#madwheeler supremacy

[starsarefire824]

For @wheelersboy @foodiewithdahoodie my madwheeler besties. 🖤 @perexcri tagging you too Babe cause Reasons™️.

Based off of @wheelersboy’s post from a few days ago. 😩

Kind of Best Friend

Hey Mike,

I'm not going to call you Shitface like I normally would, since, if you're reading this it probably means I'm dead or passed on or maybe just stuck in some agonizing hell with Vecna somewhere. I won't really know, will I? But the truth still is, if you're reading this, it means I'm not here anymore. And that's okay.

I mean I’m scared shitless right now, but you know it's like you said. Remember that one night at the quarry late last summer when the rest of the Party ditched us to go see Ferris Bueller for the four hundredth time? I had just broken up with Lucas and you were missing Will really badly and I was missing Billy. And we both were missing El. You had your feet hung over the edge of the quarry and I was scared I was going to fall. You threw your arm around my shoulder and chucked a rock into the pit. Then you drunkenly told me that every atom in our body was a billion years old and that if you really thought about it, it meant that we were made up of energy and that it would always be bouncing around the universe until the end of time. And you said that that really helped you when you couldn’t get Will being pulled out of the quarry out of your head.

Sometimes I think about that when Billy’s in my dreams too much.

And so yeah, if you're reading this maybe my brain isn't here and I can't fight you on any of your stupid ass plans anymore. And we can't sneak out of the lunch room to the alley between the art and science wing and eat lunch by ourselves when Eddie is being too insane. But maybe I'm still here somehow. Like the swirl of cream in your coffee in the morning or the wind kissing your hand. Like when you hung it out your dad's car window that one night when he picked the four of us up from the mall, and we were all too high to risk talking out loud. I watched your fingers glide through the air from the backseat and wished I thought anything else was as pretty as when the sky was periwinkle purple and the lightning bugs rushed by.

We never talked that night, after we had that awkward conversation in the parking lot while Dustin and Lucas were in the video store. We just sat in silence and watched two stupid comedies until one in the morning because you knew I didn’t want to go home. It was the nicest thing you ever did for me. I get that you like the quiet sometimes. I'm not Will. I know that. But I want you to know that you've weirdly become one of the best friends I've ever had. And I guess we can thank Mrs. Kelly for sitting us next to each other in 10th grade math for that. Who knew that getting high off sharpie markers and planning various murder plots to off Troy could be something to bond over.

I mean, you're still a total idiot, and you've been way too moody and a complete asshole to pretty much everyone since El and Will left. And you really do need to clean up your fucking armpit of a basement. Seriously Mike...if Hawkins isn't totally destroyed and you and Lucas and Dustin and the rest of them somehow make it out of this. Please, for the love of god, can you clean your basement. And afterwards, get everyone together, eat too much pepperoni pizza, and play a campaign for me. I'm sure Eddie can help you with that. And tell Dustin I’m sorry for making fun of him when he asked to sit in for Lucas. The truth is I wanted to play—but you know. I just couldn’t.

And speaking of the truth. Please! Do not waste any more of your or my time not being honest with yourself. I am El's best friend. I would kill you for her in a split second. You are aware of this right? But I know you Mike. I know the real reason why you've been so sad since the Byers moved to California. And now that I'm dead I can say this. It doesn't matter what it means. You need to be honest with yourself and be honest with Will and El.

You need to be brave Mike. It's fucking important. It really sucks, but it’s true that you never know when you might find out your life is over.

Don't do what you think is right. Do what your heart really wants. El will understand. El doesn't need you.

But Will does. So fucking fix it.

And also...just….thanks. For sitting with me when no one else would.

Your kind of best friend,

Mad Max

PS. My mom was wasted one time and told me you were her favorite friend of mine. And also, I am sorry for that one time when you slept over my house after we drank at the quarry. I was lonely and sad and way too drunk. But yeah, El and Will are lucky to have someone as nice as you…. with noodle arms that turns out are great for hugs.

When you're not being a whiny bitch anyway.

Also if you ever tell anyone about that night. Or for that matter, any of the nice things I just said about you in this letter... I WILL KILL YOU. I DON'T CARE IF I’M DEAD.

Mike chuckles a broken sob and sweeps a tear from the lined notebook page that Max has splattered with her bubbly handwriting in blue ink. It smears some of her words and he curses.

