#happy birthday lenora!!!

[whollyjoly]

Moonlight - Lenora

what word do you use to describe the color of the ethereal nature of a moonbeam? a pale white-blue, an almost-silver, a color that is both of these and none of these? i may not have the words, but its what i think of when i think of you. something that can shift ever so slightly depending on the angle you tilt your head, that can turn the most mundane of objects into an otherworldly sight, that can create magic with whatever it touches. you walk along an old dirt road at night, you think you see nothing but mud and dull grass...but wait, out of the corner of your eye, you see the hue of the petals of a daisy glowing in the moonlight 🌕

Happiest of (slightly belated) birthdays to @mutantmanifesto!! ✨

This is a little late, but I hope you enjoy the vibes!! I realized that I didn't assign you a color during the positivity ask game (which I am so sorry for!), so I wanted to write a little something that made me think of you 🥰 I don't think I could give you a reason why this is what popped into my head, but once it did there wasn't anything else for you that felt right!

You are such an amazing human - I love swapping fic recs with you, I love seeing your beautiful art, and I just love seeing your name anytime it pops up! So thank you, thank you, for being an amazing member of this community and for just people a cool person 💕

(IMPORTANT photo cred: the middle drawing was down by none other than the amazing lenora themself!! its their pfp in the server, and i couldnt not use it with how beautiful it is! post can be found here)

other photo sources: x x x x x x x x

[blood-mocha-latte]

happy post-birthday to the darling lenora @mutantmanifesto!!! i'm late, because of Course i am, but enjoy!! full confession, this is a spin-off of another wip universe, but it is very much Silliness and lots of luz :)))

George is late, because he overslept, because of course he did, because he always inherently knows the worst times of the year to be late.

It’s space day.

“Fuck,” He mutters to his closet, then again to his dresser. All of the drawers are open, and the closet’s door is awry. Giving up on finding it by himself, he pokes his head out of his bedroom door to shout at his roommate. “Joe!” He yells, and when he hears Toye faintly grunt from the living room, he swears again. “Hey, Joe, have you seen my Galileo costume?”

Even though he can barely hear it, Toye’s sigh seems long-suffering. 

“Why the hell would I know where your Galileo costume is?” He shouts back, and George throws his hands up in the air, dropping down to his knees to look under his bed again.

“I kind of need it!” He yells. It’s not under the bed. “It’s space day!”

He has half a mind to go root through Joe’s room, but decides he likes life more than Galileo. He still considers it, though. 

When he finally emerges from under the bed Toye’s standing in the doorway, arms crossed over his chest, looking entirely unimpressed. Noticing that he’s very steadfastly not helping, George rolls his hand over in a hurry up gesture. 

“C’mon, I still gotta glue on the beard, too.” He says, impatient. Then, after a moment, “Son of a bitch, I bet you dollars to donuts Babe has it. Christ, what kind of man steals another man’s Galileo costume? I bet he has my beard glue, too—”

George interrupts himself, too busy trying to excavate his phone from his back pocket. It takes him under a minute to call Heffron, and Joe just stays in his doorway, watching him, impassive.

The moment the receiver clicks George starts talking. “Do you have my Galileo costume?” He demands, and Babe’s silent for exactly half a second.

“Well, yeah.” He says, like it’s obvious, and George shoves his phone between his ear and shoulder so he can make a throttling gesture. Joe raises an eyebrow. “It’s second-grade space day.”

George throws his hands up in the air. “It’s space day for the fifth graders, too!” He exclaims. Babe huffs.

“Yeah, well, too bad, first dibs—”

“First — what? It’s my costume! I’m the one who bought it!”

“Well, have you ever heard that sharing is caring? That’s a very important thing—”

“Babe, I am going to set you on fire—” 

Babe hangs up on him. 

George lets his hands drop to his sides and throws his phone onto his bed.

“I’m guessing Babe has it, then.” Joe says, deadpan. George sighs. He’ll probably just have to go with Carl Sagan. Like a schmuck. 

“Two favors.” He says, which Joe technically can’t deny him, because George faked pneumonia last week so he didn’t have to go to a career party on a ‘roomate technicality’. “Can I borrow a turtleneck? And can you drive me to work?”

Joe ducks out of his doorway and back into the hall. “I’ll grab my keys.” He says over his shoulder, which George takes as permission to go look through his closet.

--

It’s not that George can’t drive, it’s that the state of Pennsylvania doesn’t think he can drive. 

“I’m just saying, this is why people don’t brake for birds.” Joe tells him, when they’re on the freeway. 

