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Thanksgiving is only five days away, and since another year and season have come and gone, it’s time to update the Hawkins Thanksgiving headcanons of last year:

- The Wheelers always go out of town to spend Thanksgiving with family, and Mike hates that he can’t stay home to spend El’s first Thanksgiving together, biting his tongue and not saying what he’s actually thinking when his mom says how important it is to spend the day with family: that it’s like spending the day with a bunch of Dad-clones (and that El feels more like family than his relatives do). He promises to see her the next day, which he does, full of questions about what her first ever Thanksgiving was like. - The Sinclairs have family over, their house crammed full of Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair’s parents and siblings and Lucas and Erica’s cousins. Mrs. Sinclair makes her signature pecan pies and Mr. Sinclair and his brothers argue over how to prepare the turkey. The kids all argue over what games to play while they avoid getting drafted into setting the table or working in the kitchen. Lucas invites Max, but: - Max flies back to California to spend the weekend with her dad, the one set day a year she gets to see him on her own. They don’t worry so much about dinner as they do the chance to catch up in person and wish that she didn’t have to go back to Indiana. Still, they end up in a back corner booth at a Denny’s that’s out of everything where they people-watch out the window. They spend the rest of the weekend window-shopping and catching up over peppermint ice creams. - Dustin invites Steve to come with him and his mom to Indianapolis to spend the day with his mom’s family. Since Steve’s parents have managed the last few years to be busy on Thanksgiving Day, he accepts and even offers to drive all the way. He finds a station that’s already playing Christmas music and leaves it there, the three of them singing along the entire ride. Everyone in Dustin’s family falls in love with Steve, particularly Dustin’s aunts who live for compliments on their cooking. Dustin loves having someone besides his dorky younger cousins and cheek-pinching aunts to talk to after dinner, especially someone who’ll also roll their eyes when grandpa inevitably starts a pointless debate that all the adults join in on, making the dinner instantly more awkward. It also helps that Steve can give him a few pointers on how to successfully toss a football, even if they’re the only ones playing and they both absolutely suck (Steve insists that it’s because he’s a basketball man). - The Byers spend the day at home, except this time they’re joined by Hopper and El. Hopper brings and prepares a turkey while Joyce struggles with her instant potatoes, trying to follow the instructions on the box to the letter so they don’t turn out runny like they always do. El and Will make the pies together, keeping a close eye on the timer so the frozen Sara Lee pies don’t burn. They use canned cranberry sauce and boxed stuffing, but once they’re all sitting down at the table, it’s the best dinner they’ve ever had. It’s quiet and peaceful, just what they all need after the events of just a few weeks before. Hopper and Joyce wash the dishes together after dinner, chatting at the table over a pot of coffee once they’re finished. The kids flip through the channels on the television until they find a Christmas movie, which they don’t really pay much attention to since they’re too busy passing the can of whipped cream back and forth and hoping Hopper and Joyce don’t notice when they just slightly miss their mouths. But eventually, El and Will fall asleep on each other’s shoulders and Hopper decides it’s about time he and El head home. He puts on his coat and picks up the plates of leftovers Joyce had to force him to take because he was worried about she and the boys having enough. But as she pointed out, he had his own kid to worry about now, so just take the damn food, Jim. He smirks to himself because Joyce is the only one who can get away with that, and gently wakes El up, shepherding her to the door to bundle up. They head home, a Christmas music station gently playing on the car radio, quiet enough to let El doze in her seat. Once they get home and put away the leftovers, they collapse in their respective bedrooms, resting up for the next morning when their quiet breakfast of turkey sandwiches will be cut short by the arrival of five excited kids, one in particular practically crashing through the door to see El after a whole day apart.

#good and pure #the party

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Caleb McLaughlin photographed by Ricky Middlesworth for Schön! Magazine

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#otp; zoomage

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mage and zoomer

#babies #eleven #max hargrove #max mayfield

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headcanons for eleven’s first day of high school

- Hopper won’t leave her alone and insists on driving her to school in his cop car

- They spend the whole time going over modified Don’t Be Stupid rules

- El gets nervous about how she looks and if she’s pretty and Hopper tells her she looks bitchin

- She makes a straight line for Mike and the other members of the party but mostly for Mike

- She still doesn’t like Max

- When they get to their first period class El tries to sit down beside Mike but the teacher insists she introduce herself

- She’s really nervous but Mike gives her an encouraging smile

- The teacher starts her off by saying her name is Jane but El interrupts

- “Eleven.”

