I Chose And My World Was Shaken

“I chose and my world was shaken

So what?

The choice may have been mistaken

The choosing was not

You have to move on”

(Move On, Sunday in the Park with George)

I found THEIR song!! “The choice” references Mike letting Will leave his house on November 6, 1983. “The choosing was not”….asking Will to be his friend and joining him on this adventure. Mike would do it all over again in a heartbeat, but they have to move on in order to heal. It’s time to put the past behind them and embark on their next adventure.

****I am in no way saying Will’s (or anyone else’s) feelings are invalid, but you cannot dwell on the past. The Upside Down will be stuck on November 6, 1983 until Will Byers accepts his past and looks bravely towards his future. Only then, can they begin to heal.

‼️Because this will undoubtably get me blocked by the OP, posting here for posterity. Just to continue to expose these people for the attention-seeking grifters that they are.‼️

Picture is the post. My response is c/p'd below the image.

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The need for validation to hate on someone publicly is gross, but sadly a continued feature of the movement trying to paint Noah as a bad person.

Meanwhile, that same movement is on TikTok calling him the f-slur and saying he should “get the Hitler treatment” to the tune of 40K likes.

That same movement is on X/Twitter calling for him, his family, and anyone associated with him to be beaten and r*ped. They’re also posting fake articles saying he has monkeypox, which is not only untrue, but deeply homophobic.

Oh, and I had one in my comments a few weeks back going into great detail about how she wanted to physically beat the hell out of Noah if she ever saw him in person. Wonder why he’s telling people in Atlanta not to take pictures of him out with Finn? People who are saying shit like that. That’s why.

And that’s just what we see. God only knows what his DMs are like.

For what? Sticking up for a raped and killed Jewish woman on Instagram? For stickers that weren’t his and he wasn’t even holding? Really? Discounting his three calls for peace, and the entire section of his Instagram post that calls for Palestinian self-determination? Again… Really?

In short: No. You didn’t cook. You’re looking for validation to attack Noah and are upset more people aren’t still doing it. Stop preaching about “people are dying” from a high place, pretending you’re “critiquing people with power,” and then turn around and prop up an online movement that is being actively exposed for its horrifically anti-Black, antisemitic, and homophobic tactics and rhetoric, and violent threats.

It’s weird. It sucks. You suck. Royally.

I just realized, during his monologue, Mike essentially gives Eleven permission to live out her truth. Mike believes he could never openly love Will because of his internalized homophobia, but he gives El a chance to fight for that life instead. Him screaming “Fight!” while the camera holds on Max cannot be a coincidence. He’s telling her to fight for the life she wants to live.

“I could never love Will because of everything I’ve done to him, but you have a chance. Fight through your anxiety and love your truth. Do it because I can’t.”

Okay, so to escape Vecna, Max has to search for her happy memories. At first, we see all her memories with her friends

But then there are more and more consecutive memories of her and Lucas

And hey, what suddenly inserts itself between all those memories that have a romantic significance?

And Max could have managed to escape from Vecna thanks to the memory of the dance where she kisses Lucas. It would have been cute, romantic, and impactful for Lumax. But no, instead, we get a shot of Max’s face, showing that this memory isn’t enough. She needs something that completes all these memories to finally help her escape, and BAM!!

And the battle against Vecna at the Snow Ball is so Elmax

Like, to find Max in her mind, Eleven heads towards a piece of music, and it could have been any song, but it had to be "Dream a Little Dream of Me." A clearly romantic song, and just look at the lyrics that play as El moves toward the music

And the shots on Max. She’s literally surrounded by blue and is technically in a sad, blue phase of her life.

Then just "Dream a Little Dream of Me,"

And Max starts searching for her memories, which are all wrapped up in memories of her and El.

And then that line from Vecna with a rainbow crossing Max’s face, followed by that memorie

And the scene where El appears out of nowhere like in a dream ( "Dream a Little Dream of Me")

El lowers her voice to reassure Max

Max asks her if she’s real and thinks she might have created her because she’s been thinking so much about her memories with her.

their hands!

El ready to explain how she got there, even though Vecna is literally in the same room with them

And just this scene

Max ready to attack Vecna to defend El, even though she has no superpowers and stands no chance against him

El, who couldn’t do anything during Mike’s monologue, just looks at Max and fights

And just these scenes

was it casual when you left your favorite holiday to comfort him, mike wheeler? was it casual when your love for him was the only thing that was able to break him out of supernatural possession, mike wheeler? was it casual when you blamed yourself for his disappearance and refused to stop looking for him even when his body was found, mike wheeler? was it casual when you biked across town in the rain to apologize to him, mike wheeler? was it casual when asking him to be your best friend was the best thing you ever did, mike wheeler? is it casual, mike wheeler?

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

Will haunting the narrative as both the innocent who was wrongfully destroyed AND the one that got away.

Season 2 Will impacting everything Mike does from that point forward just as much as Will's death impacts everyone.

El thinks of him when she confronts Brenner about the mind flayer, we know things like that. But Mike also thinks of him when he tells El he loves her.

They're all thinking of him. The last time they saw him.

The way he was never the same.

But Mike is thinking about the last time he saw him.

Losing him.

The way they were never the same.

(The way he can't get him back)

Yes, Will's disappearance changed everyone's trajectory forever. But he also changed Mike. He also made Mike's personal and romantic life impossible to return to after him.

He haunts more than just the people who mourn his death.

(The sole purpose of Mike's season 2 separation from El in the first place is so that he can never truly go back after Will)