"Shit!" he hisses, wiping his snotty nose with the back of his hand and shifting quickly to spread the paper out flat on his bed. He tries to iron out a few of the creases and rereads some of his favorite lines, laughing all over again. He can hear her voice as she makes fun of him, can see the crease at her brow and the disgusted squint of her blue eyes. Eyes that flashed at him with hatred one minute and humor the next. His laugh grows thinking of her face, red hair wild and staring up at him from whatever short person's world she inhabited. Mike laughs to himself until he can't breathe. He laughs and laughs, until those laughs turn to sobs and the tears flow down his face and drip off his nose. He never expected it but the hole ripped open inside his chest at the thought of Max being gone forever is utterly agonizing.

Eventually, his lungs find air again and the tears stop falling. His body is completely exhausted and his eyes are red rimmed and raw. He dries his face and knits his brow together with determination, squinting over at the radio he left lying on his desk before he left for California. She's not dead, he thinks with determination. Max is lying in Hawkins Hospital, broken and sleeping. But not dead.

[swanqueenelmaxshadowhunters]

What about an AU where Max comes with Mike to visite El in California?

Actually, I have this story outlined 😁

I just need some time and energy to write it.

[bylerxv1cy]

[screamingfrenchfries]

on a stranger things rewatch rn and LISTEN-

the scene where el is jealous of max and knocks her off her skateboard is SO uncalled for but like can we talk about how lowkey amazing it is for madwheeler's friendship like 😭😭

listen mike is fr BEEFIN w max here but like AS SOON as she falls mans goes "JESUS! R U OK?? 🥺" like just the way he says it had me SOBBING

like u r so adorable u cant even beef w a mf right 😭😭 s2 mike supremacy fr fr

[elekinetic]

robin x melissa erasure wtf :(

[demobatman]

Am unwell with thoughts. Byler spies are forever au. The full musical is on YouTube and g-d. It's. The lovers to enemies is so juicy and will absolutely deserves to be both dramatic and evil. As a treat. Also plenty of madwheeler supremacy. Bestieship between the badass red head and the gay himbo. So much opportunity. Alps Joyce as Cynthia has so many layers pls wtach this musical

i will literally have to watch this and get back to you if theres any madwheeler relations its gotta be a must watch for me i fear.....

[nicxxx5]

mike and max butt heads, but they’ll also die for each other and that’s because they have cat personalities. mike is in a way like “this was my territory first” and max in a “was once feral and is still adjusting to living in a house” kind of way so there’s a lot of stepping on each other’s toes. but they they both know that the other has been through shit and sense that they’re both the kind to keep things bottled up so others don’t have to deal with their problems and they bond over that by going to each other.

so when one of them is having a bad day they are incredibly defensive of each other and glare at anyone who so much as looks at the other funny. if it’s a really bad day they’ll spend the day with each other at the wheeler’s house and do not leave each other’s side. they cling to each other so much and can not be separated.  

will and lucas will come back to them cuddling under a massive comforter, gripping each other with white knuckles and heads buried into the side of each other’s necks. they’re still not used to seeing this part of the relationship between the two and just kinda look back and forth between each other like “uh...what are we supposed to do about this? it’s been 14 hours” they try to pull them apart only to get growled at, like actually growled at. will and lucas jump back and look at each other like “did they just growl at us?” so instead of pissing off their boyfriend/girlfriend they go get some snacks and drinks and leave them on a side table and turn the light off as they walk out of the room to leave them be until one of them (max/mike) is sure the other feels better and  is okay again

[greenhammiee]

"ITS THE 80S NOT EVERYONE IS GAY!!!! 😡😡😡😡"

ok fine

*makes all the characters trans instead*

[glitchinginhyperfixis]

Max has become comfortable at Mikes house. Whenever she can't stay in her own home, she ends up there. Karen is very understanding. She has to deal with some of Mikes teasing, but Max and Nancy tease him worse. She also very good with kids, so Holly drags her on many adventures.

-💍

i love that. i think karen would remind max of how susan was before n*il left. she was there for max before. but karen also reminds max of susan because of how distant she’s become with mike. max and mike both drifted away from their mothers, and they’d only recently began to rebuild what was broken.

i need a max and holly friendship RIGHT NOW. i’d love max encouraging holly’s little shit tendencies, and them ganging up on mike together. i’d also love max and mike bringing holly out with them sometimes. maybe even buying her some ice cream.

now i’m imagining mike, max, and holly pranking ted while he’s asleep in his chair. holly muffling her giggles and mike and max pulling her along as they run for their lives.

[starsarefire824]

So I have a lot of works in progress, and am feeling a little conflicted on what I should update next! I'm feeling a bunch of them! I thought it might be fun to do a poll!

