the great sapphic disaster

archie | ronance | secondary: @archaicflora | ghost hunter | but i don’t hunt ghosts, they hunt me | ghost hunted? | Writer but in the odd hermit kinda way | obsessed with my wife and queer characters in fiction

[archaicfauna]

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My Interests!

Main Fandom:

Stranger Things

Main Fandom Ship:

Ronance

Other Fandoms I love to talk about:

Mass Effect (and other video games), The Raven Cycle, Wynonna Earp, Doctor Who, Percy Jackson, Bridgerton, + more

Other ships I love to talk about:

Stonathan, Rovickie, Bancy, Buckingham, Shiara, Pynch, Wayhaught, Ninerose/Tenrose, Thasmin, Percabeth, Franchaela, Pricefield, + more

[archaicfauna]

Still reworking some things in UDAWT before I do a mass edit to all the previously uploaded chapters and post the new chapter, but I thought yall would like to know that there’s a scene in the new chapter in which Robin is sitting between Sir Nancy’s legs, leaning against her chest, for a reason that is a huge spoiler to disclose, and the image of it has been stuck in my head for like a month.

[stranger-things-writing-prompts]

Vickie dumps Robin right before college and she’s fully devastated about it and doesn’t expect to see her two weeks later at Family Video with a new girl Lucy. And the two girls They’re close, whispering in each other’s ears and laughing not even noticing anyone but Robin knocks something over then Vickie spots her.

“Oh! Robin, hey.” She glances at Lucy, catches herself. “This is Lucy. My—” she stops, then forces a smile. “Girlfriend.”

Lucy beams at her, genuinely and sweet.

Robin’s face drops fully and then without thinking blurts.

“Oh! Yeah I have a girlfriend too. She’s French and she Lives in Canada like Montreal and She’s visiting next week. Her name is—”

“Joséphine,” Steve blurts from behind the counter. “Joséphine!” Robin nods wildly. “She’s a model. Makes crepes too!”

Lucy smiles, all earnest. “We’d love to meet her sometime. Wouldn’t we, Vickie?”

Vickie looks like she’d rather be anywhere else. Nodding “Can’t wait.”

Later, at Steve’s house Robin’s having a full meltdown in Steve’s kitchen. “I don’t HAVE a French girlfriend! I don’t know any French people!”

Steve and her go back and forth, Steve trying to damage control. Nancy and Jonathan are at the kitchen table listening along and Nancy who’s quietly drinking tea. sets her cup down. “I’ll do it.”

“What,” Steve and Robin say in unison.

“What if she recognizes you?” Steve asks.

Nancy shrugs. “We never interacted. Different grades.”

“I said she was FRENCH,” Robin says, desperate biting her lip till it hurts.

Nancy stands up. And then in a perfect, French accent “Bonjour, I am Joséphine from Montreal. I make ze crepes and I am in love with zis American idiot.”

Steve and Robin are full gaping at her.

“Okay, that was good,” Steve admits.

Jonathan who’s just as surprised says “Since when do you—”

Nancy drops the accent. “Four years of French. Drama club. You guys never noticed.” She shrugs.

Robin sighs, head in her hands. “You’re hired.”

prompt!

[teeteatess]

[fruifruit]

childhood friends au robin and nancy get "married" (with barb as the officiant) and in the present whenever nancy is about to do something self-sacrificial robin steps in and is like umm not without your wife

[archaicfauna]

I love the idea of Nancy slowly falling in love with Robin during their friendship and, with it, slowly realizing she’s attracted to women and then taking some time to figure out her sexuality before she confesses.

But I ALSO love the idea of Nancy being completely clueless about her sexuality for months of their friendship until she sees Robin in a baseball cap and a baggy tee shirt with the sleeves cut off on a random Tuesday and gets smacked with her sexual awakening so violently that she nearly passes out

[bean-there-before]

i was trying to think about a 'nancy has a girlfriend instead of robin' type scenario but i genuinely cannot imagine a world where nancy does not figure out she's gay and then track robin down or just endlessly pine after her

[everythingismadeofclouds]

nancy and steve talking while they wait for robin to show up to like movie night or something. nancy casually drops "yeah i wish robin was a boy so we could date lol" and before steve has time to unpack that, robin arrives

[grisempereur]

I just know that at some point between s4 and s5 Robin jokingly says “happy wife, happy life” to Steve, who’s annoyed that Robin takes Nancy’s side again during their bickering, and Nancy keeps spiralling over it for MONTHS

[nancystaystrappedwheeler]

Robin saving Nancy from vecna theory you are DEARLY missed. #whoremembers

[archaicfauna]

Soooooo I was wondering, I’ve recently seen your idea about Mike harrassing Robin about her love life and Robin being uncomfortable abt it because Steve eventually convinces her that Mike has a thing abt her and then she tells Nancy and it’s because Nancy likes her… Would you be upset if I attempted to write a fic using your idea? I’d give you total credit and I’d even send it to you before publishing! I totally understand if you don’t want that though!

