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I posted 2,590 times in 2022

That's 568 more posts than 2021!

210 posts created (8%)

2,380 posts reblogged (92%)

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@flythesail

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@aceandnancy

I tagged 2,563 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#nancy drew cw - 1,504 posts

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#nace fanfiction - 586 posts

#fic rec - 332 posts

#my fic - 262 posts

#writing things - 140 posts

#nancy drew spoilers - 128 posts

#nancy drew - 83 posts

#six of crows - 79 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#‘wow she’s so amazing and strong and i love her and she’s taking on so much and she’s going to crack soon let me help you carry’ it face

My Top Posts in 2022:

The Worthwhile Fight

Pure speculation for 3x13 based on the theory that Ace might have the last piece of Charity’s soul and spiraling on this promo still with @flythesail

The Copperhead pursues its final victim. Nancy only hopes she’s not too late.

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“Ace! Ace, stop!” Nancy jumps from Nick’s truck while it’s still in motion, racing to catch up with Ace as he proceeds steadily toward the Copperhead. Nancy can feel her heart thundering in her chest and rising in her throat and roaring in her ears.

She skids in front of him, into his line of vision, but his eyes are horrible. Blank. Empty. This isn’t her Ace.

Not that she’s even sure he’s hers to call her own yet.

“Ace!” She takes a forced step backwards as he proceeds, reaching out instinctually into the space between them, but still afraid to close the gap. “Ace, please.”

Her voice cracks on her plea and there’s a spark of something, a glimmer, a glimpse of him in his eyes again. The flame of hope blooms hot and bright in her chest.

He’s in there. He’s fighting.

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90 notes - Posted January 16, 2022

You know what the real tragedy is?

Coroner’s Assistant Ace having to put on his own lanyard.

106 notes - Posted January 31, 2022

Okay so. I’ve been tag ranting since ✨feelings reveal✨ about how Ace holds space for Nancy.

(I mean, I wrote a fic that’s literally 20k of Ace holding space….)

And this big ending, miscommunication, fight, protect your love, scene is even more of an extension of this, and really shows his growth and his confidence.

Ace waits. He looks at this woman that he loves and he watches her try so very hard to continually hold herself together for other people. Because other people ask things of her constantly. So Ace doesn’t. Ace waits. He gives her space.

“When you’re ready to not avoid….”

And he does it again here. Sure, it’s partially fueled by his own struggles with self-worth, but he lets her do it.

Until a point. Because he sees her struggling, and it’s breaking his heart because he knows if she just trusted him with her burden, they could be happy - “I can help you carry it.” (He doesn’t really know the half of it, but still.)

He waits for a month, until he can’t let her fear hold them back anymore, not when “there’s nothing to be afraid of.”

But the way he goes about this: “Can I tell you what I hoped the reason was?” He’s still holding space. And she shakes her head because she knows what he’s going to say, she knows that he knows her. But she’s petrified, because how can she hide that she loves him when he’s talking about it like it’s a given. Like it’s fact.

And normally her he’d stop, right? He’d accept her refusal and give her that space. Especially when he was feeling low about himself. But his personal growth? His desire to a better for person for himself, for her, for them? It gives him the confidence to act on things he’s known about her and them for a long time.

He’s fighting for them. She can’t, so he will.

And her reaction only makes him want to fight more. Because he’s the person that does hold space for her emotions, he sees them, he recognizes them, even when she’s trying to hide. He obviously thinks part of the reason she’s running is because she’s afraid, (and on some level he’s right) but he can tell there’s a layer of pain below the surface and it scares the hell out of him.

He counters every attempt she makes to put him off, because he knows that this is what she does. She deflects. And he keeps giving her opportunities to tell the truth. “I don’t believe you. There’s something else going on here.”

“Are you in trouble?” Again, he gives her the opportunity to say ‘no’, even when he knows that something is up. She leaves that apartment fast, but those tears start before the door is closed.

I mean, look. It’s no secret that I am all about the Established Nace Agenda™️, and I will be rewatching The Scene for several million years, but S4 will be yearning, pining, feral Nace fighting for each other and I am here for it.

Thoughts on how Nancy will fight for them coming up in Part 2 .

106 notes - Posted January 29, 2022

Do you ever just rewatch Whisper Box and think about how while everyone else is arguing about crash carts, and epinephrine, and supernatural vs. science, Ace is just holding Nancy’s head and neck to protect her and make sure she doesn’t hurt herself and staring at her the entire time?

Because I do.

108 notes - Posted July 12, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Now the other man that holds space for Nancy is Carson.

Carson knows her better than anyone, and it really shows in their last conversation. It’s a nice contrast to her conversation with Ace, because as soon as he gives her the opening, “If there’s anything else...you need to talk about”, she starts crying. Here’s the space for her to be vulnerable right now.

She’s been walking around with the knowledge that she can’t have the man she loves, fighting to keep him alive and she’s about to crack. So when her father, whom she trusts so much, gives her an opening, she’s going to take it. Because she can’t talk about it with the one person she really wants to.

