Taleodo48 - I'm So Bored

five-minute sketch don't let him smile for someone

Ahahah... Mmm idk for what but.. yeah

WAIT who out of the AFTG characters do we think can sing??? My immediate response is Renee, Jeremy, and Andrew. Hear me out:

Renee has a very soft voice. To me, she sounds similar to artists like AURORA, Adrienne Lenker, Faye Webster, etc. I think she writes her own little songs and can play either the guitar or piano. It’s a skill the rest of her team knows of but only because she hums and sings under her breath during practices.

Jeremy has a booming voice, and it’s raspy and powerful (cue Jean swooning in the background). He sounds like Caleb Followill from Kings of Leon, maybe a bit like Bruno Mars, or Scott Stapp. He sings whenever he gets the chance; at karaoke when the team goes out after games, when he’s a bit too drunk, when he’s out with friends and is feeling chirpy.

Now. Andrew. No one knows Andrew can sing. Neil himself has only ever heard Andrew hum while he does different tasks around the apartment. But if Andrew cared for it, he could seriously bust out some pretty good 2000’s punk rock. He sounds like Chester Bennington. But no one knows this, and no one will ever find out.

safe?

a quick, slightly more realistic sketch of jean and jeremy

my pookies

OMGGgGgGGGgGGGGgGGGGGGgGgGGGGGGGgGGGGGGg wait Whattttttttttttttttt????? Aahhhhhhhhhhbhhhh * a whole series of screaming and screeching *

How’s Ty doing? Is he sleeping well? Is he eating? Is he obsessing over Kit?

All three.

sketches of andrew and neil i made while listening to aftg audiobooks 😳😳

Andrew is proof that Nora Sakavic is a brilliant writer

I will probably make more posts about this because it is something I feel so strongly about. I have seen SO many people wishing we'd had Andrew's POV but I am so glad we didn't. As a writer, I am ashamed at how long it took me to understand the GENIUS of Andrew's character. When writing a story, there are precisely THREE ways to relay what your characters are thinking and feeling to the reader: 1. Dialogue 2. Internal Monologue 3. Descriptions of Expression/Body Language And you need to do all three really well to make it real, natural, and believable. You have to trust your reader to understand what you're trying to say without outright saying it. This task is made all the more difficult when you don't have #2, the internal monologue. Secondary characters are ONLY understood through what they say and what emotions they show on their face and in their body language. To write a character that BARELY speaks and is INFAMOUS for having an expressionless face is the greatest show of RESTRAINT I have ever seen in a writer and it worked SO beautifully. The number of times we desperately want to know what Andrew is thinking and feeling and I BET Sakavic was twice as desperate to show us, to tell us straight out "ANDREW IS INFATUATED!" But she didn't. She stuck so perfectly to Andrew's character and GAVE US NOTHING and TRUSTED us to read between the lines to find truth. That's not even to mention the entire time Andrew was on his meds. As a writer, we want nothing more than for our readers to KNOW our characters the way we do. I can only imagine how infuriating (but also delightfully challenging) it was for Sakavic to write Andrew knowing most of what he was doing and saying was because of the meds and his promises. I could scream this from the rooftops. Sakavic deserves so much praise for this alone. I won't EVEN get into Neil's character and the relationship dynamics between every single character and every other character too. Andrew is literary genius, imo.

It was busy in the city so an empty roof to watch the fireworks sounded perfect for them

Happy New Year✨

everything aside tho, I can't get over the fact that this is the first time jean has been so vocally protective of neil in front of someone else. and the person he chose was andrew, the person who mirrors jean's misplaced connection to neil, the foxes' number 3, the partner neil chose for himself when he escaped the life where jean would have been chosen for him.