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When is it really over?
Is it in that final fight when you say things you don’t mean and you look at the hurt in his eyes and hate yourself? You know there’s no coming back from the things you said but you say them anyway. You don’t know how to say what you really mean.
Or maybe it's when you see him with another guy. A guy who's so different from you, taller and broader and thicker, and ginger of all things, or strawberry blonde or whatever, dressed in a Leeds Rugby shirt, and you wonder "was he even attracted to me? Or is he even attracted to this guy? Or am I just the pathetic guy watching my ex from afar and reading way too much into little things."
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Sometimes healing is good days, sometimes it's just being sad, sometimes it's crying into ice cream because your ex-boyfriend moved on, and sometimes you don't recognize healing as healing.
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Charlie and Nick are fine. They’re together, they’ve overcome it all, and now they’re in the happily ever after. At least that’s what Charlie tells himself. So when his back starts hurting, when something downstairs doesn’t feel right, he tells himself he’s worrying about nothing. Just the brain who cried wolf. When Nick insists that he see a doctor, however, that perfect balance gets thrown into disarray.
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Charlie has a problem and it's geographic (Nick is a four and a half-hour drive away) and he's in a bit of a strop over it. He's almost so irritated that he doesn't notice the suspicious behaviour of his new form seatmates. Then Derrick comes to Charlie asking for advice. Since when did people go to Charlie for advice?
When did Charlie become a role model?Series
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It Has to be Perfect by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
13 Dec 2023
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Oliver has a matter of utmost importance that must be taken care of. Lucky his bonus brother Nick is there to help him.
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- Part 14 of Heartstopper Countdown to 2024
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This is what love is like by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
29 Sep 2023
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For the first decade of his life, Ben believed that his parents were in love.
After all, that’s what Mums and Dads are supposed to do, right? Be in love. They loved each other and they loved him, because that’s what Mums and Dads are supposed to do, right? Love their children.To clarify, this in no way justifies anything Ben does. It does, however, paint a picture of why he is the way he is. Might become part of a longer fic.
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7 Days: The Gays Take Back Woody's (Heartstopper Goes Philly) by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV), Solitaire - Alice Oseman, Loveless - Alice Oseman, Radio Silence - Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This - Alice Oseman
26 Jul 2023
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“I don’t want to go to Woody’s,” they said.
“Woody’s is all bachelorette parties and straight dudes trying to hit on bridesmaids,” they objected
“Woody’s is basically a gay-themed straight bar,” everyone agrees.
A Philadelphia staple is reclaimed by the characters of our favorite series.
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Spring Christmas by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
22 Jul 2023
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When Jane opens her eyes she knows the day is going to be pretty shit.
She supposes she should try to be happier, because it’s Christmas and that’s what normal, well-adjusted people do on Christmas, be happy, but since when has that ever been an option for her?(Jane's perspective in This Winter)
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nobody knows (where you might end up) by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV), Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy RPF
10 Jun 2023
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Charlie Spring is the son of legendary Harper Avery Award-winning surgeon Jane Spring. He is also a surgical intern at Truham-Higgs Memorial Hospital in Seattle, one of the top-ranked programs in the country. On the eve of his first day of work he brings home a handsome stranger. Things get complicated from there. Seriously. Seriously! Seriously.
Note: I don't care how long I keep writing this, nobody and I mean nobody is cutting any LVAD wires.
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The Front Page of the Internet by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV), Solitaire - Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This - Alice Oseman, Loveless - Alice Oseman, Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
09 Jun 2023
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Reddit and Tumblr posts from within the Osemanverse
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Ben Hope is a university dropout, a headcase, and a gentleman of the night. He also might actually be over Charlie Spring.
This isn't a happy ending. But it is... an ending. And everybody might actually be semi-happy in the end. Well, everyone except for Gerard's wife.
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59 Days: Show Me Everything and Tell Me How by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
04 Jun 2023
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Jason McClintock, Year 10, is down bad for his best friend Arun. He'll also never in a million years tell him. Lucky for him Nick and Charlie are there to give him a little inspiration.
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I was lonely. Now I'm not. by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
14 May 2023
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I remember my old home.
I was the smallest.
I was the last.
I had nine brothers and sisters. My old family was pretty big.
Then we were taken away. Then they were taken away.
Then I was alone.
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Bad Coping Mechanisms by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
06 May 2023
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Looking between the three of them, Otis, Christian, and Sai stood up as one and began to walk away. Christian turned to look at him one last time.
“You know, Harry, I think I liked you better before you knew how to buy friends.” And with that he turned around and jogged to catch up with Sai and Otis.
The memory stung even now. The five of them were supposed to be mates for life. And now?
All of his real friends are gone. And the worst part was he deserved it.
Harry has a bad day and turns to his new coping mechanism for help.
Because I am physically incapable of letting a oneshot stay a oneshot.
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91 Days: Up To Something by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
03 May 2023
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Oliver is being oddly secretive - or at least as secretive as an 8-year-old is capable of being - and it seems like everyone except for Charlie knows why.
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Strangers like me by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
26 Apr 2023
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Like attracts like. It applies to the Paris Squad, and it applies to Olly's friend group. This is the story of how Olly's friend group comes out, and Olly slowly becomes the Tao of his friends
Chapter 4: It's the school play, and Matt Greene wants everyone to know that his puppy-dog crush on Danny was just a phase. He has a girlfriend, don't you know?
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Long Hot Summer by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
20 Feb 2023
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“I want to fix this,” Charlie mumbles into Nick’s chest an eternity later, “I want to make this right.” He looks up at Nick. “I was talking to Geoff about the problems we’ve been having, and how hard it’s been. I asked if maybe… you could tag along with me to some of our sessions, maybe every other week, and work on some of what’s gone wrong? Please, Nick, I want to make things right, and it seems like nothing we do is working. We keep telling ourselves that we’re going to talk everything through and make it right, and then the next time we call or text we don’t want to spoil everything and we just sweep it under the rug, and I feel like if we keep doing that we just… we won’t survive.”
He pauses for breath.
“Please Nick,” he says, “I really think we need this. After everything that’s happened, I don’t know what else to do.”
Nick kisses his forehead. He brushes tears out of Charlie’s eyes with his thumb.
“Alright,” he says
Long distance is had, and it's hard on our two boys. Nick's first year at university didn't go the way he and Charlie had hoped, and now they have the summer to pick up the pieces. They can do this, right?Series
- Part 1 of Five Seasons
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I made a bot watch 1,000 hours of Heartstopper by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV), Solitaire - Alice Oseman
17 Feb 2023
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I make no apologies
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The Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad Day by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
16 Feb 2023
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Jane Spring is having one of those days. Julio is in Spain, she has to get a 9-year-old, and 8-year-old, and a 4-month old out the door, and nothing is going right. Thankfully the mother of the little blonde boy Charlie befriended in the waiting room is here to help.
Diclaimer: I do not have kids. I will probably get things wrong
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Charlie gets lost. Nick finds him. That's the story.
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My Best Friend by PrincipledStarfish
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV), Solitaire - Alice Oseman
28 Nov 2022
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My name is Danny Burke, and Olly Spring is my best friend in the whole world. We do lots of things together. We play Mario Kart, we play with his tractors, we have adventures in our back gardens, and one time we even found dinosaur bones at the park! Right now it’s September, which means school has started, which is lame, but it’s okay because Olly and me are in the same class. We’re in Year 3 now, and it’s going to be the best year ever!
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Sort of slice-of-life next-generation fic beginning concurrent with Book 4 of Heartstopper.