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reviewdiaries · 10 months

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Nancy x Ace and the case of miscommunication in 4x07

Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of their actions and a butt ton of miscommunication coming back to bite my poor idiots in the butt.

Just when Ace thought they’d had a moment and could go back to what they had been to each other, he’s finally started to realise that isn’t possible. Thanks Tristan, I may not trust you in the slightest, but at least you’ve given both Nancy and Ace a wake up call that action (or inaction) has consequences and you can never go back to how things were no matter how much you may want to. And on that depressing life lesson, let’s dive straight into this episode.

Every episode offers a new snapshot into Ace and Nancy trying to find out how they fit together. In 4x04 they had no contact at all (and they were both miserable). In 4x05 Nancy enforced a colleagues space boundary (and they were both miserable). In 4x06 Ace tried to fall back into his acts of service love language by catching Chunky, and Nancy tried to explore other feelings that were heartbreak and misery, and lo, they were both miserable.

Suddenly we’re back to gravitating towards each other like magnets. For all Nancy’s declarations later in the episode that she needs space, she needs Ace to let her move on, she’s orbiting him like he’s her own personal sun again. On finding that Ace is at Nick’s she barges straight in and doesn’t shy away from talking to him, making eye contact with him, drinking in the sight of him as though she’s parched by the lack of him for a night.

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Throughout the game they move to be next to each other, Ace moves to help protect her. They are constantly in each other’s spaces, sniping at each other, caring for each other - back on the same team. Just look at how they riff off each other getting Nick on board at the start. This is them finally meeting each other in the same place again and it is beautiful to watch.

The whole episode is absolute gold, up there with 2x11 The Scourge of the Forgotten Rune for me (Nancy Drew is at its best when it embraces the insanity and has the whole crew together doing crazy things), but I want to focus on that moment when Ace comes back to The Claw to see Nancy again. Sure he maintains that he’s there to pick up the silver, but he knew she would be there on her own and he is so desperate to try and talk to her without the others present and get them back on the same page again that he returns long after everyone else has gone.

And Nancy knows who it is the moment she hears his footsteps. These are two people so attuned to the other that they don’t even need to see. She knows from the way he opens the door, from the tread of his boots, from the scent of his shampoo, from the stuttered breath when he catches sight of her, from the way her heartbeat trips over itself.

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She’s been having the arguments she wants to have with him over and over and over in her head the entire time she’s been cleaning, and finally he’s here so she doesn’t wait, doesn’t ease into it, just throws them headfirst into confronting it. It had felt like maybe things would be ok, even though she was feeling messy and confused about that dance with Tristan, and for a lot of the game night it had been. But then Chunky and she’s been angry and spoiling for this fight ever since.

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Because she wants Ace, she wants to be with him, to love him freely and without judgement. And not only does she still feel like he’s abandoned her, abandoned them. But she doesn’t know how to unpack what happened with Chunky. Ace was cornered when she pieced it together, flustered and unsure and George and Nick were there and he didn’t know how to explain all of it. That he was trying to do something for her, for them, that Chunky was a metaphor and he knew he had to let her go even though it’s killing him. Splits him clean in two every time she looks at him like that. And he was embarrassed, that he couldn’t bear the idea that she’d know - that he’d seen her with Tristan, that he’d done this for her, that his heart was stitched so messily to his sleeve when it comes to her.

He wasn’t able to tell her any of that - can barely express it to himself. Tongue tied up when it matters the most. He’s always been able to talk to Nancy, but now - now it’s like he can’t unpick the words from his throat, his chest. Push them out beyond his teeth, caught up behind the boulder of the I love you that’s jamming his throat.

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So she doesn’t understand - how could she? And she’s furious and spent the last hours arguing in her head so she’s spoiling for this fight, desperate to provoke something after so much uncertainty. She’s tried pleading, tried telling him how she feels, tried giving him space, and for so much of this day it’s felt almost normal between them. Except for wanting to touch him, wanting to kiss him, wanting to take him by the shoulders and shake him into understanding how much she needs him. But it’s no longer her curse, it’s our curse, the last shared connection between them.

