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i love timebomb man best tragic ship out there only ever happy in a diffrent world

ARCANE ACT 3 SPOILERS

this season healed my timebomb heart a lil😖 (ignoring ep 9…)

i need them to happen so bad, Ekkos “can we just pretend like it’s the first time?..” ugh this got me SO BAD.

Also i was thinking of Powder having to explain to her Ekko that she kissed another timeline Ekko like

Ekko: Powder you kissed someone else!?

Powder: well..yes- it WAS you!! Just..not you? But it was-

Ekko: That doesn’t count!

Powder: You snooze you lose Ekko, you snooooze you lose!

not my edit! creator: simwnt on tiktok

"happy 19th birthday junior"

it's my birthday tada

I think that if say neil had a good relationship with both his parents still in a elio josten existing universe that maybe elio would get along with nathan however neil would never have a good relationship with that man even if I theories and come up with stupid scenarios where he did just to have that man be a murder grandpa so like this would be in a nathaniel world instead of a neil one

feel free to ignore its 3 am where I am this is just the demon that has possessed me talking

I am saying this just cuz I can somewhere when I do start writing a kit among foxes uhh I will give like random chapter snipits one of those that I wanna work on is cabin fiasco (this is also linked on my masterpost) in short cabin fiasco did start off as a incorrect quote thing that I have decided does happen so it will be from elio's pov and the title is cabin fiasco (ik I'm so smart for this[I'm not])

also like I think I'd have it be late trk or in tkm (after baltimore and the fbi) that elio gets closer to bee (I refuse to say why)

tw for the thanksgiving part in trk (does this need a tw oh well it gets one anyway, but like plz comment your opinion on it as I need help with that part)

another thing this is mainly like an input thing so like legit plz comment your opinion on this do I have elio accompany the monsters to nickys parents or do I leave with abby (or even bee) because I had the thought that if I did add him I could add andrew mentioning that Luther was still hiding dr*ke being in house when there was a toddler/young kid in the house (FUCK DR*KE HE DESERVED WHAT HE GOT [I lowkey think he deserved worse]) but also like that may slightly put andrew in an already worse state so that is only a thought not a full plan

so like plz comment your opinion on the thanksgiving thing I rlly wanna know or heck even dm me

guys plz meet the one and only rabbit josten, he is forever attached to my phone now so wooo

aaron: why do we need children books in the house

nicky: for incase we babysit

kevin: he doesn't even come with us to columbia andrew it's a waste of time and money

andrew(on meds): shush *He grabbed a few Disney books*

months later

elio: *sat on the floor having his hair braided reading through one of the many books*

andrew: *looks at the other three* "see books were needed"

alright guys uhhh so small like announcement thingy ig about a kit among foxes I will probably start work on the first chapter later on today or Friday and or on Sunday (I do other things Saturday so) but I will try and do some one-shots of things even if they are a lose au I have in my head because when I Nedd to write what's in my head I need a write what's in my head ill be so fr the first thing I write may either be canon to a kit among foxes and its on short elios birth or I'll an au that I have where elio was born much later and so for that au everything stays the same until neils time in the nest and tkm so yeah may not write that but oh well

ONE THING THAT I DO WANNA WRITE THO

is essentially a small au series of it neil had given elio up into stutarts custody but neil still stayed on the run essentially the premises for this au came from the fact I was just like I could make so many aus of if Mary died when neil was 14 instead of when she did die so yay

this is such a great motivator to read tsc honestly

hello, i made a quiz!

I know for a fact that I've made that one promise on like the 26th of August that I would get elio art I never did uhh I swear I will finish the sunflower dress sketch/drawing soon like later on as I have shit to do uhh I will also start to work on a kit among foxes chapter 1/ (chapter title thing) and will post a snippit of that may be written in my notes or notion I'm unsure but I promise i will do these things

heck I may even start the princess and the pauper katelyn, neil au if I ever get a plan in my head so yay that will be a wip thing tho not a fic for a while

so thought for aftg/ a kit among foxes slight au art thing ig if you can call it an au anyway

but do you guys think that stuart has kids or is married or has kids older than neil and then those kids have kids or that nathan had siblings I know that there's an au where David is Nathan's brother and I follow that like its drugs

but basically a thought came when I was sketching poses for elio art and about one or two have another kid in them I'm aware I can just make the kid casey (my first aftg kid oc who won't get a fic just cuz icba may get a one shot here and there) but casey is about 9-10 in 2007 which wouldn't make the height of the poses make any sense so