- “Excuse me?”

- “My name is Eleven.”

- Everyone else is like “okay this one’s weird” but Mike and the party are just smiling proudly

- She has a member of the party in every class and it’s all going smooth

- Until gym when she realizes the only person in there she knows is Max

- And Eleven is fine being alone but Max is determined to be this girl’s friend

- So she sits her ass down on the bleachers beside El and gives introducing herself another shot

- They form a shaky friendship that only grows stronger as the year progresses

- El managed to convince Hopper to let her go to Mike’s after school

- So she rides on the back of his bike just like good old times and Max skates by their side

- And when not one but TWO pretty girls show up with the party, Karen thinks she’s seeing things

- And then she finds out that her BABY has a girlfriend?????

- Tis overwhelming and she has to sit down

- The boys teach Max and El how to play D&D and El fucking kicks their asses

- When Hopper shows up at 8 to pick Eleven up she gives Mike a kiss right in front of Hopper

- Mike wants to crawl into a hole because his mom is cooing, the boys are making kissy faces, and Hopper looks like he wants to string him up by his toes

- But all is forgiven when they get in the car and Hopper asks El how her day was

- And she responds with a new word she learned

- “Fantastic.”

#aaAAAAAAHHHH #eleven

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David Harbour showing up at the Duffer brothers doorstep: so here’s my plan for season 2 it opens up to Joyce and Hopper on a date and then they go over to Hoppers house while Eleven is conveniently at the wheelers. They make out. The whole episode is them making out (and maybe something a little more) the next episode is also them making out but in a different location. They can make out in Hoppers truck just like they used to between fifth and sixth. In fact each episode can just be them making out in a different location. Please I just really want to kiss Winona Ryder. Also would you please check out my Jopper fic on ao3 and leave some kudos it’s titled Jopper one shots and my handle is Jopper5evah.

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height differences

Mike goes through a growth spurt in high school and suddenly becomes 90% leg with lanky and gangly limbs. Will stays on the small/short side due to him not sleeping or eating well. Mike is delighted by their height difference - “how’s the weather down there Byers?” “hope a bird shits on your head, Wheeler” - and Will just rolls his eyes at all the short jokes.

But even though Mike’s way taller, Will is nimbler, quicker, and much more graceful - Mike is prone to tripping over himself and banging his head on things because he underestimates how tall he is. Will bursts into laughter ever time he stumbles down the stairs to the basement. Sometimes when Mike gets too excited and starts running in the hallways, Will has to grab his backpack to make sure he doesn’t fall flat on his face.

At one point Will decides that he should take advantage of Mike’s height and demands piggyback rides whenever he can. He gets to the point where he’ll just creep up on Mike - Mike always pretends not to notice - and jumps on his back making Mike wheeze as he wraps his arms around the back of Will’s legs to support him. In retaliation, Mike always uses Will’s head as a resting place wherever they are, even when he’s not tired. Will always sees through his bullshit but bears with it anyways. Mike also does that dramatic “Oh what’s this? Gravity is failing me!!” when Will is behind him and fall backwards to him while Will shrieks as he tries to to hold Mike’s weight up: “Michael Wheeler, if you don’t get up right now we’ll both fall, you hear me?! Both of us!”

And of course, there are things that go unspoken. Like how when Mike wraps his arm around Will’s shoulder, he thinks about how Will would be the perfect little spoon. Like how when Will looks up at Mike’s laughing face and knows if he tiptoes just a bit he’ll be close to perfect kissing height. But they keep these thoughts unvoiced and if Mike initiates hugs more often and Will clings to them a little longer, neither of them say anything about it.

(It’s okay though. They don’t know it yet but one day a few years in the future, both of them will laugh at how stupid they were when they were younger. And Mike will discover that yes, Will really is the perfect little spoon even though his feet are as cold as icicles. And Will finds out that even on his tiptoes, Mike has to lean down a little to kiss him properly. 

But it’s a perfect kiss every time.)

#otp; we can go crazy together

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15, "I'm not a fucking brick I have emotions." for byeler

“You’re not going to see that boy again, Michael,” Ted Wheeler casually said as he speared his chicken breast. Mike tightened his grip on his fork. 

“Will and I have been best friends for nine years. Why are you acting like you suddenly have no idea who he is?!” Mike replied angrily. 

