[darklinaforever]

Mike's face when El died... And his expressions throughout the rest of the episode after that? With El died, a significant part of him died too instantly. He only truly began to live when she came into his life, and now it's over. He's back to square one. Being present in this world, but without truly living. If El is truly dead, understand that Mike will never move on. He will literally never love another girl. Not for me.

[stydixa]

STRANGER THINGS (2016 - 2025) Season 5 - Episode 8 - The Rightside Up

[charlieconwayy]

mike is the only one who believed el was alive in season 2 so i’m taking this to mean el is in fact, alive!

[cyninthebubble]

Mileven 💕

[heygongeous]

i need to document this. i think ive reached peak performance in my ability to predict bad writing. right before the epilogue scene in s5 when el dies, i literally paused and fucking said out loud to myself “do you know what would be crazy? if i was a REALLY bad writer, i would give el ANOTHER fakeout death this episode and somehow keep kali alive long enough to make a pretend clone of her, but obviously that would never happen.” GUESS WHAT HAPPENS FORTY MINUTES LATER.

[stydixa]

STRANGER THINGS (2016 - 2025) Season 5 - Episode 8 - The Rightside Up

[mitsuki-komori]

After that Stranger Things finale, I am distraught. I feel bad for Kali and ELEVEN IS ON HER OWN 😭😭

So, here's what I say and it's very canon because I say so: after Mike realizes Eleven is still alive, he begins his quest to search for her. Not sure how long it takes, probably at least a year at the bare minimum. He publishes a book in that time (as we saw in the post credits). Eventually, he finds her in Iceland and they reunite and live happily ever after. Not sure if they're able to be in contact with everyone else, but the point is that Mike and Eleven get their happily ever after and so does everyone else! I don't care what the Duffer Brothers say, this is the truth. Trust.

[thief-and-dragonfly]

By the way Max saying that it doesn’t necessarily have to be music to save you from Vecna,just proved that Mike’s I love you monologue to El was valid.So once again Milevens were right about that.

[pjo-fan17]

“Mike did nothing this season.”

… sure.

gave Holly and Will pep talks

Explained the plan for the crawl

Came up with another plan

Beat a demo

Lead the kids through a warzone

Tried consoling El when she feels helpless

Ran to El when the lights started flickering

There wasn’t much for Mike to do in volume 2. Maybe El and Mike being so stoic this season is intentional. Don’t call it character assassination just because Mike didn’t do what you wanted him to do for your ship.

[frutigeraeroween]

"el needs to be independent and make her own choices, that's why mileven should break up!!1!" EL HAS ALREADY HAD MULTIPLE INDEPENDENCE ARCS AND EVERY SINGLE TIME SHE STILL CHOOSES TO BE IN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH MIKE!!! STOP DIMINISHING HER AGENCY STOP IT!!!

[bluemoonscape]

Bylers x Milevens enemies to lovers arc was not on my bingo card

[dailystrangerthings]

Mileven + hugs STRANGER THINGS (2016 - 2025)

[crown-prince-zuko]

Happy Lumax everyone.

[stydixa]

STRANGER THINGS 5 VOL. 2 Episode 6 - Escape From Camazotz

[ecstasdxll]

will is so weird, mileven for life

[booksandmore]

hey so btw mike’s relationship with el doesn’t diminish his relationship with will and his relationship with will doesn’t erase his relationship with el and their relationship with mike doesn’t replace the relationship between will and el

[milevenlvr]

Mike and Eleven through the lens of John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory (1986) - by psiellenwandme on Instagram