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I keep saying this, but I’m going to say it again:

I don’t understand how people can watch the scene of Laurel gr00m1ng Tyler and still think he’s the abusive villain. He had no control over what he was doing, he had to listen to his master and can’t control the Hyde himself. He was just a neglected teenager who only wanted to know about his mother. His father would never spend time with him, and Laurel was the only person to take him seriously, so of course he was going to get closer to her. That’s what gr00m3rs do. He was injected with chemicals, was physically and mentally ab*sed. None of what happened was his fault.

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1.04) | THE RUTHLESS PURSUIT OF BLOOD WITH ALL A CHILD’S DEMANDING

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I GOT YOU

Billy in the upside down and Steve brings him back.

(I did this before vol 2 but I couldn’t finish it before vol 2 released LOL)

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if u take requests, could you draw steve braiding billys hair<3

Hi!! I am very excited about this request. Because it coincidentally resembles a sketch I made! So I was able to finish this drawing😆

+ I added Max because I wanted to see a sibling relationship they could develop. And of course, there will be little quarrels all the time❤️

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Hurt/comfort Harringrove commission!

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I'm sorry but people complaining Steve didn't seem upset about Eddie are missing the part where he knew him for like 3 days and had one conversation with the guy

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the box is staring at him as he’s picking up max, on an evening where the only reminder of last summer is the gaping wound on the outskirts of hawkins, and the ash coating every surface, unwilling to be brushed away. forgotten.

‘what’s that?’ steve nods towards the box miserably awaiting its fate in the middle of the overgrown lawn. BOOKS FOR FREE, it declares.

max burrows deeper into the passenger seat. ‘was his,’ is all she says, thickly, and presses play on her walkman. that’s her social quota filled for today.

the beat rises up wall-like between them, and steve doesn’t think twice. he shuts the passenger door and grabs the box, sliding it under the driver’s seat.

he goes to work, and doesn’t mention the box to robin. feels wrong, somehow. something better kept secret. the moment the door of his one-bedroom is shut behind him, he crouches down and rips it open. it’s full of beat-up paperbacks, creased and used, with jagged lines running down the broken spines.

when steve randomly leafs through one, and buries his nose in it, it smells like the back of a library, and a bit like cologne-covered sweat. there’s the hint of smoke there, too, but maybe that’s just the aftertaste of a tragedy.

he’s never been much of a reader. took him two months and the first fifty pages of tender is the night to decide fitzgerald’s not for him, but when he finds a copy at the bottom of the box, billy hargrove’s frantic, borderline-obsessive writing calling dick diver a ‘candy-ass pussy’ and making steve crack up, laughter echoing through his empty studio, it takes a little more than six days to get through the whole thing.

vanity of duluoz is there one day when he wakes up, staring at him expectantly from his nightstand. try this one next, a voice says. when steve skims through it, the text is barely legible, underlined and interlaced with billy’s notes.

he calls robin halfway through it to ask if it’ll ever get easier, saving the world. if they’ll ever get out of this place. she doesn’t have the answers, but listening to her breathing on the other end of the line helps. it really, really helps.

he wonders if billy knew how his story would end, and chose to be the hero anyway. that night, when the voice whispers goodnight, steve says it back.

there’s one book he’s never heard of before. the city and the pillar. when steve pulls it out of the box, the voice goes hurried, desperate, not that one, pick another, any other, just not this— and then steve flips the book open, and everything goes silent.

there are no notes. nothing to indicate this book’s ever been opened, other than the broken spine and the thumb-shaped bruises on the pages, dark smudges screaming billy hargrove was here. steve aligns his fingers with billy’s imprints, and starts reading.

stop, the voice says, before the boy in the book touches another. harrington, stop, it says, but steve shakes his head, and says, ‘no, no i wanna read this,’ to no one but his empty bedroom. someone calls the boy a queer. the thumbprint on that page is an angry brown, and steve can see billy’s death grip, his clenched jaw. his eyes.

the last chapter’s missing. torn out, violently. steve calls up a bookstore in indy, and plans his day off around a road trip. listen to me, the voice says, it’s not worth it, but steve tunes it out by turning the radio on. ‘i have to know,’ he mutters to himself. he swears the passenger seat lets out a resigned sigh, but no one says a thing for the rest of the ride.

when he finds the bookstore, he pays $3.95 for a book he already hates, and slinks back into his car to finish it. once he’s done, he throws it into the nearest trash can, and starts the car.

told you, the voice says, sounding oddly remorseful, and not a bit smug. ‘s fucked up.

steve doesn’t say anything. he’s suffocating, throat dry with longing for something long-lost, or forbidden. with his right arm, he grazes the empty space next to him. his fingers get tangled in straw-coarse hair, and steve breathes out, relieved, keeping his eyes on the road.

it’s all bullshit, anyway, billy hargrove says, being in love doesn’t feel like that. ‘s not evil.

