assigning each of the party a Nancy Drew PC game + some descriptions for context because it's #MyNicheInterest
Will — Message in a Haunted Mansion. the haunted mansion is a b&b in san francisco. it's being run by two women who are totally lesbians. it was made in 2000 so one of the lesbians is whimsigoth and she hosts a seance. (controversial amongst christian players back in the day for having a seance scene.) despite being a very early game, it holds up as a Scary Game, and its crunchiness and lofi quality only enhance it. and there's an old west love story <3
Dustin — the Curse of Blackmoor Manor. EASY choice. it's in my top 3 favorite games, it is chock full of puzzles, and they are HARD. it's nancy at the kitschiest english manor and the stepmother thinks she's turning into a werewolf. there's a conservatory with a carnivorous plant. you practice alchemy and risk causing an explosion. nancy also gets made fun of for not knowing who Oliver Cromwell is.
More under the cut so I'm not longposting
Lucas — the Haunted Carousel. a bright, fun, classic game that has really no faults and is just a good time all around. you solder a circuit board, fix a broken arcade cabinet, play games, lathe a wooden dowel, and talk to a robot a guy made so his daughter can remember her dead mom.
Mike — the White Wolf of Icicle Creek. a lodge in Alberta with great cozy vibes turns out to be an absolute fucking slog of a game that feels like it's fighting with you from finishing it. and yet I don't hate it really. I rank it as a mid-tier game. the story alludes to some really interesting stuff about radiation, but that part got cut for some reason. also, there's a wolf. and Lou Talbot:
Max — Danger on Deception Island. biking around foggy Washington state and getting nosy because the woman (also totally a lesbian btw) who's hosting you is hated by everyone in town and got her houseboat wrecked. everyone talks heated politics about an orca. if you forget to click on your helmet before you bike at any point you get a game over. the same applies if you forget your life vest while kayaking. everyone loves this game because it's perfectly lovely
El — Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon — nancy is a plus-one of the Hardy Boys' on a wealthy socialite's train trip through the Nevada desert on a train custom built by a miner that's supposedly haunted by his dead wife. gemstones, dancing shoes, dolls, and a cop who's a stupid asshole. one of my favorite games <3
Erica — the Secret of Shadow Ranch. the horse game!!! a fan favorite despite plenty of arduous sections because it's so charming! and you get to ride a horse! but not before all of your chores and a ten-question horse quiz! another love story but this game really features it and it's very romantic and they have the Handsome cowboy flirt with you ;)
Bonus Nancy — The Final Scene. this game is not fucking around from minute one. nancy's friend maya is going to interview a movie star at a dying theater set to be demolished but maya is immediately KIDNAPPED and held hostage and you have three days to find her starting NOW until they swing that wrecking ball!!! and by the way NO ONE is helpful!!! BUT the theater is very beautiful and has a rich history connected to Harry Houdini! 😄
Bonus Jonathan — Legend of the Crystal Skull. stuck in an eccentric recently-deceased dentist's house in rainy Louisiana with his estranged goth great-nephew who's his last living family member and in charge of settling the estate. a lot of cemeteries, crypts, teeth, 25 unique glass eyes, and dead parents 🥀 my favorite game <33
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No but like, this is the thing about Sam carrying Frodo and the ring up the mountain. It's a cool scene in the movie, but they don't explain what's happening at all. The ring at this point is so heavy Frodo can't even lift his head. It's like essentially a cinder-block he has to carry around his neck. And finally he gives up and Sam offers to carry him and:
DO YOU GUYS GET IT? THE RING IS A BURDEN, BUT FRODO ISN'T. FRODO DOESN'T WEIGH ANYTHING TO SAM. SAM CAN LIFT HIM EASILY!!!! HE'S NOT A BURDEN AT ALL I —
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“Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”
— I Know What You Think of Me, Tim Kreider for the New York Times
after YEARS of seeing this quote online and finding it to be the most deeply and resoundingly profound writing i finally found the source article and absolutely nothing could prepare me for this opening paragraph
yall are so fucking weird about gnc people. a woman wears a suit and she's "conforming to the patriarchy". a man wears a skirt and he's Secretly A Trans Egg. have you considered It's Fabric
I once said something along the lines of "why does everyone assume that every gnc cis man is an egg" and was harassed for it and sarcastically told that obviously the treatment of cis men should be our biggest concern and that I didn't know anything about egg culture (I do). You do realize that gnc people are queer too, right? You realize I can concern myself with "smaller" problems, because I love gnc people and am concerned about their well-being? You realize that telling people they must be trans because of their presentation is just as bad as telling someone must be cis for the same reasons?
I'm never going to shut up about how shitty the queer community treats gender non-conforming people, especially gender non-conforming men.
also the treatment of gnc cis men tells me a lot about how you'd treat gnc trans men. like, you think that if a man likes feminine clothing he's secretly a woman? do you know how many people have told me i'm not "actually trans" because i like feminine clothing? stop reinforcing gender norms i am Begging
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recently saw this screenshot in the wild and lost my mind because i knew it wasnt supposed to say girl. its ladykins. its get off the cross ladykins. i know this because ladykins is not something my brain could make up and i remember ladykins. and i was sincerely wondering if someone put in the work to censor ladykins for some inscrutable purposes but then i looked it up and
turns out that actually rupaul made the same tweet twice with 1 word changed 8 months apart. he meditated on this for 8 months and 5 days and the word ladykins came to him. i initially thought he copy pasted the first tweet but i dont think thats true anymore i dont think he was operating with any memory of the first tweet i think these words were always in him and will always be. second tweet did way worse by the way. the people did not respond to ladykins
