#no but it's so funny bc I like lumax MORE than elmax

[rotisseries]

I will headcanon every fictional woman EVER as a lesbian. every single one. except max mayfield. she is THE most bisexual to ever bisexual. congratulations to the brothers duffer for making me fully, completely, and actively believe in her attraction to men

[tired-bisexual-brainrot]

rating stranger things ships because why not :)

(these are my own personal opinions, it’s cool if you think something else but pls don’t be rude or anything thank you)

(also this is rating not ranking tho i might make one wear i rank from favorite to least favorite)

byler: 10/10 no further questions your honor.

lumax: 10/10 i love them sm <33

elmax: 9/10 god i love them (btw i only docked a point bc by itself it’s not like my favorite ship, i’d go with lumax over it but yea i still adore them)

elumax: 10/10 top. fucking. tier. it doesn’t get better than this.

stancy: 2/10 they were a little cute in s1 but they would literally never work

jancy: 10/10 jancy my beloved <3

ronance: 9/10 what can i say they’re perfect for each other

jargyle: 8/10 stoner boyfriends, they’re cute

steddie: 6.5/10 it’s good, but not great. there was potential, but the shippers ruined it for me. and if they weren’t white y’all wouldn’t even bat an eye be serious.

m*leven: … moving on. jk they’re like a 1/10 no chemistry there at all, mike wheeler i know what you are.

madwheeler (platonic): 10/10 they’re best friends. i will always push the madwheeler bff agenda. they act like they hate each other but they’d literally die for one another I LOVE THEM! romantically tho NO that feels like you are asking me to ship willel romantically like they’re siblings they’re family madhweeler brother and sister wlw mlm hostility.

duzie: 10/10 who doesn’t love them? give us more duzie in s5 or else i’m gonna riot

jopper: 10/10 need i say more?

job/boyce (what’s their official ship name anyways?): 7/10 they were adorable you can’t lie. i mean jopper was always endgame for me but bob and joyce were so cute together they would’ve been great and as incredibly sad as bobs death was, i’m glad that we never had to see joyce break up with him bc that would’ve been painful

harringrove: 0/10 wtf.

stonathan: 5/10 i can see why people ship this, it’s not a bad ship tbh i’m just personally not a fan ig. you’re cool if you’re a stonathan truther tho, you keep doing you bro, keep being unproblematic thank you

stoncy: 5.5/10 i actually don’t hate this tbh, it’s cool ig, and the stoncys out there are so chill shout out to y’all for being unproblematic cuz you deserve that recognition

platonic with a capital P steve and robin: 10/10 i fucking love them sm there friendship is so important to me

murray x dmitri: 8/10 idk why but i find this ship both great and funny, let the russian and the conspiracy theorist uncles be together

murray x alexei: 8/10 as well they were definitely together tbh

[jjtheresidentbaby]

Rating Stranger Things Ships

(I’ve seen so many people do this so I wanted to)

(Some of these don’t have ship names as I can’t remember them or just can’t spell sheubeud)

(Btw feel free to send in any asks you have any these or just want me to talk more abt them)

- Byler 8/10- I love them but I understand the people who don’t. Honestly before season 4 Will and Mike were low on the favorite character tower, they were basically at the bottom actually. But I love Will in season 4 and season 4 Mike is so good to me (even if he’s oblivious). Also them being absolute idiots when they start dating is canon, just little whispers back and forth, Mike crushing will in his sleep, wills constant need to do laundry bc Mike drools in his sleep, Mike posing funny for paintings, Will getting his picture taken by Mike every five seconds- just awe

- Mileven- 4/10- Eh. I didn’t even like them in 1&2 so there isn’t much to say, I think season 3 showed some cute moments and the part in the pizza place in 4 was so cute to me. I don’t really love the idea of them staying together but I get peoples liking to them

- Jopper- 10/10- I mean come on, the best, love them, they need to get married and move in together

- Jancy- 5/10- I loved them in 1&2 but three ruined them, it was just so bad and then 4 on top of that proves they need to break up. It’s that thing where the build up is way better than the actual thing, they just aren’t it and some of their fans get crazy so it makes me dislike the ship even more