There’s also a whole parallel here to Nancy choosing Ace in 2x12, compared to choosing him here and then realizing she can’t selfishly prioritize him and them over the whole town and going back on her choice. Given his reaction in 2x12, if he knew the choice she’s making, I think he would be proud. (Cut to Nancy asking more than once, how many people died in the tidal wave.)

Its so much. She’s been carrying this alone, for a month, trying to preserve this gorgeous future she got to see for everyone else, even if her own piece of it is gone. “In order to save the town I gave up control of my fate. And I lied to the man that I love to save his life. And now I have to spend the rest of mine paying this terrible price.”

Now Nancy’s still grieving. Grieving Ace, grieving her future, grieving the honesty and openness her and Ace share. Because even if she had chosen Ace, if they had survived the veil opening, she would have been wracked with guilt. And at some point Ace would have asked and she would have told him. So she made the right choice, and now it’s going to haunt her forever.

She’s not in a place to problem solve yet. And Carson meets her where she is, trying to provide comfort, but he’s also not entirely sure what’s going on. “I’d say there’s so much in life we can’t control, but there’s so much we can. And sometimes things aren’t as bad as they seem.”

Which is kind of a platitude, right? But he doesn’t have much to go on. And while Nancy’s remark is clear to the audience, it’s not super clear to Carson. He doesn’t know that this is an ongoing lie. That this is a forever lie.

Until Nancy compares it to Kate. Carson still doesn’t have the facts, but he understands the gravity. And the first thing he does is explain to Nancy that even knowing the ending - which in hindsight he does, and which, in the present, Nancy does with Ace - it was still worth it to fight. “I don’t regret trying. And I don’t regret loving her, even if it meant having to lose her.” It was still worth it to love her.

Now he probably could have been a little more explicit, but this is Nancy. And she’s being pretty darn vulnerable right now. So if he comes out swinging with a well-meant you and Ace are meant to be together, or just go talk to him, it’s probably not going to go well.

Not to mention that Carson, as a lawyer, knows he’s not in possession of the facts here, so making an argument right now isn’t in his best interests, or Nancy’s. He doesn’t really know what he should be persuading Nancy of. All he knows is how to meet her in her grief. Which he didn’t used to be able to do. But now he does.

Nancy is the one to bring it up. She’s grappling with the idea of soulmates, because that’s very much what this is, her and Ace. The writers are calling them star-crossed, and they are. But it begs the question, if you lose your soulmate, what then? Shouldn’t that be it?

But maybe it’s not? Because she has this real, personal, example of soulmates in Carson and Kate to look to, to follow. Now, maybe Carson uses the term soulmate in more of its colloquial sense, as a connection, rather than Ace/Nancy’s we’re literally fated (and now we’re doomed). But it’s simple and personal and lovely, and it’s the road map Nancy has for love.

So after Carson talks about how worth it it loving Kate was, how she was his soulmate, he has to bring up the elephant in the room. Jean. Because he’s not living life alone. He’s trying to find happiness again. Nancy doesn’t explicitly ask, but it’s implied.

So he sticks to to the question she’s really asking - what does this mean for me? What does a future look like if it’s empty of love? How do you face a future, knowing you’re going to live it alone?

And this is his answer: “I choose to believe it is possible to live a good life, even without a soulmate.” Which is really beautiful advice to give your daughter, when she’s telling you she might have to lose how you lost. To tell her that life can still be full and beautiful after loss and grief.

It’s devastating to hear as a viewer, because obviously I do not want to imagine Nancy being happy after Ace dies. But for Nancy as a character in this moment with her father? This is what she needs to hear.

And again it’s Nancy that brings it up. “Maybe we get more than one?”

Is she already looking ahead for a replacement? No, obviously not. But for the girl who has been “alone her whole life”, who has been left time and time again by people dying, often because of her, she’s terrified. She’s terrified to live a life alone without Ace, dooming him to death because she loves him, and being forced to live with that crippling grief and guilt the rest of her life.

She’s not looking for a Plan B. She’s looking for a spark of hope.

And Carson gives to her. Nancy asks “Maybe we get more than one?” and Carson says “Yeah, maybe we get more than one.” It’s a quiet reassurance passed between them. It feels very much like Nancy reassuring Bess in 3x07 that “goodbye doesn’t mean you’re going to be alone.”

And when he says it, Nancy crumbles. She’s devastated at the prospect of it. At the idea that she will lose Ace, will be forced to face the world without him, and will have to look for happiness all over again. She’s afraid. And she’s looking for something. Some kind of reassurance that her life could still be good. That it could still be happy.

But Carson ends on the call to action. He’s assuaged her fears a bit, and now he’s reminding her of who she is — Yes, Nancy, if things fall apart, your life could still be happy. But you still need to fight. You are still in control and it’s not like you to roll over and just let things happen.

It’s a call to arms, to action, that reminder that “you control your own fate. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”

And she’s going to do just that. The whole ending scene in the cemetery was my girl. Blue roadster, black beanie, flashlight. She’s been knocked down, but not out. She’s going to remind herself of who she is.

And it’s going to give her strength to fight for the man she loves. To fight for his life, and to fight for their future.

See Part 1 for how Ace will fight.

Thanks @flythesail for her contributions to the soulmate thoughts.

112 notes - Posted January 29, 2022

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