#harringrove core

[harringroveera]

They’re still all over each other like teenagers even when they’ve been married for years

#harringrove #they’ll just be bickering and fucking and cuddling all day #billy hargrove #steve harrington #billy x steve #billy hargrove x steve harrington #incorrect harringrove quotes #harringroveera #harringrove textpost #incorrect billy hargrove quotes #incorrect steve harrington #harringrove core #harringrove meme #harringrove edit #steve x billy #steve harrington x billy hargrove #steve harrington meme #billy hargrove meme

[every-dayiwakeup]

Steve @ Billy

@ickypuppi3

#billy hargrove #bros got some beef with cows #harringrove core #harringrovecore #billycore #shitpost

[bigdumbbambieyes]

tw mentioned abuse

Billy always wakes up before his boyfriend and probably always will. But, he’s not complaining — he loves waking up in Steve’s bed, tangled up in the sheets as he blinks the sleep away from his eye. As always, he immediately turns his head and spots Steve there, his face pressed into his pillow as he sleeps soundly. The rising sun peeks through the curtains, spilling across his boyfriend, highlighting his dark hair a soft brown against the blue bedding.

Shuffling over, Billy presses a quiet kiss to Steve’s shoulder before untangling himself from the sheets and getting out of bed, pulling up the shorts he borrowed from the pretty boy as he heads to the bathroom—

And runs into Mrs. Harrington, who’s wrapped up in her house coat with rollers in her hair, cup of coffee in hand.

“Oh!” She gasps, jumping and spilling some of her coffee on the floor, grasping at the fabric of her housecoat over her chest as she stares at him. After the shock quickly wears off, she’s chuckling softly and sighs, “Jesus, you scared me.”

“Sorry,” he smiles softly, glancing down at the floor where the coffee spilled, “Was just gonna use the bathroom.”

“Yeah, of course,” she hums, but makes this soft tsk sound of disappointment as she reaches up to brush a blond curl back from his forehead, where he knows the bruise from his father is. With sadness laced in her voice, she whispers, “Again?”

“It’s fine, Mrs. H,” Billy mumbles as he looks at her again, gently pulling away from her touch.

“No, it’s not,” she huffs, anger replacing that sadness as their eyes meet. Steve has her eyes. Kind, but fierce. Caring. Worried. “Oh, if I ever run into your father again, I won’t be nice like I was last time.” Before she knew what he did to Billy.

But Billy smiles again, a little more amused, because she’s 5’4’’ and could be blown away by the wind if it were too strong of a gust, but she’s got a fighting spirit. He knows where Steve got that from, now.

“I believe it,” he hums, touched by the way that Steve’s family cares and how they care about him. They don’t have to, but they do, and Billy doesn’t take it lightly or for granted.

She gives him that sorry smile and places her manicured hand on his arm, giving it a gentle squeeze, “You know you’re welcome here whenever you need it, Billy. Lord knows we have more than enough room for one more.”

“Yeah,” he chuckles softly with a nod, “And, thanks. Again.”

Another nod and she pulls her hand away, saying, “Coffee pot’s on downstairs,” before she heads down the hallway, back to her room to get ready for the day.

Looking down at the coffee spill, he lets out a soft sigh and frowns. If that had been his dad and Billy had made him spill his coffee, he’d be knocked upside the head. Or worse.

But, not here. In the Harrington house, he’s welcomed and wanted and the coffee pot is left on for him. He has a space here, whenever he wants it. And he always does.

As he’s wiping up the small spill, the door to Steve’s bedroom opens and his boyfriend looks sleepy as hell — eyes half shut, hair a mess, lines pressed into his skin from the bed. Billy stands and smiles at him, filled with warmth and affection as Steve waddles over to him and wraps his arms around him, pressing a kiss to Billy’s cheek as he mumbles, “Morn’.”

“Morning, peanut,” Billy whispers, wrapping his arm around Steve’s shoulders and pressing a kiss to his mouth, then another to his cheek.

“Coffee?” Steve whispers, pressing his nose to Billy’s cheek, his eyes shut again as he struggles to wake up. It’s annoyingly cute.

