my favorite thing about explaining wheelby is when you say "well it's basically strict top mike with strict bottom will" and people go "wait isn't that just regular byler?"
that's when you know they're real
@bunnybyeers@vaych_a no they don’t have time for that. they’re too busy doing this jhdfhj i don’t mind it though. for all i know they can be agreeing with me jgddhj
pre-relationship wheelby where mike always pulls will onto his lap, lips pressed to the top of his head, even when there's plenty of space on the couch. everyone's so used to the sight that when they finally start dating, nobody notices because nothing actually changed.
mike wheeler is lowkey not my son. adopted at most bc i can’t really imagine my child meeting this will who’s very soft + cute + smiley + pliant + eager and doing whatever mike did
shading noah schnapp of all people for what he said after supporting byler for so many years is crazy work fjdjdjd he's in his strong and independent girl will era and who hasn't been there. give it a few days and he'll go back to saying mike will eventually explore will's body
pretending softness, gentleness, sweetness, being into arts/emotional or delicate aren't socially coded as feminine isn't progressive. it's erasure.
people get bullied constantly for exactly those traits and it's all rooted in misogyny. you can't just wave that away.
re: will being canonically feminine and fem-coded traits i think we can hold two things at once:
1) traits aren't inherently gendered
2) society genders them ruthlessly and you can't fight misogyny by pretending it doesn't exist