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we could call it even (you could call me babe for the weekend) by dharmainitiative
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
16 Sep 2022
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“Do you think it’s weird that you two never, like…I don’t know. Became friends?” Robin asks.
Steve blinks. “Me and Jonathan?”
“Yeah,” Robin says. “I mean, didn’t you guys beat up a Demogorgon with Nance that one time? It feels like that kind of experience would forge a bond, you know? Like, it would transcend all the love triangle drama, or something.”
Or: when Nancy breaks things off with Steve and Jonathan and goes to college, Steve accidentally becomes friends with Jonathan.
Just friends, though. Obviously. Anything other than that would be weird.
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21 Jun 2026
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With Eyes Blinded by Darkness: How And Why Deltarune Deliberately Obscures The Nature Of Kris and Ralsei’s Relationship From The Player by Patchwork_Crow
Fandoms: Deltarune (Video Game)
26 Apr 2026
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Kris and Ralsei are two of the three main characters in Deltarune, and if you judge their relationship across the first four chapters by their mandatory on-screen interactions, you would consider it to be awkward, one-sided and forced.
But what if that's just what they want you to see, and not what's actually going on? What do they talk about when we go and see how Susie is doing? And do they know more about what's going on with each other than they let on?
In the following essay, I shall explain how much of their relationship is kept hidden from the player, how this has led to numerous misunderstandings in the wider fandom, and what that could mean for their roles in the story, setting out what I believe to be a more accurate and comprehensive reflection of their characters than the initial evidence might suggest.
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- Part 1 of Deltarune Essays
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19 Jun 2026
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Design Thinking for Everyday Life by lyricl
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
09 May 2026
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"So how humans pick partner?"
"Well, sexually speaking, I guess a lot of humans go off of looks,” said Grace. “Physical appearance.”
“Physical appearance!” Rocky was scandalized. “No good. Bad variable. Tell you nothing. Have to run experiment. Have to try.”
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25 May 2026
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There are three statements of life that Langdon knows as absolute fact:
1. Langdon is a straight man. Women are gorgeous, and he has a wife whom he loves very much.
2. The painkillers he uses from the Pitt aren’t the start of a bad habit. He’s not an addict—just a good son recovering from a back injury sustained moving some furniture.
3. His relationship with the medical field is mutualism. He saves countless lives, takes good care of people, but he benefits as well. It keeps his head too busy to think.Robby challenges all those assertions.
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- Part 1 of Waking Sleeping Dogs
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24 Mar 2026
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"That's a very pretty speech," Garcia says, and then she goes quiet, and Victoria watches her face do something she has seen before. The face of someone who has just decided they have a card and is deciding whether to play it. "Is that what this is about? Teaching?"
"What else would—"
"Or is it something else." Garcia's eyes move, briefly, to Victoria—just a flick of attention, barely two seconds yet entirely intentional—and back to McKay.
Victoria's stomach drops.
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or: mckay finds out about what garcia said to javadi
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14 Mar 2026
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A short HankCon story about Connor’s first kiss and the feelings he came to understand that day.
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- Part 2 of Just Being Near You
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06 Mar 2026
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It Can Be Cruel Sometimes by Anakin_McFly for spoilers
Fandoms: Back to the Future (Movies)
24 Dec 2012
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When perfection isn't.
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26 Dec 2025
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“Not into the whole superhero thing, then?” Steve asks Nancy.
“Of course she isn’t,” Jonathan mutters. “Nancy cares about real journalism.”
Steve raises his eyebrows. “And Spider-Man isn’t?”
“A man in tights swinging from webs?” Jonathan deadpans. “Definitely not, no.”
In which: Jonathan is the unfortunate Daily Bugle intern tasked with taking pictures of New York's new favorite superhero, Steve struggles with the trials and tribulations of maintaining a secret identity, and Nancy is just trying to do some actual goddamn investigative journalism for once.
Or, an au where Steve is Spider-Man.
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30 Nov 2025
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Having lived his entire life in a small town obsessed with Christmas, Jonathan has grown to resent the holiday. It doesn't help that the influx of visiting tourists staying at the Byers Bed & Breakfast for the season makes it their busiest time of year. When Nancy Wheeler arrives feeling disappointed her boyfriend is stuck in New York for their vacation, Jonathan offers to keep her company while she does all the touristy stuff. It's only supposed to be a friendly favor, but the more time they spend together, the easier it is for Jonathan to fall for her. Is it so crazy to think Nancy would be happier with him than she is with her asshole big-city boyfriend who couldn't be bothered to spend Christmas with his girlfriend?