“Mhm,” Billy hums happily in agreement.

#harringrove #billy hargrove #steve harrington #it’s my personal mission to redeem steve’s parents #to me they’re caring but they’re busy #and steve understands that but ofc he has his hang ups and they all fight like a normal family but there’s still love at the very core #and billy is welcomed into that little family circle #he loves his future in-laws 🥰🥰 #bambiwrites

[maggotpuke]

♡ Lovecore Billy ♡

#billy hargrove #Lovecore #love core #stranger things #harringrove #mungrove #harringroveson

[ariesbilly]

i know in my heart and soul that the first time steve calls him babygirl during sex billy has a deeply religious out of body experience and reveres steve that much more for seeing him for who he is and not shaming him for it, loving him so much more for it

He is babygirl!!!!

I’m sorry but billy from such a young age has had to put up this tough exterior for self preservation and he was not that kid before his mother left! He was good and sweet and sensitive and soft so to finally have someone in his life see that in him and recognize it and cater to it? To revere it? Encourage it? Bitch… gonna rock billy to his CORE he will be crying instantly

#billy at his core just wants to go back to his flowery clothes and be pretty and gentle 😔 #but also he will still kick your ass and wear his denim and leather and chainsmoke and be loud #it’s about having options it’s about being allowed to exist in all versions of himself! #harringrove #briana answers things

[prettyboy-like-you]

together in electric dreams [1984]

#boys in love ❤️ #the summer of '84 #happy pride 🌈 #harringrove #harringrove edit #harringrove moodboard #stranger things #stedit #billy hargrove #steve harrington #queer boys #80s core #electric dreams #pbly edits #prettyboy like you

[hellfireclub84]

Steve: now billy I know you don’t actually hate-

Billy: guess you don’t know shit then huh?

#billy is a proud hater to his very core #billy hargrove #stranger things #billy hargrove antis dni #steve harrington #harringrove #incorrect quotes

[mrsblackruby]

BILLY HARGROVE FANS AREN’T TOXIC TO THE CORE! BUT IT’S TOXIC TO THE CORE TO THINK PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING AND CYBERBULLY THEM FOR LIKING A FICTIONAL CHARACTER YOU DON’T THO.

#anti billy hargrove #anti harringrove #anti billy stans #billy Hargrove #i love him #bullying and harrassment is toxic to the core

[lazybakerart]

so i accidently clicked on stedie tags on ao3, and there were like a hundreds fic already and the most kudos are 1000k. maybe i’m just having anxiety wheres stedie really truly gonna replace harringrove and, im just so sad

i get the anxiety. honestly, i'm anxious about it too. the reality, though, is one pairing can't replace another if the other pairing still has fans!

as long as we keep supporting each other's fanworks and we don't let the fandom slide into just scrolling past each other's posts without interacting, harringrove won't go away.

because the most important thing though when it comes to keeping a fandom active is: feedback.

comment. reblog. retweet. interact with fanworks.

if we don't do that, people will just leave because why stay in a fandom where you don't get any feedback? why make anything if no one cares?

harringrove might get a little cozier as the years go by, but it'll always be here for the people who want it.

#harringrove #replies #ive yet to find any other fandom that holds my interest in the same way that harringrove/billy does #so im here for the long haul #ive seen the big name creators come and go #there will always be those core fans though who stick with it because we love billy and steve

[killyourrdarlingss]

I was gonna bitch about something but I'm ACTUALLY going to talk about the scene in 'you'll lose the blues in chicago' where Steve and Billy get into like, an argument after not having one for a while and it's just like , the argument starts because of a broken glass and that's like the tipping point and Billy leaves cause he KNOWS he's gonna be meaner than necessary and Steve's also just like had it and it ends obvs in a fight and Billy's gone for a bit and they both end up outside like

"that was stupid"

Anyway if you haven't read it pleaseee do it's an amazing work and I love it

#gothiespeaks #anyway its just like rly ME- core like it's SO real #harringrove #if you need a link lmk #there's so many things i cried over in that work for just being extremely real? i guess? #anyway

[bowiebond]

Everyone talks about Trees by McCafferty, but nobody talks about Trees II and that’s tragic because it is so, so tragic and so good to scream along to.