- Stancy- 8/10- my loves <3, would be a 10/10 if steve didn’t do that billboard sign thing in 1. Steve being a housewife while Nancy is out making the money sounds like heaven to me. Lovers to enemies to friends to lovers again trope give me (I know they weren’t really enemies but shush) (also if anyone tells me Steve would force Nancy to have kids, fuck off and shut up, disrespectfully)

- Steddie- 3/10- IM SORRY!!! They just got so much hype and for what?? I don’t hate them or anything but they do nothing for me. They’re just eh. Meh. Bleh. Bland I guess

- Ronance- 6/10- I could see it and I could get behind it but it’s not like my otp or anything. They are super adorable and I love seeing fanart for them so yeah, good ship just not my fav

- Jargyle- 10/10- if you don’t think they’re gay you’re just plain dumb. Stoner bfs for life

- Stonathan- 8/10- need I say more? Steve and Johnathan? Yeah. Yup. 1&2 just make them have the best enemies to lovers arc known to man

- Steve x Johnathan x Argyle- 10/10- I feel like this is self explanatory but yeah them, them over so many

Steve x Johnathan x Argyle x Nancy -11/10- YES I NEED IT!!! It’d solve every single problem ever!! Omg I would sob so bad if I ever found a fic of them

- Stoncy- 10/10- one of my favorite ship of the older kids. They’d be perfect and having Robin third wheel at all times is great, they are everything to me. The three of them in 2 makes me feral

- Lumax- 10/10- how can it not be a 10/10??? It’s perfcet!! Max is so great for Lucas and Lucas is so great for max!! I love them!! Would die for both of them <3

- Elumax- 10/10- give it to me now!! They’d be so fucking adorable and just so pure. I’d die for the three of them

- Elmax- 9/10- add Lucas and boom 10/10, I’m a sucker for these two together though and that mall scene remains one of my favorites out of the whole show

- Byclair- 5/10- okay so I see potential but it’s nothing I’m actively thinking about a lot, they’d be cute tho

- Madwheeler- 7/10- id pay money for them to be together in a different universe where they’re snarky sarcastic partners that shit on everyone and love doing it!! Their relationship would make me giggle and I know it. They have actual potential for enemies to lovers but just not canon cause y’know Lucas is <3

- Wheelclair- 8/10- yup I see it and I love it. Nerdy broody boyfriend with jock teasing boyfriend?? Yup. They’d be so smart together don’t even lie, also Lucas teaching Mike how to play basketball is a must. Them skipping hellfire to make out- yup! Mm them <3

- Dustin x Suzie 4/10- okay I like season 4 them as Suzie is a queen but season 3 made me annoyed a bit, like girl shut up about a song when the worlds collapsing

- Henderhop - 6/10- I can see it and they’d be adorable but I wish they had more interactions in the show. Like yes they’d be adorable but I have a hard time picturing it with how little I can think of them that relates to actual scenes

- Lucas x Dustin - 5/10- I see it okay but they just meh for me, like season 1 them yeah but I much prefer max and Lucas

- Dustin x Max- 2/10- I remember rooting for Lucas when watching 2 for the first time and my points still stand, it wouldn’t work out good and I know it. Max is too mature (?that sounds mean but I can’t think of another word) for Dustin and it’d crumble so fast

- Will x Lucas- 5/10- okay yeah I can see it but I think it falls into the category of the not enough screen time together for me to get a good visual of how it would play out

- anything with Billy- 0/10- he’s racist and abusive stop trying to pretend he isn’t

[lumaxramblings]

wanted to join in with the elumax ask game woooo - 1, 2, 8, 9, 18, 20 (most likely sending in some other asks too, i need to escape reality for a while lmfao)

1. Preference: Does the trio get together all at once, or do two people start dating first and then confess to the third?

lumax definitely start dating first and then max gets a crush on el but she doesn't talk to lucas about it bc, yknow, 80s, and then when she falls into her coma, lucas and el start getting closer and closer and they realize they like each other, but they wait until max wakes up to decide what to do. el's the one to propose the idea of them all dating, and then they decide "fuck it, we've seen weirder stuff than 3 people dating" and just Do it.

