Disagree With Me If U Want But I Think It Would Be So Hilarious If, After Jeremy Becomes One Of The First

Nowadays, people just don’t know how to go on a normal date.

aaron and neil have the energy of "i'd take a bullet for him and then use the fact that i took a bullet for him as an excuse to make him do the dishes for a year"

One of my favorite things in AFTG is how the author deals with consent, particularly between Neil and Andrew. "Please" is such an easy go-to to make something not sound like an order or demand (especially for more aggressive characters, i.e., "Let me x/Do x, please"), but she completely took that off the table in this case. It becomes even more of a challenge when you take into account how Andrew’s bluntness can be taken as rude, but it's offset so well with Neil needing it spelled out to him because romantic interest go right over his head. Also, once a boundary is set, it's set. No questions asked. No testing it. And despite Neil being dumb as bricks to most things (bless his heart), most of those boundaries aren't even verbally discussed. It's either trial and error, observation of the other, or just left for the other to initiate. And there's no question to the reader that "no" or any sign of hesitation will be taken as "no." It's kinda refreshing to see it portrayed that way in media.

He's five feet tall

He consumes his weight in ice cream and hot chocolate

He plays goalie for a sport more fucked up than hockey

He plays said sport at a collegiate level

He lifts weights to Punch Good and carry people's burdens

He dual wields knives

He was in Child Prison

He committed murder once

(would have been five but he got caught)

He's scared of heights

He wants Nothing

He hates the Pipedream

He doesn't hate the fucked up sport he plays (he'd have to care to hate it)

He doesn't like the word "Please"

He values his word and his promises more than most things

There is no This

This is Nothing. They are Nothing.

The Pipedream is Nothing

And as he's always said, he wants Nothing.

He smokes cigarettes in his sports car he got with his birthgiver's life insurance

He's a Monster

He's the funniest bitch around with the deadest stare

He hates being touched

Yes or No?

He needs to be in control

It's always a yes with you

He'll resort to handcuffs if you don't listen well

He's five fucking feet tall

andrew's first pro game in the city aaron lives. he doesn't send tickets or ask aaron to come and he doesn't even tell aaron his team is coming to town. if aaron wants to come he will. andrew can't make him do anything.

between quarters, the jumbo tron is showing a "look-a-like" game on the screen where the camera operators find people in the crowd who look like different celebrities or animated characters. andrew's not paying any attention to it when the crowd goes wild. a teammate nudges him to look up and lo and behold, wearing a Minyard jersey is andrew minyard's look-a-like, aaron minyard himself.

he rolls his eyes when the camera focuses back on him for the side-by-side shot and but aaron can see that andrew is actually very pleased.

Andreil !!

Neil josten and Andrew minyard, my beloveds 🤍

When Andrew and Aaron graduate, they hug. Andrew is the last to let go.

Thinking about how, after Riko's death, maybe Kevin was given a box when he and Wymack attended the funeral. About Kevin getting back all of his books on history, his favorite hoodie, all of the things that he'd left behind when he ran.

And maybe, just maybe, tucked into the box among his other abandoned possessions, he finds old photographs of himself and Riko as children, grins wide with missing teeth and little league exy racquets in their hands. Of awkward teenagers in suits that make them look like they're playing at being grown as they attend their first press conference. He finds old, folded notes written in Japanese and scrawled on torn sheets of notebook paper passed between them during their homeschooling lessons.

Kevin feels safe enough with his father at his side to allow himself to grieve not only the loss of his best friend of twenty years, but also the people that he and Riko could have been if things had been ever so slightly different.

Rarely see it, but I enjoy fics where Agent Browning becomes an unwilling Pseudo Uncle beside Stuart as Neil's Actual Uncle. Like, Neil wants to do something that'll put the FBI on his case? Calls Agent Browning first, provides a heads up. Gonna marry Andrew? Gotta call Agent Browning so he can hyphenate his last name "for his Starbucks order". Allison wants to dye his hair? Gotta call Agent Browning first hold up

@exyandcigarettesmoke here’s some pictures of the books! let me know if you wanted to see anything else

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