That’s totally fine by me! I’m excited to see what you do with it!!

[crashoutqueenstevie]

the thing I really enjoy with Nancy and Robin is the way that Robin likes Nancy being in control, but not in a way that she takes a back seat necessarily. In season 4 Robin announces that Nancy is in charge while all the older teens take the boat out onto the lake. Later, when Nancy tells Robin and Eddie to stay put, Eddie is ready to follow that order and tells Robin that they should wait because Nancy is in charge. And without skipping a beat Robin goes, "I made that shit up!"

Robin knows when to assert and support Nancy's leadership and then knows when not to listen to her and dive in anyway, and I love that sort of push and pull to them. It's a similar dynamic to earlier in the season with Pennhurt. Robin is content to let Nancy take the lead, but when shit starts to go south, Robin follows her own instincts to help get them out of trouble.

And for Nancy, she starts to really value Robin's out-of-the-box thinking and creative solutions that Nancy could not have come up with on her own. I think Nancy is a very stubborn character who believes her plans and ideas are the best, but Robin ends up surprising her and forces her to reevaluate ways to solve the mystery or problem in front of them.

[eskawrites]

the thing is I truly just can’t let ronance go, every time I think I’m normal about them I remember literally any detail and I’m obsessed all over again. The most canon non-canon couple ever genuinely. Everything they do from the moment they start interacting just emphasizes how good they are for each other. And then you get into everything in the books, the barb between them, the shared yearning for something more than Hawkins that no one else understands, the juxtaposition of Robin vs Jonathan in one way or another and who’s really a good partner for Nancy, in every sense of the word. Like. It’s been four years and every once in a while I still stop and think holy shit they’re so good together

[lesbeanthingz27]

Touch starved ronance.

That’s it. That’s the post.

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

not naming names but some of you are so creative and talented it's an honor to have you in my phone

[archaicfauna]

Robin being a little weirded out because Mike is extremely interested in her love life. Like, it’s all he wants to talk about, “Are you dating someone? Who are they? How long? What’s their name? Oh, you broke up? When?”

Obviously at first, she’s super vague, attempting not to out herself. But after a while (and after Steve puts a worry in her head that Mike may have a crush on her), she finally tells him she’s gay.

Mike doesn’t even seem shocked or disappointed. If anything, he seems even more excited than he had before, constantly asking her about her dates or if she has a crush on anyone and other similar questions, even getting Holly to start asking her instead whenever she starts to ignore his questions, all of which is highly concerning from Robin’s perspective, but she kind of pushes it to the back of her mind and just gives him the bare minimum in hopes that’ll be enough to make him leave her alone.

She finally mentions it to Nancy one night at a sleepover, both of them lounging on Nancy’s bed doing their own thing. Mike was being weird and quiet earlier at dinner, staring at Robin nearly the entire time unless she glanced over at him, and when that situation is brought up, Robin decides to open up to Nancy about the entirety of it.

“Yeah, he’s been acting weird as hell around me. Steve is convinced he has a crush on me but, god, I really hope he’s wrong.”

Surprisingly, Nancy freezes, face pale, so Robin rushes to add that she thinks Mike is a good kid— a shithead, but a good kid— but, obviously, it’s a little uncomfortable to discuss her love life with him, especially now that Steve has her so worried that Mike may have an ulterior motive.

Nancy is silent for a long moment, then buries her face in her hands.

“Oh, I’m gonna kill him.”

Turns out, the only reason Mike was asking all those questions was because Nancy had opened up to him about her own crush on Robin and he was trying to give her ‘updates’ on Robin’s love life in order to convince her to go for it. She had just thought he was getting those updates subtly, or through gossip, not that he was just straight up asking Robin all these questions.

It works out, anyway, but Nancy still glares at Mike every time he haughtily insists that him being her wingman is the reason she and Robin got together in the first place.

[archaicfauna]

Remembering the time I saw a hater on tt calling Nancy Wheeler a ‘pick-me’ as if she didn’t spend the entirety of the last season practically begging her love interests to stop picking her and just leave her tf alone for five minutes