Stay Gold From The Outsiders Might Be The Most Beautiful, Poetic, And Poignant Moving On Song Ever Created.

Stay Gold from The Outsiders might be the most beautiful, poetic, and poignant “moving on” song ever created. Three simple words transformed into a message of hope, healing, and grace. Thank you, Johnny Cade. 💛 Stay Gold, Ponyboy.

guys 😭😭 he doesn’t know what’s going to happen next 😭😭 but he thinks that whatever it is 😭😭😭 they should go into it together 😭😭😭😭 as a team 😭😭😭😭 friends 😭😭 best friends 😭

imma gonna say it. mike wheeler is allowed to be a bitch to will one (1) time in s5. and i need it to be in front of joyce, who has only ever known mike as the boy who slept on will’s floor, followed him and nearly died at the lab, cared for him, and loved him so gently his entire life. i need joyce to take will aside, ask him what happened. what changed. i need will to give a noncommittal answer. i need joyce to then corner mike and ask him, in the kindest but most direct way possible, why he stopped loving her son. i need mike to misunderstand, to think she knows. i need him to tell her everything. i need him to break down and for her to hold him and tell him it’s going to be okay. i need joyce byers to give mike wheeler the courage to to love her son freely

“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.

byler confession is gonna be so intense and one of the most memorable scenes of the whole show because think about it: what other ship has been given such a build up to a confession?

mike still has to discover the painting lie - that's gonna be a very big plot point in s5 and going to cause some drama (i don't necessarily think mike is gonna be furious, just very regretful of what could've been if he'd known.)

mike and will have no faith that the other likes them at this point. mike's hopes probably died in the pizza place, will's died in the van. meanwhile other relationships in the show had a pretty mutual understanding that the other liked them before they finally got together.

IT'S GAY. they're both closeted gay boys in a small town in the 80s who struggle with internalized homophobia and shame. it's gonna be fucking beautiful to watch them finally find the courage to confess to one and other, risking so much.

with everything that's set up, mike and will's kiss/confession is bound to be one of the most memorable moments of the show for sure

oh

oh.

i just noticed

mike only notices el's absence and feels it the most when he suspects she's dead or gone for good, or in danger. right. see that's normal behavior when you care for someone. or when you've dedicated your whole identity and self-worth to saving someone

but mike feels will's absence even when he's simply not at school or living somewhere else, not only when death is a possibility. you see. now that's love.