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harringrove vs byler
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byler
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
Sweet Seals For You, Always

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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Cosmic Funnies
Monterey Bay Aquarium

shark vs the universe

祝日 / Permanent Vacation

Andulka
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YOU ARE THE REASON
Stranger Things
Today's Document
DEAR READER

Origami Around
hello vonnie
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stranger things ship bracket:
round three battle two
harringrove vs byler
?
harringrove
byler
billy hargrove character studies
*Empathising* with Billy Hargrove from the jump (before Neil and the reveal of parental abuse makes him at the very least a *sympathetic* character) requires the viewer to recognise repression (of self) as the driver of his suffering--which is actually a minority lived experience and why the majority of Stranger Things viewers--who are cis / straight / neurotypical or otherwise have not experienced negative consequences as a result of expressing their authentic self--disregard him as a character and blorbo.
Dacre Montgomery makes intelligent acting choices that are consistent with someone who imposes heavy restrictions on their expression and is obviously deeply unhappy (and disconnected) as a result.
These choices look like e.g. flat affect/dead eyes towards his date / towards Tommy in the shower / in his car alone after his visit to Mrs Wheeler.
It also colours his body language in his physical comportment. Characters touch/reach for him but he doesn’t naturally receive or reciprocate the contact unless there’s an acceptable social script (like a high five).
You can almost see the bubble of space being preserved around him in relation to other characters, like a shark moving through a school of fish.
From memory, we only get to see a glimpse of his natural positive emotional spectrum when he’s excited to be stalking an unknown mischief maker (Max and The Gang) he thinks is pranking him during The Sauna Test in Season 3.
That smile and his ✨bouncing✨is Dacre playing him as being authentically engaged/curious/pleased/playful/confident. But prior to that, his smiles are cold and practiced to be charming. When he is not being watched, the smile drops because he has contempt for the other character for falling for the act and failing to interest him.
The only time we see breaches of Billy Hargrove’s real emotional personality (in his introductory season) are in his interactions with Steve Harrington—which is why, for the empathetic viewer, his self-repression is understood to stem from being queer and having internalised homophobia.
This queer reading of his character is something deduced before it is revealed that his father is a violent threat and is able to successfully frighten and control him with the threat of a label like “faggot”.
Steve Harrington is the only character Billy shows any authentic interest in and towards whom Dacre Montgomery drops his flattened affect for.
Despite being established as bored / dismissive / disinterested in communicating with other characters, he takes an immediate visual interest in Steve at the party and expresses that interest by breaking from his self-imposed isolation and making conscious attempts at physical and then verbal contact with Steve (on the basketball court and in the showers after).
His intersection with the main plot and the climactic function of his written character is his confrontation with Steve Harrington at the Byers.
The acting moment that signifies the emotional rock bottom of this intersection for the character as Dacre has constructed him is when he laughs (deranged).
Dacre's delivery of that laugh is a complex mix of resignation, self-loathing and relief. Resignation--to playing out the fight as the "character" he has cornered himself into. Disappointment--that his attempts to convey his real self were futile / laughable / ineffective to allow Steve to perceive him any differently. Disgust--for hoping that he would and at his motivation for that hope. And relief--that at least now the interaction will proceed in a way which is familiar and safe to navigate: with violence.
From today June 8th to Saturday, June 14th until 11:59 pm, the leftover zine will have free shipping, using the code FREESHIPPING
My toxic yaoi/yuri enamel pins are now available on my stores! Shares appreciated!
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Second sketch commission for my dear friend Lisa, based on her fanfic "and the guns, shot above our heads".
Read it: HERE!
Commission info: https://lemonhitsu.carrd.co/
Emergency commissions!
Because of my death near experience back in February I ended up with bad health, expensive treatment, different type of tests and more. My health is better now but I still have a huge medical debt to pay, so emergency commissions have been updated✨
