I'm All About Taking The Canon Ships And Ripping Them Apart And Making Your Own Shit Up...but I Feel

I need to know what Lexi said to make him look more happy than he had been for the entirely of season 1

So let me get this straight. Byler fans want El to come back from being traumatized and confronted with her past as a lab rat to this evil government man… only to be broken up with by her boyfriend so that he can go date her brother? That’s what ya’ll want? How bout you all just admit that you hate El and let’s go on with our day! 

I just can’t get over how happy Lexi looks every time she talks to Fez on the phone

SUZE IS ABOUT TO BE SO CONFLICTED 😭😭

one thing that really bothers me about the stranger things fandom is the shipping wars. no offense but some of yall don’t care about anything but byler, or mileven, h*rringrove or whatever. like did you forget that this show has an actual plot? I don’t care who the characters are with as long as the show is written well. I don’t want the characters to just be who they’re in a relationship with. 

also, the kids are starting high school this season. they’re around 14 years old. what makes everyone think that they’re all going to be in complicated relationships? i don’t know about everyone else but when I was that age I didn’t have anything like what you are all expecting from this season.

i’m ranting a little but i’m just tired of seeing almost nothing related to the actual plot in the tags. ten more days though!!

Lexi nearly crying when fez wasn't in his seat makes me homicidal xo

I saw someone compare El and Brenner to Jinx and Silco and like, I kinda understand what they were going for, but Silco didn't keep Jinx locked up for the majority of her life. She was pretty much free to go wherever she wanted.

Oh and also Silco didn't originally plan on adopting Jinx until stuff happened and he was like "alright let's go with this I guess"

Meanwhile Brenner literally had El in his "possession" (bc let's be real that's what she was to him) since she was born

I know some ppl will be upset by this but

Byler isn't queerbait. Queerbait is when a show writes two heavily queercoded characters and purposely baits the fans into believing it will become canon

1) Will is queercoded, and practically canonically gay. Mike isn't. Mike has only ever shown interest in El. You can argue that as much as you want but there's no solid proof for him being queer, just looks and the horrible take that Mike didn't tell El he loves her bc he's gay

2) just bc the actors ship it, doesn't mean they're saying they'll get together

And another thing

"Ugh how could the duffers trick us into thinking that Will was going to come out to Jonathan!" and "Well if Robin comes out how come Will can't" are both things that I have seen on here and on tiktok, and honestly it pisses me off.

No one said that the Will and Jonathan was a coming out scene, the fandom concluded that. And second, queer people don't owe people coming out. It's the 80s, both of them could be killed for that. Also, Will has been bullied for 'acting queer' for years, maybe think about the fact that it’s a shameful and humiliating thing to him

Have the duffers been pretty awful to Will? Yes. But guess what, they've also been awful to El, Max, and Joyce this whole time, where are the posts being outraged over that?

Everyone's allowed their own opinion on things, but don't go saying byler is queerbait when it fucking isn't. That's like saying ronance and steddie were queerbait, but no one's saying that bc IT'S NOT QUEERBAIT

Queer people existed in the 80s, but they were also exiled or killed for it. And queer people shouldn't have to come out anyway. So maybe remember those facts before you get all prissy about Will not coming out this season.

Just because Mike and El are having some relationship trouble doesn’t mean they’ll break up.

And it also doesn’t mean Mike is in love with Will-

THEY HELD HANNNDSSS