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came back 2 say my lumax fic is out now bc there were some people over here who wanted it... well im on this account now!! check it out

Her brother is dead. She's failing all her classes. She just broke up with her boyfriend. How much harder can her life get? Just a few months ago she was jamming out to Madonna with El— what has her life became: an endless abyss of darkness with nothing and nobody at the end of the tunnel. When all her friends drift apart, El in California, her boyfriend in basketball, Mike and Dustin with their minds in the gutter, how was she going to survive four more years in the pit of Hawkins High School?

Or, Max Mayfield as she navigates her grief before the events of season four.

lumax my beloved <3

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HIHIII!

so i think i've just decided to completly leave this account. i really don't see a point for it anymore as i've already started shitposting on my main account and i've stopped analyzing on there so... i don't see why i should have two accounts for the same thing.

to any people who still wish to find my content: follow my main blog if you're not already!! its @awhstrangerthings and it has all my fics and stuff. this account will still be up but i won't be posting on it anymore.

who knows... maybe in a months time i'll join a new fandom and i'll open this blog again. but for now, it'll still be here for you to scroll through my posts.

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HMMMMMM

im thinking about just abandoning this account. like. since im not analyzing on my main anymore and that account kind of became a mess i don't think they'res much of a point for this account any more. thoughts????

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if you cant tell the fourth one is what i think is going to happen

since the duffers aren't adding any new characters THIS MEANS will won't have a new character to play his love interest SO either:

they will continue the sad gay trope and continue to make him suffer with his feelings

will ends up with mike

will dies

there's some sort of ambigous scene towards the end of the series where mike rejects will but will and another insignificant boy make eye contact for a split second and we're supposed to think those two will end up together

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lovejoy is one of the best bands i've heard in a while. sex sells? IMMACULATE. it's all futile! it's all pointless!? BANGER. model buses? AHHHHHHHHHHHH

wilbur said they'll start the percentage updates on the new ep soon... and i can't wait. GIVE EM TO ME NOW

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im gonna stop feeding you guys with content from my fic because by the time im finished you're gonna know the whole plot lol

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since the duffers aren't adding any new characters THIS MEANS will won't have a new character to play his love interest SO either:

they will continue the sad gay trope and continue to make him suffer with his feelings

will ends up with mike

will dies

there's some sort of ambigous scene towards the end of the series where mike rejects will but will and another insignificant boy make eye contact for a split second and we're supposed to think those two will end up together

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NO FUCKING WAY FINN WOLFHARD WAS WINCING WHEN REACTING TO THE MONLOUGE

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NO FUCKING WAY FINN WOLFHARD WAS WINCING WHEN REACTING TO THE MONLOUGE

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what you can expect from my lumax fic i have been teasing you all with!!

november 1985 - march 1986

lumax from max's pov

max navigating her grief w/ b*lly

platonic dumax and madwheeler!!

lumax fluff but then there's a break-up

lucas joining basketball

max seeing the counselour, ms. kelly

... cemetary

fills in the gaps between s3 and s4!!

max misses el :(

an 'i love you' somewhere... just not direct (this makes no sense just trust me)

8-10k words probably!!

right now im like 45% done

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*mike wheeler voice* lucas lucas lucas lucas lucas lucas

i love him. lucas is my rock. my world. my everything. he's always there for his friends but his friends are never there for him. he deserves the entire world.

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Hi! Where can we read your lumax fic?

its is not finished yet but once i am done (in the next few weeks or so) it'll be posted to ao3 over on my account here:

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praying that my lumax fic actually does well because when i write anything other than byler it gets like 0 hits

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i dont really talk about lumax because they don't really need to be analyzed since they're already canon but bro they are one of my favourite ships because their love is just so relatable and so raw and tender and i love it.

lucas would do anything for max. that boy is head over heels and i love him for that. he's just trying to do whatever he thinks is best for her.

and max struggles with being open but lucas is the one person that she CAN open up to, and that's just really sweet. they're both there for each other and they'll always be together.

and the fact that they don't need to rehearse to get into a scene?? caleb and sadie are such good actors my god!!

