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real quick rant

i think genuinely that the worst ending for stranger things except the one where all the main characters die or the one where the bad guys win, is the ending where main characters achieve the life they inadvertently worked so hard against in the series.

in so many shows the ending is the exact opposite of the prominent ground morals so many characters are shown to have throughout the entire show. where a characters innermost desires and freedoms are shown through their actions and wants, and yet their entire ending is shown to be just that fear. the fear that they’re gonna end up just like the ones before them, and that none of their actions truly had any impact.

it shows that the cycle continues.

an example of this would be say if nancy ended up like her mom. if she settled down in a suburb with a husband she didn’t care much about and kids she wanted better for, she would end up exactly like karen. not only with the life nancy didn’t want for herself, but also the life karen didn’t want for her kids.

this is a very real possibility with some of the main characters in the show. if we look at the reasoning behind their original choices, we can see why they do what they do. which is exactly why this is so dangerous, and such an easy trap to fall into.

the safest choice is always the easiest.

the duffer brothers have been shown to be bold at times, but they’re resorting more and more to the default as the show’s popularity expands. the true quality of the final ending will not be about the ending itself, but about how bold they are willing to be when addressing these issues and the protagonists feelings.

they can have the cinematography down to the dot and still completely mess up the ending if they decide to take the safe route.

if will never addresses his feelings openly, if max ends up dead, or worse, wakes up unharmed. if steve ends up at his dad’s company, if dustin never gets to grieve properly, if el doesn’t find the path she herself chooses, and not the ones others choose for her.

it is because of these character’s faults and ability to love openly that we like them. that they still have some relevancy to this day even if the show takes place in the 80’s. we are able to relate to them and connect to them as human beings, as outcasts throughout, and it will be the lack of this spark that could be the potential downfall of stranger things.

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max + ptsd / c-ptsd

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stranger things characters as messages from the st enjoyers server

(@out-of-context-stenjoyers @novaninja @thepartyfriendship @oncat-my-beloved)

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you have no idea how grateful i am that you appeared on my dash because i too am sick and fucking tired of scrolling thru loads of byler content to find any other lumax and elmax people

i swear i have to pop on this fucking app every time this happens because b*lers find one way or another to make lumax about themselves and i’m just so done with their bs 😭😭

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dear bylers.

please keep your ship SHIT

OUT OF THE FUCKING LUMAX TAG

sincerely, a lumaxer

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Here we FUCKING go again

this shit happens every few weeks god

i’m so fucking sick of having to come on here every time something interesting happens to lumax JUST to see bylers clog our tags like pests

i can’t even search up lumax without being hit by a few dozen byler parallel posts and like maybe one or two lumax centric ones

i can’t believe that

1. lumax won by ONE PERCENT to fucking boobs

2. the second it came out bylers dug with their grabby little hands to find a parallel

well guess what mate

i didn’t vote lumax on the poll to see byler

i didn’t search up lumax to be met by byler

i don’t care if mike stopped breathing, hell i don’t give a shit if mike stops existing

that’s not what this is about

you can’t go and look m*leven in the eye every time and be like “but m*leven is bad, they always make it about themselves” when you turn around and do the exact same thing to us

i don’t care about the little squabble you have with m*leven, that’s not the point. the point is your obvious double standard

i’m so fucking tired of being met by the same argument every fucking time i hear anything about lumax

either you lot are a bunch of hypocrites, or just plain racist because i don’t see you digging for any parallels from any other ship

you can’t look me in the eye and tell me that you loveee lumax so much when you don’t even make an effort to post anything about them when they’re not feeding crumbs to your little white mlm ship

you lot should be ashamed of yourself honestly, fucking shame on you

i don’t care if you “cancel” me for this or anything, because you’d honestly just be proving my point

if you have anything to say, voice it out because i’m truly interested in hearing on how the hell you’re gonna defend this shit

fuck you all

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nobody talk to me for 5-10 business days

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how the hell is it that in every agonizing moment max has she somehow still looks better than me when i’m at my best like girlie is literally dying and still showing off her jawline while i’m stuck looking like a sack of potatoes

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Huh nobody was disappointed. His 45s were the only good part of s4 tbh lol

HELP HOW TF DO I EVEN RESPOND TO THIS 💀💀

i just peacefully check my inbox to this bs i can’t even bruh

if his 45 seconds were the best shit to come out of s4 then i’m inclined to believe that you haven’t watched s4 at all

i’m not the place to be if you’re gonna kiss racist ass anon, the block button is actually for real on god free

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“Max gets bitches” I say into the mic. The crowd boos.

I hear voices from the back. “No, she’s right.” It’s Lucas and El with matching shirts.

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I’ve seen way too many pro B*lly H*rgrove posts lately, so here is a list of common traits that are known to belong to abusers that also belong to that piece of shit:

Abusers often objectify their victim, or rather see them as their property. We see this a LOT throughout the show, but a specific example is how B*lly restricts Max from making other friends as such with Lucas (also tied with racism, but that’s another post)

An abuser often denies the existence of their abuse. Or rather, if I were to put it this way, B*lly sees absolutely NO reason to stop/minimize his abuse before Max puts a literal nailbat between his nuts.

Abusers tend to blame the victim for any unfortunate situation they find themselves in i.e. B*lly blaming Max for ending up in Hawkins despite it being none of her fault nor responsibility.

