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Nancy Wheeler has always treated love like a checklist: find the right boy, feel the right sparks, follow the steps, get the happily ever after.
Then Robin Buckley walks into her life, and suddenly nothing is what she expected.Or: Nancy unlearns compulsory heteronormativity...and some other things...
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16 Feb 2026
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Nancy grits her teeth. They’re wasting time. The blood on the kitchen floor's gonna start drying again. Nancy needs to keep going and Robin needs to stop looking at her like that. Like she doesn’t know what to do. Like she did at the hospital—like Nancy’s some ghost to stare at, some phantom.
“You want to help?” Nancy says, unwilling to become a spectre. “Go home.”
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In the aftermath of El's sacrifice, Holly can't sleep without Nancy, and Nancy can't sleep at all. Robin keeps coming over, keeps being there. It doesn't help. Until it does.
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07 Feb 2026
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Nancy Wheeler survived the apocalypse, got into her dream school, and moved to Boston to start her perfectly planned future. So why does she feel like she's wearing someone else's skin?
It starts small. With a new hairstyle. Then new clothes. And a trip or two to a local gay bar. But every comparison leads back to the same conclusion, the same variable she's been ignoring for months now:
It's always Robin.
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A pre-epilogue Nancy Wheeler character study about queer self-discovery, gender presentation, and falling in love with your best friend. (a.k.a How Nancy got her iconic look in the epilogue)Bookmarked by StillTryingToWrite
25 Jan 2026
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tell me something about yourself (i won't remember) by TotalForgiveness
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Apr 2024
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“Robin!” Nancy dropped the axe, it sliced the Demodog in two. “Robin, please tell me you remember.”
“Wh- what?” Robin mumbled, her head was splitting.
“Come on, Robin. The Demogorgon, the tire, the- the…” Nancy trailed off, the desperate look in her eye fading into disappointment. “Robin… I keep reliving my death.”
in which Nancy is stuck in a time loop that Robin cannot remember.
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24 Jan 2026
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Max hated being pitied, and therefore she operated under the assumption that everyone else hated it, too. Including Nancy Wheeler. To be perfectly honest, especially Nancy Wheeler, because there was a way she carried herself, picking herself back up after every horrifying ordeal and getting on with it, that made Max wonder if Nancy and herself weren’t so different.
aka Nancy gets Vecna’d scene but from Max’s POV bc they are sisters To Me
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24 Jan 2026
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hazy shade of winter (look around) by TotalForgiveness
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Sep 2022
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Despite his reluctance, Hopper knew the best thing for everyone was to keep their mouths shut and promise their silence to the government. He told himself that it wasn’t Martin Brenner, and while he didn’t know this new guy well, he at least wasn’t torturing children, so he had to be somewhat better.
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1983, as snow begins to settle on Hawkins and Christmas approaches, Hopper, Will, Mike, Joyce, Nancy, and Eleven all deal with the aftermath of Will's disappearance.
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24 Jan 2026
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And now, now, Karen could barely look at Nancy. Because lying in a hospital bed with jack shit to do led to thinking, thinking about how her daughter hadn’t even asked how Karen ended up on the kitchen floor covered in her own blood. How she had shown up with that girl whose missing posters were plastered all over town and demanded the girl follow Holly through that portal without even wondering what the hell it was. How she and Mike’s faces had fallen after seeing the name ‘Henry’. And how, out of the corner of her eye, Karen could’ve sworn Nancy had walked in holding a shotgun.
aka Karen and Nancy talk!
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24 Jan 2026
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When It’s Cold (I’d Like To Die) by NotesFromTheChamber
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Sep 2024
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She watched Mike as he finally levelled with her, both elbows on the table. There was no point in trying to distract him any further. She’d been increasingly all over the place in trying to hide how the aftermath was treating her over the last few weeks and in that moment she sensed the jig was finally up.
“Nance, I’m kind of worried about you.”
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Trauma’s a bitch and we all need a blanket
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24 Jan 2026
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Nancy was never one to look back.
Or. Nancy Wheeler has left Hawkins. She has a job, a house, a daughter. But she also has estranged parents and siblings, friends she has not seen in eight years, and--well, and then there's Robin. A two weeks vacation in Hawkins seems a decent enough solution to appease everyone, and to lift Nancy of the burden of family gatherings for at least eight more years. But then little Will Byers goes missing, and Nancy is, once again, trapped.
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24 Jan 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.