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PLEASEEEE IM BEGGING can milevens hang out with milevens and bylers hang out with bylers without bothering each other.

we just want to enjoy our silly little ships.

i get we're delusional but like... dude we're just queer people who want good representation.

and can bylers stop harassing milevens too like. mileven is just as justifiable.

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defo a stretch but... worth the read??

Max and her hair

If there’s one thing about Stranger Things, it’s hair. From El’s shaved head to her bangs, or Steve “The Hair” Harrington, hair plays a significant role in character’s self acceptance and identity.

But I noticed that Max doesn’t really let her hair down this season. It’s almost always in a ponytail or braids, apart from that one scene in episode three where we get a flashback to her first nosebleed. 

I think that I’ve come up with a possible reasoning to why the hair department/writers/directors have gone that way this season, and what each type of hairstyle means for her.

I’ve compiled a list of (mostly) every appearance her hair has been in.

- hair down

- high ponytail

- low ponytail

-braids

Now… I’ve noticed that a lot of the episodes she wears these different types of hairstyles share similar themes. Let me explain.

When Max has her hair down, she’s basically unchanged. It’s like her default, living life as she should be. She’s sassy, a bit skeptical, and I’ve noticed that nothing really bad every happens to her. Apart from that one scene in 403 where she has her first nosebleed, but even then it’s brushed off as an inconvenience. And her hair down also represents her openness with people. She doesn’t hide anything. She’s ready to talk to people.

So, hair down: default/normal, nothing bad happens

We only ever see her with her hair in a high ponytail once, but I’ve got to say the Sauna Test was one of the only scenes where we saw a vulnerable Max, literally her only crying scene before season 4. I think the high ponytail represents her in a state of vulnerability, where she lets her emotions fill her body and she opens up a more. She’s comfortable. This is one of the first times in which she acts like everything isn’t normal, and when she doesn’t put up a glass wall and shows her, the real her. 

High ponytail: vulnerable, is more real and emotional

I think that her low ponytails are the most obvious… it symbolizes her literally locking up her life and shutting everyone out of it (like a ponytail, cutting off the rest of your hair in a tight elastic or scrunchie). In these episodes, Max is quite closed off. From the beginning of this season to episode five, she’s quite locked up and is distant from her friends. Her relationship with Lucas in falling apart because of miscommunication… changes, she doesn’t really have a relationship with her other friends anymore- Mike and Dustin. Not to mention her home life completely destroyed. 

I think this hairstyle is what got me started on this analysis, because although I am probably analyzing too much into this, you can’t exactly think I’m wrong for questioning Max’s hair in ponytails when she almost always wears it down. 

Low ponytail: closed off/shutting people out of her life

And now the braids… oh boy.

Braids in my opinion represent when something most terrible happens to her. Like… when she wears them at Starcourt and she watches her brother Billy die in front of her. And when she wears them when Vecna literally kills her. Even though it might be more subtle, she also wears them when the Byers move, which is quite a sad moment for her when she navigates through her grief and her best friend, who is the only one that she was probably able to open up to, is leaving after Max needs her most. 

Braids also share similar symbolism to ropes. They represent strengthening your bonds with people which is what I think she does whenever she wears them. Your bonds can be twisted and turned in many ways, discovering true friends and maybe those who aren’t friendly at all, much like a braid. In these episodes, Max is slowly easing into the normality of being apart of something so complex like the Upside Down through slow and painful processes, like talking more often to her friends about her feelings. She’s still quite hesitant to open up, and tell people what she’s really feeling, but she’s got the spirit. She doesn’t open up until something bad happens to her. This is most prominent in season four, when Max starts opening up to Lucas and her experiences with Vecna, but she’s still hesitant like he won’t accept her. She (sort of) tells him what she really feels when she’s on the verge of death (ex. “I pray at night that something bad will happen to me”)  

Braids: something bad happens, Max tightens her bonds with other people

I’m probably reading into things too much like I always do. But I did find it really odd that her hair is never kept down this season. Could be a style trend, could be her figuring out herself, but the common themes throughout her hairstyles are almost too matchy-matchy I give huge props to whoever comes up with this stuff. 

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