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Steve on the way to the Upside Down/or some kind of a secret facility, getting ready to save and again confront Billy

I don't care about definitions, you're the love of my life, that's all I know. Stop trying to get away from me.

Or

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NGL, it took me over a solid year after the finale to not lunge for the skip (or the exit lmao) when this came on

When the Uber is playing Carry On Wayward Son

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All they had to do is open the goddamn fridge

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Hear me out: Harringrove Breakfast Club AU

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i want you to want me

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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO SUPERNATURAL DADS

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Hamster Escapes the Most Dangerous Prison Maze 🐹

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Found family and Steve's love saving Billy, is like a huge aspect of Harringrove, and I love that energy. Seriously never quit. But lesser explored IMO is how Billy really would have saved Steve right back. I'm not talking about from isolation and loneliness - fandom generally has a great handle on that. I'm talking about saving him from the narrative. He was doomed from the first draft to be nothing more than a projection.

Steve is a means to an end, to make other characters look better. His demise was meant to allow us to project our desires to see our own bullies and tormentors 'get theirs'. But as we know, he was pardoned from execution. But it seems pretty clear to me that it was not from a place of empathy or love of the character.

I genuinely believe Steve Harrington is despised by his narrative. He is allowed to live because he is entertaining, pretty, the fans adore him, and there's a certain satisfaction to seeing him used as a punching bag. He is king jester, given a throne and a crown so that the egg on his face is that much more entertaining to the masses. The narrative doesn't ask why he bit in the first place or whether one day he could bite again, just like it doesn't ask where his people are, what his comfort is, or what his dreams are made of; because it doesn't care. It never did. He was never meant to be cared for, only to die. The character is allowed to live and we're allowed to love him but only as a jester. Only if we accept that a fool and a useful tool for far more clever and worthy people is all he can ever be.

And what makes Harringrove really hit for me, is the way Billy is the antithesis to all of that. From his first minute on screen he encourages Steve to push back. His entire beef (supposedly) is just that he wants Steve to stop rolling over and playing the fool. He wants Steve to put up a fight . To plant his feet when he's being pushed to the ground. To make problems instead of jokes, and consequently by doing so, Steve for a few minutes stops being one. It's the one story line this show has ever given us that is purely about Steve and for Steve. We all know how it ended on the show. Steve's bloodied body being dragged along to the next adventure by the kids who essentially had to rescue him. His injuries played for laughs, and quickly forgotten in favor of monster hunting. Billy demonized, drugged and laid out by the sister he was trying to protect, left in the dark and zipping blindly down the path to his own execution.

The show doomed them both to humiliation, failure, and death by different names. But Harringrove as a concept frees the characters to be more than canon allowed them to be, and I Iove fics that acknowledge how much they fundamentally needed to find each other. They are each other's making and I find that to be really beatiful.

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How come you're all about "feminism" until it's time to protest? We haven't seen you make a single fucking post about the LA riots and it's really disappointing.

Hi friends. This is your reminder not to reply to questions like this. You do not need to self-report your behavior. This is a guilt trip designed to make you violate your own Miranda rights.

Also, they are not riots (Freudian slip, fed?), they're peaceful protests and are a democratic right under the first amendment.

where to find your local protest donate to legal funds my local immigrant support network

be safe out there, i love you.

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arthur in text posts

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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

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