Winona Ryder by Glen Luchford for Rag & Bone F/W 2014

I think they might be in ~~*~*~*love~*~*~*~

Gum?

(He's gonna ask twice if he must)

Hawkins’ own S1 bad-boy-gone-mother-of-4 and his S2 replacement

Dacre Montgomery as Billy Hargrove STRANGER THINGS 3.03 The Case of the Missing Lifeguard

forget [tumblr] university get ready for [tumblr] elementary school where they teach you the very basic rules of reading comprehension

spent my evening sketching Billy <3

(anyone else feel robbed and betrayed because we could have had it all?)

Every time something ugly happens in fandom space—someone gets harassed, excluded, or dogpiled—there's a moment when people could step in. Say something. Offer support. Push back. But most don’t. They stay quiet, even when it's their mutuals getting hurt.

And then, a week later, those same people wonder aloud: “Why is the fandom shrinking?”

This is why. Because when things go bad, people look away. Because silence is easier than conflict. Because letting someone else take the fall feels safer than standing up. And in doing that, the space becomes hostile, even if only in small, quiet ways.

Fandoms don’t just fade. They rot from the inside when community care is replaced with self-preservation. If you want a thriving fandom, you have to act like it’s a community worth protecting. That means intervening. That means not letting people you care about get isolated or pushed out while you watch from the sidelines.

You can’t have it both ways. You don’t get to mourn a shrinking fandom while choosing silence when it actually counts.

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BILLY HARGROVE in STRANGER THINGS 2 ↳ Chapter Six: The Spy