But then Steve Harrington finally shows up, and Jonathan realizes he might've been wrong. Not only does Steve not seem like the asshole Jonathan thought he was, but he and Nancy actually look happy together. Obviously, it's time for Jonathan to face the fact that his feelings are unrequited and move on.
It'd be easier to do, probably, if Steve and Nancy would stop inviting Jonathan along on their dates.
or: a stoncy hallmark au
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27 Nov 2025
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On a visit to Hawkins, Jonathan & Nancy find out Steve's also in town, for his dad's funeral. They catch up.
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27 Oct 2025
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In the grand order of things, light and darkness clash. Space condenses. Time collapses. Life persists. Space, the vast ocean of everything, is doomed to die. It's been doomed for centuries; and nobody is more aware of this than a man whose entire existence depends on such an inevitable fate. Unfortunately, Xigbar's always been awful with taking orders, and waiting around to die has always been boring as hell. With only a few hours to midnight on the Doomsday clock, Xigbar hedges his bets with the most confounding companion he can think of, just to take the edge off. Or, make it substantially worse.
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08 Aug 2025
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self-healing (the very good kind) by KingOfHearts709
Fandoms: Good Game (TV 2017), Game Grumps
30 Nov 2022
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Friends or not, Alex loved everyone too much for his own good. He just had no sense of the different types of love, and how his words and actions might cause problems. He was also painfully honest in a way that made you feel bad for lying to him, which resulted in Ryland harbouring a growing pile of guilt every time Alex got a little too close.
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07 May 2025
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The last time Robin saw Vickie was four years ago, and it’d been the last time she thought she’d ever see her again. So it doesn’t make sense that she’s seeing her here, now, four years later and over two hundred miles away. Her bangs are shorter and her hair is longer, but her freckles are still the same — dotted across her face and nose like pepper sprinkled across paper.
Familiarly, Robin’s stomach twists.
Or: Robin moves to Chicago, gets the girl, figures out how to be brave, and attempts to help Steve with his disastrous love life.
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- Part 2 of you are in love
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01 May 2025
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“Alright,” Nancy says, and then, unthinkingly, she adds, “It’s a date, then.”
The other line goes abruptly silent.
Nancy frowns. “Steve? Are you okay?”
She hears him clear his throat. “Yeah, I’m here. I’m great. I’m — I’ll see you and Jonathan Friday?”
And later, much later, Nancy will look back and realize that this is the moment where she should’ve put it together. But she doesn’t. Instead, she says, “Great. We’ll pick you up at six. Sound good?”
“Yeah,” Steve says, his voice quiet and careful. “That sounds great, actually.”
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- Part 1 of you are in love
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28 Apr 2025
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why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday by MaryPSue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Oct 2024
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In his defense, Steve does immediately realise that something’s wrong when he wakes up in Nancy’s pastel-purple bedroom.
He’s just a little foggy on the what.
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or, the one where Nancy, Steve, and Jonathan all swap bodies not long after the Battle of Starcourt, and somehow have to all get along for long enough to figure out how to fix it.Bookmarked by offdensen
28 Apr 2025
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Barry Wheeler, in the aftermath.
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15 Mar 2025
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now I'm never enough [and it's almost too much] by Anonymous
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
28 Feb 2025
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Overhearing a private evening between Abigail and John, Arthur realizes what he can never have.
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- Part 1 of wanna love [wanna live]
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04 Mar 2025
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05 Jan 2025
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Abigail maintains that she's fine. She didn't come when everyone had a timid memorial for John. She doesn't wear black, even when folks around camp are borrowing Hosea's black ties.
And in some ways, Arthur's sure that she is fine.
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John disappears, and Arthur steps up to help Abigail raise Jack.Bookmarked by offdensen
20 Dec 2024
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His fair skin already had a tinge of gold from the past few days working in the sun. His strong, naked torso was littered with faint scars and a few strange tattoos. His sandy blond hair almost glowed in the sunlight. He stepped cautiously along, barefoot, and murmuring to himself. And he carried a bowl filled with sheep’s blood which he flicked over the neat rows with his fingers.
John shook his head, “He’s the strangest man.”
Abigail smirked, “Ye have to admit, the crops were better than ever last year. Maybe there is something to his strangeness.”
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19 Nov 2024