The Heartstopper webcomic’s first update dropped on September 1st 2016. Today, on April 11th 2026, the story has concluded.
I don’t quite know how to put all of my feelings into one letter. Heartstopper means more to me than words can express, but I’ll try my best.
Heartstopper has defined the past decade of my life. It started as a fun side project and quickly grew into something much bigger, eventually becoming my career. Despite that huge and unexpected change, making the Heartstopper comic feels the same to me as it did on day one. When I sit down to make Heartstopper, I feel at peace. When the world feels so scary and difficult, I have been able to return to Heartstopper, and everything feels okay again for a little while.
Nick and Charlie first appeared as supporting characters in my first novel, ‘Solitaire’. In Solitaire, Nick and Charlie represent the idea that hope, love, joy and connection can persist and thrive despite the trials and tribulations of being alive. So maybe it’s ironic that Nick and Charlie have come to represent this in my own life. They have brought me joy. They have given me purpose. They have given me everything, really. And I’m so grateful for every moment I have spent with them.
Heartstopper is profoundly special to me. Which makes it extremely hard to say goodbye.
But it is time. I always knew that Nick going to university would be the end point of the story. And despite how sad I am to be bidding farewell to these characters, I am so, so proud and excited to have made it to the end and concluded the story exactly the way I wanted to.
Any webcomic creator can tell you that making a webcomic requires a heavy amount of determination and endurance. To draw a page almost every day for the past ten years has required a lot of sacrifice and a lot of energy. But every moment was worth it. And now that it is complete, Nick and Charlie’s story can be experienced from beginning to end, for the rest of forever.
I wouldn’t have made it here alone. From the very start, Heartstopper’s readers have offered so much support, love, community, conversation, and enthusiasm. Knowing that there are people out there who love these characters just like I do has given me the strength to keep going. I’ve also had the support of many colleagues, friends, and family members, who’ve all helped in different ways at various points in the past decade. Thank you so, so much to everyone who has been here for the journey.
I have no idea what I’ll make next. For now, I’m taking a break. And I know that Nick and Charlie won’t simply vanish. I expect I will always return to drawing them and writing about them, probably in smaller ways, for the rest of my life, as long as my body allows.
Nick and Charlie will forever be in my heart, hand in hand on a beach somewhere.
Nick has been having a hard time lately accepting compliments and believing he's deserving of the same love and care he gives to others. Charlie needs his boyfriend to see how wonderful he truly is.
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by rugby1diot (Stylespaynesme)
They had been cuddled up in bed, giggling between whispered confessions and childhood stories. One of the best parts of being queer, in Charlie's opinion, is comparing shared experiences with other queer people, and that night had been full of them. They talked about media and how Nick's favorite superheroes just happened to be the ones in the most scandalous costumes. How maybe, just maybe, Nick had ulterior motives when asking to watch MMA fights with his brother.
Then Charlie had brought up the YouTubers he used to obsess over and how slowly but surely every one of them had come out as gay.
"Oh my God, do you remember the Chapstick Challenge?" he had asked, dissolving into giggles. "I used to literally look up 'Chapstick Challenge gay.'"
Nick had snorted. "I do remember that." Then, after a beat, he'd added, "It actually sounds kinda fun."
or, Nick surprises Charlie with a variety pack of flavored chapsticks, things quickly get heated.
Words: 5275, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper)
Relationships: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring, Nicholas "Nick" Nelson & Charles "Charlie" Spring
Additional Tags: outdated YouTube challenges, Boys Kissing, Making Out, Teasing, Foreplay, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering
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by rugby1diot (Stylespaynesme)
After a 3 month stay in a psychiatric hospital, 18 year old Charlie Spring is sent by his parents to work at Nelson Farms in hopes to toughen him up. He arrives at the farm feeling bitter and rejected, but his outlook shifts when he reconnects with Nick, the farm owners son. What begins as a forced exile might just turn into a season of growth, healing, and the possibility of love.
Words: 2818, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper), Sarah Nelson, David Nelson (Heartstopper), Tara Jones, Darcy Olsson, Imogen Heaney, Elle Argent, Tao Xu (Heartstopper), Isaac Henderson (Heartstopper), Victoria "Tori" Spring, Julio Spring, Jane Spring
Relationships: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring
Additional Tags: split POV, boys falling in love on a farm, charlies parents are homophobic, Sarah Is The Best, slow burn kinda, Eventual Smut
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read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/YCh01Zg
by rugby1diot (Stylespaynesme)
After a 3 month stay in a psychiatric hospital, 18 year old Charlie Spring is sent by his parents to work at Nelson Farms in hopes to toughen him up. He arrives at the farm feeling bitter and rejected, but his outlook shifts when he reconnects with Nick, the farm owners son. What begins as a forced exile might just turn into a season of growth, healing, and the possibility of love.
Words: 2818, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper), Sarah Nelson, David Nelson (Heartstopper), Tara Jones, Darcy Olsson, Imogen Heaney, Elle Argent, Tao Xu (Heartstopper), Isaac Henderson (Heartstopper), Victoria "Tori" Spring, Julio Spring, Jane Spring
Relationships: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring
Additional Tags: split POV, boys falling in love on a farm, charlies parents are homophobic, Sarah Is The Best, slow burn kinda, Eventual Smut
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read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/OJQYsjE by rugby1diot (Stylespaynesme) "You know," Nick noses along Charlie's jaw, leaving fluttering kisses from ear to ear. I love our matching pajamas, but I'd love to take them off you right now." "Yeah, you too," Charlie replies, his hands already snaking under Nick's top and riding it up. A fluffy/smutty little 2k one shot for you
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"You know," Nick noses along Charlie's jaw, leaving fluttering kisses from ear to ear. I love our matching pajamas, but I'd love to take them off you right now."
"Yeah, you too," Charlie replies, his hands already snaking under Nick's top and riding it up. He raises his arms, allowing Charlie to remove it, adding it to the discarded collection of gifts and boxes on the floor.
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