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• That Girl is Like an Architect, And I am Just the New Invention by Sectimo

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins (Podcast)  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/F
  • Complete Work

  20 Mar 2023

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Steve Harrington
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Karen Wheeler
  • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
  • Original Male Character(s)
  • Historical Accuracy
  • Canon Compliant
  • Post-Canon
  • HIV/AIDS
  • HIV/AIDS Crisis
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • Boston Pride
  • Compulsory Heterosexuality
  • Comphet Nancy Wheeler
  • Homophobia
  • period accurate homophobia
  • Slow Burn
  • super slow burn
  • it's going to be so slow I'm so sorry
  • Rating will change
  • Friends to Enemies to Friends to Lovers
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Police Brutality
  • But Not Much
  • ACT UP! (Boston)
  • Protests
  • Light BDSM
  • Shibari

  Summary

  Robin has a full-ride academic scholarship to Wellesley, and Nancy couldn't be happier. They keep in close contact, and Nancy brings Robin out to Emerson parties in the city. When she stumbles in on Robin and another girl one night, it has devastating consequences for both their friendship and Nancy's perception of the world, including her own sexuality. Nancy is left alone to process new information she's learning about her friends and herself while somehow regaining Robin's trust.

  OR

  Comphet Nancy, Extra Slowburn

  Series

  • Part 1 of When you look at me, you see what I want you to see

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  79,777

  Chapters:

  21/21

  Comments:

  479

  Kudos:

  726

  Bookmarks:

  130

  Hits:

  22,330