#leshenclair

[hellfirehoe]

willow byers, michelle wheeler, daisy henderson and lucy sinclair

[dustyydefender]

Leshenclair but vampire… who cheered!! 🫂

[kaliprasad]

Genderbending straight ships to be gay >>>>>>>>>>

Genderbending gay ships to be gay in a different way >>>>>>>>>>

[dustindoesnowrong]

Bylers act like they invented the 'les' suffix as if that hasn't been used in fandom spaces for decades. You guys didn't invent genderbending! You didn't invent wlw pairings! You didn't invent lesbians!

People adding a 'les' suffix to their pairings to genderbend them is not reheating Byler nachos be so fucking serious for one second. Stop gatekeeping normal fandom things.

[felixthecheeseman]

When the yaoi ship hits so hard it turns into yuri:

[averytauntingletter]

platonic henfield foolish hearts au where they are all girls(bear with me)

sapphic henclair AND exes to lovers elmax bc why tf not!!

putting this under a read more bc this is long as FUCK

set in the all-girls hawkins academy

elmax as the hawkins academy golden couple, with bubbly, bright jane hopper having been with intimidating, cool, kind of mean(if you dont know her) max mayfield since their freshman year, after having been friends with each other throughout middle school and crushing on each other.

dusty henderson is a scholarship kid, here solely because of her grades. most of her actual friends are her old ones. ok, old one. singular. she doesn't make friends very easily!

two weeks before senior year starts, jennifer hayes hosts her annual tea party, with a dress code stating you must wear pink. every person in her class is invited.

usually, dusty wouldn't show, but her mom got hold of the invitation and insisted, so, here she is, wearing a pink dress, at a party where she has no friends and doesn't want to be

she's there, biding her time at the venue until she can leave when, while using the bathroom, she overhears an argument. one between jane hopper and max mayfield, about how max didn't where a pink dress to the party to piss jennifer off

dusty essentially hears the entirety of jane breaking up with max, which. oof. and then jane leaves and she hears max mayfield crying and oh fuck

if she thought she couldnt leave before, she definitely cant leave now and then the automatic flushing system accidentally goes off.

max freezes. dusty freezes, and then decides to commit to the bit

she just leaves, and pretends nothing happens

this does not work. she gets threatened. how fun!

flash forward to two weeks later. school's started, and max and dusty are in the same english class

their teacher assigns a group project on shakespeare. they get assigned partners for a paper

dusty's partner? max mayfield

see dusty still isn't convinced she's not dying tmr and max is still not convinced dusty isn't going to air her drama out to the school

this leads to a not group group project. max just goes "i'll do the first half. you do the second. we dont have to talk about this"

they submit it...and fail. dusty's in danger of losing her scholarship and max is just pissed

they are given the opportunity for extra credit...but it just so happens to be taking part in the school's production of a midsummer night's dream. they HAVE to audition

but guess who is the theater lead girl of hawkins academy? jane hopper. oh yeah.

dusty auditions and promptly falls flat on her face. yeah its bad.

max does okay, but jane? jane shines

lucy sinclair, queen of theater also happens to have auditioned

the cast list comes out and, predictably, dusty doesn't get cast, but she does join costume tech!

jane is titania, and lucy gets cast as the oberon counterpart(bc they are wlwing shakespeare. naturally)

max is the fairy, one who is doting, constantly, on titania. her ex. the one that broke up with her. the one she's still hung up on.

the thing about shakespeare is that it's complicated. the thing about dusty henderson? she's never met a problem she couldn't solve

shakespeare is just calculus but with less integrals and more iambic pentameter, if you think about it.

it starts small, with a girl trying to figure out a line during costume fittings when dusty steps in and helps her figure it out and then suddenly michelle wheeler, student director, is ordering her around as the unofficial shakespeare translator

max comes to her a few days later and michelle's behest, grumpy and reluctant and VERY mad at the world and at michelle

it starts with dusty helping max figure out her lines, so that she becomes less stiff, after school, and then suddenly her and max mayfield are friends. like, best friend, tell each other everything, kind of friends

it is then when dusty meets lucy sinclair, at a cast party that max dragged her to because, in her words, "if i have to be here then so do you"

lucy is sweet and fun and inviting. she is going to make sure that dusty makes friends if it is the death of her.

she also is crushing on dusty, heavily, but dusty doesn't need to know that just yet

she's also been friends with jane for years, and she can recognize her misery, so the two of them hatch a plan, and suddenly puck is not the only one matchmaking. lucy and dusty are giving him a run for his money, actually.

they are working together to get them back together

lucy is intent on getting dusty to *gasp* actually makes friends and stop isolating?