2. Who organises the best date nights? Who puts the most effort into said date nights even when things go wrong? Who shows up in sweats and graphic tees but always knows exactly what to say or do?

i'm torn between lucas and el, but i'm going to say el. she doesn't like bring them out to restaurants but she sort of specializes the dates to cater to their tastes specifically, either individually or apart. like going to the skate park and learning how to skate or going hiking in the forest, stuff like that. and lucas has been assured he doesn't Have to look fancy so he just shows up in like. a hoodie or smt and they're all cool w it cause they're all wearing the same thing

8. AU or Canonverse?

i don't understand this question so imma skip shsjhshs sorry

9. Happy Ending or Angst for the crew?

HAPPY ENDING. max ends up blind but they don't care and keep going on date nights, they can't lose this or i will lose it.

18. How does their confession go? Is it romantic? Funny? Sad?

lucas's and el's confessions was romantic and max's was sad because she's my favourite. it was cute, but she also admitted that she'd never been loved so much, never felt so loved, as when she's with the two of them and also admits that it's a pretty low bar to jump in the first place. lucas and el both confessed after max woke up though :)

20. What got you into Elumax/Lumax/Elmax/Hopclair?

Lumax: i instantly fell in love with max the moment she came on screen and their interactions were so cute and i was instantly sold, but after deeply psychoanalyzing max i realized just how good lucas is to her and for her and vice versa, so i really just adore it <3

Elmax: i have to admit, i didn't really get requited elmax vibes in st3, unlike most people seemed to think (though it's growing on me!!!), but the elmax interactions were way too fruity to pass over my head, and my brain just rang the alarms

Elumax: same as the above, really. i saw how they interacted and just fell in love with the dynamics. after all, you can't go wrong with two golden retrievers and their angry red chihuahua

Hopclair: idk whether i like them more as besties or as lovers, but either way i do know i completely adore them and i get why people ship them :D one-sided-rival to tentative friends to best friends to lovers baby!

[thisultraviolet]

🔥 + ST

I love that you still sent this to the Taylor blog lmao but HERE WE GO

(Also a lot of these will be hot takes within the Byler community but may be agreed among other fans idk I’m just in this corner of the fandom 90% of the time)

Steve actually IS that good a character? Like I understand it can be annoying when he clogs up every tag and ship but there’s a reason he’s that popular. He was basically DESIGNED to be the fandom’s favourite and it worked, I don’t think anything’s wrong with that. I adore this funky bi himbo and his kids and lesbian bestie and loser bf. And I *will* continue to project parental issues on him based on like 4 lines of dialogue bc frankly in this fandom that’s so far from the biggest leap we’ve made it’s not even funny. He’s my second favourite character and if he dies I will be genuinely inconsolable.

The only Byler proof I need is the s3 finale moving scenes. Finn’s acting choices in the El vs Will scenes, the parallels to the quarry scene, the shot of him looking back at the house? That’s all it took to solidify it for me. And the master doc is fun but I do think a solid 70% of the stuff on there is a huge stretch and is honestly harming more than helping our case lmao. If I want to convince people I just use that one scene and it works 90% of the time.

If you ship H*rringrove I think you’re genuinely a bad person. He’s a racist abuser and I’m glad he’s dead <3

STEDDIE IS SO CUTE MY FAV STEVE SHIP EASILY? It’s such a fun dynamic to work with, Eddie is CLEARLY queer coded much more than certain other characters we will get to, and the tropes that emerged in the fics post s4 were super fun and also SO interesting. Genuinely some Steddie fics I’ve read are just some of the best fics I’ve read period. (If anyone wants recs ESPECIALLY if you love a time loop fic hmu).

