at the bed of three waterfalls

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[vanillawildflower]

“you understand me, better than anyone. from the day we met, you’ve seen me, the real me” “but the truth is el, i don’t know how to live without you. i feel like my life started that day we found you in the woods” and that’s on mileven soulmates, mike has always been her safe space & the person who understood her the most, and el has always been his entire world. oh my doomed tragic lovers you deserved to be happy together forever like you always wanted

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

how others feel about your boundaries is not your responsibility

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

Something I heard from a friend a few years ago really changed my understanding of boundaries. A boundary is necessarily has to be something you can enforce.

"Do not call me after 9" is not a boundary. I can't control someone else's actions

"I do not pick up the phone after 9" is a boundary, I can choose if I pick up or not

[the-belldam]

I think a more useful way of framing this isn't about the semantics, but about the actions. It's perfectly reasonable to ask someone not to call you after 9, but it may be up to you to not to pick up.

When people say a boundary has to be something you can enforce it's not about how you frame it, but about those who try to manipulate others with therapy speak. It's more like

"I have a boundary where you can't see your male friends." Not a reasonable or healthy boundary; controls the other person.

"Please don't call me after 9." Reasonable boundary, sets expectations, can be referred back to if ignored.

To drive it home, some boundaries HAVE to be phrased this way. If I don't like to be touched, I have no way to set that boundary except to say, "Please don't touch me." I can't really enforce others not touching me, but that doesn't mean I don't have the right to set that boundary.

[vanillawildflower]

!!!

[vanillawildflower]

watching the majority of the fandom root for brayden and hate on freddie’s character for the exact same reason bellyjeres hated conrad’s character and rooted for jeremiah yet got absolutely FLAMED on for by the entire internet last summer… #noticing

[frutigeraeroween]

those snl skits are canon to me now idgaf mike wheeler becomes a drug addict bc of his depression from losing el and later goes searching for her in iceland with dustin & lucas

[vanillawildflower]

that's MY mike wheeler like at the end of the day we never really lose i'm crying

[sleepyashelio]

havent posted in a while heres iceland mileven cus someone on twt asked me to post it here

[vanillawildflower]

this is canon #to me beautiful perfect wonderful

[annebethchase]

Idc call me delusional if you will but I truly do believe in my heart mike & el eventually find their way back to each other

[vanillawildflower]

as finn said “they always come back to each other. it doesn’t matter how long they’re apart.” i truly believe he goes after her & they are reunited. and i don’t give a single flying FUCK what those idiot brothers say. they defied logic and realism to give everyone else a happy ending, el’s makes no narrative sense whatsoever.

the real way el breaks the cycle is by living a life with happiness with the one who always loved her best. mileven grow old together, like they always wanted to. that’s how the story goes for me.

[vanillawildflower]

anyone else still completely devastated and unable to move on or is it just me and mike wheeler

[vanillawildflower]

i have a feeling you got everything you wanted

and you’re not wasting time stuck here like me

you’re just thinking it’s a small thing that happened

the world ended when it happened to me

please don’t do this. please don’t leave me.

[thedykeparade]

everyone besides Mike seemingly moving on like El never even existed disgusts me so much honestly fuck EVERYONE except El and Mike idgaf anymore they're all dead to me. Ruined. And you know what Mike was always the one who cared the most about her and yes this includes Hopper like I said idgaf anymore. I would burn them all alive to keep her warm

[vanillawildflower]

yeah. in the end mike was the one who cared about her the most. watching that finale just made me realise that seeing everyone else happy meant nothing to me without el there

[thedykeparade]

The way they took so much from El, not only in-universe (her name, her childhood, her autonomy, her family, her teenage years) but also the writers of the show deliberately took so much from her this season (the importance of her as a character, to her family, to her friends. Her entire life) The only thing they could never take away from her even if they tried is the love of the boy who was the first to show her kindness. The sky is blue and Mike Wheeler will forever love El Hopper more than anything. Nothing can change that. I'll kms

[vanillawildflower]

😀🔫

[dapunzel]

My Fellow Milevens, regardless of the tragedy S5 was, both for the characters individually and as a ship, please remember this. They always come back to each other. No matter how long they're apart

[vanillawildflower]

holding onto this through my tears they will ALWAYS find their way back to each other always always

[darklinaforever]

If Eleven is truly alive, Mike will find her. It might take years. But he will. Because if she's alive, they're still one. She's a part of him, and he's a part of her. He can literally feel her. Yes, it will take time, but he will find her. They will always find their way back to each other.

[vanillawildflower]

yes. we had those moments where you could SEE mike was feeling something, the implication being that it’s el, it’s a given to me that they will find each other. they are too much of each other not to

[vanillawildflower]

something about all the main characters surviving the craziest, most unrealistic scenarios completely unscathed with zero repercussions whatsoever - max from her coma, hopper, pretty much every main character - but for some bizarre fucking reason, el is where they draw the line? all of them getting their happy endings with the sole exception of el and mike, one of whom is at best alone and separated, and the other of whom endured the worst heartbreak of his life, watched his greatest fear become the reality for the second time, and will realistically never move on.

oh, el represents “magic” and “childhood” and the party can’t move on with her there apparently. because while everyone else is treated as a character in their own right, el’s entire life was treated as a metaphor. a fucking metaphor.

the most traumatised, mistreated, selfless character - and this was acknowledged in this VERY episode which almost makes it worse - was the only one who was not given a happy ending. “but you never let it break you … fight for the days on the other side of this”. what was it all for in the end? it all started with el and mike, and it ended with them too. they shared the same dream of staying together forever and growing old together, yet in some sick twist of fate they were the only two main characters who didn’t get their happy ending. el fought for the happy days, el never let her many awful traumas and bad luck in life break her, but in the end it didn’t matter. she was never going to get a happy ending with the rest of them.

the storyteller and the mage. the most special, the most selfless, the most tragic.

fuck the duffers, man

[vanillawildflower]

“please don’t do this. please don’t leave me” mike’s total desperation and the way he was really pleading and begging her until the very end, yeah this fucking destroyed me

[hahfiwbdb]

Lost for words, they're braindead & misogynistic no other way to put it

[vanillawildflower]

they really treated everyone like an actual person with the sole exception of el, whose entire life is just a fucking metaphor. it’s absolutely insane. hopper’s speech about how she deserved a better life beyond her trauma was all for what? shits and gigs? I’m fuming. el i’m so sorry. she deserved so much better.

[vanillawildflower]

absolutely haunted by the sheer raw anguish of mike screaming for el, their last kiss, the most passionate and devastating kiss we’ve seen on the show. they will always be stranger things’ greatest love story and this finale only proved that. el’s “i love you,” both of them crying, mike screaming for her over and over again. “i can’t live without you” “i can’t lose her again” “i can’t lose you”. mike’s one constant throughout every single season was his fear of losing her. his pure desperation begging her not to leave him killed me but showed so beautifully how much he loved her. how much they loved each other. “a love so strong it breaks down dimensional barriers.”

oh mileven. you’ll always be the show’s greatest love story.

[vanillawildflower]

if anything happens to them i swear duffer brothers i will find you and i will catch you

[vanillawildflower]

stranger things season 5 episode 9: the vanishing of the duffer brothers