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kevindayscrown · 2 hours
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The only crackship fic of Matt and Kevin I remember (the tag is void of content, people need to change that) is the Life and Times of Kevin Day. It's 🤌🏻 Great characterisation of Kevin too, from what I remember
my fav tfc Neil observation is when he compares Matt and Kevin to Allison and Seth's relationship, minus the fucking
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kevindayscrown · 16 hours
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Also I have kept up with the Daylight Fic Fest! I'm so excited for it. I'm doing a Jean/Kevin guardxprince au hehe I'm a sucker for those.
craziest Kevin ship? if you’ve kept up w/ the Daylight Fic Fest, maybe you know of my newfound obsession: Kevin x Rhemann. it works, just trust me. it so works.
Oh boy I mean I'm pretty much a multishipper and I don't really care, I'd read pretty much about any ship, given the right prompt. But uh something that I hard-core ship? My craziest one is probably Matt/Kevin or Seth/Kevin but they aren't really that crazy tbh.
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kevindayscrown · 16 hours
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craziest Kevin ship? if you’ve kept up w/ the Daylight Fic Fest, maybe you know of my newfound obsession: Kevin x Rhemann. it works, just trust me. it so works.
Oh boy I mean I'm pretty much a multishipper and I don't really care, I'd read pretty much about any ship, given the right prompt. But uh something that I hard-core ship? My craziest one is probably Matt/Kevin or Seth/Kevin but they aren't really that crazy tbh.
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kevindayscrown · 18 hours
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We don't talk enough about how Troy Bolton is the true foundation and backbone of All For The Game
He is just that powerful
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kevindayscrown · 19 hours
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Do you remember when everyone disliked Kevin?
I do.
Crazy times. It was the fight of our lives.
Now people ship him with everyone (as they should). Give me your most crazy Kevin ships and headcanons, I need to be entertained.
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kevindayscrown · 1 day
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To also add my two cents to this as someone who has been in the fandom since 2017? (Idk my perception of time sucks)
I noticed a huge influx of people in the fandom when the first book was given for free at some point on kindle. Idk if that's the case still but for a while, TFC was free and the other two were insanely cheap. Back then I was mostly on the Instagram side of things and I remember when a bunch of queer bookstagrammers would read it all at once.
It was quite funny because some of them absolutely HATED it while others are still obsessed to this day.
So yeah that kindle deal did it for a lot of people, and considering it was high up in some charts, it made it easier for people to find.
do u know how aftg became popular back in the day? i always hear that it blew up on tumblr around 2014 but like... how, this was a random self published trilogy (book? idk if tkr & tkm were out when it gained traction) like theoretically how would we (we the collective not we me n you) go about possibly finding another self published hidden treasure like this series
I DONT anon youre overestimating how long ive been around i read aftg in the later half of 2020…!! my guess is that nora’s presence on tumblr discussing the series gathered some onlookers that then created the momentum for the fandom, but i genuinely have no idea. my friend who was into it in 2016 said once that it was in good part because aftg was thought to be dead dove, which stood out from the mostly sanitized lgbt representation at the time, and i’m sure neil being acespec also played into it. but i really do not know… x___x mon dieu…. aftg fandom deep dive soon
as for reading self published novels, there are plenty of sites online for that all over the world! i don’t know where aftg was first published, and i can’t believe i’m saying this, but if you want a better answer you should consider directly asking nora on her twitter or tagging her in a post here when she’s online
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kevindayscrown · 2 days
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Yes I have, in fact, not neglected this, even after 3 years. I just post the chapters on ao3 after uh... months. But I've posted twice this month! Yay me
Anyways, who remembers my Kevin x OC story about enemies to lovers and forced dating? I've been slowly turning the headcanon into full chapters (but it's veeeeery slow).
Anyways, enjoy this silly and cheesy romance
Newest chapter included art by @/chuck__chuckie on twitter:)
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kevindayscrown · 2 days
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This is actually insane like I need to see.more of what damage that did to Kevin and Jean and the way they are wired, and how difficult it was to go back from it.