George, who’s scrolling through his phone at top speed looking for the best Carl Sagan jokes he can find (because he can’t use the Galileo ones now, can he?) just huffs.

“It looked like it had a broken wing.” He says, as he’s said a million times before. “And I didn’t want to kill it and get all its gross bird guts all over the place. It was the best option.”

“Sure.” Joe says, “but I’m not liable to believe you.” He flicks on the turn signal. George sighs. He’d complain more, but he can’t, because, well. Joe’s the only one who will take him to work.

“Hey, Joe.” He says after a minute, when they’re turning off the freeway. Joe just hums, which George takes as encouragement. “We’re made of stars and shit, you know what I’m Sagan?”

Joe is deathly silent, which isn’t promising. “You know you can say that to a room full of ten-year-olds, right?” He says after a moment. George just slumps further down in the passenger seat. 

“I’ll change shit to stuff.” He says petulantly. Then, after a moment, “You should kill Babe for me.”

Joe doesn’t bother replying.

--

Perconte flashes him a look when he pushes through the doors of the school, five minutes before the bell rings. George just makes a face back. 

“Babe took my Galileo costume.” He says, and Perconte snorts, turning on his heel to follow George down to the classroom.

“Hence the turtleneck.” He says dryly, styrofoam cup of coffee in hand. “I didn’t even know you had a turtleneck.”

“I don't.” George says, patting down his pockets for his ID and key. “It’s Joe’s. I think I looked about two seconds away from crying, so he just let me take it. Which, humiliating, but at least I have it now.” Perco snorts.

“They're gonna have no clue who you're dressed as. You realize that, right?” 

George opens the door to his classroom and only turns around again to flip off Perconte with his index finger, because he likes his job and doesn't want to lose it.

Perconte just laughs at him.

--

None of the kids have any clue who Carl Sagan is, but at least 30% of them have heard of Galileo. 

George's revenge on Babe will be swift, but brutal.

--

Babe goes home at 4:30, but George has to stay until six until he gets his license back, because Joe doesn't get off work until 5:45. 

So. He has plenty of time for vengeance.

Vengeance, in this case, consists of unlocking Babe’s classroom door (the bastard had taken the costume home with him, because of course he did) and putting tacks on his chair. 

--

George feels vaguely like one of his kids as he comes out of the school, bag slung over his shoulder. The one difference would probably be that Joe doesn’t wait at the door of the school and hold his hand as they walk back to his truck, but that would be weird, so.

“Hey, roomie.” George greets him as he gets into the passenger's seat, shoving his bag somewhere behind him blindly. “How’s the car doctor?”

“The kids are rubbing off on you.” Joe informs him. George waves a hand absently, closing his eyes and letting his head hit the headrest.

“No one knew who Carl Sagan was.” He says. Joe hums.

“Look forward to career day.” He offers, and George turns his cheek against the headrest to raise an eyebrow.

“You remember career day?” He asks, rather surprised, and Joe huffs. He keeps his eyes on the road, and streetlights wash his face in bloody light.

“Well, yeah.” He says dryly. “You made me come in and talk last year.” George turns to face forward again.

“Oh,” He says. He doesn’t remember that. It’s quiet, for a while. George is rather exhausted, even after he overslept, so he’s not really in the mood to ramble.

Joe must not be used to it, because he clears his throat. “I could come in this year, too, if you like.” He says. George’s chest feels warm.

“Yeah.” He says, and turns to watch Joe’s profile some more. “I’d like that.”

--

Sometimes George thinks there might be something between him and Joe, but he usually just chalks that up to roommate stereotypicality and leaves it at that.

“Thanks, for, you know.” He says, waving his hand vaguely, as Joe locks the door to their apartment behind him. “Letting me borrow your turtleneck. And dropping me off and picking me up at work for, like, the past four weeks. And for coming to the school on career day. And not murdering me in my sleep.”

Joe huffs. It’s as ambivalent as it ever is, but George knows it means laughter. “Yeah, yeah.” He says. “Thanks for paying rent.” 

George hums as he falls face first onto the couch. “I still think you should kill Babe.” He says to the cushions. The cushions dip slightly as Joe sits down beside him. 

“I’ll consider it.” He says lightly, and George grins against the afghan that had been thrown across the back of the sofa. When he looks up, half of his face still buried in the blanket, Joe’s watching him, eyes dark.

George watches him back. Joe has a nice nose, he thinks, vaguely. And a nice jaw. And nice skin. And a nice voice. And a nice personality. 

“Hey, Joe.” He murmurs. Joe raises an eyebrow back, and George shoves his elbows against the cushions of the couch to get closer to him.

