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My name is Ari (she/her). 30s, but like the youngest of 30s. Extremely novice fiction contributor. AO3: Conspicuously_Gay

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[robincityofsilver]

While you guys were watching that dogshit finale for Stranger Things I was watching the Nancy Wheeler show and it was amazing.

Unironically the best written character in the entire show with the most complete, full circle arc, consistent character development, driving the story forward every. single. season. She was never a bystander, never along for the ride, never lost momentum. She is driven and passionate and The Eldest Daughter. She was the FIRST to willingly enter the upside down in pursuit of the creature that took her best friend from her. She was brutally punished for being a young woman trying to find herself and never stopped feeling the weight of that one night she decided to let loose and be a teenager, blaming herself for years that it inadvertently lead to the death of her best friend. She was punished AGAIN for trying so hard to keep her family safe, her parents being attacked in their home and her sister taken by that same monster.

Nancy sacrificed so much for her family and friends, picked up a gun in season one and didn't put them down the rest of the show. She killed the monsters. She drove the story. She saved her baby sister in the end where she couldn't save Barb.

Nancy Walk Em Down Wheeler. I love you so much.

And to Natalia Dyer, Nancy wouldn't be the character she is without her outstanding acting and performance. We know she advocated hard for Nancy to get the ending she deserved and that felt right (or as close to as possible) stood up for her and helped make her the unforgettable final girl that she is.

With everything else that went horribly wrong, I am so, so happy that Nancy finally got to leave Hawkins and didn't get trapped behind that white picket fence.

She doesn't miss, so get the fuck out of her way.

[conspicuouslygay]

**S5 Spoiler**

Okay. So. Nancy Wheeler is canonically extremely capable and very good at homicide.

Egg on my face for saying it was just a theoretical possibility.

Hopper was like "Nice shootin' Tex."

And Nancy was like--

[conspicuouslygay]

I doubt you could botch jealous nancy cause you legit write her in one of the most attractive ways I've ever read her but also: it's nancy so it has to be spicy AND violent, and also: bonus points if they're not together yet and nancy is on the verge of killing someone out of jealousy lol

The more I workshop this idea, the more violent Nancy becomes in my head.

Which might be a me problem 😂

But canonically speaking, we all know these two are pretty okay with committing crimes. Nancy’s ethics system is very outcome-based, not law-based, so like… would she theoretically commit homicide due to jealousy?

Yeah 100%. Probably!

That said, she is absolutely devastating with her words when she wants to be, so I’m trying to remember she doesn’t always need physical violence to destroy someone.

HOWEVER, if she’s pining after Robin and something is actively in her way???

…yeah, someone’s probably dying.

RIP Vickie.

I’m KIDDING... 😏

[conspicuouslygay]

just cause I think that she would be crazy attractive in your writing: any plans to ever write jealous nancy?

I somehow missed this from five WHOLE days ago?? I'm so sorry.

What a compliment! But also, I can see myself botching jealous Nancy.

Like where does jealous Nancy draw the line? Because she might actually kill for Robin.

Like, no warning, she sees Vickie flirting with Robin and pushes Vickie down a flight of stairs.

I guess she could also *ahem* take it out on Robin in some possessive way.

But also, I think she'd be quick to just shank a girl in passing.

🤨

You know what, I don't need to start another fic, but also, it looks like I need to start another fic.

[utterfailure]

Nancy Wheeler's Flexed Arm 🤯 Stranger Things S05E03 - The Turnbow Trap

[conspicuouslygay]

Not doing a handwritten title card makes this look deceivingly professional lol.

I've had a lot of darkness surrounding my life, so this is my attempt at counteracting it with something silly and light. I hope this brings a little light to anyone else who needs it too. <3

[dufrau]

Marble

[conspicuouslygay]

So we may or may not coax you into writing with food…Mmmm 🤔🗒️✍️

It's so good to know that you're working on three two fics! And that they're very different from one another. Nancy 'Sexy Rambo' Wheeler sounds like a real menace for Robin's and our own sanity. Be gentle, I'm still recovering from The Bunker.

I'll keep patiently waiting for Nurse Robin evolution, not without pestering you a little in the meantime. 😉💜

Not gonna lie, I've been known to do some wildly disproportionate favors for a single slice of pizza.

It felt a bit silly calling Nancy "sexy Rambo" because... It's like I'm just saying her name twice, right?

Thats just Nancy, right??

Nancy "Blade slinger, gun wielder, girl kisser" Wheeler.

💜💜💜

[conspicuouslygay]

Good morning from your favorite rabbit

🐰

(Or maybe good evening is better? I don't know, anyway HELLOOOOO and what is this nurse Robin fic I haven’t yet read? 😭)

I can't really wait to read all of your fics, new or old (munching on carrots — but don't tell my mom, she has me on a diet)

I’m so excited about the best friends to lovers, especially because of the Nancy’s pov 🥺🥺

And I think I’m a little bit scared of the post-apocalyptic au, to be honest! I have a feeling it’s going to be a deadly mix of emotions that’ll stay with me for days, just like it happened with The Bunker.

