#lucas Sinclair I know what you are

[mxdnights0]

Soulmate who wasn’t meant to be

Inspired by a TikTok by @phillipnillip :))

There Dustin Sat . . . Crying his eyes out in Steve Harrington’s arms. Over someone who was supposed to be his best friend.

He’ll forever remember that exact moment. The exact moment his heart shattered.

“It’ll Pass” he had replied.

Bullshit

Dustin tried to speak, but automatically choked back a sob. Steve just rubbed his back, gently swaying “Let it out, Kid. It’ll pass-“ he hummed, not knowing that that had been exactly what Lucas told him.

Dustin shook his head no. It was NOT going to be okay. It’ll Pass. He hated those words.

“Never say those words again, Please-“ Dustin begged quietly, his voice threatening to break.

Steve nodded and knocked the younger’s hat off, running his fingers through the curls “You and I are going to calm down, kay? We’re going to call over Will because lord knows he probably understands, and Jonathan. Kapeesh?” Steve offered, a small grin on his face.

Dustin nodded, his eyes cracking into a small smile at the sight of the other. “Alright, deal-“

[aemiron-main]

stranger things characters as textposts part 5 (?)

[mimymomo]

In ‘Lucas on the Line,’ Lucas Sinclair experienced countless bouts of racism and micro aggressions including but not limited to:

Had children run away from him and refuse to touch him because they thought his Black skin color would rub off on them. This happened IN THE THIRD GRADE! And he never told his parents about it!

Calmed his anxiety about being the only Black kid in his homeroom class by coming to the realization that since there was no other Black kids that meant he most likely wouldn’t be bombed

Had to install a camera in his locker because his property got defaced by a glitter bomb

Lost his first and only black friend/mentor who supported him thanks to an ACTUAL MAKESHIFT BOMB being installed in his locker that caused a janitor to go to the hospital for 1st/2nd degree burns (and the white boy who did it barely got punished)

Got teased that the only reason he got on the basketball team was because he was Black

Comes to the realization that he might’ve actually only gotten in the team because the coach has a history of recruiting Black boys for the team regardless of their skill level

Gets called an Oreo (for uneducated: white on the inside, black on the outside) by racist bullies. Erica (who apparently has also been called this) sticks up for him and is the only one who understands what the insult means which means Mike and Dustin don’t know/understand the lengths of how deep the racism Lucas experiences in Hawkins on a daily bases

And these aren’t even all of them! These are just examples I had from the top of my head!

And despite all this happening in the book, “fans” have STILL FOUND A WAY to turn this book about Lucas and his struggles as a Black boy in a mostly white suburban town and his deteriorating relationship with Max and make it about Byler!

The fact that Lucas, one of the only characters of color on this show, can’t have ANYTHING to himself without people using him to push their ships is so aggravating!

He and Erica constantly get shit talked and miss characterized by fans, get excluded/cut out of group shots, and barely get any fanart/fics about them and their struggles compared to the white characters (I could make a whole new post about the terrible way this fandom treats Erica but I won’t do that here). Hell don’t forget that the fandom constantly tries to dispute the racism Lucas received in S2 from Billy was either not really racism, just a moment that Duffer Bros. put in to “ruin” Billy’s character and ultimately can be tossed out and ignored.

The only time I ever see Lucas get any large amount of attention is either due to 1) Lumax (but let’s be honest: 90% of the lumax tag on here isn’t even about them and has now become Elumax 2.0 and most post are people praising ElMax and then being like “oh Lucas/lumax is cute too” in the tags and that’s it). 2) people creating “parallels” of Lumax to their ship of choice (mostly Byler and Mileven) as a way to say that their ship is gonna be canon or 3) to say that he’s bisexual.

And all that is fine and whatever, ship and headcanon things to your hearts content, but if you only care about Lucas if he’s helping push you ship narrative or because you think he’s gay (to the point where some people actually read snippets of the book that talked about Lucas coming to the realization that Black boys like him can be considered attractive and only acknowledge the “queer” reading of the text and completely ignored the big race element that was the main focus), I’m sorry but, that’s not cool. The fact that 95% of the Lucas Sinclair tag isn’t about Lucas himself but white characters like Steve, Eddie, Byler says everything about how the fandom treats him.

I’m just so tired.

Lucas Sinclair deserves the same respect that the white characters get!

I leave you one of my favorite sections of the entire book: Lucas learning to become unabashedly himself:

Rant over.

Edit: in my blind rage I realized I forgot to edit out the Twitter handle. That’s completely my fault. Please don’t hate that Twitter user. I’m just coming back to fix that.

[bongcupcakes]

and when the byler kiss happens and lucas slowly hands dustin a 10$ dollar bill then what?

[lesbiannieism]

stranger things + random memes i have on my phone pt. 2

mike wheeler

max, to mike

the sinclairs + dnd

nancy

doc owens' secretary telling him that joyce and hopper are calling again

murray's rules for life

hopper every time he gets home to find mike wheeler with one of his kids

joyce byers every time she's the first person to figure out what's really going

robin

eddie when he realizes that steve is not only a hot piece of ass but also a decent human being

(part 1)

[beaulesbian]

Mike Wheeler + being oblivious since season 1

[wine-wrtj]

The party at the Prom

But soberness turns out to be the friends we made along the way

I literally just got possessed and woke up with my this piece finished two weeks later

Mind you as much as deranged teenager I am, for everything to be ✨legal✨ you could tell this is my self-indulgent polish Byler au. Because I was inspired to draw this after my school’s prom and I know NOTHING about American proms lmao. Anyway here’s some more context:

And yeah Will is totally the person to run the fuck away randomly and Elmax would probably be on the side quest. Somewhere outside of the state. Most likely.