“Hi.” He says back, and George wants to smile at the way he says it, which is one of the most ridiculous things he’s ever thought. 

Joe’s not very far, is the thing, maybe four or six inches away from George’s own face. He shifts against the couch, getting closer to him, eyes just as dark as ever.

Joe, George thinks belatedly, might be about to kiss him.

George tilts his chin up, slightly, mostly out of instinct, as Joe drops his down to meet him.

George’s phone starts ringing, and he jumps so badly he rolls right off the couch. 

Joe leaps back, as well, clearing his throat and shifting to sit on his hands, and George steadfastly doesn’t look at him as he picks up his phone and accepts the call.

“Hey,” Babe Heffrons says, when he does, and, yeah. George is actually going to kill him. “Do you think Joe would be willing to come in for career day, in a couple weeks? Gene can’t and mechanics are interesting.”

“Go fuck yourself.” George tells him, and hangs up on Babe’s insulted spluttering.

He shoves the phone into his pocket and looks back over at Joe, who’s gotten up from the couch and now leans against the back of it. He sees his own thoughts reflected back at him, so he starts walking backwards to his room. “I’m gonna go get ready for bed.” He says, even though it’s 6:30 in the afternoon.

Joe nods. “Yeah,” He says, and throws a thumb over his shoulder, to where the door is. “I’m, uh. Gonna go out drinking with Bill.”

George, who’s still backing up, trips over the corner of the carpet and stumbles. “Yep.” He says, shoots fingerguns at Joe, who gives him a thumbs up in return, and flees to his room.

He shuts the door behind him and leans against it.

Huh.

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Lenora Isabella Crichlow: January 4, 1985

[jennycalendar]

I dont know your girls, but tell us 17. how do they celebrate their birthday?

HI THANKS !!! <33

marigold keeps trying to con people out of remembering that it’s her birthday because she can’t handle positive attention despite craving it constantly and she doesn’t want people to go out of their way for her despite also craving that constantly. so she will be that girl going “oh i don’t want a celebration!!!!! it’s fine!!!!” when she actually kinda does lowkey but has 87 psychological problems. her mom and sisters have danced this dance for 12 years though so they very patiently ignore her when she does this and just put on a really cute and small party (family only, plus jaheira’s kids every so often) with an exorbitant amount of really silly gifts. sofie’s gifts are always new drafts of magic recipes inspired by marigold and they always make marigold extremely emotional.

evie uhhhhh . Oh man. does she even know when her birthday is? her mind is kinda soup by the time canon happens. i think when she finds it out again she’s probably supremely indifferent and astarion is like GODS i have to do EVERYTHING around here and figures out a way to throw her an extremely extravagant party on ye olde brother’s credit card. she does in fact ditch this party with him to sit on the roof and throw hunks of birthday cake at all the fancy guests he invited. ideal times for evie

birthdays are a little hard on roslin with her family in another city, so the actual date she was born is a family only secret bc she gets a little twitchy if customers start wishing her a happy birthday. the bakery ladies put on a much more lowkey version of the marigold party (the nice wine is brought out and everyone makes something fun for dinner) and everyone gives ros a single present that she probably cries over for like 10 minutes. very sweet.

lenora’s birthday is some sort of deranged affair because when she was 9 and moved to live with thea she refused to admit she had a birthday, so thea had to use all of her governmental connections to figure out norie’s birthday and subsequently figure out how to sneak attack norie with a celebration. her version of a sneak attack was probs just a surprise cake but she explained the concept to ros and mari and they got. Overzealous. so every year the bakery ladies act like they’ve forgotten norie’s birthday, they don’t remember norie’s birthday, and then WHAM someone dumps an industrial tub of confetti on lenora while she’s trying to go into the kitchen (which marigold has used illusory magic to turn into a giant ballroom full of presents.) norie LOVES THIS bc she gets to complain and moan and pretends she hates it and also she gets presents and the attention of her sisters. Wins across the board.

thea wasn’t planning to mention her birthday to anyone, but her daughters asked jaheira about it. jaheira actually already knew when it was, which thea did NOT know about because jaheira has never gotten her anything for her birthday and paired it with an actual verbal “happy birthday,” so when every other year or two jaheira would randomly give her a new weapon or some rare ingredients on her birthday & then immediately leave, she’d just be like. Does she know??? no she can’t. But does she????

the girls like surprising thea but ros and mari have zero subtlety. norie COULD pull off a surprise but really doesn’t care enough to try bc she knows thea is expecting it every year. they like to take thea for a picnic by the chionthar with a bunch of her favorite pastries (that she taught them to make) and goof around and talk about all the fun stuff they got up to over the last year. all of thea’s presents are always handmade (mari usually makes her a long term preservable snack that is both magical and delicious, norie embroiders her something, ros also embroiders her something which is a real labor of love because ros fucking hates embroidery and is very bad at it).

