Dust_and_Shadows
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Hawkins is healing — slowly, awkwardly, and not without scars.
Post–Season 5. Pre-Season 5 epilogueAs Hawkins settles into an uneasy quiet, Nancy Wheeler finds herself drawn toward the one person who sees her without asking her to be brave: Robin Buckley. Between family dinners, late-night confessions, and friend parties that change everything, the lines between friendship and something more begin to blur.
A SLOW-burn story involving mutual pining, emotional honesty, and two girls learning how to want each other without losing themselves. This is a story ultimately about falling in love accidentally, choosing each other deliberately, and learning that strength doesn’t disappear when you let yourself be soft.
Bookmarked by Beezenees33 (Dust_and_Shadows)
11 Feb 2026
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"Are you actively trying to kill yourself?"
"No. I mean, not actively."
In exchange for everyone's freedom, Nancy makes a deal with the devil.
Bookmarked by Beezenees33 (Dust_and_Shadows)
01 Feb 2026
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“I can’t believe how quickly summer went by,” She regarded, leaning on her car as it reflected the warm light of the setting sun.
“I can’t either. God, I’m not sure when we’ll all be able to see each other again,” The other woman’s voice was reflective. She spoke in a tone nearing melancholy.
“Hopefully soon… Promise to call when you get back out to Boston?”
“I promise. Will you call back?”
“Of course.”
Robin Buckley and Nancy Wheeler’s friendship blossoms over the span of many phone calls. How many times may the telephone ring before their blooming romance is finally sanctioned?
post - epilogue ♡
Bookmarked by Beezenees33 (Dust_and_Shadows)
01 Feb 2026
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Something's Going On With Robin... by HerSweetMockingMouth
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
14 Feb 2026
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Nancy can't seem to stop watching Robin — the way she talks, the way she moves, the way she loves the people around her. And, more and more, how sad she is too. Nancy can't figure out why she cares so damn much about understanding this girl —or about seeing her happy— but Nancy has never been one to abandon a case when it's difficult.
Robin knows she's not supposed to think this way. That you're supposed to love yourself and rah-rah-rah, and she does. So much of her life is beautiful, she knows that. But Hawkins, for all its eldritch horrors, has a way of making her feel likes she’s the one they’d call a monster. And honestly… something feels like it's about to break.
AKA: Robin deals with being gay in the 80s, and Nancy proves that being a hero means more than killing monsters.
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(Featuring watchful eyes, losing hope, a touching moment, surprise support, an Indianapolis gay club, a summer heat wave in more ways than one, a flash through of season five, and the culmination of a life-changing love)
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Bookmarked by Beezenees33 (Dust_and_Shadows)
31 Jan 2026
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Nancy Wheeler was prepared for the world to end. And then it didn’t.
In the aftermath, she tries to figure out who she is beneath all the anger, fear, and pain. Somehow, all roads lead back to Robin Buckley.
Or: A multi-year saga, spanning from the finale to the epilogue and beyond, wherein Nancy and Robin fall in love.
Bookmarked by Beezenees33 (Dust_and_Shadows)
29 Jan 2026