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And it’s his words back in his face - wanting to go back as they were, as friends. And hearing them back hurts harder than it should, a punch to the solar plexus as he clenches his jaw against the pain. She’s not wrong, she’s not hurling accusations, not telling him anything new. But when they’ve been close, so close, so close to touching, to what they had before, suddenly it’s like ripping his chest open and handing her his still beating heart.

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She’s calling him out, direct eye contact, she’s not shying away from him, from this conversation. From everything painful they’ve been burying and pretending was fine. And he knows he deserves it, still can’t find the words to untangle it so she understands exactly why they can’t try again to break the curse. To make her understand that he cannot lose her, the world cannot lose her, their friends and her dads cannot lose her. But he will put himself in harm's way a hundred times, a thousand, to protect her. If it’s just his life on the line he will throw himself on it just to see her smile, to touch her face, kiss her lips again. But he can’t tell her, can’t formulate the sounds, so he just keeps messing up and lying and hurting her with how much he’s caught in a net of his own fear and pain.

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And he’s so close at this moment. This moment of acknowledging finally that he was wrong, that they can’t go back. He never truly wanted to, his heart was never in it. Nick was right, there was too much tangled up in their friendship - that was never all there was.

They can’t go back, but he’s so damn afraid of forward, of what it means, of the risks they would take. But it’s there, poised on the tip of his tongue, the set of his shoulders, the tightness of his jaw.

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He is so close to saying they should try. That he can’t bear not being with her, that seeing her dancing with another man was like ripping out his heart, plucking out his ribs one by one. But he’s so afraid that she doesn’t want that anymore, that it was just a passing interest (that he isn’t worth it, never worth it, will never be worth it) that he can’t put the words in her mouth, can’t suggest it, has to hear it from her. He sets her up for her to tell him she wants to be with him, wants to try again. Is poised on the precipice with his agreement to try again caught on his lips.

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But Nancy is so battered and bruised and afraid that he’ll just leave again if she opens herself up that when he doesn’t say he wants to try again, when he doesn’t take the opportunity that she left dangling like a promise, she shuts down. And despite what she just said, that they never lied to each other, she leaves that firmly in the past and lies now. Gaze moving away from Ace - she can’t look him in the eye and say this. She lies. Tells him that she wants him to let her move on.

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Her body can’t carry on the deceit, moves towards him even as she’s telling him to let her go. Catches herself at the last moment and pulls back. Only looks at him again when she’s sure she’s steady, pulled herself back, won’t reach for him, leaves her hands fisted on empty air at her sides.

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Ace was so braced for her saying they should try again, you can see the shock, the desperate fear as his stomach plummets at her words. He thought they were moving towards trying again, and she’s pushing him further away, feeding back into his fear that’s not enough.

And for a moment they are honest. A beautiful sweeping breath of air, a last salvation moment for both of each giving the opportunity to the other to break the stalemate they’ve reached.

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They are both in so much pain, both so desperate to protect the other that they’re twisting the knives in harder. Showing a soft spot to drive in the next. And Nancy thinks that maybe, maybe by clearing the air, by acknowledging how heartbroken she is, how hurt and desperate he is, that Ace will finally step up, undo the damage before it’s too late and tell her they’ll keep trying.

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Clean the wound before it festers and turns septic. She needs Ace like breathing, can’t lose him but can’t stand the constant battle of yes and no, heartbreak and love, touching and not. It’s too much, layered one of the other over the other until she feels like she might crack beneath the weight of it all.

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But Ace has misread it. Thinks she truly just wants him to leave, to let her be, let her move on and be with Tristan. And even though it hurts, kills him, like swallowing glass every time he looks at them, he can understand exactly why she would want that and not him, Why would she ever want him? If she wanted him she would have said, she would have told him she wanted to try again. If you love something set it free - that’s all he can give her now.

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They’ve always been so good at communicating with each other, but somewhere in these last days and weeks they’ve fallen out of step. Stopped trusting their instincts, no longer believing what their guts are screaming is true. Nancy was so sure that Ace would understand - he’s always understood, even when she herself has barely been able to fit the jigsaw pieces of her feelings together. So him agreeing, saying they’ll take space is like a final brutal blow when she’s already been beaten bloody. She sways towards him again, unintentional, she can’t help it, moving closer to him is an instinct, he’s her home. But she can’t look at him, has to look away to hide the raw devastation in her eyes.

