#it is pre-ronance technically

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Nancy’s backstory from the TLOU Bill & Frank AU, written for @strangerthingsfemslashweek Day 6: Came Back Wrong

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Barbara "Barb" Holland/Nancy Wheeler, Barbara "Barb" Holland & Nancy Wheeler Characters: Nancy Wheeler, Barbara "Barb" Holland Additional Tags: barb dies!, dont read it if you dont want to read barb dying!, comphet, like a lot of nancy comphet tbh, Prequel, Backstory, Canon-Typical Violence, this takes place in my TLOU au but its not really in any way a TLOU au on its own, POV Nancy Wheeler, Nancy Wheeler-centric, the birth of a doomsday prepper Series: Part 2 of Every Thing That You've Done Summary:

Nancy swallowed hard, and told a secret that didn't matter anymore to anybody but her. "There was a girl, once. When I was sixteen. But we didn't... But she died."

or

Nancy's origin story from My Piece of Land.

Written for Stranger Things Femslash Week Day 6: Came Back Wrong.

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Sorry I know this wasn’t the point but I love a well rounded fic that includes Stobin and the party, got any recs for the Steddie fics you enjoyed?

this was difficult bc I actually haven't properly read a steddie fic in a minute but I looked through my subscriptions so a lot of these are wips also these are mostly Steve-centric bc um he's my favourite <3

someone else's favorite song complete with side ronance but this was good! I definitely liked it enough to bookmark it lmao sad Steve bc his mama died </3

a blackened shroud (a hand me down gown) this was such a fun concept <3 Steve if he didn't go back to fight the demogorgon in s1 <3 sequel is great too!

Sticky Notes this is unfortunately discontinued </3 but it's soooo good and I think it stands well even being unfinished! Eddie getting to know deaf Steve <3

the little time i have in this world, i want to spend it with you. this isn't finished and Eddie doesn't come in untilllll like chapter 9 or something lol very whumpy and angsty <3

i could be honest, i could be human this was only recently finished ! it was fun <3 I love Steve being hurt lol

all the world will be your enemy this is a series and Eddie only shows up in the 5th fic but I love it sm <333 experiment Steve! so good

count to thirty. breathe twice. repeat. this hasn't actually gone romantic yet and is obviously still incomplete but this is fun <3 billy tried to murder Steve and Eddie saves his life <3 fun!

Fresh Start Fever this is a s4 rewrite with side Buckingham very fun! incomplete as of rn but there's clearly a big plan I actually really need to catch up with this one...but I like it!

House of Pain uhhh this is technically discontinued or at least hiatus and doesn't actually really um involve the party and barely robin bc it's pre s1 but I really like it! steve and Eddie in a group home!

you may notice the theme of Steve going through it lol

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I was tagged by @stonemaskedtaliesin, thanks!

Rules: reveal the titles of the documents in your wip folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!

Okay so if i included every WIP in my folder I think I would hit a WC, so here are the ones I've worked on most recently/am most interested in/might finish this calendar year.

today is a new day to find you - my steddie big bang fic, technically spread across like seven different documents in my folder. a timeloop fic and one of the more adventurous fics I've attempted maybe ever

fake dating au - currently untitled steddie fake dating au, with a side of Steve has good parents

more stobin hivemind - another currently untitled fic that focuses on Steve and Robin in the aftermath of Starcourt trying to figure out how to manage their newly developed hivemind (with a side of pre-slash Steddie and Buckingham)

Lucas, Steve, and Basketball - a character study fic I've been playing around with that focuses on the Lucas & Steve relationship and Lucas's relationship with his Mom, with a dash of meta commentary on why Steve wears Nikes in 1983 and beyond because I've become fixated on it.

mi media naranja (and other things that need to ripen) - a ronance future fic with a side of lavendar married stobin and background steddie

and a quick tag for the interested to participate: @grasslandgirl, @cauldronoflove, @derekhalesbitchface, @aberfaeth, and @h-i-raeth

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thalia x reyna from percy jackson for the ask (i'm pretty sure you've read heroes of olympus but if i'm wrong, ronance from stranger things)