What exactly are 16 hour days? how did 2 weeks become equal to 3 and all that-? didn't really get that
Ok, I'll try to explain in the most didactic way possible but please let me know if any part of it is still confusing.
So, per canon, the Ravens operate on 16 hours days. This means that every 16 hours, they start another day in their Raven Calendar. In theory, this means they can cramp their daily routine to be more effective.
How does it work? 24 and 16 actually have very small least common multiples: 24x2=48 and 16x3=48. So in practice, every three Raven Days their timekeeping matches up with Regular Days and that's how they can carry life:
Let's say they begin counting their Raven Hours at Regular Time midnight. First Raven Day ends 16 hours later, 4pm of the First Regular Day, Second Raven Day ends 7am of the Second Regular Day, and Third Raven Day ends midnight of the Second Raven Day, and it all starts again.
So for every two Regular Days, the Ravens actually lived an extra, shorter, one; and this is why Neil feels like he spent three weeks there instead of two. (14 24-hours days vs 21 16-hours days)
Years ago someone made a schedule and technically they could spread their classes just so it would make it possible for them to attend while also living the 16-hours mess, and I fully think this was Nora's intention when she wrote it, but personally I think it's more feasible that they only enter this routine during summer and winter practice, when they're only living among themselves.
In case it helps, here's the schedule I made for my fic that's helping me keep track of stuff: the numbers on the left are the Raven Hours, and the ones in the right are the Regular Hours they match up to in each day
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For comparison, in canon the Foxes practiced up to 9 hours a day in the summer, adding 18 hours of practice in two days. Following this schedule, in the same amount of Regular Time the Ravens practiced 21. Now think of this three extra hours every two days for the whole summer. And they don't take weekends off.(spoiler: they practice about 864 hours more in the end)
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kevindayscrown · 2 days
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Do you understand how much kevin respects neil? And i don't mean when it comes to exy, like sure there's a whole lot of you're not good enough followed by you will make court bluh bluh bluh, i mean fundamentally as a human.
Kevin and Neil's conversation after the truth of Neil's father is revealed drives me absolutely insane because I think it highlights a lot about how Kevin views Neil.
so indulge me for a bit....
I think a lot of people forget, in light of Andrew choking Kevin for not telling him the truth, that Kevin's initial reaction was to tell Neil to run.
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*sorry for the quality - these are all screenshots off my phone
Kevin's instinct is to tell Neil to save himself, despite what that would mean for the team's success and for Kevin himself. This is significant to me for two reasons.
It highlights that Kevin genuinely cares about Neil outside of his exy potential. For most people, this would be a pretty obvious response to finding out your teammate has a guaranteed death sentence if they stick around, so it might not seem all that meaningful, but Kevin was raised in such an environment were you continued to play no matter what - even at the risk of death. Kevin is unflinchingly callous when it comes to exy and his teammates (*see his reaction to Seth's death), but he is frantic in his concern for Neil in contrast to his fairly passive response to basically anyone else's wellbeing outside of exy. Neil's death will have no real impact on Kevin. If Neil dies or goes to the ravens, nothing changes for Kevin. He is not at a greater risk of being hurt by Riko or the Moriyama's nor will his exy career be effected. That's not to say he would tell Neil to stay if he cared about him any less, but there is a desperation that implies a depth beyond just that of a teammate.
The fact that Kevin is frantic and desperate for Neil to leave, gives weight to his decision to keep teaching Neil in the aftermath of the revelation.
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Neil doesn't want to run - he wants to be Neil Josten until the end. He gave Kevin his game and now he's asking him to keep it and Kevin obliges.
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This is essentially Kevin promising that he will keep Neil's secret. He will allow Neil to wear his mask and continue teaching him despite the fact that Neil is essentially a dead man walking. This, to me, is Kevin ultimately respecting Neil and his choice. At any moment, Kevin has the ability to got to Wymack or Andrew and give Neil the chance at surviving, but that would mean betraying Neil.
Some people (certainly the foxes) would view refusing Neil's request as the proper and morally correct thing to do. But I think Kevin's immediate acceptance of Neil's decision is both immensely meaningful to Neil and also a signifier of a shared understanding between to two.
