#elmax rights

[auriandcats]

reposting this bc i forgot to add an option silly me

[onlyelmax]

ahhhh look at them with their matching hair and scrunches i love them sm they’re so adorable🥲🫶

[keynb]

The right side of my neck still smells like you...

Spreading my little spoon Mike agenda

[givehimthemedicine]

bonus

[chirpsythismorning]

Vecna trying to fuck with Mike by using his fear of losing El, but it fails and all turns into a game of dnd and then Vecna’s kicked out of Mike’s mind with a rainbow dice being thrown across the screen.

Then Vecna tries again and finds Mike still in his happy place aka playing dnd, with the rainbow dice once again seeing him out before he even gets a chance to try anything.

Then Vecna getting desperate and going to ask Will like Hey, you wouldn’t by any chance know what scares Mike would you?

Then he tries to break Will one final time, all the while Mike from Will’s POV is helping him with his bloody nose for like 5 minutes straight. As Vecna is insulting Will, Mike’s just sitting there front and center like… 👁️👄👁️ You okay Will?

AND HE FAILS AGAIN!!?!

[ineffablelvrs]

me after calling each and every one of my favorite ships "the ship ever" because. because

[snowangeldotmp3]

and what if el wrote letters to max? despite the fact that max only wrote her back once or twice before her depression got so bad that she just, stopped. and what if el continued to write to her anyway? always ending her letter with "write me back? love, el." WHAT THEN HM???

[chlana-pilled]

s2 el was max's bisexual awakening and i will not take criticism on the subject because i am right

[gayofthefae]

If season 2 were about El and Mike fighting to get back to each other they wouldn't have had El almost not come back.

If it were about Mike and El fighting to come back to each other, it wouldn't have been a decision whether or not should we would.

But she almost stayed in Chicago. And they made a point of her saying she went back for all of her friends, not just him, and for Hopper. She went back for Mike, Lucas, Dustin, and Hopper. It was played as big and loving. But it wasn't played as romantic. That wasn't her reasoning and missing Mike wasn't enough to bring her back in the first place.

In the first few episodes of the season, she fights with Hopper about not being able to see Mike. But as the season progresses, we find it isn't about that. It's about not being able to leave. She goes to Chicago and almost doesn't come back. There is a full stand alone episode about her maybe not coming back and she ALMOST STAYS.

If it were some big romantic payoff of their reunion, they would have simply had an obstacle they had to fight to overcome - like Hopper or the monsters or something. But instead, Mike was hoping she was alive and El was considering letting him come to terms with her death and living out her days with her sister in Chicago.

El almost never saw Mike again. It was a very close decision. She changed her mind last minute. It's valid and it remains loving, but in trope simply put...it isn't romantic.

"I almost never came back to you but I changed my mind" in the context of being separated against your will? Isn't romantic.

And similar is true in their separation in seasons 3 AND 4. She does not reach out after her time with Max. Granted maybe she would have, it was a short time, I will give that. But then she didn't get back together with him until the end of the epilogue to our knowledge. She did not run back to him in grief in need of comfort. She did not get back together with him for the familiarity even in that, she got back together with him to keep a piece of Hawkins. Her priorities would not have been the same of "wait and see if he says it" - and he could have done that in a relationship too, as we saw was an arc for him in season 4. Once again, she waited until the last minute - even almost walking away and leaving for Lenora - before coming back to him at the last possible second.

In season 4, then, she did not include him in her plans when escaping NINA. She only noted Max and her friends. Really, this re-established her priorities from season 2. Her intention was to return to all of her friends, to return to Hawkins, and to help her loved ones out of danger. Not to return specifically to him. When he was out of the equation, he was skipped over. She and Mike had a bad fight. And she still loved him just like she still loved her brothers who were also not mentioned, but her focus was only verbalized as being on Max and Hawkins. The original intention of her leaving was for Owens to take her back to Hawkins. She had zero knowledge that her family and Mike (and Argyle) were coming to get her. She thought they were back at the house in Lenora and that she was going straight to Hawkins and would call them once it was all finished. We have no knowledge that she was going to make a pitstop - unlikely given the stakes and distance between Nevada and Lenora.

In season 2, El almost stayed in Chicago. In season 3, El almost stayed broken up with Mike. In season 4, El almost went back to Hawkins without them - this decision being out of her control when it was changed.

Each and every time they are separated, El only makes the decision to reunite with Mike last minute after seeming to have intended to stay apart from him. Their reunions are always so sweet. But they are never her goal.

She came back for Will.

She came back in her grief over Hopper and leaving Hawkins.

She came back for Max.

The key question ever time she reunites with Mike is: does the story stop there? Or does she do something very important next?

Mike always a sweet stop on her way to her goal. He is never "the point". He is a part of her life as many other people are. But he is not her life and he is not why she comes back.

[emblazons]

"Are you real? Did I Make you?" "I'm real."

Favorite Story Arc: El & Max's Relationship part ii (quotes) for @nivy14 (and @magentamee)

[rootbeermilktm]

ya so i just finished watching stranger things.

some things i didn’t reblog but feel STRONGLY about:

bob newby superhero

will and el as siblings

will being rObbed of his childhood

will in s3 just trying to move on from his trauma and be a kid while his friends are all out there actively seeking out his triggers

joyce being the mom ever esp with her decision to move from hawkins cause damn is will’s trauma tied to that place

nancy with a gun

steve with a bat

babysitter steve the hair harrington

the bad creative choice it was to bring back papa <- hated that

dr Owens’s redemption arc being nerfed

el’s legal name being jane hopper <3

steve and eddie’s little rivalry to be dustin’s big brother

the way the s4 finale kicked my ass i was bawling fresh tears no less than three separate times

[stranger-detective]

WE AS A COLLECTIVE FANDOM DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS ENOUGH!!!

you know, after max goes to the snow ball and vecna's door appears, she tries again. she tries to leave. she tries to go to a good memory. her second best memory. do you guys know what that memory was?

it was shopping at the mall with el. it was that day and a half where the two girls had no cares in the entire world.

her best memory was the snow ball, a dance with all of her friends, when they were safe and secure. she kissed lucas, she had stood up to billy, and she felt safe.

her second best memory was spending time with her best friend. it was helping el to become herself. it was helping el to feel happy and comfortable, on her own. it was when she didn't have to worry about her family or about the upside down. she could just be a kid.

and then, the memories that cause el to break free from vecna are her memories of max from that day. the memories that cause el to bring max back to life are her memories of that day. she found strength in max. max stirred her to fight back and break free from vecna.

max found comfort in el and el found strength in max.

[onlyelmax]

"Elmax has more chemistry than m*leven."

Please say it louder for the ones in DENIAL.

thank you, i will ☺️

ELMAX HAS MORE CHEMISTRY THAN M!lEVEN! 🗣️

and that’s a fact!

[sinclairstarz]

very old party as the breakfast club thing…. very sad about leaving dustin out 😞 i might remake this but my art style is being… strange….

[givehimthemedicine]

ANGST AU: I'm so, so sorry, El.

[soupinaboot]

Ugly Sleeper x Sleeping Beauty <3