2026 COLOUR CHALLENGE:  August

colour: purple | theme: astrology / space | challenges: try making a character/person profile.

MAKE ME CHOOSE –

@lifelongblur asked eleven or max?

- They claim to have a deep understanding of her character but this understanding is as deep as a puddle and does not extend beyond calling her Jane and hating Mileven

- “She’s such a Pinkie Pie and Mabel Pines variant! 🥺” (literally only saying this for the purpose of Willel siblings, completely mischaracterising her as that’s her polar opposite)

- Claim she’d be extremely supportive of Byler immediately, and would have 0 issues at first with finding out Mike didn’t actually love her romantically, because of course she’s not allowed complex ‘imperfect’ emotions or reactions to things that would inconvenience male characters

- Reduce her to a silly, overly childish, energetic loud and bubbly unicorns and rainbows persona- view it as just giving her whimsy- and ignore the fact that watering down a female character who is flawed, layered and does in fact have emotional issues, problems and complexity because that’s ’too much to handle’, and so making her this sanitised joyful pinkie pie that has 0 semblance to her actual character, is just misogyny, especially since it’s always paired with them allowing the males in the show to be complex and flawed in their characterisations (including males who El in canon is more complex than. So both Mike and Will)

- Act like Willel are canonically close and would dump Mike for each other, and don’t stop to ponder that if they were actually girlboss besties, they probably wouldn’t have to almost exclusively use *behind the scenes* photos of *Millie Bobby Brown and Noah Schnapp* hanging out in their edits and posts of them

- Emphasis on exclusively basing their characterisation of El on behind the scenes photos of Millie in-costume, and acting like El has the same personality as her actor

- Says she’s not ready for a relationship and then says Henderhop should’ve got together

- Infantilise her to oblivion, act like she can’t understand any complex ideas (even though she absolutely can, outside her limited vocabulary she is very intelligent)

- Make her speak in broken English like a 2 year old (by season 4, and even season 2-3 for the most part, she’s speaking full sentences and has minimal struggle with her vocabulary. And she has also never spoken in broken English in a childish manner. Even in season 1, she was just mostly non verbal and would be quiet and speak in a more simple way, or ask clarification on what things mean. She was never a drooling baby)

Paladin & mage <3

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