#lucas on the line

[bylerworld]

i just learned that lucas and mike and dustin don't speak for nine weeks and three days after lucas signs up for basketball trials and this broke my heart in a billion pieces ):

[strangerthingsontwt]

[gayofthefae]

Thinking about "I will sit with her in silence. Right until the very end"

And how he did. He practiced silence for her. And then she said "Hi" :)

He practiced silence for her but she wanted to talk to him <3

[gay-mike-wheeler]

anyway reading lucas on the line makes the fact that everyone missed lucas' basketball game in s4 e1 hurt so much more

[onlyhereforbylerlol]

They aren't love letters if you can't even write that word in them, mike 🌚

[eddiemunson-reader-shame]

Good morning Hawkins this is my formal request that we as a society continue hyping up “Lucas on The Line” because I have not devoured a book this quickly in many years.

[luckybyler]

I’m reading Lucas on the Line and wow, Will’s and El’s absence broke havoc on the team!

Obviously Hawkins is gonna be hell on earth in season 5, the Hellfire Club will be targeted, Max is still in a coma and they’re all still grieving (plus Dustin, Lucas and Mike lost Eddie), but in some ways high school might be a little easier for them all.

Instead of being two kids bullied in California, two bullied in Hawkins, one between popularity and unpopularity and another one withdrawn from everything and everyone, it will be five nerds together in Hawkins and one in a coma, but at least taken care of by the others. I hope we get to see them band together to have a better time in school.

[qprstobin]

I'm about a third of the way thru the Lucas book right now and !!! There's so many things I love about it already, here's some fun and/or things from what I've read so far:

Lucas, just <3 I just love Lucas a lot and it's so nice reading something focused on him it's so hard to find in even fandom sometimes

Steve helped Dustin with his hair for the first day of school

Dustin apparently can't keep his mouth shut and has said multiple times to Lucas what the hair care secrets were woejek

Lucas looovveess martial arts movies, which is so fitting imo

Lucas's Peer mentor telling him that it's okay to be a nerd and a jock the first day he met him, and that high school rules were all made up and stupid

(makes me pissier at eddie NGL but also Dustin and Mike don't help lol)

Robin as Lucas's confidante!

Steve apparently being aggressive on the basketball court

(this book does not paint Steve and Lucas as close at anyway at all which makes me sad but considering the tone of the book and the story the writer is penning... I get why he does not portray that relationship that way)

Lucas finds basketball genuinely fun! He compares the rush of practice to the same feeling he gets while playing DND!

Lucas was concerned about not only betraying his friends, but was hoping if he made varsity and got off the bench his status could help protect them from bullying just like him being friends with the basketball team before actually making it on the team protected him from an early point in the year

They serve food and you can play board games at the family video???? (It seems to be to fill a void that starcourt left but I'm still ??? This is so interesting to me)

[722dying]

Kate bush. Running up that hill.

“She’s singing about making a deal with god for her lover to swap places with her so he can feel her emotions without her having to explain it. She’s singing about exchanging their experiences so they’d never have to be unhappy anymore.

She’s singing about me and max. “

[total-serene560]

Currently reading “Lucas On The Line” and it’s so amazing!! I love how it dives into Lucas’s character and expands on his life and everything we don’t see in the show for him (his experience being black in a small town in the 80s, for one). And his and Max’s relationship in it is so heartbreaking, I’m like 12 chapters in and I just want to hug them. Also it’s so interesting reading about how the Party fell apart in high school and all that, it’s sad but not unrealistic. I have a lot of feelings and thoughts about this book, I really highly recommend reading it if you haven’t yet.

[bylerworld]

this is the most out of character thing a character has ever said EVER

brother in christ how are they love letters if you never once signed them with love 😭

[strangerthingsontwt]

[gayofthefae]

They're holding hands <3333333

"Her hand was so soft, I joked I want to order it as a flavor"

[hedgefrogpresents]

I read every Stranger Things tie-in novel and wrote a comprehensive overview/book report on them all 🥞👾🧙‍♂️🌈

[onlyhereforbylerlol]

If you ever get the chance: READ LUCAS ON THE LINE! I got mine from the library and I honestly wished I owned this book 😭 If you're black, Lucas is your favorite character, or you love lumax, GO GET THIS BOOK!! you won't regret it 😉

[trans-gay-arospec-mike-wheeler]

Lucas on the Line is so sad (for other reasons too not just this) bc Lucas and Max are so distant yet his friends who’s girlfriends are in different states are writing and receiving love letters and communicating regularly.