Mike Completely Missed The Fact That Wills Painting Had Been From Him Since The Beginning, Despite El

mike completely missed the fact that will’s painting had been from him since the beginning, despite el having said in one of her letters that will is always painting, I think for someone he likes.

that’s because mike never really paid attention to el’s letters, and has always paid attention to will’s art. there are multiple scenes of mike crumpling the letters and throwing them away carelessly and there are many scenes of mike cherishing the art, looking through the binder.

mike’s actual girlfriend indirectly told mike that will is in love with him but mike broke his own heart thinking otherwise, just because he wasn’t paying attention to his own girlfriend in the first place.

quite the irony, huh?

Istg people hate on Will Byers after bro got abused by his dad, bullied, kidnapped by some inter dimensional demon, died and came back to life, got bullied again for being gay and also for “resuscitating”, had to constantly listen to the love of his life yap about some bitch (jk I love eleven) who he met for a week and already kissed, got possessed by a fucking giant smoke squid, had to get hospitalised, sedated multiple times and then get the shit burnt out of him, get ignored for the whole summer after losing his childhood, had to watch everyone make out with their girlfriends while he just wanted to play dnd, got called out for being gay by his best friend + love of his life, destroyed the only place where he felt safe out of anger, was still possessed by the now flesh, squid looking monster, literally got like 15 minutes of screen time and had to watch a dude get sucked in by said monster, sold his dnd stuff, moved away, didn’t get a single call from his best friend (he did he just doesn’t know), no letters, no communication, and when he came he acted awkwardly and had to watch him tell his sister off after she just got publicly humiliated, got third wheeled on his birthday that everyone forgot about btw, then got flirted with twice after his sister got taken away by the government and had a shooting in his own home, watched a dude die next to him in the back of a van, got a triple take from his best friend, confessed his everlasting love to him with a painting he was too stupid to see was from him and not from his sister like he lied about, saved his sister in a desert full of dead men, watched his sister’s dad fucking die, went back to his hometown after having to encourage the love of his life to to tell his sister he loved her so she wouldn’t die, and found it was completely destroyed and that one of his closest friends had almost died and was now in a coma, and then realised that he still had a bit of the upside down in him and it was slowly taking over the town, and watched it burn to the ground next to his best friend, their hands literally 0.0001 cm away from each other.

... THAT MEANS... FINN...

i imagine bill vapes

BYLER BIKES BTS AT THE SCHOOL

Everyone's analyzed the hell out of the songs on Finn's playlist and I love it but I haven't seen anyone talk about potential reasons behind the name being STurn. Why STurn? Capitalizing the ST is definitely a stranger things reference but what about the rest? It's not ST-urn, because urn doesn't make sense both as a single object or trying to find any acronyms, and it's obviously not Stern because he'd have spelt it that way so it's S-Turn. And what is an S-Turn? At it's basic it's going one direction, doing a 180 turn so you're going the opposite direction, and finally doing a 180 again correcting yourself back into the same direction you were going in the first place. AKA, Mike started as in love with Will (or well on his way to being in love), then his internalized homophobia had him over correcting with El, and now in season five he's finally back on track with loving Will. It's always been Will.