The Very Curious Consistency of Elmax Wearing Yellow and Blue on their Wrists
I first noticed it in S3. El wears the blue hair tie that used to belong to Sara Hopper as a bracelet. Max wears a yellow watch. These respective accessories stay consistent despite their many outfits:
But that only started in S3, right?
OH, WAIT
(She took off the watch for the dance, but the cuff of her sleeve is still yellow!)
if melvin is gonna be endgame why do most people think otherwise?
not the 330k more supporters lmfao... oh wait, there's more!
i think a pretty good sign that byler is gonna be endgame is that most of the fandom thinks so. (yes, not every byler thinks it'll be endgame and vice versa)
and as a bonus...
even the ronance and elmax tag have more members although those ships have a way lower possibility of becoming canon.
DATE: from the 28th of August to the 3rd of September but we’ll be accepting submissions up to 3 weeks after the event
RULES
Every work you submit must be tagged as #elmaxweek2023 so that we can see it and reblog it!
Any type of work can be part of the event! Submit everything and anything as long it has to do with our girls! Ofc
This is a romantic Elmax week not platonic. Also try to avoid Elumax, please. Your works can have minor or background relationships but the main pair must be Elmax.
Also please try to keep this SFW but if it isn’t, please tag the post as NSFW and hide it under the cut so that we know!
Avoid smut but if there is, again tag the work as such!
FANFIC PROMPTS:
Roomates AU
Rink-O’-Mania fix it (Max goes to Cali instead of Mike or both go to Cali together)
I love them soo much ahh, will would definitely be an alicorn and Mike would be a Pegasus.
this was their design thingy 😭😭 idk tbh but AHHH I gave Mike his shield heart thingy, he's a guard for wills castle and will has little stars bc he's a cool wizard nerd pony and they grew up together :3
elmaxxx
max is blind and can't use her legs so she flies all the time, her back legs are paralyzed. El and max live together and take care of each other.
Max is a really fast flyer and won a lot of races when she was younger, she still flies and the sky is free of obstacles so she can go anywhere while el tries to catch up.
El loves doing Max's hair and uses a different ribbon for each day. Max can't see but she trusts el with her appearance.
Max is a Pegasus and she's a "zoomer":3
El is an alicorn of course, her cutie mark was ruined. It's an eleven. Sometimes, will draws a cutie mark on el when she gets upset about it.
Anyway this was just me combining my special interests
As you can see, there are three prompts for each day (except for day 7); an AU, and two "concepts". This doesn't mean you have to incorporate all three! I decided to put multiple prompts on each day so that it's more likely everyone finds something they like. Either way, if you don't like any of them, or you want to mix prompts from different days, you're welcome to do that! Remember, we make our own rules 😉.
And about day 7: by crossover I mean mixing our girls with some other thing you like. Whether that's them dressed up, in an AU of that universe, interacting with the characters from it, talking about it... Whatever that means for you!
I also want two clear up what I mean by two of the prompts: when I say "violent girlies" I mean a focus on the more "violent" side of them, and what that entails, from literal violence to "you touch her again and I'll kill you, again" to cleaning uo bloody noses. The possibilities are endless! And by "Role Swap AU" I don't necessarily mean between them; they can have any role in the whole show.
If there's any question about a prompt please ask!
RULES:
So, there aren't really any "rules". Any sort of fanwork is accepted, no matter the media (so fanfic, fanart, edits, moodboards, etc...), and you can really do anything you want as long as it's about the girls.
You should tag me and use the tag #elmaxweek2024 on your posts and I'll make sure to reblog it and comment on it!
Also please please please people reblog this so that more people can participate!
Also what song remind you of them that's not "running up the hill" xD
Well, I already made a post about this (here), but I can easily give you new ones.
El is fascinated by Max's red hair. Like, she loves to immerse her face in it, and smell it. Max is flustered, but she lets El do this, because she secretly loves this kind of attention.
At the same time, Max is fascinated by El's powers.
She thinks they are SO cool, and, while El doesn't exactly like her powers, since they remind her of her traumatic childhood at the Lab, she blushes everytime Max defines her as a supergirl.
El is just really flustered by the fact Max sees her powers as something cool, and not as something that makes her a monster, like a lot of other people.
Max obviously reassures El everytime she has those kind of doubts, telling her that she could never see her as a monster.
For Max, El is and always will be the best thing that ever happened in Max's shitty life, with or without powers.
El is shocked, because no one ever said such kind things to her ever, but it makes her at the same time SO glad to have Max in her life.
