#keg gang

[disdaidal]

[bowiebond]

Robin and Steve both failing at love so badly as they get well into their thirties and deciding to just marry each other since they’ve already been living together since they were 20 and share a mortgage. Steve had original planned to just have Robin as his roommate until she found someone, and he had like seven kids coming and going but would be out to college in just two years, so a decently sized place (much smaller than his original, empty mansion) filled with Robin’s knickknacks didn’t sound half bad when he was 20 and making the plan to use his inheritance to make the down payment.

They go through the whole she-bang; mostly because Steve always wanted a big wedding and Robin had assumed she’d never have one so she simply made it a big party they could both enjoy. Everyone was invited, and people who didn’t know Robin was a lesbian said their congrats, that they always saw it coming, and they both bare through it with false grins and sneaky eye rolls.

It’s an excuse to get drunk and confess their undying platonic love for each other, even if the ceremonies kiss was awkward and quick, the pair snickering about it later like teenagers even though Robin had kissed Steve plenty of times on the cheeks and Steve on her head when he left for work.

They’re 36 and 37 when Steve asks Robin if she ever considered kids of her own. Robin goes on a long spiel about how terrifying child birth seems but like, she was raised to want one you know? That having a kid is both terrifying but weirdly comforting as an idea.

Steve agrees. They get hammered beyond belief at 37 & 38 and fumble through the most awkward sex know to mankind and they cry-laugh for weeks about each others sex habits and how bad they both are in bed because “let’s never do that again, oh my god, I definitely like girls, Steve” and Steve’s not even offended because it was purely for one purpose and while he likes girls, Robin doesn’t do it for him. Not like that. Not since he was maybe 19 and had a weird lingering crush on her that faded after she came out and he started experimenting with guys.

Steve’s 38 when he finds out he’s gonna be a dad. He cries. A lot. Robin does too, mostly because she’s cries when he does, like how his laughter infects her too.

They argue a lot over the design of the nursery, and Robin complains that she’s too old to be carrying a baby as Steve rubs her feet while they watch a movie.

Robin sleeps in his room more often during the pregnancy. Says it helps her nerves, because she overthinks a lot and it’s kind of terrifying because there’s no going back now. They’re having a kid. An actual human being they’ll have to raise together. A lesbian woman and a bisexual man who are strictly platonic with a capital P, are having a baby in their late thirties, and are married by law but not by heart, and it’s kind of crazy to think about.

“I never imagined my life like this.”

“Honestly, Rob? Neither did I.”

Robin starts attending swim classes with pregnant ladies after El insists it helped her through hers, and there’s where she meets Heather Holloway again. She’s a full time swim instructor at the pool now, unmarried and thriving, and Robin has the biggest heart eyes known to man over her.

Steve hears all about her and encourages her to test the waters with Heather.

“Steve, I’m literally carrying your baby. Don’t you think that’s weird?”

“Say it’s an open marriage if she asks. I sleep around still, why can’t you?”

It’s enough to convince her to follow her heart. Heather is around the house a lot more after that, just to check in on Robin’s pregnancy of course, she must be exhausted after all!

Steve knows Heather is fucking his wife/best friend. Robin had a dopey grin on when she told him. Heather doesn’t beat around the bush either about Steve and Robin’s relationship.

“So Robin’s a lesbian, you’re gay, and you’re basically each other’s platonic soulmates right? So you got married?”

“I’m bi, but yeah. Basically. I can’t see myself living without her, honestly. She’s my soulmate just not…romantically, you know?”

“I get it.” Heather grins when she goes on about a certain blond up in California who’s planning to come visit real soon. That Steve should meet him.

Steve is shocked to see Billy Hargrove again; Heather’s own platonic soulmate.

“I mean, we fooled around once or twice back in the day, but that’s because he has mommy issues, not because he wants to settle down with me.” She joked and Billy has a ball flirting with Harrington until he’s red in the face like a teenager again instead of an almost 40 year old man.

Robin has a girl in the Summer. They name her June, the month she was born and the month they met decades ago. It feels fitting.

Of course, June ends up with a step mom, Heather, who somehow worms her way into their house. Steve’s got the room for it, so he’s not complaining. He likes a full house, likes knowing his daughter is being cared for when he’s at work by Robin and Heather (when she’s not working).

