AFTG is a very good example of narrator bias, because if we didn’t get a book from Jean and Jeremy’s POVs we would have no way of knowing the world does not actually in fact revolve around one Andrew Minyard
Don't you hate it when your reflection tries to murder you.
Anyway here's an animation I spent the day doing, it's Millport Neil and his Guilt :)
Also thank you so much for all the replies for the animatic! It means so much!! Tbh I would draw and animate more but each time I do so I gotta catch on the school work and I'm getting behind already.. But yeah today I was like meh what's work anyway.
i am disliking the amount of negative comments i’m seeing about tsats. can we all remember that’s it’s been a long time since we got any content and that the characters you remember in your head are probably a product of your time in this fandom rather than the actual characters. also — this book isn’t about the gays it’s about supporting traumatised gay bitches let’s all remember that before i see more comments out here attacking my boys 👹👹
i am disliking the amount of negative comments i’m seeing about tsats. can we all remember that’s it’s been a long time since we got any content and that the characters you remember in your head are probably a product of your time in this fandom rather than the actual characters. also — this book isn’t about the gays it’s about supporting traumatised gay bitches let’s all remember that before i see more comments out here attacking my boys 👹👹
With The College Tapes over, here's a nearly 10 minute long edit of random Mark/Oliver moments from TCT and TAMA. (Transcripts and vague ideas for why these scenes were put in this order below cut.)
The Introductions
1.
Caleb: Oliver Ritz, that's the transmutation guy, right? Mark's mentioned him a few times.
2.
Mark: Yes, listen to that random guy!
Oliver: Excuse me, I am a highly accomplished biochemist.
3.
Dr Bright: He's just been caught up with something. He won't tell me what though, so he's either been fired and is trying to find a new job before I find out or he's seeing someone new.
4.
Caleb: But she said you were in Europe.
Oliver: Whoa. What?
Mark: Yeah… I haven't gotten around to actually talking to her about this yet.
“Byron”
5.
Frankie: Byron is your real name? I thought it was just, like, a pet name.
Mark: [sighs] It's my first name.
6.
Oliver: So you were lying to Byron?
Caleb: Does he like that you call him that?
Oliver: I've never asked.
Caleb: That's kind of rude.
7. (Several scenes where Oliver calls Mark Byron)
Oliver: What, Byron?
Oliver: Byron, it wasn't two days ago, it was five minutes ago.
Oliver: Talk to you later, Byron!
Oliver: Yeah, but that's what's so fun about it, Byron!
Oliver: Byron, the child is making fun of me.
Oliver: I didn't want Byro— Mark, to worry.
Calling and Texting
8.
Oliver: Hey, so, I'm gonna step out and make a call.
Caleb: Okay. So, you're calling Mark?
Oliver: [chuckles] I'll explain it to you when you can shave.
9.
Caleb: Shit. Oh fuck, I have a ton of missed calls. Adam.
Oliver: Me too. Mark. Mark called a bunch.
Caleb: I need to go.
10.
Oliver: Besides, you know how my trip was, I texted you the whole time.
“Shut up, Oliver!”
Sadie: Do you ever stop talking?
--
11. (Several scenes where Mark just wants Oliver to stop talking)
Mark: Shut the fuck up.
Mark: Yeah, shut up and get on with it.
Mark: Shut up, Oliver!
Mark: Shut up, Oliver.
--
Mark: [slides down to the floor] Is anyone else having like, the worst week?
Oliver: Everybody up, look alive!
Mark: Oh my god.
--
Mark: I don't like this. We were supposed to be at dinner right now. I wanted to get thai.
Sam: I like thai.
Oliver: I hate thai food.
Mark: Shut up, Oliver.
Oliver: I'm just saying, don't take me for thai.
--
Mark: No, he does not.
Friends?
12.
Mark: Come on, we're growing on you, aren't we? Admit it.
Oliver: I will do no such thing.
13.
Oliver: Mark—
Mark: You couldn't possibly just let your friend know that you were leaving, if you were alright. I mean, what if The Order was out looking for you—
Oliver: I wouldn't exactly call us friends, Mark.
Mark: [scoffs] Okay, fine. Casual acquaintances, who pick each other up from the airport and answer phone calls from Venice at 2 a.m when you're drunk—
Oliver: That was twice, I don't think that makes it a habit.
14.
Mark: Really? It's been, what, three years, and you're still... you.
Oliver: Miss me?
What is home?
15.
Mark: Well, I was shocked when you told me you were coming home. I mean, back to Boston. You've just been gone for a while.
16.
Alice Rufie: They're my home now. I have no one else. Whatever they ask of me, I will do. Whatever the cost.
Oliver: Are you still mad at me? I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
Mark: What? What are you talking about?
Oliver: I just— I just talked to you.
Mark: No, you didn't.
Oliver: Yes, I did. I said that fucked up thing about us and I didn't mean it. I'd do whatever it takes, whatever you asked of me, whatever it cost, I—
Mark: Did I call the right number?
Friends.
17.
Mark: God, is this really the plan? I'm gonna try to save my best friend from a crazed cult.
18.
Oliver: I never ask you about the weird door in our friendship that we never talk about or you never open.
“Can you stay?”
19.
Oliver: Mark, look. I just really need you here with me.
Mark: [exhales, resigned]
20.
Oliver: Well, sure, if it's too much for you I get it. You can... [softly] Can you stay?
Mark: Fine.
Talking
21.
Oliver: Fuck off, you can't fix me, Mark.
Mark: Hey, hey, I'm not trying to fix you.
