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season 1 // season 4 steve and nancy going back for each other

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STANCY WEEK day two: music

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1.05 | 4.09

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NANCY WHEELER APPRECIATION WEEK day five: every nancy outfit, organized by color

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10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) dir. Gil Junger

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Quotes about stancy (1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9)

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Joe Keery as Steve Harrington The Piggyback, Stranger Things

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Steve Harrington — pure of heart, dumb of ass

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"Skull Rock? Isn't that a make-out spot?" "And a stone's throw from Lover's Lake."

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DAWSON'S CREEK (1998-2003) Season 3, Episode 19 - Stolen Kisses

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@stcreators event 06: tropes - NANCY WHEELER + CHARACTER TROPES

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(team jancy or stancy?) "WE LOVE ALL THE CHARACTERS SO MUCH, IT’S HARD TO CHOOSE."

Quotes about stancy (1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8)

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Steve was created in service of Nancy's character journey in season one. Joe Keery was just pretty enough that he managed to snag a character arc of Steve's own. which ultimately drove them apart and forced them to grow outside of one another. I think Nancy is in a state of arrested development similar to Jonathan but not as bad as Jonathan. She's still stuck in her guilt and trauma over Barb, all they buried was an empty box containing Nancy's girlhood and innocence. The Nancy of seasons two and three is still stuck on those stairs. in season four she's learning now, through Steve and Robin, how to crawl forward too.

There's also a ladder motif with Steve throughout seasons 1-3. It's not intentional but it is interesting. Steve as a character is constantly climbing forward. He climbs up while Nancy stays stuck on the steps. Nancy is fully her own person but she's still trapped in that trauma and grief. In season four Steve doesn't have to climb anymore because by that point he's fully actualized. Now, Nancy just has to walk up and meet him.

With Steve, she doesn't have to just be a girlboss. And she never was some boring suburban girl. Nancy was always special to him. Different to him than other girls. (For good and bad.) He loved her kindness and how she cared and he just as much learns to appreciate her leadership and hard work in season four. When Jonathan talks about her initially he just sees her as some teenage girl just like all the others but he states it with derision. And when asked by Argyle what it is he loves about her, he lists all the ways in which she's proficient at her work, and how dedicated she is. While Nancy talks about Jonathan's personality (at least how she views it).

In season four Nancy gets to be a teenager with Steve (and Robin) again. She gets to recapture her lost youth before it's gone from her entirely.

It's another reason why people who don't like or refute anything about Stancy don't understand Steve and think that he's in constant torment over his past and who he was, that he should hold resentment to Nancy for breaking his heart. He isn't! And he doesn't!!! He doesn't hate himself for any past wrongdoings, he acknowledges them and talks about how they're necessary for change and growth, he sees that Nancy breaking his heart is part of that- whether from his mistakes or her own, and he doesn't blame her for it. He thanks her. Because it sucked but it was necessary to keep him from being stuck frozen in season two like she and Jonathan were. Nancy forced him to keep climbing.

And when Steve confesses his love to her it's without pretense or expectation. "I don't want anything from you, I just want you to know that you are loved". How much purer a form of love can one give? To love without pretense or expectation, only for the sake of loving. To love with eyes clear and kind enough to find pleasure in someone else's happiness even if it has nothing to do with you.

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Requested by @bloop-bloop-boop, inspired by x

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Joe Keery as Steve Harrington The Piggyback, Stranger Things

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that’s right

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“He had the whole s a v i o r  o f  t h e  u n i v e r s e voice going on.” “I like that voice.”