dusty just wants to design some costumes and keep her scholarship, but, well, maybe she'll give in one of these days. maybe

again. intense homoeroticism of being a costume tech with a crush on the actor you are doing a fitting for.

henfield bestie agenda. don't speak to me i love them

dusty and max are both still pretty terrible at the whole "friend" thing, so they are both loathe to admit it, but both of their senior years have been so much better because of each other

max is still pining. jane is too, albeit much more subtly. she wants to convince herself she made the right decision because she thinks she did but then max will look at her a little too earnestly

they have conflicts! they get back together!

after all, the course of true love never did run smooth

also:

the lesbyler subplot

michelle wheeler, shakespeare nerd is directing the show, planning out costumes, sets, and blocking

she pitched the show as "midsummer but lesbians" and "think spring...not just spring but like...flowers. think tinkerbell actually, but the whole forest is kinda like that. wonderland esque. you get it"

(their teacher did not, in fact, get it)

willow byers, who has been content as a wallflower all her life, is just fine staying in the background painting sets like she always has while her sister shines on stage

the thing is, michelle needs help with the actual designing part. turns out what looks good in her head...doesn't...really...translate to stage

she recruits the first tech girl she finds who seems to know a little about art, and that happens to be willow byers

suddenly, willow is thrust into planning, designing, and collaborating with like, a shit ton of people, and-

oh god. her name. is on the playbill. not just in the long list of set painters its ON THE FRONT PAGE???

she is being percieved(which is scary), while michelle might just be falling a little more for the sweet, sensitive girl that willow is and the powerhouse that she's becoming

willow might have been nursing a crush on michelle since grade school that's coming back STRONG, but she'll deal! especially if it means she gets to keep seeing that look on mich's face when some wild plan of hers comes together

[wroetobyers]

would love to be served with a leshenclair burger right about now..

[sarvthewise]

List of ships I really like in stranger things I think should be more popular (variants included) :

・Starting off strong with gayelmax. We all know elmax, yes, but do it like lesbyler because all byler logic works well on elmax

・Ok, I like henderhop. I like duzie. Hear me out– duziehop. Henderbinghop. Super geniuses. Just think on it

・Jargyle, how is this not comparable to stonathan?

・Surfsahoy is a popular byler variant and all, but it should also be a popular elmax variant

・I don't ship henclair, really, not that I hate it or don't find some fanarts cute—but I sometimes enjoy leshenclair for whatever reason

・Lesteddie. Speaks for itself

・My OC x Canon Stedcal because I often forget Cal is my OC and not just some guy who became important in s4🥹 Nobody but me knows about them and that's a shame

・Gothpunk byler is my favorite variant ngl, especially when it's college byler... Or just goth Will with loser epilogue Mike

・Byler writing a comic together. Comic byler is actually awesome because Mike writes and Will draws and it's just cute.. Again, I like this with college byler it's so good

・Nancy x Vickie x Robin x Chrissy x Barb... No clue what their name is but I like this, any combination of this is so good, the popular and unpopular. From Ronance to Brissy to all 5 together, I like this one a lot for sure

・Elumax. It's the main 2 Max ships combined and I adore it idc

・Genderswap elumax / lumax.. In my gayelmax headcanons list I'm making it's lowkey just elumax genderswapped and I think the combination of Maxwell and Lucy with the optional James is just absolutely wonderful so

・Any miwi byler variant. So cute💔💔 I saw lesmiwi and it was SO cute, SOOOO so cute.. I wanna see more like that, like cleradin miwi or something

・I love the concept of Joyce and Karen experimenting with each other in high school

・Discovered steddithan yesterday and it was crazy, love the concept of Jonathan and Eddie both just with Steve at first but it developing is good

・Byler logic works well on elmax since they're LOWKEY lesbyler so how about hellcali elmax❤️‍🩹 Max being convinced to join Hellfire would've rocked and she'd be so funny as a party member because she would NOT care about the typical path of things or the rules. Loopholes galore with Max

・Normal elmax and lesbyler would actually fucking rock together I think I'd cry of joy. Jane and Willow do each other's makeup to see their sassy baddie girlfriends OHHH STOP IT. It'd do well for wondertwins and platonic madwheeler.. I know elmax and lesbyler are popular individually but TOGETHER.. OOH yeah. Yup.

・I saw California elmax, but not in a hellcali way. It was Max still being moved in with her dad, and when the Byers move to Lenora, Jane sees a cute ginger girl who catches her eye — maybe Will can help her explore allat in her identity and there's wondertwins

・Lesgothpunk... God I love Byler variant

・Cleradin is big and all, I know, but we need to apply that logic to other ships because they'd flourish... Think about henderhop or elmax as their own cleradin