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24 Jan 2026
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like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird by Monstrous_Femme
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
18 Aug 2024
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In 1993, Nancy falls asleep on Barb's grave and wakes up in 1985. From there, she finds herself completely unstuck in time.
It's also a love story.
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24 Jan 2026
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A surprise affair by Inkera
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)
28 Jul 2025
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Natasha should've known that a "small matter" in Fury's eyes is usually code for a pretty big deal, and a "pretty big deal" means she'll be bleeding out by the end and left to limp back home.
Such an ordeal is worthy of the good alcohol Tony keeps hidden in the tower, so her plan was to snag that before licking her wounds in the comforting isolation of her room.
The last thing she expected to stumble across was a party.
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- Part 2 of Lessons in healing
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28 Jul 2025
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[UNDER EDITING]
It's been six years.
After leaving for an internship, Skye somehow finds her way back to May.
She wishes the reunion had been under a different circumstance.
One where May doesn’t stand for the very system Skye’s been fighting against.
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- Part 2 of Test of Time
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26 Jun 2025
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Scandal does funny things to pride, but brings lovers closer by well_well_well
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
11 Apr 2025
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‘We’re not together, Pepper.’ Maria says, cutting her off sharply.
Pepper blinks in shock. ‘You what-?!’
‘We never were. We aren’t.’ Maria says simply. ‘It was just sex.’
'From a public stand point, you are. So either you need to break their hearts or-‘ Pepper trails off and Maria’s eyebrows raise.
‘We fake it?’
‘We what?!’ Natasha looks between Maria and Pepper. ‘You’re joking.’Series
- Part 6 of BlackHill VI
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27 May 2025
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That Year at SHIELD Academy by lo5o
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)
12 Apr 2024
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Blackhill college AU. Maria and Natasha were cadets in SHIELD Academy. This is the story of how they met and tried very very hard to not fall in love (spoilers: they failed epically).
Cue: lots of angst and self-denial, bit of fluff, too much (or maybe too little) sex, a few heartbreaks, and hopefully some personal growth.
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- Part 1 of That Blackhill Series
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27 May 2025
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Maria had a busy life. Her job was at the center of it, with its abundant workload and odd hours. But at least it stopped her from dwelling on the past, from thinking about the present. It stopped her from confronting demons in the shape of a belt in some days, in the shape of dead friends in others.
Then one day, her daily routine was interrupted by a knock on her door. As Natasha sauntered into the room, her gaze seductive and her steps sensuous, Maria was reminded of another one of her demons. No matter how beautiful the woman, Maria wasn’t interested in sleeping with anyone. Some days, it still tormented her.
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- Part 1 of Ace Maria Hill (pun intended)
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20 Jan 2025
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An Affair of My Life with the Heroes and Villains (Just See What You've Done) by PocketMouse18
Fandoms: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Jul 2024
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In a world where crime pays and heroism is just another 9-to-5, professional villain Melinda May thinks she’s seen it all. But when she learns some surprising information about her nemesis, Quake, it sets in motion a chain of events that even Melinda couldn’t see coming.
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17 Jun 2024
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Sometime Around Midnight by grumkin_snark
Fandoms: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
17 Jun 2024
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They’re two of the most dangerous people in the world, but for now, all Daisy feels is safe.
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17 Jun 2024
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Erase/Rewind by casket4mytears for Anilcadz91
Fandoms: Veronica Mars (TV), Veronica Mars - All Media Types
04 Jan 2022
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“Lilly was the gravity. She held Neptune in its orbit. Without her, we’re adrift: stars colliding, moons misaligned…”
Two months after the discovery of Lilly Kane’s body, Neptune High continues to mourn their loss—and Veronica Mars is the lightning rod for their grief and rage. Lines have been drawn, chasms divide once close companions, and class tensions are on the rise.
On a December night, Veronica defies an unspoken rule, and it changes everything. As the guest of dishonour, she’s about to learn that time doesn’t heal all wounds—and it has an agenda all its own.
A pre-S1 AU loosely inspired by/crossed over with the TV series Russian Doll (no knowledge of the series required to follow this story).
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13 May 2024
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The Phenomenal Pixie, #1 by TheLastGoodGoldfish
Fandoms: Veronica Mars (TV), Veronica Mars - All Media Types
15 Apr 2016
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Veronica is a masked avenger who stalks the streets of Neptune. Logan is the intrepid reporter who's on the story.
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- Part 1 of The Phenomenal Pixie
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02 Apr 2024