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what the fuck is a pork belly heiress lmao
From my quick research, trading futures contracts for pork bellies was very popular in the 1960s and could net you a ton of money. So I’m assuming that is what it’s referring to
ooh thank you so much! very interesting
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Penelope Pendrick spoilers without context because 🌀🌀🌀🌀👁👁ooooh you wanna play the game so bad oooh👁👁🌀🌀🌀🌀
penelope pendrick gave me a persistent lump in my throat
what nancy drew has in jump scares, penelope pendrick has in harrowing and heartbreaking insight into characters’ mental health
I keep forgetting to post these here
i don’t care helena was the culprit, i still love her character
hell her being the culprit makes me like her even more! she’s running a complex art theft ring while working a 9-5? girlboss
i absolutely support her women’s wrongs
what the fuck is a pork belly heiress lmao
(takes a long drag of a cigarette) remember when homophobia destroyed her interactive
This was such a formative experience for me (I was one of the people on the message boards pretending to be a part of a BiM religion to mock them and saw it alllll go down) that I try to tell the story to my real life friends all the time but none of them GET IT bc like it was such a bonkers thing and like I really think it played a role in the whole debacle that we’re in now
As usual homophobes ruin everything
Hey! Long time Nancy Drew fan but I was pretty young back in the Her Interactive heyday and had 0 interaction with the fandom at the time--
What? Please, I must know. I've never heard of this and I'm so curious. (I will look it up I just want to hear about it from someone who was there in the trenches)
A lot of people asked about this lol this was like a very formative experience in my life unfortunately a lot of it is lost to time due to mods and deleted blogs and such but the basic gist is as follows:
Dagny used to be married to a woman
A very large subset of the HeR boards were conservative, homeschooled religious kids and their parents who lost their damn minds over this
Sooooo many posts about not wanting to see it, “keEp PoLitiCs OuT oF tHe GaMes”, “I don’t disagree with it I just don’t like it and hate it”, petitions to not have any more gay ppl, threats to boycott, etc…
Nearly all of these posts had two things in common, they used their religion as the reasoning and also had some variation of “that’s just my opinion!” ie something like “HeR shouldn’t support LGBT people, it goes against the Bible! I don’t have a problem with them but I don’t want to ever see them and I pretend they don’t exist and I hate them, but that’s just my opinion so you can’t be mad at me!”
Sooooo what happened was there were a big group of us who didn’t like this and thought that was all not very nice. So one genius starting pretending to be in a religion that followed Big Island Mike. If they were going to use their religion to be hateful then we could do the same thing!
So a lot of us started doing that! We would say stuff on those homophobic threads like “well BiM is a loving and omniscient god and His word says that you are a jerk and that every character in the Nancy drew games is gay, sorry but that is just my onion” (the onion thing was on purpose we were saying it to make fun of people claiming hate was just an opinion)
It went on a loooooot. We kept making more and more things about the lore of big island Mike, his ponytail was like a sentient god that whispered secrets in his ear, we capitalized He and Him when talking about him, made theories that he was behind every game, everything we could think of. I’m realizing here this doesn’t sound like much but please believe me it was like a weeks long Thing where this was all we did and every post was like this.
This was like an actual coordinated thing, most of us were on tumblr and we would like discuss the best ways to push back against the homophobia, unfortunately I don’t think many of those blogs are active anymore (for myself it was an old blog that I deleted many years ago, and I haven’t seen any of the others around since making this one more recently. If any of you still exist I’m sorry!)
The homophobic people were doing the same thing on twitter and we knew that so we were like one step ahead lol. One time one of the main ones posted a list of the users he hated the most and I was on it and I was very proud of myself!
We would also do non-BiM things, like making petitions for games with only gay characters from here on out, and also talk about other social justice issues, stuff to get under their skin
The mods HATED all of this (most of them fell in the conservative homeschool type parent group if I remember correctly) but we weren’t really breaking any rules. Eventually they started deleting all the posts about BiM and His power and saying that made up stories had to go in the magic library
Then they amended the rules to say that no trolling is allowed and started deleting everything en masse, which they weren’t really doing to the homophobic stuff but they eventually I think did that as well. But that was another proud moment because they literally changed the rules because of us lol.
To circle back to OP’s original point, a big part of the fan base really was homophobic (at the time, I hope that is no longer the case) and their fit after SEA came out really did a number on the fan base and likely the company. Right after this the whole MID thing happened and they got a lot less interactive with the fans and basically killed off the original fan base. And we were all super divided anyway so the message boards just died. I’m really happy that there’s a newer group of fans with the clue crew now but that was like a very stark end of an era for sure!
And, to my knowledge, that is the origin of all the BiM worship. It does my heart good to see that all live on despite the loss of the original meaning or even like that there was a meaning at all lol (something something ancient history, meaningful things living on, I’m old now, blah blah blah)
Anyway I think that about sums it up! Please forgive me if I left anything out, this was like literally ten years ago and like I said nearly everything has been deleted at this point. If you go on the HeR boards and look at the summer of 2015 I think there are still some remnants hanging on but like very heavily edited by the mods. Writing it all out it doesn’t sound all that interesting but it was a truly wild time and one of those you had to be there type things, I hope it was at least mildly entertaining to read, I’m sorry I forgot the actual content of the memes lol
OP sorry to hijack your post!
thank you! I didn’t have capacity to get into it all so appreciate you
also dagny was for sure the tipping point, but also just want to name they were also awful about jamila for wearing a hijab/scarf
i am so late to the party but nancy’s new VA is everyone’s favorite damage dealing blue lion falcon knight ingrid!
JOKES ON THEM they made a clunky game in MID but they had deirdre shannon confessing her desires to nancy all in vino veritas lol
(takes a long drag of a cigarette) remember when homophobia destroyed her interactive
This was such a formative experience for me (I was one of the people on the message boards pretending to be a part of a BiM religion to mock them and saw it alllll go down) that I try to tell the story to my real life friends all the time but none of them GET IT bc like it was such a bonkers thing and like I really think it played a role in the whole debacle that we’re in now
As usual homophobes ruin everything
henry bolet: (freshly grieving, earlier seen weeping at his parents’ mausoleum, and just got finished confiding in nancy that he is QUITE LITERALLY in a financially abusive relationship)
nancy:
I love all the Nancy Drew suspects that are like terrifying adults who would willingly do harm and then there’s Jane who’s just a lonely kid who misses her mom
(takes a long drag of a cigarette) remember when homophobia destroyed her interactive
I miss the old Nancy Drew games lol
why does charleena have a folder labeled grubs
