Noupsidedown Stories

This is Hawkins, Indiana. People only care about basketball. Ice hockey doesn't really matter to anyone, except for the girl's team captain, and maybe the marching band member who volunteers to show up to all of her games. comments are highly appreciated!! they fuel my motivation to keep writing :)

(also on ao3) ♡ el hopper / max mayfield ♡ 1985 🌈 𝓈𝓁𝑒𝑒𝓅𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝒹, 𝑜𝒽 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝒽 🌈 𝒶𝓉 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝒾 𝑔𝑜𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹 ฺ ✿ฺ。 ✿ฺ ✿ฺ。 ✿ฺฺ ✿ฺ。 ✿ฺ ✿ฺ。 ✿ฺฺ ✿ฺ。 teenage girls el and max are forming a quickly tightening bond. max's supposedly shameful desperation for an alternate type of relationship between them forms just as quickly, and even more earth shatteringly. she's torn between passion and fear. what would el, their friend group or max's family think? what about the world as a whole? in hawkins, indiana, at least, it seemed that the world solely consisted of close minded parents, humid summers, youthful teasing and a flashy shopping mall. most of all, it often felt to max like the most immensely frustrating aspect of the world were her own new flustered feelings and unwavering guilt. the varying complications within max and el's friend group and within hawkins itself lurk just as timid amongst everything. ( slow burn, no upside down/powers; elevens name is just el; takes place right after they became friends but that happened sooner in the summer; hopper is el's adoptive dad; her biological dad is martin brenner who's in prison for abusing her, and her mom isn't alive; there's confusion, angst, a little fluff, lowkey slowburn and excessive gay panic )

Steve is a bartender at The Hideaway. Eddie is the singer of Corroded Coffin. What happens when the band gets a gig while Steve is babysitting? Read to find out... No upside down stuff for now, might change later...

"Yeah, I'm not quite sure we fit in with the crowd here." Will added grimly, his nose scrunching up. "Well, at least we have each other." Mike added quickly, not giving a second thought to the words escaping his lips. This had earned a few seconds of silence from the other. "We'll always have each other." Will shot back softly, smiling up at the boy next to him. or Will and Mike get dragged to the after party of Lucas' basketball championship, and Will hits it off with Chance. And the rest is history.

Will can't sleep and Mike helps. /Sorry I suck at summaries/

Mike thinks for a moment before a smirk creeps onto his face, "How about 'Operation Kaleidoscope'?" "Oh yes! After the Chappell roan song! I love it!" "What? No I meant like- because you have to look further into a kaleidoscope to find the images." El shrugs, "I like Chappell roan better." "Right." ART BY HALOSKETCHES