thatgirlwhowritesbooks

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

Yk what i find so odd. Never once, while in Ace's bedroom, do you see Ace's eyes. It's either shielded by his hair, closed, or out of the screen. And it's just so,,,,idk coz i see Nancy gaze at him after but all the while, even when he's smiling and giggly, his eyes are firm shut. Not even when he turns towards her after she tells him he doesn't have to change anything

You know, I kinda noticed it, but now that you're mentioning it...yeah, that is VERY odd. There has to be a reason for that, right? Like maybe it was a hint to the audience that this wasn't real? Like his eyes were never open or shown to us to symbolize the fact that Nancy was the only one seeing this beautiful, intimate moment between them because he wasn't really there? I believe everything on this show is the way it is for a very specific reason, so I'm sure there's definitely an explanation behind this. Good catch!

#nace #nancy x ace #nancy drew cw #ace x nancy

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

Most is not going to like what I’m about to say but idc:

ACE NEEDS BETTER FRIENDS!!!

Like my man was missing without no whatsoever contact on where he was going. Nobody heard from him. What truly pissed me off was that no one was worried about him; and how Nancy would think Ace would stand her up 🙄🙄🙄

On the other hand I feel bad for Ace honestly this season has been putting my boy through things and he honestly have no one to talk to.

#no but seriously #screw the drew crew right now #all of them #especially nancy #she should have questioned why he suddenly wasn't around #instead of banging park in a coat closet #terrible friends #ace deserves better than this episode gave him #JusticeForAce

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

Okay, I was disagreeing with this as I read it but then at the end I realized...whoa, that totally explains the look on her face. I’ve been wondering this whole time why she didn’t have even the slightest hint of a smile if she thought he was going to confess that he loves her. She does, in fact, look worried or scared. And then I thought, well damn, she probably has the same exact problem Ace does: she thinks there’s no way someone like him could ever fall for her.

And it’s why she’s going to throw herself at Park in the next episode, but of course Ace is going to see that and his own thoughts of her never loving him back are going to be confirmed in his mind and...GAH. This show is taking the whole miscommunication trope to a whole other level and I simultaneously love it and hate it so much.

Okay listen, as someone who has been (still am) in the same exact position as Nancy, let me tell you, when she saw this text, she is not thinking that Ace is going to confess his love for her. Quite the opposite, her mind is going to jump to the worst case scenario - that despite all her efforts to conceal how she feels, she slipped, or someone around her told him, and now he knows how she feels but he doesn't feel the same and he's upset and angry with her for making things awkward for him and for ruining one of the few good things in his life, and why couldn't she just be happy with their friendship and how things already were between them and he can't ever look at her the same way again and he can't be in her life anymore because she had to let her pesky little emotions get out of hand and make his life difficult and now her entire group of friends will hate her destroying their friendship and she's going to be alone forever...

And you can see the dread on Nancy's face - Kennedy, as always, portrays her character beautifully

(gif by @nacesource )

#now pardon me while i go pull out all my teeth one by one #because it would be less painful than this shit #this all better be leading up to one epic love confession and rain kiss in 3x13 #or i'm gonna riot #nace #nancy x ace

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

"So. About the whole Nancy/Park thing...

I don’t think it’s going to happen. I know some of the showrunners/writers were boasting about some big love triangle for the season, but we’ve now completed eight out of thirteen episodes, and there isn’t even a hint of a triangle yet. I honestly don’t see Agent Park being a major character that goes into season 4, therefore I don’t see the “love triangle” making it past 3x13.

For starters, Park really isn’t giving off any vibes that he’s into Nancy in that way. Intrigued by her, definitely. And why wouldn’t he be? She’s just as good of a detective as he is, yet she’s only 19 but hasn’t gone through the training/years of college he did to get there. But I don’t get any romantic or lustful vibes from him. Now, from Nancy? Sure. We’ve seen the way she’s looked at him a couple of times, with a soft, almost wistful gaze. But that can be easily explained away without coming to the conclusion that she’s falling for him."

