[elizabethwydevilles]

rec list of in progress fics that are Stancy focused/include Stancy prominently

you and me babe, how about it? by @pasta-lovaa

the season 5 of my dreams. chapter nine lives rent free in my head.

love's such an old-fashioned word by @mwritesarchived

the amount of times I've re-read is a little embarrassing. the build-up to stancy getting together is so good, so i'm looking forward to seeing them together.

Goodwill Hunting by mykingdomforafic

if you were pissed as hell over nancy's sweater, this fic is for you. all the characters are drawn with such grace.

i'm just an animal looking for a home by birdsofthesoul

the last part of the series is currently updating and promises stancy finally getting together. really good use of POV. highly recommend part three for a fantastuc nancy POV.

Every Mile Brings You A Little Closer by @pasta-lovaa

i adore the nancy in this, there's so much happening under the surface.

if I'm kindling for a little while by alittleacatalepsy

actually makes the military feel like a real threat to our gang like the should've been in season five. also has a really good dustin.

end of a decade (start of an age): 1987-1997 by @mapleymood and @thelonelybrilliance

angsty and messy and sweet, with really well drawn relationships between stancy and the the party + holly.

[bloop-bloop-boop]

[slashergirlnancy]

stancy + Roadtrip AU for @bloop-bloop-boop 🫶

[alexanderwales]

Here's a legal PSA:

If you've committed a crime and a detective gathers everyone involved in the room, especially if he's not actually a detective and is instead a novelist, puzzle-setter, psychic, fake psychic, dog, chess grandmaster, etc. ...

YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS.

Every year, hundreds of people are put away by non-traditional "detectives" who have either inserted themselves into the case or are working with the police in a dubiously legal capacity as advisor. In 99% of these cases, the murderer gives a full confession even though the evidence against them is circumstantial at best and often requires a long just-so story which can only guess at motive.

If this happens to you, stay quiet, do not attempt to defend yourself or talk your way out of it, only say "I want a lawyer".

Now if you find yourself being investigated by a boy genius, magician's assistant, anthropologist, classics scholar, or philosopher, it's likely that refusing to talk to the police (or investigator with no legal authority) is merely the end of the second act, and by the end of the third act they will have you dead to rights.

YOU SHOULD STILL NOT CONFESS.

Make them take it to court. Force the eccentric detective and his straight-laced police partner to take the stand and explain their methods to a jury of your peers. Have your lawyer look at the chain of custody on the evidence, especially if you believe it to have been handled by someone who has only bumbled into detective work through their natural charm and/or unique set of skills and outsider perspective that come in handy more often than they should.

Know your rights. Don't let eccentric detectives put you away.

[stancypilled]

Steve and Nancy had the potential to become one of the most beautiful love stories ever written on television, and I genuinely think Stranger Things wasted that.

What made them special was never that they were perfect in season 1. They weren’t. They were messy, immature, and both made mistakes. Their breakup made sense. That’s exactly why their story felt real.

But the thing is: even after everything, the feelings never truly disappeared.

Season 2 separated them. Season 3 barely gave them scenes together, yet even in those small moments, you could still feel that Steve would do absolutely anything for Nancy — he literally risked his life to save hers. And then season 4 happened — the season that reminded everyone just how much chemistry they still had. Steve admitting that he never stopped loving her changed everything for me.

I know Nancy and Jonathan cared about each other, but their relationship always felt more like a safe place built around shared trauma than a lasting love story. It made sense for that point in their lives, but deep down, Steve and Nancy always felt unfinished.

And honestly I don’t think Nancy ever truly stopped loving Steve either. I think she buried those feelings after Barb’s death because loving Steve became tied to guilt and pain. But season 4 made it so obvious that something between them was still there after all those years.

That’s why it hurts so much that season 5 never followed through on the buildup. The Duffer Brothers created something incredibly powerful between them again, only to abandon it completely. Steve and Nancy could have had such a beautiful full-circle story, two people who grew up, changed, made mistakes, and still found their way back to each other.

And no, Nancy ending up with Steve would not have made her “less independent” in my opinion. Choosing love does not erase a strong woman’s individuality. If anything, it would have been Nancy finally accepting what her heart had been trying to tell her all along.

