shelteredbyshadow
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The Structural Integrity of Nancy Wheeler by shelteredbyshadow
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 May 2026
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Robin knows Nancy better than anyone. Better than the kids, better than Jonathan or Steve ever did, maybe even better than Nancy knows herself sometimes.
Which is exactly why she knows something is very, very wrong.
Nancy barely sleeps. She flinches at sudden noises. She keeps disappearing halfway through conversations, eyes distant and haunted. And every time Robin asks about it, Nancy smiles too quickly and changes the subject.
Hawkins is supposed to be over. Robin’s starting to think Nancy never really made it out.
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Steve is worried about Robin and calls in Nancy's help.
Nancy finds Robin grounded and ends up rescuing her with a fake school project excuse.
Now, they’re stuck in Nancy’s room for two nights with nothing to actually work on except their friendship.
Nancy is confused.
Robin is hiding something.
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Nancy feels Robin slipping away in ways that are easy to excuse and hard to name. By the time she realizes it isn’t just stress or nerves, the space between them has already learned how to hurt.
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A forced group shower, one bad joke, and now Nancy Wheeler's spiraling...because Robin Buckley definitely just admitted she and Steve Harrington are secretly together… right?
Or: Nancy is jealous, in denial, and about to figure out why.
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Nancy knows how she’s supposed to feel. She’s studied it, turned it over, tried to fit herself into it...but it never quite sticks.
Robin knows what she’s supposed to do. There’s a right way to move this forward, she’s sure of it...but she keeps screwing it up.
They’re both trying to get it right before time runs out and the other realizes something’s missing.
They just don’t realize they’ve been on the same page all along...Series
- Part 3 of In the footnotes of feeling
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Stories about Ronance where desire doesn’t follow the usual script. Where one or both of them are asexual, and love isn’t measured by what’s missing, but by what’s there: trust, closeness, and the space to define things on their own terms. No boxes to check. No list to complete. Just them.
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Stories about seeing the wrong thing, saying the wrong thing, and immediately spiraling. Different POVs, different universes, same chaos. Miscommunications, assumptions, feelings… and a lot of regret.
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A series of soft Ronance moments focused on noticing and being noticed, where Nancy and Robin fall in love over and over again in the smallest ways.
Can be read in any order and aren't necessarily directly or indirectly connected to each other.
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"I'll cry quieter."
"Or you can cry with me here," he says, still looking at the floor. "You don't have to talk about... whatever it is. But just... Jesus, Nance, you're not completely alone."
She exhales shakily, looking at him in the dim light of her nightlight. He looks so much older now, even older than he did a few weeks ago. Sharper. More tired. He even sounds older. Like he's lived five lives in his fifteen years.
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Nancy Wheeler is in love with a girl. Mike Wheeler is in love with a boy. They're both more alike than they though, and they're both less alone than they thought, too.
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29 Dec 2025
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Robin’s eyes begin to gloss over again. “You don’t think so?”
“No,” she breathes. “Not at all. It’s – it’s just love, you know? That should be okay.”
And for just a moment, it’s like they’re in their own little space. There isn’t mud soaking through her shoes or snot on Robin’s sleeve, or mosquitos flashing by her face.
“Yeah,” Robin says, rivaling Nancy’s breathlessness. “Just love.”
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29 Dec 2025
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Hawkins, Indiana has given Robin Buckley many things:
A healthy fear of saws, a rudimentary grasp of Russian, a new respect for D&D.
Also, Steve Harrington and Nancy Wheeler.Sometimes, she thinks the saws would be easier.
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05 Dec 2025
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10 Apr 2022
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rose by any other name (wouldn't sound as sweet falling from your lips) by Zefyre
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
09 Aug 2020
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Maybe it’s because she spends the most time thinking about hers, but it seems to her that it cannot be defined by a singular set of words or feelings. It changes with the day, with the topic, with the person she’s talking to...
...Or about.
It’s only a bit later that Ava begins to notice that Beatrice’s voice conveys how she feels about others.
She has different cues and ticks for all of them, and Ava can’t help but love each one.
She hates the way Beatrice says her name.
Bookmarked by shelteredbyshadow
10 Apr 2022