#max —> maxine

[qqt3141]

ughhh cancer crew .. hits them with my women beam

[hot-patootiee]

I love the “Steve has good parents, they’re just not on camera.”

Mom edition

Dustin is crawling in through the window. He freezes halfway through the window when he makes eye contact with Steve’s mom.

“Sweetie who is this small curly haired child breaking into our house?”

“That’s Dustin.”

“Okay?”

“I’ve adopted him as my brother.”

“Hello new son?”

…

Steve’s mom comes home to find Joyce on her couch, Steve talking very excitedly to her.

“What’s Joyce doing here?”

“Hey mom, meet mom.”

“Two moms and you still can’t avoid getting concussed every year?”

“Neither of you are very good at your job.”

…

“Mom!” Steve’s mom turns at the voice and finds a small redhead looking at Steve.

“Yes Max?”

“Can you take me to the arcade?”

Steve groans, pulling out some of the allowance that his mom had just given him and handed it to the little girl.

“Lucas too?”

“Yes, now scram.”

“Mom?” Steve’s mom asks.

“I’m not sure how that happened either.”

…

Eddie shows up on their doorstep with a bunch of half burnt cookies.

“I’m here for Steve.” He says simply to the bewildered mother staring at him.

“Okay.” She turns back towards the inside of the house. “Steve your boyfriend is here.”

“Did Steve tell you?”

“No, but god does my boy have a type.”

[swirlingvortex]

I love how Max, who usually makes herself the centre of attention whenever she encounters any minor inconvenience, is quietly fighting for her life this season. She's being left out, losing friends, taking care of her brother to the best of her abilities, debating whether to tell her parents about Marcus, is straining her relationship with Marcus in the process, in a play with her ex she tried so hard to get over, navigating her relationship with Silver, trying so hard to be a good friend to Ginny through everything and constantly being told 'don't make it about you'. Girl is struggling.

[blackthornluce]

Sara Waisglass & Felix Mallard as Max & Marcus Baker GINNY & GEORGIA (2021–present) Season 3

[toomucharitime]

You'll say, "Do you think we can be friends?" Oh, maybe we have reached the end.

[jay-mp]

Rough concept art for the ranger and zoomer

[soranatus]

BatFam BEYOND By freelance illustrator, Gabriel Larragán

[lizzie-queenofmeigas]

The Baker twins going through hell this season. Poor babies.

Also, Marcus should definitely go to rehab, his parents insisting he needs to do summer school instead is very harmful.

And Max is valid for wanting to share her feelings and being expressive. She needs some better friends.

[lsbnfinn]

shakabrah :P

[eclrrtwo]

[riickgrimes]

#they really are twins

bonus:

[hot-patootiee]

Steve’s parents running into Steve and Eddie with a gaggle of children.

They’re hanging off of both adults, calling them mom and dad.

“Steve, what’s going on here?” Richard Harrington asks.

“Co-parenting.” Steve replies in a deadpan tone. Max is actively pickpocketing him and Dustin is tugging on his jacket trying to get Steve’s attention, a never ending chorus of ‘Mom, come look’ leaving his mouth.

“Nah, at this point we’re just parenting.” Eddie corrects, fending off a grabby El trying to play with his wallet chain.

Eddie scoops up Steve’s wallet when Max tries to make her escape. She groans out a frustrated ‘Dad’ before retreating back to Lucas and Mike, who are hiding around the corner, poorly.

“Richard, I think this is the reason we only had one.” Martha Harrington stated blankly, wide eyed taking in the scene in front of her.

Robin nods from where she sits at an adjacent table, trying and mildly failing to braid Will’s short hair. Will sits perfectly still and disciplined as Robin works. A complete contrast to the wild children that Steve and Eddie are actively managing.

“I picked the best one.” Robin smiles condescendingly at Steve and Eddie, patting Will’s head.

[antiquedbambi]

It makes sense to me why Abby doesn’t like that Max shows so much emotions. She spends so much of her time, suppressing her emotions. Doing harmful acts in order to do so, sleeping with people she shouldn’t, drinking, her bulimia. Max shows up as herself even if she may be a bit too much. She still shows how she feels. It makes sense that her brother and Abby got closer. Because they’re both doing things to suppress any pain that they feel. They literally share alcohol together because that’s the only thing that “helps” them. They literally enable each other’s behavior. It’s unfortunate that both of those people are who Max has conflict with. But it makes so much sense. To them, Max is “a lot” because she can do what they can’t. When someone is 100% authentically themselves, people who suppress seem to hate it. Why? It’s very obvious; because they can do what those people can’t. Show up as 100% of themselves. They let their emotions show. Despite backlash from others. I really hope Marcus and Abby get the help that they need.

[orangeisfab]

im becoming more and more obsessed with the MANG dynamic, it's so compelling actually

max being so obviously the centre of the friend group in s1, taking up basically all of the space between the four of them, to her becoming almost completely isolated and excluded in s3 is fascinating to watch (they even gave norah a personality!)

[nobylerdoubts]

"Mike just wasn't expecting the kiss"

Okay, I understand where the Mileven shippers are coming from. A shocked expression after a romantic kiss is a popular trope. We need look no further than Lumax's first kiss at the end of Season 2.

So why aren't we all sitting here theorising about Lucas being gay and not being attracted to Max? Well... the trope has two parts:

1) the initial shock

2) the smile of relief afterward

Mike, though, looks visibly confused and even a tad uncomfortable. The Duffers even had the opportunity to throw in some dramatic irony with Mike cracking a smile AFTER El left the room. But his demeanor remains exactly the same.

There is no heterosexual explanation for this. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[chokinonlanascherrycola]

"Max did the same to Ginny and Abby." no. Ginny and Abby had each other, Max didn't have anyone but a depressed drunk brother who didn't even talk to her because she HELPED him. Ginny didn't specify to Max that she (loved) Marcus, so it's not her fault. Your best friend sleeping with your brother is NOT news meant to come from your BEST FRIEND who KEPT it from you. Keep in mind, when Ginny told her she loved Marcus, Max was okay with it. The only problem she had was "why didn't you tell me". Now Marcus is friends with all of them while Max is left out, AND taking care of his irresponsible a$$. Max forced everyone to be friends with Ginny even tho they didn't want to, now Ginny is friends with everyone and is leaving Max. Big difference.