#max rly said GAY PANIC

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redemptioninterlude asked: [ STRADDLE ] ― my muse sits down in your muses’ lap. ( marlene @ max )

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College was filled with new experiences, new people, far away from the cursed little town she'd spend the last six years fighting for her life in. The gates were closed for good, for the last and final time, the world didn't end three years ago, El swears it up and down, no more bad things, but still even the smallest thing, a light flickering in the hallway, running up that hill blasting on a radio, the ringing of a clock bell, can set it all off and for a split second she's back there. Max swears her classmates must think she's fucking crazy, well, almost all of them. All except Marlene, who might just be as weird as she is, with her adorable English accent that had taken Max most of the first semester of college to figure out what she was talking about half of the time.

Marlene who's in her dorm room right now insisting they go to this dumb Christmas party, "I dunno - I'm gonna look dumb." she groans, head shaking as Marlene empties out a makeup bag bigger than Max's book bag onto her bed, picking up what looks like some kind of medieval torture device, eyes wide examining it, "okay FINE you can put eyeliner on me but if you even try and come at me with this THING I will not be held responsible for my actions dude!" no bite in her words, laughter bubbling as she shakes her head, teeth sinking into her lower lip watching Marlene, yeah, Max is sure this silly little crush was going nowhere anytime soon, dammit Mayfield.

Flopping back on the mattress in surrender, not expecting for Marlene to straddle her hips, eyeliner in hand, and for a second Max thinks she's going to fucking pass out, hot girl on top of her, hot girl leaning in all smiles and laughter, stay still Marlene breezes like it's the most casual thing in the world for her MASSIVE GIRL CRUSH to be straddling her hips like it was nothing. Which, it was right? Like, she was just doing her make up, they were just friends, but holy shit did Max was to kiss her right now. Pulse racing, brain short-circuiting like crazy, "are you uh - done?" she asks pupils blown, pushing herself up on the elbows, Marlene still so fucking close she's sure she can hear her heart racing like she'd just run a fucking marathon.

[penny-anna]

actual Thoughts on stranger things (spoilers obvs) (will try not to give away any of the big plot twists tho!!)

- fully understand why some of the diehard fans did not vibe w this season as it did kind of bench the byers and & mike. however i don’t like mike or jonathan and i LOVED the hawkins squad so no complaints

- loved max getting to take centre stage!! loved all the max & lucas stuff!

- i think covering the D&D satanic panic thing was a rly good move for the show, very logical thing to do given the time period and how prominent D&D has been. much more appropriate for the tone of the show than all the soviet stuff in s3 fdkhgfkjhg

- definitely the scariest season for me so far?? like just full on horror. felt like something out of the ring. the deaths are SO brutal.

- & i was genuinely shocked by both of the first 2 deaths!! i found both characters so endearing i was taken offguard both times gdjghfkdhg

- biggest complaint is that i did not care for the joyce and hopper subplot at all. felt extraneous. like i’m reserving judgement for now bcos maybe in the second half they’ll tie it into the A plot but as it is it felt like it was just there to give them something to do

- especially as the other plot threads dovetailed SO beautifully in that last episode!!! like just. purely from a narrative perspective. it was a DELIGHT to watch that final sequence play out. sitting there like wait so he was - WAIT HE’S ALSO - NO FUCKING WAY-

- that said i just don’t like hopper and would have been fine w him being killed off for real

- really enjoyed all the lab flashbacks. do think they kind of, made Bremmer a little more sympathetic than i’d have liked?? but honestly i think it was more a matter of the framing, like we’re mostly seeing him in flashbacks to a time when Ell trusted him. he was still like. torturing people on screen.

- it’s SO darkly funny to me that the other kids in the secret lab also thought Ell was weird i mean WHAT a mood holy shit. tfw you’re the weird kid in the secret government lab for studying children w fucked up superpowers.

- lucas... has become a jock??? :O

- i don’t like jonathan but have to say after everything he’s been through it was actually really nice to see him get to smoke some weed. boy deserves a break.

- to be clear i don’t rly ship byler and i don’t think for one moment there is ever going to be canon byler but if will is not gay for mike then at this point i have no idea what they’re going for

- hehehe yes please break up nancy and jonathan. break them up i hate them.

- i love eddie so far

- robin!!! my gal robin!!! i love her to bits i love her <3

- delighted to see suzie back