YOU LED US ASTRAY

I'm sorry! But to be fair, anything I ever post on here is just a theory, and I've never claimed my theories are good. HOWEVER, I'm still not concerned about Nancy and Park AT ALL, especially after this last episode.

It's 100% clear now that Park is nothing but a "next best thing" or a second choice for Nancy. There were a lot of times she made heart eyes at him this episode, just like in the last episode. But as soon as she saw Ace's text asking her to meet him ALONE at the loft because he had something he wanted to tell her? She couldn't have cared less about Park. The way she said good night to him, and the way she said "Agent Park" just felt so official and business-like to me. Like in that moment, any little crush-like feelings she may have had for him had suddenly vanished. And it was because that text made her think that maybe—JUST MAYBE—Ace was going to tell her he was in love with her. Which only goes to show that from here on out, any guy Nancy may have a fling with, if Ace shows even a hint of interest in her, she's going to drop them to pursue something with him. Because he's the one she's in love with, not anyone else. I mean, they made it kind of obvious when Park said to Nancy, "So you have been in love" and then Nancy said nothing before it cut immediately to a scene with Ace.

Another reason I'm not concerned: there have been two opportunities now for the show to give us a dreamscape Nace kiss without actually having them kiss in real life, and they've refused to do so—because they're holding out for the real thing. Because Nace's first kiss is going to be special and it's going to be epic. Nark's first kiss, though? They showed it in the promo for the next episode! It's like when Nancy and Nick's first kiss happened off-camera before the show even started, and Nancy and Owen's first kiss happened in a dream. Nace truly is the only one of Nancy's relationships that the show has handled with care. And they've gone out of their way to make their relationship progression different from the rest of Nancy's to really drive the point home that Nace is the show's endgame relationship (they've made that quite obvious).

The promo makes the next episode seem weird. Like...Ace is missing, yet nobody is addressing it? None of them are worried about him? They're just continuing with their lives as normal, going to a party? So, it's possible that the Nark kiss could either occur while they're under a spell, or it may not even happen in their reality? Or maybe it's real because Nancy, upset because she thinks Ace ghosted her, decides to start something with Park to try and get over Ace. Either way, Ace is definitely going to be witnessing their interactions from wherever the hell he and Hannah are, and it's going to destroy him but also maybe make him act fast after he returns from the upside down.

Either way, yes, Nark is...happening, I guess? But I really don't see it as being anything serious. I know the last time I posted about this, people jumped down my throat about how the writers would NEVER use Park as a plot device just to get Nace together, but c'mon...Nancy has known him for a week, they're from entirely different worlds (and generations), and Park is just a guest-starring role that probably won't be around much (if at all) in season 4. Besides, this is how love triangles work in the land of TV! Especially when two of the characters involved are MAIN characters and the other one is just a guest star. After last night's episode, I'm even more convinced (but again, this is just a theory) that we'll be getting a feelings confession and a kiss by the end of the season (although I truly believe something major will happen that keeps them from officially getting together until sometime next season, assuming we get one).

But take my words with a grain of salt, because I really don't know what I'm talking about.

#nace #nancy x ace #asks

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

Drewson fans knew they were fire, feels racist to claim only the Whites have chemistry with each other

Drewson were fire to Drewson fans, and that's fine, but they simply weren't to non-Drewson fans. Just like Nace is fire to Nace fans but not to non-Nace fans, and that's fine, too. Nobody ever claimed "only the Whites have chemistry with each other". Those are YOUR words. I’ll never understand why Drewson fans always feel the need to go straight to racism to make themselves feel better about the fact that their ship was never meant to be...[insert shrug emoji here]

#drewson #nace #asks #seriously the whole racism claim has gotten OLD #sorry nace was way more popular than drewson could ever be #but believe me it's NOT because of their skin color #and to claim otherwise is just DUMB

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

I don’t get the obsession with Nick and Nancy in the show. George and Nick are a hell of a good representation and mean a lot to many people! Nick and Nancy in the tv show universe would never work.