[lamestteenagegirlever]

adding more bc the gays love me and i love them

•when heathers came out, the wonder twins, robin, and max LOVED it they were total dorks about it they all saw it in theaters like a minimum of 3 times(steve goes with but hes not incredibly entertained after round 2.) will and joyce made halloween costumes for the whole group(i feel like you can go figure who was which heather, but mike was jd, nancy was betty, steve was miss fleming, and lucas and dustin were kurt and ram(they never saw the movie but wanted to be included)) and had a mini halloween party in the wheeler’s basement(they decorated the place and mostly just watched movies and played music and probably got drunk at most)

•mike counts/does addition on his fingers. you could ask the motherfucker what 2+2 is and he’ll have to use his fingers

•will drinks tea. el drinks hot chocolate. jonathan drinks black coffee and the twins look at him in pure terror while he drinks the entire mug with zero reaction before saying its time to start moving before theyre late for school.

•joyce loves anything coconut flavored.

•will would do track because idk i just feel like he’d be the kind of dude to do track, and he’d be pretty good at it. he and lucas go on early morning runs together. will occasionally agrees to play one-on-one with him, too, but he he fucking sucks at basketball. lucas knows hes getting zero help actually practicing but he thinks the way will scrunches his face when hes concentrating on guarding is cute sorry sorry spreading the byclair agenda let me live, but they go back to one of their houses(or steves) and make breakfast and just sit and talk(and maybe kiss idk)until they have to go and do their own thing/the party calls them over.

•max and mike are besties but theyre so fucking mean to eachother that you’d think they’re sworn enemies or smthn if you listened to their conversations . they were asked once if they were dating(by someone that has only seen them talk) and they both immediately started laughing. “why would i go out with little orphan annie?” “you’re literally built like a spider why would you even think you could kind of talk to me like that!” theyre especially mean to eachother when the other is being all lovey dovey. “im literally blind and i can still somehow see the stupid face youre making watching will explain this project to lucas and el.” “yeah, and i can see YOU making probably the same goddamn face while listening to lucas and el respond and laugh!” “fuck you!” “fuck YOU!” “we are in sparkly pink quicksand.” “yup.”

•yes, i made a byclair hc and then an elmax/lumax(elumax, if you so please) and byler hc right below it. theyre poly.

•robin has autism. so does will. so does eddie. so does dustin.

•steve does not have a crush on nancy. he actually just cares about her a lot because she was his first real friend. nancy knows this, and it means the world to her. im saying this because i hate how they did that in season 4 when they had such a good opportunity to just stay friends without whatever that was.

•steve REFUSES to let robin pick what to watch on movie nights bc once she said she was going to pick a funny movie and put on the exorcist and he wanted to turn it off but he was paralyzed with fear and all he could do was just keep death gripping robins shoulders.

•steve buys those candy cigarettes for dustin every time he buys himself a real pack so that if he and nancy and/or eddie are smoking while hes with them, dustin feels included without actually smoking(steve hits him with the “dont mess up like we did” but he doesnt want the kid to just sit there)

•will and max sit next to eachother in every class they have together and they mostly end up drawing on eachothers shoes/hands and passing stupid notes and trying not to laugh

•mikes best kept secret actually isnt that hes gay, its that he enjoys country music. he would rather die than let any of hellfire or will find that out and be seen as not cool. max knows and he can feel all the hair stand up on the back of his neck when he insults her and she does that evil smile. the day she spills the beans is the day he dies.

•will has smoked with jon and argyle at least once. as one of the youngest cousins, you dont spend time around stoners without doing it at some point. its like the trippiest bonding experience.

•el has a really fucking weak immune system. she spent 12 years in a lab with people that haven’t made physical contact with the outside world for longer than that. shes vaccinated now but that doesn’t stop her from getting sick insanely easily. will as well but thats just bc he’s immunodeficient. one has gotten sick, given to the other one, gotten better, and then caught it again multiple times.(my brother and i do this regularly. our record is 6 times back and forth with the stomach bug. it was not pretty.)

•will has the sickest fucking scar on his side from when nancy hit him with the fire poker in season 2. i mean, hes probably got plenty from all. that. but the ones gotta be super visible. el also has a really sick scar on her leg from that ordeal at starcourt. when someone sees one of them and asks about it, will and el come up with a stupid story thats barely believable(aka not at all) and then poke fun at each other about it later. “i was stung by a wasp the size of a frog, really?” “at least its not like the time you told janet coleman that i got mine from falling while climbing mount everest and somehow fell perfectly onto my side!” “i panicked, okay?!”