[fireflywitch]

previously on california show your teeth..... (for those interested in a summary/spoilers/refreshment for the first installment!)

Will, Joyce, Jonathan, Hopper, and El grew up in Lenora, not Hawkins. There is a lab in Lenora, Brenner is in Lenora (or was...), and Will still goes missing on November 6, 1983.

November 1983: Barb (and others) go “missing” from Hawkins.

El escapes from the lab in Lenora and goes to Surfer Boy Pizza where she meets Argyle and Jonathan.

Jonathan takes El home, she meets Joyce and Hopper, but then Will’s “body” is found behind a dumpster.

El reaches Will in “Other Hawkins” - Hopper and Joyce rescue him, ten days after his disappearance.

El hides (and gets closer) with the Byers during the interim.

Will tells Jonathan that he’s been uncontrollably teleporting around Lenora, Hawkins, and “Other Hawkins”.

Jonathan handles this extremely normally but promises not to tell Joyce, Hopper, or El.

Halloween weekend 1984: Joyce and El go to visit Terry

The boys stay home, Will gets possessed by the Mind Flayer and starts erratically teleporting all over Lenora as Jonathan and Hopper desperately try to catch him.

El and Joyce come back. El successfully exorcises him with fewer happy memories and way more fire (+ burn scars).

Even with MF gone, Will still teleporting basically every time he falls asleep - El “fails” to wake him up/stop him and they teleport to real Hawkins together, the same day as the Snow Ball, meeting Dustin and Mrs Henderson.

After getting back, El convinces family to move to Hawkins For Real - for a variety of reasons, they agree.

January 1985: present day begins

Will, Jonathan, and Jane Hopper all start at school, meet the Hawkins crew, and start to make friends.

Joyce meets the other moms, Hopper replaces the widely hated previous chief of police.

Things start to get weird again: Benny Hammond goes “missing”, El forgets not to use her powers in front of people (Max), and Lucas and Dustin find a demodog strange creature and name it Billy Pilgrim.

Murder suspects Nancy and Steve are still dating.

El, Lucas, Dustin, Max, Steve, Nancy, Jonathan, Joyce, Hopper, and Karen Wheeler end up trapped in the Hawkins Lab by two mysterious lab agents.

Mike reveals to Will that at 7 he either jumped or fell into Sattler Quarry, prompting years of doctors and medication.

Mike then immediately falls into the Upside Down.

Will realizes all of his friends and family are missing, finds them, teleports them out of the lab, and passes out.

The group realizes that Mike has vanished: Will volunteers to go after him and teleports into the Upside Down.

El and Hopper close the gate once and for all.

Nancy, Karen, Joyce, and Jonathan set a trap and kill the Demogorgon.

Steve, Lucas, Max, and Dustin go into the tunnels to try to burn them as a distraction, mostly successfully, but Steve also sort of loses his hand.

Will returns with Mike from the Upside Down - with Barb’s body.

Epilogue!! March 22, 1985: Will and El celebrate a joint birthday, Will is surprised/unnerved by a card from his dad, Max gets El a skateboard, the boys gift Will a radio, and Mrs. Henderson offers Steve and Jonathan summer jobs at a lamp factory/store.

One of the lab agents is dead, one's whereabouts are unknown, and the Mind Flayer is still out there...

[parkerpeter24]

hello angel, what do you think of numbers 16 and 18 from prompt list 3 for our boy arvin russel? please and happy new year!

angel 🥺

pairing: arvin russell x reader

winter blurbs 2.0 ❄️ | 2.0 masterlist ❄️

it had been a week of you living at the russell house after your parents decided to split up. lenora, your best friend had been kind enough to provide you with a roof over your head. emma was a very supportive lady and you needed that sort of environment to overcome the fact that your parents were going to legally part ways. sometimes she would hold you when you cried because the pain of seperation was nothing new to her. it reminded the old lady of the time her son went to war and she longed for any information of his whereabouts.

sometimes you cried at nights alone in bed while everyone was asleep. you stayed in under your blankets and pressed a hand over your mouth to muffle your own sobs.

on monday you finally went to school with lenora. after a whole week of missing school, your friends were happy to see you but gene dinwoodie and his gang were constantly teasing you about your parents’ situation.

you couldn’t face the humiliation as you rushed out of the school halfway. you walked the whole way back, sobbing and wiping the trail of tears that covered your face every once in a while.

you assumed no one would be home because emma mentioned that earskell would be driving her to the grocery store across town to get some stuff for her special meal on lenora’s upcoming birthday.

but you were proven wrong when you saw arvin standing on the porch next to his uncle’s rocking chair, smoking a cigarette.

he stood up straighter, putting out his cigarette as soon as he saw you.

you never really saw arvin around the house, just carrying groceries for emma and helping repair something around the house but you were almost sure you had spent more time in the house in a week that you stayed there than he did in eight years.