do we think that neil has cousins who have their own kids who are like toddler age so like 3-5 like it would make some kinda sense for Stuart to have kids even if they wouldn't inherit anything from his crime stuff but like would it mak3 sense like so do I make an art piece with a grandkids of Stuart or do I make some random kid from elios school

alright I see you all, thank you all for voting

so a kit amoung foxes has won the vote for elios fic name I should also clarify with how it's gonna be written if it's chapter and than a number eg chapter 4 it is Neil's pov, if it is a title eg sneaking a racoon into the car than it is elios pov, the story will be more from elios pov than Neil's so like while Neil is at evermore there will be about 2 or 3 elio pov chapters

alright guys some options for the unnamed aftg fic starring my sweet baby boy elio josten

yes I did Google some stuff so baby racoons are called kits and yes baby foxes can be called kits to they are more often referred as cubs so keep that in mind

also very funfact about elio is that because he was born and raised on the run he doesn't have a concept of gender (yes is this also a funfact because onke of the drawings/ sketches I have planned is him in a dress yes it it cuz fuck gender norms)

while I wait for 15 hours for the votes to be done (I'm impatient I'm trying to be patient it's just 15 hours idc if it isn't on point its technically 15 hours) here are some facts about elio

number one: elio has curly hair, like 3A-3C curly hair depending on if its cared for

number two: elio has no concept of gender (this is due to having been raised on the run)

number three: like how neil upped his age by a year elios age is upped by a year as well (he was orginal born in 2002 the day and month are the same)

number four: between Christmas and January Allison decided to work on elios hair getting it back to its natural state (the sketch/drawing I'm doing has his natural hair so yay)

number five: elio can't swim at all he also has a fear of the water

number six: when elio was a infant (and even now because he's short for his age) neil used to cary neil on his front with one of those baby wrap things under baggy shirts ad sweaters

number seven: before baltimore, the girls had taken elio out with them and he had picked out a yellow dress with sunflowers all over it (letting this kid explore his gender which is more than I can say for all my other kid ocs in general)

number eight: elio did try to take the racoon home with the foxes when it came time to leave the cabins it took about five minutes into the drive for aaron to point out the noise from the boot

number nine: Kevin had tried to get elio into exy but it didn't go over well as elio had just started furiously signing in ASL to the point that even neil struggled to keep up

number ten: the monsters dorm room cupboards have at least about 2 massive tubs of strawberry milk (nesquik cuz I think that was the cheapest at the time, it's basically just the cheapest one okay I'm not good at prices)

alright guys some options for the unnamed aftg fic starring my sweet baby boy elio josten

yes I did Google some stuff so baby racoons are called kits and yes baby foxes can be called kits to they are more often referred as cubs so keep that in mind

also very funfact about elio is that because he was born and raised on the run he doesn't have a concept of gender (yes is this also a funfact because onke of the drawings/ sketches I have planned is him in a dress yes it it cuz fuck gender norms)

ask game!! 🍄🛠️ <3

🍄= racoon child + college/the mafia = bloopin

🛠= one thing im struggle with elios wip/fic is what year he was actually born in as well as how the whole first time in Columbia went and if I just leave it out or add it in with just changing povs

very fun stuff for me again these are answers about elio obviously may do some about some of my others wips idk yet

🖍🤔

omg yay ty you for the ask btw, so these answers are both to do with my sweet boy elio josten he's my baby.

🖍= "where my mommy?" He looked around the small group of faces that were at the bus not seeing the one face that gave him the most comfort the strange urge to cry started to spill in his gut.

🤔= Alright so a story that I would love to wrote but I haven't started would be an au type of thing with elio idk fully what that au would be about it may be where elio was born much later or one where elio maybe got taken either with or instead of neil but it'd most likely be a one-shot

SNIPPIT 1 FOR UHHH the fic that has no name the full chapter 1 isn't written yet I just wanted to get the snippit out

so the snippit is basically when neil has the racquet slammed into his gut its not all that good written as its a snippit for a reason so enjoy:

Elio had his ear pressed to the bathroom/stall door hearing the locker room door get pushed open hoping it was his mommy and not anymore of the people who were already in the outside room, he didn’t hear the other give the signal to come out of hiding but worry was gnawing at his gut rubbing at his arm faster.

The boy was snapped out of his worry at the sound of someone hitting the floor and the sound of a gruff mans voice chastising someone, Elio pushed open the bathroom/stall door rushing around the corner slightly seeing Neil on the ground trying to take gasps of air, he seemed to have not noticed that Elio had came out from where he was hiding until the toddler{small boy} had rushed to grab onto one of his arms causing the short blonde to pause at what he was saying “well that’s interesting.” the blonde had mentioned a strange smile on his face. “Anyways if he was nice coach he wouldn’t be any use to us, would he?”