[anironnn]

I may be late to picking up on this, but back in s1 when they were explaining "friend" to El, this is what happens: (apologies for my dirty screen)

Mike explains Lucas and Dustin were just scared about her sudden appearance and the possible trouble it might have caused, and Lucas says "We're just trying to find our friend."

When El seemed confused about the word, Lucas added Will's name right after the word "friend" to make things clear. The explanation is cut right here when El questions again. And Lucas be like "is she serious?"

But right after that, meaning right after the party put Will's name into the definition of "friend", Mike butts in and answer:

Meaning, Mike Wheeler, knowing they're using Will as an example of what a "friend" is, instinctively said he'd do anything for Will.

[autistic-mike-wheeler]

he hates to see a bisexual winning

[sollody]

Spot the difference 🔎

'Mike Wheeler, we know what you are' edition 73357977

[booksandpaperss]

Mike: I definitely like girls

Lucas: buddy no one said you didn’t-

Mike: I DO I SWEAR

Lucas: mi-

Mike: I’ll even prove it

Mike: uhhhh

Mike: if Will was a girl I’d totally date him!

Lucas:

Mike: see? get it? Cuz I find girls attractive and therefore would definitely date Will if he was one

Lucas: I- I need some water. I’ll be right back.

Lucas: *on the phone* Max? Babe? Oh thank god you’re there, yeah I need reinforcements. The situation is more dire than we thought.

lowkey inspired by the several times my bestie @andiwriteordie said that Mike would say he’d date Will if Will was a girl bc you are 100% correct lmao

[mxdnights0]

Haunted Part One {Henclair}

https://www.tiktok.com/@swiftiegrimes/video/7143598401001671979?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7143598401001671979&lang=en -Inspired by this tiktok :))

This was the first time Dustin hadn’t gotten partnered with Steve. While he was glad he was with his best friend, his best friend’s sister, and Max, he wasn’t used to being without Steve. 

 Lucas and Max were talking as they walked up the stairs, leaving Dustin behind them and quiet seeing as Erica waited across the street to be a sort of lookout. 

 Dustin kind of stood back as Lucas and Max talked. He hid in the dark, watching what happened as well. He knew Lucas and Max weren’t still in love with each other, Max had El. But the interaction still made him a little jealous when he saw it.

 Lucas stepped back as Max took off the headphones. Then, her eyes slowly went milky white. Dustin didn’t step out of his corner, but there was a loud pounding on the stairs, signaling someone was coming up. Jason. 

 Jason had a gun, pointed at Lucas. They talked quietly, but not enough for Dustin to hear. That’s when they started moving. Punches were flying, the Walkman was stepped on, thank god Dustin had his on him. They got to the alcove with their fight when Max started floating up. 

 Dustin booked it across the room and grabbed the broken Walkman, taking the tape out of hers and slipping the headphones on “c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, work!-“ he pleaded 

 Max dropped to the ground, gasping for air but otherwise unharmed. Her eyes were back to their diamond blues, but nothing was okay about to right now. Max stood and pointed to the fight going on as Jason wrapped his hands around Lucas’ neck. “Hey, quit it!” Dustin yelled, running to the two. Lucas’ eyes grew distant and Dustin grabbed Jason by the side of his head and bashed it into the glass on the wall, forcing him to drop the other. Dustin caught Lucas and fell to his knees 

 “C’mon, Lucas you gotta wake up okay?! Please, you can’t go out like this-“ he sobbed quietly. Max watched the scene unfold quietly, going to get the canteen of water to see if she could clean up the blood tracks running down Lucas’s forehead.

 Dustin saw the floor start to open up and pulled Lucas to the side so he wouldn’t get hurt. Max ran over to the other two as Erica ran up the stairs.

End of Part 1

[aemiron-main]

byler comes out to eachother and everyone else

[heartsgettingwiser62]

10 y/o miwi starting to crush on each other + Lucas and Dustin. That must've been SO funny like-

Will absent-mindedly doodling Mike all over his notebook during class; Mike with the biggest, brightest heart eyes talking about the last drawing Will gave him like it was a Da Vinci; Will randomly zoning out of conversations bc he got distracted staring at Mike; Mike tripping on air while walking bc he was too busy focusing on telling Will a joke; Will always separating and saving Mike's favorite candy so he could give it to him; Mike whispering god-knows-what into Will's ear and Will trying to stifle his giggles for the next 10 minutes...

All of this while Lucas and Dustin look at each other like '??????'

[imthursdaysyme]

I feel like the kids in st would have simple small answers for “what do you want to do in the future” bc subconsciously or not they don’t think they’ll survive, I think Lucas would answer and say oh I want to be a camp counselor one summer and his dad is like….I meant a job son

[doriandrifting]

ST characters playing DnD Pt.2

Pt.1