Lady FatCatMcCatterson

22, she/her, AFTG, fighting AO3 addiction

[starsworth]

aftg but neil just straight up refuses to give andrew any power over him from the get-go. andrew's like it's gonna be fun breaking you and neil just ignores him. andrew breaks in to look through his things but neil just lies about it existing in the first place, feigning confusion so well that andrew is almost convinced his drugs made him hallucinate it. andrew tries to force him to go eden's and neil's just like no ❤️ and then simply does not go. andrew says he's gonna get neil kicked off the team and neil calls wymack on the spot and asks if andrew can get him off the team, then hangs up and is like wymack said u can't actually do that, better luck next time ❤️ andrew pulls a knife on him and neil just stabs himself bc it wouldn't be the first time after all, and everyone freaks out about it so andrew isn't allowed to pull knives on neil ever again, on the threat of wymack shredding his contract and kicking him off the team. andrew tells neil he hates him and neil is just like i don't care ❤️ andrew's just constantly trying to threaten this guy effectively and neil is like you're literally five feet tall and can't even hold knives right, what can u do to me? ❤️ andrew is trying so hard to beat neil at a game neil doesn't even know they're playing, and neil is nonchalantly winning every time anyway without realizing it. andrew is rock hard around neil 99% of the time throughout all of this. btw.

[starsworth]

sometimes when im writing neil, i ask myself "am i going too far in how oblivious he is? wouldn't he have realized his own feelings yet at least, if no one else's?" and then i remember he went into the torture cult school he swore he'd never go to just in case it could spare andrew some pain and then did not regret it when it didn't work and also said verbatim that andrew is everything that matters and still had no clue he wanted to kiss him until andrew kissed him first

[psu-foxes]

hey i know we don’t really talk about this or anything but it’s fine if you tell neil im gay and single. like if it comes up in conversation where hes wondering about my sexuality or relationship status its fine to tell him that i am gay and also single. and its even fine if you tell him that im gay and single when hes not asking about it its fine if you casually tell him that. you can tell him i like men and am currently not in a relationship. however you want to tell him is fine with me. really, it’s fine, renee, if you tell neil that im gay and single, i have no problem if you mention to neil that i am not only gay but i am also single. if he was wondering. or not wondering. or whatever. i don’t care. but if you wanted to tell him im gay and single it’s fine

[hububli]

no but imagine how difficult it must have been for wymack, a victim of domestic abuse to have neil flinch around him. he, for a second was on the receiving end of that fear he felt growing up, the abuser without having lifted a finger. it makes sense that he needed neil to break the silence and say the first word, he was probably horrified and spiraling

[hububli]

i can't tell you how badly i want to see the foxes in everyday school situations from outsider's perspective like imagine neil josten being called to the board to solve a logarithmic function in algebra 201 after it just came out he's a son of a serial killer slash exy champion or being assigned andrew minyard, casual part time arm breaker full time terrifyingly fast and agile goalkeeper as your study buddy to peer review your criminal studies paper I can't 😭 i need this like oxygen

[rantabtaftg]

Maybe Andrew hated Aaron loving Tilda because he saw himself in him (literally)

[hamrikaa]

PSU Foxes 🥍

[plainlyshimmeringwolf]

[hububli]

i love this. I'm obsessed with this. oh my god. oh my god you're a genius

[hububli]

my headcanon is that andrew keeps a conscious mental checklist of things that contain his trigger words. because of this, he avoids certain roads because of a huge billboard that says "please, please, please," skips songs for seemingly no reason, switches channels without warning and takes bathroom breaks during movies only for a big confrontational scene come on, "but darling, it's all a big misunderstanding!"

i think neil would notice and start to take notes too. i think they might only watch movies together neil already had seen with the upperclassmen, and kept notes of where certain words were uttered, and if during those parts the electricity went out for a bit, maybe it's the trick of light. or maybe it's neil taking care of andrew

[max-worm]

headcanon that neil has a bad habit of sending ominous text messages and then vanishing and he is therefore constantly giving andrew heart attacks

[hububli]

oh my god I'm LIVING.

[hububli]

hi i just wanted to remind you that when they are both playing professionally andrew punches neil's coach for making him play despite his injury. carry on

[hububli]

my headcanon is that if andrew visited neil unannounced neil would drop whatever he is doing and sprint to andrew like his father's on his heels, and if neil surprised andrew he'd just dunk neil on the closest soft surface and climb on him like a cat

[minevaa13]

Andrew Minyard:

[minerva-yearns]

thinking about neil getting sick for the first time in years. thinking about neil having chronic phantom pains, the weight of a hot iron, the sting of a bullet, the suffocating press of water. thinking about neil’s body finally being allowed to feel and acknowledge and work through everything it’s been through. thinking about how this is only possible because neil is physically safe, emotionally regulated, healing. thinking about how he hates this period of his life, almost wishes he could go back to constantly expecting death, wishes he could go back to the pain not being his fault. wishes his brain would let him breathe. wishes he didn’t wake up some days unable to move, unable to practice, unable to run off his anxious energy. wishes he didn’t see andrew’s eyes soften as he realizes it’s going to be one of those days. one of those days where he has to watch neil struggle, unable to help him. neil feels terrible, feels horrible for rendering andrew helpless this way, again… im just thinking about the days when andrew holds neil close, listens to his tears, and can do nothing to stop the pain he’s feeling.