Somehow, Billy worms his way in too. It starts with visiting to see his ‘niece’ as he’d joke with a wide grin. Then slowly, he’s joining them for dinner more nights than he doesn’t, and the guest room starts to fill with his things and Steve catches Billy bathing June because Heather and Robin were exhausted and needed the rest and…

God, he’s falling in love with the blond, deep and so much harder than back in high school. Falls in love with the smile lines around his mouth and eyes, the silvery greys that streak his dark blond hair he cut shorter a few years back. Falls in love with the way he laughs at Robin’s jokes and snarks with Heather and coos at June, calling her ‘daddy’s little princess’ as he bounces her in his arms, Steve watching and always blushing when Billy catches his eye and grins, kissing the tuffs of light brown hair upon her head.

Robin tells him to go for it.

“To think we finally met our romantic soulmates after getting married and having a kid, this has to be God’s way of pulling our legs.” She snickers as they cuddle in Steve’s bed. Because that’s just how they were, touchy and close, and Steve loves her so much. She’s his best friend and the mother of his kid and he doesn’t regret marrying her at all. They’re not in love with each other, but they love each other.

Robins in love with Heather.

And Steve is pretty sure he’s in love with Billy.

“Maybe we should get married.” Billy says one night at dinner, driving an airplane towards June’s mouth. “Robin and Steve got a bunch of benefits. I want benefits. We could do our taxes together.” Heather laughs and looks at Robin.

“You think I should marry him? I could do better, right?” Robin snorts.

“He smells like a dirty gym bag.”

“Your husband likes how I smell.” Billy wriggled his brows and Steve flushed red as the words, head in his hands.

“Not in front of Junie, please.”

“She’s like, not even a year old. It’s fine.” Billy waved it off. “Back to the tax benefits,”

“It is easier when you’re married, in my opinion.” Robin chipped in and Heather sighs, long and loud before looking at Billy.

“…Fine. I want a nice ring though.”

“Well so do I, so I say we have a deal, babe.”

Steve thought he’d be jealous, at least a bit, but he’s grinning when Billy makes a show of dipping Heather at the altar, the pair laughing after their obnoxious kiss that has Robin and Max hollering.

June is cooing and squealing when she gets to dance with Billy and Steve later that night, clinging to her father and grasping at Billy’s curls that are starting to grow out again. Steve thinks he might be doing it just for him since he said he liked them, and it makes his stomach wild with butterflies.

“We should get married next.” Billy hums and Steve chokes on his own spit.

“You’ve barely taken me on a date, and now you’re talking marriage?”

“Didn’t take Robin on a date, now did you?” Billy grins, holding him close around his waist. “Come on, Harrington. Robin and you, Heather and me. Robin and Heather, you and me…it all works. We’re far from conventional. I’ve fucked Heather more than once, I’ve heard Heather talk about jumping you to her own girlfriend, and I know you want me.” He knocks their heads together and smiles, eyes soft. “This thing we’ve got going…it works. You don’t have to hold back on what you want out of this after giving Robin the option of anything and everything.”

And maybe he had been holding back a bit. All he ever wanted was June, a kid, and Robin gave him that, and in return he got her to date Heather, he let Heather drag Billy back into their lives, he let their daughter call Robin and Heather mom and mama before he even got called dada, worked hard to provide them the lifestyle they had with Heather and Billy chipping in and he…

He wanted more now. He wanted Billy. He wanted him to move in properly, for Heather to just come out and say Steve and Robin’s home was her home too, to put a bigger bed in the master bedroom so they could all share some nights because he wanted that. He wanted a big family since he was young and in a way — he was getting it. In Robin and Heather, in Billy and June. In the kids who still visited when they could.

“Take me on a date first, okay?” Billy grins.

“That can be arranged.” He kissed June’s head between them and Steve chuckled. “The little princess has to stay home though. I want her daddy all for myself.”

Steve laughed.

“Don’t call me daddy, you’re gonna make it weird.”

“Princess can share. Yeah? June, you can share right? Stevie can be both our daddy.” June giggled and wriggled between them, reaching for Billy with a small ‘Bibi’. The blond laughed and took her from Steve’s arms. “I’m afraid she can share you but not me, Daddy.”

Steve rolled his eyes before grinning deviously with a shrug.

“Whatever. I’ll teach her how to share, Mommy.”

Billy’s cheeks burned.

“Don’t make me pop a boner with a baby in my arms, Steve. People are gonna think I’m a creep.” He grumbled and Steve snorted.

“I’m going to go dance with my wife. Have fun with June.”

“Bitch.” Billy clicked his tongue as Steve walked off to find Robin on the floor.

