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Billy & Steve = 🍑

for @lovebillyhargrove ♥

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Halloween Harringrove proselytizing in the Castro in SF! 🌈 So many people stopped us to enthusiastically discuss #Harringrove, their love for their love and/ or lust , and the hope that Billy and / or his soul makes a redemptive (non-villainous) appearance in Season 4. Also our server said they should be BILEVE and I just died for not having thought of that.

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Steve wearing his boyfriend Billy’s clothes ❤️👀👀👀

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Someone had to say it…..

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This is the soft peaceful Billy I love, doing his own thing ( and sandals, of course)

wip

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Reblogging my own shit to say that also this is proof that Billy is the American in the Russian jail and also this is big queer survivor energy

The gurgling/whimpering noise I just made caused my coworkers to ask if I am dying. Yes i am dead. RIP I am a pile of carbon

OF COURSE Billy is a bottom looking for fisting.

God bless the queer H A N K Y C O D E

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The gurgling/whimpering noise I just made caused my coworkers to ask if I am dying. Yes i am dead. RIP I am a pile of carbon

OF COURSE Billy is a bottom looking for fisting.

God bless the queer H A N K Y C O D E

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I posted this news clipping back in winter that a real life Billiam Hargrove was playing baseball in Southern California in 1974. Timeline just slightly off but ✨that’s our gay son ✨

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Billy in his cropped everlast shirt, kindly sent over by Jackkid_ who was an extra on set.

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Duffers: so, Billy is dead and we finished this Harringrove nightmare haha-

Harringrove fandom: YOU let us in.

Duffers: oh no

Harringrove fandom: And now you’re going to have to let us stay,

Duffers: *sweating* oh fuck-

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I LOVE Robin but that’s not the LGBTQ representation I was looking. Also, as a queer elder(TM), I am curious how many of us think her coming out to Steve was realistic for 1986 Midwest? (Also do we even know her last name omg)

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We deserved to see Max and Billy’s relationship nuance and progression after the Snowball. We deserved to see Billy grieved beyond the few moments in Starcourt. We deserved to see Max conflicted between loving someone she knows can be redeemed but who has abused her and is now flayed. Our characters deserve this depth!

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Is it me or did it seem like nobody was trying to save billy? It felt like they cared more about finding out if he was flayed and once they did, they didn’t fight for him, instead against him. They didn’t try hard enough like they would have for any other character.:-(

The problem is, I think, that Billy in the show is very … what’s the word? Two-dimensional? Now, don’t @ me, I am as aware as the rest of you about every single scene that shows his humanity and complexity as a character, but it’s not spoken outright and it’s not really adressed by other characters, so in their eyes he’s not … well, he’s not what he is to us.

See, the Billy that we know and love is not canon!Billy. The Billy that we know and love is the one we have built together, as a fandom, through fics and art, and edits and fanvids and meta and discussions and general screaming. THAT is the Billy that I love, and let’s be real - the show was never going to live up to that. They couldn’t possibly.

Yes, I am pretty damn disappointed that none of these so-called “good” characters, the “heroes” of the show, even seemed to give a thought on how to save Billy. None of them saw him as anything but a threat, or a person to be saved, and the differences between Billy this season and Will last season are painfully obvious. Everyone cared about Will, and wanted to save him. No one cared for Billy, and no one seemed to even entertain the thought that he could be saved.

But I get it. It’s a show. They needed a villain. Unfortunately, they chose to make a villain of an abused, angry, confused teenager who this fandom has taken to their hearts and latched onto. Billy as a one-dimensional villain does not work for us, because it’s been years since he was one-dimensional to us. We are way ahead of the showrunners, in this regard.

So it feels flat. It feels heartless. It feels like a disappointment.

Because to us, he is a complex character, with good and bad traits both, but above all - a character who is worth saving. He is human, to us. He is real. And as such, he deserves more than what the show can give him.

They don’t want him? Fine. We’ll take him. And we will continue to do what we’ve been doing for years; humanizing him, building on and exploring his character.

And the people who come after us for this? For loving him? They can come off their high horses. Because Billy is a living breathing person, a fucking stupid teenager - albeit kinda an asshole (which is another post) - and the others in the show gave up on him. Just like that. Heroic, huh? Yeah, they are real heroes, for sure. They didn’t try very hard to save him.

We? We’ve been saving him for years.

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O M F G Billy almost got a crop top in season 3 halllllllloooooooooo 😭😭😭😭😭 💦

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Woman next to me: “oh your lock screen looks like mine!”

[shows me her phone, which has a photo of her husband holding her 11 year old son]

My lock screen is the shot of Billy leaning over Steve on the basketball court hissing ”plant your feet” like he wants to fuck him into the floor, soooo...🤷‍♂️

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remember back in s1 of stranger things when i just accepted the show as is cuz it was great and i didnt need to bother thinking about anything other than what was presented to me but then season 2 happened and gay trashlord billiam hargrove stepped on the scene openly flirting with steven harrington and like now i gotta sit here and read fanfics til 3 oclock in the morning to get my kicks because the duffer brothers are gonna let me down and either make billy worse or kill him off or both and i just cant live that life

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I’m still thinking about these beach scenes; is this not our Billy! And max! In yellow little league outfits?! When blue and yellow meet in the West! And STEVE in his BLUE Scoops Ahou uniform!! 🌊See you in 182 days...🤯