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Genuinely one of my favorite things about booting up an old Nancy Drew game is when the music loads just a second before anything else and you're just hit with the aggressive piano out of nowhere.

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women in stem

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Happy pride month to the clue crew’s goth sweetheart (he can be a little testy as a treat)

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what's in nancy drew's bag?

I think it's cute that Nancy took the brick with her after she broke out of prison.

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He protec

He attac

But most importantly

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“best French toast”

Yeah the guy I was working with was convinced a lone wolf was responsible for accidents at this ski lodge like a broken window and a guy slipping down stairs and poisoning potato salad and I actually met the wolf she was a sweetheart but I had to stop to make breakfast so here’s this wonderful French toast recipe I learned at Canada’s worst ski lodge

Can you imagine if Nancy wrote a recipe book with those long stories on how the recipe came to be?? Except to get to the recipe she just gives a rundown of the case she was working on that the recipe came from?

“In summary, the house was probably haunted or a lot of carbon monoxide was in the air. Anyways, here’s a recipe for the best Southern sweet tea you’ve ever had.”

Or:

“I was on a murder case in Florida when I had the best burger of my life. The body had been thrown down the stairs just like how the tomato was thrown on the beef patty.”

That would be unhinged.

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There's some DRAMA on Instagram rn lmaoooo and I am PROUDLY being a shady bitch about it so FUCK AI ALL MY HOMIES HATE AI

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I can't be the only one

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New Theory: Charlotte and Clara are Actually Sisters

okay maybe I'm crazy but I had a thought on Clara's father... the incest theory always bugged me bc a) EW I just don't want it to be true lol and b) I don't think that Charlotte's first reaction to finding that out would be immediately going to write her out of the will. You hear about her compassion throughout the game and I would assume she would first try to offer some help to Clara, maybe counseling or something before immediately thinking of herself and her will. SO what if Clara's father is....Charlotte's (and Harper's) father? You hear at multiple points in the game how in love Charlotte's parents were and how they had the perfect relationship. Maybe Clara's mom refused to say who the father was because she knew she would be completely ostracized from the family for sleeping with her sister's beloved husband. I think this also would explain why Charlotte would be so adamant about changing her will - if Clara was actually her sister, she would have a much more legitimate claim to the Thornton fortune, and there would be urgency in changing the beneficiary to Harper. It would also explain why Clara would be so upset about it - in her mind she is the rightful recipient (she may even be older than Charlotte, the family tree lists them both being born in 1968), and Charlotte is undercutting her.

The HeR email giving additional context to the night specifically mentions that Clara was threatened by Charlotte's place in the family and "Charlotte had the family and childhood she wished she had. Her insecurity wasn't just a personal flaw, it was a response to her uneven upbringing." I think the juxtaposition between their childhoods is made even more intense if they actually shared a father. Charlotte got everything Clara wanted, even her own dad, and then tries to write Clara out of her will, alienating her once again.

If this all came out, I think it's a much bigger justification for starting the fire rather than discovering your grandpa is your dad. The latter would leave me absolutely destroyed and disgusted, not at Charlotte, but at Jackson. In this case, Charlotte is the direct beneficiary of the lies and coverups between Clara's parents, and is taking an action to continue that pattern - it makes a lot more sense why Clara would then direct her anger to Charlotte in that moment. I know the incest theory is very popular and has been around since the game came out so I don't think I'll convince everyone, but this makes a lot more sense to me narratively and in the context of what HeR would put in a game meant for younger audiences. What do you think? (also I'm sorry if anyone came to this conclusion before me and this is nothing new lol. If that is the case take this as my two cents in the ongoing conversation!)

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what if there was a nancy drew trading card game like pokemon

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I headcanon that Nico Petit just wanted to act. Someone who asks their crime boss hey can I please dress up in a mask and a cape, they want to be a Batman villain but they REALLY just want to be an actor. He needs to join the “hey I signed up for acting but I got involved in an art smuggling ring” with Grigor

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happy pride to Deirdre Shannon ♥️ I hope she will figure it out someday

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But what do the Penvellyn’s plan on doing once Loulou is dead and can no longer give hints to open that door in the secret passage? I guess Jane’s descendants will be kinda screwed.

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Hey, Clue Crew! I opened my bookstore 1.5 hours late today because I mixed up the schedule! Let's hope I don't get Big Island Fired because I can't afford to lose my job in this economy!

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maybe I should make a Nancy Drew ytp next

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There's something I really love about making tea in Ghost of Thornton Hall. Something really special and intimate about there being this crumbling, ruined house and this crumbling, ruined family, but still, amidst everything going on, someone put out a beautiful teaset. Everything may be falling apart around them, but there's still a sliver of comfort. There's always tea, and the world must go on. Fabulous environmental storytelling.