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You don’t have to ship them, but acting like there’s something wrong with shipping Steve and Nancy makes no sense.

They broke up for a reason. Nancy wasn’t ready to be with Steve anymore in the early seasons, they had grown apart after and that’s okay. But by Season 4, they became completely different people. They’ve both grown, matured, and naturally found their way back into each other’s lives.

And Steve never got over Nancy.

What exactly is wrong with that?

People don’t choose their feelings. Him still loving her isn’t toxic, it’s human.

Nancy never hated Steve either, so the idea that she never cared about him is just strange??? The way she looks at him in Season 4 says enough. Endgame or not, they’re clearly still incredibly important to each other.

What I don’t understand is why Stancy gets treated like some horrible ship when there are ships in this fandom with far more questionable foundations that people romanticize all the time.

"If we were meeting together for the first time right now, part of me… I dunno, part of me thinks that we would've made it."

the title of the video is literally "charlie is team steve"

+ bonus from 2018 when he said he's team steve

Many connect with Jonathan because they look at him as a realist, that his beliefs about people and society at large are true because he speaks to the pessimism that is seeping into all of us under the rise of authoritarianism and fascism ("the real world sucks; accept it like the rest of us"). Yet, in their fears and lack of hope, they are unable to look outside of their black-and-white worldviews. Jonathan isn't evil, and just because people like him doesn't mean they are either. Jonathan's crime is that his softness and kindness get smothered by his growing sense of pessimism, his belief that things won't get better, and I think that speaks to younger people, consciously or not, who are in such despair over the state of the world; who don't know how to hope for things to get better because they have been burned so many times, and they are too young to know it gets better.

"Good to See You" Pt 4.

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We're all in agreement that Nancy was supposed to admit she has feelings for Steve during the break-up scene, right?

Because the whole lead up is about how they're not being honest with each other, which is shown pretty clearly at the end of season four when they're boarding up the cabin.

Jonathan's big confession is obviously that he never applied to Emerson. He's been lying to her for months because even though he knows the relationship has run its course, he hasn't wanted to admit it. This is a big thing to admit, so Nancy needs a big confession to match. Which ends up being that she could have visited him during spring break but chose not to because she felt suffocated and needed space. After six months apart. Okay. Doesn't make a lot of sense and the two confessions really aren't on the same level, but okay.

The issue is that season four tells us that this isn't even true. Nancy tells Robin that Jonathan was supposed to visit her and cancelled at the last minute, and that this is just the latest example of his pulling away from her. She doesn't know what's going on with him, but she's upset about it. She also tells Fred that she's annoyed by Jonathan's absence. So basically, in what is supposed to be a big moment of honesty, we have Nancy taking responsibility for Jonathan's poor behaviour in order to share the blame around more evenly and make Jonathan look like less of a terrible boyfriend. This kind of writing only makes sense if they originally intended for Nancy to confess something else and then changed it.

And obviously as a Stancy shipper, this change is frustrating. But also just as a fan of Nancy's character in general. Her budding friendship with Robin was one of the highlights of season four, and Nancy's opening up about her relationship issues was the turning point that cemented them as officially friends. Now it seems as though Nancy wasn't even being truthful with Robin in this scene, which completely undermines the importance of it.