elmaxjunkie

#SEASON 5 WAS HASHTAG NOTMYSEASON5 #THIS IS MY SEASON 5

oops i forgorr about this

i think i scribbled this back when i thought s5 was gonna be peak ngl

my version was gonna be peak

it was gonna be mt everest level peakness

the urge to draw possessed max grows stronger everyday

#alright the bangs are banging

wip

If you guess something relatively close to what I'm doing you'll get a prize (high-five)

If you somehow guess the exact thing I'm doing you'll get a better prize (two high-fives)

📡 Pt. 1 “Steppin’ Out” 📡

Here’s Part 1 of my super cool mega rad comic 🐄🛸

(the titles are 80s songs isn’t that cool)

This serves as an introduction / prologue. Your thoughts, feelings, criticisms, and incomprehensible shrieking are encouraged in the replies/reblogs since this is my first time doing this. This part is short since i need to reel you all in and gauge interest first. 🎣

I opted for b&w because i really didn’t feel like coloring everything, but i also enjoy the look of a good b&w comic so 🤷‍♀️.

This is for that AU I posted way back when, with El meeting Max in California rather than Hawkins. I’ve got (at the minimum) 10 parts of plot. If this does well then I’ll consider making this a regular thing. Thanks my fellow banana-nites.

#that's me not even needing to be reeled in #I'm just launching myself into the boat

This is an old draft for a larger thing I was attempting but-

Them meeting in s4 rather than s2 because Max still lives with her father.

Max is a happy loner til the new kid(s) come along. Then she becomes a happy ex-loner with weird but cool friends.

wait low-key, are you guys actually interested in this AU 🧍🏻‍♀️

#stranger things #max mayfield #stranger things 5

good thing they didn't give us any Max merch this season because otherwise they wouldn't have had enough resources to make the merch for the rubber chicken that appeared for 1.7 seconds in episode 1 and that would have been an absolute tragedy

#once again Max was demoted to Lucas's Girlfriend #it feels like the duffers went into this season with one goal:#'ope Max has to wake up so she and Lucas can end the show together'#'and no we don't care about any other relationship she has with any other character'#I mean they literally made her arms work long enough to hug Lucas because that was important #but then all of a sudden they don't work anymore #for anyone wondering why I don't like lumax this is why #anytime they've been together throughout the series their characters become each other's Love Interest and that is it #I've been saying it for years but this season the Duffers really outdid themselves in that regard #Max i will never forgive them for what they did to you

Max's plot this season was utterly pointless. all of the mind prison stuff just to enable her to say "hey El I can guide you through his mind" and then that part lasts like 45 seconds and Max's "guidance" offers barely any difference vs if they just had El and Kali go in there and shuffle through memories on their own (like we have seen El do before!)

Holly's plot didn't require Max to be there. Holly found the mine shaft herself. Holly's exit (giant obvious literal doorway) she could've found on her own. Max's presence only affected the Holly story in that she told her Henry was bad, and gave her that pep talk that opened her portal. instead we could simply have had Holly be suspicious of Henry on her own from the getgo (which would make more sense, this being the stranger danger capital of the world), and instead of Max's pep talk, Holly could focus on what Mike said about Holly the Heroic.

even Max's long-awaited wakeup was a nothingburger in all regards except lumax. the payoff to the emotional expectation built up for the focused-upon pairing of the st4 finale is a mouse fart and then she's skateboarding with no scars and 20/20 vision.

we could've had Max in the ICU but awake at the end of 4, lumax/elmax reunions happening there, without anything seriously changing about 5. they had no idea for Max or Lucas besides ending up together so they had to use that as a carrot dangle I guess.

do you think the first person El hugged in heaven was Benny

#natalie.#why.

whatshappeningistg

guys... (not mine, it's from tiktok)

it's SO suspicious, because okay, it's a quote from the fourth season, but the flashlight is literally the fifth season themed, so what's the point, unless...

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Millie's choice of words seems deliberate. She know that "Mike understands El better that anyone" is bullshit

I cant believe they ruined all the depth and potential El had just so the Duffers could play their last stupid bullshit romance plot.

You know you've fucked up real bad when even the actress who plays the damn character disagrees with what you wrote for her.

Anyone who has seen this show with their eyes open know that Mike never understood El.

#just give me like 5 minutes in a room with this cast #I want the Truth

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Never forget what they took from us

#😃🔫

#I don't have anything to add

Hopper's speech about how El deserves to live saying she'll have a daughter someday and that theoretical daughter is ALSO already presupposed into a prematurely physical relationship with a boy. it's just Hopper projecting his own parenting issues onto future El. and El only getting to say goodbye to Mike. Mike not saying "I love you" but only "don't leave me" (? i'm not checking lmao) making it about HIS feelings yet again.

these were El's last moments as she prepared to take her own life and they made them revolve around the shitass men in her life and THEIR dreams for her. nobody in the entire show ever asked El what her dreams were for herself. ever.

#and way to ruin one of my favorite songs of all time

genuinely purple rain was one of the most surreal moments of my life. baffling song to accompany my nightmare coming true. mileven victory montage of cherrypicked moments where El is performing, pretending to be someone else, having her needs and preferences and feelings not understood. I felt like kali getting her head shaved

#insane that I just woke up and while I was warming myself up a poptart I also started questioning this #🧠#because how did El get to Iceland without being caught by the government #maybe Kali never died and helped her out with that as well #all this is assuming El actually really did make it to Iceland and isn't just dead

popping from acceptance back to bargaining for a moment. and this is genuine spitballing based on (1) watch that I don't feel like repeating. but is it possible Kali never really got shot and all that was a vision she gave Hopper? like... something is itchy about it being so similar to the vision Hop had of shooting El.

just as, in theory, El's death had to be a grand spectacle witnessed by all to guarantee no one would ever look for her, Kali would have to have her death witnessed in order for her disappearance never to be speculated about. then she casts the final visions for El's benefit as she goes down with the ship as planned. is there anything here

just realized I'm even angrier now that they made El move away with the Byers at the end of season 3, knowing all the time that El was going to be (as a fantasy, and at best) exiled all alone to wherever in the end. they really had to rip her away from her loved ones as a test run during her already very limited "happy years" huh. and never even give some of them a meaningful reunion.

#and then the duffers had Hopper do that whole speech #about how her entire life was taken away from her and how she deserved better #THEY had the power to give that to her #what was the point of that monologue #they did not give a shit about that character #or any other ones for that matter #all they did was perpetuate the cycle of El's suffering #and I will hate them forever for that

They ripped her away from the only friends and family she'd ever known. She spent however long believing the only father figure she'd ever had was dead. And then when she got back to Hawkins and Hopper was alive and everything, she had to spend all her time training and saving the world and had no time at all to reconnect with the people she loved.