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He takes her silence, her refusal to look at him as agreement - of course she would agree, it’s what she’s said she wants. She’d tell him if it weren’t true, she’s just called him out for lying so everything now must be the truth. He turns to go, hesitates, waits for a beat expecting her to say something (anything). As he moves away she moves to occupy the space he’s just left. Even as she’s turning away from him she’s still subconsciously trying to move closer.

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She can’t bear to watch him leave, still half convinced he’ll say something, stop, turn around, grab her and kiss her and to hell with the curse. And he hesitates once, twice, three times. So sure she’ll stop him, say something. Not trusting that tug in his gut that’s telling him to stop, turn around, take her in his arms and tell her how much he loves her, that they’ll fight, they’ll fight until they’re free, and he’ll be there by her side every step of the way.

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Nancy was frozen in that state of waiting, couldn’t move, could barely breathe, sure that at any moment the nightmare would end, that he’d understand, that he’d come back. But Florence starts up and drives away and then she breathes. Then she moves. Then she lets the tears fall. Because he left, just like so many others, even though she thought he was different, that he understood. He left her all alone, just like they always do.

#nancy drew #cw nancy drew #nancy drew cw #ndcw #naceedit #nancy drew meta #nancy drew analysis #nancy x ace #ace [redacted]#nancy drew spoilers #nace #the reaping of hollow oak #nancy drew 4x07 #nancy drew 4.07 #i love them your honour #but they're idiots #who need to move past breaking up #and back onto making up

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addiemilfgomery · 7 days

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they just wanna go on a date but demons and young witches and warlocks are just !!

(also, lilith is a "🥺🥺" user and whoever disagrees can fight me on this)

#zelda spellman #lilith #madam satan #caos #miranda otto #michelle gomez #madam spellman #incorrect madam spellman #they just miss each other okay?#but they're idiots

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deadn30n · 3 months

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guys my snake is kind of an idiot

mf thinks usopp is food and then got mad when he got tangled in him lmfaooo

#« ooc tag. »#tw: snakes #i love my pets i do #but they're idiots #i had to carefully detangle him

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galaxysharks · 8 months

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HC: maddox and jet have a few nicks and burns on their fingers/hands from learning to cook, maddox having more ofc

Group sleepovers have made it abundantly clear that the siblings just.....don't use utensils when cooking all that often.

Maddox makes a grilled cheese by picking it up and flipping it.

Jet grates cheese with his fingers.

They remember what oven mitts are about 40% of the time, they just use a spare towel most the time. They get burnt every time they forget to make sure the towel is dry.

#hsmtmts #hsmtmts maddox #high school musical the musical the series #hsm the series #hsmtmts jet #im telling you #they're stupid #they're so smart #but they're idiots

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smol-tactician · 2 years

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Have some more jojo AU stuff because I'm bored

Possible canon JJBA spoilers

Jotaro: Hey Nonno, how do you say Fuck in Italian?

Ceasar: It's-

Joseph: Don't tell her that.

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Dio: AT LAST I, DIO, SHALL-

Jotaro: Bitch who did your eyebrows?

Dio: What-

Jotaro: Get yourself a refund.

Dio: WELL EXCUSE YOU-

Jotaro: Eyebrows are as bad as that outfit.

Dio: WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE FIGHTING NOT BEING INSULTING!

Jotaro: You came dressed like that, and expected me not to say anything?

Dio: SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD-

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Kakoyin going on about beach facts:

Jotaro: You have pretty eyes.

Kakoyin: What?

Jotaro: I asked if you like curly fries.

Kakoyin: I... uh yeah, I guess.

Polnareff from across the room: They're idiots.

Avdol: So? Let them be idiots then.

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Jotaro: Fuck the rules! We're getting ice cream!

Polnareff: AWESOME!

Joseph: Jotaro we're in the middle of the desert.

Jotaro: Does it look like I give a fuck?

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Kakoyin: So we're going to be fine?

