Galaxibabe
Fandoms
- Hey Arnold! (1)
Recent works
-
Tags
Summary
Years later, they cross paths again, not as kids, but as adults carrying the weight of responsibility, grief, and lives that never quite turned out the way they imagined. Arnold is still the caretaker he’s always been. Helga is still sharp, guarded, and fiercely loyal, but both are worn down in ways they never learned how to name. Set in a quiet, aging boarding house that feels frozen in time, the story follows the slow rebuilding of connection: between two people who once meant everything to each other, and within a home that has forgotten what it feels like to be lived in. Small moments, shared routines, unexpected laughter, stubborn acts of care begin to soften old wounds.
This is a story about found family, quiet healing, and love that doesn’t arrive all at once, but grows in the everyday: in showing up, in staying, and in learning how to let someone else carry the weight with you.
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
The Packard breaks down while Arnold is returning home from visiting his cousin. His beleaguered wife Helga attempts to find him, only to find he's been waiting for a tow truck with an...unconventional audience.
Series
- Part 8 of Shortaki Silliness
Bookmarked by Galaxibabe
12 May 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Helga wakes up 15 years in the future next to a man who looks suspiciously like Arnold.
Bookmarked by Galaxibabe
29 Apr 2026
-
Tags
Summary
When Arnold is transferred to his high school’s Advanced English class, the last person he expected to see was Helga. As the only two in the class from their P.S.118 gang, she makes him swear not to tell anybody. Arnold always knew there was more to Helga than there seemed, but after he begins to hear her writing, he asks himself, Could he like the real Helga G. Pataki?
Bookmarked by Galaxibabe
29 Apr 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Arnold sounds a bit out of breath, like he'd scrambled to the other end of his apartment to answer her call.
Which would have be cute—adorable even—had Helga not done this over a dozen times over a dozen years, and if she believed in it, a dozen lifetimes.
-- In which Helga makes an important phone call, in Alaska, wondering why the hell she's there in the first place.
Bookmarked by Galaxibabe
29 Apr 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Arnold moves to be with his parents just as their 8th grade year ends. Helga continues to live her life promising she would write him back, only she can't find it in herself to send a single letter. As the unsent letters built up Arnold loses hope for a response and stops sending them. Helga doesn't take his absence well.
Bookmarked by Galaxibabe
03 Apr 2026