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“i can fix him” he has a tesserae fetish. he is beyond saving

#nancy drew #her interactive #ven #the phantom of venice

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It's like my compass is off. My sense of true north. And I'm supposed to be an adult now, so why do I feel so lost? ↳ 4×01 "The Dilemma of the Lovers' Curse"

#tv shows #nancy drew #nancy drew cw #nancy in that blue striped body suit? um. yes

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The Black Door Theory - aka I think I’ve connected some S4 mystery dots

I’m currently leaning toward the idea that having your memory erased/rewritten at the Black Door eventually requires a human sacrifice. And that’s what the 8 corpses represent, those that were sacrificed so that the town “sinners” could wipe their memories clean of some horrible truths. But it isn’t as simple as a 1 to 1 trade, where a 1 memory wipe requires 1 human sacrifice. I think its more complex than that. 

We know of two “sins” so far, both of which occurred in the 1990′s:

1) 4x02 Logan Rhodes/Magpie Lake/Judge Abbott coverup (occurred in 1996)

2) 4x04  - Councilwoman Brie watching Jim Stanley, the Director of the original Killer Hook movie die and not helping him back when she was working on set (occurred in the 1990′s).

That’s two town sins occurring in the 1990′s - but only one corpse seems to be from that period - India Burnett (the most recently deceased corpse - died in 1998). The second most recent death occurred in the 1970′s.

So that is definitely not a 1:1 trade. Two 1990′s sins (that we know of), but only one 1990′s body doesn’t add up. 

So what I’m thinking is that maybe the Black Door has a limit - a maximum number of times it can be used before it stops working. And, as long as the door’s limit isn’t hit, the memories will live contained inside the black door. But once the door hits its limit, the only way to get it to work again is to transfer the  memories it is holding to a human sacrifice host (manifesting as black sludge). 

And that’s how our 8 corpses died - they became the new vessels for the sins of the town. 

So how will this all play out? Anyone’s guess…but…..

nancyaces theorized on Twitter that maybe India is actually Tristan’s biological mother which is just a *chef’s kiss* kind of theory. If India died in 1998, that would make Tristan somewhere in the vicinity of 22 or 23 years old depending on when he was born. So it makes sense.

I’ve also been wondering about the Glasses and Tristan. Like, we know the Glasses are horrible people who won’t hesitate to kill. But all the best villains have redeeming qualities. And I wonder if the one good and pure thing about them is that they genuinely love and care for Tristan.

From the trailer, it looks like Tristan is close to death (someone resembling Tristan in Nancy’s arms with an arrow visible in his chest - “you are not going to die tonight!”).

I wonder if Tristan does indeed die, and if the Glasses are either responsible for his death OR not responsible but simply desperate to erase their memory of the pain of losing their son. But when they try to do so, the Black Door is at its limit.

So they decide to make Nancy the next vessel so that the Black Door can be reset. Just noticing the blood in Nancy’s palm here…and the knife next to the Glasses. 

Anyway, I’ve been marinating on this for days. Its amazing what your brain can start to process when Nancy and Ace aren’t allowed to interact for a whole episode. 

Things I’m still marinating on:

1) Even with the 4x06 episode title The Web of Yesterdays, the weird Tristan jumping through a worm-hole looking scene in the trailer, AND India’s yacht having the heavy-handed name “Lost Time”… I’m hesitant to believe proper time travel is going to be introduced. I’m thinking more that it might be reminiscent of the Tom Riddle diary and pensieve scenes in Harry Potter - where some supernatural artifact allows the Drew Crew to go back and visit things that happened in the past. But, like in Harry Potter, they can’t interfere or change anything. They can only watch the past history happen around them like its happening in a movie. No one from the past can see or interact with them or vice versa. I think they’ll learn more about some possible sins in this episode that have occurred at different times in the past.

2) I’m purposely not addressing the how/what/why of the curse here. Too much for one post.

#nancy drew cw #nancy drew spoilers #Tv shows #honestly the corpses being a sacrifice to the black door makes a lot of sense #this season is...wild #i mean season one we had the iglaeca and the whole Nancy's mom gave birth to her in a cliff thing... #but you know

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Remember when we thought it was a fluke that we didn’t get a 4x02 trailer and now we’re just flying blind every week during the most stressful season of Nancy Drew ever?