#also like #billy hargrove core imo <.< #slight harringrove vibes if you'll allow it #billy hargrove #harringrove

[harringroveera]

Steve: I’m gonna hug you so tightly that we might as well be glue, so get your ass over here so I can do it properly, Billy

#harringrove #steve tough love harrington #just steve hugging squeezing billy so tightly he feels all the love #billy hargrove #steve harrington #billy x steve #billy hargrove x steve harrington #incorrect harringrove quotes #harringroveera #harringrove meme #harringrove core #harringrove textpost #harringrove ship #harringrove memes #harringrove + text posts #billy hargrove meme #harringrove headcanon #steve x billy #steve harrington x billy hargrove #steve harrington memes #harringrove edit

[bigdumbbambieyes]

i heard the Lolita 1997 audio that’s Dolores screaming at Humbert and immediately imagined:

Billy being caught with Steve by Neil and immediately losing it, yelling and taunting his father for his gayness, for the way he loves a boy when he isn’t supposed to, watching the way Neil’s face turns red and his father is so close to snapping because Billy’s disrespect and disappointment is reaching new heights

so in the height of his breakdown, Billy screams through tears and a raw, trembling voice, as if he’s begging, ‘murder me! murder me like you murdered my mother!’

and if it weren’t for Steve, Billy would’ve died that night

#harringrove #billy hargrove #steve harrington #the way that humbert controlled dolores is (in a way) similar to the way neil controlled billy’s life #from her childhood to her innocence to her autonomy #and i can see the same themes in billy as dolores #this hate and rage for the person controlling you and your circumstances #until you finally snap #and dolores didn’t have anyone else just like billy #they both deserve so much better #and steve is a protector at his very core he will always stand in front of billy when they’re in harms way #he would protect billy from neil #bc as much as i want billy to run away from his dad and be strong #he’s been strong for long enough #he deserves to feel safe and protected by the person he loves #allowed to still be strong when he wants but with the CHOICE to be that y’know #anyways i’m having too many feelings and could talk more but ive exhausted the tags kdnfkf #bambiwrites

[thatharringrovehoe]

Y'all ever think about a Harringrove AU where Steve is just batshit insane to his core? Like full yandere type shit. He'd do anything for Billy, up to and including manslaughter. And the thing is no one would believe that big brown eyes, gangly clutz Steve Harrington would really hurt anyone. He's had his shit rocked by Jonathan Byers for Christ sake, not to mention the fight he and Billy got into that one November. But he would. He does, enough that the nail bat he keeps in the trunk of his Beamer is stained wine red. I don't have any coherent plotline for this, I just think Billy deserves a love so deep and all consuming and feral that he never doubts his worth again. Because to Steve? Billy is everything.

#that hoe writes #kind of? #i dunno I'm tired #yandere Steve Harrington #i just want Steve to catch Neil laying into Billy #and then grabbing his nail bat to turn Neil Hargrove's face into ground meat #fuck realism i want Billy to be touched that Steve loves him so much #that Joker/Harley Quinn energy #THAT 'TOUCH HIM AND DIE' ENERGY!!!! #Billy Hargrove #Steve Harrington #harringrove

[hg-deranged-edition]

Having a lot of Harringrove thoughts over them being each others foils…

Now don’t get me wrong, I adore Harringrove fics where they’re polar opposites and challenge each others comfort zones and preconceived notions. But fics/headcanons where they’re seemingly opposite on the surface but actually incredibly similar people on the inside? THATS MY BREAD AND BUTTER BABE!!! (Bear in mind this post will have a lot of personal headcanons/analysis)

Just. For starters, as an icebreaker, I adore it when they both have abandonment issues. I love how a core trait of theirs makes them react in opposite ways, with Steve desperately clinging onto a person and showering them in love and Billy pushing them away and hurting them. I love how their love languages are the same, with Billy having an unhealthy relationship perceiving protection as love (eg. trying to protect his mom, and Max and Susan to some extent) and Steve doing all the crazy stunts he does to protect the kids.

