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🌪️ Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister Aesthetic 🌪️

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this ad is so fucking funny to me, but i can’t explain why

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ohhh has everyone seen QuirkByAbby on etsy? beacause their nd designs-

they're really good y'all

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I knew these bitches were loaded. That's a fucking POPPY DADA in their REC ROOM

(Wow the CALLBACKS in this game!!!)

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Did you meet the new girl? Yeah the one from France who showed up during winter break for some reason. Yeah the one who didn't bring clothes but brought a picture of her friends. Yeah she took like ten minutes to take my picture, I had to ask her what she was doing. Yeah, she kept shooting the puck into her own goal in air hockey. Yeah apparently she climbed a tree after a squirrel in the middle of the night --

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Only a limited run of physical copies for KEY.

Really bummed, this is definitely a fandom of physical media enthusiasts

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the cast of mystery of the seven keys

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YA'LL FATIMA HANGS UP THE PURCELL PHOTO I NEVER NOTICED THAT THAT IS SO CUTE THOUGH

#you can actually hear her hanging it up when you sort taffy

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Given the frequency of airlines losing her luggage, Nancy probably goes for quantity to ensure her best shot at having clothing. Her dad is a lawyer, she can afford it.

So Dave's Ass aside-- is that ALL Nancy's luggage? ??? ? ? ?

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Brigitte with her eyes so bright

Looks toward heaven at midnight

On the longest night of year

That’s the one she holds most dear

“Starry friends,” she’s often heard to say

“How I wish that I could make you stay”

She knows though they can’t remain

Time will bring them round again

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Playing DAN and HAU next to each other is a great example of HER placing a game in a foreign country and then having a cast from everywhere else. We don’t see this in CUR, SAW, or CAP and it is also mixed with VEN, ICE, SPY, LIE, and TMB. I understand that in a global society there will be people from all around the world in a given spot but I feel in HAU specifically it is a slap in the face to the Irish to have a British cast. 

Others have spoken about the dismissive attitude towards the very valid concerns the Irish would have with the English. Kyler herself displays a common attitude of the English educated in not knowing of the atrocities the English enacted on the Irish. Donal is a presented as overly hating the English with no perceivable reason - so he seems unreasonable when anyone who knows about Irish history would know he is perfectly within his rights. 

He absolutely would have been an adult during the Troubles, and is at most a single generation removed from Irish independence. We do not know what he did or who he lost, but we know that he watched others be killed over these issues. All of those in the story were alive for the Good Friday agreement - which turns 25 next month. 

Another hit is the near complete lack of Irish in the story. We have some names sure, and Ogham runes, but the Irish language is beautiful and there has been so much work put into preserving it. It survived years of illegality and of people being outright murdered for speaking it. We know HER can integrate language, and they have in so many other games. Irish should be a part of this. (Also all signage should be in Irish and English because while there are two languages Irish should technically receive priority.) 

The Irish Diaspora is huge, mostly because of specific steps that were taken by the English to exterminate Irish language, people, and culture and replace it with their own. Irish potato famine you say? Yeah, we can blame the English for how bad that was. We can blame the English in general for the shift to farming the land rather than being more pasture based. 

Ireland has been essentially at peace for most millennial lives (and typically Ireland tries to stay out of outside wars - which is why the “military type” comment at the end of HAU seemed out of place) but as we have seen this past year a match could still set everything off. My dad, who has competed professionally in fishing, recalls not being able to fish in the waterways growing up because the English prohibited it. One of my grans ran a B&B where she educated English guests on what had been done to the Irish. Irish history is rarely taught properly (that is to say, with the Irish perspective in mind) outside of Ireland, which is a true shame. 

#yes #and I do have experience with French culture and it is slightly more accurate than HAU #there are old Irish men who swore off alcohol for the church or something #and you'll find them in the pubs #the normal ones #with all the other people

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Playing DAN and HAU next to each other is a great example of HER placing a game in a foreign country and then having a cast from everywhere else. We don’t see this in CUR, SAW, or CAP and it is also mixed with VEN, ICE, SPY, LIE, and TMB. I understand that in a global society there will be people from all around the world in a given spot but I feel in HAU specifically it is a slap in the face to the Irish to have a British cast. 

Others have spoken about the dismissive attitude towards the very valid concerns the Irish would have with the English. Kyler herself displays a common attitude of the English educated in not knowing of the atrocities the English enacted on the Irish. Donal is a presented as overly hating the English with no perceivable reason - so he seems unreasonable when anyone who knows about Irish history would know he is perfectly within his rights. 

He absolutely would have been an adult during the Troubles, and is at most a single generation removed from Irish independence. We do not know what he did or who he lost, but we know that he watched others be killed over these issues. All of those in the story were alive for the Good Friday agreement - which turns 25 next month. 

Another hit is the near complete lack of Irish in the story. We have some names sure, and Ogham runes, but the Irish language is beautiful and there has been so much work put into preserving it. It survived years of illegality and of people being outright murdered for speaking it. We know HER can integrate language, and they have in so many other games. Irish should be a part of this. (Also all signage should be in Irish and English because while there are two languages Irish should technically receive priority.) 

The Irish Diaspora is huge, mostly because of specific steps that were taken by the English to exterminate Irish language, people, and culture and replace it with their own. Irish potato famine you say? Yeah, we can blame the English for how bad that was. We can blame the English in general for the shift to farming the land rather than being more pasture based. 

Ireland has been essentially at peace for most millennial lives (and typically Ireland tries to stay out of outside wars - which is why the “military type” comment at the end of HAU seemed out of place) but as we have seen this past year a match could still set everything off. My dad, who has competed professionally in fishing, recalls not being able to fish in the waterways growing up because the English prohibited it. One of my grans ran a B&B where she educated English guests on what had been done to the Irish. Irish history is rarely taught properly (that is to say, with the Irish perspective in mind) outside of Ireland, which is a true shame. 

#Bringing this back for St. Paddy's Day

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Not me tormenting my Gen Z private school valedictorian candidates by requiring they cite a published book in their papers.

You'd think I'd required them to have a signed first edition. (A Waverly student would get it for me.)

#warnings at waverly academy #this is a dual enrollment class and they have access to multiple libraries #not supposed to be mission impossible #and yet #I even allowed e-books

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IT’s HERE!!! DDI Ambience 😍🙌🐋