nancy wheeler akgae

[reverie-de-la-rose]

Yes, the Doctor was still romantically in love with Rose Tyler right up until the end of NuWho and they always will be. If you don’t think this is the sort of love that survives time, distance, and seperation for the duration of both people’s existence. Then, I’m sorry, but you are wrong. ✨

[ngalitzine]

DOCTOR WHO | 1.13

[fitzsimmonsluv]

rose really had 9 on a leash and she didn't even know like bro was ready to drop everything give up on his duty just to see his girl safe and be w her 😭😭

[fitzsimmonsluv]

people still out there trying to convince everyone that jancy isn't true love lmfao. y'all forgetting that jancy soulamatism went so hard that their actors, stunt doubles AND voice actors fell in love. jancy is actually a beautiful ship for those with eyes to see anyone who denies that is just lying to themselves

[boy-who-never-grew-up]

Fanfiction readers don't understand the nuance of real life circunstances where you absolutely love and adore someone to death but you CANNOT find it in yourself to LIKE them

[fitzsimmonsluv]

except that wasn't really the case with them so 🤷‍♀️

[princesslupindelioncourt]

Nancy Wheeler and the Miswriting of Female Independence

Do the Duffer brothers even know what an independent woman is? That’s a genuine question after what they did to Nancy Wheeler in season 5, the final season of Stranger Things.

Nancy Wheeler is first introduced as Mike’s older sister and Hawkins High’s picture-perfect girl. Her personal conflict in season one is precisely about trying to fit in and conform socially to the point where she stops acting like herself, something that’s pointed out repeatedly throughout the season, especially by her best friend, Barb.

After Barb’s disappearance, Nancy teams up with Jonathan Byers, who is dealing with his own personal and family conflicts due to Will’s sudden disappearance, to search for answers and hunt monsters, a role that sci-fi media traditionally frames as masculine. Nancy constantly pushes against these gender paradigms, proving herself to be a capable leader and an effective fighter. She earns her agency not by severing emotional bonds, but by demanding to be taken seriously within them.

Their romantic relationship that begins in S2 works because it does not erase these realities, it acknowledges them. Nancy does not shrink Jonathan, and Jonathan does not cage Nancy. They meet as equals across difference: class, gender, temperament. They challenge each other without undermining each other. Love, in their case, is not a detour from growth, it is the environment in which growth becomes possible.

female boss x male wife lol

Nancy is no longer the delicate princess who needs protecting, she becomes Nancy MotherFucker Wheeler.

The relationship dynamics in seasons three and four are realistic and make sense for who they are as a couple. And yet, the Duffer brothers repeatedly frame Nancy as confused, subtly implying to the general audience that she might still be reconsidering her feelings for her ex-boyfriend, Steve Harrington.

In season five, she’s even more badass. She literally shuts Steve down. And then, out of nowhere, she and Jonathan break up to supposedly serve Nancy’s “independence arc.”

But she’s already independent!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nancy’s independence is flattened into solitude. Jonathan’s responsibility is punished rather than transformed. The complexity of their bond, one that held space for ambition and care, is reduced to a false binary.

Do the Duffer brothers know that women can be independent and have a boyfriend who loves them, respects them, and treats them as an equal, despite differences in gender and class? Have they ever actually talked to a woman in their lives? (Their mum doesn't count.)

Because nothing about this choice reflects independence. It reflects a shallow, outdated idea of feminism, and a fundamental misunderstanding of their own character.

In doing so, the series abandons its own thematic foundations. Stranger Things once understood that love was not a distraction from survival, but its engine. That partnership could exist without hierarchy. That a woman could be formidable without being alone. That a boy shaped by sacrifice deserved rest, not narrative abandonment.

By the final season, none of that remains.

Nancy is not made more independent by losing Jonathan. Jonathan is not made freer by losing Nancy.

They are simply stripped of the relationship that once allowed both characters to be fully seen.

And that isn’t realism. Just bad writing.

[fitzsimmonsluv]

we got one of the most romantic and the buzziest "breakup" scene. we got an unproposal scene. we got a "10 things I hate about you" type of scene. we got a "breakup" ending up with them telling they love each other scene. we got a spinning hug right after the "breakup" scene.

jancys we still won so bad and mark my words they WILL find their way back to each other because they will always be connected

oh and ps we got one of the best shots this season

[nancysthinker]

I think the bald brothers forgot to tell them that they’re broken up

[kalirya]

"Nancy Wheeler, will you not marry me" is one of the most romantic fucking ways he couldve done this oh my god, Jonathan Byers I fucking love you

also love and honesty saving their lives GOD im sobbing i adore them so much

[fitzsimmonsluv]

people still out there trying to convince everyone that jancy isn't true love lmfao. y'all forgetting that jancy soulamatism went so hard that their actors, stunt doubles AND voice actors fell in love. jancy is actually a beautiful ship for those with eyes to see anyone who denies that is just lying to themselves

[thinkermerwaine]

[fitzsimmonsluv]

#those stans love taking the canon storylines for jonathan and give it to fanon steve like saying he has a neglected home life? a shitty dad? mom who doesn't pay attention? bitch PLEASE that's jonathan byers like you wanna shit in him but steal his backstory like atleast come up with something original? 😭😭

[twin-scars]

Jonathan to Steve:

[anya-chalotra]

"I haven't had scenes with Joe since, like, the first season. So to go back and get to work with Joe is such a treat." — Charlie Heaton

STRANGER THINGS 5 BTS: 5.01 The Crawl

[fitzsimmonsluv]

Like you can't expect me to take the jonathan and steve beef seriously when this is the shit happening behind the scenes 😭

[sobadbad]

Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler STRANGER THINGS 5 vol.1

[share-the-damn-bed]

—are you okay?

[lunar-years]

Steve’s face after Jonathan called him out l was especially funny because I don’t think that man knows what chauvinistic means. I’m not even saying that to be mean, it was just funny. He was just like 😦

[share-the-damn-bed]

forever.

[sparrows-stuff-here]

I laughed at this for way too long.