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Shut up shut up shut up this is to real 😭

writers whenever they’re starting a new fic: I have these ✨ vibes ✨ now I’ll have to build an entire plot and write an entire fic about those vibes

#writing #THE STRUGGLE

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"Your card declines at therapy so they--"

#oof #OOF #ooooooowwwww #billy hargrove #harringrove #steve harrington #stranger things #gotta little kick to it #😭😭😭 #Billy's got to personal

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I don't know under what circumstances I made this but

It kind of slays.

#the Barbie font ate ngl #trans rights

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This is the funniest thing I've seen cross my dash all week

HI WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BABY GOOSE

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The Duffers are obnoxiously racist at this point. Every POC character is used as a plot device and has no real arc of their own. Argyll came close but the fact that they didn't even call Eduardo Franco to tell him that they dropped him from the show??? Patrick deserved so much better fr.

The fact that of all four of Vecna’s victims Patrick has the least screentime? Deserves jail I think?

He should have been front and center. Actually he should have gotten to throw a basketball at Vecna’s head.

#fuck the Duffers #the Duffers are bad writers #stranger things #patrick mckinney

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#billy hargrove #harringrove #steve harrington #stranger things #now make them kiss

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It's not possible, and Steve can attest to it

#you're not wrong #billy hargrove #harringrove

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I think the Duffer Brothers' history with racism in their show goes a lot deeper than a lot of people realize.

Lucas as a character has three distinct B plot stories that get assigned to him: being a minor antagonist to Eleven in season one, being a good friend to the rest of the Party, and being in love with his girlfriend. While Mike's plot is directly centered around two of the most pivotal characters of the show, Dustin is given two different role model characters that shape his arc and is overall the genius that helps the rest of the cast get out of several difficult situations, Will still being connected to the Upside Down after his disappearance in 1983 and that playing into several major plots, Max having a multitude of centric storylines especially in season four and Eleven literally being THE main character- Lucas is only ever given plots that help serve and uplift the other (white) characters. Unless you count him... playing basketball and being friends with Jason. I guess?

Erica is similar to Lucas, but to a much larger degree. I'd like you reading this to think of any single Erica standalone plot in the show that has nothing to do with/does not predominantly or solely benefit the white characters around her. I'll wait.

The Sinclair parents are only touched on in brief sections for the sake of filling the episodes, only ever playing a more major role in Season Four. If you could call it that. I'm sure most of you couldn't even tell me their names off of the top of your heads. (It's Charles and Sue, by the way.)

Argyle was the first somewhat major character of color to be introduced to the show after Erica played her part in season three. I could say similar things about his role in the season overall that I can about Lucas and Erica. Except they set him up to play a bigger role in the next season at the end of season four, going as far as to show him in Hawkins and have Jancy verbally allude to him sticking around, only for the show heads to ghost Eduardo Franco and let him find out he wasn't being brought back through an official social media cast photo.

Kali was a former subject from the same lab El came from, having escaped and subsequently began to lead a vigilante life of enacting revenge on those who played a hand in her suffering. She was the first subject El ever met after leaving the lab, shown to be incredibly powerful and strong-willed. Her and El had an immediate connection, calling themselves sisters right after meeting. But after El was finished with her self-discovery period on the S.S. Kali Gang for one (1) often-forgotten and poorly-written episode, Kali was quite literally abandoned both in spirit and on screen, never to be seen or even mentioned again.

All other characters of color are either killed violently (Patrick), have like ten minutes of screentime total (Jeff and Calvin Powell), or are just straight up background only and may not even have names.

They can dedicate an entire section of season four's plot to Suzie's family, but not to genuine character development for Erica or for Kali to return. They can make room for a whole pointless predatory plot between Billy and Karen, but not to give a more important role to the Sinclair parents. They have room to include a whole plot about El getting bullied in school, but not for Lucas to have a more meaningful story outside of his white friends and girlfriend. They can platform three known white zionists while Palestine currently undergoes a gruesome genocide even as I type this, but they don't have room for Argyle in season five (or even the decency to give Eduardo a fucking phone call).

