speaking of ace's unwavering understanding that he Belongs to horseshoe bay, i'm feeling sooooo normal about the fact that the episode that contains the first canon acknowledgement that nancy/ace is a something and not a nothing - is it making me feel attracted, or is it intensifying feelings of attraction that i already had but was repressing... - also contains this moment:
nancy writing a love poem to horseshoe bay on the fly is something that would make ace's heart go off like a gong