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the party + modern au: in every universe, on every timeline, steve loves his little shits

#au #steve harrington

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the party + modern au: snowball 2k17

#au #otp; i can’t lose you again

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the party + modern au: “madmax” max mayfield is finally at home with her party

(dedicated to @stancys!)

#au #will byers

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the party + modern au: introducing: will byers. unapologetic, strong, and done with your bullshit. trying to make money on his art. also trying to get a boyfriend.

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#au #will byers

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El wears mike's sweaters all the time because they're fucking hideous but you know. They smell like him and they're soft

UM THIS IS SO CORRECT??? and mike literally does not care … at all. let me break it down for you

+ el literally doesnt understand gender norms so she doesnt see a problem w her loving mike’s sweaters?? they just a part of him and she Loves him??

+ they are objectively hideous but el could not care LESS !!!!! she loves them and is always stealing them

+ but let’s be honest ….she doesn’t even have to steal them bc mike literally offers them so readily like el could be like wow there’s a draft and he would already be ripping off his last sweater he has in his closet (it’s the dead of a midwest winter, mind you) and giving it to her

+ hopper finds her arsenal of sweaters while she’s at max’s one day as he goes through her room to get laundry and he’s like What The Hell

+ so el comes home and is like WHERE ARE THE SWEATERS!!!!!

+ and hopper is like they’re in the wash bc youre gonna give them back to him! it’s january in indiana you cannot be stealing this boy’s sweaters

+ she probably throws a lil bit of a fit ab it tbh bc she’s hilarious and hopper is just like Dear God

+ “el this kid is so hook line and sinker over you, you cant just steal his things bc they smell like him…..the phrase means he would do anything for you….yes it’s all very sweet, stop blushing and focus on what im telling you…..we’re taking those sweaters back”

+ so later that night, Hopper drags El to Mike’s and they’re both standing at the door and el is clearly pissed to be giving these sweaters back AND MIKE OPENS THE DOOR!

+ he’s all soft over el but then he sees Hopper and is like Yes Hello Sir

+ and hopper is like here’s all of your sweaters back kid and he gives the massive pile to mike and mike is like ?????

+ and el is just like “hopper says you’re ‘hookline n sinker” over me and i shouldn’t steal your things anymore bc that’s unfair. 

+ mike AGAIN IS LIKE ???? except this time he is ALSO blushing

+ but el continues and is like “what hop doesnt realize is that im hookline n sinker over you too. i’d let you take my sweaters, but you’re too tall for them.”

+ so mike is just a sputtering, blushing mess and hopper is like “ok kid time to go, see you later wheeler. dont tell your dad i said hi.” as he ruffles el’s hair and leads her back to the car

+ but you already know that el started her old habit up again the next time she saw mike !!!!

#otp; i can’t lose you again

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I feel like mike would be super insecure about his appearance, but so would Eleven so mike would put away all of his insecurities to make Eleven feel beautiful

OMG THEYRE SO SOFT!!!!

+ ok so like we all know that mike is tall and lanky and awkward bc that’s just what it means to be a 14/15 year old boy and he probably feels real weird ab it !!!

+ especially when they become freshmen and mike sees all of these guys that are tall like him but are also like built and look like they fit in the skin they’re in and mike wears his insecurities on his sleeve (despite him thinking he’s oh so secretive !!) bc he’s a SOFT BOY WITH MORE FEELINGS THAN ANYONE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

+ and el kind of picks up on it bc she’s an empathetic Queen and she can especially tell when something is wrong when Mike gets like uncharacteristically upset w her for trying to get a piggy back ride (which she has done 57389 times)

+ and she’s like why are you being so weird! did i do something???

+ this turns him onto his protective!mike mode and he’s like of course not im just stressed ab some stuff and its not ur fault and im sorry

+ this appeases her enough to get her to drop it for the time being

+ BUT THEN!!!!!! a couple of days past and el decides to surprise mike with some cupcakes she baked (bc he is still kinda weird and she always loves when he surprises her with his “just cuz” gifts) and she drops by after school, karen lets her in and tells her mike is in his room, so she heads upstairs only to find his room empty and shes like Huh!

+ however! she sees the bathroom door cracked open and she recognizes those dang curls anywhere and she like sees him staring at himself shirtless in the mirror just like poking himself w a sad look on his face and her heart LURCHES!! SHES LIKE WHY IS HE SO SAD!!!!

