“I was raised a princess. I was not pampered. But people find it hard to see past the flocks of servants and assume everything was handed to me on a silver platter. Only another child of Yeshin’s would understand, I think, and they are all dead, cold bones under the ashes of Old Oren-yaro.”
— K.S. Villoso, The Wolf of Oren-Yaro
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don't go into the humanities because they're unprofitable and don't go into stem cuz its getting torn apart right now and don't go into buisness because it's competetive and speculative and don't go into education because it pays like shit. Just lay on thr ground. Just lay on the ground.
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.
Can't stop thinking about how much of a relief it must have been for Ilya to realise how insanely predictable Shane is. Like, he's lived his whole life with a mother who had horrible mental illness, a father who was unstable and always angry, a brother who couldn't even hold down a job. He's had to keep secrets and lie and read between the lines just to survive.
And here's Shane. Shane who folds his clothes before sex. Shane who will always be happy with a cold ginger beer. Shane who has a stylist and an interior decorator because he likes things to look objectively nice.
Shane who answers "How many times can you cum in an hour?" completely literally. Shane who has no filter and comments on the bed being dirty within 0.2 seconds of cumming all over it. Shane who comes out to Ilya the moment he figures it out himself, and who tells him point blank that it's not just sex, because he never ever expects Ilya to read his mind.
Their relationship is far from simple, but it's probably one of the most predictable things in Ilya's world. Shane is a safe harbour throughout the years, even while the hurricane around Ilya only gets more and more destructive.
Shane Hollander really is the guy of all time. he's gay. he's autistic. he's wasian. he's the best hockey player in the world. he married his 8 year situationship. he's a millionaire but only because his mom said so. he has beautiful freckles. he had sex with a man for 8 years but the possibility that he might be gay only crossed his mind when he called him by his first name for the first time. to convince himself he was straight he started dating a movie star. he came out as a bottom. he does yoga. his situationship offhandedly suggested getting married for citizenship and he immediately stayed up until 4 am scheming so that wouldn't happen. he's an olympic medalist. he has a dog. his wedding song was diamonds by rihanna. he likes ginger ale.
Links to just the memes without the commentary! If you want the full thing plus behind the memes thoughts check out the tag
So I genuinely never expected these silly little tweets to grow into what they have (very happy that people are loving them!) but as a result... they're not very organised! But people have been asking me to put them in some sort of order so they can be read together and while putting them all onto AO3 or something would probably be best, I'm not planning to stop making more so having to edit that would be a lot (unfortunately I am a slave to capitalism!) But hopefully this works!
FYI - I will only ever post to this account and my AO3 so if you see any similarities to other fics/accounts those are not related to my au! All the twt stan oc's are mine and not related to any real accounts!
Since most of the posts are collections of tweets, there isn't an easy chronological order, so I've decided to sort them into 4 groups - Before The Cottage (including events from Heated Rivalry the show and the book), After The Cottage (the time period in between HR and the epilogue of TLG), After The Long Game (anything post canon), and Anything Else (the posts that span too many years to fit into the other categories - listed in order of posting)
Profiles circa 2017
Bonus - Lily's account circa 2012
Before The Cottage
Part 5 - 2011 - 2013 - Hollanov vs Scott Hunter
Part 4 - Jan 2014 - Ilya vs Hayden
Part 23 - 2014 - 2017 - Lily (Ilya) and their favourite Shane things
Part 2 - March 2015 - Hayden exposes Shane
Part 3 - 2015 - 2017 - Ilya on twitter ft his secret account
Part 20 - 2015 - 2017 - more Ilya on twitter
Part 6 - Aug 2016 - Svetlana is so tired of her bsf
Part 9 - Mostly 2016/2017 - more of Ilya's secret stan account
Extra (From Part 11) - October 2016 - Jackie reaches out to Lily
Extra - July 2017 - jealous Lily makes a claim
After The Cottage
Part 14 - Mostly late 2017 - Lily vs hockey twt
Part 17 - October 2017 - Lily misses her bf
Extra - March 2019 - Lily vs Shaydens
Part 16 - Jan 2021 - Ilya stans on twitter
Extra - Hollanov's new twitter profiles (I know I spelt Ottawa wrong it was like 3am and if you bring it up I'll cry)
Part 10 - July 2021 - Lily post Hollanov wedding
After The Long Game
Part 8 - 2021 - 2022 - Hollanov husbands <3
Part 12 - 2021 - 2022 - Hollanov husbands <33
Part 22 - May 2021 - Shane vs gay culture
Bonus - Dec 2021 - Shane vs Shaydens
Part 7 - 2022 - Hollanov husbands <333
Bonus - 2022 - reading thirst tweets drabble
Part 21 - March 2022 - Ilya forgets to switch accounts
Part 13 - Oct 2022 - flower girls shenanigans (Ilya and Rose)
Extra - Sept 2023 - Lily's a DUDE???
Anything Else
Part 1 - the dump that started it all
Part 11 - Ilya/Lily being a menace
Part 15 - Ilya/Lily and the Pikes
Part 18 - Roselana edition
Part 19 - more Lily (ft my fave rare of Hudson)
Will try to update semi-regularly but please be patient with me!
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