There weren't actually a whole lot of people obsessed with Nick and Nancy...which is I believe one of the many reasons why they didn't last. Nancy and Nick have WAY MORE CHEMISTRY as friends than they ever did as lovers. Nick and George are indeed a far superior couple. They work so well together and just make more sense. Just like Nancy and Ace make more sense. The writers made some good choices with their ships—sorry if you don't all agree with that!

#nick x george #fanson #nace #asks

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

“more dead than Nancy’s two moms combined” i’m laughing respectfully

LOL wasn't that just SO TERRIBLE but also at the same time just SO FUNNY?

#asks #sorry nancy's moms #but we had to laugh at that

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

I think you should know that your stuff is circulating twitter and that’s maybe what’s going on

Oh dear. That's never a good thing.

#asks #it was only a matter of time #does this make me twitter famous or nah

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

Oy vey. Imagine being one of those 004 people in the ND fandom that dislike nace and feel the need to try so hard to invalidate them as the endgame and Alex and Kennedy’s work too just because their ship is more dead than Nancy’s two moms combined. Go touch some grass or something.

Now THIS is an anonymous ask I can get behind! LOL. But seriously...when somebody claims Kennedy and Alex have no chemistry, I automatically know that person is a troll. The chemistry between those two is INSANE. It's the reason so many people started shipping Nace long before the show even started alluding to them ever becoming a thing (and it's why the writers decided to put them together in the first place). The support this ship has is also insane. It's really only a small percentage of the fandom that doesn't ship them. And it's because the last anon WAS right—Nace is not a "good ship". They're a GREAT ship. And that just eats the antis up inside!

#nace #asks

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

Imagine getting so pressed people don’t drool over two characters giving nothing but breathing the same air 🌬

Imagine sending someone on tumblr a million anonymous asks in one night because you're sad that the ship you don't like grows closer to becoming canon with every new episode that airs. If you'd like to start sending me your asks under your username like an adult, we can continue the conversation. Otherwise, I'm going to stop responding to you because your trolling has become boring.

#asks #trolls just be trolling

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

Nace will happen but that doesn’t make them a good ship, just to pair the spare two white characters left after breaking up Nancy and Nick for no real reason, and then using Gil to villainize a poc. Nace is bottom of the barrel stuff, even for Nancy Drew. 🤷🏻‍♀️ You can’t tell me they actually have any spark or any chemistry, they literally just stand there with no emotion in their eyes. It’s not compelling but it sure is forced!

Hey, we're all entitled to our own opinions, and chemistry is subjective, no? But when 98% of the fandom all ship the same thing, it's pretty safe to say they ARE a "good ship", and NOT "bottom of the barrel stuff". Sounds to me like you're just upset you're part of the remaining 2%. It's okay, though. We Nace shippers have a blast shipping them, and anytime you'd like to join us, we will welcome you with open arms.

#nace #asks

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

I bet the Nace anti is just one person trying to act all brave because they decided to send an ask anonymously 🤣

Oh, it's most definitely just one person—the one lone person in the whole entire fandom who actually doesn't ship Nace. It's gotta be pretty lonely for them!

#asks #thanks for the NON anonymous ask #i don't mind anonymous ones #but if you're going to be a negative nancy and talk smack about the show's most popular ship #at least be brave enough to show everyone your name #ya know?

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

Ace is his own person, let’s not relegate him to Nancy’s woobified himbo boyfriend. He’s so much more and his life doesn’t revolve around Nancy. Nancy doesn’t even know about his living situation or the blow up he had with his parents

Please point me to where I "relegated him to Nancy's woobified himbo boyfriend"? Or insinuated that his life revolves around Nancy? Although, to be fair, he himself has pretty much said his life revolves around Nancy. He has stated how working with her has given him a sense of purpose (that he never would have had without her). So maybe go whine at the writers about it and not me?