Elio noticed that his mommy had put a arm around his middle the boy didn’t share the same care for exy as Neil did having no interest in the sport other than watching the older one play and seem more alive.

I don't know if the bathrooms/stalls in the Millport locker were stalls in a room with a door or just stalls so uhh yeah

OMG TY I LOVE IT HES SO CUTE IN YOUR ART SYTLE.

plz go and show the oringal post some love, ty very much to my sis @sippycupx for drawing my sweet boy

GUYS GUYS ELIO CHARCTER SHEET DROP WITH QUOTES AND SOME SMALL INFO [small info focus on tfc] I TOLD YALL I DONT LIE I GOT IT DONE LIKE 3 AND A HALF HOURS LATE BUT OH WELL [yes Ik his age changed but its math correct so he is four not six or five I'm such a damn liar but oh well] [if you saw thsi before on my account no you did not]

short info: like Neil, Elio’s documentation is fake however, like how Neil has a legal identity Elio had one for a few weeks before mary had a death certificate made for a Aurelio Nat Wesneski much to Abram’s dismay, when coach Wymack came to recruit Neil, Elio had went to wait in one of the stalls in the locker and heared people talking but decided to wait, when Andrew had hit Neil in the gut with the racquet Elio ended up coming out of the stall worried and angry at the blonde, Neil waited till after the others had left to scold Elio for coming out of hiding.

on the plan ride Elio had clung to Neil as he’s scared of planes, after arriving Elio isnt as quick as Neil at picking up the difference between the twins gets worried for himself no Neil when hearing germen, disliked staying at Womack’s due to Neil being worried, stayed with matt and seth instead of going to columbia but mainly stayed under the bed covers hidden, when Neil got back to the dorms Elio clung to him again, when Neil and Andrew made the deal Neil explained it to Elio when the seats got rearranged Elio curled up on Neils lap or sat on the floor right by Neils legs.

Elios favourite fox at the time became seth as the guy has knowledge of raising kids, and he had found out about Elios love for mac and cheese, he had also gifted Elio a racoon plush toy [yes I've given seth a slight character thing even tho it was basically only Allison and Elio seeing it as he was an ass to everyone else]

the foxes all at the cabins outside:

kevin: he's perfect age to start playing exy

andrew: *keeping an eye on elio* ...

the foxes...

elio: *comes running over holding something* mommy I've found a racoon can we keep it

neil: sur- YOU WANT TO KEEP A FUCKING WHAT

one of the best things about having aftg books on kindle is when it comes to writing oc lore I can just grab the kindle go to the books and quickly scan through for the information I need (I say this as I need fo get the kindle without having my mum be mad that I'm stealing it again, I also have to read ad or listen to tsc so woooo reasons) but yeah elio lore will drop with his character desgin soon probably later tonight, or later tomorrow or on Friday idk yet his lore has changed alot to what it used to be so like neil may or may not be trans and may or may not be the parent who cares at this point (its my I'm who cares so me trying to figure out a way to actively have it make sense that elio does have a legal birth certificate where his surename is wesninski)

uhhh update on elio uhhh so elio was either born from 98-2000, (ik I keep changing the years but like I've seen people say neil went on the run at 8 which would mean elio wasn't even conseveied or he went on the run at 10 so really all I'm doing is just adding that neil is most likely 2 years older than elio, so the whole born in 98-99 thing is because that's what the fake birth certificate says that elio josten was in late September of 98 or 99 I haven't figured that out yet however I may elio actually have been born in late December of 2000 so elio is like 5 in tfc and then 6 post trk also elio is quite short for his age and no one really questions it cuz neil is short so.

also uhhh I'm still doing elios character sheet however I can say that elio does have a favourite fox and uhh it is/was seth so wooo guys seth gets a small character arc of accepting a kid dorming with him and than becoming attached to said kid so yay

so uhh quick update on the aftg oc his name is elio uhh his lore has changed since I last spoke about him ummm his character design is getting re done because I fucking hate what I did like not really it's just the hair that's getting edited uhh I am doing like one with a base/ref of neil holding baby elio soo ill post that when it's done so like as for elios lore uhh his age has changed not that much just the fact that during tfc he's 6-7 and than from trk and onwards he's 7-8 so its a year/two younger so he was bron like either right after Mary and neil ran or just like a month or two before which I'm going with the month or two before they ran so yeah

feel free to send in asks for this if you wish 2

💭 AFTG Ask Game 🥍

I wanted to create an ask game because i like seeing people's writing! Also wanted to focus on fan-work/ analysis of the series :3

Favourite Character(s)?