Not only do the Duffers constantly write themselves into holes because they keep adding unnecessary fodder to the plot, and refuse to kill ANY of their main characters in favor of just creating new characters for the sake of killing them off in mediocre ways despite the fact that they're trying to fit 20+ B plots into 8-9 40-50 minute episodes per season and wondering why half their show doesn't make sense- The time they DO dedicate to character-specific B plots and character arc progression visibly favor the white characters.

If I watch S5, and that's a huge if, I will be sailing the high seas. Between all of this, the fact that they filmed part of season four in an old Nazi prison and tried to turn it into a fucking AirBNB, and the fact that at least four people who play major roles in the show actively support the current genocide of Palestine- I won't be giving them (or Netflix for that matter) another cent of my money.

While you're here, please do your completely free daily click to send aid to Palestine, and here's a list of other resources for how to help more directly.

#i honestly hope they don't bring Billy back because the Duffers are just going to make it WORSE #God the way this show could have been great #free palestine #stranger things #the duffers suck

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i have been crying for like 20 minutes about the sincerity of art and the act of creation like ohhh my god

#I'm crying and i have goosebumps holy shit

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Billy sashaying through the Harrington house in one of these, so insanely proud and smug to be fucking the big dick rich boy from Hawkins. He never has to work a day in his life because Steve thinks he's too pretty to have to suffer anymore in this cruel, cruel world. ❤️

#love that for him #canon because i say so #harringrove #Steve Harrington #Billy Hargrove

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When your love language is reading your boyfriend to absolute filth.

i love when wilson pops into an episode only to psychoanalyze house to the point of endangering both of them and then fucks off.

#honestly? slay #i know he has a timer on his phone to remind him

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#HELLCHEER #AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! #the COLORS??!! #chrissy cunningham #eddie munson #God i love them #the only good thing to come out of season 4 #and i stand by that

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They should have been end game talk to the wall ✋

#zutara #katara #zuko #atla #they literally balanced each other out #ya know #like the theme of the ENTIRE SHOW??!! #but whatever sure she can be a trophy wife for the kid she literally took care of like a mom the whole time #My Roman Empire truly 😩 #❤️🌊☯️🔥🩵

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Shut up shut up Steve and Billy would be such a good couple

Steve would laugh at Billy's sarcasm and dry humor, he'd tell people Billy's so strong and so good at basketball, he'd beg him to let him drive the Camaro. They'd stay up all night and sleep all day. They'd make fun of people and honk at pedestrians to startle them for fun. They'd trespass, they'd kill monsters together, they'd have hot sex and laugh so much and Billy would be able to cry so much because Steve would be like "hey, shh, shh it's okay I'm here"

"I love you more" "no I love you more" "no I love you more" "I'll fucking kill you because one of us is fucking lying"

Billy's in the kitchen making Steve food, remembering something he mentioned casually that he wanted to try because Billy remembers everything. Remembers all their anniversaries and Steve's birthday and he helps Steve with his homework because "don't sweat it, you're not stupid, you just suck at some stuff. I suck at some stuff too."

Yeah. They're good together. Not perfect of course.

They'd fight and fight and fight until someone shouts "I can't do this," only for them both to be too stubborn until someone's knocking on someone's door like "you left your shoelace at my house" "that's not my shoelace."

One of them apologizes in a roundabout way, maybe Billy, then they have makeup sex and maybe they'll be less stubborn and bitchy next time (they won't but dammit they'll keep at it)

Steve will be the one to bring up marriage and kids and Billy will be avoidant until he has to admit to himself that he can't fucking get rid of this guy no matter how many walls he puts up or how many times he stumbles to his house with a black eye because all Steve wants to do is save him!! And Billy wants to pretend he doesn't need to be taken care of and like he's the big bad protector in the relationship until his head is in Steve's lap and he remembers that he can close his eyes and he never has to flinch because Steve doesn't want to break him in any way!!!!

They're both dating their best friend!! Who is also their enemy! There's no one I want to kiss more than the person I want to kick in the face everyday! It has to be you and I can't get enough!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#you get it #harringrove #Steve Harrington #Billy Hargrove

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#good thing I'm a coward #DoorDash it is!