I’ll never stop believing that Steve and Nancy were meant for each other and never forgive the Duffer Brothers to be honest and I don’t care how many people hate on this ship, I’ll go down with it lmao

[wolfgangleblanc]

"The ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude…"

ANDOR ended a year ago and I still think about Luthen & Kleya at least once a day. New piece in remembrance of the characters that I ended up loving the most ✨ EDIT: Piece available as art prints & posters here

[stancyslawyer]

Stancy is the couple that kissed the most on Stranger Things btw

[avengers-rule103]

“i’m supposed to buy robin and eddie wanting steve and nancy to get back together?” yes, just like us stancies were forced to buy jon and nancy getting together after murray pushed them in season 2. the difference is murray knew them for what? a day and a half? and made way more assumptions about both of their lives than either robin or eddie ever did. eddie admitted to not knowing why steve and nancy broke up, robin could see that nancy was clearly unhappy in her relationship with jonathan and saw her eyeing steve on multiple occasions and the smile on her face when she did so. the difference is that murray pitted jon and nancy’s insecurities against each other, two young impressionable teenagers who he knew how to prod to get to do what he wanted. eddie and robin just wanted to see their friends happy again. 🤷‍♀️ love shouldn’t make you miserable.

[baneismydragon]

Did I just finish a complete outline for a fanfic... before having multiple chapters of it posted????

Is this how smart writers do things?????

(Now I just need to get back to finishing the already mostly done WIPS that I already posted so that I can start posting the new story lol)

[baneismydragon]

I don't know what it is about my taste in shipping, but somehow despite being an active multi-shipper and being pretty well rounded (in admittedly my own personal opinion) Somehow I seem to end up gravitating the MOST to ships that either A. Get criticized for being too basic and that somehow becomes treated as problematic (IE the main canon ship in a show that clearly is written around that ship so I feel like that is just the storytellers doing their job just saying) or B. are the Ship that ALMOST happened but was unrequited in canon and (And here is the weirdly specific part) that despite having canon origins the toxic parts of fandom will RIP YOU TO SHREDS FOR DARING TO THINK IT COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN even though it like... is clearly intended as a possible option and like yes its not endgame and thats ok but its also not a crime to like alternate ships geeze calm down. (Especially when many of the popular ships in the fandom as also not canon... seriously why can't people learn to chill???)

[baneismydragon]

I promise I am still working on my fanfics, life has just been kicking me in the teeth lately so I am a little behind schedule.

[bizarrelittlemew]

Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

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Third kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/52bggQH/third-kudos.png" alt="third kudos">

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yet another kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/wKtcj0s/yet-another-kudos.png" alt="yet another kudos">

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

[bizarrelittlemew]

So happy to see people enjoying these and spreading the love 💖

UPDATE with some suggestions from the replies! And bonus: cookie kudos.

HTML codes under the cut.

ALL the kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/KsndWzq/all-the-kudos.png" alt="all the kudos">

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[gingersnapwolves]

let me tell you, I got a ‘kisses your forehead’ kudos and it absolutely made my day

[wheelerharrington]

he's actually grown up quite a bit, you know? // nancy's different. she's different than the other girls.

[baneismydragon]

I need to learn how to just write one story at a time, I say as I look at my 5 open WIP tabs and jot down notes on 2 more story ideas that just came to me in the shower.

[baneismydragon]

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler, Steve Harrington & The Party, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson Characters: Steve Harrington, Nancy Wheeler, Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Billy Hargrove, Lucas Sinclair, Erica Sinclair, Robin Buckley, Jim "Chief" Hopper, Dustin Henderson Additional Tags: Multiple Pov, steve harrington centric, Stancy Endgame, the Party's perspective on Steve's love life, Each chapter is from a different characters perspective, some strong language, Other canon ships mentioned but not tagged because they are not the focused, Billy being Billy in chapter 2 if you need to skip that one, Characters will be added to the tags as their chapters are released so if you are looking for them you can find them, Missing Moments Summary:

Sometimes there are moments when you see something that alters your perspective- where everything becomes clear. Sometimes the moments are grand, sometimes they are barely a flicker in the corner of your eye. But when these moments happen you always know that the world is just a little bit changed.

This story follows the moments when the various members of the Party realize that Steve Harrington is truly and irrevocably in love with Nancy Wheeler.

(This is really an anthology of short stories and drabbles all set with the same theme. Each chapter is from a different characters POV and set at a different point in the timeline.)

[tmblrisstillshit]

ANDOR (2022-2025)

[frenchublog]