I love love love how both Steve and Billy care deeply about their appearances and primp themselves up in different ways. They both have an obsession with performing masculinity the right way and pleasing a crowd of people, again in different ways but similar results. Their houses are not homes but they come from different economic backgrounds. They’re both constantly relegated to being the babysitter and they both hate it. Hell their features are polar opposites but everyone focuses on the same things for them (you’ll find a ton of shit talking about their pretty eyes and pretty lips.) They have horrible habits as crutches. They’re obsessed with whether or not they’re lovable. They both have a sapphic bff. If you want to make it weird and fucked up, theres a chance Karen was weird as hell about Steve, too.

This post is just rambling and it doesn’t capture most of my thoughts. This is because I’m trying to open up a discussion please please please please reply to this with your own thoughts and TALJ TO ME!!!

I live in a fantasy world whwre Stranger Things is good

#billy hargrove #harringrove #steve harrington #stranger things #billy x steve #rambles

[cavinginhisfvce]

'IT'LL ALL WORK OUT'

Disclaimer: I'm honestly not a fan of Susan, but I thought this fic idea was cute!

Paring: Harringrove.

When Neil married Susan, he was against Susan adopting Billy, claiming the boy's real mother couldn't bother to be tasked with raising him, so no one should ever burden themselves with such a thing.

Susan, surprisingly, was firm in wanting to pick up the slack Billy's mother left in her wake, eventually Neil relented, and the adoption process was underway.

It's been four years, and a move to Hawkins, Indiana since Billy legally became Susan's child, something Max was displeased with initially, quickly became a comfort to her when she discovered what Neil did to his son. It had shaken her to her core, and when she relayed the information to her mother, the woman simply pulled her into a hug and murmured, "I know, baby. It'll all work out."

Max didn't know what that meant, or if she should trust her mom. But, she silently nodded, she had no real options here. She had to wait for the future. 

The future as it turns out, was just three months later; Neil had laid into Billy with more fervor than usual, and when Susan made to step in, her husband struck her. 

It hadn't detoured the red-haired woman, she continued her self-appointed task of checking on Billy, who was staring up at her with a look she's never seen on his face, a look no seventeen should ever wear. 

She gave him a small, comforting smile, just as Neil got a fist full of otherwise pristine hair; his freehand raising to strike once more.

The action worked quickly in pulling Billy from his Susan induced trance with a start, his body moving faster than his brain as he lunged at his father, swiftly knocking the man to the ground.

For years, Neil's abuse had only ever been turned towards his son, and in truth he was grateful; because Billy doesn't know what he would do if it was ever Max on the receiving end. She was a child, she was his shitty little sister. Max, who brought him the stupidest (best) hoodies he owns, the fabric softer than any he had previously. Max, who despite hating Billy in the beginning, now comes to his room when she has a nightmare or generally needs comforting from someone other than her mother. She's the only person to hug him since the day his mom took off. 

His sister who despite everything, tries so hard to show Billy someone loves him. She loves him.

Susan had tried to comfort him, but Billy always brushed her off. She never seemed to take it personally for some reason. Maybe because she knew he was afraid of what would happen if Neil even suspected Billy felt safe in their home.

The knowledge that Neil could hurt Susan was always present in Billy's mind, but he often wrote off his concern with a scoff. She knew what she married, she knew what he was like. It was her problem, not his.

However, seeing Neil actually hit Susan had set something off in Billy, because while she may have never defended or stood up for him as she had today; she still made sure he was properly tended to after encounters with his father.

If Neil sent him to bed sans dinner, locking him in his bedroom for however long, she would have Max sneak him a sandwich, Max was always more than happy to take said food. 

The times when Neil kicked Billy out intent on making the boy sleep in his car, Susan always snuck a bag of snacks, blankets, and whatever else, into the bushes by their house for him to grab. Despite always going to Steve's and sleeping in the boy's guestroom on those nights, it still showed she was trying.

If Billy was bed ridden after his father caved his chest in, a few too many times, she would come into his room, soothe his pain with hushed words and gentle touches. Billy was usually too tired and in too much pain to reject her warm hands and kind fingers working through his curls after she'd patched him up.