And, now knowing that Max is impressed and not scared by her powers, El makes sure to never lose occasion to impress the redhead with them.
It works everytime.
(This is Max's reaction everytime she sees what El can do with her powers.
She LOVES her supergirlfriend SO much.)
About the song, I'm not the kind of person who associates characters or ships with song, so I don't have anything in mind, sorry.
But thank you SO SO much for the ask anyway, @broke-art-girl.
(Also, sorry for the problem this post had. This is the version that I wanted to post, but while I was working on it in my drafts, it accidentally posted itself. I don't know how the fuck it happened, since I didn't touched anything, but yeah. Sorry again. Anyway, hope you enjoy these new headcanons!)
It's kinda sad that the moment El moved out of Hawkins (and away from Max) she went back to wearing clothes that weren't her; like the flannels and all.
Somehow this shows that she only felt comfortable and safe to be herself with Max. Like, they were the happiest here.
I mean, the El we saw in season 3, when she was discovering what she really liked, she wouldn't have worn this.
I mean, Joyce, Will and Jonathan are great and take good care of her, they are her family now, but still, they don't understand her like Max.
Well, maybe Will and Jonathan do, in parts, but since Loonie left them, they didn't have to hide who they are because Joyce loves and accepts them just the way they are and she might not be perfect, but she loves them with everything she is.
El never had that. She never had a loving, somehow stable home. Yeah, Hopper was great and he took care of her, he protected her and he definitely loves her, but that doesn't erase all the pain, the trauma, all the abuse she experienced in that lab. And the only person who gets that, is Max because her life was as fucked up as El.
Max never had a stable life, her dad didn't really care about her, Susan thinks that they need a man to take care of them and puts Max safety in jeopardy because of it by bringing Neil and Billy into their lives, and then losing everything after Billy's death. Neil simply kicked them out of the house with nothing to support themselves. Probably not even their clothes because it was bought with his money.
So, Max starts wearing shirts too big for her (not that it doesn't look good on her, but it's not really her style, compared to season 2 and specially season 3), her hair is shorter, always in a loose ponytail.
and her smile is gone, just like the sparkle in her eyes. and I know this is directly related to her depression and it hurts to see her going through this. Alone.
She lost everything; her best friend, the home, her mom is working two jobs just so they can have the minimum, and not to mention her mom is also drinking so she's on her own. And on top of that she needs to deal with the guilt she feels for Billy's death and at the same time for feeling he deserved what happened.
And we know that in this show, even clothes there's a lot of meanings.
It's not really any theory or anything, it's just kind of a character analysis. Sort of. Anyway.
So I don't know if it had been said here before, it probably has, but then it doesn't hurts to remind that:
Max made her choose between the Wonder Woman (El) and Green Lantern (a black superhero; Lucas). El says she doesn't know, because she's distracted with the supernatural stuff. But then Max calms her nerves, and—?
When the supernatural stuff is done for, El asks Max ''Who... is this?'' meaning the Wonder Woman.
Do I even have to say how much this references Mike's ''Superman landed on my doorstep''? He's wrong. El's not Superman. As we all know, she's the Wonder Woman.
''See that, is why you cant only hang out with mike all the time'' says Max. ''This is Wonder Woman. AHA Princess Diana'' [AKA El.]
And so the Green Lantern goes to the side and they start CUDDLING while reading.
And now the part that I am most crazy about, because this is such lesbian coding that I can't even believe it's real.
El Hopper lesbian coding in this scene.
From the hidden Paradise Island? Where there are only women Amazon warriors?
Yeah, yeah, El's from a hidden lab, with other warriors blah, blah, blah—
No.
The hidden paradise Island, a haven, where women reside. Did you mean Island Lesbos?
And now to make it even more incriminating. The shot. Do heed my words, I am not saying they slept together, but this is the most cliché ''We find them in one bed in the morning bc, they slept together'' shot of all times.
Not to mention the rainbow covers. Because. That's just... too obvious.
No because the Elmax scenes in the vr game are getting to me. I thought about it all day. ‘You were rude duh. But you were not a monster’ ‘you were jealous. It’s what makes you human’ ‘you showed me how to find what fits’
‘You’re pretty cool as Jane’
‘Jane’
‘Jane, my friend.’
YOU’RE JOKING YOU’RE JOKING I’M GONNA RIP MY OWN THROAT OUT
THIS was the pump up speech El needed. Not Mike’s. Bro I’m sobbing
avarage reaction of me when i see a romantic elmax edit with the loveliest love song but the caption says "their friendship🩷" and the creator claims that video was made for platonic elmax: