what sort of sorcery is this?

Gabi, 30. She/her. Harringrove. Billy Hargrove fan.

[thissortofsorcery]

Hi!

I decided to compile all my ficlets into a little Masterlist so they're easier to find. I'll update this post and keep it pinned as my collection grows.

Harringrove:

The one where Billy and Steve meet at a gas station the day Billy arrives in Hawkins

The one where Steve is a streamer and Billy is a surfer and tiktoker (i'm sorry ok)

The one where they have a fight and Billy thinks it's over

The one where Steve is happy to see Billy

The one where Steve makes Billy reflect on his relationship with Max

The one where Billy tries to sneak out after they hook up

The one where they haven't seen each other in a week

The one where Billy bumps into Steve on purpose | ao3

The one where Billy is startled awake

The one that's a snippet of that social media AU

The one where Steve falls in love from afar

The one where Billy's leaving for California

The one where Billy loves being held

The one where Steve won’t stop touching Billy

The one with the pool kiss | ao3

The one with the Hawkins Tigers sweatshirt | ao3

The one where Steve says "I love you" without noticing | ao3

The one where Billy thinks they're dating

The one where Steve wakes up from a nightmare

The one with the titties worship (sorry) | ao3

Just to Keep the World at Bay

The one where Steve had to see Billy | ao3

The one where Steve has to be sick or something

The one where Billy wants coffee in bed (soft prompts)

The one with the staring contest (soft prompts)

The one where Steve's chatting up some chick

The one where Steve is painfully oblivious | on ao3

The one where Steve's a vigilante (Barbarian Youth) | on ao3

The one where they have car sex (nsfw) HG relay race piece

The one where Billy visits Steve in college

The one where Billy and Steve cook together

The one where Billy's just arrived in Hawkins(witch/werewolf collection)

The one where Billy's injured (witch/werewolf collection)

The one where Billy's a virgin (witch/werewolf collection)

The one where Steve's got Billy figured out (nsfw)

The one where Billy was the first guy Steve liked

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Thanks for reading and being so supportive of me and my writing since I joined the fandom. You're all so so lovely and kind 💖

Update: I'll add the ao3 links as I post them there!

[marxistprincess]

This is a picture of a cis woman, y’all are literally just racist

[marxistprincess]

[torchickentacos]

TERFS DID THIS TO ME ON TUMBLR. I got an anon telling me I passed terribly. like. I'm literally cis and by telling me I do not pass, you are showing that you view womanhood in ways that are not only regressive for trans folk but also regressive and harmful for the very cis women you claim to support and prioritize. They uphold the very beauty and gender performative standards they seek to diminish. Fuck terfs.

[hexthelex-deactivated20230815]

Daily reminder that TERFism has roots in both fascism (eugenics, patriarchal gender performance) and white supremacy (euronormative standards of beauty and biology) and is by no means a viable form of feminism.

[ashubii]

This is why I have TikTok

[asexualmaul]

[500miledash]

Sad scrunglo 🥰

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[angelsaxis]

i went to queer history and signaling and i didnt see taylor swift

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[uncertainlys]

MY FINGERS BARELY EVEN TOUCHED YOUR STUPID FUCKING AD STOP REDIRECTING ME TO THE APP STORE

[harringroveguy]

I don’t particularly enjoy scary movies, and I never play horror games, but for you, Dacre? I’ll make an exception. 😭

[liarsblade]

Fanfiction is cool because you get to learn what other people's parents taught them the hymen is like

[liarsblade]

I know that I had somewhat unusually comprehensive sex ed but it still surprises me every time I'm reminded that some people genuinely think that losing your virginity is a capri sun kind of situation.

[imjunebitch]

"can mutuals dm" "can mutuals ask for your discord" girl, mutuals have an implied invitation to my wedding

[lypsys]

"Write character relationships that are normal" WRONG ☝ CODEPENDENCY BEAM 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[thissortofsorcery]

So that’s Dacre Montgomery on the trailer of Until Dawn 2 right?

[sluttypatrickstar]

HELP

[archouai]

Get peer-reviewed

[kabaks]

It's always homosocial relationships b/w men this and that yaoi fujoshi this and that. I'm here to tell you that women are having straight up lifelong soulmate ass relationships with each other and just fucking men on the side for kids. But that's not my business

[kabaks]

The husband is literally the sidepiece

[shamebats]

It's so horrible the way fanfic sites will just host any fucked up shit like come on... portrayals of heterosexuality, really? Toxic power imbalance much?

[shamebats]

Do you know how many women have historically been harmed by heterosexual married missionary position sex? And yet you have no problem depicting & consuming media about it. Cool cool.

[shamebats]

It's super problematic to glorify something that can result in pregnancy, which literally kills people. What if someone reads your "wholesome" domestic nuclear family fic, decides to get pregnant & then DIES?

[bluegiragi]

Are you gay or bi?

I’m very aro-ace ❤️ my spirit is perverted and lesbian but the flesh is non-practicing

[winchester-reload]

Wishing everyone a very happy Pride 2026!

Now, bask in the glory of these flip-flopped idiots as they shop their local festival. GA(Y)ZE AT THEM.

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