Also, what makes you think Nancy doesn't know about his living situation or his fight with his parents? Most things like that on this show are often discussed off-camera between episodes. I'm pretty sure Nancy found out that same night about Ace's living situation and fight with his parents since she spent that evening at the place Ace is now staying at and everyone else knew about it. But if it makes you feel better to believe she doesn't know about it, then you do you, I guess.

#nace #asks #we get it #you're not a nace fan #but they're going to happen #so you might want to consider getting on board the ship #it's actually a really great place to be!

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

Ace would do what he does for Nancy for any of the Drew Crew, that’s who he is. Biggest cheerleader?? Are you a bughead?

LOL, nope. I don't even watch Riverdale, sorry.

Would Ace do those things for the rest of the Drew Crew? Maybe. But we don't know for sure because he simply hasn't done those things for anyone else, has he? Nope. Just for Nancy. And even if he had done them for other people, that still wouldn't mean he loves Nancy any less.

Why are the Nace-antis out stalking the Nace tag in full force today? Don't y'all have better things to do with your time? Or are you all just the same one person?

#nace #asks #it keeps things spicy though #this is normally the most peaceful fandom #and then every once in a while a drewson comes around #or maybe an old owen fan or something #idk #and they want to try and start something #it's kinda cute actually

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

Listen I think Nancy is infatuated by the idea of Ace, but she isn’t in love with him. You cannot be in love with someone without dating. They hardly know anything about each other yet, they only just met like 3 months ago when the show started. Ace and Nancy need to develop more together (like George and Nick) because right now they just glance at each other, and that’s not love

You can ABSOLUTELY be in love with someone without dating. What is dating? Going out to dinner and a movie and making out/having sex—all things you can do with someone while also NOT being in love with them. Being in love has nothing to do with dating. And sure, Nancy and Ace have only known each other for 5 months (it's December now and they met on the 4th of July), but look at all they've been through with each other during that time. It's very easy to understand why Nancy would fall in love with Ace in that short period of time—because he instantly became her biggest ally. Her biggest supporter. Her biggest cheerleader. He has dropped everything for her whenever she's needed him. He has given her moral support. HE RISKED HIS ENTIRE FUTURE BY BREAKING HER FATHER OUT OF PRISON, THUS SAVING CARSON'S LIFE. He drank what could have been poison to prove she was right with her theory it was water and to keep her from getting arrested. Would you like me to keep going? And it's easy to see why Ace would fall for Nancy in that short period of time. Because working with her has given his life purpose. He said so himself.

Nancy and Ace have grown over 3 seasons to become close friends who know each other better than anyone else. If you truly believe all they do is "just glance at each other" you are clearly watching a different show from the rest of us.

#nace #nancy x ace #asks #seriously though #there is a reason why a majority of nancy drew viewers ship nace #it's a top tier love story #handled with care #but you are certainly allowed not to ship it if you don't want to!

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

Ace will realize his feelings as soon as Nancy gets together with Park. Its a role reversal from s2 but now it’s Ace who’s too late. Tbh the writers have done nothing Nace this season except for the fakeout baiting. Even Amanda & Ace’s breakup had nothing to do with Nancy/Nace. It’s clear to me Park is a real love interest bc he’s being developed with Nancy outside of Ace. Narratively he has not been used to develop Nace or push them forward. Like you said, Park & Ace haven’t even met yet

Ace is definitely going to realize his feelings once he sees Nancy interacting with Park. But as to whether or not Nancy and Park "get together" or "Park is a real love interest" solely depends on how long they plan on having Park on the show. I personally can't see him lasting past this season, but of course, I could be very wrong about that!