“what’s wrong?” he pointed to your tear stained cheeks and red eyes.

“nothing.” you replied, walking inside the house to avoid a conversation.

you thought he wouldn’t care any further but he followed you inside, “kids at school bothering you?”

“it doesn’t matter really.” you said, placing the books you were carrying on the dining table. you saw arvin disappear into the kitchen and felt bad about talking to him rudely. he was just being nice.

you were about to follow him into the kitchen but he came back with a glass of water. you took it from his hands, flashing him a little smile, and took a sip of water.

“if you want i can beat ‘em up for you.” he shrugged so casually it made you laugh.

after that day arvin and you became friends too and you noticed a lot more of him in the house. you noticed him helping lenora and you with homework, being in kitchen– even if he didn’t work much– with the three of you, eating at the table with everyone. you also noticed his room was right next to the one you were staying in.

after almost three weeks of living with the russell’s, you found a letter in the mailbox addressed to you. it was your mom’s. it was quite early in the morning, you hadn’t gone to school with lenora and you were sure no one was home so you carried the letter to your room, got under your covers and tore it open, reading it.

she had apologised for their constant bickering in that letter and asked you to stay with her once the divorce was settled. you sniffled, placing the letter at your bedside table.

the sudden knock at your door caught you off guard. arvin’s cap was the first thing you noticed as he entered the room partially, “everything okay?” he asked, voice deeper than his usual pitch. you probably woke him up.

“y-yeah, everything is fine.” you wiped your face with your sleeves.

“we got thin walls.” he said, entering the room fully now, “is everything okay?”

you nod your head, “mama sent me a letter, calling me back.”

“you don’t want that?” he rubbed his eyes, walking closer and sitting at the edge of your bed, close to your feet.

“what?”

“to leave here?”

you weren’t sure how to answer that. you wanted to go stay with your mother but something was holding you back too. you wondered if it was emma’s sweet nature, or getting to stay with lenora, or if it was arvin. the possibility made your heard flutter.

instead of saying any of that, you just chose to go with, “it won’t be the same without him there. my daddy.”

arvin placed a hand over yours, which was nervously fidgeting in your lap. he held it and looked into your eyes, “it’s gonna be alright.”

those words felt like everything you needed to hear. you nodded, giving him a smile. the two of you sat there in solitude until arvin’s words cut through the silence, “can i sleep with you?”

you could feel the drowsiness in his voice. instead of wording an answer, you simply lifted your blanket, inviting him to lay with you.

you two laid down, arvin hesitantly placing an arm around your waist. you shuffled closer to him, wrapping your arm around his shoulder until his head chin was resting over your head and your face was nestled into his chest.

you were enveloped in arvin, “oh, you’re so warm, don’t even let go of me.” the brunette mumbled, reading your thoughts. his eyes were closed and expressions the definition of calm when you looked up to read his face.

maybe arvin russell was the only reason you wanted to stay.

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[elekinetic]

i'm el/ella (name, not pronouns en español). here's some stuff i've made. enjoy!

fics.

please say i'm young enough — will is gay. robin knows. or, robin and will go on a supply run. set in post-season 4 apocalyptic hawkins. afraid of what might be — max is going to die. she says her piece. or, max's season 4 letters. letter to el. letter to mike. <- tumblr links (bonus: el's letter to max) ficlet: three words — mike struggles to write a simple sentence. ficlet: happy birthday will — a letter from mike's pocket

scripts.

episode 3 opening scene — season 5 mike & will - medbay — season 5 mike, will & joyce - lovers' lake — season 5 teens + the party argue — season 5 el and mike: painting — season 5 steve & eddie at a bar — AU mike & will in the upside down — season 5 mike and lucas fight — season 5 byers' lenora morning — pre-season 4 master of puppets — season 5 christmas 1988: the party — post-canon will's birthday, 1987 — post-canon mike & will, early morning nightmares — season 5 will & max bond — season 5 mike and will - motel — season 4 el's new friend — season 5/AU mike & el argue — season 5 mike & will, high in the desert — season 4 jancy storms out — season 5 jonathan and robin bonding + extra — season 5

lucas’ vecna vision - season 5

edits.

