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Neil Josten, AFTG

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP fired a little snake out of glass by Shimmer_手工

[wickedwitchofthewesninski]

My canon: Neil is super weird, but in a way people don't expect and it catches them unaware. He will have a perfectly normal conversation with you and then you realise he doesn't ignore the first slice of bread of the loaf, uses it right after opening it to make a sandwich. He doesn't have a set way of replacing the toilet paper roll. He does sock-shoe-sock-shoe. He takes the peel of the banana off completely before eating it on the go. He unplugs the laptop yanking on the cable not the plug. He eats kiwis with the skin on like they're apples. He eats dry cereal then drinks a glass of milk.

Neil Josten is like an alien that has managed to blend in quite well with the humans but sometimes he does something that reminds you he's a martian

[lutheloser]

handle with care 🤲🏼💗

[llamarous]

changed my kinderjoy Ron to Neil 😙

[brokoala-soup]

i think we inadvertently fall in love with our friends and often don't even realise it, and it's those parts of them that we appreciate, we remember and it becomes our most favourite thing about them, that makes us notice, that makes us care. i don't know my best friend's favourite colour but i know to notice that something is wrong when they don't hold my hand like the way always do. they don't have to tell me but i know they're having a good day just by the shadows of their face. we wouldn't have spoken in weeks but i would know the exact comment they would shoot at a given situation. i wouldn't have seen them in years but i know the way their eyes would crinkle while laughing. i haven't seen them write for months now but i still know they write the most beautiful "j" ever and i would recognise their handwriting anywhere because it's my most favourite font. i think i love my friends, and im convinced we all do

[llamarous]

love

[lastoneout]

like the first rule of cooking is to have fun and be yourself and the first rule of baking is to stay calm because the dough can sense fear

[inafieldofstarflowers]

I just re-read The Foxhole Court and for the first time I noticed the parallels between Wymack’s speech about Kevin’s time at the nest and THE Riko roast in book 2:

Wymack: “[Tetsuji] raised Kevin to be a star” // Neil: “Being raised as a superstar must’ve been really, really difficult for you”

Wymack: “Kevin isn’t human to them. He’s a project” // Neil: “Always a commodity, never a human being”

Wymack: “He put a lot of time and money into kevin’s development on the court. As far as Tetsuji is concerned, Kevin is valuable property. Any profit Kevin makes is rightfully the Moriyamas’” // Neil: “Not a single person in your family thinking you’re worth a damn off the court”

Wymack: “Kengo and Ichirou mostly keep to New York and couldn’t give a flying fuck what Tetsuji and Riko do” // Neil: “Kevin and I talk about your intricate and endless daddy issues all the time”

In my opinion, this is significant for two main reasons.

First, as Wymack says, “Kevin doesn’t talk about his time at Evermore,” so Neil didn’t get this information from HIM. This is part of why the “Kevin and I talk about your intricate and endless Daddy issues all the time” is so funny, because you know Kevin is sitting at that table losing his MIND at being implicated in this, but this speech means those claims are based on something.

Second, and I think more importantly, Neil is turning everything Wymack told him was true of Kevin onto Riko. On the Kathy Ferdinand show, Neil implies that Kevin is better than Riko, and that Riko knows it and is scared of it—“people are finally going to know which one of you is better. They’re going to know how premature [the facial tattoo] was.” In the Riko Roast (TM), he’s continuing to make that insinuation by basically saying “hey, all those things you think about Kevin? All that dehumanization? It’s true for you, too. Only Kevin got out and you’re still there, and we see that and talk shit because of it.” He’s not just knocking Riko down, he’s building Kevin up while he does it, because in this scenario, Kevin is one of the people on the outside seeing how pitiful Riko is, while Riko is just a guy everyone thinks is annoying, and who should just shut up.

[vanhemart]

girls dorm bathroom before the banquet !

[minyard-05]

pro team andrew gets an offer from maserati to do promo for them which he finds out is basically just "we'll pay you to take pictures with one of our cars" so he calls aaron like "do this one thing and you get 30%"

[minyard-05]

aaron has student loans to pay off and all he has to do is take pictures with cars? EVERY professional picture of andrew is aaron dressed up he's got bills to pay

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[korakos]

so Tashie just informed me that Jeremy is morally obligated to be blond unsure if being gaslit or bullied (pretty sure it's the former) had to slam the brakes on everything else to put the draft under a microscope and fix it I am so tired

unrelated, it feels a lil awkward taking inspiration from a song that was written specifically for another book, but "I Am Not Nothing" by Beth Crowley is quite lovely

[korakos]

"NORA YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO THEM HE'S BLOND IN LITERALLY EVERY FIC AND PIECE OF ART"

[llamarous]

inktober 1 : Dream

[llamarous]

We fell in love in October but I fell asleep and she was a dream

[brokoala-soup]

it's raining, i'm in my semester's longest and most boring class, the sky is cloudy, the room is dark, everyone is sleepy, the professor's voice is overpowered by the sound of the rain, the weather switched from stuffy and humid to breathy and cool, the petrichor is taking over my brain, the chaotic mind has slowed down, 60 pairs of eyes battle against sleep and exhaustion to concentrate in the class when all they want is to go home and crash on their beds, shabby notes written by drowsy hands, rough diagrams drawn by tired fingers, headaches stemming from a long and tiring day, drained social batteries blinking alarmingly for a recharge, everyone in the room is done for