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[poolsidepanic]

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welcome to poolsidepanic, this is my cunningway sideblog! its my favourite ship despite how much of a rarepair it is, so im here to share content for them

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[agnesdemlle]

Incorrect Stranger Things - 19/?

[basiatlu]

Scoop Troop and Pool Patrol (season 3 canon divergence)

Stuck in an elevator. What could go wrong? Billy and Heather here have broken free of the mind flayer's control before they could kidnap her parents. El and Max spill the beans leading to the Pool Patrol trying to track down the Party's usual babysitter who is on a mission of his own..

[rigginsstreet]

i got this reel yesterday of this woman on a podcast talking about how she had a gay roommate who would let her just come in to his room and watch him hook up with dudes lmfao and she'd just sit there and watch like not even to get off or anything she was just being an audience 😂

so naturally that got me thinking about billy and heather being roomies with absolutely zero boundaries so when steves over taking billy to pound town, heather will just waltz in and start a whole conversation with billy, and billy wont miss a beat

doggy style so billy and his bestie can rehash the latest gossip that happened at the pool that week <3

[leporinelou]

[rigginsstreet]

Billy and Heather when they won prom king and queen and had to pretend to be a totally normal heterosexual couple (Billy is stoned out of his mind and just blew Steve behind the bleachers)

[rigginsstreet]

Heather and Billy chilling in heathers room while heathers got nair all the way up her legs and Billy’s got it on his chest and they are having a gossip sesh send tweet

[michaelwheelers]

favorite character meme: seven scenes (4⁄7)

↪ El finds Heather in the Void

[holy-harringrove]

Not to go on a tangent about Stranger Things writing but the scene where Billy kidnaps Heather from the pool makes zero sense, actually??

Did Billy hide Heather somewhere at the pool, unconscious for several hours? Or did Billy somehow hide her in the trunk of his car? How did he get her from the pool to the car without anyone noticing?

How do we go from presumably afternoon sun to well past sunset?

But, what? How did any of that happen? None of this is logical. In July, the sunset in Indiana is around 9:13 pm.

The pool was absolutely packed with people and Heather went into the (staff?) showers to check on Billy.

He drags her in the stall with him and presumably knocks her unconscious since we see some blood on her head later (even though the injury doesn't match what we see here).

Were they the only two life guards on duty at the pool that day? Good thing there were no medical emergencies and no one drowned.

Where did he hide her body while the pool was open? Because I assume he waited to carry her unconscious body to his car?

How hard did he hit her that she was presumably unconscious for several hours and yet she suffered no lasting damage?

It is incredible no one noticed anything was wrong with Billy, tbh.

[astro-1ce-drag0n]

Heather Holloway(concept art) tw: eyes.

Literally my first time drawing her and I can't get her bangs right! Anyway, I'm kind of thinking about doing a Nancy and Barb type situation with Heather and Billy(because survivors guilt plots go hard and I'm a sucker for characters blaming themselves over something that was completely out of their control)

The realy spooky Heather isn't what she'll actually look like at the end of S3, that version of Heather is how Billy tries to remember her but failing to actually remember her. Billy, over the course of S4 starts forgetting what Heather looks like and desperately tries to cobble his already fractured memories of 85 to put the memory of his friend back together, but in his dreams, or night terrors for lack of a better term, Heather's entire appearance looks completely wrong: her eyes are missing the kindness that they held, her once sweet and loving smile is twisted with malice and death, nobody has even found her actual body yet Billy's mind sees her as a corpse already, a chimera of broken memories and the influence of the mind flayer had destroyed the very concept of who was once the one person in Hawkins Billy actually liked; and replaced her with a reflection of the hell that lives inside of him.

How dare he try to call her a friend when it was him that sealed her fate to the mind flayer! How dare he try to find if she's still even alive when it was he who slit her throat back at starcourt! How dare he try to preserve her memory when he's the reason she'll never see the sun again, the reason why her parents will never know the truth about what happened to their daughter, the reason why she haunts him, torments him.

Breaks him.

But that's all just a concept for what I'm planning.

[rigginsstreet]

Billy and Heather

He’ll just fake propose to her anywhere for the drama or to get a free meal or free bottle of champagne or just cuz the moments getting kinda dull and they need to spice it up

[thatgirlwithasquid]

paint sketch bc i am missing my girls this morning ;-;

[cyraclove]

"She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death." —Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente

A Chrissy Cunningham moodboard

[hawkins-archive]

A prop store based out of Georgia listed this on eBay (for a frankly baffling asking price): it's a program for Chrissy's memorial service that was given to the actors and extras during filming of that scene. The Stranger Things props department even made in-universe text for the inside of the program instead of just Lorem Ipsum-ing it. I don't think I'd seen the photo of Chrissy on the back before either.

Frustratingly, we still don't get a name for Chrissy's brother.

EDIT: More on this prop over here!

[blackholequasar]

Hawkins Queen

Next is Eddie!

And then I want to put them together in a little Hellcheer piece of the Outcast & the Queen. (Will that actually happen? Who knows!)

[phillipbrannigan]

Chrissyyy, Chrissyyyyy, Chrissyyyyyy, Chrissyyyyyy.

[blackholequasar]

Summer of 1986 (colored)

I'm colorblind, and as a result... I didn't see some of the variations of what I used until I uploaded it on to a higher res monitor. Well, shit. Sorry lol