Seeing Susan cradle her cheek, seeing Max sob at the display, finally gave Billy the nerve to stand up to Neil.

He doesn't really remember much after straddling his father, his fists flying rapidly, their intended destination Neil's face, but he does remember Susan scrambling to call 911. Remembers her soft words of assurance that Neil was down.

He remembers Max's look of relief as their eyes met.

He still feels the phantom hold as Susan tugs him from his place over his dad's limp frame. Can vaguely recall the frightening seconds he thought he killed his father before the man was gasping awake, his eyes widened with fear as they landed on Billy. He was actually afraid of Billy. 

Everything beyond that was a blur, Billy doesn't really know what was said, or done. He just knows Neil was in police custody, something that would've left Billy parentless, if not for Susan having adopted him all those years ago.

Especially since his own mother had taken off when he was barely five, and relinquished her rights as a parent in the same breath she'd divorced his father. 

He always wondered why he wasn't enough. For his mother or Neil.

When Hopper came by to ask if they wanted to press charges, both Billy and Susan agreed easily. It was the most gratifying decision Billy has ever made in regards to his father and the abuse he's endured at his hands for years.

Billy and Steve started officially seeing each other a few weeks after Neil's trial ended. Hopper saw to it that his father was hit with the max sentence for child abuse, and domestic violence. Both Max and Billy would be well into adulthood when Neil gets released, something that made the decision to be with Steve all that sweeter.

He hadn't wanted to come out to Susan, the lingering fear that she would object to her newly seventeen year old son being with a guy was too prevalent. 

Though, technically, he didn't come out to her, she came to him one morning with her hand on her hip and a warm smile on her lips demanding he "bring his 'Pretty Boy' to dinner."

Billy wanted to be upset that she'd found out, but he was far too humiliated that it was his own fault she'd figured it out. Apparently calling Steve 'Pretty Boy' like it was going out of style, was a dead giveaway for the woman.

Much to Billy and Max's (dis)pleasure, Susan and Steve got along easily.

On Billy's eighteenth birthday, Max had barged into his bedroom, shrieking in horror when she was met with an eyeful of her brother and Steve in a slight state of undress, Billy had thrown a pillow in her direction, his voice rough with embarrassment as he shouted, 

"Mom, tell Maxine to fucking knock!" 

Both siblings froze at that, Max had a wide smile on her face, while Billy looked slightly mortified, his words echoing in his ears.

The look morphed into one of pain when Susan slipped into his room, her smile rivaling Max's with how big it was, "That's the first time you've ever called me mom…"

Billy swallowed thickly and nodded his head, though he refused to make eye contact with the woman, even when she was throwing her arms around his bare shoulders in an iron grip hug, "okay, okay, I get it! Can we maybe talk about this shit later, you know, when I'm not trying to get laid on my birthday?" 

Billy wasn't actually going to have sex with Steve with both Max and Susan home, but their presence in the house definitely wasn't going to prevent Steve from watching Billy fall apart beneath him, especially not if the brunet had any say in the matter.

This had Susan reaching out to lightly slap his shoulder, a faux look of exasperation on her features,"maybe next time you or Pretty Boy over there will remember to lock the door, hm?"

With one last smile at Billy, accompanied by a wink, she then ushered Max out the room, Steve almost immediately leaping up to lock the door behind them; his face beet red when their eyes finally met.

"I'm fuckin' moving out." His tone was embarrassed, but there was no heat behind, no real threat to his words. 

He wouldn't leave his sister and his mother for any reason short of them wanting him gone.

#billy antis dni #billy hargrove #billy hargrove deserved better #billy hargrove protection squad #harringrove #steve harrington #max and billy #hargrove mayfield siblings #good parents susan hargrove #i dont actually like susan but ive been toying with this one shot since july or August #never planned to post it tbh #tw neil hargrove #tw child abuse #billy hargrove x steve harrington #harringrove fanfiction #harringrove fic #soft billy hargrove #implied #bottom billy hargrove #tw sex mention #angst with a happy ending #steve loves billy