god, it's brutal out here (party + teens) nothing more than that (byler)

misc.

writing advice (how i outline for scripts & prose)

what your assigned stranger things fave means about you quiz (brutally honest) moodboards stranger things dnd classes

spotify: ella, maybe.

elcore (el) (bonus: el's driving mixtape) dnd books in the donation box (will) four letter words (mike) madmax (max)

i heard the tore down the old swing-set. please help me build a new one. (byler) l&m (lumax) i like presents too (elmike)

pov: you're the music supervisor for stranger things 5 spring break 86 (non-evil version)

[raising-harmony]

... Ah, I had long since forgotten about those designs, I felt that due to recent events it'd be too inappropriate to send anything. I'm very happy you liked them however! As far as I'm aware the children have yet to actually celebrate Halloween in any means, so this'll be their first. How exciting!

As for the museum, that's wonderful news! My, I don't think I've visited a museum since the one back is Pewter City all the way back home! How nostalgic, truly exciting indeed!

Really? Hasn't Ghetsis had them for at least a couple years now? Huh. I mean, he certainly was never the festive type anyways back when I knew him. He refused to celebrate his own birthday... Just a matter of preference, I guess. Still, if he does decide to celebrate, I hope they'll have fun.

Pewter's got a real amazing museum, doesn't it? There's some wonderful fossils in there, though it's been a long time since I've seen any of it. Lenora will have some tough competition if you're gonna be comparing anything to that one, haha!

[light-lanterne]

birthdaygate au where everyone's forgotten will's birthday except will himself,,, and mike, whose love for will is so strong that vecna couldn't make him forget.

when he gets to lenora, however, no one is saying anything about it. jonathan is lost in his own world instead of making jokes or reminiscing of the past, as usual,,, el said the day was about her and mike and has made no mention of the date, when she's usually very enthusiastic about birthdays,,, even will is quiet and grumpy when he'd normally be a bit cheerier and sure, mike ruined their reunion a bit (he just got nervous, okei ? >.<), but it's rare that will gets to this stage so quickly. it usually takes a lot longer for him to get fed up.

alas, that's the current stage of things and mike opts to remain quiet for the time being. maybe the byers have a big surprise "party" planned for later ! or maybe,,, maybe will just wants to spend the day with whoever the painting is for >:(

in fact, as the day goes on and will's mood continues to deteriorate, mike is more and more convinced that this is the case. will had probably asked his family earlier to take things easy (because he's not a child anymore) and had probably been excited to spend the day with some girl, growing progressively annoyed the longer she took to show up.

and mike is upset. because it made sense that will had grown up and found someone he liked, and mike doesn't blame him for it (well, maybe just a bit),,, but is he that bad? they'd spent almost all their birthdays together ! will seemed to have fun in the past ! why is he so pissy that mike is there for his birthday? are the last nine birthdays (eighteen between the two of them) they'd spent together not good enough for will? is the idea of being around mike so tortuous now?

he's upset. and confused, because apparently the girl is actually an asshole, now that she finally showed up.

ultimately, mike doesn't have much time to think about birthdays anymore because el just decked angela in the face and things are very tense between them all now.

it's until they arrive at the byers that he thinks about it again. because even when things were at their worst, and even when will didn't want it, joyce has always insisted on decorating the house a little for each birthday (including mike's own) and right now, the house is pristine. not a single balloon or banner, no cake or bowl of sweets. nothing. not even a "how was your day, sweetie?" over dinner, or a "happy birthday, will" as they all left the dinner table and said goodnight.

mike is very confused. and he wants to ask will about it, maybe give him his present or the damn letter he's been carrying around all day.

but things are awkward between them and mike is a little drained from their argument earlier and will seems like he needs some space.

he'll ask about it tomorrow, once he smooths things out with el.

it'll be okay then.