Oliver: Yes, yes, you are. You totally are and it's really fucking annoying.
Mark: Well, I'm so sorry that my caring about you is so annoying.
22.
Oliver: Have you even talked to him about it?
Caleb: You mean the way you and Mark are talking about things right now?
Oliver: Ouch.
Caleb: Sorry, that—that was stupid. I didn't mean to make you sad.
Oliver: No, you're—you're right.
Caleb: It's not cool. Your thing isn't my thing.
23.
Caleb: So, do you wanna tell me about yours and Mark's problem?
Oliver: Nah, you aren't old enough for a conversation like that.
24.
Oliver: No, you should really talk to Mark. [bitter] He's probably with Beck, that's where he's been all fucking week.
“He’s not worried”
25.
Caleb: Uh, Mark told me you were here.
Oliver: No, he didn't.
Caleb: Yes, he did. He's worried about you.
Oliver: No, he isn't. Well, I mean, he is, but... he's spent the past week worrying with Beck and they talk about—well, I don't know what they talk about, it's a secret door. But he's not worried worried. And you seem to be implying that he's a level of worry beyond the normal level of worry and that's not—we're not—he's not worried.
26. (Several scenes where Mark is worried about Oliver)
Mark: Buddy, I'm worried. Come back to Boston, get out of Yale.
Mark: Okay, Oliver, Oliver, I don't care. I'm just glad you're okay.
Mark: Oliver? Oliver, thank god! I got here as fast as I could, I've been so—
Oliver: Woah, you drove all the way here for me?
Mark: Yeah, you weren't answering your phone!
Oliver: And I don't need to process, and I don't need your pitying glances and imposing questions at 2 A.M in the middle of a bar in Venice to check in on me.
27.
Mark: Oliver, would you just—would you just please be careful? I'm running low on friends.
Staying, Running, Caring
28.
Oliver: I know you well enough. For three years, I've ignored when you get like this.
Mark: Like what?
Oliver: I say something, or something happens and then you get like this. Muddled, thrown off, confused.
29.
Oliver: [sighs] He asked me not to leave again.
Caleb: Let me see the book, Oliver.
Oliver: But I did, I did, I still left and I ran away and I came here. All week, just looking in this book like it'll give me some answers while he's—
30.
Mark: You just throw yourself into a project and then another project and then you disappear off the grid and reappear in the middle of a conspiracy!
Oliver: Okay, that was not my fault.
Mark: Isn't it? You couldn't wait to leave my apartment.
Oliver: You didn't want me there.
Mark: What?
Oliver: I made you remember. Remember what it was like there. Remember everything they did.
31.
Mark: And hey, you and me can, um—well, it'd be nice to have someone else who understands what it's like to go back into a place that kept you.
32.
Oliver: I don't know how not to run, Mark.
Mark: I know. And hey, I'm not asking you to figure it out overnight or anything. I certainly haven't. But baby steps, right?
Oliver: Baby steps how?
Mark: Like for starters, not running off with Severus Snape to his basement of doom.
Oliver: Oh god, yeah. Deal.
Agitated
33. (Mark unstrapping Oliver from his restraints at the altar)
Mark: [shaky] Hey, buddy.
Oliver: [whispered] Mark?
Mark: Hey, I'm gonna get you out of here.
34.
Oliver: Hey, are you okay?
Beck: Can we get down to business?
Oliver: What did you do? Why is he all agitated?
35. (Mark stumbles into the room and charges for Blackwell)
Oliver: What the fuck?
Mark: No fucking way!
Caleb: Mark, no, wait!
Mark: Don't you dare!
[flustered] What?
36.
Caleb: That's actually not a bad idea. If you guys are willing to share a bed, it shouldn't be a problem. Unless there's only one bed?
Mark: What?
37.
Oliver: What the hell is going on out here?
Mark: Use your eyes, dumbass! Everything is on fire.
Oliver: Okay, well technically, just that side of the room is on fire, not everything.
Mags: Would you two can it? We have a crisis here.
38.
Oliver: Sorry! Okay? I'm sorry. Do you need to leave?
Beck: Am I invisible?
Mark: What?
Oliver: I don't know, just—whatever this is, Mark.
Mark: It's nothing.
Oliver: Well, even if it is something, it's... you. You know, you can tell me.
Beck: As touching as this is, are you done?
39.
Oliver: Shit. Mark.
Beck: You guys can continue your, whatever, lovers' spat later, okay?
Mark: Wh—we are—hey.
Oliver: Woah, what? No. Lovers. What?
Beck: I don't actually care.
40.
Oliver: I've had far too much drama for a lifetime.
Mark: Yeah, you do seem to attract it.
Oliver: Oh, is that why you're stuck to me like a barnacle?
Mark: What?
Oliver: Uh… you're a very dramatic person, Byron, it's almost as if your parents were psychics.
Joking
41.
Mark: Godspeed.
Jackson: [deadpan] Very funny. [zooms away]
Oliver: I thought that was pretty good.
Mark: I thought so, too.
42.
Mark: It was... something to meet you all. I'm sure I'll see you at the next crisis.
Oliver: I wish I could say the same, but honestly, interacting with people under 30 is exhausting. If you have my number, please lose it.
[voices start fading as they walk away]
Mark: He doesn't mean that!
Oliver: Yes, I do!
Mark: No, you don't.
43.
Mark: Think there's monsters in the basement?
Oliver: Well, not since I left.
Mark: I didn't mean—
Oliver: I was joking—it's a joke. It's a joke. Just keep up.
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