these scenes happening back to back means so much to me they're both so romantically coded...

This is my favorite background Jancy moment. You can just see the pure happiness on Nancy’s face, in the second photo. She was so happy to have him back in her arms. 😭

jancy kisses are my life i love them so much

I am going to go controversial here. Stancy is a horrible ship even worse than mlvn.

Steve and Nancy have nothing in common. Nancy is an independent woman who wants a career, not a family. Meanwhile, Steve wants a nuclear middle-class family which she has explicitly said she'd hate to have. I am not saying it's not ok for Steve to want that, but it def isn't what would make Nance happy.

Second of all, the only thing that's real abt Stancy is their physical attraction. That is objective. It is in the script. It explicitly says that when Steve does a perfect landing, Nancy finds it hot and it's ok to find ppl hot while you are dating someone but not to lead them on, which is to one extent what Nancy does with Steve. (I'm not slandering her, I love her just as much as the next Nancy stan but it is not ok to do that)

Meaning, the Duffers mishandled Nance's character this season regarding relationships. Badly but not unrealistic. I hate how they made Nancy lead on Steve or at least flirt with him when his feelings are not shared. We know Jancy is the endgame, we know bc the ending of the season foreshadowed it. Yet, her character is extremely realistic for me and that's why I love her sm. She was a teenager when her BFF disappeared while she was having sex with Steve (another reason why they can't work, Nance associates Steve with Barb's disappearance. Then she learns about her gruesome death in another dimension, she feels guilty and tries to avenge her. All of this happens and Jonathan is always there with her. Always. He doesn't leave her side. Jonathan and Nance have shared trauma, while Steve and Nancy don't even have that. While Nancy was with Jonathan, Steve was with The Party. They each find their own people. In this situation, it is normal for Nancy to be confused over her feelings as her character arc focuses on her growth and maturity as a woman handling romance and trauma.

Furthermore in S3 Steve says she likes Robin bc she isn't like Nancy. He got over her and thinks that he needs someone different from her. In the pitch, Robin would be Steve's girlfriend, yet in the end, she was his platonic soulmate. This was something I particularly loved bc this shows that Steve's character arc is not about romantic love but for platonic and brotherly love he finds in Dustin and Robin.

Now, about Jonathan's character arc. This character is unjustly hated, IMO. He is super underrated and deserves more appreciation. I love Steve but Jonathan is personally a better character. Jonathan comes from years of abuse and neglect having to take care of his younger brother who gets atrociously bullied and abused at school and home. He is forced to drop out and work full time taking extra shifts at work in order for them to scrape by. This means he has the same or more trauma than Steve. Jonathan had to go alone to buy a coffin for his presumed dead brother and grieve for him alone while having to deal with his supposedly delirious mother and abusive father. All of this at the age of 14-15.

Due to the lack of social interaction, we know Jonathan has, he has trouble comprehending Nancy as he sees her as this rich, pampered priss. She isn't and he learns this. He and she let go of their prejudice towards each other to reach a common goal, find their loved one.

Stancys claim Jonathan neglected Nancy when she was being mistreated at work during S3. In this situation, both were in the wrong. Nancy was being a bit selfish bc she wasn't taking into consideration the fact that if Jonathan lost the job, his family would have severe economical problems since they need money desperately. Jonathan showed very little empathy towards Nancy's struggle with misogyny but Steve wasn't even present here so what support did he show? Plus it is canon Steve allowed and even encouraged his friends to slut shame Nancy. Even when Jonathan lies to Nancy about going to college, this isn't such a big issue as having a bf who allows you to be publicly humiliated. Yes, Jonathan did take photos of Nancy without her consent but she forgives him.

So in conclusion, Nancy and Steve will never be endgame because of their lack of romantic chemistry and dare I say, they don't have chemistry at all except this last season which seems pretty forced by the narrative to me!

Here we go, guys! 😎

Nancy : Don’t worry, I have a few knives up my sleeve.

Jonathan: I think you mean cards.

Nancy , pulling knives out of her sleeves: No, I do not.

jancy nation we’re winning <3

nancy is james

steve is augustine

and jonathan is betty

the stranger things writers really want me to believe after all jancy has gone through together, college is the thing that breaks them? yeah, no. i don't buy it.

It’s insane to me how Jancy is the only ship to have more than one different type of kiss. Every ship has kisses on the lips, but Jancy is the only one with a cheek kiss, a forehead kiss, a hand kiss, and a shoulder kiss. 🥺🥹

Jancy is endgame for sure in my mind!

So the Duffers and writers have said that s5 is going back towards s1 dynamics right? At the start of s1 Nancy and Jonathan didn’t even know each other; they knew each other, and Nancy was with Steve. S1 is them getting to know each other and discovering that they are lost souls that match. Cheesy I know, but that’s how I’ve always seen them! 

Just like S1, the end of season 4 has Jonathan and Nancy feel disconnected as if they are strangers once again! They even end of the season paralleling their first proper meeting as seen in this gifset! 

Season 4 has Nancy falling back into old habits that she had before s1, with Steve. As Murray said, “we like Steve”, to Nancy Steve is safe! She feels like she’s disconnected from Jonathan. The same goes for Jonathan, he ends s4 scared to be truthful with Nancy, to protect her and his family. S1 Jonathan would do anything to protect his family and Nancy including throwing away his own happiness. 

This perfectly sets up for them in s5 to rediscover why they got together in the first place. But this time they will end in a stronger and much more mature relationship! Where they are completely open with each other! Where they can stay in a relationship that doesn’t make either of them have to sacrifice for the other’s happiness!

This may have been done already but

I NEED JANCY TO BE END GAME

Not because I dislike Steve

Not that I think its a better ship

NO

It's beacuse the most likely way that nancy woud go back to steave is if johnathan died and I can't let that happen for so many reasons

We woud have to get Nancy's reaction

But worse we have WILLS REACTION;like the only good and the ONLY MALE ROLEMODEL DEAD like will woud be devastating.

And jonathan byers the one who got multiple jobs to support there family, jonathan byers the one who took care of will when there parents were fighting, jonathan byers the one who helped get a demon out of his younger brother, jonathan byers the one who saw the will was hurting at the pizza parler and made will smile, jonathan byers the one who told will he shoud not listen to what othe people think, jonathan byers the one who told will he woud never leave him GONE. Will woud cry and cry and cry and it woud do nothing to the story besides make will depressed and nancy get together with Steve.

remember when nancy couldn't say "i love you" to steve so she sat on the car with jonathan to have a heart-to-heart conversation.

and remember when mike couldn't say "i love you" to el so he sat on the car with will to have a heart-to-heart conversation.

and the fact that wheelers are on the left and byers on the right and there are soda cans in both scenes. wheelers are opening up about their feeling while byers are hearing and comforting them... come on! that has to mean something!

saw someone on instagram point out that all the suspected endgame couples are unconventional love stories for the time period.

joyce and hopper are divorcee's.

max and lucas are in an interracial relationship.

robin and vickie are sapphics.

jonathan and nancy depict the woman taking the lead in the relationship while the man supports her.

it would make so much sense if the final endgame couple would be mike and will.