- the end -

(another silly idea. it wouldn't be me if i didn't write some angst x.x)

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Octavia 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

Octavia Lenora Spencer

May 25,1970

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

25 Maggio 1970

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

January: Happy Birthday List

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19) 1: Josette Simon  2: Erica Hubbard, Renée Elise Goldsberry 3: Angelique Perrin, Nicole Beharie 4: Jill Marie Jones, Miss Tina Lawson, Lenora Crichlow, Alexandra Grey, Coco Jones, Sindi Dlathu 5: Ms. Juicy Baby, Olunike Adeliyi 6: Betty Gabriel, Jacqueline Moore, Tiffany Pollard, Armelia McQueen, Tanyell Waivers 7: Blue Ivy Carter, Ruth Negga, Sofia Wylie, Zora Neale Hurston 8: Butterfly McQueen, Ryan Destiny, Cynthia Erivo, Shirley Bassey 9: Amber Ruffin, Flo Milli, Anais Lee/Mirabel Lee 10: Kathleen Bradley, Sisi Stringer, Teresa Graves

11: Adepero Oduye, Aja Naomi King, Amiyah Scott, Kim Coles, Mary J. Blige 12: Cynthia Addai Robinson, Erinn Westbrook, Issa Rae, Naya Rivera, Amerie 13: Janet Hubert, Andy Allo, Shonda Rhimes 14: Adjoa Andoh, Vonetta McGee, Emayatzy Corinealdi 15: Regina King, Kellita Smith, Sanai Victoria 16: Debbie Allen, Aaliyah, FKA Twigs, Sade 17: Eartha Kitt, Indya Moore, Michelle Obama, Ann Wolfe, Quen Blackwell

18: Ashleigh Murray, Estelle, Samantha Mumba 19: Simone Missick, Lidya Jewett, Shaunette Renée Wilson

Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) 21: Anastarzia Anaquway 22: Blesnya Minher, Dwan Smith 23: Lanei Chapman 24: Kenya Moore, Tatyana Ali 25: Ariana DeBose, Jenifer Lewis, Tati Gabrielle, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Willow Nightingale 26: Angela Davis, Anita Baker, Bessie Coleman, Ciera Payton, Desiree Burch, Sasha Banks, Zara Cully  27: Betty Adewole 28: Tyra Ferrell 29: Oprah Winfrey 30: Jody Watley, Kylie Bunbury 31: Miss Peppermint, Kerry Washington

List will be updated as needed... I don't know everybody's birthday, and sometimes, the search engine don't either. I be using Google, and if something's wrong, it's wrong until I figure out the right date. Thank you.

Ones left off in 2024, when I made the list:

Vanity, Sindi Dlathu, Tanyell Waivers, Zaraah Abrahams, Zabryna Guevara, Quen Blackwell, Lanei Chapman, Willow Nightingale

[imthecleric]

ooc: because canon largely shows that will being alone in lenora (cause we saw none of lenora from his perspective it was either el's or mike's), and we know his only friend was very likely el who tried to make other friends, and jonathan was off trying to cope with his trauma... i am going to say this

will's birthday was forgotten in s4. We have no information to say otherwise, and lots of stuff from the duffer's implying that it in fact was forgotten. his birthday was the first day of spring break. we get no indication that anyone celebrated in canon, no sign of decorations or cake. joyce was uncharacteristically busy with not paying attention to him (and the end of the season we don't even get to see her reunion with her boys just the aftermath when she sees el again (no hate to them but like i felt bad for the boys) and it in my mind creates an interesting dynamic in the family. blended families are hard.

ANYWAYS back to the birthday thing. with no one having a gift for him, and el going as far as to say this day will be about her and mike despite will being like RIGHT THERE... it just leads me to think his birthday is forgotten.

the question is does he remember we get no indication if he does or not. i love looking into both sides. because if he doesn't that is tragic, and has huge implications also he could have brought it up to both el and mike about how they treated him cause lets be real el was a bit of bad apple towards will that day too (before the angela stuff). if he does well why would he say something to inconvience others happiness when does he ever try to be anything but a burden.

tl:dr: i view season 4 having the lenora characters canonly forgetting will's birthday... i wont speak for hawkins, and i doubt hopper knows (though hopper players prove me wrong) but the lenora people definitely forgot

[upsidedownlurker]

My Very Accurate Predictions for ST5 (take these very seriously)

These theories have been painstakingly researched, rewritten and peer-reviewed to ensure they will ABSOLUTELY happen in Season 5. If any of these theories are proven incorrect, it's the Duffers' faults for creating a poorly-written show.

Spoiler warning! My theories will definitely come true, so this is basically just a run-down of every plot point in Season 5.

Mike and Will have their first kiss in the Upside Down. This happens in Mike's garage. Argyle, who has been tripping on magic mushrooms for the past five hours, shoves himself in between the kissing boys and does a thumbs-up. He yells, "NICE ONE BROCHACHOS!" Will is so angry at the ruined moment that he punches a wall, which is what causes the garage light to flicker in the real world.

