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[naancypants]

them: i love [my favorite ND game] so much that i've played it 4 times!

me: this is my least favorite ND game. i've played it 12 and a half times.

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Succession | 1x05 "I Went to Market"

[maneskinss]

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Remember in season 1 how everyone (pointedly, Jnathan) was telling Nancy that she was "pretending"? And Jnathan really only started to take her seriously once they started working together and she was focused on something he deemed important? Even now, he seems to hold disdain for Nancy when she champions causes that don't align with his or acts outside of this image he has- his active respect for her is somewhat tied to his ability to view her as "not like other girls" in the moment, as if she somehow should be above certain things.

It makes me think of this fandom's obsession with "independent gun girl" Nancy. How people feel like it's regressive for her to be soft or romantic or to want/need support from a partner. As if her character is being trivialized when her story doesn't play out in a way that's in line with how they want her to be (alone and miserable in a room full of guns, apparently).

Like, idk man, I was just thinking about this in the context of canon and it hit me that Steve Harrington has liked EVERY version of Nancy. Every single one of them. The naive, "prissy", 16 y/o nerd. The girl who rebelled and went to parties. The one who was drowning in grief. The one who broke his heart. The one who wields guns and blows off monsters' heads with a molotov cocktail. The woman who will stop at nothing to pursue the truth. Who teases with jokes and has celebrity crushes and will bite your head off for saying the wrong thing. Who is headstrong and obstinate and driven and protective and loving and compassionate.

There is no part of her this boy doesn't love, and no conditions to that love.

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∟ stranger things 504 - sorcerer

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