Steve found his soulmate at 18 in an ice cream parlour. They were platonic with a capital P, and content. She made him laugh, they shared secrets, and they had no boundaries keeping them apart. Hell, they got married. Had a baby.

Now, at 39, Steve re-met his other soulmate. The kind that made his stomach twist and flutter, that made his cheeks hot and his heart full. Made him hot under the collar with his teasing.

And maybe, Robin and him share a soulmate in Heather, and maybe Heather and Billy are linked by a red string too, and maybe they’re just a tangled mess of strings with no definite end. Knotted up in the centre of the four of them.

Steve doesn’t know what the hell he’s gonna make of all of it. Where it will lead him. But for now, he’s happy.

His soul had been split into a dozen pieces at birth, and he had pieced every part back together.

Only took him 40 years to find every fragment.

[cavinginhisfvce]

everyone is gay for billy, idk🧎🏽‍♀️🧚🏽‍♀️

tommy is only in denial sometimes

[shieldofiron]

Rare Stommy Post!

[pastelauroras]

keg gang + chaotic texts in my groupchat

[ellewritesandrants]

Youtuber Steve and Tiktoker Billy AU

Their relationship starts out even before Billy becomes famous and it’s worse because Billy’s a fan of Steve’s. They meet through a Halloween party where Billy gets Steve’s attention by beating his keg record and they start dating from there.

All of Steve’s friends are suspicious of Billy because Billy doesn’t push to be in Steve’s videos but he’s still a fan. Steve’s a part of a youtuber group with the rest of the keg gang and while a few of them like him like Heather and Chrissy, Carol and Tommy don’t like how he’s steals Steve away from them, so they make a plan to ruin the relationship by making it so that Steve doesn’t have any time for Billy.

They manage to break Billy down to eventually confront Steve and when Steve decides not to do anything about his friends obviously blocking Billy out of his life, Billy just calls it quits and breaks up with Steve. He still remains good friends with a few of the gang though, namely Barb, Jonathan, Heather and Chrissy.

A year later, Tiktok becomes famous and while Billy initially has no plans of being a Tiktoker, Max kickstarts his Tiktok career by recording his rant about Romeo and Juliet while he was working out in their living room. The break up left him a lot more cynical about love in general and Max found it absolutely hilarious which is why she recorded it.

People want more of Billy so Max happily takes the opportunity to record Billy ranting about anything and everything while he was doing all sorts of things. The next video of Billy to go viral is of him ranting about how his little sister didn’t need to be dating since men are shit anyway while he’s kneading some dough to make bread. Max gets a few more of Billy ranting while driving, cooking dinner and fixing his car which all do very well before she’s busted by Billy.

Some people start recognizing him and he doesn’t get what’s going on until he asks Max what she did. When Max reveals she’s been recording his rants and how popular he’s become from a few videos, Billy initially doesn’t want anything to do with it until Max tells him how some of the bigger Tiktokers are getting sponsorships and deals and stuff and how a few brands have started reaching out to her. Billy’s had Max living with him ever since he finished his degree and Susan fully succumbed to her drinking problem.

Billy worked really hard to put food on their table and while he was able to make ends meet, a little bit of extra cash from recording a few videos wouldn’t hurt, especially when it wasn’t anything too crazy like R-rated stuff.

So, under Max’s guidance, Billy takes over her Tiktok account, first explaining that he had no idea what his sister was doing and asking what content they wanted to see from him next. A few start asking him for workout routines, a few for recipes, and a few for his opinions about everything.

Billy follows the suggestions, finding that his favorite ones are the rants and the workout videos. Some of his audience realize quickly that he has a lot of literary opinions which gets a lot of the bookworms and nerds to follow him while a lot of the others just thirst over him in general. Since he’s also a mechanic who loves classic car and fitness, he attracts a lot of the conventional male audience and it helps that he’s also conventionally attractive to boost his audience.

Max is usually his go-to camera person when he needs help to shoot and after a few months, sponsorships and deals start coming in. He hits a million subscribers within the first three months and five million within a year.

Billy starts collaborations with other Tiktokers and Youtubers, usually fitness people and he starts getting asked to model for certain brands. When Max does a face reveal at a million subscribers, she starts her own account and she gets scouted to be a model through a skateboarding video.

Both of the siblings become exceedingly popular and everyone loves their dynamics. Max usually drags Billy into whatever the hell she wants and a lot of people love that Billy is so willing to sacrifice his masculinity and do her nails or her makeup. He’s touted as one of the best big brothers on Tiktok which he clears up since he’s making up a lot of his assholery to his sister and now, he genuinely loves her.

