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[sunflowerius]

oh what I would give to experience aftg as an in universe fan. you thought it was a roller coaster being there right alongside Neil ?imagine seeing all that shit go down on early 2000s Facebook.

#what a time to be alive truly #also I think Twitter would have just started around this time ??? I could be so wrong tho #like imagine learning about the lastest PSU scandal in the early Twitter days. actually insane. #ALSO MYSPACE !!! #like truly my greatest ailment is not being Random Exy Fan just casually reading tabloids about players #only to find out the fox rookie is actually a mob bosses son. the exy forums were in SHAMBLES I know it #neil josten #andrew minyard #kevin day #riko moriyama #andreil #the foxes #the ravens #all for the game #aftg #nora sakavic

[sunflowerius]

it's just so special to me when like a character is a massive loser and yet they get someone who falls head over heels for them. like yeah boy pull some bitches with your weak-ass game and cringefail demeanor

#dare I say #neil josten #like that man came to the foxes probably malnourished and barely hanging on via box dye and pure adrenaline #not to mention his Totally Normal Behaviors (not understanding human interaction for a single second ever in his life) #not gonna even go into his concerningly intense exy obsession but like. We All Know. #and yet !!! Andrew still pulls up with “doesn't mean I wouldn't blow you” like ok Neil !!! I see your losercore vibes paying off !! #aftg #andreil

[sunflowerius]

a few snippets from a new andrew centric fic that will be up sometime next week!! so yeah. check it out if you want, that would be lovely. or just shoot me bc holy fuck why is this the most awkward thing I’ve ever posted

#Andrew was unwanted from the day the first scream tore from his chest and no amount of screaming will change the fact that #he's unwanted still #hey what the fuck !!! #got me absolutely devastated at 2 am rn #anyway keep up the absolutely amazing work op this looks so good already #andrew minyard #aftg

[sunflowerius]

kevin “my brother is the worst man alive and I am his favourite” day

#fucking OUCH op #but also #Kevin “I am the worst man's most prized possession” day is so real #kevin day #riko moriyama #aftg

[sunflowerius]

can we all keep it together and promise that we're not going to go back to the "i love these dumpster fire books" mindset with aftg and with tsc when tsc comes out? i'm tired of y'all pretending the writing isn't good and like the character arcs and plot and subplots are bad when they're actually beautifully structured and they deserve our attention and our praise without a "but it's sooooo bad haha" being added to everything. these books are good. and if you can't admit to yourself that you're reading them because you like them and they're good then maybe you aren't ready to pick up the story that we've been waiting for for years.

#like yes nothings perfect but god DAMN let Nora rest #she did good. if she didn't we would not all still be here ten years later. hush and be grateful frfr #y'all can quit being in denial about nora being a good writer #cause shes just. so good. ESPECIALLY her character writing but idk if y'all are ready for that convo yet #all for the game #aftg #the sunshine court #tsc #they can never make me hate your writing nora

[sunflowerius]

There is something we need to address before The Sunshine Court drops in a few days, and that is the reality that at least 70% of whom Jean and Jeremy are as characters it is based purely on fanon from the past decade. Their canon appearances are limited in the trilogy, and their descriptions are superficial because Neil is not the best when talking about something that isn’t Exy or Andrew.

The reason this is important to mention is because the new book may change a lot about how we view them or the idea we had of them, and I have noticed a lot of the people in this fandom don’t like their fanon contradicted. Best example is how Nora explained Thea character and story and still people decided to ignore it and continue their fanon that Thea is an awful person.

Basically, what I am trying to say is leave your toxicity behind for this new book. It is okay if you don’t like it or didn’t enjoy it, but don’t come at others for not agreeing with you. Especially, don’t attack the author just because she didn’t follow 10 years of headcanons about a character. Just be open to the idea that the canon can and will differ from your own expectations.

#let us just enjoy the book in peace #nora sakavic #the sunshine court #tsc #aftg #all for the game

[sunflowerius]

don't let me in with no intention to keep me, jesus christ, don't be kind to me. honey, don't feed me, i will come back

..andrew???

#Hozier fr is for the andreil girlies and gays

[sunflowerius]

you know you've got it bad when just the WAYWARD THOUGHT of Andrew and Neil in their thirties makes you cry unprompted and don't even get me started on their forties and fifties and sixties and oh my goooood

they never thought they'd live long enough to see tomorrow and here they are, growing old- SOMEBODY SEDATE ME

#old age andreil is something that can be so personal ... #they live long full lives with many cats and many nieces and nephews and so much love it makes them dizzy #Neil starts to get white streaks in his hair and andrew thinks about cinnamon and sugar and how it oddly fits him but ofc never says it #Andrew's eyesight starts to go and he gets the typical Old Guy glasses and Neil LOVES them on Andrew #just. them growing old and happy together. because the world didn't end for them back in 2006. #life pushed them forward and they learned to walk through it together hand in hand not because they had to but because. they. could. #they make me ILL I love these two so much #neil josten #andrew minyard #andreil #all for the game #aged up andreil

[sunflowerius]

Okay but the way Riko literally caused the whole story to happen by breaking Kevin's arm, only for it to come bakc full circle with Andrew breaking Riko's arm at the end is the poetic justice that doesn't get talked about enough.