I will answer both and this is gonna be soooo controversial (for the second) lol ack

Also; I'm on mobile, and this is going to get long, and i cant link any suppirting posts that explain my perspectives better than i can, lol. If you want, i'll dm the metas. I hope I get the keep reading thing right, but if it doesn't work... sorry. Summary:

Tl:dr; I could see reynalia working, maybe, but I'd need to read some to get a proper feel for it. It might be one of those cases where I prefer it in polyamorous form, aka reynaliabeth. Reynabethalia. Or maybe when put alongside pipabeth (idk piper/annabeth...) Idk. As for ronance, just not my cup of tea for a variety of reasons. I prefer robin crossover ships, like my tiny little dingy of tarabin. (Tara Maclay/Robin Bucley).

Reyna/Thaila (reynalia??) Is not something I've ever considered, to be honest. I'm not sure how compatible they'd be, but I do ship annabeth/thalia (I should really look up pjo ship names, huh) and I've even given thalia/percy a go, because I'm firmly in the camp that you should give most ships a chance before you write them off completely (as it stands, the most controversial pjo ship I've ever read would either be luke/percy or nico/Sadie - that was written before he was confirmed as gay, though, so it's a grey area, like pre-confirmation romantic stobin fics, or willow/oz content, though differently so for the latter*).

Given all the above, I can't say I don't ship it, but I can say I'm not sure. I think given I like thaliabeth (??) and reynabeth, it wouldn't be a stretch to ship reynalia, though!

(*willow is controversial because of a clash between people who interpret her being called a lwsbian as biphobic vs people thinking calling her bisexual as lesbiphobic, its a whole deal I don't want to her into rn but... eeh, I guess I should state that I'm in the camp that her being bisexual is the most logical reading of canon, her status as a lesbian is a self-identifier because she swore off dating men, not because she isn't attracted to them - she cheated on Oz with Xander for purely lust related reasons, her whole thing with the will be done spell, and her actions with Amy when she goes off the rails (magically forcing men to dance half naked In cages in the bronze, along with other questionable acts) is... uh, not particularly lesbian behaviour, generally speaking; imo, Willow uses being gay as a mask for her insecurities same as she does her witchy power and her choice of fashion - to distance herself from the 'pathetic' girl she used to be. Its a whole psychological thing tied up in era-typical bigotry, unfortunately. It was the 90s. She wasn't going to be addressed as bi, even though she so clearly was. There's a reason I really like 2000s doctor who - it was the first positive representation of a bisexual I'd seen on screen, and being bisexual is clearly going to affect my opinion, here. Like. Duh. Same with lesbians who interpret her as lesbian. I don't think we should be arguing- at the end of the day, we all technically want the same thing; personal representation of our own lived experiences, and that's not a bad thing. Theres a good video on youtube about the controversy, which. Theres always a good video on youtube, lol.)

Um. Oops, rambling. Anyway.

So, ronance. Oh boy.

I see Nancy as straight. I'm also not fond of how she treats Robin in the little time we see them together. Im also not a fan of robin dating the ex that broke her bestie's heart. So, ergo, I don't ship them. I'm genuinely, as much as it probably doesn't seem that way, more of a fan of friendship, at the end of the day. I would see it as a betrayal (same way I see scolia and stydia as a betrayal). I tend to use romantic/sexual relations as a way to explore character because that's easiest to get my points across, but I prefer friendship. Romance is, at the end of the day, conditional. Friends can be friends still after three years of no contact, but that's a signal for the end of a romance. So what I'm getting at here - you can be tentative friends with someone the way robin and Nancy act (as is their canon dynamic), but I wouldn't be conformable with them dating. Nancy barely tolerates Robin. She displays annoyance at pretty much everything she does, from rambling to venting to expositing her mental state, Nancy's countenance just screamed 'I'm waiting for this to stop'. I don't like that in friendship, and I like it much less in romance. Even with my most controversial ships, there's still a kind of passion. Hate is not the opposite of love - it's apathy. Nancy seems often apathetic to Robin's mental state, her worries and concerns. She dismisses a lot of what robin says and does, at least from my perspective watching them. And it must be said - and I'll freely admit - I'm not Nancy's biggest fan, but I love Robin, she's my girl. That's going to cause some problems. Even with ships that are objectively questionable, I have to like both characters for me to get behind it, or I have to like both characters when in the context of the ship. This makes little sense, so I'll extrapolate.