The thing with Park, and why I'm not buying him as a real love interest for Nancy, is that they've been building up to Nace since season one and have become more obvious about it with time. I actually disagree with you—they have done Nace this season. We've seen Nancy struggling with her feelings for Ace, and we've seen Ace very [painfully] slooooowwwwly start to realize she means a lot more to him than he thought. They've had some great moments so far in season 3...they just haven't had a lot of them.

I just don't see Park as being anything more than a catalyst for Ace to realize his feelings for Nancy...a direct parallel to Nancy with Amanda in season 2. It wasn't until Nancy saw Ace flirting with Amanda and saw him in a relationship with her that she started to realize she didn't like seeing him with someone else. She was clearly jealous of Amanda. Ace was also clearly jealous of Gil, mind you, but he was able to explain it away because Gil was toxic, and Ace mistook that jealousy for just being a concerned friend. Nancy didn't have that same luxury, because Amanda was a nice person, and so that's why Nancy came to recognize her feelings a lot sooner than Ace has.

Maybe Park is going to stick around for season 4 and really is being set up to be a "real love interest"...but if that's the case, I really don't see what the point would be. Nace has been a 3-season slow burn, and making it any slower than it already has been by putting Nancy into a serious relationship with someone else would pretty much kill the ship for a lot of viewers. Because while, yeah, we'd get some pining from Ace for a while, eventually he would just move on and he'd end up in his own serious relationship, and suddenly Nace would become nothing but a distant memory until the writers decided to give it a try again....but let's be brutally honest, here: there aren't enough guaranteed seasons left in this show for that kind of scenario. And the writers know this.

I truly believe they're working toward a big, romantic moment between Nancy and Ace by the end of season 3, with them officially getting together near the end of season 4. If the season 3 finale wraps up the FHK storyline, Park literally has no reason to stay in Horseshoe Bay. So, unless Nancy leaves HB and follows him back to Boston, I don't really see how a relationship between them would actually work.

And lastly, let's not forget we still know nothing about Park. I still don't trust him, and as far as we know he could be the Frozen Hearts Killer, or a member of The Road Back, or one of Temperance's evil sidekicks. So I won't even consider him to be a serious contender for Nancy's heart until it's confirmed he's not a Big Bad.

#nace #nancy x ace #ace x nancy #sorry for the length of this answer #chances are good if you ask me a question i'm going to ramble on for 60k words #and barely any of it will be coherent #also these are just my opinions #i've never claimed my opinions are good #just that they are opinions

[thatgirlwhowritesbooks]

So. About the whole Nancy/Park thing...

I don’t think it’s going to happen. I know some of the showrunners/writers were boasting about some big love triangle for the season, but we’ve now completed eight out of thirteen episodes, and there isn’t even a hint of a triangle yet. I honestly don’t see Agent Park being a major character that goes into season 4, therefore I don’t see the “love triangle” making it past 3x13.

For starters, Park really isn’t giving off any vibes that he’s into Nancy in that way. Intrigued by her, definitely. And why wouldn’t he be? She’s just as good of a detective as he is, yet she’s only 19 but hasn’t gone through the training/years of college he did to get there. But I don’t get any romantic or lustful vibes from him. Now, from Nancy? Sure. We’ve seen the way she’s looked at him a couple of times, with a soft, almost wistful gaze. But that can be easily explained away without coming to the conclusion that she’s falling for him.

First of all, let’s just acknowledge that it’s CANON that Nancy is in love with Ace. She doesn’t just have some silly little crush on him, nor does she just want to jump his bones because he’s hot. What she feels for him is actual love and she wants to be with him. But, she thinks her love is unrequited. And she’s trying to get over her feelings so that they don’t accidentally just come out someday and ruin the friendship she has with him. So, right now, it’s easy for her to get distracted by someone else. Because she wants to be. Pursuing a relationship with any other guy would be so much easier than telling her best friend she’s in love with him.

