#jancy4life

[gloomstevie]

nancy wheeler sawing off a shotgun will always be famous

this scene is why i will never see her as steve's "perfect" mom, she's more likely to be the cool aunt that shows up out of the blue and teaches his kids how to do illegal shit...

[jaegerisim]

I am going to go controversial here. Stancy is a horrible ship even worse than mlvn.

Steve and Nancy have nothing in common. Nancy is an independent woman who wants a career, not a family. Meanwhile, Steve wants a nuclear middle-class family which she has explicitly said she'd hate to have. I am not saying it's not ok for Steve to want that, but it def isn't what would make Nance happy.

Second of all, the only thing that's real abt Stancy is their physical attraction. That is objective. It is in the script. It explicitly says that when Steve does a perfect landing, Nancy finds it hot and it's ok to find ppl hot while you are dating someone but not to lead them on, which is to one extent what Nancy does with Steve. (I'm not slandering her, I love her just as much as the next Nancy stan but it is not ok to do that)

Meaning, the Duffers mishandled Nance's character this season regarding relationships. Badly but not unrealistic. I hate how they made Nancy lead on Steve or at least flirt with him when his feelings are not shared. We know Jancy is the endgame, we know bc the ending of the season foreshadowed it. Yet, her character is extremely realistic for me and that's why I love her sm. She was a teenager when her BFF disappeared while she was having sex with Steve (another reason why they can't work, Nance associates Steve with Barb's disappearance. Then she learns about her gruesome death in another dimension, she feels guilty and tries to avenge her. All of this happens and Jonathan is always there with her. Always. He doesn't leave her side. Jonathan and Nance have shared trauma, while Steve and Nancy don't even have that. While Nancy was with Jonathan, Steve was with The Party. They each find their own people. In this situation, it is normal for Nancy to be confused over her feelings as her character arc focuses on her growth and maturity as a woman handling romance and trauma.

Furthermore in S3 Steve says she likes Robin bc she isn't like Nancy. He got over her and thinks that he needs someone different from her. In the pitch, Robin would be Steve's girlfriend, yet in the end, she was his platonic soulmate. This was something I particularly loved bc this shows that Steve's character arc is not about romantic love but for platonic and brotherly love he finds in Dustin and Robin.

Now, about Jonathan's character arc. This character is unjustly hated, IMO. He is super underrated and deserves more appreciation. I love Steve but Jonathan is personally a better character. Jonathan comes from years of abuse and neglect having to take care of his younger brother who gets atrociously bullied and abused at school and home. He is forced to drop out and work full time taking extra shifts at work in order for them to scrape by. This means he has the same or more trauma than Steve. Jonathan had to go alone to buy a coffin for his presumed dead brother and grieve for him alone while having to deal with his supposedly delirious mother and abusive father. All of this at the age of 14-15.

Due to the lack of social interaction, we know Jonathan has, he has trouble comprehending Nancy as he sees her as this rich, pampered priss. She isn't and he learns this. He and she let go of their prejudice towards each other to reach a common goal, find their loved one.

Stancys claim Jonathan neglected Nancy when she was being mistreated at work during S3. In this situation, both were in the wrong. Nancy was being a bit selfish bc she wasn't taking into consideration the fact that if Jonathan lost the job, his family would have severe economical problems since they need money desperately. Jonathan showed very little empathy towards Nancy's struggle with misogyny but Steve wasn't even present here so what support did he show? Plus it is canon Steve allowed and even encouraged his friends to slut shame Nancy. Even when Jonathan lies to Nancy about going to college, this isn't such a big issue as having a bf who allows you to be publicly humiliated. Yes, Jonathan did take photos of Nancy without her consent but she forgives him.

So in conclusion, Nancy and Steve will never be endgame because of their lack of romantic chemistry and dare I say, they don't have chemistry at all except this last season which seems pretty forced by the narrative to me!