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Favourite Ships/Tags?

Favourite non-romantic/non-sexual relationship in AFTG?

Favourite Artwork you've seen?

Favourite Theme/Motif?

Part of the story you want expanded/ have more knowledge of?

What team would you be on? Fox, Raven, Trojan (one of the others👀?) 

What position would you play? (Or would you be a non-player ie. Betsy/Katelyn?)

First impressions of the series versus now?

Who are you most like in the series/ relate to? 

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Your AFTG OC?

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Canon divergence time! What would your fresh take on an aftg character be (i.e Raven Neil, Vixen Allison?)

so the new aftg oc is Neil's younger sibling they were about 2 years old when Mary took neil and them on the run (I say about 2 because neil was 10 when he and his mom went on the run in 98 and the unnamed oc (finding names is so fucking hard) was born somewhere between 96 and 97 so yeah, so as of the start of tfc the oc would be about 9-10 and then in tkm would be about 10-11 if that makes sense to people (I'm legit reading on timelines so that this makes sense from a fic point of view and like Mary died at 38 putting neil at 17 and the oc at like 8-9 depending on what month I have this kid born, I do have a drawing already done using a base/reference from mellon_soup so I will post that after I find a name for this kid, if you lot wanna give name recs you can

PREACH BAMBAM

like I can get how the line can get taken out of context but like it was the 2000s from what I remember from cousins I've had tell me it wasn't all that great for lgbtq+ people, plus what Kevin said does make sense from the state of it being a sport team and a college 1 thingy at that as well as the fact that they'd be in the public eye and under scrutiny for things like ik we don't fully know how the exy fans reacted to Neil going for riko but like we can just tell that from what the raven fans did kost likely no one liked him.

and like "it's easier to remain heterosexual" the whole wording of that is like to me he doesn't care what you do with other people about your personal relationships however going I the public eye it would be easy to play off being straight like going with paparazzi today they are invasive with what they do to people in the public eye like imagine the backlash from homophobic people if they find out one of their favourite footballers/soccer players are gay it wouldn't go down well, so Kevin was being very caring on suggesting it he wasn't demanding that neil remain straight Kevin couldn't really care less about Neil's swing situation he wasn't really raised to care relationships anyway If I remember correctly so yeah.

Kevin was being a good teammate and giving a suggestion that he believes/believed (irk if it changed) would help neil in the long run plus he says this like before finding out who neil is (if I recall correctly) so he was saying it while also having hopes that neil would go pro

biggest pet peeve rn is people taking "it's easier to remain heterosexual" entirely out of context. no, Kevin was not on his high horse about the fact that he's straight. no, he was not telling Neil that being gay is wrong. i am holding you so gently by the shoulders.

"you know better than anyone how prejudiced people can be" (to nicky) literally said not 2 seconds after the first line

he's just looking out for him cuz he knows that his career is gonna be that much harder if he dates a man like i don't-

guys help me plz so I know we gave casey hart as a kid oc for aftg however do I make a new one cuz I have an idea and like this oc may have health issues (I'm not fully sure) so do I have this oc be like present at the start or pop up because of some underlying factor I don't much about said oc yet but I do have a desgin for them planned out in my head (I'm a bitch with to much creativity and I make way to many ocs for just about everything this is like a normal thing I fear)

IVE FINSISHED THE KINGS MAN GIYS OMG THAT WAS SO FUCKING LONG BUT LIKE JESUS CHRIST I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH I ALMOST FORGOT HOW MUCH, Jeremy there like 😊 when handing over the list of his teams players for the match like omg you go boy you radiating sunshine engery, rikos death the way ichiro cradles rikos cheek like the thoughts that would have been going through his head (he's a bad person don't get me wrong he's awful but like to only meet his brother when his brother wants to kill him is somthing)

'now he couldn't help but smile and pull andrew in, this was everything he wanted, everything he needed and Neil was never letting go.' LIKE OMG WAY TO FUCKING END THE BOOK, I'm never gonna shut up eved again I was like simmering in this series for years never again I'm gonna be so annoying that I will not apologise for it because woooo fun

does anyone else suffer from the aftg effect? i remembers the moment i finished tkm and I was looking into the air thinking "nothing its ever gonna top these books", like, yeah, after aftg I read more books, but i wasnt able to connect as hard as i connected with the Foxes; and it never matters how long i stay away from the books bc im busy with my life, every single time i go back to them without fail, to the way too sweet andreil fanfics, to the beautiful fanarts, to this cursed fandom that always likes to suffer for some reason, they always drag me back. it never fails to impress me how much these silly little books mean so much for me and for many people too, and thats the aftg effect, the feeling of knowing ur fucked bc theres no way ur going to get over the books in this lifetime or the next one, once u start liking the characters, theres no way back.

