Kit Foley

They/them, 25, Clue Crew since ‘09!

[kit-foley]

If I followed you from this blog it’s because even though it’s a Nancy Drew side blog it’s officially my main blog and tumblr won’t let me undo that.

Here are my other blogs and what they’re for:

@charliebraincharliebrain - personal, venting, navigating the intersections of my identities as a queer trans neurodivergent latine adoptee!

@citruspeterquince - nsfw, mostly t4t reposts

@humongousentertainer - Humongous Entertainment (Pajama Sam, Spy Fox, Putt Putt, Freddi Fish, etc) side blog

@thewalkerofmanymoons - Walk the Moon band side blog, not really that active but sure exists

@nancy-out-of-context-drew - my out of context Nancy Drew side blog passion project I come back to once every six months lol

@charliebabybear SFW age regression/inner child healing stuff

[hrjafael]

I never noticed until recently that in CAR when Nancy finds the jewelry from the heist, she very clearly leaves behind a pearl necklace after picking up the rest.

[kit-foley]

Elliot can keep that one

[kpiva]

george/deirdre nation here is your food

[kit-foley]

Butch for Femme representation fr

[thegroundhogdidit]

playing nancy drew once again and i've gotta say it's incredibly funny that she made a classist comment at wade (ghost of thornton hall) and he chewed her out so hard that her only option was to take the L and move on

[kit-foley]

Shoutout to the porn bots following my lil autistic hyperfixation blog!! Love u guys!! Not interested in ur content but I’m PUMPED to tell u abt big island mike lore

[hrjafael]

You can’t just throw down a gauntlet like that. They’ll rise to the challenge. Next thing you know you’ll have a Big Island Mike porn bot knocking on your door.

[kit-foley]

PROMISE?

[the-immersion-excursion]

Big Island Mike: Wanna see if I like that flavor? 💦💦💦🔞🥵

[kit-foley]

LMAO PLEASE WHY IS THIS SO WELL DONE god I love the clue crew. So good.

[prettymuchpotter]

if i was nancy drew i would be kissing so many girls. what do you mean you see deirdre and you dont want to kiss her. what do you mean you dont wanna kiss bess. what do you mean you dont want to kiss george. dagny silva cmere and lemme give u a smooch. im making out sloppy style with xenia and niobe

[kit-foley]

Yes THANK YOU.

[kit-foley]

Shoutout to the porn bots following my lil autistic hyperfixation blog!! Love u guys!! Not interested in ur content but I’m PUMPED to tell u abt big island mike lore

[hrjafael]

You can’t just throw down a gauntlet like that. They’ll rise to the challenge. Next thing you know you’ll have a Big Island Mike porn bot knocking on your door.

[kit-foley]

PROMISE?

[kit-foley]

Shoutout to the porn bots following my lil autistic hyperfixation blog!! Love u guys!! Not interested in ur content but I’m PUMPED to tell u abt big island mike lore

[perpetuallylocked]

The winters are long and dark. We found each other in that darkness. | Sea of Darkness

[kit-foley]

“The sea chewed me up and spit me out. And I lost everything in her waves.”

[kit-foley]

Half meme half being real: it’s a red flag if ur partner doesn’t want to play Nancy Drew games with you/doesn’t let you talk about them/doesn’t watch you play them etc.

For me it showed me that my partner didn’t want to know or understand my interests/the things I’m passionate about. My hyperfixations (i.e. Nancy Drew, Pajama Sam, other video Games) are a really big part of who I am and to understand these hyperfixations or show interest in them is to understand and show interest in me.

[kit-foley]

Thinking abt this again!! I wanna reiterate that this is my thing and my own feelings about it, as a neurodivergent person with very intense hyperfixations on the things I enjoy it’s a red flag/discouraging when people don’t at least ATTEMPT to show interest in my interests. Specifically with video games like Pajama Sam and Nancy Drew, they very much shaped/shape who I am and how I approach life and stuff

[kit-foley]

I did it, I found the girl of my dreams.

