let's start a new party, you and me

thinking about how he was crying in the van also because he felt guilty for lying to Mike because "he doesn't deserve that"

I know this has been said many times but... Except Kali and Byler, what exactly are we supposed to memorize from this season?

Omg this makes sense we are getting another byler and j*ncy parallel 😭

personally still a big fan of mike rebuilding castle byers to make up for being an asshole to will and accidentally coming across little M+W carved into the wood.

You talk about when Mike got caught looking at Will in the desert. I talk about when he didn't.

This is before Will started talking, he was just gesturing in reaction while Jonathan and Argyle were talking one on one. But I'm rewatching the scene thinking about Mike and there is a lot of time between the inciting moment of Argyle saying they're gonna kill El and the triple take at the end of this scene. He had a full soliloquy alone, that triple take was not an immediate reaction and I think we forget that. He had been sitting with himself in silence, tuning them out for 0:56 seconds before that triple take. He isn't listening to them. He's thinking. And while he's thinking, he looks over at Will 0:12 seconds before we see him do it up close.

As I say, he's surprised he got caught because he usually doesn't. He wasn't expecting Will to be looking at him because he wasn't when he tried 10 seconds prior.

mike confesses to will first because will is already convinced he’d never have his feelings reciprocated

will kisses mike first because mike is already feeling like he’s fucked them up by telling will he’s in love with him

and mike needs full five seconds to even realise will is kissing him before he lets himself reciprocate btw

The reason why the lab only had 20 kids is because 001 and 011 were the most powerful ones. They couldn't risk having a third one (021)

SORRY I said "only 20" as if it was just a number and not a huge amount of tortured kids😭

Thinking again about:

“You saw that girl and she was in the sandbox, and she was crying"

"You gave her your tonka truck"

"And i told you we couldn’t afford to buy another one."

"You said she should have it"

"because she’s sad. She’s sad, Mommy.”

@sspiderj: x

the byler kiss could be happening right now and we don't know