ALRIGHT PEOPLE WE ON BALITMORE THE PHONE CALL WITH LOLA LIKE BTICH FUCK OFF LEAVE HIM ALONE, JACKSON AKD ROMERO (I think that's how it spelt idc anyway I hate that guy) just being in security guard getups like "yeah this will work defo", Neil looking at his foxes is just my heart is shattering I can't do this rn, him debting between speaking German to Andrew but then knowing that the fuckeds would react violently

"thank you" he finally said, he couldn’t say he meant thanks for all of it. the keys, the trust,the honesty and the kisses. hopefully Andrew would figure it out eventually "you were amazing." like him not being able to fully say what he meant, it fucking sucks like my heart is fucking wreacked. the riot part also fucking sucks.

neil being dragged away by the bitches I hate those three they can all die, fuck my heart the way it just drops lola asking him questions and him figuring out that it was Nathan's circle with the birthday surprise, lola explaining what she's gonna do to him like why, LEAVE HIM ALONE (like ik that neil gets out but like still it hurts) him being tortured also fucking hurts, lola just asking her brother for the dashboard lighter, and then being burned him calling ber sick is just like neil I love you but like bro you gonna get tortured maybe don't try and rail them up (I try to think I'd do what neil does but I probably wouldn't)

the part where lola keeps wanting to know where mary is and nwil just repeating "she's dead" and then lola just asking about his teammates and then him not wanting to tell her shit is just so brave of him.

"he traced the outline of a key into his bloody burnt palm with a shaky finger closed his eyes and wished neil josten goodbye" the way he switches to nathaniel because nathaniel belonged to his father, Neil belongs to the foxes and abram belonged to Mary and now belongs to Andrew is just like such dramatic irony that it hurts, nathaniel just going to wash his hands so they don't get infected is just such a moment like he was on his death bed or basement or floor.

I'm sorry but Nathan just coming down without wearing shows LIKE SIR YOUR BASEMENT IS PROBABLY INFECTED WITH SO MUCH BACTERIA WHY GO DOWN BAREFOOT JUST WHY. Patrick walking down behind the man like dud why let the seriel killed wear no shows or socks just why. can I say Nathan's accent is so funny like ik we meet him when he's going to kill nathaniel but like it's a funny accent.

so I'm on the final book woooo we love this honestly doing lore stuff for ocs or just scrolling on my phone while listening to the audio books is so much more easier than picking up the fucking kindle to complete my reread when im already down two of the books anyway, the character development the relationships is just so lovely to hear again

"I warned not to put a leash on me"

"I didn't" neil said "you put that leash on yourself when you told me to stay no matter what, don't be mad at me just because I was smart enough to pick up the other end of it"

hell yeah one of the best interactions in my opinion I'm looking so forward to baltimore I can't wait for it man "I wanna see you lose control." oof that was so great the back and forth those to have is just amazing.

alright its his birthday woooo locker room mess woop woop, let's go (low-key I can do the happy 19th birthday junior in December because I'm 19 then) BLOOD SPLATTER (poor boy he doesn't deserve this) God damn that sucks him going through a slight panic is just so great like it sucks.

"HAAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY JUNIOR!" LETS FUCKING GO HECK YEAH well oh well way to go shut down your panic all you want "carrie stunt double" only one of matts best lines in this books love you for that dude

guys I've finished the raven king and uhh Jesus fucking christ that shit was horror, wymack getting concerned at Neil's voice on the phone is just such a dad thing, the tattoo nooo those bitches him running for the kitchen for a knife.

"help me" he said through gritted teeth

"let me" wymack shot back

just way fo go fucking break me more afer the thanksgiving part (I completely forgot the timestamp for the audio book for when that happens, I should have probably read along with my kindle books but oh well) but like what the fuck I forgot that it was all detailed man like not fully but like gosh the audio books hit diffrent than reading them for me. Neil telling wyamck that he's still a fox and that he hadn't signed the raven contract is just UGHHHH SOBS

still no more casey info sorry to casey hart fans you don't get any new info for the moment as im still trying to fully figure out everything and still finish his character desgin sheet/art thing