Today I feel like giving you flowers 🌼🌸🌺🌷💐 so you have something pretty to look at

It's was like 3am where I live when I got this, so, both I think lol? Good morning and good night!

I took down the Nurse fic because it was wacky as hell.

I was very drunk while writing some of it (a lot of it), so it's a MESS.

There are a lot of prolific writers that were zooted out of their damn minds on drugs and alcohol while they worked, and I'm just... I'm not that guy. I don't understand how they did it.

The nurse fic is full of syntax issues, basic grammar issues, plot issues. EVERYTHING about it is wild.

So, I'm fixing it 😅.

Also, thank you for the flowers.

I feel like no rabbit should ever be on a diet?? That seems tragic. Here are one thousand carrots and... I don't really know what rabbits eat otherwise.

🥕🍝🍔🍤

[conspicuouslygay]

this is my little rabbit (again) knocking on your door for progress giving you a hug and a cookie. 

🐰🍪 ❤️

Listen here, rabbit. I'm not gonna cave and reveal my secrets just because you bring me treats and a warm hug and okay, yeah, I'm currently working on two fics.

One is a Ronance best friends to lovers AU. It's a Nancy POV, which I am nervous about because I've never really tried that before.

It's basically a series of vignettes where Nancy realizes she's been falling in love with Robin since they met on the playground. It's very soft. But also (inevitably) a little spicy.

The other is a post-apocalyptic AU. Enemies to lovers. This one has gone WAY off the rails, and definitely not complete.

This one is more canon, but in this story, Robin never joined the gang in season 3.

She got swept up by the military evacuations and shipped off to a survival encampment when the "earthquakes" happened.

She breaks out to make her way back to Hawkins, to find her parents, having no earthly idea the upside down or the monsters roaming about even exist.

Who does she run into along the way?

The one and only Sexy Rambo Nancy Wheeler, of course.

They are very different stories. One is soft and warm (not unlike you, rabbit). And the other is FIRE AND HATE AND PAIN AND LOVE AND AHH.

So, I'm having a hard time deciding what I'm more into at the moment to complete lol.

Oh, and I'm also reworking an old fic. Nurse Robin.

[conspicuouslygay]

Catching up on this season of Bake Off and they just did a little gag with a folded paper fortune teller thingie which reminded me of my second grade teacher getting called a slut which now somehow reminds me of you 😂🍻

Ah yes. Memory is a living, breathing thing. Rippling out. Traveling from one heart to another. Binding us together in a gorgeous constellation.

I like to imagine, somewhere out there, every time this story resurfaces, your second grade teacher also remembers. And she basks in her legacy of being the beautiful slut she was called to be.

Also... lmao 😂 I love that story so fucking much. You should try to find it to reblog, spread the joy.

[conspicuouslygay]

I need more of your fics please

🐰.

Get!

Shoo, rabbit!

Get outta here!

(I'm working on it. Slowly. 🤠)

[conspicuouslygay]

I'm on a work trip and have a six-hour bus ride ahead of me to Córdoba. I figured this was the perfect time to re-read Nurse Robin, so I checked my bookmarks and… she's gone! Are you currently working on it? Maybe planning a "director's cut" of it? ☺️ Please, say yes and make this long, tedious trip a little bit better. It's a great fic and I love how you write them all! Have a great week! L.

Omg, I'm sorry I didn't see this 😭.

To answer your question:

I... Um.... I might be like... So, there's a giant possibility there's something like... may be in the works.

Listen, your timing is crazy because I JUST RECENTLY took it down. I thought I was being sneaky, but you caught me. You sussed it out immediately. What are you, some kind of NANCY WHEELER???

💜

[conspicuouslygay]

Look at this little gremlin. He wants to live in my skin.

[conspicuouslygay]

This morning I decided to re-read The Bunker while sitting in the parking lot outside my job like a degenerate with no impulse control and couldn't help but feel like you didn't get enough recognition for how good of a read it is. You took your finite time on this earth and decided to gift your fellow Ronance brainrot stragglers with a completed 3 chapter savory bombshell of a read one week after the next, so I'm going to spend mine telling you why I loved it and desperately want an extended cut of Chapter 3. You have an ability to make the reader be able to really get absorbed into the scene with the way you describe things. I could effortlessly envision the picture in my mind that you were painting. I love how well you incorporate humor and wit into internal dialogue and how much the characters felt like themselves. The way you write intimacy and tension is top tier, the build up is outstanding and the crops are watered. Everything flows perfectly from one beat to the next and the whole time I was biting my fist in anticipation. We are so on the same Freakquency when it comes to the means of Nancy's unraveling in the end. Immaculate. I'll gladly give my soul for an extended cut. The way you write them is sooo good. Also, you have an immaculate jawline. ;) (I can't be this girl cringe on main)

I am BLUSHING.

I'm going to find a way to print this out and attach it to everything I ever do. 

My resume. My loan applications. My doordash delivery instructions. My last will and testament.

You just made my whole fucking year 😭.

I can't believe how sweet you are.

I need to sit down. MY GOODNESS. 💜💜💜💜

[beaulesbian]

here's how ronance can still win