‘and how would you know?’

the air next to him moves, like someone’s crossing the gear shift abyss. when steve feels the press of lips on his neck, he fights back a shiver, and then leans into it. tilts his head to the side for more.

nipping at steve’s jaw, we’re out of books, billy says, that was the last one.

a library card is a small price to pay for a miracle. don’t fade away, steve thinks, and says, ‘my turn to pick the next.’

absolutely not, billy laughs, and then, pull over at the next 7-eleven, will ya? ‘s not a proper road trip without a cherry slushie.

at the sound of the bell, the lady behind the counter looks up. ‘how can i help you today, boys?’ she says, and steve thinks, okay. we’re okay, and catches the bag of tostitos billy throws his way, smiling the whole time.

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billy’s room part one: the vanity

i have spent far too long looking at pics of billy’s room, specifically his makeshift vanity, so here, have a post of stuff billy has on his vanity. and if anyone wants, i can do one on the rest of his room at some point?

so, in addition to the pump action aqua net hairspray we see him use, he has:

Keep reading

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I know everyone is shipping Eddie with Steve, but do they even have chemistry? The same time of chemistry as Joe/Dacre had?

no one has the same chemistry like dacre and joe. they were lightning in a bottle~

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joe keery: honestly dacre is HUGE. he’s so built, it’s crazy. he’s a big guy. jacked. he’s a power ranger, did you know that? he’s super fit. it’s kind of amazing if i’m being honest.

interviewer: okay um, great. so the question was how did you like season 2

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How come no one is talking about this scene??? 

Joe really touched Dacre’s chest with his fingers and Dacre just stared at him??? ALL OF IT WAS UNSCRIPTED!!! Steve didn’t pointed to the open door and Billy didn’t laughed and rubbed his nose.

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WHAT IF VECNA GOT STEVE INSTEAD OF NANCY??

Vecna traps Steve with the vines and taunts him about Barb. Because he knows Steve still feels guilty about what happened to Nancy's best friend. He knows Steve has a hard time forgiving himself and forgetting that Barb died at his house. In his pool.

Steve falls for it. Hook, line and sinker because he's been guilt-ridden ever since. He hates himself for it. And blames himself wholly for Barb dying. That's why he'd gotten involved with the Party in the first place. It was about redeeming himself and easing his guilty conscience. So he helped Dustin and Nancy and the rest of them, kept himself busy so he wouldn't become consumed by thoughts of Barb.

Only, he hadn't expected to grow so close to them, Dustin most of all. They were the family he'd never had.

"I can take away the guilt and the grief Steven. Isn't that what you want? To stop feeling haunted by a past that can never be erased?"

"N- no," Steve chokes, sobbing as Vecna wraps the vines tighter around his neck.

"Don't you want to be at rest, boy?" Vecna taunts, raising a hand to Steve's face. Barb screams in the distance and Steve goes still, tears growing cold on his face.

Yes. Yes, he should die. He should give up the fight, and just follow Barb into the abyss.

"Y- ...yes," he gasps but it comes out all wet and raspy. He's losing the fight and his vision is fading.

"Not today bitch," a familiar voice interrupts followed by the smashing of glass and an ear-piercing scream.

Suddenly Vecna is engulfed in bright orange flames. The vines drop Steve and he collapses in a crumpled heap. He coughs, feeling about his neck where the vines had made their mark. He pants and glances up, frowning at the dark combat boots, blue jeans and white wifebeater. Sapphire eyes stare him down, he almost feels like Vecna's prey again. But then the guy grins and offers a hand, tongue dancing seductively on bruised but memorable lips.

"What a sight for sore eyes Harrington," Billy fucking Hargrove quips, pulling him from the ground.

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☀️ Sunny and 75 ☀️

Harringrove for Australia piece for @haxpr0cess!

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" I didn't run away this time. "

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What is your favorite Billy surviving season three and being introduced in season 4 scenario?

OH I have so many!!!

I'm a big fan of Billy being "saved" by the scientists and him being the one in Russia fighting his way back.

I adore (and wrote) the idea that Billy suffers from amnesia and the scientists ship him off to Cali where he becomes a pizza boy (Surfer Boy Pizza!!!) and ends up delivering to the Byers triggering them freaking out and finding ways to convince Billy to believe them about who he really is!

But my FAVORITE, absolute favorite is Billy just surviving, being in the hospital for a long time before being released and forcibly inserted into the group because now he know about monsters and the Upside Down and he begrudgingly has to join the whole group and he HATES it but Steve's there, so whatever, it's not SO bad, and he's quiet and a little mean because everyone gives him so much shit because he never APOLOGIZED, but Billy doesn't process shit well so he doesn't feel like he NEEDS to apologize, but he ends up helping with the plans or being the muscle when it's needed. He ends up being BENEFICIAL to the group and slowly they all come around to him.

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“fuck the duffers,” i say into the mic. the crowd boos. i begin to walk off in shame. “no, he’s right,” says a voice from the back of the room. the lights come on. it’s the entire stranger things cast