I wouldn’t hate them bringing back Eddie if they could pull it off in a way that made it seem genuinely planned and not just fan service. His death actually did piss me off (not just bc I was sobbing lmao) bc it seemed so rushed, and only getting to see Dustin’s reaction just felt like either terrible writing or a very purposeful lose thread. Also I’m still thinking about the profile picture colours bc I feel like we moved on WAY too fast.

Stonathan is fine. Good even but I just don’t see the appeal the way the rest of y’all do. Same with Ronance, I just genuinely prefer their dynamic as friends. I do love Stoncy in theory but post s3 I just don’t see it really working anymore, early Stoncy fics still hit though.

Lumax>Elumax>>>Elmax. The girls are adorable together ofc but I think Lumax is easily the best written relationship in the show rn and completely ditching it just seems odd to me? Obviously ship whatever you want I just can’t imagine not liking them together? I’m not blanket stating it’s for racist reasons but we all know Lucas is treated like dirt by the fandom in a way none of the other kids are

Dustin is my least favourite of the kids. I still love him, I just find him by far the least interesting. I obviously adore him and Steve but I feel like separating him from the party really has put him at a disadvantage these last few seasons. I’m really hoping the loss of Eddie will take him in an interesting direction though.

I will be genuinely upset if Jancy aren’t endgame but also I’m equally worried their issues won’t get addressed next season, idk they were my fav couple in s1/2 so I just hold them very close to my heart.

Flickergate is the superior Bylergate, especially if I had to pick one to actually happen in the show, it’s so romantic it makes me want to pass out.

I definitely have more but this is already way too long and I have 1989TV Clownery to get to so take this mess I guess

[themikewheelers]

Max for the ask meme!

favorite thing about them: she’s honestly rlly rlly mature and self-reflective like u can tell in the show she rlly does care a lot about being a good person and wanting to make friends and not hurting anybody and you can tell she cares a lot about that stuff like she even says to lucas how she’s scared of ending up like billy but it’s sm more than just that like she rlly is super mature in the sense that she can tell when she’s being off base and apologizes and want to be better but she also has zero problems confronting people and standing up for herself and it’s a v rare and special form of maturity where you’re simultaneously able to accept that you’re not perfect while retaining your own self-worth and ability to stand up for urself to others 

least favorite thing about them: i think she is a bit entitled in the show, but not even really in a BAD way, more just like a normal human level of it ?? but yeah idk there’s certain moments like how she just kinda expected that the boys had to be friends with her that dont rlly rub me the right way but i hold nothing against her in that bc ??? i mean that’s literally how almost any human person would feel in that scenario lol 

favorite line: when she’s TELLIN OFF billy after hitting him with the syringe !! 

brOTP: Honestly her dynamics with all the other kids are so good ??? Like I can’t even pick just one bc there’s such underrated details in all of them and we haven’t seen much of her relationships so far in the show beyond with Lucas but god there’s SO MUCH potential for her friendships with all the kids that I want the show to go into ?? 

OTP: Lumax 100% 

nOTP: I don’t think I rlly have any ??? I mean the only 3 ppl I ever see her shipped with her Lucas, El, and Mike. I love Lumax, I’m p neutral on Elmax, and Madwheeler aint rlly my thing but I wouldn’t call it a notp bc I DO love their dynamic, just not romantically. 

random headcanon: the other kids always assume since she’s from california she loves the beach and the sun and all that but in reality she HATES it, during her first summer in Hawkins they take a trip up to Lake Michigan to go to the beach and she spends the whole time complaining about the sand and the heat and everything 

unpopular opinion: the fandom mangles her character SO MUCH like she’s such a fun and interesting character but in the fandom ppl treat her like such a jerk most of the time tbh. like she’s such a nice person and she’s funny and friendly and easy-going and ppl have somehow turned her fanon personality into this mean girl who bullies all her friends and i ??? dont like it ?? man off topic but entirely on topic but god raise ur hand if ur as tired as me of “tomboy” characters (or rlly any female character who’s not perfectly feminine) immediately being stereotyped as cold and emotionless despite that not going along at all with their actual characterizations bc yeah 

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