In the Vampire Diaries, I don't really like Stefan Salvatore, and unpopular opinion time, I hate Klaus. I really, really hate him. At this point, it's straight-up loathing. But I greatly enjoyed their dynamics, from 20s to modern day, and that they shared an ex was funny to me (same way it is with Zutara, and making jetko kinda-canon for that reason alone half the time, akfjqlfjwk) as well as being an interesting thing to happen. (I mean, what are the odds, really?). So there's that. I also liked stefan and Katherine's whole weird deal, which played an aspect. What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that there's a certain respect even in my most dubious ships (jetko, steo, fuffy, spuffy, etc) that I feel is completely lacking in ronance. There's a video by Jill Bearup about enemies to lovers ships that might give a good reason to one aspect of why I like it - they take each other seriously. There's an understanding of competence, an acknowledgement of thought processes, a certain level of understanding. Nancy has none of that for Robin.

When I compare the two ships of the 'fruity four', as people have taken to calling them, steddie and ronance strike me as two very different kinds of ships. And I only half get steddie (very not fond of popular portrayal) - there's no real chance for me to get ronance. It is what it is, I suppose. People like what they're going to like. If you want me to extrapolate on any of this, I'd be happy to! My thoughts are oft all over the place and need a bit of direction to make sense, though, fair warning. I think about a lot of stuff and only rarely coherently akdhlwkfkq but I think there is a throughline. At the end of the day, mutual respect is mandatory for me, in romantix relationships especially, but not only for that. If I can't really get behind ronance platonically, there's no hope for romantically. And for the record, as stated above, I did give it a shot. Read the most popular fics and then a couple of the most recent, as I always do. They didn't agree with me, and they left me feeling distinctly... well, not so distinctly because I can't find the right word, but I couldn't help feeling the way I do about the popular portrayal of Hermione is happening to nancy? She's perfect and flawless and a girl boss and has never made a mistake ever and I just.... eeh. Also the treatment of Robin is... not always great. But that's a whole 'nother topic I've already rambled long enough, I don't need to add that.

Basically, tl:dr; ronance is kind of disquieting, probably because I'm not fond of their characterisations within ronance fics, and I'm often affected by the fanon regarding a ship. I never liked Sterek, for example, but I could've tolerated it if a) it wasn't so prevalent in fandom that it appears often untagged like an accepted part of canon when it is not and b) if it didn't so wildly misinterpret the characters, plus didn't include a character that doesn't sit right with me (Derek - Nancy) and a character I love but portrayed in a way that doesn't even remotely align with my interpretation of them 95% of the time (Stiles - Robin).

Er. Yeah. Oof.

Tl:dr; I could see reynalia working, maybe, but I'd need to read some to get a proper feel for it. It might be one of those cases where I prefer it in polyamorous form, aka reynaliabeth. Reynabethalia. Or maybe when put alongside pipabeth (idk piper/annabeth...) Idk. As for ronance, just not my cup of tea for a variety of reasons. I prefer robin crossover ships, like my tiny little dingy of tarabin. (Tara Maclay/Robin Bucley).

:).

(As you can probably tell, I have... lots of very complicated feelings about shipping Robin (and like, shipping in general, being honest) with canon ST characters. I'm much less strict abt Riordanverse characters as a whole, for reasons I'd be perfectly willing to extrapolate on/discuss if you'd like to do so!).

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[inairbinad]

a steve x eddie story. 158k words. 19/29 chapters. rated M.

a fix-it fic of the 'Eddie Munson has powers' variety including: a slow burn, ronance on the side, hurt/comfort, domestic fluff, canon-typical violence, pre-season 4 steddie history, making up my own upside down lore, Eddie annoying the shit outta Vecna, and more

new chapter on a03.

(technically it's two because i forgot to post chapter 18 over here the other day. oops.)