But that’s not the main reason Nancy has been giving those looks to Park. I’m not even sure those looks have been romantic in nature, but more of just looks of awe. Nancy is floored that somebody in law enforcement is finally taking her seriously. Sure, McGinnis finally came around, but he made her life hell before that. And Tamura? That man was (at least at first) a grouchy skeptic who was constantly following her around, just waiting for her to screw something up so he could get her and her friends in trouble. And now, enter Park, who not only is very accepting (maybe a little too accepting???) of the supernatural, but he’s also appreciative of Nancy’s efforts to help, and treats her with respect. Nancy isn’t used to that. So, of course she’s going to be taken aback by him. And maybe she’ll even confuse that for a small crush on him. But whatever she may feel or thinks she may feel for Park, it pales in comparison to what she feels for Ace.

Okay, so, eight episodes into the season, and not only has the triangle not begun yet, but Park and Ace haven’t even met yet. And as soon as they do? Any prospect of a triangle will be over. Why? Because Park is going to see right away that Nancy is in love with Ace. He’ll probably detect Ace’s feelings, too. The man is a profiler for the FBI. In 3x08 he mentioned his psych residency. Near the end of the episode, when he mentioned Nancy’s “tell”, it was supposed to come off as an, “Awww! He noticed that about her because he’s romantically interested in her!” moment (and I think maybe Nancy saw it that way), but it really wasn’t. The man is observant. It’s part of his job. He can read people very well. And Nancy hasn’t exactly been subtle about her feelings for Ace when she’s around him. Literally the only one at this point who hasn’t caught on to the fact she’s in love with him is Ace himself (because he’s in such a deep state of denial). So you can’t tell me that as soon as Park sees Nancy and Ace together he’s not going to pick up on the same “vibe” Amanda picked up on in 2x13. He’s going to know there’s something there. He’s going to know they’re in love with each other. And I really don’t think he’s going to want to get in the middle of that, especially since he’s only known Nancy for maybe a week at this point, and also because it would be kinda silly for a much older, successful FBI agent to compete with a 21-year-old for the affections of a 19-year-old.

In the end, I think this “love triangle” is going to mainly just exist in Ace’s imagination. He’s going to catch one of Nancy’s looks at Park and automatically assume she’s into him. And he’s going to see them working closely together and think he’s being replaced as Nancy’s investigating partner. It will be what finally opens his eyes to how he feels about Nancy—and it will either light a fire under him and make him confess to her out of fear of losing her to another man, or it will make him bury his feelings even deeper than they’ve already been buried for the last few months. But I really don’t see Nancy and Park engaging in any sort of love affair with each other. If they were going to, Park would have been in every single episode this season and he and Nancy would have had way more development than they’ve actually had.

Of course, I’m probably wrong about all this. Maybe Ace doesn’t even fully realize his feelings this season (after eight episodes of him STILL being oblivious to them, I wouldn’t be surprised). Maybe Park will be around next season (assuming the show gets renewed) so that they can do a proper love triangle. But what would be the point of that? We already know Nace is endgame. We already know that any relationship she may have with any other guy is just going to be a placeholder for her eventual relationship with Ace. But I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

But with only five episodes remaining for the season, the chances of anything happening between Nancy and Park are very slim—because otherwise it will come across as very rushed and out of place. There is literally no way that knowing someone for a week can compare to everything Nancy has been through with Ace for the last few months, so even if they do get together briefly, the only purpose of it will be to distract Nancy from the fact she’s hopelessly in love with Ace—which is something no “love triangle” will ever be able to change.

#nace #nancy x ace #ace x nancy #sorry this was long #i just have a lot to say about this #and i didn't even say all i wanted to #i was definitely hoping for more romance this season (that was promised by the showrunners themselves) #and would have expected by now that ace would have had his realizations #but this is now officially turning into the slowest burn in slow burn history #but hopefully the pay-off will be worth it!