#⚡ — ooc / from rosemary.

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i do love r*hanna & her show was rlly good & fun please don't get me wrong but... no superb owl show could ever top prince playing purple rain in the middle of a downpour with thunder & lightning in the background in 2007

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he's a barbie boy !

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i think i'm gonna work on putting steve back on his own standalone blog again ( as opposed to a sideblog ) — find the new blog tunder construction here !

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i'm thinking about how steve will never regret a love, even if it ends up hurting him in the end. thinking about how steve refuses to learn from lost love by hardening himself to it. thinking about how steve cannot, physically cannot, make himself stop loving someone, & how once he loves you, he will love you forever on some level, in some way. just thinking about steve ' i still have hope ' harrington.

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DASH GAMES — Muse vs Mun

tagged by : @trickstercaptain — thank you, friend, this was fun !tagging : @enfate (do james or arwen!) + @shadowcovcn ( do laszlo! ) + @khrused + @thesheepcote (do argyle!) + @gareththegreat + anyone else who wants to make one can steal the link from me !

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me : neglect is abuse & even though steve's childhood abuse was less violent than some other characters, the trauma it caused was intense & long-lasting & it affects him in so many ways, especially as his parents continue to offer him 0 support in his transition to adulthood, & don't even get me started on the effects of his breakup with his nancy

also me : aww, is the privileged rich boy sad that his girlfriend broke up with him & he has to work a retail job now ? haha, that's hilarious, cry more about it, baby.

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thinking about how when steve told nancy about his dream to have a big huge family she literally said “that sounds like a nightmare”

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the chat rn with  @scoopstrooptm​  +  @munsontm  is just like :

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something to consider is how intensely steve latches onto people who he can can be honest with about the upside down  ( robin, dustin, eddie, nancy )  &  has/would have a really hard time letting these people go,  but is very quick to drop people who he can’t tell the full truth  ( tommy  &  carol were pre upside down but he didn’t feel able to tell them the truth about other things,  but also literally every girl he dates between st3  &  st4 )

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ok everyone, i’m going to talk for just a second about the potential dynamic between steve  &  billy hargrove,  &  why  i like to explore it. under a cut for those who are just not interested.  inspired by years worth of writing  &  character discussions with my beloved @hargrovetm​ ~

obviously i don’t think billy’s actions were good,  &  neither does steve.  i mean, who knows better than steve how dangerous billy really is ?   he stepped in to protect max  &  lucas both from him at the byers house,  &  would do it again.  there is no universe in which steve excuses billy’s actions that night, or says they were the right thing to do.  i’ve honestly never seen anyone argue that they were. but here’s the other thing :  who knows better than steve that sometimes humans do shit that is just plain not right when they’re not at their best selves ?  i mean, in s1, steve used homophobic slurs toward jonathan, insulted his family, including his currently missing brother, initiated a fight with him,  &  got him arrested.  he also behaved disgustingly towards nancy.  &  everyone loves steve’s redemption arc  —  me included !   i recognize those actions of steve’s as wrong,  &  so does he.  &  he goes back  &  does what he can to make amends,  &  he tries to do better from that point on.  which is all anyone can do as a human : try to be better than they were the day before. i know that in the canon, it isn’t implied that billy tries to make amends,  &  i suppose that’s the story the duffers wanted to tell.  but i also think that the whole point to rp is to explore what  might have  happened in canon if some elements were slightly different,  or to fill in the gaps between what canon gives us.  &  i genuinely feel like steve, of all people, might be among the only people in billy’s life willing  &  able to look him in the eye after that night  &  say :  what you did was wrong  &  you should feel bad for it,  &  you should apologize for it,  but you can also choose to do better starting right now, if you want to. who knows what might have happened if someone had said this to him, telling him directly that he is capable of changing, instead of just isolating him further ?   as of season 2,  billy is seventeeen years old  &  currently trapped in an abusive home environment.  as a survivor of parental abuse myself,  it rubs me the wrong way a little bit to imply that it is somehow “too late” for billy to learn to be better  &  start to heal, especially if he did happen to have someone who could honestly call out his unacceptable behavior without writing him off entirely.  &  based on his own growth arc  ( &  his sometimes too - forgiving nature in general ),  i think that steve is in a unique position to be able to offer that to billy. &  yeah, i like to explore concepts like this in rp with trusted friends.  of course, i do see why people would be triggered by billy as a character, but everyone deals with trauma in different ways,  &  what triggers one person might be healing for another.  if folks don’t want to see billy on their dash, they have the absolute right to blacklist / block / unfollow as needed to feel comfortable.  but i also know that the people who write billy  ( or write against him ) are full human beings with complex lives outside of tumblr. i don’t know most of them, but i personally can see how writing a character who is trapped in the cycle of abuse escaping that cycle  &  learning to grow could be extremely cathartic for those who have been in similar situations.  &  tbh, we should all just do our best to treat other users on this site with empathy anyway, regardless of our personal feelings on the characters they write. even making this post feels a little bit like kicking a hornet’s nest, because i know this is a polarizing topic for folks,  &  i absolutely am  NOT  looking to restart the same old discourse.  but i am also a bit sick of feeling nervous to post about their complex  &  nuanced dynamic that i think is interesting to explore  &  have been writing for years.  if you disagree with anything i’ve said in this post, i encourage you, as said above, blacklist / unfollow / block as you see fit.  there will be no hard feelings.  go in peace,  &  i genuinely hope you enjoy your tumblr rpc experience more for it.  &   if you’ve made it all the way to the end of this dynamic commentary turned rant about treating others kindly, thank you for reading.  i love you.  ♥️

