Ranting And Raving

Genderfluid They/Them | 20 | Biromantic Ace Sometimes I just need to rant, and I’d rather not have it on my main. This may be a Billy-centric blog, but don’t be surprised if other fandoms show up.

[ten-opinions]

Hey

Welcome to hell ig

This is literally just a sideblog for screaming my head off about stuff. It’s mostly just going to be fandom stuff, like most of my blogs, but more controversial. Like Billy Hargrove for instance. I have so much to say about him, but my opinions are more than likely going to get people mad at me and I’d rather keep all that off of main. This blog is mainly just going to be talking about him, but don’t be surprised if from time to time another fandom sneaks in here.

Tags :

# Ten Talk : General tag for any of my own personal posts

# Ten Images : My art, may be reblogs from my main but is mostly stuff I don’t want to post there

# Ten Reblogs : Just general reblogs, no personal stuff added

# Reblog Rant : Reblogs I actually add my own thoughts and opinions to

(All posts will be appropriately tagged with any possible triggering topics. If I happen to accidentally miss one, please feel free to let me know via inbox or comments of said post!)

[stranger-rants]

Bringing back this meme @sirmarsian made me, lol. Still relevant.

[feverreaver]

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It’s not because he’s hot, y’all are just fucking idiots~

[stranger-rants]

He hit "Steve over the head with a plate and nearly killed him" 💀

Plategate All Over Again

I'm sorry, that's the funniest shit I've seen an anti say. Of course, we've got the typical, "feel bad for this character instead" b.s. as well as if what they experienced was anything close.

Anyway... Antis live in reality challenge.

[eddie-munson-1965]

Listen, my dad even Identifies with him. One of his step father's was physically violent towards him. He was parantified with 4 siblings through his young life. (he grew up in the late 70s-90s) he was moved away from his home in the middle of the school year when he was 12. To a god awful place he hated, until he moved away with me.

Real people have real life experiences. And we're allowed to identify with those experiences without being fucking villains. Just because you think someone being abused his entire damn life means nothing. Doesn't mean the rest of us do. Fuck off

Y'all anties need to grow the fuck up. Real adults with real braincells need to stick around. Just because you all can't see past your god damn noses doesn't mean shit. 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

[intothedysphoria-deactivated202]

The whole “you only like him because he’s hot” or “the only good thing about Billy is that he’s attractive” argument Billy antis make when Billy was literally a victim of child grooming doesn’t sit with me that well I can’t lie lads

It’s almost like reducing an abuse victim who was literally a child and spent the entire series being hyper sexualised and objectified as a teenager as “oh you only like him because he’s hot” is yk………..kind of not good and maybe missing the entire fucking point of Billy’s story

[ten-opinions]

“Billy fans only like him because he’s hot!”

…I’m asexual. Questioning demiromantic. I fall under the AroAce umbrella. I quite literally don’t feel attraction in that manner. I can’t perceive people as being “hot” or not. I do not find Billy Hargrove “hot” because, in my eyes, no one is.

Did you know that by saying this, you’re implying all Billy fans are allo, which is a-spec erasure and aphobic? Even if you didn’t mean it like that, that’s what it is. Maybe you need to think about what that says about you before worrying about strangers on the internet.

[ten-opinions]

I know people aren’t going to listen to me, but you guys have got to stop comparing two completely different characters’ trauma.

Jonathan and Billy do not share the same trauma.

In fact, they are the exact opposites. Yes, both had abusive fathers. Fine. But that’s about it. Their similarities end there. See, Jonathan had one thing that Billy didn’t. Proper support.

Joyce didn’t decided to leave Jon with Lonny and disappear from his life forever. Jon was not left in an abusive household with absolutely so form of support. Joyce, instead, left Lonny, took her kids with her, and was trying her best to be a good single mother to her two young boys. Jonathan still had his mother and his brother to guide and support him.

Billy didn’t. His mother straight up abandoned him with his abusive father. I don’t know how many of you know what typically happens in those situations, but here’s how it goes. When there are two victims and one of them gets free, the abuser doubles down on the abuse of the victim still in their care. They want the remaining victim to think there’s no way they’re going to get free, so they tend to abuse the victim more frequently. Billy, already hurt from being abandoned, is suddenly alone and dealing with even more abuse than he was originally dealing with. You could argue that he did have support through Max at one point, but he pushed her away. Now, I haven’t read Runaway Max yet, but from what I understand Billy was getting beat worse due to Max trying to help. This was not Max’s fault by any means, but her help wasn’t actually helping. If anything it gave Neil even more leverage to abuse Billy into the mindset that he would never be helped or loved.

(Also, I’m not going to go into it in this post but, Max and Billy didn’t have the same trauma either. You can live in the exact same household and go through extremely different things.)

Jonathan Byers and Billy Hargrove did not go through the same trauma. Jonathan had a safe space. Billy never did.

[thediktatortot]

I really like the idea of Billy being really emotive and expressive when he finds someone he genuinely trusts. Like it might take a while to get him to trust you, but once you earn it, you get this side of Billy no one really knows about.

[ten-opinions]

May be a personal opinion, but Chase Petra has some of the most Billy-coded music I have ever heard. Nature vs Nurture, Bildungsroman, Monet Issues, Pacific, See You Next Tuesday, Temporary, the list goes on and on. Highly recommend a listen.