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coming back after a billion years just to say i saw a tiktok asking people what person they were while watching barbie and... steve harrington (he was crying) was an option..... disconnecting from the main fandom has saved me brain cells

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TW sexual assault/abuse

the urge to write a non-supernatural stranger things fic where billy wasn’t taken by the mind flayer but was instead violated by a real person. there are so many parallels between the mind flayer and a rapist /sexual abuser. it would be so interesting to explore this concept. okay listen.

everyone starts to get wary of billy’s sudden changes in behaviour. for example, he starts wearing too many layers, he puts on fake smiles to act like everything is okay, he dissociates, he doesn’t like when people touch him. he’s aggressive and lashes out often. his moods switch very quickly and suddenly (sauna scene + fight with the kids).

his sauna scene can also be interpreted as him begging for help and for someone to protect him from his rapist. “please believe me, max” can be seen as a victim wanting to be believed. it shows how desperate he is for someone, specifically family, to believe him and to believe that it actually happened.

“it’s like a shadow” and his other lines where he expresses his confusion also connect to the detachment of the body and mind that victims often experience during the assault. also, the shower scene with heather- it’s like he’s trying to get clean but he can’t and the black veins represent the phantom touches of his attacker.

even the “taking of billy hargrove” scene was creepy. him being dragged down the stairs, something forcing its way into his mouth, pinning him down, billy trying to escape by running to the phone.

abuse victims, SA victims- they’re mistreated if they act out or are not “innocent enough.” billy was villainized while he was flayed. it can represent how SA victims are often treated like the bad guy if they don’t look the part. oh my goodness. i just have so many thoughts about this.. i wanna start writing a fic for this so bad

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Taken from the actual script

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something about the way people seem to look at max and billy’s dynamic as that of a parent and child rather than step siblings, something about how people see his behaviour towards her in this light and it skews the whole narrative, something about people thinking there’s a massive power dynamic between them for this reason, something about people comparing billy’s behaviour towards max and neil’s behaviour towards billy, something about how siblings do fight and do argue and do break each other’s possessions but because billy has been pretty much parentified by not only neil and susan but also the audience, people don’t look at their behaviour as that of siblings, something about how this adds to people not seeing billy as his actual age but rather a fully grown adult

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had a spicy thought. didn’t know where else to take it. steve with bruised knuckles and when billy notices and mentions it steve oh so casually explains that he had his hand between billy’s head and the headboard while they were fuckin’ so that billy didn’t hurt his head. billy blue screens. full Error 404’s but when he comes back online he realises that oh fuck he’s in LOVE with steve fucking harrington. um. yeah. that’s it…that’s the thought.

Please that is so cute 🤧 billys too lost in the sauce while he’s getting fucked to even realize Steve’s cradling his head lmao that thought does not even occur to him until steve mentions it and then he’s like “oh…okay 🥺👉🏻👈🏻” HE WANTS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF HE NEEDS IT!!!

And then ya know he can take Steve’s hand and kiss his bruised knuckles all gentle too 🥰

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steve

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how to become more intelligent:

1. define hate crime.

2. identify who the term 'hate crime' applies to.

3. describe eddie's physical features.

4. list eddie's canon facts.

5. realize that eddie is canonically a straight white man (you cannot say hes neurodivergent if neither the actor or show has strictly stated he is. that's up to debate so it isn't canon)

6. talk to real people

literally no one is hate criming the straight white man for absolutely no reason i don’t know who needs to hear this

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billy thinking he’s experiencing literal hell when he gets flayed specifically because that’s what neil told him happens to people like that is such an interesting concept actually

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People calling Steve pretty boy when he's right there I-

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"Billy would hate being called Baby Girl"

Billy would get a 'Baby Girl' tramp stamp. Do not test me.

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steve and billy becoming friends and steve finding out billy’s gay while they’re still just friends and having complicated feelings about it is something that just hits every time

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This has no right to be so funny to me lmfao

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There are just some things Billy won’t try

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Whatever you do don't think about fireworks setting of Billy's ptsd from Starcourt so on New Year's Eve Steve drives them deep into the country where its quiet

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when my mom decides that the best way to start the new years is by bringing home my abusive father 👍 who cares about restraining orders right lmao, who cares about starting a new year with more trauma for your children <3

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love that we all just collectively agree that billy is a subby bratty bottom for kilt guy