+ so el, not really understanding boundaries that well yet, comes in without knocking and is like why are you doing that

+ and hes like holy shit el you scared the crap out of me but then he looks down at his still shirtless body and grows so red and embarrassed and is like uh nothing 

+ so she starts poking him, mimicking what he was just doing and he’s like uhhhhhhh this is not helping him from not blushing!

+ then she like lifts up her shirt enough to see her stomach - not as flat as mike’s but not like anything crazy - and mike is so confused !!!

+ she starts poking herself and looking kind of sad and is like “pretty?”

+ and mike is like aklhajkfk YES PRETTY! of course pretty! el, you know i think you’re beatiful

+ and el, of course, knows this, and she’s trying not to blush bc she’s trying to prove a point

+ el goes back to poking mike in all of the places he was poking himself, looking sad and goes “pretty.”

+ this, obviously, was supposed to be a compliment bc el doesn’t understand the lack of gender nuetrality in the english language

+ but this somehow seems to upset mike more?? like he’s not mad or anything but his body kind of shrinks and he slides to the floor, his head in his hands

+ el follows him and sits in front of him, trying to grab his hands in hers bc the last time she saw him this upset she was miles away and not allowed to let him know she was alive and she really just wants to be there for him this time

+ but he’s so irritable and upset and he’s like “el you dont get it! it’s different for boys and girls! idont want to be pretty. i want to be like handsome or hot or ripped or” and he feels sostupid so he stops

+ el does not understand a lot of things about people and how they interact in society functionally! but she understands her mike 

+ “you are all of those things, mike. but you don’t have to look like everyone else. i think you’re the best boy to look at.”

+ this makes mike kind of laugh bc she is so sincere but no one says those things besides el and no one could make me him feel so good besides el and he’s just a mess of love for that girl!

+ so mike just kind of sighs and grabs el’s hand, having her sit next to him so he can wrap his arm around her and he’s like “i know ur right but it just sucks when the guy next to me in the locker room has a six pack and im a shrimp”

+ and el is like “i had shrimp with you for your birthday and it was delicious so i dont know what ur complaining about”

+ and mike just laughs and kisses her forehead bc like she’s right! she likes shrimp (both the food…and him) so how bad could he really be

#otp; i can’t lose you again

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F: When I had you to myself, I didn’t want you around, G: Those pretty faces always made you stand out in a crowd! C: But someone picked you from the bunch, one glance was all it took, N: Now it’s much too late for me to take a second look! (x)

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a fic prompt - Steve gets introduced to El and internally he's like 'guess ive got 5 kids now' :3

frICK this is cute thank u for this prompt omg

hopefully!!! i did okay!!! ahfsdlfkja

Steve finally properly meets Eleven three days after the fact, on a bright and sunny morning. It’s a busy day in Hawkins - people seem to be getting a head-start on holiday shopping early this year - but beneath all that surface-level hustle and bustle, The Party is busy with their own excitable rush.

(Inwardly, Steve winces every time he subconsciously refers to the group of traumatized humans he’s unwittingly become a part of as The Party. He really, really needs to stop spending so much time with Dustin.)

If their fellow citizens notice the fact that Hopper, Joyce, Nancy, Jonathan, and Steve have been driving back and forth along the same path over and over again all day today, they don’t seem to care. Dustin doesn’t seem all that bothered by it, either; he just chatters away into his walky-talky radio…thing in Steve’s passenger’s seat, pointing out various window fronts to his friends as they drive along ahead of them or behind them, oblivious to Steve’s occasional side-long glances. Every now and then Lucas or Mike will answer, usually in the form of an exasperated groan or else yelling at him to shut up, but Dustin is completely unperturbed.

It’s hard to admit, but Steve almost envies him.

At age 13, Steve was already obsessed with the social hierarchy in place at Hawkins Middle School. He knew Jessica Lang threw all the best parties when her parents were out of town and had already developed an uncanny talent for making the bottle land on her every time he spun it, thus quickly propelling him to the very top by the time they hit high school; all it took was earning his place on the basketball team for King Steve to be born. King Steve never showed that much excitement over any single thing. King Steve was cool at every possible moment, from the way he stood to the way he dressed to the way he styled his hair. King Steve was carefully and meticulously designed and was really a bitch to maintain.

He thinks with a faint smile that he really doesn’t miss that old stodgy monarch as he listens to Dustin fawn over some Star Wars toy on display in a passing window.

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