He’s very candid about his experience with child abuse and his experience with attempts at grooming and that endears him to his audience even more. He doesn’t hide that he has bad days sometimes and he even shares tips and tricks on how he deals with anxiety and PTSD from dealing with Neil. He’s honest and a lot of people value his honesty.

At this point, everyone in the keg gang has started to migrate to Tiktok too and since they already have an existing fanbase from Youtube, they quickly make it big. Since Heather and Chrissy didn’t do anything wrong to Billy and they were also pretty close before everything happened, Billy, Heather and Chrissy reconnect with at an event while also becoming really good friends with Max. Billy even gets Chrissy together with his new friend, Eddie whom he met through his best friend, Argyle.

Billy starts collaborating with the girls, dancing along to whatever trendy dance they want to do and skyrocketing his popularity. Speculations about dating start but he clears them up pretty quick. When asked about how they met, when Billy reveals they met through his ex, everyone starts wondering who the hell it is because Billy has never formally revealed his sexuality.

Everyone knows that the keg gang is exceedingly tight so it must be one of them, right? It becomes this huge thing that Billy and the friendly members of the keg gang play up with Billy getting Chrissy to sit on his lap before being replaced by Heather and Barb and Billy reviewing books, movies and other nerdy stuff on a podcast every week. Patrick and Jason also shoot hoops with Billy while Vicki and Tina cheer them on.

Eventually, everyone realizes that the only people Billy doesn’t interact with are Carol, Tommy and Steve and since Carol and Tommy are a couple, people are mostly betting on Steve and not Carol and Tommy. It gets so popular that almost every video Steve posts is flooded by comments about Billy and vice versa.

Everyone loves good drama and eventually, Steve is forced to interact with Billy at an event with Heather goading them. She knows that Steve still misses Billy and the Billy is still not over Steve because he was Billy’s first real love but that doesn’t change the fact that their interactions would be really awkward. Steve religiously binge watches any and every Tiktok that Billy posts and Billy still watches every update on Steve’s Youtube Channel and Tiktok.

With a bit of prompting, Billy decides to try and be the bigger man and he talks to Steve about becoming friends and revealing the truth on Tiktok so they can finally get it all over with. Steve agrees to everything and they film both Tiktoks and a Youtube video about everything, revealing a lot of the details while not explicitly stating Carol and Tommy’s names so they wouldn’t be bashed.

The entire thing ruined Steve’s friendship with Tommy and Carol but he still didn’t want them to have to deal with huge following that both Steve and Billy had amassed. They upload the videos but even then, the drama doesn’t end.

Everyone wants to see them interact and to feed the fans, they keep going to events together and doing Tiktoks whenever possible. It’s eased by Max’s friendship with the teens that Steve’s been mentoring but that doesn’t stop the rumors and the shippers from realizing that there may still be something there.

Tons of compilations about their interactions and how you can visibly see the longing in their eyes are posted. Many people try to determine whether or not they’ve actually gotten back together or if they were just friends. Even the rest of the keg gang made bets as to when they would get back together again and got in on the joke.

Eventually, the friend groups all merge because they spend so much time together and it gets harder for Steve to deny his feelings for Billy. He also gets visibly jealous any time an attractive girl or guy comes up to Billy to flirt and it takes a few pep talks before he asks Billy to come over so they can have a talk.

They talk things out and reveal they do still have feelings for each other but Billy isn’t sure if he’s ready to risk his heart again on Steve who may or may not have a more strategic reason for wanting to get into a relationship with him since they’re both becoming popular with the whole are they or are they not together drama.

Steve convinces him to allow Billy to give him another chance and that they can take it slow this time around. Steve doesn’t waste a single opportunity to prove to Billy that he made the right decision, officially cutting out Carol and Tommy from his life and spoiling Billy at every possible interval.

Most of his fans realize the immediate difference in the heart eyes he give Billy but it isn’t until a whole year has passed, officially lasting past their old relationship that they make it internet official. Max knew immediately as soon as Billy got home and the rest of the keg gang found out over the course of the next month. The internet imploded at the news that their favorite gay couple was actually together now and it was largely because the internet shipped them.

[macabrecravings]

I was writing and had the most sick & twisted idea to write a Steve/Tommy scene based off of this one from As You Are 😁 Why do I do this to myself /lh

[deedoop]

Keg boys 😌

[hemera989]

as much as i love these fics where billy is rocking tommy’s shit, i think we’re lowkey underestimating how strong tommy is, like

and this is with the guy he has a crush on!! both physically and mentally, he was ready to rock steve’s shit. and steve still put up a hell of a fight against billy, despite losing in the end.

so basically, what i’m saying is, maybe billy might win in the end but i would KILL to see an actual showdown between billy and tommy. i think even if billy won, it would be a hella close victory and he’d be walking away just as fucked up.

