ALL WE DO IS WIN 😭🙏

spot the difference: impossible edition

in all seriousness, on top we see a “straight boy” who is currently “in love” with a girl, trying to address his “friend” in a “friendly” way. basically imitating heteronormativity because he is confused and almost scared of his feelings. this is literally confirmed later in heartstopper. on the bottom we see… apparently a straight dude greeting his friends normally??? help byler is so canon

(is shoulder tapping a gay love language???)

help the churchgate craze is coming back everyone arm yourselves i may succumb to unpredictable rants

just thinking about the fact that byler is so canon because, not even getting into the nitty gritty, it’s canon that eleven is mikes first girl friend. as in female friend. of course he will confuse friendship for romantic feelings because he doesn’t know how to seperate it. the only girl he has in his life is his mum and his sister! how would he know if his feelings are platonic or romantic? and he knows how he is supposed to feel about girls, so he assumes how he feels about his budding friendship with eleven is romance, and he peruses it. with will gone, it’s easy right? only as he gets older, it becomes more and more obvious that the love he feels for will vs eleven is not the same… and it’s not eleven he wants to kiss anymore. (or ever did want to, in fact)

the byler tag is trending i love this community 😭🙏

“mike couldn’t say i love you to eleven because his parents never said i love you to each other!!!”

…

you mean his parents that didn’t love each other? there’s a correlation here…

Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder seeing each other for the first time after they broke up ❤️‍🩹

my sister came up with a depressing ass theory for ST5 where everyone actually dies and max wakes up with everyone dead.

THE SPY. THE TIGER. HELP.

(and also idk maybe the blue light and the Mike’s hand?)

Steve no bitches Harrington please end the show with no bitches. Like I dunno I just like to hang out with my ex girlfriend and her new boyfriend. And my gay best friend. And this weird child. This is the perfect Steve 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