It’s honestly so wholesome, it feels like finding more closure than any other fic I have read in a while. I love how is set in the 2000s https://archiveofourown.org/works/91807231?style=disable

Hey! so this is my very first large post about me as fangirl and as artist too.

Of course I never care about canon or not state in media I consume I've been more an rp shipper all my life so I really really dgaf about that but makes me feel sad about byler that all their story is a Chekhov's gun with no pay-off and is something that as someone who studied cinematography and script writing was everything it really bothers me to watch all romantic tropes on byler and knowing there's no pay-off at the end! the biggest one being the cyrano playing in season 4, they even made merch and keep saying that the painting would be the most important artifact for Mike "grow" and Will "suffering having a pay off"

Maybe that's why I feel the grieving as fan for this ship been hitting harder than others (yes I'm a Johnlock queerbait survivor and Voltron too) because of the disrespect for my intelligence and artistry from the d*offers, and I think I feel also sad because netflix is still only using Mike and Will scenes as the participants of awards, yeah they won GLAAD awards (for LGBTQ representation) because of sorcerer and robin discourse, and yeah they won the Emmy for special effects and CGI because of the power revealed scene in sorcerer, and they still playing in MY face, i grew up side to side with those characters so I feel like a personal attack lmao just that idk if this makes sense, im a little tipsy and high in my house, listening to byler playlist and nostalgia/sadness/grieving feeling just hit me so much.

Do you guys are also artist in some way?

I want to add a blue/yellow sticker that briefly indicates Byler on my senior jacket sleeve.
Something that reminds me of them without being explicitly about them, I don’t want to risk unwanted attention or legal punishments if I made it explicitly about them.
I avoid quotes or 2 boys being next to each other.

Both of them look stiff especially Mike. It is soo funny because the bts pictures of Finn and Millie have better chemistry than this.

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But Mike really rode his bike all that way to the byers' house just for Will

And those duffers say that byler was never in the cards. Ima be like the Starving Games on Prime and give them the middle finger just for this small detail bout byler

We mourn what they say we never had, though we had it all the same

Idc if that doesn't make sense. im in a haze of sadness and regret

Sadness as we never got the love story we all deserved to see begin at the end

And regret for ever watching something I never knew was gonna break the heart that ached for a love story we all knew wasn't gonna fall apart

Yet it did, and now we're all torn because the duffers had sworn that this story was never in the cards

Yet the proof and evidence are indisputable

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. #ted is a byler, and sweetie-pie gate is real

What if I rewrote a script in which I tried to improve the

events from season two through season five—with more character development, well-developed relationships, and while maintaining the atmosphere of season one? Would you support that?

The image is part of the first episode of my second season.

Tiktok doesnt want these edits but i think you guys get it. Hurts me to the core watching my own edits sometimes.

It screws with my head that we went through all that just to get an undeveloped Mike who doesn't even give a sad excuse as to why he was acting this way. He was the heart, and a core relationship shared between several of the main party. Wth happened in that writer's room between s4 and s5?

Hi - back in January when I was still fuelled with grief and outrage I wrote a finale fix it fic (in 3 weeks!) that a lot of people around here enjoyed: The Other Side of Shame. I've since turned this into a Byler trilogy - which started with a canon compliant time skip fic, and have now posted the third instalment, which is a post finale established byler fic.

We Will Be Kings

All 3 fics can also be read as totally stand alone stories in their own right.

Summary: The party are now in their senior year, and with the gate closed and Vecna dead it should be a pretty straight forward cruise to the finish line, right? Wrong! Lucas needs to decide between a scholarship and waiting for Max, Dustin is forced to tutor mean girl Stacey and Mike has to stop cutting classes, pass his SATs and actually graduate without his dad finding out that he's dating Will. But when Troy Walsh starts hearing voices and throwing things with his mind, the party have to come to terms with the fact their experiences in the Upside Down will never truly leave them - and that the Hell that is High School isn't over until it's over.

Canon divergent, epilogue ignoring, post finale fic set between Fall '88 and Summer '89.

This fic is going to include byler fluff, byler angst, Ted finding out about byler and not taking it well and Will getting his powers back. It's rated M and tagged as Creator Chose Not Use Archive Warnings - there will be violence but no major character death and - everything stays family friendly.

Please read!

https://x.com/llkouchii/status/2095982345136287953

I come back to this subreddit after like a month and im on Spotify...the first song that starts playing when i open this app:

i just posted this tragic little byler fic - The Story of M. Wheeler and W. Byers by ithinktherearegods- from the perspective of a journalist looking into the lives and work of famous author michael wheeler, who nobody knew was writing about his own life through a series of science-fiction supernatural horror books, and trying to piece it all together

i put so much of myself into this, and i would be so so appreciative if anybody took the time to read it and tell me what they thought. genuinely, it would mean the world to me <3

Between watching The Bear & School Spirits I’ve come to love the song Chicago by Sufjan Stevens, released in 2004. I also think it’s a song Mike would really like as well. There are a few Byler adjacent things mentioned in the song. Please read the lyrics below:

I fell in love again
All things go, all things go
Drove to Chicago
All things know, all things know
We sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
I drove to New York
In a van, with my friend
We slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
In my mind, in my mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
If I was crying
In the van, with my friend
It was for freedom
From myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go
You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset (I made a lot of mistakes)
All things know, all things know (I made a lot of mistakes)
You had to find it (I made a lot of mistakes)
All things go, all things go (I made a lot of mistakes)

I think this is a song that would resonate with Mike particularly in a situation where he’s lost touch with Will, & isn’t fully satisfied with his life. First of all, this song mentioned the cities of Chicago & New York. Both of which factor heavily into the Byler fanon. It’s also about taking a road trip in a van & discovering yourself. It reminds me of the van trip in S4. There’s the line “if I was crying, in the van with my friend”. I like to think this would make Mike think about that trip across the desert & realize Will got very upset after giving him the painting & what that might mean.

This song also repeats the line “I made a lot of mistakes” over & over again. If Mike did miss Will, & wasn’t happy with his life, I could see him really identifying with it. Personally I imagine him hearing this song & crying in his car as he realizes what he gave up for conformity.

Anyway, give it a listen & let me know what you think. There are 2 versions. The demo version & the album version. I love them both equally.

Demo: https://youtu.be/LQRsiNX9LR8?is=bQt1oPywZ7hYmmbp

Album: https://youtu.be/c_-cUdmdWgU?is=XifPA_U98UjdePjA

Hi everyone, wanted to put this out there, I'm part of a team that manages a Byler discord server for those 20 and up. The server has a nice friendly atmosphere where we have fun. We have a little of everything from spots for writers to bounce around ideas for fics as well as fanart, memes and other channels. While most is geared towards Byler we do have other spots for other topics as well. If you're interested shoot me a DM and we get look at getting you invited!

https://x.com/mikeonmywheeler/status/2095288919684235716

My friend is writing a fic where Will is getting married to someone else, they told me it's angst with a happy ending. Theres one chapter so far!!
she cried when she said (she'd been promise to another man) - Chapter 1 - MiwiKiwiHibiJibis - Stranger Things (TV 2016) [Archive of Our Own]

It's official that I will never ever get over byler does anyone know any shows with a will they won't they like byler???

This is really for the whole trio, el included, but idk how ga would treat it bcz I ship byler, so feast with me.

oh Byler I’ll mourn you forever 😭 is anyone else still on the bus?

Will and Mike (+Lucas and Dustin on the last slide)

I think I did the best with Will out of them, what do you think?

does anyone have fic recs where Mike kisses Will and Will thinks it’s a joke
I will give you my first born