In this essay I will--

#also #the series starting with Andrew using his racquet to stop Neil from essentially hurting himself (running from a good opportunity) #and it ending with Andrew using his racquet to stop Riko from hurting Neil (after Neil has finally learning how to fight for his future) #10/10 we love stories that come full circle

[sunflowerius]

andreil wip

#this is so adorable #lovely art op #andrew minyard #neil josten #aftg

[sunflowerius]

do you think the real life Yakuza knows about AFTG??? do you think they find it funny

#somewhere out there there is a Yakuza aftg stan with HIGHLY detailed Yakuza aftg fics #like they just fully spilled their guts on their inner works for the sake of Event Accuracy #aftg #yakuza #nora sakavic

[sunflowerius]

"God's not done with that boy yet"

AND WHAT IF I ENDED IT ALL RIGHT HERE HUH.

#this is all so 'god loves you but not enough to save you' coded #his name literally means 'god is gracious' #this irony could not have been lost on him. not after all these years. #and now. AND NOW #he is getting his grace. he is going to heal. #lord I am NOT ready for the sunshine court #jean moreau #renee walker #all for the game #aftg #the sunshine court #tsc #aftg tsc #nora sakavic

[sunflowerius]

Andrew who heard thank you and didn't know vs Renee who saw thank you and did. Andrew who tore the world apart in frenzy and still couldn't find his man vs Renee who gathered an army because knew exactly where he is. Andrew who throttled Kevin for the truth vs Renee who used his bruises for a bluff. Andrew who held Neil in place vs Renee who stole him away.

#THE THANK YOU PARALLEL HAD ME FALLING TO MY KNEES IN A WALMART #had to take a lap after reading that cause Good Lord what WAS THAT #i will NEVER recover from this truly #like if this was just a PREVIEW of what kind of stuff we're getting in the sunshine court #then that book is going to be the end of me. and I don't think I could ever be mad about it its going to be amazing. #jean moreau #renee walker #aftg #tsc

[sunflowerius]

i think part of what makes Andreil work is that they’re both so fucking skilled at sussing out other people’s soft spots. they find boundaries and push at them, seeing where the other will bend and where they’ll break. it’s a survival thing for both of them: Andrew needs the upper-hand so he can maintain control over any given situation; Neil needs to know how far he can go before the people around him turn to violence.

the thing is, they also understand which boundaries are inviolable. some of this is communicated, such as Andrew’s “grudge against the language”, while others are simply identified and observed, such as Andrew’s aversion to touch. they’re both feral, fighty motherfuckers, which ironically is what lets them relax into each other.

the game of truths is possibly the best example of this: we see Neil sorting through potential questions and discarding some because it’s too much/too soon; he doesn’t know enough to see if this is a soft limit or a breaking point. they spend most of the first book mapping out boundaries, unintentional as that may be, and by the time Andrew’s lust has turned to devastating trust, to the point where Neil need only ask, it’s because he knows that he can say no and Neil will listen.

(i suspect Andrew’s joy of telling Kevin no stems from a similar place; Kevin responds, and he pushes, but he does nothing to truly threaten Andrew or violate his no. he’s all bark and no bite, as Kevin fully believes that getting Andrew on the court is worthless if it isn’t his own decision. thus, Kevin is another person for whom no is safe, albeit in a different and more entertaining way; with Kevin, Andrew’s no has power, and exercising that is no doubt cathartic.)

my point, if there even is one, is that Andrew and Neil work because they’re abrasive—they push at boundaries and recognize when to stop. Andrew’s hard limits around sex are the most obvious examples of where this antagonistic courtship bring them, but consider also Neil’s phone: Andrew has Nicky text Neil, instructs him to push against a bruise knowing that nothing will break in the process. if they didn’t push, explore, they wouldn’t know where to stop. if they weren’t so abrasive, so determined to suss each other out, there would have been no proving grounds for trust, and they never would have figured each other out.

basically, they’re both assholes, but that’s why they work.

[sunflowerius]

i don’t think people really appreciate how smart neil josten really is. in the very first chapter, before kevin had even walked into the room, he figured out he was going to. he realised that betsy was ocd immediately. he speaks like every european language. he was literally the only person that was able to read andrew. and, most impressively, HE WAS ON THE RUN FROM THE MAFIA ON HIS OWN, AND THEY DIDN’T FIND OUT WHO HE WAS UNTIL HE WANTED THEM TO. neil is not as ‘dense’ as you guys make him out to be.

#it really was him his wits and cheap box dye against the world #icon shit really #multilingual king is so true #like he knows english french german AND a good amount of spanish right away when we meet him #like central/south america was literally his back up plan in tfc and no one ever mentions that #not to mention that a good amount of other European languages are heavily Germanic #meaning he could probably pretty easily grasp onto a good handful of other languages and dialects if he tried #AND he's a math kid. he canonically LIKES math. like on purpose. #yea. this kid is Smart. #neil josten #aftg

[sunflowerius]

something I really hope is that tsc helps more people understand and appreciate kevin

#YUP #I can only take so much kevin slander and I have seen WAYYY to much recently #like yea he IS a little bit of a shit and kinda cowardly. he was in a cult babes. how would YOU feel. #anyway kevin day I love you #kevin day you will always be famous #they could never make me hate you #tsc #aftg #kevin day

[sunflowerius]

i need to paint flowers for my painting class within the next week (in watercolors mind you) and I wanna do something aftg related (because literally why not ?) any suggestions?

#the one that immediately came to mind was foxglove because duh. its in the name. #I also thought about sunflowers #(the thing about them growing facing towards the sun and the foxes reaching towards the light of a second chance) #i'm open to suggestions #aftg #all for the game #neil josten #andrew minyard #kevin day #nora sakavic #flowers #flower painting