#dustin Henderson

[mroddmod]

'86, baby!

[morganbritton132]

Callahan overhears Steve bitching at the kids about how they should respect their elders (him) and be more like him (a person that doesn’t track mud into someone’s car), and nearly loses his goddamn mind. He’s like, “Are you fucking serious, Harrington? There have been multiple times in the last two decades that you have tried to kick me. Half those times were in the head.”

“Okay???” Steve says like he’s an idiot. “Don’t be stupid and annoying, and you wouldn’t deserve it.”

“Are you saying that we should kick Steve in the head?” Lucas asks.

“I’ll do it,” Mike shrugs. “If you really want me to, Officer.”

“He has brain damage,” Dustin replies, louder than the rest. “What’s wrong with you? If he gets another concussion, he’s going to die.”

Then they all start speaking at Callahan all at once, calling him names and being, well. They were being mean.

When Callahan looked around, Steve was nowhere in sight to round up his apparent guard dogs.

[jacksaton]

The party!

[e4n0f4]

i’m feeling like this tbh

[orbuz228]

[thewisewill80sbyers]

STRANGER THINGS 5 TEASER

[eddiemunsonbrainrot]

already getting possessive watching GA come back to stranger things like excuse me have you been fighting in the trenches for THREE YEARS with NO CONTENT? I don’t think so sit back down

[leighbaye]

THE BOY WHO WOULDN’T SAY HI

written by mina leigh ୨ৎ , mike wheeler 𝔁 f! reader | wc 800

synopsis. y/n finally tells lucas about her crush on mike wheeler. lucas — shocked, thrilled, and determined to fix his best friend’s life — delivers the news to mike, who … panics. now mike’s dodging y/n like his life depends on it. confused and hurt, y/n tries to let go. but lucas, max, and dustin have other plans

labels. hellfire mike x cheerleader reader, loser boy + popular girl troupe, soft feminine reader, shy reader, happy go lucky reader.

warnings. light angst, mutual pining, miscommunication, brief emotional hurt/comfort.

you weren’t supposed to like mike wheeler.

not because he wasn’t likable — god no, he was too likable. too kind. too smart. too thoughtful in the ways only someone as soft and awkward as him could be.

but you? you were the bubbly cheerleader who shared her water with her cheerleader friends who forgot theirs and had a locker full of pink gel pens and birthday cake lip balm. you weren’t supposed to fall for the tall, lanky boy who wore fingerless gloves in june and talked about dungeons & dragons like it was a religion.

and yet.

you did.

so one day — just after sixth period, still in your cheer uniform, hands clutching the strap of your backpack like it was keeping you alive — you told lucas.

❝you like mike?❞ he blinked, mouth full of peanut butter reese’s.

you nodded, cheeks burning. ❝i think i have for a while.❞

his reaction was a combination of a cough, a squeak, and a half-choked yell.

❝lucas, oh my god—❞

❝no, no, this is great! this is—this changes everything!❞

and you laughed, nervous and sweet, because lucas made it easy to say things you couldn’t say to anyone else.

mike stared at the floor like it had personally insulted him.

❝she—she said that?❞

lucas nodded. ❝y/n. the y/n you refuse to look at even though you clearly like her back.❞

❝i don’t—❞

lucas clicked his tongue.

❝okay maybe i do but it doesn’t matter because she’s like—she’s her. and i’m me. and she probably only said that to be nice or something.❞

❝that’s not how crushes work, dude.❞

❝but what if i mess it up?❞ mike groaned, pressing the heels of his hands into his eyes. ❝what if i say something stupid and she realizes she made a mistake and regrets everything and never speaks to me again?❞

❝so your plan is to… not speak to her? ever?❞

mike didn’t answer.

lucas sighed.

you noticed.

how he turned corners when you walked toward him.

how he laughed with dustin until you entered the room and then suddenly went silent.

how he looked anywhere but at you — like your face was a solar eclipse, and he didn’t want to burn out.

and it hurt. not in the dramatic heartbreak way. more like a quiet ache in your chest that you kept trying to brush off.

maybe you’d read it wrong.

maybe it was just a nice conversation with lucas. a temporary rush of courage and hope.

maybe mike didn’t like you back after all.

you sat on the steps outside the gym after practice, your hair still tied in a half-hearted ponytail, your water bottle resting beside you. you watched the sky turn pink.

then max plopped down beside you.

