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“you will stand again. hold on.”

[arcadiaak]

tattoo artist AU renee you're so hot and cool and I'm just a simple lesbian

[dirtnbugs]

[junkokiu]

It's not the world that's cruel. It's the people in it.

🦊

[jordiipordii]

listen you cannot tell me that andrew “ghosted a kiss over neil’s hip” minyard doesn’t fuck with temple kisses. smooches to the inner curves of neil’s wrists. pressing his mouth to the hollow of neil’s throat just to do it. dragging his lips with care and tenderness over his junkie’s inner thighs after he’s bitten the supple skin there all to hell. andrew may not have been bred for gentleness of a high caliber, but he knows devotion like he’s got it tattooed on the inside of his eyelids, and the only way to make the words light up is to have his lips on the most underloved parts of neil’s body that he can find

[instigatorjosten]

there is smth beautiful about Andrew not trusting Neil when he has this whole quiet boy persona act on, and the more Neil starts to be the instigator he was born to be Andrew falls for him

Andrew watched Neil slowly let the mask slip down and watched him act more and more like a fucking freak only to then essentially go “big fan of your dysfunction”

[debee23]

I recycled the party hat from Andrew’s birthday drawing. But that’s okay, I like to think they reuse the decorations, just like at my birthday parties when my mom pull out the ones my uncles had bought for my cousins 😂 I know, it’s a silly thing (and Neil could definitely buy new ones), but it feels so human 🫶🥹

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

i can’t die, because my dog would wait for me by the door for the rest of her life.

i can’t die, because my best friend needs someone to facetime when they get tipsy and emotional.

i can’t die, because my mom needs someone to make her laugh after a long day at work.

i can’t die, because my cat would wake up confused and disoriented every morning.

i can’t die, because my first grade teacher deserves to read a book dedicated to her by a student she taught to read and write.

i can’t die, because my friend wants me to see a movie with him next month.

i can’t die, because there’s so much i feel i need and want to do.

[andreilscat]

i love thinking about neil sleeping in the passenger seat while andrew is driving, and andrew just glancing at him from time to time and making sure that the ac is on and that the music is not too loud. he's also driving extra carefully, making sure that the drive is as comfortable as possible for him. and then when they arrive, he just stares and neil's face and reaches out to gently brush his fingers over it, but quickly changes his mind and just kind of nudges him. can't be caught having feelings like that. but it's not like neil doesn't know, of course he does. he loves andrew's caring side so much that sometimes he even pretends to be asleep just to see what he'll do

[doesephs]

YOUR SON LOOKS LIKE A GIRL

[instigatorjosten]

the way Neil is so allergic to asking for help. this kid took up Chemistry and refused to ask the biological sciences major for help, took up History and refused to ask the history buff for help, took up Spanish and refused to ask the half mexican for help. someone teach this kid about friendship

[evergreen-femme]

when i was a young boy i had the philosophy of ‘balls are the boobs of the penis so its ok that i want to suck on them it doesn’t make me gay” and tbh i was cooking

[wynnyfryd]

[jordiipordii]

Andrew totally likes to (discreetly) watch Neil solve math problems. He doesn’t know the steps that Neil is taking to pick apart each one, & frankly he doesn’t give a shit. Andrew just likes watching Neil work, watching the way his brows furrow together, and Andrew wants to reach out and smooth the skin between them flat, but he doesn’t. He just stares at Neil with the same hooded-gaze that he’s watched PSU’s #10 with since the day he smacked his runaway in the gut with a racquet, since the day he gave Neil a key and a place to call “home.” Andrew doesn’t want to admit it, would never say it aloud to Neil or himself or anyone else, but the boy who once said to him “I’m not a math problem” to which he replied “but I’ll still solve you” looks best when he’s sitting at his desk, leaned over the sprawling sheets of paper and focused. Not on Exy, not on his future, not even on Andrew: just Neil sitting with his shoulders relaxed in a way that would’ve been entirely impossible a year ago, chewing on the end of his pencil like he doesn’t even realize he’s doing it (Andrew always knew he was just a rabbit in disguise). Just Neil existing quietly, the way he always does in the very edge of Andrew’s mind, where Andrew keeps him tucked away safely.

[uncertainlys]

it will pass but like can i at least get an eta

[valtsv]

the true test of any bond isn't whether it holds up through the worst you can throw at it but whether it can withstand things that are just kind of uncomfortable and lame. like of course it goes without saying that you'll stay with someone you love through hell, but will you stick around for them during times that just kind of suck ass? because that's a different question

[what-even-is-thiss]

Just so you know, a normal response to a child breaking something is to first check to see if they got hurt and then if they’re old enough make them help clean it up. And then afterwards explaining to them how to avoid doing that in the future. At no point is yelling necessary to make them understand why they shouldn’t do that.

[what-even-is-thiss]

This also works for teenz. Teenager get drunk? Well, that’s a good opportunity to check in with their mental health and teach them how to drink responsibly in the future. Don’t try to match the amount your boyfriend drinks, Jessica. You have an estrogen system and you’re like four feet tall. Eat some bread.

[what-even-is-thiss]

A lot of people say this method is “too soft” but my dad taught me how to drink when I was fifteen and I never once got yelled at for breaking things and guess who doesn’t go around binge drinking and breaking stuff over peoples heads? Me, that’s who. I didn’t need fear or treats to learn things because I’m not a dog and neither is your child

[teaboot]

As someone whose father was the “yell about it” type of parent, I eventually figured out that if he was determined to see everything I did as intentionally malicious no matter what, then I had nothing to lose or gain by putting the effort in and just quit trying. I already knew not to break things on purpose because I wasn’t an idiot, but I had no reason to be polite or generous with HIM because he made it clear through his actions that effort or intent would never be appreciated.

I moved out at 17 and didn’t talk to him again till I was 25.

If your actions show that you are determined to see someone as malicious, they will eventually become malicious.

Tough love like this does not work

[tbartss]

Underrated moments in AFTG upon reread:

- Allison calling Kevin’s tattoo a tramp stamp

- Seth laughing his ass off upon hearing Riko was on the Kathy Ferdinand show

- Nicky suggesting Allison and Kevin hook up and they both react with intense disgust

- Aaron shrugging to Neil coming back absolutely battered from Evermore

- Kevin wanting to ask what Neil and Andrew talked about at Eden’s twilight after Andrew confessed to Neil, then seeing Neil’s face and being like “you know what? Not my business.”

- Dan, Allison and Renee basically fake dating platonically their first year to defy the sexist guys on their team

- Neil finding math interesting

- Kevin giving Neil the most scathing elevator look that Neil feels shame about his wardrobe for the first and only time

- Dan punching a Raven in the dick after they made a sexual comment about her past

- Matt’s mother being so grateful to Andrew for getting Matt clean that she pays Aaron’s bail

- Nicky calling Kevin a brat

- Wymack making Dan the first female captain despite the rampant misogyny in Exy

- Andrew stroking Neil’s back after Neil stood up for Kevin at Kathy’s Interview

- Wymack and Matt being the original Andreil shippers

- Neil giving Kevin his binder before going to Evermore like HELLO???? That was some INSANE trust

[bogleech]

Don’t feel bad if you’re sensitive to negative feedback because apparently after one particular bad review Hans Christian Andersen was found just sobbing while lying face down in the dirt