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Like, maybe Steve gets bitten by a radioactive spider in the secret Russian base. Developes powers and does what he's always done, protect people. He and Robin go to New York and rent a shoe box apartment and when Dustin gets accepted to University there he becomes *obsessed* with the local web slinging vigilante that saved him from muggers and then gave him a (terrifying) lift to his classes.

Meanwhile Billy wakes up in the back of a government van with a hole in his chest and a broken mind, probably on his way to be dissected in a creepy lab. No one really knows what happened. Just that the van crashed and went up in flames, Billy's body written off as a loss by the feds. He travels, never staying in one place for to long and minding his own fucking business as much as an undead mutant freak with super strength and impossible healing powers can. He goes to Cali for a while, but that turns out to be a mistake. His mom has a whole new family now, complete with two kids and a golden retriever, not a single picture of Billy in the entire house. It taints everything, and within a week he's gone, on a bus headed who knows where. He eventually finds himself in New York, doing shitty odd jobs for whoever can get past the scowl and faint black veins across his entire body. Not like he shows anyone his body. The scars alone are enough that he's permanently covered with a hoodie and jeans. Through one way or the other Billy finds himself working as a mercenary. The ability to regrow limbs and lift a car over your head really puts you on the fast track. Go figure. He's on his way back from a job when he hears a woman's muffled scream down a dark alley and without thinking he takes off like a shot. Billy ends up beating the shit out of some low life purse snatcher only for her to recoil and run the second she sees his face. Rolling his eyes he pulls up the scarf around his neck so just his eyes are visible. A voice he would know anywhere sounds from behind him.

"Wow, that was fucking rude of her. You alright?"

Billy turns around and his brain short circuits.

Get possessed by a demon shadow monster?

Check ✓

Come back from the dead?

Check ✓

His highschool crush turns out to be a god damn superhero?!

Check ✓

#billy hargrove #harringrove #steve harrington #that hoe writes #spideypool AU #deadpool!Billy #spiderman!Steve #as soon as i figure out how to banish this chronic fatigue #it's over for you bitches (affectionate)

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Billy Hargrove, the most female character coded traumatized guy in a sci fi series.

The disgust Neil has for the queerness he's identified in Billy including his femininity. Long hair. Earrings. Perfumes. Billy, blonde and blue eyed in a red button up with tight jeans that accentuate his body just like his "pretty" mother who smashes plates as hard as he does. Billy, red swim trunks the same color as Phoebe Cate's red bathing suit, sexy and scandalous. Both eye candy for an audience stripping them of personhood with their eyes. Billy whose sexuality is exploited by the adults in his life who would be quick to blame him if they ever got caught - he came onto me! It's his fault! Billy, who is violated in one of the most graphic scenes on screen, his voice taken from him in more ways than one. Villainized through victim blaming.

Now, we have Billy being given a hypothetical female victim by his tormentors who is a literal copy of himself in every other way other than gender presentation... and where did they dig this up? In Billy's brain. All the effort they put into making it seem like Billy is your typical machismo obsessed male, they treat Billy every step of the way how one usually treats The Slut in a horror story, carefully hiding their misogyny this time by projecting every thing they hate about female victims onto a male character they've deemed irredeemable while they make their female characters Not Like Other Girls.

Billy is like Other Girls. Billy is Other Girls. It's what's so interesting about him. It would be even better if it was based in empathy for his queerness instead of hate for Other Girls. The girls who are bad victims. The girls who are bad survivors. The girls who get preyed on for being pretty. The girls with daddy issues. The girls who are their damaged mothers. The girls who get killed for not being pure enough. The Other Girls. Y'know what I mean... except Billy is a boy, so it's okay. We've flipped the script, haven't we? We're so subversive by applying the same awful tired mentality to a boy. It's okay now because he's a boy and we know this because he works out and he has porn magazines and he makes non existent girls scream. So, really. It's okay. No harm done.

#THIS #billy hargrove #harringrove