Joseph: Oh no, we're definitely going to be crushed to death in this boat.

Polnareff: Wow thanks, that was very reassuring.

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Ceasar: Jojo

Joseph and Jotaro: Which one?

Ceasar: Little one

Jotaro: The fuck do you want? I'm about to beat him at uno.

Joseph: You are not!

Jotaro: Yes I am.

Ceasar: Guys-

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Polnareff: Are you fucking crazy?!

Jotaro: You've met my grandfather.

Kakoyin: Which one?

Jotaro: The stupid one.

Meanwhile

Joseph: Someone's talking shit about me.

Ceasar: How the absolute fuck, would you know that?

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Jotaro: Is that blood or wine?

Dio: I'm a vampire, what do you think it is?

Jotaro: Sorry I inherited the dumbass gene from Joseph.

Dio: The what?

#jotaro kujo #fem jotaro #ceasar zeppeli #joseph joestar #noriaki kakyoin #jean pierre polnareff #dio brando #caejose #jojos bizarre adventure #jjba au #jojo au #alternative universe #randomness #tell me there isnt a dumbass gene i dare you #jotakak #but they're idiots #muhammed avdol #i forgot

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captain-coven · 2 years

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can’t wait for the end of the umbrella academy season 3 to be them messing up the timeline even further <3.

#i love them <3 #but they're idiots #the umbrella academy #tua #the umbrella academy season 3 #diego hargreeves #allison hargreeves #viktor hargreeves #ben hargreeves #five hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #luther hargreeves #the sparrow academy #netflix

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hellcheerficdatabase · 1 year

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We’ve Got Tonight

Author: @mspoppy9981

Rating/Warning: Explicit

Chapter Count: 7/7

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Chrissy was happy for him…really she was.

Eddie deserved a shot at making his dreams come true, going from five drunks at the Hideout on a Tuesday to a full house at Madison Square Garden on a Friday…trying to make it there anyway.

But Chrissy had developed a bit of a crush on Eddie. She figured it was totally one sided, a guy like Eddie wouldn’t go for Miss Prim and Proper Head Cheerleader.

But the truth was, of course he would.

He felt the same about her. Eddie figured he’d never be more than her friend. He thought about her a lot, daily and nightly.

And with graduation looming, he’d be leaving. She’d be heading to Bloomington in the fall. Their plans were set.

Tags: Alternate universe- no vecna, mutual pining, but they're idiots, angst, hurt/comfort, fluff, Chrissy needs a hug, angst with a happy ending, idiots in love, alternating POV, multiple chapters, status: completed

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mintaikcorpse · 4 months

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"Well he's certainly not naked anymore!"

The glance at Crowley in this scene though LMAO

#he looks so guilty #they're not even officially an item but he looks so guilty #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #aziracrow #good omens #gomens

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alienzil · 6 months

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Okay so I saw this post and you know the types of fics where adult Danny moves to Gotham and winds up emotionally adopting one or more of bat kids or accidentally coparenting with Bruce (with or without a relationship between them)? I had the thought, what if Danny parented the bat kids but he started doing it out of spite?

Like, Danny moves to Gotham and runs into Batman and Robin one night while out for a late night flight and drops down to the rooftop to say hi.

Bruce sees this 5'6" twink that looks like a stiff breeze could knock him over and is so obviously new in town and thinks Gotham is going to eat him alive, he needs to leave before he gets killed.

Batman: Looming menacingly and in his deepest scariest Batman voice, "Leave. Metas aren't allowed in Gotham."

Danny: Offend! Excuse?! Who does this guy think he is?! 😡 Danny was trying to be polite here! "First of all, I'm not a meta. Second of all, rude much?!"

Batman: Does scariest bat glare. "Leave." Swoops off into the night.

Robin (Damian): "My father is correct. You should leave the city for your own safety."

Danny sees this tiny vigilante child with fierce expression and a sword and is just like awww, so cute! 😍 Then he noticed Robin had a small cut on his arm and his inner gremlin activates. If the rude flying furry can't take care of his own kid properly, Danny will do it better!

He bandages up Damian's arm, gives him a cookie and teaches him a neat sword trick before sending him on his way with a hug telling him he needs his sleep.

