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The Imperative of Pleasure by desiring_assemblage
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
30 Aug 2026
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Part Two of The Subject of Desire
Nick and Charlie are Brits who are both in academia and meet at a uni abroad. They spent a semester getting to know each other in Part One and will be spending another term together in Part Two doing research in Mexico. They both have high hopes for a productive semester!
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- Part 2 of Sublime Objects
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08 Sep 2026
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Detour Down A Country Road by NotACactusCow
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
27 Aug 2026
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When Charlie Spring's dad gets relocated for work, Charlie and his siblings are forced to leave behind their lives in New York City and start over in a tiny town in South Carolina.
Charlie hates it.
He hates the heat, the smell, the lack of public transportation, the casual homophobia, and the fact that half the town seems emotionally invested in high school football.
Then he meets Nick Nelson.
Nick is a farm boy, a quarterback, and annoyingly nice. He's also funny, patient, ridiculously attractive, and somehow determined to drag Charlie through every small-town summer tradition imaginable.
Charlie keeps telling himself they're just friends.
Unfortunately, that becomes harder to believe with every passing day.
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30 Jul 2026
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Au Fond De Mon Cœur by TwoBeatHearts for Psyoperator
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
14 Jul 2026
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"Are you sure you’re going to be okay, Charlie?"
"Yes, Mum."
"Do you have everything? Passport? Coach tickets? Did you remember to pick up some francs?"
He grunts as he makes his final step down. "Yes, Mum, it's all sorted."
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It's the summer of 1986, and as in the past two summers, Charlie's packing his bags to travel to Paris to meet his pen-pal, Nico.
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- Part 2 of L'amour est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au cœur
- Part 7 of A Collection of Explorations into Demisexual Nicholas Nelson
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24 Jul 2026
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The Subject of Desire by desiring_assemblage
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
16 Aug 2026
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Nick Nelson is starting a new programme at a new uni and coming to terms with new realisations about himself. He plans to focus, take his time, and not get distracted.
Charlie Spring is settled – happy with his life and all he’s accomplished. He’s never had trouble resisting temptation before, so surely he can handle it when a new man enters his life.
Can either of them cope with the upheaval the other brings?
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A graduate school AU.
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- Part 1 of Sublime Objects
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- English
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- 17/17
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22 May 2026
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“Shit, shit, shit,” the man next to Charlie chanted. The metal of the cabin creaked ominously. Not a good sign. Charlie was out of comforting words.
He reached out his hand, palm up, in the space between them. An offering if not a reassurance.
Their eyes met – two complete strangers, but somehow no words were needed to communicate. There was an understanding that passed between them.
Then, the plane dove.
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Basically a Heartstopper desert island AU.
Charlie is headed back from a work trip when there's some unexpected turbulence. Can Charlie survive falling from the sky and washing up on a deserted island? Maybe not on his own, but thankfully, he's stranded alongside a blonde, freckled stranger.
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02 May 2026
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breeze of the hebrides by bishyreadytocry
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
02 Jul 2026
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Interior designer Charlie Spring needs a change, and it just so happens that his best friend is hunkered down in Scotland to work on his book. When a series of jobs come up across the Highlands and Islands, he decides to take the leap and join Isaac up north. Even though the first job is renovating a rugby clubhouse, of all things.
Enter team captain, Nick Nelson. He’s prickly, petulant and grumpy, and Charlie immediately wishes he’d never met him. He’s always known that rugby players are, by default, arseholes, and Nick certainly isn’t changing his mind on that one.
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A story about assumptions and healing and figuring out your place in the world, with some pretty Scottish scenery thrown in there. Oh, and there’s seals.
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29 Apr 2026
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Charlie Spring has suffered seven years of abuse and neglect at the hands of his grandparents, when he is sent to a new foster family. He is a husk of the happy boy he had once been, expecting the worst from this new home. Will Sarah and Nick be able to help Charlie feel safe once more?
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An AU where Charlie comes to the Nelsons' house as a broken fourteen year old, untrusting of the kindness his new family shows him. This story will explore Charlie's trauma and healing as he fights to find himself again. And hopefully Nick can help him find love along the way.
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29 Apr 2026
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Nick and Charlie are in their early 40s and a lot of life has happened to them. Charlie suffers from a chronic illness, Nick is a former professional hockey player turned hygienist. Both have kids from previous relationships. After innumerable misunderstandings about their relationship, they decide to start a podcast together, just to clarify how two queer men can be best friends and nothing more... because, surely that's all they are, right?
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21 Mar 2026
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We Took the Long Way by CarrotQueen91
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
17 Jul 2026
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At twenty five, Charlie Spring finally sets off on the Route 66 road trip he and his friend Isaac have been dreaming about since they were sixteen. Four weeks, lifelong friends, and a road that disappears into the horizon.
When Elle convinces Charlie to widen the guest list, he doesn’t expect to be reunited with Nick Nelson, his long-buried school crush, now a twenty six year old handsome stranger who feels both familiar and entirely new.
Thrown together by long drives, shared rooms, and the slow rhythm of days spent moving through unfamiliar places, Charlie and Nick begin to learn each other gently. In moments that feel almost accidental. In conversations that linger. In the kind of closeness that grows from being stuck together, day after day.
It turns out some things are worth taking the long way around.
