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I wanted to do a Billy piece. I thought what if he survived and moved back to California? And, what if they met him at the Skater Rink that Eleven clobbered that bully at? So I did a sort of pin up of him, because why not? lol 😍

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Kind of insidious actually how the fandom puts the responsibility of ending his own abuse on billy.

Like…in no other situation would you look at a victim actively living with their abuser and tell them it’s their fault they didn’t stop it, that they didn’t react differently, that they didn’t do better to behave or whatever

Where is Neil’s responsibility? Or Susan’s? Billys mom who left him knowing what Neil was like? Any teacher or principal at billys school when he started beating kids up out of the blue because we know he wasn’t always like that… they saw a drastic personality change in this kid and just did nothing? (Maybe they did. Maybe someone tried but billy would lie or Neil would lie. But it’s also not out of the realm of possibility for Billy to just be perceived as a problem child and written off, especially back then)

Like yes billy has to take accountability for the fact he himself has hurt people, but why does no one have to take accountability for hurting him?

The billy we were introduced to was created, not born. They explicitly go out of their way to show you all the events that led to the boy we saw and y’all STILL do not get it. You think you get it, you act like you get when you sit there in your faux sympathy going “I know his life was rough but-“

But you don’t get it. Because the truth is maybe his circumstances are a little too uncomfortable of a pill for you to swallow

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This lord of the roads was created for a racing track. For twenty years, the third series has been dedicated to motorsport. The fourth generation bmw m3 coupe only adds the finishing touches to the image of a perfect car.

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Pretty boy but yeah

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T: “I heard Byers got asked to help with picture day at Loch Nora.”

B: “Think Wheeler’s gonna let him get a close up?”

More boarding school AU brainrot. When Billy first comes to Hawkins Academy, Stancy is still holding on by a thread. Loch Nora is the nearby private girl’s college that shares some classes with the academy.

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characters who arent canonically gay but whose behavior just makes no sense unless you read them as gay

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lover not a fighter

revealing my WTF2020 art p. 7

my first and only modern!AU ish harringrove art :D

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"The view is pretty great from up here, huh? "Yeah... It's not so bad, pretty boy."

Here is my creation for the @harringrove-relay-race! Next up, please look forward to a wonderful work from @desperate-not-serious! 🏁

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romance is alive and well 🐝

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NO GOODBYES ONLY SEE YOU SOON

for @weird-an !! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! here's a lil drawing of argyle and billy, where Things are still new and hawkins is some place neither of them have ever heard of. you're a wonderful friend an and you mean the world to me!! thank you for being you!! <3!!

++ close up!

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billy hargrove in every scene (18/∞)

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Max: I’m telling Billy

Steve: No! Wait, stop!

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years later when theyve moved far away from hawkins, have been together for a couple decades, married or something close to it, settled in their life, steve getting a call from nancy that her moms died, theres gonna be a funeral. doesnt formally invite steve but its heavily implied he's welcomed to come.

and of course steves gonna go. he's stayed close with nancy all these years and he knows she has jonathan and mike and holly and her own family to lean on but theyre friends so... not going doesnt even feel like an option

and its kind of just assumed billy will go with him back to hawkins, to the funeral as his plus one. because theres not a whole lot they dont do together and they certainly havent traveled without each other, so when billy tells him its a hard no on that one, steve doesnt get it.

steve still doesnt get it when billy gets an attitude whenever steve starts talking about how sad it is for nancy that she's lost her mom, how "at least karen went peacefully", when he keeps pushing how he wants billy to go with him and "fine you dont have to go to the funeral but just come to hawkins with me for a little getaway"

and its not until steves pushing for billy to go again, muttering about how hes an asshole under his breath when billys getting all pissy and steve says something along the lines of "i seem to recall a few rumors back in the day about you being real friendly with her so i dont understand this stick up your butt all of a sudden!"

its meant to be a joke, kind of. a little bitchy, a little teasing, but he definitely wasnt expecting for billy to go off like a bomb, laying out in black and white just exactly what was going on with him and karen back in the day. how its taken billy years and years of therapy to unpack all that shit and realize how fucking gross it was and how a grown adult woman was using him to fill some void in her marriage and how he was so desperate for someone to notice him, to like him, that he didnt think twice when the moms around town would fawn after him, a teenager. a kid. and when he thinks back on that time now it just leaves him feeling dirty so, no, he does not want to be around people mourning karen wheeler and what a great wife and mother she was. sorry for nancys loss or whatever but he's gonna pass.

and now that that particular secret has come to light, steve doesnt really feel like being there either. calls up nancy and makes up an excuse that he cant get any time out of work and he's so so sorry about it, but he'll try visiting hawkins when he can to make up for it.

the flight to indiana is already booked but steve calls up and changes it to any other place that he can, doesnt matter. adds on another ticket for billy. while everyone from hawkins is at the funeral theyre locked away in a hotel room forgetting about it all. billy healing in his own way.

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tender harringrove + the yellow sweater for the SUPER SWEET @sightetsound~!!!

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Happy Halloween 1984! 💘🎃

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for @billyhargrovebingo | C2: “finds a baby animal” 😌