Bling for Sassy Detectives

Mrs. Drake (If she were American) - she screams conservative

Clara Thornthon - Trump would personally give her a government kickback for being an American-based business (and would ask zero questions about workplace safety/employee treatment)

Ed and Bet Rawley - I'm sorry they have a conservative vibe

Ollie Randall - always votes republican cause he thinks democrats would take his guns away

Paula Santos - a true lover of capitalism

Tino Balducci (TRN, ICE) - he responds to a big ego and totally thinks he and Trump are on the same level of celebrity.

Emily Griffen (DOG) - you KNOW she always votes Republican. She thinks Trump is a really smart businessman and she aspires to such success.

Ingrid Corey (CAR) - she's giving anti-vaxxer

@papenniesandbentoboxes also made a really good point about this on Instagram a few days back as well. Rae mentions the books, and why the games were created, including the different games with political issues in them.

Rae mentions SSH, but I just want to re-iterate how important that game is. I grew up in an extremely Christian, conservative, homeschooled household. I didn’t really meet people different from me. I grew up believing a lot of ignorant things. I didn’t play SSH fully until my teens, but I had played part of it at my cousin’s house when I was really young, maybe like 7 or 8, maybe even before that. I remember being worried, because Alejandro seemed too extreme to me, and was “spreading lies” about the US. I knew if my parents knew about it, they’d say something like “you shouldn’t be playing that game” and then I’d get it taken away, and if my parents thought something was bad, I should think it was bad too. And also, I thought I was suppose to agree with Nancy.

Later on when I actually played the game, I’d been exposed to more things and agreed with Alejandro, and was annoyed at how dumb they made Nancy sound. But later I realized that was on purpose; Nancy is wrong on purpose, she has an arc in that game and it’s purposefully trying to teach young players- players like me. Despite me initially not being receptive to the messaging, I think it stuck with me, and same for the other games.

Despite not always doing everything correctly, HeR always tried. They always tried to give you different perspectives and I am so so grateful to them for that, and I think I truly do owe a lot of who I am to Nancy and the games.

(All characters start with 5/10 for being dads)

Franz Mittelmeier (Lucas’ Dad)

3/10

+2 works hard to keep the whole village safe.

-3 for being strangely absent in his son’s life. Like, yeah you live in a castle but YOUR SON IS A MENACE DO NOT LEAVE HIM ALONE WITH HIS AUNT WHO NEEDS ANGER MANAGEMENT.

Hugh Penvellyn (Jane’s Father)

2/10

+2 being a diplomat to whatever is cool, helping people or government or whatever is fine

-5 DONT LEAVE YOUR UNSTABLE DAUGHTER AND YOUR NEW WIFE IN A HUGE HOUSE THAT YOU LEFT IN THE HANDS OF YOUR AUNT WHO HATES ANYTHING THAT CANT PHOTOSYNTHESIZE. Ah but don’t forget they also live with the scary -RAIL NECK- tutor.

Ollie Randall (Father to Freddie)

8/10

+3 kinda a swell guy

+1 lets her play outside whenever she wants, and although I don’t want him to shoot the wolf im sure he just wants the place safe, especially with her around

-1 not playing outside with her 24/7 as he should

Brendan Malloy (Fiona’s Father)

9/10

-2 for creating DEATH TRAPS literally everywhere where his family could and DID literally die

+4 being a literal rocket scientist

+2 doing his best and clearly loving Fiona enough for her to be drawn to pieces of him after 80 years.

Whoever the heck Clara’s father was

0/10

-5 there are theories about this but whoever he was, he was a gross person who I would rather eat chalk then spend ten seconds with

Ezra Wickford (Dexter Egan’s Dad)

6/10

+10 for inventing chocolate milk

-8 for Dexter’s daddy issues and for probably never saying I love you

-1 for caring more about his castle

+1 for the genuine shame he felt about the way things went

Meryl Humber (Frances’ Father)

2/10

-10 for murdering her boyfriend

+5 for regretting it

-2 for probably actually not

+4 for really loving Frances enough to wait everyday for her to come home.

Gunnar Tonnisson (Edda Gunnarsdottir’s father)

10/10

-2 for turning into a sad sack who lashes out

+7 for his family being everything to him and loving them wholly and entirely, so much that it broke him

Jake Hurley (Train Dad)

10/10

+5 just for “take care of my train. it holds wonderful things”

-2 too much train love maybe neglected wife

+2 wife’s ghost on train so he loves it more

Magnus Kiljansson (Ship Father)

8/10

-3 was a little too obsessed with the gold on the ship

+5 but he wanted to study its history

+1 loved it literally more than anything else (including his girlfriend lol)

Mickey Malone (Dog Dad)

9/10

-2 was a mobster and didn’t plan on where his dogs would go if something happened to him

+6 loved his dogs so much they came back to haunt humanity

Bruno Bolet (Iggy and Bernie’s Dad)

10/10

-2 kinda just let his beds run wild, which may not be good in a domestic context

+7 LITERALLY gave them run of the house, took care and loved basically ever creature he came into contact with, no matter how creepy or weird it was

Carson Drew (Nancy’s Dad)

8/10

-6 lets daughter go on trips overseas ALONE and WITHOUT MONEY, even after she

Was threatened and brutally attacked by MULTIPLE ASSAILANTS

Dressed in a cat suit and danced at a night club for petty cash

Almost got kidnapped and literally had her best friend get kidnapped and trapped on an island

Was threatened by a crime ring, the mafia, and a terrorist organization

Had multiple criminals tell her they would “get back” at her for this (even once who never made it to jail)

+2 for being a good wholesome guy, and a lawyer at that

+2 ALWAYS being there for Nancy

+2 actually giving her the freedom she needs to save the world over and over again

After over 15 years of playing Stay Tuned for Danger, and having had to use some online hints to finish it the first time, it was two years ago that I finally uncovered the clue to cutting the correct order of wires inside the bomb.

On a stool inside Mattie’s dressing room is a script pamphlet in which the Serena lines are highlighted in yellow. When you click on the script, it appears a bit distant from the screen, then you can click on it again so it can take up the whole screen. As it turns out, the pages on the pamphlet can be turned, but ONLY if you click on the bottom right corner when it is not in close up mode. The sequence of the colors on the pages represent the color sequence of the wires, and since yellow is the color found on the first page, the first wire that has to be cut is the yellow one. The second page includes part of a paragraph circled in red. The third page has a circular orange stain circling a couple of line segments. On the fourth page is four words underlined and the name “Serena Livingstone” circled in blue. Furthermore, the word of each color (red, orange, blue) is surrounded by the appropriate markings on the pages, except for the one on the first page.

So for all Nancy Drew games fans who have been searching for any kind of clue to the bomb puzzle, this is indeed it. 😉👍🏻

Also, looking at the script, the colors appear in the text near their markings:

1. Among the yellow highlighting:

Yuri (interrupting): You know what?! You know that that yellow-bellied poor excuse of a man doesn’t deserve your love, Serena? Is that what you know?

2. Within the red circle:

She is wearing a full length red gown.

3. Within the orange stain:

MIREILLE holds up a piece of orange and dangles it in front of JORGEN’s mouth.

4. Underlined in blue:

JORGEN: For you and me, Love, it’s smoothe sailing and clear blue skies ahead!

Did some sketches of Nancy Drew fashion while browsing the ndfashionmonth tag.

Inspired by the following

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DDI: nancydrewrings

TRT:  nancydrewandcrew

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