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19 Mar 2026
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Nick Nelson owns a coffee shop that just so happens to have a vacant apartment upstairs. He and his son, Finn, are finally living the peaceful life they deserve after years of tumultuous family drama.
Charlie Spring and his daughter, Lennie, have just moved in with Charlie’s sister and her husband, Tori and Michael, hoping to finally find somewhere that feels like home.
When Michael introduces Charlie to the owner of the coffee shop he’s started working at, Charlie finally starts to understand that home oftentimes looks less like a house with four walls, and more like a handsome dorky dad with a shy little boy just looking for a friend.
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16 Feb 2026
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"The subjunctive is the mood of uncertainty, right? What might have been. Or might be someday. It's…hopeful. You don't know for sure, but maybe." Nick gives Elle a crooked smile. "It's the mood of possibility."
Canon divergence AU: Nick befriends Elle first. Charlie and the others come along as a package deal. And it turns out that accidentally fake dating your bestie gets even more complicated when you catch feelings for someone else…
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- Chapters:
- 15/15
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02 Nov 2025
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Nick is repeating his first year of uni. He’s not convinced it’s a good idea.
Enter a meddling flatmate, an unnerving dark academia elf, and an ill-advised Chemistry class.
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18 Oct 2025
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Charlie Spring is 20 years old and coming to terms with the loss of his mother after a difficult illness, which fractured their relationship. He and his family go to Cornwall to scatter her ashes and have one last family summer together. There, he meets and befriends Nick Nelson.
Together, they navigate grief, relationships and ultimately, love, but in such complicated circumstances, will love be enough?
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- English
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- 103,013
- Chapters:
- 16/16
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- 348
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- 82
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18 Oct 2025
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17 Oct 2025
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Finder's Keeper's by debbatx for MP84
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
14 Oct 2025
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When Romy gets their next assignment - bringing soulmates Nick and Charlie together - they think it’s going to be simple. Cute boys, young love, push them together, boom. All in a day’s work.
They didn’t bargain for a proper full-on gay crisis, an oblivious almost-15-year-old with a steel wall around his heart, Ben Hope, a rugby team, and an overprotective best friend.
This assignment is going to be more complicated than they thought.Bookmarked by bi_owl
06 Oct 2025
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“What was Nick’s last name?” Oliver asks.
Charlie nearly chokes on a sip of his drink. “Sorry, what?”
“Nick. Your Nick. What was his last name?”
“Nelson. Why?”
“My form teacher’s name is Mr. Nelson. I think he’s new this year.”
For a moment, Charlie’s brain halts to a complete stop. He hasn’t talked to Nick Nelson in three years. Hasn’t thought about him in almost as long. It can't be the same Nelson. But what if it is?
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Nick and Charlie broke up at the start of Charlie's first year of uni. Unplanned circumstances brought Nick back home to Truham, where he's starting his first teaching job at his old school. When he gets his class lists, Nick is surprised to see Oliver Spring's name in his form group. As if the first year of teaching isn't stressful enough! Meanwhile, Charlie is shocked to hear that Nick is back in town and teaching his younger brother. But what's gone is gone. Charlie can't have Nick back in his life, even as a friend. Especially not when Charlie's too terrified to step even one foot outside of his flat. He can't need Nick Nelson again. But what if Nick needs him?
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- English
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- 14/14
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14 Aug 2025
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It’s not like I haven’t dated since Charlie and I ended things – or, to be more accurate, since Charlie ripped my heart into a thousand tiny pieces and scattered them into the street, where they promptly tumbled directly down the nearest drain.
That was a long time ago, though. I’m over it.
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Nick and Charlie are reunited after five years when Charlie moves back to Truham. Charlie is determined to correct the worst mistake of his life and get Nick back. Can they both put the past behind them and move forward together?
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 23/23
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12 Aug 2025
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30-year-old Charlie Spring-closeted, widowed, father to a 6yo diabetic daughter-moves from Texas to Germany for a new job and new start. His deeply religious upbringing has long kept him from embracing his true self but in his new environment, he finds the space to question the faith that has defined his entire identity. Nick Nelson-out and proud bisexual primary school teacher-patiently and lovingly walks alongside Charlie as he overcomes his past and all the while the sexual tension between them grows.
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- Part 1 of I Had to Get Out
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 241,998
- Chapters:
- 27/27
- Comments:
- 1,120
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- 489
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11 Aug 2025
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Nick Nelson is a single father to a sweet, sensitive 8 year boy named Noah. During their Summer holiday, Nick decides that Noah needs a change of scenery after a rough school year and books them a vacation home near the beach.
Charlie Spring is also a single father to a feisty little 9 year old girl named Ruby. Charlie and Ruby have been planning their Summer getaway to the beach for months and they're excited for a month of beaches and bonding.
It certainly would be unfortunate if some crazy mix up happened with the rental reservations...
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10 Aug 2025
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It's A Cruel Summer With You by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
09 Sep 2025
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Charlie Spring has taken on the challenge of being the chief Steward on a luxury charter yacht for the summer. He's there to make money, and that's it. He's got no interest in a boatmance. That is, until he meets Bosun Nick Nelson.
Close quarters, flirty interactions and crew nights out can only lead to one thing... but summer only lasts so long.ON HIATUS AS OF SEPTEMBER 2025
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05 Aug 2025