#haringrove

[ihni]

For @suotar :) Billy got a Serious Job after graduation (you can't tell me he wouldn't do AWESOME at sales once he turned on the charm). (Also I'm imagining this is like his first or second house that he went to and he didn't expect to see Steve - and like, his coworker who's teaching him to do this is waiting in the car or something)

[runraerun]

@stervrucht I’m blaming you for this.

[headcanonthings]

Billy to Steve: *Strums guitar* Billy: This next song is dedicated to you. It is called You are so cute and I am so mad. Because you are very cute. And I am very mad about it.

[gracegrove]

The recognition in Season 2 when Harringrove meets, is that Billy's main coping skills are internalized, self-destructive, and numbing because he doesn't really have any good place to put his emotions.

smoking

drinking

fighting

music so loud that he can't think straight

driving fast and erratically

(most likely) working out until he drops

isolation

doing everything he can to avoid being alone with himself and his thoughts.

and that Steve's coping skills are more externalized, which he probably sees therefore as being helpful or positive behaviors rather than avoidant ones.

smoking

drinking

fighting/killing monsters

putting himself in dangerous situations

sacrificing himself for others

dating for the sake of dating

needing to be in the company of others often

being a 'yes' man

trying all he can to avoid being alone at all because he can't tolerate it.

Steve fears being unwanted while Billy already feels unwanted. Billy actively destroys things that fall contrary to what is his reality. Steve tries to busy himself in all ways possible to protect himself against the threat of being called useless.

Billy has been told his whole life he's unlovable, and Steve's life comes into crisis when Nancy admits that she doesn't love him.

They meet at a time when they're both wounded and angry. Billy who's used to the hurt, and Steve who feels insecure and vulnerable.

[velocitytimes2]

in S4 Steve just... casually throws out that he was a lifeguard. Like yeah, I get it, it's not an important plot point or anything but it also? Why was he working at Scoops then? When we could have gotten Steve And Billy Lifeguard bickering? hairy chest Steve being fanned over? Steve bitching about getting his hair wet? another shower scene? You really ROBBED us of that?!

Also when did he have TIME to lifeguard? Why did we not see it? Did he really start when he was, what, fourteen? And then just decided to fuck that off to work at an ice cream shop?

Am I reading too much into this? yes. do I want ANSWERS? also yes.

[elowmojo]

Sorry I’m not so active. I wanted to participate to the Haringrove Week, I wish to make cool Fan Art but my inspiration is gone. Please Santa gimme some! 😭😭😭😭

[balestrra]

Silly (Steve and Billy)

[thisismycursed3rdblog]

*Introduces new male character with long curly hair*

Stranger Things fans: Wow I can't wait for him to kiss Steve on the mouth