Imagine how impactful it must be for Neil, who has never had autonomy over his own life and has been marked for death basically since he was born, to be told that not only will his decisions and his autonomy be respected, but there is someone who will stand by his side on the court, knowing the whole truth, until the very end.
Kevin doesn't have much to offer Neil at this point. He can not give him a future - he'll be long dead before he can ever make court, and Kevin is a coward - he is not andrew, he can't stand up against the Moriyama's or Riko or Neil's father. Kevin can not protect Neil in a way that matters. All he can do is promise to keep Neil's secret and offer him a few more months of being Neil Josten.
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I'm not including this to disparage Andrew or to suggest that he does not respect Neil, but this highlights that Kevin knows the decision to keep Neil's secret is one only Kevin would make. Andrew without a doubt would immediately try to get Neil to leave or attempt to get him into protection. I'm not passing a judgement of morality on what would've been the right thing to do, but I do think Kevin's reaction is indicative of the fact that Neil and Kevin understand each other in a way that no one else really will.
Neil and Kevin are a parallel's in a number of ways. Kevin lived the life that Neil was supposed to have and they are two parts of one story.
To them exy is not a game, but it's not really about exy either. It's about deciding to stay just to play for a couple more months even though you'll wind up dead because playing means you finally get to live after years of being a ghost. It's about playing to be the best no matter what, even though the consequences are having your hand smashed and the life you know completely demolished. It's about playing even though you're shaking with fear and anxiety because you need proof that your life, whether it be running to survive or living under an abusive hand, was not a waste.
Kevin agrees to keep Neil's secret because if the roles were reversed, Kevin would like to believe that he'd be strong enough to ask Neil for the same thing. This is obviously conjecture and a heavy heavy reading between the lines, but I'd like to think there's some truth there.
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Finishing up with this line because it makes me a little emotional.
Kevin starts the conversation by calling Neil "Nathaniel" and ends it by calling him Neil again. Its right there in the text, "it was a promise". Kevin is offering Neil a life that is fully his - not his father's, not Riko's, but Neil's to do with what he would like, even if its only for a couple more months. If that's not respect, than I don't know what is.
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kevindayscrown · 3 days
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Done with my reread of the Raven King in prep for the Sunshine Court and here are some thoughts:
• Seeing the progress Neil is making with trusting people around him (from giving Andrew some truths to trusting Kevin with his binder etc etc) is always *chefs kiss*
• Kevin loml, he is less of a little bitch in this and still out of touch, but the way he stood up for the Foxes in the match with the Ravens, the "Will you teach me/Every night" is sending me, i want to hug him.
• Jean Moreau being iconic, showing up for like 10 pages total and serving 💅
• The Riko Roast ™️
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kevindayscrown · 3 days
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More of Jean Moreau's iconic lines:
"Try not to get us killed on your first day, you ignorant child."
"You hard-of-hearing imbecile."
"You ignorant child (x2)"
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kevindayscrown · 3 days
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"I will watch you. If you want to drink tonight. I won't let you say something you will regret."
"You'll be drunk inside an hour," Neil said. "Then who'll stop me."
"I would stop drinking."
*on my knees* KEVIN DAY THE MAN THAT YOU ARE
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kevindayscrown · 3 days
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"Would you want it [the racquet] back?"
"Do you have any idea how much it cost? Yes I want it back."
"It wouldn't bother you that it was used as a murder weapon?"
"It didn't kill anyone important."
Neil Josten, you will always be famous.
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kevindayscrown · 3 days
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Turning these into stickers soon…
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kevindayscrown · 4 days
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i realized that my last doodle was my first kevin drawing and i actually really! did not like how i drew him. so here! A very rough idea of what i picture
in summer, freckles maybe.
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kevindayscrown · 5 days
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I suffered from some pretty severe MMA fighter Kevin Day brain rot a couple months ago
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kevindayscrown · 5 days
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Pain
Sometimes, I think about the fact that Wymack is Kevin's dad, and I want to weep. He dedicated his entire life to helping others who had grown up like he had, only to find out that his own son had grown up a caged and abused wreck? That's a level of pain that I can't even fathom.
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