This Is Why I Love One Song Glory

This is why I love One Song Glory

the feminine urge to play masculine roles in musicals despite not having the voice range

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Hotel: trivagoed

Ps: 5d

Horse: plinkoed

Slug: reacted live

Christ: in my brother

Ok so you know how S3/4 is like the worst? So I have some stuff that might make him seem less like the worst. Most of this is from someone who does byler analyses (causeineedu on tiktok) but I’ve interpreted a bit of it myself.

So basically instead of bi Mike, it’s gay Mike with so much internalized homophobia and comphet.

He loves El, but platonically. And what everyone (including himself for a while) thought was romantic attraction, was actually idolization. Mike constantly referred to El as a “superhero” in s4. Most of the time referring to her powers. He’s just a nerd who thinks El is a real life Superman. Obviously he still sees her as a person, but he doesn’t love her. He uses her to convince himself and others that he’s straight.

Obviously it’s not cool to ignore your friends and only focus on your girlfriend, but he was probably only doing it because it’s his first relationship and he’s like “this is how relationships work right?” He also wants to seem as straight as possible because during s3&4 Mike knows he isn’t straight. He hates it, and he’s trying to stop it, but he knows it.

Another thing people hate about season 4 Mike Wheeler is the painting scene in the van. Mostly the fact that he seemed oblivious to Will crying. But I don’t think he was. Mike read El’s letter in the beginning of the season. El didn’t know what Will was painting, so how could she have commissioned it? Mike knew Will was using El’s name as a mask. He knew Will had feelings he couldn’t share at that moment. Mike knew Will wasn’t ready and respected that. (Also they were in the car with two other people so it wasn’t exactly the place for a full on heart to heart.) And when Will started crying, Mike knew he was crying. He also knew Will was trying to hide the fact that he was crying and probably just wanted to be left alone. Mike probably still doesn’t completely realize Will is in love him but he’s getting there.

Also not to mention Will basically peer pressured him in to telling El he loved her. (They peer pressure each other into being straight it’s so funny.) Mikes entire monologue was just a mix of Will’s words and contradicting what he said earlier in the van. Will basically prompted him to say his love monologue. Mike also mostly did it to trying and save El. It didn’t help. The vines got tighter. The only thing that helped her was her memories with Max. Max is her best friend and was the one who helped her realize her life does revolve around Mike and she is her own person. (Her feelings about Max being romantic could be possible but that’s a talk for another day.) Mike’s monologue didn’t help El except for maybe made her realize that Mike was lying through his teeth to save her and doesn’t actually love her romantically.

I’m conclusion: Mike Wheeler is not an asshole, he just has a lot of internalized homophobia and makes some really stupid decisions because of it.

Thank you for coming to my Gay Ted Talk

I feel like I either don’t post at all or I just post a bunch of stuff all at once.

Anyways, here’s some pom poms that I made today

That’s it

As a musical theater fan, flirting is so hard. Like, do I drop a chandelier on him? Do I sneak in through his window in the middle of the night? Do I tell him he strikes me as a woman who has never been satisfied? Do I give him a paper flower? Do I go to punch him in the eye but kiss him instead? Do I tell him that if I took a meat cleaver down the center of his skull, I’d have matching halves? Do I throw an ear of corn across the room in his line of sight? Do I turn him into a scarecrow? Do I tell him I’m not moving into a nunnery? Do I pretend to be friends with his dead brother? Do I set him up with the girl of his dreams and then sing a song about how he never notices me? Somebody help. I suck at this.