#max and lucas

[fallenrosepettals]

Happily Ever After

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[imauselessartist]

Lumax in s5 (but from memory and bobble heads)

They better get their happily ever after endings istfg

[livelovelumax]

I swear I'm becoming the Lumax rant account but...

Can I just say some of the stuff I've seen on ST Twitter is super trauma blind?

Like the other day someone was saying they don't like the idea of Max living at the Sinclair house in the epilogue or sleeping in Lucas's room/bed and that his parents wouldn't allow it and I'm sorry but I doubt Charles (a Vietnam veteran, mind you, the guy knows what PTSD is) and Sue gaf about respectability politics atp. They watched their son fall apart for 19 months because he "failed" to save his gf and now they've got two traumatized teenagers (hell, 3 if you count Erica) who survived a supernatural apocalypse like I'm pretty sure none of them are ever gonna be normal again so if Lumax wanna share a bed, it's not the end of the world (which they already faced 😂).

Also I've said this before but whenever people headcanon them going to different colleges or doing long distance it bugs the living sh-t out of me I'm so sorry. Like in what universe when they just got each other back? It was the 80s-90s, LDRs were basically a death sentence but even if their bond COULD survive it, why choose yet another obstacle/separation when Mike's narration confirms they "retire from battle" both literally and metaphorically? Make it make sense ughhh lol

No hate but yeah I don't buy it at all. Like it's one thing if you're writing an AU where they aren't traumatized af, but in canon? I reject that so much. I mean I personally reject it regardless but especially in canon. No way they’d separate ever again lol

[what-gs-watching]

"And then there’s another road… where you find a way to accept what happened."

Ugh, you guys. I’m SO over the internet, lately. Seriously, why does everyone to have negative as fuck about every single thing in the world? Why can’t anyone just enjoy things anymore? Why is the hive mind SO hell bent on being absolutely horrible and taunting and HATEFUL? 

AKA, I don’t understand the hate for the second half of the  Stranger Things final season. 

Wherein we deal with the reality that Will now has powers, we follow Holly & Max’s attempt to escape Vecna’s mind, Hop and El rescue Kali from the lab and make it back to the rightside up, the party finally figures out what the upside down ACTUALLY is, and a final battle is waged. 

A lot of the stuff I was seeing was saying that nothing at all really happened in episodes 5 - 7. I do admit they felt a little slow at times but Jesus, it takes WORK to get all of the chess pieces to fall into place and that’s a lot of what was going on. 

Highlights for me definitely include Steve and Dustin talking out their shit. Was it harsh to say that Eddie died for no reason? Maybe, but like, let’s all be real here, Eddid didn’t NEED to run into that swarm of bats to keep the rest of the party safe, he just wanted to prove to himself that he wouldn’t run anymore. And like, that’s fine that’s his choice but Dustin needed to hear it.

And the teary admission that Dustin can’t lose Steve was perfect. Their friendship was and always will be one of my absolute favorite parts of this show. I honestly care less about the friendships in the main party than I do those two. There I said it.

Meanwhile, Will overtaking Vecna’s mind to save / warn Max and Holly was incredible. That scene with him screaming for them to run was iconic. This dude spent the majority of the show as the one who needed to be saved always, it was a nice full circle moment for him to be able to do something for someone else for once. 

With Joyce’s full support and approval too. It was about time for her to understand that she’s been hindering him this entire time. I get the need to protect your kid after such a horrifying thing happened to him but girl, holding him back like that was detrimental. Props to for realizing that and accepting it. Did it go perfectly? No, but you let him try and that’s what matters. 

And yeah maybe they spent too much time on Holly, I can understand those arguments but I don’t care, gang, because it got us time with Max and it got Max OUT of Vecna’s horrible mind prison and that’s what matters. Having her wake up with Lucas and just surrounded by people who love her was beautiful. If Holly got to piggyback on that moment, so be it. She’s a plot vehicle y’all, it’s fine.

I’m also going to admit that I was never one for Jonathan and Nancy’s relationship, but I did appreciate their heart to heart. How fucking mature was that entire thing? And bittersweet. They went through something insane and it bonded them and it suffocated them too. Them saying they loved each other was so poignant. They do and they always will but woof, they were not a good couple and they couldn’t be. I feel like there are SO many people out there who would have just proposed and they would have fallen into a terrible unhappy life together, and I appreciate that we can see characters prioritizing themselves instead.

