8 Works by ItsNogz
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I, Myself, Am Strange And Unusual by ItsNogz
Fandoms: Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe, Heathers (1988), Beetlejuice - Perfect/Brown & King, Beetlejuice (Movies)
05 Apr 2026
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Jason and Lydia Dean move into a new town along with their shitty father, one of many towns they've been dragged to before: Sherwood, Ohio. Boring, half asleep, beyond predictable. But what happens when at the predictable Westerberg High Veronica Sawyer comes in and floods JD's life with sunlight? And maybe, in some roundabout way, Lydia's?
Basically a very random crossover AU where JD and Lydia are siblings, no one dies, Veronica isn't a sheep, and everybody's weird in the best way.
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And I Hate The Way I'm Perceived by ItsNogz
Fandoms: Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe, Heathers (1988)
07 Feb 2026
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“Well,” Duke starts, staring down at her empty tray, “can you do it?”
“Do what?”
“Name five songs?”
Veronica scoffs, offended. “Of course I can,” she states. She’s far from lying. “I love Radiohead.”
“Then did you do it?” McNamara asks. Veronica shakes her head like it’s obvious, and Mac frowns.
“Why?”
“Principle.”
Veronica knows her music taste isn't bad; that it isn't something to be ashamed of. So why does is bother her when some people, especially her boyfriend, tell her that it is?
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The title is technically from Brutal by Olivia Rodrigo. I know that doesn't look very obvious but I really wanted an Olivia lyric, so.... yeah.
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I Can't See The Forest Edge, For All The Goddamn Trees! by ItsNogz
Fandoms: Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe, Heathers (1988)
17 Jan 2026
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Veronica lacks two very important things: athletic skills, and the ability to say no to her boyfriend. So, she finds herself on a hiking date with JD, in which she loses steam, JD himself, and every bit of sanity in her body.
She hates nature.
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Or: I watched Barrett Wilbert Weed performing Lost and became obsessed and saw a very well-timed YouTube comment about this song totally being Veronica if JD didn't die, and here we are.
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Would've Been The Best Mistake, Should've Kissed You Anyway by ItsNogz
Fandoms: Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe, Heathers (1988)
29 Dec 2025
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A collection of Jdronica oneshots set in my Before They Convinced You Life Is War universe (I WROTE A UNIVERSE LET'S FUCKING GO).
Before anyone is confused by the tags: I added most of the tags that were in the original story, I will add more specific to these oneshot the more of them I write.
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- Part 2 of Before They Convinced You Life Is War
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And When I Felt Like I Was an Old Cardigan Under Someone's Bed, You Put Me On and Said I Was Your Favorite by ItsNogz
Fandoms: Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe, Heathers (1988)
19 Dec 2025
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She wasn’t sure what it was, that she was getting from the pile of clothes; it had a soft, knitted feel, but she was barely even looking at it. Until she felt something hard in the fabric, a kind of dried stain that she’d never taken off. Weird; before the whole… thing, she’d always made sure to take off stains. So, Veronica fully pulled the soft item from the pile and looked down at it. Then immediately dropped it, as if it was burning her fingers.
Because Veronica had pulled out a light blue cardigan.
With a bloodstain on its right sleeve.
It's Christmas Eve, but Veronica's deep in angry grieving for her ex-boyfriend who'd died exactly a month before. The reappearance of an old clothing item she wishes she could forget only makes everything a million times worse.
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Title from the song Cardigan by Taylor Swift, also the song this fic was based on. -
It's A Revenge Party, A Party That Ends With Entrails All Over The Lawn by ItsNogz
Fandoms: Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe, Heathers (1988)
01 Nov 2025
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"“Shut up.” Was the first thing Veronica said when she answered the phone. “Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up-“
“Nikki.” JD cut her off, making sure to keep his smirk at bay so she couldn’t hear it in his voice.
“Yeah?” she answered, albeit suspicious.
Now JD felt free to smirk. “Told you so.”
Veronica let out a groan so loud he was ninety percent sure he could hear it all the way from his own house if he tried hard enough."Veronica Sawyer is a smart person. But her ex-friend, Heather Chandler, has a way of getting on her last nerve. And if Heather messes with Veronica's books; she's got it coming, right? At least Veronica thinks so. But let's just say her plans for revenge are... debatable. And scented with designer perfume.
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Title from the song Revenge Party from Mean Girls, because... I honestly don't know. I was looking up musical theater revenge lyrics (that weren't completely murderous) and I love Revenge Party so much, and also Barrett plays both Veronica and Janis and Janis is the one singing this lyric, and... I guess Heather Chandler has a lawn?
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Before They Convinced You Life Is War by ItsNogz
Fandoms: Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe, Heathers (1988)
08 Oct 2025
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What if JD's mom had been a little stronger? What if instead of committing suicided she took her nine-year-old son and ran away from her horrible husband all the way to the sleepy town of Sherwood, Ohio, right across the street from the Sawyer family? And what if Jason Dean met Veronica Sawyer, his best friend, the girl he'd come to grow up with, the love of his life, much before they were beyond repair?
Basically the non-toxic childhood friends AU no one asked for but you're all getting anyway.
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- Part 1 of Before They Convinced You Life Is War
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You're Planning Your Future, Veronica Sawyer by ItsNogz
Fandoms: Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe, Heathers (1988)
13 Aug 2025
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"Veronica had the kind of soul you could only have before; before the world fucked you up. Before you caught up to society, or society caught up to you. The purity of Veronica’s soul was just about the only thing he found predictable about her.
She kept surprising him, Veronica. She started that night she’d climbed through his window, and she never stopped. She was almost a mystery. A mystery who twisted her ankle three times a day, but a mystery nonetheless. That was the main reason he’d found her so fascinating.
Well, that, and that intoxicating shine in her eyes he seemed unable to stop looking at."Veronica and some none psychotic version of JD have a talk about the future, and JD reflects on his own feelings about her.
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The title is that one lyric from "Freeze Your Brain" that I weirdly like because the rhyming of Sawyer and Lawyer scratches my brain in a way I cannot explain.
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