#Nancy wheeler deserves better

[robin-buck1ey]

People will say Nancy wheeler is stuck up and a priss, but that’s because the last time she allowed herself to have fun, and be a teen, her best friend was killed. Nancy doesn’t let herself relax, or act her age, or just do normal teen things, because that’s exactly how she lost Barb. Now she constantly feels guilty and blames her self for being a young girl trying to fit in.

[onstrangerthighs]

I'll never understand the purpose of painting certain characters like Nancy Wheeler and Billy Hargrove out to look bad in fanfiction/fanon. Either I see people making them into abusers or claiming they're homophobic, or in Billy's case saying he'd "call your fav/you a slur" or "hate crime your fav/you".

Nancy isn't homophobic. Using her parents as "evidence" to support your weird head canon is anti's behavior repeated. It doesn't make you any better if you don't call her an abuser, but you proceed to say that she's both homophobic and a cheater. You don't have to make posts about it. You might use her as a device in harringrove fanfics where she's in the way of Billy and Steve getting together... when she's: canonically dating Jonathan and currently has no romantic interest in Steve. She wasn't the one who came up to him with this dream of six nuggets. When Billy entered the show, Steve and Nancy's relationship was already on the rocks. She was never an obstacle for harringrove.

Chrissy was never an obstacle for steddie, either. But that ship made into one. Why do you view female characters as interferences to mlm ships? Why do headcanons about lesbian/bisexual/aroace Nancy bother you so much that you feel the need to constantly complain about it?

This next part goes for antis of both Nancy & Billy: the character you are bitching about is not canonically accurate, so you might as well be making an original character up.

[r0nancetruther]

me when i realise steve pretty much forced nancy to have sex with him

okay so anytime i bring this up everyone is like "omg no ur lying he wpuld never!!" so im gonna explain what im talking about

so we all know that scene in s1 where nancys studying in her room at night. steve comes to her window and starts coming onto her and obviously nancy says no because her parents are home, she didnt want to fail her test and she just didnt want to have sex. steve however says "really? i dont see them" when she brings up her parents. she shakes it off and says no again but he keeps practically forcing her. when he finally stops, she tells him to either leave or help her study. he takes this as an opportunity to make it into a sex game where if nancy gets a question right, he has to take off one item of clothing but if she gets a question wrong, she has to take off one item of clothing. now me personally if someone had already said no THAT many times i would let it go. but ofcourse he doesnt and starts making out with her after slut shaming 2 other girls as well.

they end up making out and nancy clearly didnt want to go any further and thankfully stopped but cmon steve bfr

idk if you guys count this as SA, i thankfully have never experienced it and dont know much about it so i dont feel i have a say in it but i still think it was fucked up either way

"she was saying no while leaning in to kiss him" so fuck?? kissing and sex are two different things😨😨

anyways im anti-stancy and anti-steve (can u tell?) so jancy and ronance shippers unite😘🤝

[slowbrunette-archived]

steddie and harringrove shippers: ''we don't support and tolerate sexism''

same exact steddie and harringrove shippers two seconds later: *proceed to give chrissy and nancy the villain treatment/narrative in writings and artwork. build them only as the mlm obstacle meme joke matter punch bag, use them only as the mlm obstacle plot device of said pairings, write or draw them with zero character depth and innacurate descriptions with flaws that are purely based on their own personal bias* ''but yeah fuck sexism bro!''

[floswife]

I will defend Nancy wheeler till the day I die, idc if she “led Steve on” idc if people think that she doesn’t deserve Steve, WELL GUESS WHAT I love Steve but he doesn’t deserve Nancy because why is he taking Eddie’s advice about Nancy being in love with him??? You’re going to take the drug dealer that’s wanted for murder’s advice?? I saw someone say that Nancy had no right to kiss Jonathon in front of Steve. UM YES SHE DOES? “How dare she kiss her boyfriend in front of her ex 😱” how dare Steve tell her that he imagines his future with her being the mother to his six kids 💀 (again I love Steve) . Anyways the main take away from this is that Nancy is a girl boss and she’s hot

[padfoot-lupin77]

‼️STOP‼️VILLAINIZING‼️NACNCY‼️WHEELER‼️

(especially for byler angst wtf?? context: I just saw someone saying Nancy might have told Mike “it’s not my fault you don’t like girls” before and that’s why Mike said that to Will)

[swirly-beetle]

nancy wheeler gets more hate than billy hargrove (who btw is canonically racist)

and i think that says a lot

[fuck-you-i-am-spiderman]

Nancy 😌

I've seen so much hate on Nancy for "messing Steve around" and it's actually so ridiculous. I love Steve, but early seasons Steve did a lot of fucked up things and Nancy? All she did was break up with a person she didn't love. Nancy is a fricking traumatised teenager and she gets so much hate for things that just make no sense. People say that she's dismissive of Jonathan being poor and having struggles that she "doesn't understand" yet they ignore the way Jonathan dismissed her struggles with all her coworkers being sexist arseholes and treating her like garbage as though that was something she should just suck it up and deal with. That's what is bullshit around here.