[jordiipordii]

Neil Josten doing a hear me out cake and his first ‘hear me out’ is a pic of Andrew in his Exy gear, obvi- but from there it just turns into very laughably smaller and smaller pics of Andrew. A close-up of his freckled nose; the scuff on one of his boots; a pic of just his hand with a cig put very delicately between two fingers. Neil fills his portion of the cake w micro-shots of Andrew’s piercings, his wispy blond hair in the sun. And as cute as it is, the girls are just sitting beside him and staring at him because “Neil, you can’t just keep putting photos of Andrew.” Only for Neil to frown and stick his very last photo in: a snapshot of Andrew at the gym, lifting weights in a compression shirt and spandex and glaring at the camera as per usual. Allison drags her hand down her face; Dan sputters out a little laugh; Renee just smiles because well, if Neil was going to be crazy over someone, might as well be someone who is just as obsessed w him (Andrew won’t say it aloud. He’ll say it to Renee, though, so that counts for something)

[andrewminyard-josten]

I can't stand roland x andrew x neil like I cant believe people ship it neil would tear that man to pieces he'd despise him loathe him hate him especially once knowing what age he started hooking up with andrew

why would he want to sleep with somebody who was attracted to a 17 year old & who's to say roland would not keep sleeping with minors?

anyway, please feel free not to answer if you don't want to, I just wanted to get this off my mind

I have never witnessed Andrew/Roland/Neil but I block numerous tags, including that one and its variations on A03 to save myself the anger. Aaron/Neil/Andrew, Andrew/Riko/Neil, Neil/Jean/Andrew, Andrew/OMC/Neil, Andrew/Kevin/Neil and all possible variations of ships listed above are also all blocked. I also block tags such as Cheating, Breaking Up & Making Up, Open Relationship, etc., unfortunately some people do not know how to tag properly. I agree Neil would never want to date Roland (demisexuality aside - but a lot of people who want to use Neil as a Fandom Bicycle tend to ignore his demisexuality). Like you said if he found out Andrew was in high school when him and Roland first hooked up, he's not going to want Roland anywhere near Andrew. Also, if Andrew saw Roland hooking up with high schoolers when Andrew himself is in his 20s and realizes just how young 17 is he'd have a very ugly realization. Admittedly, I don't trust fic characterization that ignores Neil's rampant canonical jealousy for shipping purposes. Neil is canonically a very jealous person, he literally spends the entirety of TFC telling the reader how jealous he is of Kevin. Part of his jealousy is also Kevin's dynamic with Andrew, which he wants for himself. He wants the fierce protection Andrew displays to Kevin (and Neil is awarded by the narrative at the end of AFTG when Andrew turns on Kevin several times for Neil. Congrats, Neil, he's yours now!). Andrew is also canonically a possessive person (Nora said in the EC that if Andrew ever suspected Neil of finding someone else attractive (not that he would, Nora also said he only has eyes for Andrew haha) he would immediately tell Neil that person is ugly. Nora also said that if someone other than Neil tried flirting with Andrew, he would be rude & dismissive to them... my man is LOYAL. As soon as he has Neil, he is uninterested in anyone else. Additionally, Andrew is shown to have what may be categorized as a potential form of hyper-attachment that is common in frequently abandoned children (nearly killing himself to keep Cass, his deal with Aaron that is literally a co-dependency pact, his canonical view of Bee as a 'mother' figure despite her being his therapist, and the fact that he would, according to Word of God, completely lose all joy and desire for human connection if Neil left him or died). Andrew is not leaving Neil or risking doing anything that will prompt Neil to run, there is a reason Nora says one of their versions of 'I love you' is telling the other person to stay: stay with me, stay where I can find you. Fanon!Andrew is often characterized as someone afraid commitment b/c of misinterpreting his "I want nothing" speech. Andrew is not afraid of commitment, it's that he knows when he commits to something he will commit so hard he is willing to die for said commitment. Furthermore, I've mentioned this in another post, but it's far easier for someone with Andrew's childhood & adulthood sexual trauma to be in an exclusive sexual relationship with someone he can trust to respect all his boundaries, than to risk being severely triggered by unknown variables (and this is why I hate Fanon Playboy!Andrew bc it ultimately ignores his sexual trauma). * Also, I know Andrew/Neil/Kevin is a fan-favourite b/c it was considered in a previous draft, and some ppl read AFTG and think they can still see its ghost in the pages: I disagree. I think Nora did such a good job cutting out Andrew/Neil/Kevin in the final draft, that by the end of TKM it'd be detrimental to Kevin to try to insert him into the Andrew/Neil relationship. If anyone is interested, I'd be willing to explain my thoughts on that further but I know it's a sensitive topic for a lot of fans.

[allfortherot]

hot take on demi neil from a demi person. neil doesnt have kinks. the only kink (technically fetish ig) he has is andrew. literally just that.

praise? from andrew? awesome, eats it up, fuck yeah

degredation? andrew's degradation is fond, neil adores it.

submission? andrew taking the lead and trusting neil to follow is a kind of intimacy beyond the bed and neil loves it

topping? any sex with andrew is awesome. top or bottom, doesn't matter to him. but the trust in andrew to neil, especially with his past, makes him dizzy with affection

car? (you guys are freaks btw) neil doesn't care, hey if andrew likes it, he likes it

exhibitionism? it works because he feels seen in his weird little possessive grabby hands gremlin brain that he's andrew's. andrew choses him and he wants that.

no deadass any kink you can name, if andrew likes it : neil likes it. simple as that. he doesnt really have any specific kink, just a very general andrew-fetish lmao