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⚡ — #HARRINGTON™️  :  an independent  steve harrington  of  stranger things.  EST 08/2019.  written by  rosemary.  sideblog to  @musecraft​​.  private, iconless,  low-activity, plot-heavy.  please read rules before following !

affiliated with :  HARGROVE™️  +  MUNSON™️  +  SCOOPSTROOP™️

                  —  A STUDY ON :   the cost of a redemption arc,  learning right from wrong,  life at a deficit of attention,  a double-edged reputation,  always believing in love,  external self worth,  ignorance is bliss,  white knight syndrome,  growing pains,  privilege as a prison,  building your chosen family,  the heart of a hero !

      CARRD  +  RULES  +   ABOUT  +  PLOTTING CALL             HEADCANONS  +  PINTEREST  +  PLAYLIST

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⚡ — initial thoughts  &  takeaways regarding st4 ; warning : major spoilers  &  personal opinions under the cut

GOD-TIER :   steve  &  robin being platonic soulmates, steve  &  robin being neurodivergent solidarity, steve  &  dustin’s lil callout + fist bump moment in the car, steve continuing his hero arc, steve being appreciated by everyone, the sinclair siblings saving everyone’s ass in the intercut hellfire club / basketball game scene, steve spitting blood after ripping a monster apart with only his teeth  &  bare hands, max’s whole arc, kate bush  &  the theme of the things you love being the things that will save you in the end TOP-TIER :   steve  &  dustin’s brotherly banter,  jon  &  agyle’s friendship, eddie’s whole existence, the first half of steve  &  eddie’s conversation in the upside-down, billy looking hot even as a dead hallucination, steve refusing to stop wearing his heart on his sleeve  &  flirting with every cute girl he sees just in case she’s The One, steve being #confirmed boob man, steve being held with a broken bottle to his neck by eddie   hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me   GOOD-TIER :   steve  &  nancy interacting platonically, the california arc, argyle  &  eden hotboxing his van, joyce  &  murray’s dynamic, nancy’s investigative reporting skills in the first half, some nice classic horror references, interesting villain MEH-TIER :   eleven’s whole rainbow room reversion arc, hopper’s whole russia arc. sorry but both of these had so much time dedicated to them but so little actual plot in them that i was just so bored the whole time. also everyone still calling steve dumb all the time. SHIT-TIER :   st*ncy being pushed together not only by all the characters  ( even the ones like eddie that would make no goddamn sense for them to interject )  but also by the story itself, nancy having her entire characterization  &  plot potential forgotten about for stupid flip-flopping relationship tension, robin being regulated to the comic relief sidekick zone, will still having essentially zero plot of his own, whatever was going on with suzie, the episodes being so long due to just a complete lack of basic editing

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