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Your favorite flowers, and the flowers on your favorites, start keeping them in mind, too.

#sha #the secret of shadow ranch #nancy drew #her interactive #Dirk Valentine #loved #Francis Humber #with his whole heart

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But it is not worth the risk.

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This isn’t everything (it’s missing a lot of my foreign editions and some of my blue backs) but here is part of my Nancy Drew collection.

#ahhhh #this was my set up #I have a trillion more books in my collection now #i need to catalogue it

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Nickelodeon 2005 Magazine: HeR Interactive celebrates Nancy’s 75th birthday!

YALL 😍

#oh #14 year old me 2005 would have diiiied #nancy drew #her interactive

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#art #history

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#dan howell #youtube #dystopia daily #this episode was...oddly relatable

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#animals #otters

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I know it's such a highly popular dinosaur but are they any interesting facts about the Tyrannosaurus Rex that isn't well known? I still love the Rexes wishing more dinosaur media treated it in the same way nature documentaries treat modern carnivores as animals just trying to surive and not just ripping up every living thing they encounter.

T. rex is actually one of the best studied (non-neornithine) dinosaurs ever, period. In fact, writing all the interesting facts we know about it is... more work than I particularly want to do right now, lol.

some things off the top of my head:

it wasn't built for moving fast in terms of miles per hour or whatever, but they were built for extreme cursoriality in other ways. Essentially, T. rex and its relatives were built for turning, quickly, on a dime. And they moved faster than the herbivores they were chasing. So these were animals built for short, surprise attacks on their prey. And ballet dancing

T. rex had the best sense of smell... ever. Like, ever ever. And its eyesight and hearing were good too. It had a fairly large brain for where it is in the dinosaur family tree, as well. Essentially, this was a dinosaur built to take in as much sensory info as possible, to pinpoint prey as quickly as possible.

T. rex aged kind of like people! IE, the process of going from infant -> sexually and skeletally mature adult takes about the same amount of time, with similar stages happening at similar times. So, T. rex had an awkward teenage phase! They were tall, but very skinny and lanky, and many researchers think that different ages of Tyrannosaurus filled different niches, with bigger rexes eating larger prey and the teens eating smaller faster dinosaurs.

That said, there's lots of evidence for familial groups and social life in Tyrannosaurs, based on fossilization patterns and footprint records. So it's very likely they took care of their young, and hunted in groups.

did they have feathers? no idea. they're big enough to have lost them for thermoregulation like many other dinosaurs did. they are in a group that have some big feathered animals, though, like Yutyrannus. Maybe babies had feathers and adults lost them. Maybe adults kept them some places and not others. We do know that there are parts of the Tyrannosaurus adult body that had scales. Beyond that - whether feathers were present too, or not - we don't know.

it was not skeletally sexually dimorphic. however, we do know that some tyrannosaurs were female because the fossilized when they were in the process of making eggs. during this process, dinosaurs - including living birds - deposit extra tissue in their bones called medullary bone. This tissue stores calcium to make eggshells from later. It's only present in actively ovulating female dinosaurs. So, we know some of our fossils were making eggs when they died!

the arms were small, yeah, but they were VERY strong. these weren't vestigial organs, yet, though their shortness was mainly due to the strengthening of the neck muscles. T. rex interacted with the world primarily with its head and jaws. The arms would have been helpful with holding on during mating, or possibly for display.

it wasn't a scavenger. it was an opportunist. No predators today avoid easy meals - life is all about minimizing energy spent to get more energy. But obligate scavengers tend to be flying organisms, ones that can cover huge distances, in order to find enough carrion. T. rex was definitely a predator, and had to hunt occasionally, but wouldn't turn up its nose at an easy meal.

T. rex lived all over western north america, right at the end of the age of dinosaurs. It was one of the most successful nonavian dinosaurs, ever, and would probably not have gone extinct so quickly if there hadn't been an asteroid.

#dinosaurs #t rex #teen rex

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"Very approachable. Unlike landmines."

#dylan b hollis

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get his ass

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Malte Gårdinger as August in Young Royals (2021)

#tv shows #malte gårdinger #august horn #crown prince erik #fave

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#lil nas x #Music

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ALEX SAXON as ACE NANCY DREW 4.02 — “The Maiden's Rage”

#Nancy Drew #Nancy Drew CW #tv shows #ace nancy drew