Sketches are now included next to regular and ns*fw art. Also slots for both types are available again.
All updated info can be found at my carrd: https://lemonhitsu.carrd.co/
Any help would be highly appreciated. And if you can't commission me atm please help me spread the word and reblog!
Thank you all💖
lemon's emergency commissions
Prices and some personal info under the cut. Any questions feel free to send me a dm!
Commissions are open again! Six spots are free atm!
Please help me spread the word and feel free to contact me if you want art from me💖
Can we please stop shading other folks in this fandom for no reason? It's obvious and weird and unnecessary lol you can make a post about something you like without putting something else down. You're just a bully when you do that. We went through enough drama for the last nearly two years. Also: Apple addressed what happened, said she didn't know who was right or wrong in the end, accused us of slander, apologized but not really, hoped her words granted us healing and sent her love. If it's not clear, she hasn't changed a single bit. She took no true accountability for her actions. She gave a lot of us genuine trauma and ptsd. We also have screenshots of her abhorrent behavior. Do NOT go after her. We are better than that. Don't forget that! Stick together. That's what we were supposed to do after that mess. It'd sure be nice to enjoy what you love and not care about others, especially if it's only to make them feel bad. 🙏
What is your favorite Billy fic at the moment (whatever ship!)
hi anon!
when it comes to Billy ships, i'm a harringrove shipper through and through.
At the moment, I'm really enjoying catching up on A Shot for Life by @camaro-and-smokes and I love Easy as 123 by @runraerun.
Absolutely loved Second Chances by @ihni and the road finally taken by @billysblueeyes in the harringrove holiday exchange.
And Mantras for Maladjusted Mammals that @spaceofentropy wrote for me for Christmas.
I started reading i'll be his and he'll be mine by @darlingyourehome and I can't wait to binge it now that it's finished.
I am on chapter 4 of this amazing fic: pledging my time by @whenyouwishuponastar7 (totally recc'ing anything Lisa writes, she's a fucking amazing writer, especially sedona red and the wicked messenger and these streets will make you feel brand new which live rent free in my head)
Another fic that lives in my head is Run for the Shadows by @shieldofiron (anything by Saf, really... like Please, Please, Please and You Never Can Tell) and Vegas, Baby by @discodeviant and @shieldofiron
I'll stop there for now...
I got the permission to post these, yippieeee. Three c0mmissions made for @vtforpedro ✨
Thank you so much again, it has been a pleasure to work with you (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧ 💖
(Lord Billy and Harrington belong to @adelacreations and their Resident Evil AU)
twenty years and change
This is the fic I wrote for the Harringrove Corner Winter Event
🔥 Fire & Ice ❄️
Fire: campfire, lights, candles, matches
Ice: snow, blizzard, skating, ice cream
Rating: M | 3644 words | second chance, steve chest hair agenda, matchmaking max
This fic is a gift for @callieb, who is a sweetie and did sprints with me when I was on the last stretch and struggling, for @whenyouwishuponastar7 who created HGC and @shieldofiron who secretly loves fluff so I keep writing it for her.
Summary:
Billy loved his sister, so when Max had begged him to sort out Susan’s old house in Hawkins to get it ready to sell, he’d found it hard to refuse. Max was heavily pregnant with her third child and not allowed to fly, and Susan had finally made the move to California to be closer to her grandchildren. What he hadn’t anticipated was the announcement of a once-in-a-hundred-year blizzard making a direct beeline for their corner of the state, then bumping into his high school crush in the lobby of the hotel where he was staying.
Read on Ao3
The universe had to be taking the piss. There was no way around it. For some reason, the fates had decided that nothing good would ever happen to Billy in Indiana.
The town of Hawkins had given him the heebie jeebies from the moment he’d been dragged here by his asshole of a father as a teenager. He’d put his head down and made it through high school, before working his ass off at the local pool the summer after graduation. He had escaped in a cloud of dust at the beginning of fall, a full ride scholarship at UC San Diego in his back pocket.
Here's the face of the dork who drew too much harringrove after almost dying.
Sketch commission for my friend Lisa💜
Hopper being the father figure Billy needed all along.
(small eepy Billy bc I needed to take him out of my system. Now I'm going back to draw religious doomed yaoi, see ya soon hopefully 🏃🏻➡️)