•the byers are jewish-catholic(my only basis is that winona and noah are jewish)the only catholic things they do now that lonnies out of the picture are like christmas(or chrismukkah) and easter but like just in like the chocolate eggs and stuff like that kinda way

•max, eddie, robin, and will all walk like they’re in a constant panicked hurry to get somewhere. max and eddie get visibly(and sometimes verbally) frustrated when someone walks too slowly in front of them. will and robin just slow down and look so awkward doing it bc their bodies arent built for going that slow.

•will has like a plain old brown leather cover journal bc he didnt want anyone to see it and call him gay and whatever but the inside of the diary is all like colorful pens and like his i’s dotted with hearts(not really im just being dramatic for the comedic effect but i dot my i’s with hearts so maybe idk) and shit like that

•the best gift will has ever received is the x-men 134 comic. dustin gave it to him when he got back from the upside down and will read it over and over until he got out of the hospital and then put it in a clear plastic cover to keep it safe

•steve makes the meanest french toast you have ever seen. once the hopper-byers were settled in back in hawkins, the entire party+erica and probably nancy and eddie were at the door that morning asking for steve to make them french toast now that the gangs all back together. he ofc did. robin came downstairs like 15 minutes later and he was like “OH MY GOD- how do you keep getting in?? id get you a key but you seem to be doing just fine without it!! do you want french toast?” he loves them a lot its okay

•mike has braces. ik he doesnt actually like in the show but like i think he should, like not that anything is wrong with finns teeth, i just think michael should have them.

•nancys an avid friendship bracelet maker. all of her friends have one. all of mikes friends have one. hell, all of hollys friends probably have one. will, dustin, and max have two of them bc theyre also her friends.

•lucas and jonathan are absolutely terrified of horses. neither of them have an actual reason. they just think they look creepy.

•mike can tap dance. his mom made him take classes when he was little. he honestly really liked it but he’d rather die that say that out loud.

• el and will do art projects together all the time. el’s good at sculpting and pottery and wills good at drawing and painting. that ends up working really well other than the mess they always make(will now permanently has a tarp on his floor).

•steve and robin both still say the little bunny ear thing when they tie their shoes(have yall guessed that i love steve and robin yet??)

•nancy plays tennis(and she looks soooo good doing it-WHO SAID THAT).

•dustin will straight up peel lemons and eat them like apples. no one knows if its to freak people out(he’s succeeding if it is) or just because he likes them.

•el and will LOVE bugs. jonathan, lucas, and mike, however, will scream bloody murder when they see one. one of the wonder twins will just tenderly scoop the bug up and set it outside and just go back to what they were doing.

•lucas can make really good flower crowns. he makes them for max on dates and she pretends like she hates it but she loves her dorky bf.

will there be a part 3? probably! i was planning on putting like maybe 10 hcs to this one and i accidentally put 30, so the chances are high!

some stranger things headcanons(mostly ending up being ramblings bc im autistic)! feel sososo free to share yours with me or ask if i have any for a specific character! and shoutout to my bestie griffin for helping me come up with some of these

•max leaves like the most random shit in mikes locker. like he’ll open it and find like an origami armadillo or a piece of macaroni covered in glitter or like a singular fuzzy christmas sock. he has no idea its her(everyone else knows). he shows up to lunch every day with the item and gets more and more terrified every day.

•eddie has nicknames for all of the kids bc he loves them and hes alive and happy. he calls max ginger snap or little orphan annie or something along those lines and she acts pissed off but she loves it. he calls lucas number 8 bc even if he doesnt like basketball, he supports his kids in anything they do. dustin is just henderson ofc or the occasional like curly sue or smthn of that nature. he obvi calls erica lady applejack or miss america. he calls mike training wheel(nancy is steering wheel and holly is tricycle) or michael in the most ominous way possible. he calls will lil buddy or “sir william the wise, my lord” while doing the most dramatic curtsy ever, no in between. he calls el stupid shit like elton john or eleanor roosevelt and if hes greeting her he just asks her what number hes thinking of. i just love him and want him to be happy.

•el and mike are lesbian and gay solidarity argue with the wall. they were the first to find out about the other’s crush on max/will and they both encourage each other to go for it. el especially bc she hears how much will talks about mike. mike tries to get info from max but shes just like oh my god leave me alone(lovingly, ofc) with the reddest face ever and mike is like 🤔.

•max sees erica like a little sister and vice versa.

