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Nick Nelson needs a reading list for uni. One day in the library he asks the librarian for help. The librarian in question just so happens to be the curly haired man of his dreams.
And the book list is... unexpected.Bookmarked by sapperlott
08 Jul 2026
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Somewhere only we know by TherapyforSarahP
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
09 Jul 2026
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Nick and Charlie have been together for almost five years and are as unbearably in love as always. Then, somehow, everything goes wrong and they find themselves broken-up, not speaking anymore and both devastatingly heartbroken.
Let's see how they both try, and eventually learn, how life works without the other. And what it takes for them to get back together, because, you know, Nick and Charlie are endgame and will find their way back to each other in (nearly) every universe.
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- Part 2 of Riptides and Undercurrents
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25 Jun 2026
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His movements were slow and sensuous and Nick couldn’t drag his eyes away. A subtle dusting of glitter accentuated the sharp lines of his cheekbones. His kohl-rimmed eyes were strikingly blue, and heavy with lust. His body was in constant motion, his arms moving hypnotically in front of him, each sinuous curve of his wrists drawing Nick in. For half a second, Nick believed the dancer was looking right at him, before he realised there was another man on the stage.
On his 26th birthday, Nick Nelson follows his homophobic brother to Velvet Sky, the most prestigious companion club in England. While there, he watches two male dancers perform an erotic dance filled with tension and desire that builds to a climactic ending. Nick is left breathless and wanting. He can’t shake the feeling that one curly haired dancer with hypnotic blue eyes was watching him too. Nick’s imagination is captured and he finds he can’t stay away.
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23 Jun 2026
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All the Ways the Light Gets In by kingdomfaraway
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
29 Jun 2026
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Most people knew this about him, most of his coworkers respected his nods or otherwise silent greetings and didn’t bother to try and converse with him.
All except one Nicholas Nelson, of course.
Nick was a morning, afternoon, mid-afternoon, and night person. Much to Charlie’s chagrin, Nick was a never-off-even-for-a-single-second-of-the-day type person.
And, boy, that irritated Charlie to no end because no person should always be that cheerful and happy and full of conversation.
(or ENEMIES TO LOVERS OMG FINALLY! Happy endings for all!)
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19 Jun 2026
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18 Jun 2026
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"Isaac," Charlie says, exasperated, "no one in the history of bad dates has ever met the love of their life at a speed dating event."
Aged up AU: Charlie and Nick keep running into each other on a series of terrible dates (mostly with other people). Good thing they definitely don't want to date each other, right?
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17 Jun 2026
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Charlie Spring, 23, has been in love with his sisters best friend since he was five years old. The only downside is that Tori’s friend is straight…isn’t he?
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14 Jun 2026
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Detour Down A Country Road by NotACactusCow
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
10 Jul 2026
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When Charlie Spring's dad gets relocated for work, Charlie and his siblings are forced to leave behind their lives in New York City and start over in a tiny town in South Carolina.
Charlie hates it.
He hates the heat, the smell, the lack of public transportation, the casual homophobia, and the fact that half the town seems emotionally invested in high school football.
Then he meets Nick Nelson.
Nick is a farm boy, a quarterback, and annoyingly nice. He's also funny, patient, ridiculously attractive, and somehow determined to drag Charlie through every small-town summer tradition imaginable.
Charlie keeps telling himself they're just friends.
Unfortunately, that becomes harder to believe with every passing day.
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10 Jun 2026
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8 Minutes by roo_writes for shootingforthestars
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
08 Jun 2026
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Nick
FournierNelson opens his eyes.
He has no idea where he is, how he got here, or what is going on.
Nothing is making sense.- Language:
- English
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- Chapters:
- 5/?
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08 Jun 2026
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New Year's Day, 2024, 4:11pm by chocolatefreckle for L56895
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
10 Jul 2026
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Nick Nelson and his rugby team are on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Japan, as guests of the Kanazawa University Rugby Football Club, when a magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits the Noto Peninsula.
Charlie Spring gets one text from his best friend, and then nothing more.
What's one flight across the planet into a natural disaster area in a country where you don't speak the language, when the unrequited love of your life might need your help?
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13 May 2026
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Charlie was looking for a reason to keep going and Nick was trying to follow the ghost of his mother that he hasn't spoken to in years.
Somehow, both paths lead to them finding each other.
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08 May 2026
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No Angel by Escapingnarnia for Noangel1983
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
30 May 2026
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David Nelson, single, bisexual disaster, isn't having the best time at his friend’s stag weekend.
It’s just one more reminder of how, at thirty-six, he still hasn’t found The One™️.
In fact he’s pretty sure the whole idea of 'the one' is a ginormous, homophobic urban myth.
He’s already counting down the hours until he can go home, when one night in a club, and a brush with an angel, changes everything.Bookmarked by sapperlott
30 Apr 2026
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When Charlie boldly approaches Nick at a bar one night, he’s quickly rebuffed, but ends up hearing from Nick several days later.