Nancy who constantly protects everyone around her. Who looked Vecna in the eye and kept shooting. She stayed strong no matter what. She was shooting at flayed!b*lly when he was literally going to kill her and everyone else in the car. And yoy really want to talk about how she's "stringing people along" um no she really isn't. She's literally just trying to live her life and solve mysteries to ensure they all get to stay alive.

Steve was not a good person in s1, saying that does not mean you can't love who he is now. But don't act like Nancy has done anything that's worthy of all the hate she receives. The writers just don't know how to give her a proper storyline where she gets to properly explore everything. My ideal ending for Nancy is her discovering that she doesn't want a relationship and her going off to college with her wife bestie Robin and feeling free. Just let my smart, snarky girl live without treating her like she's the fucking devil for standing up for herself and not staying with people she doesn't love

Anyway, Nancy Wheeler is the bravest and most loyal character and I will not have her good name tarnished on this blog. I love her and she deserves the fricking world.

[dopelavender]

stranger things fans after the illegal events of vol. 2

[brxght-world]

“i think it’s my year, Henderson.”

“i didn’t run this time, right?”

just a second while I lie in my grave

[harringroveera]

AU where Billy escaped the Vecna’s curse because he’s not a hurt kid anymore & he’s already found his family

[ryan-waddell11]

I’m missing them so much rn

[eskawrites]

sometimes i still think about the fact that nancy is one of the most powerful, plot-critical characters in stranger things, and how she has led her own arc every single season--from driving the search for barb to taking down the lab to figuring out the flayed to being a fucking general by the end of season 4. and about how she was taking care of the kids during the last half of s3 and how she was the leader of the hawkins group in s4. like, i really cannot emphasize that enough. once the main character with superpowers and the actual war veteran chief of police are out of town, nancy is the unquestionable leader. the person everyone turns to without thinking twice. i’m serious. nancy is a teenage girl who has her every move questioned and doubted and still the only people more powerful than her in the show are a girl with superpowers and a war vet.

and when danger--physical danger--shows up, she doesn’t fucking hesitate. she’s diving straight into the upside down. she’s leading the older group to safety again. she’s shoving aside the 5 different traumatic experiences she just witnessed to put together a multi-step military operation and she’s taking point to go shove a shotgun in vecna’s face. and yeah, they end up not being alone when they face vecna because el is there, but nancy doesn’t know that. she’s fully intending on going to kill an adult man who has control over an entire dimension and has been murdering people with his mind, even though she has no backup, no superpowered el, no hopper and his government contacts, nothing.

and yet.

AND YET

the vast majority of natalia dyer’s press for s4 was about a love triangle. and i get it, a lot of interviewers can’t get away with not asking those questions, but you know what else you could ask about? nancy’s growth over the last 4 seasons. how it felt being the leader of the hawkins gang. how she thinks nancy feels after losing another friend. what was running through her head when vecna had her. what her thoughts are regarding nancy’s plan, or what’s going through her head during that final scene when she’s *checks notes* standing behind the show’s protagonist and looking at The Plot as it rises from the ground.

or, i don’t know, ask her what it’s like being the person handling guns on set. what those upside down night shoots were like. what her thoughts are on nancy’s choice of college! what she thinks about the perm! for fuck’s sake there are only a thousand different questions that would’ve been far more interesting or at least personal to her character. but no. every interview boils down to team steve or team jonathan, as if a tired, already resolved love triangle is anywhere near as interesting as literally any other part of her character

[slowbrunette-archived]

i will never get why on S3, nancy getting harassed and made fun of by older men, gets always downplayed when the discourse of the car scene argument with jonathan comes up.

[xgoddessoffandomsx]

Looks like a cinnamon roll, but could actually kill you

Looks like they could kill you, but is actually a cinnamon roll

Looks like a cinnamon roll, and is actually a cinnamon roll

Looks like they could kill you, and could actually kill you

[padfoot-lupin77]

STOP BEING MAD AT NANCY WHEELER FOR NOT BEING A PARENT FOR MIKE JUST BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS FAILED??? ITS NOT HER JOB??? SHES TRAUMATIZED AS WELL???