Danny goes out of his way to run into the bat kids and be the absolute best dad.

He takes Nightwing flying and throws him in the air so Nightwing can do all the fanciest acrobatic tricks.

He tracks down Red Hood and starts a book club with him (Danny may or may not have used his connection with Ghost Writer to get ahold of some rare books).

He eats waffles with Spoiler and trys out weird topping combinations that make them both make faces and laugh.

He makes new gadgets for Red Robin but carefully breaks them just a little bit and takes them to the teen so they can fix them together (it's enrichment!). He always insists RR keep them as a reward.

He follows Signal around during the day invisibly, making faces and doing tricks only Signal can see (he made him laugh in front of the police at a crime scene twice!).

All of the kids get his attention and love and Danny smugly thinks how Batman must be absolutely seething about his kids bonding with Danny and Batman missing out on all of it.

Danny started it out of spite but he does wind up genuinely loving the bat kids.

Batman definetly hates it when the kids are bonding with Danny and is extremely jealous (sulky Batman brooding in his cave about it).

Bruce's repeated attempts to intimidate Danny into leaving Gotham don't work and him telling his kids to stay away from Danny had zero effect (the terrible children don't listen to him at all).

So Bruce starts spending more time with the kids to compete against Danny. The bat kids love it and (little gremlins that they are) use the two of them against each other constantly.

Bruce:"Sorry Tim, I can't make it to your photography exhibit this weekend, there's a meeting with the Justice League."

Tim:"Oh that's fine... I'll just ask Danny to come." 😏

Bruce: Narrows his eyes and grits his teeth, "Actually, the Justice League needs to have contingencies in place to manage without my input. This would be a good time to test their capabilities. I'll skip the meeting and come to your exhibit."

With both of them competing to spend more time with the kids it leads to the two of them spending time with each other to be around the kids more.

After Damian catches a terrible flu bug, Danny spends an entire weekend at the manor babying him. This is when Bruce finds out Danny has known their secret identities for months and tries to get mad about it but Alfred puts his foot down, raises a judgmental eyebrow in Bruce's direction that puts a stop to that nonsense and sets up Danny with his own room in the family wing.

Eventually, Danny gets to the point where he spends most of his nights at the manor and he and Bruce consult each other on all major household decisions.

The whole family is at the manor one morning including Danny. Bruce has a meeting at WE and he and Danny are absently discussing their plans for the day at the breakfast table.

Bruce: " The meeting should take most of the morning and then I have paperwork this afternoon and a scheduled walk through on one of the new engineering projects. I probably won't be done by the time school let's out. Can you pick up Damian today?"

Danny: "That shouldn't be a problem. Would you mind swinging by the bookstore on the way home and getting my preorder? Jay and I just finished rereading the first book and we were wanting to start the second tonight before you all go on patrol. I'd rather not try to make it to the bookstore in school rush hour traffic"

Bruce: "Sure."

Stephanie watches Danny reach out and absently straighten Bruce's tie as they both get up to leave. Bruce grabs Danny's coffee thermos and hands it to him while they walk out the door.

Stephanie: "Sooo, bets on how long until they realize they're basically married?"

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #Adult Danny #Parenting out of spite #Bat dad #Batfamily shenanigans #bat kids #There's a mug in the manor #It says Number One Dad #Bruce and Danny constantly steal it from each other #Bruce/Danny?#Maybe #they're both idiots #But they love their kids

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ineffablyruined · 5 months

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Look at this:

Nina walks by and he doesn't even notice.

Then Crowley gets close and his eyes immediately snap to him.

His attention was so focused on the love scene playing out between Gabriel & Beelzebub that he didn't notice a whole other person walking in front of his face, but Crowley goes to leave and he's immediately like, "Babe, you good? Where you going?"

He loves him so much and I can't wait for S3.

Credit to @ohsoldier for the original gif.

#they're not talking because their lips are too busy #that's the only explanation #good omens #good omens s2 #good omens s2 spoilers #good omens s2 meta #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #aziraphale x crowley #crowley x aziraphale #aziracrow #good omens spoilers #ineffablyruined

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