hallowed be thy name

18+ Only Buck | 28 | he/him

[immortalitylostandfound]

Okay, so I’ve been thinking about it and Billy’s tattoo is literally killing me over here.

Like, he was excited about that tattoo. He saved up and drove, probably alone, to some city big enough to have a tattoo parlor. He picked out that image off a wall of designs. Bullshitted with the tattoo artist and pretended it didn’t hurt. He touched it every day when it was still scabbed over and got this little smile, thinking of his lifeguard job in the summer where he’d be able to show it off. Bought a bunch of sleeveless shirts. He was stoked. He was alive and he had plans and he would have gotten more tattoos.

Yeah, I dunno, just kinda wrecks me thinking about it.

[rigginsstreet]

The mass deletion of harringrove fics on ao3 has been bumming me out so should we do a real chill Harringrove fic week to make up for the fallen soldiers we’ve lost along the way?

Only vote if you’d actually participate and write something

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 31

[demo-stapelia]

max: wow i sure wish things could have gone differently and maybe billy and i could have had an actual relationship built on trust and affection, really fucks me up that this never got to happen because he fucking died in my arms no matter how much i begged for him to get back up.

some people for some reason: yeah she unambiguously fucking hated his guts to death.

[dealtgod]

Thinking about the fact that Billy dials emergency services after having been possessed by the Mind Flayer and when the operator asks what the emergency is, he cannot bring himself to speak about it. Because he knows, ultimately, that no one will believe or help him if he spoke the truth about his trauma. He's been a victim of abuse since he was a child, and no one had ever helped or given him safety. He was a child when his mother left him with an abusive father, he suffered abuse from his father, he was constantly sexualized and objectified by his peers, he was sexually preyed upon by adult women, and was assaulted and possessed by the Mind Flayer at the same time Karen is puckering up to go after Billy in the same way.

And the thing is: Billy tries to ask for help after being attacked by the Mind Flayer. The instinct to reach out is still there, just as it was there when Billy was a child, hiding with the phone as he called his mother when she left him, begging her to please come back. But calling and seeking that help- that safety- is never answered. Billy has been alone, left to endure the abuse from the hands of others in silence much in the same way it is visually represented when he is left alone on the side of some back road in Hawkins after having been attacked by the Mind Flayer.

And so, the moment the operator asks what the emergency is, the words die on Billy's tongue. We see him live through a flashback of the Mind Flayer attacking his body. The attack itself already took away Billy's agency. And then it happens again, with the flashback of the attack taking away his agency and voice once more.

I talk a lot about how Billy's body has never been his own and how he has no agency and control over his life as a result of the abuse he suffers. But that also includes the fact that the abuse has taken Billy's voice away, too. And how can he speak of it? How can he speak of it when his life has shown him nothing except that people are abusers in all ways that it manifests, that people will look the other way when faced directly with the abuse he suffers, that people will take advantage of him, and that no help ever comes?

And then, as if to prove what he has already known, the line cuts out, and Billy hangs up the phone. Because he's always been alone, and there is no help coming.

[willgrahamscock]

Thought crimes of course aren’t real but uh. We know those aren’t just thoughts anymore once you’ve posted them publicly, yeah?

Then they’re just crimes.

sure, fictional crimes since nothing happened and no one was hurt. should we put the fictional handcuffs on? "sorry, you wrote about murder which is illegal, go spend 20 years in mind jail"

[lustcannibalism]

y'all make so much more fuss about shit in fanfiction than crimes in real life

[wrecked-fuse]

lover not a fighter

revealing my WTF2020 art p. 7

my first and only modern!AU ish harringrove art :D

[catnippackets]

the hardest pill to swallow about being in a fandom is that some people are only ankle-deep in it and aren't taking things too seriously and other people are up to their necks and taking it as seriously as a heart attack and yet everybody thinks that every other person is in it just as deep as they are and will get very upset to realize otherwise because they don't know how to engage with the different perspective

[dalekofchaos]

Hidden misogyny of Stranger Things

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[rigginsstreet]

Susan obviously knew about the abuse because her reaction in the bedroom scene was very much “this is old routine, I hate it but my hands are tied” like she wasn’t shocked by it

So are we meant to believe max was in the dark about it? Did everyone just have this unspoken agreement to keep Neil’s abuse of billy from max? Max was just walking around la dee da not knowing anything? Because that’s very much what she was giving in all her scenes. Their dynamic is not one of two people going through the same hell together. I have to believe if max knew their dynamic would be a LITTLE better if only because she would know billy was just following Neil’s orders.

The show very much makes its so that max (and the audience) puts all the blame on billy for being controlling, but he isn’t! HE makes a case for her not needing a babysitter HE doesn’t care if she wanders around by herself. It’s Neil who forces him to keep her on a short leash.

And that’s fucking wild to me that you have that dynamic going on and never address it like idk I think that’s a pretty big piece of the puzzle!

We all already knew the duffers never cared about making billy a main narrative focus but they very much made max a main character…but this choice fails her completely because it completely strips any nuance or insight into her home life which again…given how they just wrote off Susan (and Neil) because they couldn’t be bothered to write for them anymore (or pay them, more likely) it’s not surprising.

If you’re not the Byers or the wheelers your family life doesn’t matter. And even then the Byers were shafted too

“Show for freaks and outcasts” and the white suburban Reagan family gets all the attention I have to laugh!

[swimbirdyswim]

This simple child you had inside Long ago like flowers sang in springtime Nothing really stayed the same And nothing really changing in the end

— Child You Were, Isaac Delusion

!!! felt like drawing steve and billy as kids, and then thought wow I never paint, lets try that too. lineart version under the cut!

[robotmango]

forever love that the basketball scene is like

billy: hey. hey hey hey hey. i heard you were cool. are you cool. everybody says you were cool. and now you're a little bitch. are you a little bitch. look at me look at me. hey cool cool bitch look at me are you looking

steve: why... is this happening

[toobusybeingdelulu]

joyce and billy are not in Tales from 85 because they took a mother-and-son trip to Cali it’s true believe me I was billy’s left toe

[bigdumbbambieyes]

Rat Boy™️ falls in love

[shieldofiron]

Oh Steve, don't lie. He doesn't wear those.

[skyjynxart]

#HarringroveWeek gave me the perfect excuse to finish this- I’m utterly in love with the idea of an AU where Billy is a selkie ( his mom was, too ). Billy has to tread a very careful line between bringing his coat with him to risky places like school, where it could so easily end up in someone else’s hands, versus leaving it at home, where it’s not uncommon for Neil to threaten to cut it up, ensuring Billy can never escape to the sea.

I like to think that somehow, it ends up in Steve’s hands and leads to happiness for both of them, but I haven’t really gotten that far with the ideas in my head.

I don’t know if I’ll have the time to make anything for the prompts, but I wanted to at least do something!

[hannah367]

This is basically how I've been since this picture dropped 😂