[longmaxsilvarg]

something about the main menu for life is strange genuinely makes me wanna collapse and sob

[longmaxsilvarg]

[nancydrewmermaid]

Don't do it guys. Don't play Stay Tuned For Danger on Master Detective. It's not worth it. I have heard the end culprit monologue more than 20 times. The time you have to solve the final puzzle is so damn small, it's insane. What hubris I had. I'm not a master detective, I'm a junior detective, now and foreveeeer. I saved right after the monologue and I'm still left scrambling. Plz. Let it enddd.

[kit-foley]

I am also a loyal Junior Detective

[lamentelle]

idk if you’re busy rn but i was thinking we could like fall in love or something yk if you’re free

[topeka-commission-for-the-arts]

[the-hot-kettle-cafe]

Okay but hear me out - these games would’ve been perfect on the switch

[kit-foley]

YES.

[ladylindaaa]

Hi friends I miss u all

Kinda wanna play a nance game soon 👀

Might try to make a comeback on here like in the golden days (ye old 2020)

Who wants to catch me up on the cc tumblr lore I missed

Has there been another oaxacagate

If there hasn’t been, I’ll try to cook up a new gate 😂

I actually have a cool personal lore drop for yall, tho!!! I have a masters degree now!!!

Want an even COOLER lore drop??? (I saved the best one for last)

I’ve been dating the beautiful wonderful talented @henrikvanderswoon irl for like… 5+ months now 😂♥️ about to hop on a plane right now to visit her again, actually!!

So yeah ig Linda x Henrik is the New Hot Ship To Ship (hm. That’s cursed, don’t do that)

Feel free to lemme know how yall have been doing!! I miss all my buddies on here!!!! 🫶 hope you’re doin okay these days. 🫂

[kit-foley]

So glad to have you back and omg clue crew couple, that’s SO good ♥️♥️♥️

The biggest drama/convo rn is that some people on the ND Reddit want to “keep politics out of nd” but @papenniesandbentoboxes wrote a really beautiful response explaining why the games are inherently political, which has sparked a lot of agreement and affirming personal accounts of this on Tumblr!

[kit-foley]

Rewatching @Arglefumph walkthrough of Secret of the Old Clock, spoilers ahead!

In response to this ongoing argument that “Nancy Drew Games aren’t political” bs, a huge plot point of CLK is that Josiah cross dressed frequently- once as Emily’s great aunt Harriet (and so well that Emily didn’t know it was him), and another time (often) as Clara to go to the bank and flirt with Jim Archer. Either he was doing it to fuck with Jim and just drop clues as to how to find his will, or he was doing it as a way to be able to explore his gender and sexuality. Either way it doesn’t feel cis het to me!

[drewlyyours]

YES!! I love this about Josiah Crowley and this game

ESPECIALLY because it takes place in 1930

people like Josiah Crowley have ALWAYS EXISTED

[kit-foley]

YES YES YES YES!!!!

Also ppl LOVE Josiah!!!! Everyone’s just like “yeah that’s him lol!” He’s a goofball but he’s a sweetheart and you can tell he was a really passionate guy. I love how hashed out his character is for someone who isn’t there

[american-teen-against-crime]

His favorite book was “The Makeup Secrets of Lon Chaney”, he’s a true icon

[kit-foley]

OMFG I FORGOT ABOUT THAT. Also him asking Topham to live with him right away? That’s uhauling.

[american-teen-against-crime]

Wanted to include a link to @kit-foley ‘s post here about Josiah Crowley and how Nancy Drew games have and always will be political whether people want them to be or not.

@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.

Anyways this got longer than expected and I always have more thoughts haha but if you guys have any specific moments/plots in the games that really resonated with you or taught you something as a kid I’d love to hear them!!!!!

[kit-foley]

NANCY DREW IS POLITICAL

Also, it was a VERY political choice to not have an explicitly queer character until Dagny and even then it wasn’t explicit- it’s information the player more or less stumbles upon optionally.

But, as @krolmeistersisters has pointed out in their episodes, there are a lot of characters that are queer coded and/or neurodivergent coded.