I do admit that I think the military storyline and the whole “we’re trying to make new Vecna’s” left a lot to be desired. Did that bitch even know there was a wormhole? Or was it purely just about creating like weird mind soldiers? If they had explained it to her, would she have chilled the fuck out? I mean, lol no I’m sure the government wouldn’t have chilled the fuck out and El would have always been hunted but still like, it could have been more cohesive.

What I’m more concerned about is people being gross about Will’s coming out scene. It was there from the start friends, it was always going to happen. Did Kali and Robin’s girlfriend need to be there? No, but who cares. Will got to choose, he got to control it and he got the reassurance he needed. That was an extremely dangerous thing to do in the 80’s and he did it anyway, because he didn’t want to be scared anymore. Even if he accepted it himself, he needed to know that the people he loved most would accept it too to be completely out of Vecna’s control. LET WILL HAVE WHAT HE NEEDS, fuck. 

Some people are salty as hell and it shows. I really will never ever understand caring so much about something a person can’t change about themselves to the point that you’d hate them for it. What does it matter to you? Literally, what difference does it make at all in your life? I can’t.

Meanwhile, I really enjoyed the finale as a whole. Watching the party fight against Vecna in their own ways, working together, generally being badass. Joyce literally chopping his fucking head off, all of that was incredibly satisfying. Was it too easy? Maybe. I even liked the fact that Henry was like ‘nah bro I chose this I’m cool with it’ - he was humanized just enough. Like, you didn’t really choose it but you’ve made peace with it and you’re on board now and that’s fine, be a proper villain but also like sorry, you gotta go.

What was more interesting to me obviously was the epilogue. I cried through most of it. I just love happy endings for people. Dustin doing exactly what Eddie said he would do at graduation. Seeing Nancy and Steve and Robin and Jonathan turning into little adults and having their own lives, but acknowledging that they want to maintain their bond. Hopper and Joyce getting engaged.

I loved that they ended with a game of D&D. That was absolutely a must, and the scene with all of them putting their notebooks on the shelf was so sweet. They really  were saying goodbye to their childhoods. 

Also, I’m going to say it. I agree that El couldn’t stay. She was protecting all of them, setting them all free from a life on the run. Hopper and Mike both would have absolutely tried to protect her for the rest of their lives but she wanted more for them, and I respect the fuck out of that. 

I’m okay with believing that Mike’s story about her escape is true, but I’m also okay with thinking she truly is gone. It’d be nice if she escaped and really did find a crazy town with three waterfalls but also, it was always going to be dangerous to humanity if she continued to exist. Brenner, the Russians, the US Government - Kali was right that it would never stop. And it’s not insane to think that she’d sacrifice herself to try to help ensure that the literal entire world is a safer place. 

Maybe I’m just easy to please, but it made me cry and it felt earned and satisfying. Granted, my entire life wasn’t wrapped up in the show and I wasn’t down a crazy theory rabbit hole or anything. I guess some people are just impossible to please, and I feel bad that they can’t find joy in their lives. 

Art is art and content is art and it’s all subjective. I don’t regret being a part of the Stranger Things journey for all nine years and I don’t feel let down. It’s a great show with wonderful characters that are going to ride into the sunset, and that’s beautiful. 

No, there won’t be a secret 9th and final episode. No, you’ll never know for sure what happened to Eleven. And it’s fine to think whatever you want and create your own ending, head canon is real, but like, please stop ruining it for everyone else. Maybe touch some grass.

Fandoms can be toxic, and this one is a little bit. And that’s a shame. Everyone involved should be proud of what they made. Fuck the haters. Their last adventure was wonderful. 

The point is: Hawkins will always have a place in my heart, and everything else is just noise.

[hawkinshotmess]

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song: "Objection!" by Finn Wolfhard

[theblurredgirloffical]

my fav duos!

[stincorrect]

Lucas: Teamwork makes the scheme work. Max:…I don’t think that’s the expression. Lucas: No it definitely is.