[usaqaix]

Steve and Billy being drunk and engaging in armwrestling at some party while everyone's crowding and cheering around them as Tommy shouts "MEN INVENTED ARMWRESTLING SO THEY CAN HOLD HANDS AND LOOK EACH OTHER IN THE EYES" from somewhere and room goes quiet.

[nogitsunbae]

I absolutely need the keg gang going ghost hunting. Tommy cursing in Spanish at every little thing. Robin and Heather being bored and not scared of shit. Steve and Carol screaming bloody murder at a leaf falling down. Billy saying the classic “hey there demons, it’s me, ya boy,” and shouting at the spirits to stop being such cowards. He’s either gonna fight a ghost or fuck one depending on how the night goes.

[billyhargrovesupsidedownshadow]

Keg Gang that got united because Billy's a succubus and they all want him well fed

[cavinginhisfvce]

billy: they'll leave me ik it! right??? :(

max, watching eddie and steve trip and shove one another to see who can bring billy a snack the quickest: yeh, no i think ur good

ft. tommy who is in love w billy and steve is tired

[dirtytransmasc]

I love steddie nearly as much as I love harringrove (and all of the other keg gang/x billy ships) but this (summary; AO3 had to step in and make a statement because of steddie writers creating place holder fics in AO3 to raise their numbers to surpass harringrove fics) is embarrassing for y'all steddie fans.

I will never understand how our fandom got to this. well, I can, but at the same time I just find it hard to even fathom how some of y'all exist being so hateful and down right mean to people you don't agree with.

I typically hate the argument of 'you don't have to like everybody but you have to be nice' but this is one of those situations it actually kinda applies.

like, why most you be so hateful and aggressive that people who enjoy Billy/keg gang/harringrove content have sworn off and even censor steddie related things because of your behavior.

Billy/keg gang/harringrove fans are so accepting, we coexist with almost anyone, we don't start drama, we don't stalk/shame/dox/harass actors, we out heavy thought into our analyses of the show and it's characters, we create space so open and accepting people feel safe to share and grow within in it in regards to trauma.

and you get butt hurt over it, despite all of your own in fighting. you hate us because you won't accept the simple truths of trauma or the fact that not everything is black and white, not everything comes wrapped up in a pretty all nice and simple for you. you can't accept not everyone will agree on things, that more then one thing can be correct. that there can be multiple interpretations of a single piece of media.

like you are dooming yourselves and our fandom, I hope you're enjoying it, cause any Billy/keg gang/harringrove fan who even thought about stepping into the Eddie/steddie side of the fandom has now turned to avoiding it as a whole. myself included, I still love Eddie and I still ship him with Steve, but y'all's behavior has put a sour taste in my mouth (and many others) and I just can't enjoy it like I used to.

it's not even a blight against ships anymore, it's a blight against the people who identify themselves with a ship and that act like assholes. y'all always assume Billy/keg gang/harringrove fans are racist, sexist, homophobic, bully's who feast on the innocent, when 99% if us are nothing but the opposite. the ones making these assumptions and then basing any and all opinions and actions on them, are the bully's. I've never seen a keg gang fan get anything more than passive aggressive, but I've seen some pretty vile behavior from steddie fans (mainly but not limited to doxxing, stalking, canceling [over the stupidest shit], death/r*pe threat, wishing harm/death/abuse/suffering, etc.) though some of this behavior branches into the general anti Billy/keg gang territory.

like get your shit together, grow up, stop harassing people who relate to a fictional character because they were abused. it's that simple. stop making us justify liking characters/ships when the worst that they've done is mundane highschool douchebag shit.

if this post makes you mad, it's for you, stay mad I don't care. if you agree with what I said, this post is not for you, you're doing great, stay safe out there, please don't get indoctrinated.

if any sane steddie shipper wants to join the keg gang community, as long as your willing to deal with us venting about Those Steddie Shippers™ then you're welcome to join, just be open minded, don't taint our safe space.

[manicpixietrashfire]

Eddie: my dad thinks I'll never amount to anything

Steve: my dad barely knows I exist

Billy: my dad hits me

Tommy: well...my dad wants to know if you guys wanna go camping with us :)