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• we got one last chance to make it real by literocracy

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  05 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Post-Canon
  • Canon Compliant
  • honestly just 10k words of therapy for myself after the finale
  • Friends With Benefits to Lovers
  • Sort Of
  • it's not that well thought out
  • Jonathan Robin and Dustin show up but it didn’t seem worth a tag
  • Fix-It

  Summary

  She tastes the same as she did a few months ago, when she’d been home for spring break. She tastes the same as she had over Christmas, beneath the hot chocolate and cinnamon that lingered sweet on her lips.

  She tastes the same as she had at the end of last summer, when they’d fallen together into this confusing, temporary break from sanity. Drunk and seeking an escape from the inevitabilities beating at their front doors: her, her imminent departure for college, and him, what it meant to be the person left behind when everyone else has moved on.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  12,270

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  23

  Kudos:

  204

  Bookmarks:

  67

  Hits:

  2,032

• i'm coming out (i want the world to know) by literocracy

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M, Multi
  • Complete Work

  21 Sep 2022

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Robin Buckley
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Minor Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
  • Fluff and Angst
  • The angst is pretty mild
  • Minor Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Getting Together
  • Non-Linear Narrative
  • Sexual Content
  • but only in the final two chapters
  • aggressively unbetaed enter at your own risk
  • POV Nancy Wheeler

  Summary

  Vignettes, 1986-1987.

  Or, how Nancy gets her groove (and the guy) back.

  (prequel fic to sweet dreams and flying machines)

  Series

  • Part 2 of you and me and an RV make three

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  52,307

  Chapters:

  12/12

  Comments:

  195

  Kudos:

  606

  Bookmarks:

  147

  Hits:

  16,618

• sweet dreams and flying machines by literocracy

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  10 Jul 2022

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Joyce Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Future Fic
  • Post-Canon
  • Post-Season/Series 04
  • Established Relationship
  • fluff (kind of)
  • Mild Sexual Content
  • POV Nancy Wheeler
  • almost certainly canon divergence eventually
  • most characters besides steve and nancy are relatively background
  • manifesting stancy destiny
  • lumax is not directly referenced but it's important you know they are endgame

  Summary

  Nancy takes the future into her own hands (because when you want something done right, sometimes you just gotta do it yourself).

  Series

  • Part 1 of you and me and an RV make three

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  6,740

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  42

  Kudos:

  401

  Bookmarks:

  83

  Hits:

  6,540

• clear eyes (full hearts) by literocracy

  Fandoms: Karate Kid (Movies), Cobra Kai (Web Series)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  11 Apr 2021

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence
  • Johnny Lawrence
  • Daniel LaRusso
  • Ali Mills (Karate Kid)
  • John Kreese
  • Bobby Brown (Karate Kid)
  • Tommy (Karate Kid)
  • Jimmy (Karate Kid)
  • Dutch (Karate Kid)
  • Underage Drinking
  • High School
  • the football au no one asked for

  Summary

  On the football field, the difference between winning and losing is 48 minutes. But in life?

  Well, that's a little bit different.

  aka the pseudo-varsity blues/friday night lights AU that absolutely no one asked for.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  14,652

  Chapters:

  3/3

  Comments:

  31

  Kudos:

  160

  Bookmarks:

  36

  Hits:

  1,799

• always said we'd meet again (someday) by literocracy

  Fandoms: Karate Kid (Movies), Cobra Kai (Web Series)  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  24 Mar 2021

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence
  • Johnny Lawrence
  • Daniel LaRusso
  • Mr. Miyagi (Karate Kid)
  • Bobby Brown (Karate Kid)
  • Dutch (Karate Kid)
  • Jessica Andrews
  • Ali Mills (Karate Kid)
  • Original Characters
  • other guest appearances
  • Underage Drinking
  • enemies (blink and you miss it) to friends to lovers
  • post-KK3 AU
  • a beta does not exist in this dojo fear does not exist in this dojo
  • standard language warnings for teen boys in the 80s apply

  Summary

  Six months after graduation, Johnny's mostly drifting - still figuring out what he wants to do with his life while it seems like everyone else is passing him by on the way to bigger, better things. And now, one year after the night when it all went wrong, he finds himself coming full-circle - at the 1985 All Valley Under 18 Karate Championship.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  88,158

  Chapters:

  10/14

  Comments:

  193

  Kudos:

  388

  Bookmarks:

  86

  Hits:

  9,560