Lucky Slice

I've accepted this is just aftg art and sad posts about Kevin

[lucky-slice]

Hey

A little intro post to keep organized.

Gnat - somewhere in my mid-20s - (he/they)

I post art and some thoughts about Kevin Day. Feel free to come talk to me or send me ideas to draw.

I tag all my art with #Lucky Slice Art and all my silly little text posts with #gnat be quiet

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aight, peace out

[horrorcitos]

A golden hour walk around my neighborhood

[instigatorjosten]

kevin day after leaving the Cult:

[saintofsacrilege]

andreil could survive a decade-long situationship but hollanov couldn’t survive a serial killer father, the literal mafia, or living with kevin day

[dustystarwolf]

I love how sentiments in the comments/reblogs seem to be either:

1. They would probably survive Kevin Day, in that they would end up having a (or possibly several) threesomes.

2. They *should* end up having a (or several) threesomes but Kevin Day would fumble it and end up as “a queer platonic third to yet another overly intense gay couple. It's his destiny.” (Via @witsserviceablesubstitute in the comments) He’s going for 3/3, apparently. 

3. Shane and Kevin would get along great, but would make each other *so much worse*, and Ilya would likely kill the both of them (and maybe himself) before the end of the week. 

4. Ilya could maybe survive the Yakuza, actually. 

[urgetocreate]

Jia Li (Chinese, b.1964), Summer Light, 2015, Watercolor on paper

[clytemnestraaa]

it’s not romance novel material but i wish there was at least a fic that got into the like. idk. the bodily-ness of it all. their bodies are their professions and their instruments. it’s almost like working in the medical field? the like. corporeality and fleshiness of it all. that makes it sound unsexy. but there’s sort of an understanding of your body and everyone else’s bodies as a tool, and i think sex is a part of that, sex is just another thing you can do with this tool. but then you can’t actually identify with the tool, or feel attachment to it, because it’s not yours. they’re strapping on metabolic masks to have their O2 measured once a year or whatever. internally and externally, these bodies don’t belong to them. if your body is your brand is your profession you will by force of necessity separate yourself from your body to maintain a sense of self. that’s not a shane-specific experience that’s both of them that’s all professional athletes, they have been this way since childhood. you can kind of understand the cottage as like, sneaking off on company time. misusing company supplies. an element of conspiracy. these bodies aren’t ours but let’s go on a joy ride. and it’s not simply resolved because they have to continue to be professional athletes and also when you haven’t considered your body as your self for the majority of your life that’s not a rupture that’s easily repaired.

[5buny]

kevjean toxic middle aged yaoi please writers feed me

[quietwingsinthesky]

too much monogamy in fandom in general

[quietwingsinthesky]

as we all know, everyone falls in love once and only once with their one true love the first time, and if they had relationships before that they weren’t real and didn’t love each other, and you can’t love more than one person at once, and your friends and family need to be pushed out of the picture to focus more on your romance, and no one has sex with people they don’t love, and if they did, they’re dirty and they have to have hated it and the sex they have with their one true love after they’re officially together has to be better sex than they ever had before, and no one ever breaks up for any reason other than death, and everyone wants to get married and have kids. aren’t you fucking tired.

[quietwingsinthesky]

I SAID AREN’T YOU FUCKING TIRED

[jackironsides]

I had a comment on one of my fics disgusted with its outcome, feeling like one character was just ‘second fiddle’ and ‘a compromise’ in his relationship because his lover didn't deny his love for his previous partner and grief over their breakup. According to that reader, you can never love two people in different ways and value them for themselves.

I am extremely tired.

[teisms]

My favourite post-palmetto kandreil dynamic is: baffling. Confusing to everyone except themselves. Unlabeled and unlabable. Yes, they live together and when they move to a new apartment it's not even a question that they're moving in together. No, they don't all usually sleep in the same bed. Yes, sometimes they do. Yes, kevin has his own room. So does andrew, though. No, they won't elaborate. Dating kevin?? Don't be ridiculous. Friends with kevin?? Neil scoffs at the thought of anyone choosing to be friends with kevin. Fucking kevin?? Judgmental eyebrows raised all around, no answers provided.

[princeash]

The funniest thing about this is that it's quite literally how they canonically leave things in tkm

[teisms]

It's still a dorm room situation in tkm though, so socially acceptable and expected. i want them to be fully rich adults living together when it stops being "normal" and people are always dropping hints that they expect kevin to move on his own at some point, which the three of them find ridiculous. people assuming kevin is either their third or a third wheel and the answer is. well. fuck you that's what. (<- neil and andrew. kevin is a little more polite with his non-answers)

[resemblingthegrave]

It is precisely because athletes are willing to sacrifice themselves on behalf of the team that the imagined community becomes meaningful and real for the fan [...] Fans require players to persevere through the generalized violence of professional sport rather than rejecting it by retiring, refusing to play, or demonstrating a general lack of passion or intensity. A refusal would signify to the fan the artifice of the imagined community of fandom. It is little wonder that on the rare occasion that such a refusal does occur, the response of fans is unsparingly venomous. Sport is a form of social reproductive work in that the body of the athlete becomes a vessel for the meaning that sustains the business, the political economy, of sport. The sacrifice, or potential sacrifice, of the athlete's body is a significant element of the appeal of spectator sport, for it sets the stakes high enough to justify emotional and economic investment.

Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport (2018) by Nathan Kalman-Lamb

[jordiipordii]

Andrew has most def taken a swig of liquor and then spit it in Kevin’s mouth at Eden’s, for sure

[warningengine]

[doesephs]

harvesting period pain and given it all to kevin day

[fractally]

I do love how despite Ilya being the one in active mental health treatment and having Romance Protagonist levels of insane trauma background Shane is 1000000% the crazier one between them. Like Ilya’s done shockingly well considering and sure he’s got some abandonment issues and some insecurities but he’s basically very functional and aware of his triggers. Shane I think would actually do a murder suicide in the right circumstances. Not shitpost Shane like canon Shane

[lynxartt]

Slay 👠💋

[starlightshadowsworld]

“But the day Kevin stops playing forever is the day he dies. He has nothing else. He wasn’t raised to have anything else. Do you understand? We can’t lose to the Raven’s this year, Kevin won’t survive it.”

Worst team in the nation and they had to pull off a miracle and win because if they didn’t they’d lose Kevin forever. That’s how much Exy means to him. That’s why breaking his hand was what sent him running.

Because it’s all Kevin has.

And honestly seeing this bit again makes Riko’s death being covered up as a suicide so much more believable because that’s how he was raised too.

If Kevin lost he wouldn’t survive.

Riko lost and he didn’t either.

[afurtivecake]

riko moriyamas's top idle fantasies, probably:

kevin getting injured by another player while trying to protect riko and riko getting to kill them in retalliation

kevin crying

kevin begging

killing jean

nathan wesninski seeing riko's knife work and telling him, "good work, son. let me show you a little trick you can do next time..."

getting a call from his dad and/or brother

being kevin's coach

nathaniel crying and begging

killing nathaniel while nathan watches and applauds him

nathaniel swearing fealty to riko and proving his loyalty by torturing and killing jean together

one foot growth spurt