Turns out, Nick is questioning a lot of things. Charlie thinks he knows how stories like this end, but is thrown for a loop when Nick says he wants to take things slow. (This doesn’t work out for either of them.)
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03 Apr 2026
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“You’re Nick and Charlie, so you’re gonna be fine.”
Spoiler alert: - we weren’t fine. Not even close.
Nick and I had believed we could make a long-distance relationship work. We loved each other, we were positive, and we were strong. But the distance between Truham and Leeds could have been a million miles; the journey lasted hours, train tickets took all our money, and I… well, I turned into a bitch. There’s no other word for it.
I pushed and pushed until Nick did something terrible. Something that broke us apart. Something that sent me spinning back into a relationship with a man who’d already abused me as a boy. The scars from that terrible time – mental, physical – followed me over the following six years.
And that’s when Nick found me again. Still playing with Queer Intentions. Directionless, miserable, still deeply scarred by the past.
But here’s the thing… we live in the same city now. The past is another country, so they say. Can we move past what happened?
Do I even want that?
Can we rekindle what we had before… or does it risk sending me into another self-destructive spiral?
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31 Mar 2026
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Ghosted... Again. by NotACactusCow for HappySappyHippo
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
15 Jun 2026
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Thirty two-year-old Charlie Spring has just lost his mother. Their relationship was messy, but the grief still hits him and his siblings hard. Their father takes it worst of all and moves to Spain to be near family, leaving the house to Charlie.
Fresh out of a toxic relationship, Charlie refuses to move back into the childhood home that shaped so many of his issues. Instead, he decides to rent it out.
Nick Nelson, newly divorced and raising his five-year-old son Julian alone, returns to his hometown for support and takes a teaching job at his old primary school. He rents a house for himself and Julian—only to discover his new landlord is Charlie, the boy he once secretly crushed on.
Now Charlie has to decide if he can forgive Nick for ghosting him years ago, and Nick must finally explain what really happened.
And meanwhile…who is Julian talking to in his room when no one else is there?
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Charlie rents out his late mother’s house, only to lease it to Nick, the childhood crush who once ghosted him. As they navigate their unresolved past, Nick’s young son begins talking to someone unseen.- Language:
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- 20/?
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06 Mar 2026
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never trust a man with a one syllable name by kaalee for Yee_333
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
03 Mar 2026
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Charlie Spring is a tattoo artist and piercer, trying desperately to keep his shop from going under after his dickhead ex, Dan, walked out. He has no time for gorgeous men that show up without an appointment.
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04 Mar 2026
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The Noise in the Garden by NotACactusCow for Lessthanthreehs
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
20 Jun 2026
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In the Garden, purity is everything.
Desire is called Noise. Doubt is infection. Obedience is survival.
Nicholas has spent his life trying to be good — to silence every stray thought, to follow every rule, to trust that if he empties himself enough, he will be made worthy. But when his growing closeness with Charles begins to stir feelings he cannot name, the Garden takes notice.
What begins as whispers turns into discipline. What feels like repentance becomes punishment, disguised as love.
As loyalties fracture and faith grows thin, Nicholas must decide whether purity is worth the cost — and how much of himself he is willing to sacrifice to protect someone the Garden has already condemned.
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In a rigid religious commune obsessed with purity, a young man’s forbidden feelings lead to trouble— and the unraveling of everything he thought was holy.
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02 Mar 2026
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Nick Nelson: The 40-Year-Old Virgin by Coach1305
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
26 Jun 2026
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Looking at Nick Nelson, you’d never know he was a virgin. Like, who is possibly a virgin at his age?!
Certainly not the captain of the rugby club. Definitely not the bloke doorstopped by every divorcee mother at the school gates. And absolutely not the guy raking in sexual advances at queer bars every weekend.
But enough was enough. Nick's birthday was in a few days, and he was determined to lose his virginity with a bang.
Forty of them actually.
Now with a chapter count! 🤭
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28 Feb 2026
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The Road Not Taken by angiejm for thesarahellis
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
13 May 2026
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Charlie Spring is widowed, in his early 40s, and happily single living in LA. For years, his mother has tried to convince him to move back to the small Washington town where he graduated high school, which doesn’t interest him in the slightest. However, after a visit home for the holidays—and some happy news from his sister, Tori—he finds himself unexpectedly drawn home, where a (not so) chance encounter with Nick Nelson, the man he crushed on for half of high school, sets him on a new path.
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28 Feb 2026
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47 things by shootingforthestars for Chaotic_Mesh
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
28 Feb 2026
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this definitely isn't the fic that i started for meshy's birthday LAST year but didn't get around to posting until THIS one. definitely not. also, these aren't the droids you're looking for. move along, please...
there is some sad at the end (hence the tags) but also, it's mostly a deep dive into how these two love each other, through a long time and a lot of times. maybe that makes the journey worth it? (spoiler: it's the only thing that does, i think.)
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17 Feb 2026