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No, nevermind.
This was her favorite, she amended as his smile twisted.
While most would insist that it marred his features, Helga adored the crease that appeared between Arnold's brows whenever she successfully riled him up.
Shortaki Week 2026!
Day 1 & 3Series
- Part 1 of Shortaki Week 2026
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Dear Arnold, she ultimately writes. Original. Simple.
Pathetically. Slowly.
With more effort than should be reasonable.
Phoebe would probably flick her ear and Helga would let her.
She deserves it.
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- Part 2 of Shortaki Week 2026
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In a universe where FTi succeeds, peer counselor Arnold didn't expect to crash into a new student, Helga, partway through his Junior year of high school, let alone become her first victim. He writes her off for what she appears to be: a violent bully who was recently expelled from her last school... until she recites one of her poems.
Unbeknownst to them, it may surprisingly, connect them and their past closer than they ever would have thought.
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When they walked back, Arnold and Helga held hands. Maybe it should have been uncomfortable: it was warm, their palms became sweaty, and he didn't know whether or not it was to comfort her or himself or the both of them—but when they reached her house and it was time to let go, he couldn't.
Helga was the one to yank away, eyes full of hurt and it felt awful. Awful and familiar, seeing her slink back into the safety behind her doors.
There was a reason why they were teased growing up.
He had never fought those rumors either.
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Arnold sounds a bit out of breath, like he'd scrambled to the other end of his apartment to answer her call.
Which would have be cute—adorable even—had Helga not done this over a dozen times over a dozen years, and if she believed in it, a dozen lifetimes.
-- In which Helga makes an important phone call, in Alaska, wondering why the hell she's there in the first place.
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Roses, Sailboats, The Whole Nine Yards by SomeOtherGuy (PlayerPiano)
Fandoms: Hey Arnold
25 Jun 2026
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Helga Shortman's autobiographical essays about her life with her husband and two kids.
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19 Jun 2026
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Roses, Sailboats, The Whole Nine Yards
SomeOtherGuy (PlayerPiano)Incredibly adorable married shortaki life
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A story of Mr. Simmons' fourth grade class at P.S. 118 in Hillwood, USA, told through the years from shifting perspectives.
We begin with the last day of school, after a huge conflict shakes up the entire class, threatening to change some relationships forever while sending someone home in tears.Changes in the canon set by the original movie and TJM. Strap in!
Pretty PG to start since they'll be young for a bit, but we'll see.
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13 Jun 2026
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sydnew_castle - Untitled (Time)
multiple perspectives, rly cool
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four times our lips almost met (and the one time they spoke) by ashleykay
Fandoms: Hey Arnold
14 Sep 2016
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He thinks, maybe he doesn't love her and isn't sure what a kiss would do. He's got his parents and a jungle and the whole world waiting for him.
But he still can't forget the color of her eyes.
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04 May 2026
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four times our lips almost met (and the one time they spoke)
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When Arnold is transferred to his high school’s Advanced English class, the last person he expected to see was Helga. As the only two in the class from their P.S.118 gang, she makes him swear not to tell anybody. Arnold always knew there was more to Helga than there seemed, but after he begins to hear her writing, he asks himself, Could he like the real Helga G. Pataki?
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25 Year Old Thaddeus Gammelthorpe drifts through life with practiced ease living in Arnold's boarding house. He takes his pills, goes to work, comes home, and goes to bed. An easy, controlled existence.
25 Year Old Rhonda Wellington-Lloyd thinks her life is all glitz and glamor, but there are edges under the surface, people who seek to control her. Her every movement seems designed to brace her for a future she finds abhorrent.
They meet again and deep in his subconscious, Curly stirs, threatening everything.