The gang find out that Max Mayfield is alive! This happens when Vecna is revealed to not only be Henry Creel and One, but also Lonnie, Murray, Eleven, Max, and Jamie Campbell-Bower. Vecna (whose real name is Brad, btw) possessed all those characters before the show even started. That's why Lonnie left Joyce, Murray is all cuckoo-bananas, Eleven has powers, Max can skateboard (she has powers too), and why Vecna is played by Jamie Campbell-Bower (for continuity). Vecna made it look like Max would never wake up, but actually she was just chillin'. She is completely healed by episode one.

Karen Wheeler is actually Alice Creel! Alice never died, she just faked it for the lols. That's just the kind of wacky, goofy gal she is. She faked her own death by stabbing herself in the eyes with a dinner fork and breaking all her limbs from sheer force of will. Then she recovered after a few decades and had a family with Ted.

Eddie comes back from the Upside Down! He never died, he just faked it for the lols. That's just the kind of wacky, goofy guy he is. We find out he's alive when Mike and Will are kissing in the Upside Down. After Will punches a wall, the garage collapses. Eddie is revealed on the other side, barely alive and covered in blood. He pulls Mike, Will and Argyle into a group hug and whispers, "Those bats didn't kill me... but forced conformity is killing the youth. Be gay, boys. Be very gay." Argyle cries, Mike applauds, and Will is angry. After that, Eddie dies for real this time.

Will's forgotten birthday is a HUGE plot point!!! Everyone was going to throw him a surprise birthday party where Vecna popped out of a cake, but since Will was in Lenora, Vecna couldn't make it (he gets carsick on long drives). Everyone was so bummed that their favourite spider-loving murderer wasn't there, that they pretended Will didn't have a birthday instead. Will was the only one who knew the truth– Vecna was in Lenora, after all. He possessed Angela in order to wish Will a very happy birthday. Then he realised that bullying Eleven was really funny and wacky and goofy, so he kept doing it. Will was fine with this.

Eleven loses her powers forever... when Eleven finds out that she's been Vecna this whole time, and that she's been bullying herself at school for months, she starts to hate herself. She develops internalised vecnaphobia and destroys every part of herself that reminds her of Vecna. This includes her powers... when Mike finds out, he breaks down and cries, "YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERHERO ANYMORE!!!" Then he faints into Will's beefy arms.

Robin dies... it's very tragic and sad and heroic and also tragic. This doesn't happen in the middle of the season, but at the 53 minute 5 second mark of the final episode. Vecna is dead, Hawkins is saved and everyone survived. She and Vicky are girlfriends by this point, and everyone in Hawkins accept them. Robin, overcome with emotion, hands Vicky a letter and immediately drowns herself in Lovers Lake. The letter simply reads, "THEY DIDN'T BURY THEIR GAYS! WHAT THE FUCK, DUFFER BROTHERS????!?!?!? NOW I HAVE TO BURY MYSELF." Everyone solemnly nods, chanting "Bury the gays. Bury the gays." Vicky eats half a peanut butter sandwich and tosses the rest into the water.

Vecna is defeated by Will, who has actually had powers this whole time but was just too nice to point them out to anyone. He uses his powers (he has powers) to destroy Vecna in episode three, but when he does, he also destroys Lonnie, Eleven, Murray, Max Mayfield, and Jamie Campbell-Bower. The remaining five episodes consist of the rest of the characters slowly struggling through the five stages of grief. They all miss Lonnie so much. They'll never see him in his crusty white tank top ever again. They'll never hear Lonnie tell another one of his classic Lonnie zingers... until the Stranger Things spin-off anime comes out, which is fifty episodes of Lonnie telling the same hilarious stand-up routine to the same crowd of people, which is 90% insults he used to say to Will, Jonathan and Joyce. Everyone laughs and claps. Oh, Lonnie!

Barb came back from the Upside Down in season 3, but nobody noticed because they didn't give a shit.

If you have any additional theories, please leave them in the comments. I'd be happy to use them for the show (I'm a stranger things writer btw, definitely and totally and absolutely yes I am).

[elmoshipsbyler]

You should put him in a random forest if you do the pdt timezone, we have a lot of those lol (or if you do pdt in california you can put him in disneyland)

absolutely

FINALLY GOT TO CALIFORNIA TIME HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MIKE FROM LENORA CALIFORNIA (noon in UTC-7)

[blood-mocha-latte]

Happy belated birthday Rie!! 💛🎇🎀

thank you lenora!!!! a photo of bean for you x

[runninguplenorahills]

Here’s the link to the tiktok I posted of my cleradin art on march 22nd:

You can check that out if you want to <3