#LUCAS SINCLAIR DESERVES BETTER

[dwobbitfromtheshire]

You're telling me that Steve "the mom" Harrington didn't pull Dustin, Mike, and Erica out by their ears to make them go see Lucas play while also giving Eddie the bitchiest look ever. He also might be lecturing Eddie on dividing their friendships and conforming to the idea that jocks also can't be nerds, ending it with a quote from Lord of the Rings. He'd leave Eddie sitting there with a mixture of anger, shame, and arousal while mom guilting the kids out of the drama room. Steve Harrington would be good with the mom guilt. I believe it.

"Well," Eddie said, clapping his hands together. "It looks like we're going to the game after all."

[ronancebyler]

i love lucas sinclair so much you guys you dont even know.

hes so cool and amazing and is consistently so wonderful to every other character.

i got so legitimately sad when everyone missed his basketball game hes just a kid dude he finally gets to have the childhood he missed by fighting monsters let him be happy plsplspls.

[dqmens]

The fandom treatment of Lucas Sinclair is wild. Like in every single poll on tumblr he’s losing. Fucking Eddie came into the show and IMMEDIATELY became more popular than Lucas. He’s been an ORIGINAL MAIN CHARACTER since season 1 but you’d never guess it based on all the lack of content. When people talk about his book (if they even know about it) they zero in on the hints of him being bisexual. I totally support lgbtq Lucas but it shouldnt take him being lgbtq for you to give a fuck about him.

Last thing… does anyone else remember when the season four trailers were coming out and people thought Lucas did something horrible and were hating on him but it turned out everyone else treated him like shit? Because I do. I think about it constantly. 

I really need more screen time for him in the last season. I’m only watching for him at this point.

[blackaquokat]

Alright Stranger Things Fandom, I'm putting this out there.

I desperately want to read Elumax or Lumax fanfic, BUT, I am wary of Fandom portrayals of Lucas in these dynamics. Whether it involves shunting him to the side entirely or villainizing him, making his Whole Personality be his relationship with Max, etc.

I've been lucky, so far, but only because I've only been reading Hellcheer or Steddie or Jopper. I would LOVE to read stuff with more Lucas but I am wary of dipping my toe in and getting slapped in the face with some VERY racist takes of his characters.

So if anyone has any fanfic requests, let me know.

[miaisagirllover]

plot twist: lucas is bisexual and and gets with will but its a shock because everyone in the stranger things fandom ignores and overlooks him. i know i sound fucking insane but i would love the duffers to give lucas some big role and shock everyone just to show how much they have underestimated him. but even the duffers have treated the sinclair family like they are nothing

[missdforever]

Some of y’all replying are delusional. Y’all probably date in real life and think that “I can change him” saying actually works for everyone. Also to my fellow black fans it’s disappointing that some of y’all go for characters that actively hate black characters that don’t deserve it. If you are gonna read about him know he is a bad person but don’t excuse his actions you look dumb.

Also yes I’m gonna tag this again cause it’s a actual issue in the fandom and if you don’t like what I say keep it pushing. I don’t give a fuck.

I will forever hate how in stranger things fanfics the try to make Billy seem like he’s not really a bad guy. Like he didn’t emotionally abuse his step sister and try to hate crime a 12 year old boy!!!!!

I have seen people compare him to Jonathan with how trauma can lead you either ways. Jonathan and Wills father was abusive instead of taking his anger out on Will he protected him versus with Billy he took his anger out on his 12 year old stepsister because of his father’s abuse.

I’m so tired of people saying he was protecting Max from Lucas cause he actually cared about her. First of all FROM WHAT, let’s be real he ain’t want Max hanging with Lucas cause he was a black kid(which has been confirmed by the duffer brothers, Caleb, and Darce) so stop making shit up to fit how you want to see him. He also wanted to have POWER over Max like his father did him.

So when people say they cried when walking UTI died I was like I didn’t shed a tear. Do I feel bad he was abused yeah of course, but that doesn’t excuse the stuff he did. Saving Eleven doesn’t excuse what he does!

Stop excusing white mens actions just because they are attractive. It’s not cute at all. Also stop babying grown ass adults it’s not cute either. If they messed up or did something horrible their trauma doesn’t make it okay.

[ryan-waddell11]

bear in the big blue house 🤝🏻 stranger things (aka the same show)

[elevenenthusiast]

This means the kids are most likely gonna be seniors wtf

[katherine-multifandom]

Thinking about how Mike told Lucas he's useless for tigers and they need him in the d&d club game but it turns up that he was indispensable in the basketball game and saw how easily his friends can replace him by his own sister and being pretty happy about it.

Do you think he also asked Erica to come to the game but she chose the party instead of him?

Poor boy doesn't even know that Max listened it through the radio

[i-yyzw-cq]

If that actually happens in this final season, then I don't know what to do with myself.

thinking about how if we do get the two year time skip then that means max has been in a coma for two years and that also means lucas has been at maxs side waiting for her to wake up for two years

[harringroveera]

Stranger Things Season 5: Episode 1

[dwobbitfromtheshire]

Bully stans DNI (I don't even want to say his name). Just block me, unfollow me. I don't want to hear your propaganda bs about how you are in love with a fictional racist.

There are some people out there who don't like Steddie because some people ship them with Bully. Honestly, Bully stans shouldn't be able to interact with this tag. But maybe if there were more fics where Eddie and Steve talk shit about him, talk about how much they hate him. Maybe they get together because they hate him. I just hate that there are some people who hate Steddie for that. Not all of us are like that, and there are a lot of us who hate people who ship Steddie with that racist, child abusing attempted murderer. Let's face it, that asshole was trying to kill Steve, and he probably would have if Max hadn't intervened. Eddie is all about lost sheep, about taking lost kids into his fold. . . He would absolutely hate that vile dickbag for hurting kids. They only time that I would want him to come back is so they can kill him again. Fuck that guy. Goddamn. Lucas, Max, and Steve deserve better in this goddamn fandom. I swear. God, they're also shipping him with Chrissy, too. Yeah, she deserves better, too. Sorry, it's that time of year again where I clear out any Bully stans that are following me. Hopefully, there's none.

[oncamelliastreet]

do you think some of the party read the letters max wrote while she’s in the coma because they miss the sound of her voice? i feel like lucas would definitely be too stubborn to give in and read it but i could see steve maybe reading it because he feels like he failed her. just a thought

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Steddie au where Eddie is into Steve but Steve refuses to give him the time of day until Eddie stops being a dick about Lucas being on the basketball team.

[miwiromantics]

if lumax doesn’t get its happy ending in season 5, it will be my canon event.

[stranger-rants]

I'm actually interested in reading Stranger Things: Lucas on the Line by Suyi Davies Okungbowa for a few reasons including the fact that it's written by a black author and it centers Lucas in a way that the show does not.

This checklist at the start of the book is interesting... mainly because it inspires so many questions in me, such as Why does Lucas need to make new friends? (What have his friends done or not done to alienate him?) Does he feel held back by his friends? Are they not letting him be his authentic self? Do they really care about him? Do they really understand him?

It's interesting because the show makes it seem like Lucas is betraying them, and that was certainly a choice that The Duffers made. Yet, just skimming a few pages reveals that Dustin, Mike, and their new obsession with Eddie have left Lucas behind in a way and when Lucas tries to do something for himself they get mad.

The book seems to validate a lot of my frustrations with the way The Duffers narratively treated Lucas in season 4...