“Bible Belt”Update - a southern Byler fic
Chapter 4
Updated to Explicit rating
“Mike and Will explore desire, sexuality, and patience with each other and their environment.”
https://t.co/90GUuasXFb
its hard to explain how i think mike experiences "internalized homophobia" because i think people jump the gun a little bit and automatically leap to it meaning self hatred but mostly for him it manifests as "well all these queer stereotypes dont apply to me, so im not gay!"
@evopearl It’s strange and it genuinely feeds into the duffers ideology of wanting to retain Mike’s innocence 😭😭 you can tell when people genuinely overlook Will’s character it’s so sad.
Loving Mike is like being an older sister and watching your younger brother, who used to love hanging around with you, turn into a massive shithead as he grows older. Genuinely heartbreaking
@7missedclouds Don’t even start please I could cry. I never thought anyone else cared abt the Jonathan and Mike parallels, I gen feel so vindicated rn.
@7missedclouds This Truke. I wonder if this is how Jonathan felt in s4, or even before then seeing how the little kid who basically admired him and loved his little brother became such a little jerk. The conflict is real okay
@7missedclouds LITERALLY LIKE UGHH yes u became such a shithead but omg aww you’re so earnest and you care about your friends and you love Will and you’re so brave and you’re only just a baby I can’t❤️🩹🥺
@7missedclouds I was rewatching ST yesterday with my friend who wanted to get into it and it’s the way I literally started forgiving every sin Mike ever committed later in the show bc I got severe cuteness aggression 😭😭😭😭like that’s my little leader😭😭little Paladin😭😭😭