•will, robin, max, and eddie tell eachother all about their relationships/crushes and it ends in a nightmare every time. will told them about something really stupid mike said and eddie brought it up, laughing, at hellfire and mike was like “oh my god i fucked up so badly that will told eddie” and eddie tries to come up with another explanation like will wasnt the only other person there. “nonono, it wasnt will that told me! it was… nancy! she was… in the… bushes! for uhm……. newspaper stories???” and mike just thinks about it for the rest of the day

•idc abt canon they all go to lucas’s games and theyre huge dorks about it. they make signs and everything and then have a party at steves house regardless of whether they won or he even got to play. steve also helps lucas practice sometimes and is always like “go easy on me im old.”

•steve and robin worked a good few jobs in the months between the mall getting destroyed and the family video. they were there for maybe a week before one of them got fired(steve) and the other quit in protest bc theyre besties and share one braincell.

•lucas is a history kid, dustin and el are math kids, mike and max are english kids, and will is a science and art kid.

•steve hates his house because its always so lonely and he tells robin this like once in passing and she just shows up randomly with a duffel bag with her pjs and stuff. she probably has a key at this point so like he’ll get back from the shower or smthn and she’ll just be sitting on his bed watching tv like she lives there(she pretty much does), not that he minds obvi. he loves hanging out with her

•will and el are practically inseparable. they tell each other absolutely everything and have “sleepovers” once a week. when will realized that el doesnt know her birthday, he decided that they were gonna share his because everyone already jokingly calls them the wonder twins anyway. i literally just adore them and want more content with them.

•dustin and max will argue over the absolute dumbest stuff EVER. absolutely anything and everything. like max threatened to kill him over whether els shoes were mustard yellow or yellow-orange.

•mike acts like he hates steves guts when he finds out he likes eddie. like he’ll regularly be like “wow, you date my sister and now you’re going after my mentor.” and steve is just like “yeah, and ill go after your mom next. pipe down.”

•nancy and argyle vibe like no other and not a single person understands how. jonathan jokes that he cant believe his best friend would leave him for his ex and they all think its really funny.

•robin and steve cant spell restaurant or communicate or fairly simple words like that. they pass a singular braincell back and forth wand it probably belongs to nancy.

•steve taught all of the kids other than max how to drive. eddie taught max while steve had to like hold robins hand because of how nervous he was.

•dustin has zero rhythm(affectionate).

•el sat hopper down and asked him about his intentions with joyce like an overprotective dad when they got back from russia and always messes with him about the three inches rule.

•will gets along really well with nancy and holly. sometimes he’ll show up at the wheeler house and mikes pleasantly surprised to see him, thinking will there to see his bf but hes actually there for a tea party that holly invited him to or for his scheduled gossip session with nancy and probably steve, max, and el.

•el is an avid abba stan. she and will regularly end up having dance parties in her room when she plays it. argyle always joins in if hes over and jonathan does too, but not before he gets a couple of pictures bc he loves them a lot.

•eddie and robin smoke together on the occasion(they cried one time bc robin turned off the lights on accident and they were convinced they both went blind).

if you read this far i literally love you oh my god

[xx-all-purpose-nerd-xx]

Who I headcanon to be besties in Stranger Things

Lucas and Eleven I feel like after Lucas got over whatever it was in season 1, and after El came back, they were really good friends. They definitely called each other a lot when El moved to California. The hug in episode 9 confirmed this bestie-ship for me, and I am sorry that I don’t have more evidence for it as it is just a hunch.

Dustin and Will Never a dull moment with these two. Dustin, being the icon that he is, was the first of the party to figure out that Will was gay. (He did so by watching Will’s reaction to bullying). After he proved that he could be trusted, Will told him about his crush on Mike. (Lucas figured out soon after). That formed a bond different from the others because they were the only ones who really followed the Party’s golden rule of “friends don’t lie”.

Max and Mike  We all knew this was coming. I am a firm believer in Platonic Madwheeler Supremacy. After season 3, Max started becoming more reclusive, and Mike could relate because he did the same thing when he lost El the first time. They bonded over stories of El and ways to cope with loss, and they went from hating each other, to tolerating each other, to begrudgingly liking each other, to basically being siblings.

[booksandpaperss]

Platonic madwheeler supremacy

Max : mike-

Mike (Crying, screaming, vomiting, staring at his whole ass BINDER full of will's drawings in his basement) : Will used to call me that.

Max (maxerously): yeah maybe because it'S YOUR FUCKING NAME!!!!!!