...is that you, harrington?

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[clarkegriffins]

[chrisevanssbottomlip]

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

[tobiasslash]

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https://twitter.com/Irinatatarniko2/status/1176844939377938433

“You want me to go fast and hard?” 

 And Billy’s like, “Yeah.” 

 And Steve will whisper, “No.” 

 And he’s go super slow but deep and Billy gets all overwhelmed like sometimes he’s not like prepared for serious, super intimate Steve and Steve just takes him apart piece by piece.

@flippyspoon

[lifeguardbilly]

[releasethegonzo]

Steve and Billy being unable to explain the secret/twisted/shameful jealousy they feel about the other's relationship with their father. Billy would love for Neil to forget that he existed. And Steve desperate for any sort of attention from his father, good or bad, anything to feel like his dad noticed him. It's a "grass is always greener..." kinda view of trauma

[trailerparkflower]

i love this so much

also by some reason i hc what Steves dad, an almighty businessman with a grip of steel would really like Billy because he has a character, Steven, like Billy is so strong-willed and smart and confident and Steve was always way too soft and anxious and “dumb” for his father liking

while Neil, Im think he gonna like Steve, because he isn't some wild disaster of son who is so hard to control, but a respectful, responsible well dressed young man and kind of more idk, docile than Billy. 

And both of the fathers always talk, you need to be more like him, and stuff like that

[eggogorgon]

The teens of Stranger Things in season two

[wrecked-fuse]

146. mini harringrove dump. the first one related to 144. >:D

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[billyhcrgrxve]

steve: were you dropped too much as a child or what?

billy: jokes on you i wasn’t held in the first place.

[brawlite-archive]

i'd love to see like an angstly harringrove rejected kiss moment. like maybe they've been hooking up no strings but one catches feelings and they've been hooking up for so long surely surely it's returned so that person goes for it and is just shut down and it's painful and it's angst. bonus points if the one rejecting isn't ready to face the idea of feelings

this was meant to be short. whoops! thank you for the prompt.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20300584

[annaharringrove]

oH MY GOSH THANK YOU 

[1995n]

[harringrovehq]

caps aside....... im a slut for billy hargrove and steve harrington and im an even bigger whore for them kissing

[kingsandsaints]

Them: she’s probably thinking about someone else.

Me: why did the fandom collectively decide that Steve’s parents are never home and severely neglet him? This all seems to be based on the fact that his parents were out of town in S1E2, which we know was just narrative tool to get those teens at the same place at night, doing risky things so Barb could get abducted. We canonically have no reason to believe that his parents are NEVER home. It was one business trip and then their absense is mentioned again, yet it seems to have become a trope in every fic I read. Why did we assume that his parents practically abandoned him in a big empty home? Why did we imagine such a sad lonely life for lil Steve? Why did we do that to our boy?

[missroserose]

So I’ve actually thought about this a lot.

I suspect the biggest reason is similar to why the Duffers have never had Steve’s parents onscreen—narrative convenience. Parents are kind of a drag, man—half the stuff we have Steve getting up to wouldn’t work if he had parents who were involved in his life.

But I suspect, with Harringrove writers specifically, the reasoning goes somewhat deeper. Billy can be attracted to Steve for a lot of reasons—he’s pretty, he’s rich, he’s unattainable, he’s good-hearted, he’s loyal, etc. But what would Steve see in Billy, especially post-S2?  Sure, he’s slipped a few rungs on the popularity ladder, but Steve has it all—looks, charm, money, lifelong relationships with the people around him.

However…what we see of Steve in the show fits right into the mold of the emotionally neglected teen.  Think about his eagerness to please, his obsession with status markers, his nearly instant bonding with people who pay him the remotest bit of attention.  If that’s the case, if his parents are nearly always absent, and jerks to him when they’re around (the latter of which is semi-canon already)…of course he’s going to find Billy’s single-minded attention alluring, however he might try to ignore it. 

Additionally, it’s worth considering that emotional abuse and neglect is a topic that gets very little attention in the public consciousness.  Sure, people who physically abuse or neglect their children are awful, we all agree—but emotional abuse and neglect takes a toll every bit as severe.  Parents who are never there?  Who tell you you’re stupid?  Who don’t acknowledge you as a separate human being with your own choices to make?  Yeah, that shit leaves marks—they’re just harder to see at first glance. 

Of course Steve and Billy are going to be drawn to each other—they’re both damaged, both broken.  The question is whether they can find ways for those broken edges to fit together in a healthy way, where they strengthen each other’s weak points and inspire each other to heal and grow, or whether they slip into the pattern of reinforcing each other’s dysfunction and spiral down into something destructive and traumatic all its own.

[prettyboyporter]

Everything Ambrosia said, and I’d I also like to add that I think Steve comes from a heavy background of 80s WASP culture. Think about how Risky Business is associated with Steve – S1 where he sings Old Time Rock & Roll to Nancy, compares his looks to Tom Cruise in that film, then they literally dress as those characters from that film in s2 for Halloween. Tom Cruise’s character is from a well-off family in that movie whose parents go out of town and he has a party. 

There are some parallells to be made between Steve and Risky Business but I widely see Steve’s kind of bratty/ party boy behavior in S1 and “pretend like everything’s okay/nothing’s wrong” behavior in S2 to largely be the influence of stuffy, WASPy parents who even if they’re not always physically absent are certainly emotionally absent. 

[annaharringrove]

#steve harrington#harringrove#meta#billy is wild and emotional and unabashedly into steve#steve would be so addicted to that#but because billy is so aggressive about#and steve is used to being the one doing the chasing#steve reacts defensively#which for him and his waspy upbringing means ignoring billy#and for billy where negative and positive attention are the same damn thing#being ignored is the Wrong Thing To Do for steve#it just makes billy push harder#‘im gonna make you acknowledge me even if that means you punching me because then at least youre noticing me’ (tags via grandpappy-winchester)

[tobiasslash]

harringrove

[werewolftrial]

Shout out to everyone doing the hard yet necessary work of posting about fictional characters kissing online.

[harringrov3]

At first, well for a god damn month i thought you could leave kudos on every chapter on AO3, like on wattpad and I kept leaving kudos on every chapter lmao

[annaharringrove]

....wait you can’t do that??

[spones]

“Oh, screw Todd! Steve’s her daddy now!”

“Did you just talk about yourself in the third person?”

“Did he just call himself “daddy”?”

[t-hiddlest-deactivated20210607]

What did we… talk about? Respect and responsibility.

[takemepedropascal-deactivated20]

Neil is the one the mind flayer should of killed and not my boy Billy 😭

[wilsonbethellover]

you’re fucking right mate and you should say it

[annaharringrove]

The first one though? Right when billy hits the wall he bears his teeth and his hand goes to grab/attack his dads arm but then he Remembers Who It Is. and his arm falls. And he goes from attack mode into this steely emotionally detached rag doll. He just takes it. Billy is jacked and could literally kill this man but he is so fucking conditioned to fear him. Breaks. My. Fucking. Heart.