Hopper Accidentally Becomes The Biggest Ally In Hawkins Out Of Hatred For Mike Wheeler. El Wants To Date

Hopper accidentally becomes the biggest ally in Hawkins out of hatred for Mike Wheeler. El wants to date Max? Perfect, Mike is terrified of Max. El wants to date Max and Lucas? Even better, more people to keep Mike away. Will comes out to Joyce and Hop? Hopper is immediately studying up on gay culture and flagging so he can find him a Hop ApprovedTM boyfriend. He sees that nice boy Gareth cuff his jeans one time and starts inviting him to family dinner. Mike seems annoyed that Steve is spending more time with Munson? A pamphlet titled “Accepting your Bisexuality” finds its way into Steve’s jacket pocket. Hopper has never seen Mike as furious as the day Steve and Munson arrive at dinner holding hands. It’s a good day. Hopper isn’t sure how Nancy dating the Buckley girl will annoy Mike, but he’s willing to give it a shot.

you what I would have liked? if after the shot of the marigolds, the camera pans up to a silhouette of a girl and a bike framed against the sun. we zoom in on her face, it's god! there's the faintest noise, could have been a voice, carried on the wind. "can you at least tell me which way to go?" god smiles slightly, and points at the field across from her, still filled with family and friend-adjacent figures.

I need someone to be the Robin to my Steve please applications are open now

robin meeting eddie by doing the “please pretend like you know me to get this creep away from me” move in a club and they immediately get along. robin’s really only there as moral support for steve, who she’s been begging to go out and get laid — for his sanity, but more importantly for hers — and eddie drew the short stick on being DD for the night, so.

the two of them end up chatting in a booth for over an hour, drinking sodas and playing card games (eddie keeps a deck of cards in his jacket ‘for impressing dates with sleight of hand magic. obviously.’)

later on in the night steve spots robin and comes up to their table, and eddie puts his arm around her shoulder and hugs her into his side like “this guy bothering you, sweetheart?”

and robin and steve share a look and burst into hysterical laughter

*gently pushes my "Charles is colorblind and messes up left and right (maybe as a leftie forced to write with his right hand as a kid) (he will never admit it tho hence the 'which left' while he tries to figure what left even is)" agenda*

the desire to give up an chase dopamine elsewhere is so strong right now