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no what’s actually wild is how byler doesn’t parallel lumax. lumax parallels byler. the hand hold? byler did it first. the calling out for someone during a vision? byler did it first. drawing something for the other person? byler did it first. the sitting next to someone in the hospital? byler did it first. lucas throwing his arm over max’s shoulders in s3? that seems pretty familiar. max finding a way to fight vecna by hiding in the memory of the night she kissed lucas? will found a way to fight the mind flayer thanks to mike recalling the first day they met.

a lot of the most romantic moments between lucas and max were first done by will and mike. it’s pretty interesting how the, arguably, most well written canon ship has so many parallels with byler

I started reading The Great Gatsby recently and OMG?! This is literally the fruitiest book I’ve ever read.

Like?? Every (and when I say every, I mean EVERY) character is just. So queercoded. They’re literally all living in glass closets like I for real won’t even be surprised if the end of this book is just everyone having gay sex.

No but for real, this feels like some sort of weird gay fever dream. Living for it though.

Anyways maybe I will do a further analysis on why I perceive each character as queer later on. Just needed to get this out of my system.

No because the more I think about the more upset I am at the Duffers

am I the only one who’s enjoying s2 😭 I feel like a lot of people have issues with the plot / the way they’re executing things (which is fair enough) but personally I’ve quite enjoyed watching and don’t really mind- but I am easy to please all it takes is either a dragon or some gay shit and we good 10/10 ! !

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

no tv show will ever be able to resolve a m/m/f love triangle as perfectly and as weirdly as Hannibal, in which the woman kisses one of the guys, sleeps with the other one, then decides "actually, never mind, you're both awful!" and marries a rich lesbian instead - and, while this is all going on, the guys develop a weird homoerotic obsession with each other culminating in them going off a cliff together. truly unhinged and unmatched

I'm begging people to not bombard Finn with questions about Mileven and Byler at his panel coming up. There are other things to ask him about than his character's love life. And don't ask questions he obviously can't answer like "will Mike and El breakup??" or "Who will be endgame Mileven or Byler??" DON'T ASK THOSE KIND OF QUESTIONS. HE CAN'T GIVE YOU A REAL ANSWER.

Ask him about the upcoming movie he is directing. Ask him about his music. Ask him about Mike as an individual. Ask literally anything else. Just don't BOMBARD him with questions about ships. That's all the interviewers asked him about during the season four press and he seemed annoyed by it. PLEASE ask him stuff that isn't about Mileven or Byler.

perpetually torn between:

taking classic literature seriously and over analysing every detail so that I can deeply understand themes, motifs and references and absorb every poetic quote into my being OR treating classics as if they were just silly little stories about silly little gay people doing the most weird, unhinged and out of context shit ever (which they are)

I want to be her controversial younger girlfriend

alicent criticism often strikes me as having the same vibes as the people watching a horror movie and going "i would have never done that, the characters died because they made stupid choices, i would have easily survived". alicent had her life stolen from her when she was a teenager forced to marry an old man and have his children. it's something so horrible that i feel like a large amount of people (and some characters, like rhaenyra) simply can't fit it into their worldview that something like that can just happen to you and instead go "well if that was me then it wouldn't have fundamentally destroyed me as a person. in her situation i would've turned out fine and my poison wouldn't be dripping through. i would easily be a good mother". i saw some people found it a stupid writing choice that rhaenyra thought alicent could stop the war because it is "obvious" that alicent has no control over what is going on, but i think that failure to see the real horror of alicent's situation is what destroyed their friendship and drove them apart. from the beginning rhaenyra thought alicent was choosing to marry her father. in return alicent failed to see the way rhaenyra was being targeted for grooming by daemon. i think they both engaged in victim blaming because "my friend is acting hurtful towards me, so i'm mad" is actually easier to deal with emotionally than "my friend had her entire life and personhood stolen from her and so have i"