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Harringrove for Australia// Post s3 harringrove for @hoppnhorn‘s birthday from @imneithernor. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!💖💓💓

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This is my art piece for harringrove “Kings of Nowhere Zine” @harringrovezine !

Tina’s Halloween Party 🎃

With Billy and Steve sharing a light and dorky lion Eddie and princess Chrissy somewhere near

All the good happens there, at the party. Once again, everyone thanking Tina for her mastermind 😼

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Sales went up since that new guy works at Scoops Ahoy..

close(r) ups

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went out to meet with friends last night and ended up drawing 80s teens.

like what you see? support me on Ko-fi!

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Their evening routine 🥰

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New tease from my collab with @adelacreations 👁️👁️

If you know me (us) you could probably guess what this AU is about but I'll still keep it secret eheh.

Don't try to confess your sins to him, it will not work.

Bonus random doodle: pay attention, he may bite

(he has a strong werewolf energy, BUT he isn't one. The ears and stuff are just for fun eheh)

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Dustin is very offended by that actually

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📽️ harringrove movie night 🍿

for @lovebillyhargrove​ ♥

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Once a Bad Bitch always a Bad Bitch

pose reference from @ Kaosdisabledsupport on tiktok

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What if ...

... Hopper and Neil Hargrove had been in the army together?

I don't know anything about the army and all I know is that the war at least Hopper went to was the one in Vietnam, but let's play with the thought that the two of them were there together. And did NOT get along, like at ALL; Hopper thought Neil was deceitful and untrustworthy, too proud and manipulative. Overestimating his own importance and competence, and too happy to cause pain in others.

They both survived the war and went back to their own lives, only like 20 years later or so, the Hargroves show up in Hawkins and Hopper meets Neil Hargrove again.

Despite telling himself that they're older now; that they're adults who have had time to grow into themselves, Hopper STILL doesn't like Neil. Like, his skin is crawling when he sees the man, even after all these years. But it's not like he has a good reason to dislike him now; outwardly, Neil Hargrove seems to be just a normal family man, setting down in Hawkins with his family. No one else has had any complaints. And either way, Hopper can't explain it, it's just a feeling. He just doesn't LIKE him.

And the thing is, that the guy has KIDS now, too. Or - as Hopper learns, as soon as he gets the documents he pulled from California - a son, at least (the girl being Neil Hargrove's new wife's kid). And by the file that Hopper has to pull some strings to get his hands on, the kid is shaping up to be a bad seed, just like his dad. Reports on fights, trespassing, shoplifting, underage drinking, reckless driving.

Hopper doesn't want that kind of bad influence in his town. So what, if he wants to nip it in the bud? So what, if he pulls the kid over as soon as he gets the chance, just to get a feel of him? The kid is tense, obviously hiding something, and speaking so respectfully that it borders on sarcasm - strike that, it's definitely sarcasm.

So what, if Hopper feels the need to put the fear of god into the kid? He's here, and his father is not - Hopper can't touch Neil, who never officially puts a toe out of line, but a teenager with a bad attitude? It's basically Hopper's JOB to do something about that.

So he goes hard on the kid. Tells himself it's for the kid's own good; keeping him on the straight and narrow and teach him what's right and what's wrong. And hey, if he gets to bring the kid home to the Hargrove doorstep sometimes and look Neil Hargrove in the eye while he lets him know what his son has done now (Not so perfect now, are you Hargrove?), well, then that's just a bonus. Perks of being the Chief of Police.

It becomes personal, in the way that he will take any chance to gte on the kid's case for SOMETHING. But also the opposite of personal, because the kid - Billy - isn't really a person in his own right in Hopper's eyes. He's just an angry kid. Neil Junior. A chip of the Hargrove block. He is simply a means to an end. The best way to get to Neil in a way that doesn't seem unreasonable, or petty, in the eyes of everyone else.

And of course, I want the Moment of Realization. I don't know where or when; maybe Hopper stumbles over Billy's car parked out at the Quarry, or maybe he nabs him after a party, or maybe he sees him out walking by the side of the road late one night and pulls up next to him.

And maybe that's the time when Billy has had ENOUGH. When he either gets angry and starts yelling, 'What do you have against me, man?? What have I ever done to you?", or maybe he tries to run because he can't do this right now, or maybe it's a Bad Night and he's tired and terrified and he breaks down crying (but tries to hide it).

Maybe it's all three.

And, I don't know, but maybe Billy's hurt and wincing and Hopper notices, and maybe when Billy refuses Hopper (not very gently) demands to see, and -

Maybe there are bruises. Maybe there's a burn scar somewhere on Billy where he couldn't have put it himself (like between his shoulder blades), the one you get from a red-hot lighter. A mark that Hopper remembers from his time in the the army, from when a buddy of his made a bet with Neil and lost, and Neil let his lighter burn for a long time and then pressed the hot metal against the guy's back. That too scarred, and it looked just like this.

And maybe that's when Hopper lets his memories boil over, and his voice is rough when he asks what happened, who did that, and maybe that's when Billy mutters something about Hopper and Neil being army buddies and Hopper doesn't have to worry, Billy isn't a snitch, he can keep his mouth shut.

And that's when things slot into place in Hopper's brain, and he realizes that the kid is just a KID, that the anger comes from hopelessness, that the attitude is a mask to hide his fear. Because even now, he's cowering in Hopper's grip - but still keeping eye contact, back straight, hands to the side. Learned behaviour.

And that's when Hopper realizes he has Fucked Up.

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Finally finished my commission for @ihni !!!!

Go check out their work too and check out the @summerof85zine kickstarter that this was for :)!

If you’re interested in getting a commission from me shoot me a message or ask !!! I have four slots left.

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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