An abuser is often pleasant and charming outside of the abuse, appearing as nice to passerby people. This is why liking and excusing the behavior of B*lly is so dangerous. You admit that what B*lly did is wrong, but you excuse it. That is not okay.

When you excuse B*lly’s behavior because of his childhood and/or other circumstances, you are also excusing other abusers like him.

His childhood influences his behavior, but it doesn’t excuse it.

Stop supporting abusers like B*lly H*rgrove.

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b*lly h*rgrove stans getting excited for s4 only for him to have a total screen time of 45 seconds that only consists of him bashing max will never not be funny for me

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i need max to wake up from her coma just so she can deck mike in the face

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M*leven shippers will NEVER understand the struggle of digging for crumbs of your ship, hoping, praying that nothing will happen to them because you can never know. M*leven shippers will never understand digging through hundreds of fanfics just to find one that is even remotely centered around your ship. M*leven shippers will never understand how convoluted our ship is despite them never saying ‘I love you’ once, while they can count their amount of love you’s on two hands.

M*levens will never understand the struggle of shipping Lumax 😔

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Don’t imagine Max waking up from her coma and Lucas finally, finally breaking down from the copious amount of stress, both emotional and and physical, that he’s been put through all this time, so much so that if you gave it a few years he would start having strands of graying hair. To know that all of his efforts weren’t futile, that Max is actually alive and that some parts of her old self remain within the pages of the countless amounts of books that he has read every day and night that he has stayed in that sickening hospital room. That his growing eye-bags and increasing back-pain all meant that Max would wake up and that she actually did, she did wake up. When the moment he finally lets the tears slip is another night of her recovering and she hugs him close and he just cries and cries. Max just holds on tight and says reassuring words, partly because she believes that there is nothing else she can do, and partly because she knows that that’s what he needs. So he for once let’s go and he cries his heart empty and hollow. He lets himself be vulnerable. Because he knows he can.

Don’t you dare imagine that shit that’s cringe

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lumax headcanons bc my brain is stuck on lumax today:

the sinclair family is one of those families that makes all of their kids’ friends their own kids

especially when they realize how much stress max is under since moving to the trailer park

there are multiple occasions where lucas will come home from a basketball practice or a dnd campaign and max will just be chilling on his couch watching a movie with his family or playing a game with erica or something of that sort

(he loves this so much, btw. max just casually being a part of his family makes him so happy)

max is secretly such a simp for her boyfriend

lucas catches her staring all the time and just kinda laughs like “what?” 

bc he’s so pretty and sweet and perfect how can she not look at him all the time!

max wears lucas’ sweatshirts and hoodies all the time

and don’t even get me started on his jerseys

she wears his extra jersey at every basketball game

and she and dustin make these huge signs for the party to hold up

which lucas will pretend to be super embarrassed by but he loves it

lucas will read books to max whenever she’s tired

she loves dozing off to his voice

max makes lucas a spotify playlist for his birthday

it has a ton of kate bush songs on there as a bit of a joke but lucas really does love her music

lucas has a book of dad jokes that he pulls out and tells max whenever she’s sad

she groans and pretends to hate it

but really those dumb little jokes do cheer her up

and she loves seeing the smile on his face when he’s trying to cheer her up <3

max is like. a math WHIZ

and lucas is okay at math but not as good as her so she helps him with the concepts he doesn’t understand

and in turn he helps her with the science concepts she doesn’t understand

they watch chick flicks together because who doesn’t love romance

they both really love baking actually? it’s one of their favorite activities to do together

they really like making those cupcake cones where you bake cake mix into an ice cream cone

they always end up with icing and sprinkles on their faces and in their hair

lucas puts frosting on max’s nose and it always makes her laugh

whenever one of them has a bad day, they go on a drive

which often starts as pretty quiet but they eventually begin talking and open up about whatever happened/is bothering them

it’s just good for them to get out and clear their thoughts

lucas’s parents pay for max to get therapy to deal with all the trauma from billy and his death (and the upside down, but lucas’s parents don’t know that)

they both take french in school

(and they say i love you in french to each other all the time)

(max said it first btw)

(lucas cried)

they talk about travelling all the time

and they have bucket lists of things they want to do in the school year, in the summer, before they graduate, etc

max has a bike but she always rides on the back of lucas’s anyway

he loves the feeling of her holding on to him :)

they still sing never ending story all the time to annoy dustin

they have their movie date. and an arcade date and a restaurant date and a bowling date and a hiking date and a thrifting date and bookstore date and a museum date and a-

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max mayfield trying (failing) to teach lucas sinclair how to skate. smoothing her fingers over the hills of his knuckles because she knows he’s nervous— scared she’ll be cruel and let him fall— even though he’s too stubborn to ever speak of it. max walking in front of him, slowly, with his hands in her own, stabilising him on the board. laughing so hard she thinks she might die when he wobbles and screams all the oxygen out of his lungs. she’ll threaten to tell the others, “not so tough now, are you sinclair?”, but she’s only teasing. she’s so excited to share something she loves so dearly with the boy who fills her entire day with sunshine. promising that she’ll never let him go until he feels safe to do it on his own no matter how long that takes. laying in the grass afterwards, turned on her side, congratulations on “not completely eating shit” bright on her tongue. playfully shoving him when he complains about her awful instructions. kissing him sweetly on the cheek , and then later on the mouth, because she had so much fun with him — just like she always does.