❝he’s a dumbass.❞

❝…huh?❞

❝mike.❞ she glanced at you. ❝i overheard lucas and dustin talking. he thinks you’re too good for him, so he’s been avoiding you to protect his fragile ego or whatever.❞

you blinked. ❝so he does like me?❞

❝oh my god. yes. obviously. you should hear the way he talks about you when you’re not around.❞

❝then why—❞

❝because he’s mike. and mike is, like, i don’t know he’s just mike.❞

later that night, you opened your locker to find a note folded into a triangle. written in messy blue pen:

meet me at the bleachers. please. - mike

you debated it.

for five seconds.

ultimately you obliged.

he was pacing when you got there.

his eyes went wide when he saw you. ❝hi.❞

you smiled, small but real. ❝hi.❞

then silence.

❝i’m sorry,❞ he blurted.

you knew why he was apologizing but you proceeded without thinking.

you tilted your head. ❝for what?❞

❝for being… a total idiot. and avoiding you. and not saying anything. and making you think i didn’t like you back—❞

❝mike—❞

❝—and not telling you sooner that i’ve liked you since, like, forever.❞

you blinked. ❝you have?❞

he nodded, hands flailing. ❝yes. i just—i didn’t think you’d ever feel the same way. and then lucas told me and i freaked out and then i just—❞

you stepped closer. ❝you hurt my feelings.❞

❝you are aware of that, right?❞

he froze. ❝i know. and i hate that. i didn’t mean to, i swear. i was just scared.❞

you smiled, sad and soft. ❝me too.❞

he looked at you.

❝do you forgive me?❞ he asked, quiet.

you reached out, your pinky brushing his. ❝if you promise to say hi next time.❞

he grinned, sheepish. ❝hi.❞

you laughed, and suddenly his hand was in yours.

and just like that, the ache in your chest faded.

© MINA LEIGH 2024 - 2025

[mikesbasementbeets]

Everything changed. We failed. But we need to be ready.

[thegaybyler]

my stranger things headcanons that take place between after the end of the show and modern day

as adults Max and Lucas know that they want kids but they're both (especially Max) afraid of being bad parents until they finally have a baby when they're in their mid thirties

Joyce finds a kitten on the sidewalk one day and brings it home and effectively turns Hopper into a cat person (they end up getting 2 more)

Mike and Will live out their dream jobs as an artist and a writer during early adulthood but around the age of 45 they turn those things back into hobbies and open up a small comic shop

Steve and Dustin each have a son that they name after each other

Steve's future grandchild shows him skibidi toilet and he unironically enjoys it

[morganbritton132]

AU where Hopper adopted Steve as a child but no one knows about it because Steve and Hopper are both chronic under-sharers and no one asked specifically about it.

It’s not that Robin would care, right? She wouldn’t. It’s just that she would’ve liked to know so she didn’t spent their first month at Scoops Ahoy getting psych damage every time Steve used ‘Dad’ and ‘Hop’ interchangeably.

She mentions it to Dustin when they were stuck in the elevator together and Dustin shrugged like, “Yeah, he does that. Nancy said he did that before he even knew Hopper.”

“That’s…weird?”

“Yeah,” Dustin shrugs again. “Lucas thinks he does it as a joke even though it’s not funny. That would make sense since Steve’s not funny.”

Steve calling from atop the elevator, “I’m not what?”

“You’re not funny!”

“Dude, what are you talking about? I’m hilarious.”

The conversation slips away from there and Robin won’t actually learn why Steve calls Hopper dad for another three months. She can’t even be mad about it because, “Your dad died and you didn’t tell anybody?”

[kassy-djomunson]

i’m still here

[xandertheswagger]

I NEED bts pictures right NOW 🥀

[mayahawkins]

I think about that night, all the time. The night it came for you. The night all of this started.