#lumax dynamic

[gayofthefae]

Lucas with Max is the perfect combination because they're best friends first and foremost so he's relaxed around her and their interactions are really natural but when it's romantic? He is ADORABLY nervous

Look at him! It's like...he loves her but he also likes her. Like...like likes her.

Lucas is the type of person to still ask Max to be his Valentine 50 years in with that same look on his face.

[gayofthefae]

Ok this pic has my heart now

Stranger Things (2016-present) + text posts (2/?)

[fruitbythefoot7]

elumax, i miss you 🫶🫶🫶

[phoebebuggers]

happy thinking about lucas sinclair tuesday

[samgelina-jolie]

[friendsdontlieokay]

Another proof of Steve's motherhood. Look at how everyone is looking at the grandfather clock but Steve is looking at Max all worried and concerned because she had a vision of this exact same thing just the night before, and as normal as it seems to everybody, Steve is worried, because he knows it's not normal to Max.

It hurts me so much cause even though Steve was like a brother figure to max, it's more fanon than canon, that's a discarded potential right there, it'd be much nicer if they actually showed them being siblings clearly, cause Max wanted to be friends with Billy, or more so, wanted to have an older brother who is like an older brother and she regrets that Billy had to go before she even had a chance to get one especially when she believes that Billy still had hope, and you're telling me that she wouldn't count Steve as a brother? Nope, not buying it

[londondziban]

byler constantly parallels jancy and jopper and even at times lumax. milevens don't want to talk about the fact that their ship constantly parallels stancy, a canonically failed ship (no season 4 wasn't setting them up to get back together), and the dart and dustin dynamic

[starrycloak]

you know how platonic m¡leven is called elmike? idk i feel like we should have alternative platonic shipnames for other popular pairings that some folks might enjoy only as friends

some of these might already exist but i think they haven't caught on-

Lucas and Max could be madclair

Nancy and Jonathan could be jonance

Dustin and Suzie could be henderham??? know where besties?

if you see this and come up with a groundbreaking, catchy name for platonic!byler, you're a star.

[campbyler]

so i've been re-reading acswy (and loving it even more if possible) and something on the back of my mind is just how secret this sneaking around is 🤭 for example i think certain characters 👀 definitely know or at least suspect, whether or not they know the whole emotional depth. but my question is… how much have mike and will themselves thought about how subtle (or not 👀) they are being? will acknowledges that being careful has got him nothing so far, but what about how obvious theyre being? mike seems a bit oblivious or just subconsciously ignoring it (like max about the facepaint). do they think about this or not care? or can they not see past their own excitement etc?

or is this a spoiler hehehehe

hmmm i wouldn't say this is a Spoiler per say but i will say that we have set up mike and will to be unreliable narrators this whole time, so i think they definitely think they are being slick! you sent this before ch10 but obviously now with that context of mike and lucas talking about it -- lucas knew what mike was talking about, obviously, because he's friends w both of them, but i wouldn't say he had Noticed anything super different beyond the fact that mike and will had reconciled and started to make up on lost time re: their friendship. i think maybe he had hoped, bc of prior context, but i def don’t think he thought there was actively anything going on (their fwb sitch) than a feelings development.

we obviously don't see too much of el and dustin (which is a crime, but it's hard to balance a 6-person cast - we have tried to work them in more in this back half) so we aren't sure of their opinions, but obviously max is a lot more suspicious! i think that will has always been hyper-aware of max, hence why ch07 he had a bit of a freak out, but i think in ch09 as he starts to come to terms with his feelings for mike himself he simultaneously comes to terms with the fact that max has clocked them and that's okay because she's his best friend and he knows that even if she gives him shit for it, she will support him! i think really up until then it's just been him being scared that max will put two and two together and figure it out before he does. that said, i think max is the same wherein she suspects feelings are at play, but has no clue they’re hooking up.

i think objectively overall they're pretty obvious but only if you are caring enough to pay attention, and quite frankly, almost everyone But max are paying attention to other things. max is just nosy <3

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

Max and Mike getting into an ‘argument’ at a party, standing on opposite sides of the room insulting the hell out of each other with drinks in their hands whilst Will and Lucas are just standing by a wall watching it all unfold like 😍🫢

“We both fell for an absolute idiot didn’t we”

“Yeah”

“We’re done for”

“Yeah”

[robin-buck1ey]

Headcanons about Ronance being the big sisters and gay mentors of Elmax, please?

Thank you for the request I love this dynamic so much!!

Ronance big sisters/gay mentors for elmax headcanons :

Whenever they have an acclaimed girls night at the Wheelers, Robin always makes sure to make El a waffle extravaganza!!

Nancy always makes sure to give El a ride to visit Max in the hospital, and post coma has Max stay at her house for awhile after her trailer was destroyed, (which makes for a funny Max & Mike sibling dynamic)

Max try’s to teach Robin how to skate board, to which ends up with Max cleaning Robins wounds because she eats shit after one second of being on it.

Nancy teaches El how to do make up in different ways, and how to style her hair in different ways

They have different fashion show days we’re depending on the day they get to pick and outfit for a different person, so El might pick an outfit for Robin who might pick one for max who might pick one for Nancy who might pick out one for El

Any time Mike gets annoyed about them wanting to use the basement they all hang up on him 😭😭

Whenever Max and El get into an argument they both go to both Nancy AND Robin so then ronance is just like 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️

Max and El feel safe and comfortable exploring both her femininity and masculinity when with Nancy and Robin, who help the explore new things and explain how they found balance in their own lives

Max gets her license before Robin does to which the party finds quite amusing

El will help Nancy when she has a lead on a story, by finding where they are and ease dropping, rest assure they are always corrupt and evil people, to which Nancy only uses when confronting them to scare them into thinking she knows a lot and has proof (even if she does or doesn’t)

Robin gives Max and El free movies, but whenever it’s Max who comes in she always teases her saying “got a movie date?” And always gives Max’s the most cheesy romance movies (but El always loves them)

[gayofthefae]

They're the same picture

[fruitbythefoot7]

they’re very special to me 🥺

[snixx]

hot take lumax and duzie are the only good ships (that have actually been canon at some point) in stranger things thus far

[l393ndjean]

Here! Have a snippet of my madwheeler stepsiblings wip!

This fic is set within the MMWtBiO universe, a modern version of Hawkins. MMWtBiO is a fic and Comic, which can be found on my other blog: @byler-makemewanttobelieveitsokay

[gayofthefae]

He's just perfect ig 🤷

I’m afraid Lucas Sinclair is just too shippable 😕

Lumax = canon and healthy

Byclair = adorable and silly

Henclair = adorable and sweet

Wheelclair = cute and silly

Hopclair = cute and silly

Elumax = cute and poly

Edit: Bywheelclair = cute and poly

LIKE HE JUST GOES WELL WITH EVERY PARTY MEMBER 😆

This is also just my opinion but I swear Lucas is just too sweet, there’s no way you can’t find every interaction with him adorable 😭