[jancythinker]

jancy kisses are my life i love them so much

[pctterscars]

jonathan byers & nancy wheeler, stranger things

as the world caves in — matt maltese

[foreverautumn89]

Stonathan is like Jimmy/Bo from 'Cursed'

Watched Cursed [the one with Christina Ricci] again for what must be the millionth time for Halloween and every time I re-watch it after watching ST, Jimmy and Bo remind me of Stonathan together so bad. I just wanted to point out the parellels between these two ships. If you never watched Cursed, then be warned because there are heavy SPOILERS in this:

-Steve/Bo are both the rich, popular, douche bag types

-Jonathan/Jimmy both like the girl the douchebag popular guy is going out with: Nancy/Brooke

-Steve/Bo bully Jonathan/Jimmy

-Steve/Bo both touch Jonathan/Jimmy unnecessarily and play with their collar

-Steve/Bo both call Jonathan/Jimmy homophobic slurs and swear up and down that they are gay, when really they are the ones that are gay.

-Steve/Bo are both overly jealous when they see Jonathan/Jimmy talking to Nancy/Brooke [and later find out its not because they were jealous someone was talking to their girl, but the guy they had this weird unexplained emotional attachment to was flirting with their girlfriend/beard because both deny their sexuality].

-Steve/Bo both think that bullying someone is flirting with them

-Steve/Bo constantly pop up whenever Jonathan/Jimmy shows up and practically run over to them excitedly so they can talk to them and get all their attention on them.

-Steve/Bo both create a scheme so they can have a reason to get on top of Jonathan/Jimmy [The fist fight/the wrestling match]

-Steve/Bo both get their asses kicked during the fight

-Steve/Bo both show up to Jonathan's/Jimmy's place to 'apologize'...if that's what you can call that.

-Both refuse to leave even though they were told to and both times Jonathan/Jimmy only told them to leave to protect them/deal with the monster mess they were currently in the middle of.

-Steve/Bo get caught up in the middle of a fight with the monster trying to attack Jonathan/Jimmy and that is how they enter and become a part of Jonathan's/Jimmy's world

-They both go along with Jonathan/Jimmy into their battle with monsters and help them... really no questions asked.

-Steve/Bo helps and protects Jonathan/Jimmy and is by their side for the rest of the battle [well until Bo gets hurt, Steve didn't get hurt by the demogorgon].

-Steve/Bo both put their feelings aside for Jonathan's/Jimmy's happiness

-Steve/Bo are the ones that get Jonathan/Jimmy together with Nancy/Brooke.

Bo tells Brooke what happened and where Jimmy lived and was honest with her and came out to her as gay. He told her all this to help Jimmy because he cared about him/knew Jimmy wasn't gay now and just wanted him to be happy, so he paired Jimmy and Brooke together, since he couldn't have him, even though it was hard to see his now ex gf make out with the guy he had a thing for.

Same story as Steve, Nancy, and Jonathan except Steve didn't come out yet and we don't know where he finally admitted to himself he had a thing for Jonathan but I always assumed it was the end of S1. Anyway, Steve told Nancy she should go with Jonathan at the end of S2 and told her it was ok/that she should be there for Jonathan.

He paired them together when he like Bo, realized he had no real future with either one of them and he didn't have to go out of his way to get them together so Jonathan/Jimmy could be happy, but they did it anyway because they just wanted to make up for what they did and wanted to see Jonathan/Jimmy happy and knew Nancy/Brooke could give the boys what they couldn't and it showed they finally matured and cared more about Jonathan's/Jimmy's happiness than their own.

I seriously think the ST writers just stole this relationship from Cursed and put it into ST, except Cursed did it right at first by not having Brooke there during the battle [like how Nancy totally COCK BLOCKED STEVE]. Cause I guarantee you that if Nancy hadn't been there, Steve would have kissed Jonathan that night. Come there to apologize? More like 'came there to have make up sex'....

But I really wish Bo and Jimmy would have gotten together at the end though, although Bo giving up his happiness for Jimmy's and having amazing character development was just as good. I can work with that. Jimmy can always explore his sexuality in fanfiction after the events of the movie takes place.

[blu3888]

GUYS MEGAN THEE STALLION IS A STANCY STAN😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 MEGAAAAANNNNN

[bylerjancytruther]

Stancy feels like some high school relationship while Jancy feels like something far deeper. Getting Stancy back together would ultimately undo any and all character development from both Steve and Nancy.

[gnarly-love]

And we all know who the main couple of season five is going to be.