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Getting on here for the first time in months (a year?) to reblog this because it made me scream.

For all intents and purposes this is a joke

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Nancy drew cw you will always be famous to me. Really asked ‘what if everyone’s favorite plucky and precocious teen mystery-solver grew up to find out her quaint hometown was actually, like, super fucking haunted?’ and didn’t wait for an answer.

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Please reblog this if fanfiction has been beneficial to your mental health.

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the fucked up relationship neurodivergent people have with Time

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no but if you dont watch the nancy drew show you DONT UNDERSTAND the gravity of ace carving his initials as "A.H." like...

so. all of nancy's friends have the same names as her friends in the nancy books, with some tweaks. bess marvin became bess turani marvin. george fayne was george fan. ned nickerson is still ned nickerson but he goes by "nick" in the show. but ace? ace was an original character. without a last name. the only person in the main cast without one.

a curious choice, yes? to deliberately withhold a last name for one single character? why would they do that? hm?

we KNOW that nancy drew and the hardy boys are a big thing in the books. and making him a canonical hardy boy sounds like a good idea, right? the problem is that the rights to that IP were owned by another company, as they have a hardy boys tv show. so, the nancy drew team couldn't, legally, call ace joe/frank hardy.

BUT. they did little things throughout the series to hint at it. not only did they constantly tease ace's last name (by having characters ask what it was, or have his work badge leave it off entirely). but they also (spoilers) gave ace a brother (who's name is grant. ace/joe grant/frank? walk with me here). his dad was a police detective, his mom was a librarian (just like the hardy boys' parents). he was an eagle scout, and i believe joe hardy was a boy scout.

so then. to have the characters all carve their names under a table and have ace writing his initials as "A.H."

it's just!! it's so!!!!! it makes me scream eternally.

they couldn't legally make him a hardy boy bc of stupid IP laws. but that's who he was. to us! to nancy! he was always her hardy boy. always. forever.

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Finding a new favorite fictional character is like, will you be temporary or will you become a permanent part of my personality for the next 10 years?

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I feel like Nancy Drew is in a unique spot where it's both the last of the "old format" tv and also among the first to fall victim to what's happening now. S1 and s2 were both 18 episodes. S1 would have been 22 if not for covid. Then s3 is cut down to 13, and s4 gets the same. Then we're canceled despite qualifying for an early renewal for s4. In s3 and s4, you can see where the writers hold onto the episodes you'd easily fit into an 18 episode season: the game night episode or the body swap episode. Then they end up having to smush a whole lot of plot into some episodes to make up for the fact they still wanted the 'character' episodes. Personally, I'll take the pacing issues because I love the characters above all else. We're losing something when the show ends in more ways than one.

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enough intimate house parties could cure everything that’s ever been wrong with me

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4x12, a summary:

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NANCY DREW 4.12 | The Heartbreak of Truth

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Taking life by the horns.

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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Love not having a ”””fandom””” specific blog. Something new will just consume my mind and everyone has to accept it. My house

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i blog for like 5 people and 3 of them are me

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I would literally be unstoppable if I didn’t have that persistent pit in my stomach that everyone in a room is just a little bit annoyed by my presence

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Sometimes I feel silly for how much certain shows mean to me. But at the same time, I don't know if there's anything more special than a story you can connect with and feel impacted by. Humans were made to tell stories and feel things because of them.

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it is 2023, why am I upset at the teen wolf writers again