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jean moreau and kevin day were each others’ first loves

exyjunkies

59 + andreil?

this isn’t really worth the hype

fic meme 1-100: andreil + 59. “Tell me to go and I will, but if you ask me to stay, I’ll never leave you again.”

send me a pairing and a number and i’ll write you a drabble (1-50) (51-100)

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This was it. They were reaching the end of the entire trip; one more minute until their train stops, and the whole illusion shatters.

One more minute until Andrew had to get down. One more minute until the start of Neil never seeing Andrew again.

Neil didn’t know what to think of it.

“I wonder if they look forward to having you around,” Neil mused, placing a tentative finger on the window. The train sped by lush green fields and tall, majestic trees.

“Not that I would care.”

Neil didn’t stop the confession spilling from his mouth. “I like having you around.”

Andrew’s jaw clenched. Neil slipped a hand to his mouth to conceal his giddiness.

sirandking

I’m not entirely sure where I’m going with this, but I really want to talk about how the upperclassmen and the monsters mirror each other. How each member of the monsters has a counterpart in the upperclassmen, someone with a similar backstory and similar motivations and goals, but with certain crucial differences that serve to highlight all the character development that happens throughout the books.

For instance, there’s Andrew and Renee: both foster children with harsh pasts who murdered and feel no remorse for it, but forced to face the consequences regardless. Andrew is left with a brother who can’t forgive him; Renee has to deal with the knowledge that she’ll never be the good person she wants to be. They have the same fighting style - defensive, reactive, but knowing that the only way to win is to stop your opponent from ever hurting you again; they both play goalie because they’re both best when they stand at everyone else’s backs and prevent anything from getting past them. There’s a reason Andrew charges Renee with protecting her half of the team, and not Dan, the official leader; where Dan is focused on moving forward and charging down the opposition, Renee and Andrew are about making sure everyone under their wing survives.

Then there’s Dan and Kevin, the team leaders (one official, one unofficial), a striker and an offensive dealer/occasional striker sub, #1 and #2. They’ve both been pushed down and shoved aside, marked as second-best or second-rate, and they both refuse to let that stop them. They both fight because they don’t know how to lose, because they can’t know how to lose, and they expect the same from everybody else. Kevin won’t accept anything but the best because that’s what he’s been taught, that’s the only way he knows how to live; Dan knows that anything less than perfection gives everyone else the right to stomp all over you, and is determined to never let that happen again. (And then there’s the fact that they both see Wymack as a father).

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JereJean Starter Pack

Marrow Without Bone by exyfexyfoxes (E | Incomplete | 18/20)

Onscreen Jeremy didn’t hesitate, displaying an eagerness that translated well across television. “Yeah, I spoke to Jean earlier this week. He’s definitely done for the year but he’ll be back in the fall.” Then, impeccably, a twitch at the corner of his mouth. “He just won’t be back in black.“ Jean’s eyes narrowed.

(The season hasn’t even started yet and Jeremy already wants to cut their newest player from the team. Making the switch from Raven to Trojan isn’t quite what Jean thought it would be.)

/Graphic Depictions Of Violence

thick skin, an elastic heart by badacts (E | 26,798 | 16/16)

Jean sleeps around and learns how to make friends rather than alliances. Jeremy falls in love and can’t stop fucking up.

Je Reviens by lazarusthefirst (M | 20,003 | 3/3)

‘Moreau is a rain cloud,’ Alvarez muttered, annoyed and bruised, watching Jean stalk ahead to the changing rooms. ‘He’s the human embodiment of a headache. He is the opposite of a Trojan.’ ‘Fucking good though, isn’t he?’ grinned Connor, jogging past. ‘Can’t we all just be nice?’ Jeremy asked.

Ask the Messenger by Metis_Ink (T | 32,614 | 5/5)

Jeremy Knox and the soulmate.

Guest starring: Exy, a transfer student, generalized anxiety, older sisters, drunk lesbians, bread, cake, a shed, the beach, the absence of Hennessy, Star Wars, Renee Walker, self-taught smooth talking, gratuitous French, No. 1 Trojans fan Kevin Day, relationship drama, general drama, the power of Friendship, questions, answers, team spirit!, and, of course, romance.

eyes wide open by jaylocked (T | 13,496 | 2/2)

Jean blinked. Blinked again. Was sure he didn’t recognize the man on his doorstep, with his bright eyes and enormous grin and wavy blonde hair. Waited for him to explain himself with a simple raised eyebrow.

“Hi!” the man finally chirped. The sound was happiness channeled into a single word, and Jean wasn’t sure how he didn’t hate him already.

(based on the prompt from tumblr: "hi sorry I live below you and I hear your dog running around and barking all the time and– no no it’s fine I was just wondering if I could pet it?” au)

Leaving Marks by BlackCatIIIX (M | Incomplete | 12/?)

In a world where your soulmate’s injuries appear as bruises on your skin, Jeremy is… struggling. And that’s even before he meets Jean Moreau.

shooting for the stars, desperately reaching for something in the dark by cryptidkidprem (T | 146,073 | 22/22)

“He just won’t be back in black.”

A look at Jean’s first year with the Trojans, and his slightly rocky path to recovery.

your touch, my comfort and my lullaby. by redhoods (T | 4,581 | 1/1)

He’s so absorbed in staring at the way the sleeves are pulled up around his wrists that he doesn’t realize the team has filed out to the locker rooms until Jeremy crouches into his line of sight, “Everything alright?”

No, he thinks desperately, you’re too much.

“Sure,” he says eventually, standing up and walking away.

aftgficlibrary

Hi guys! I’m pretty new to this fandom and was curious if there are any must know fics or if you guys have a classic master list of some sort?

Hi love, welcome to the aftg fandom. Here are two starter packs, one for andreil and jerejean respectively. There’s a one for renison coming, and if you go to our tumblr on a webpages we have a tab of master lists that were updating for you to check out :) (sorry the links are ugly, I’m away from home but I will update them later) - Fall

https://aftgficlibrary.tumblr.com/post/168207633539/andreil-starter-pack

https://aftgficlibrary.tumblr.com/post/168507501975/jerejean-starter-pack

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5+1

A classic trope, but still a goody.

one love, one house by freefall for cats-are-assholes (T | 2,592 | 1/1)

It’s the little things that make an apartment into a home, that make a sequence of moments into a life.

Or, five times Andrew hates that damn couch, and one time he thinks it isn’t so bad.

5 nice things Andrew doesn’t hate and 1 he thinks he does by Aisjustrunning (M | 1,533 | 1/1)

Andrew Minyard claims he hates lots of things (and people). He doesn’t talk often about what he doesn’t hate, but those things exist nonetheless.

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waterisntreal

I would like to suggest adding light fires at night (to push back the void) by inthesea it is 20+1 but it’s super adorable

escapistcatontheinternet

Do you ever wonder what the AFTG series looked like from an outside perspective? Like, one of the best players from the best college team breaks his hand, and then immediately after announces that he’s moving to one of the worst teams that is literally infamous for using troubled kids, and then some 18-year-old nobody kid that started Exy that year announces that they’re going to BEAT THE BEST TEAM?

And then every few months some horrible tragedy happens to the terrible team, but they get progressively better??? And then the kid shows up with completely different hair and eye colors and is selected to be in the perfect court and is also apparently secretly the son of a mobster. Then the other good player goes on live TV and implies that his adopted brother, the best player on the best team, broke his hand. And then the terrible team beats the best team.

And then the best player on that team dies.

jeni182

Breathe

In which Neil convinces Andrew to go on a date and Andrew is NOT nervous.

“I want to go on a date.”

It took every ounce of willpower Andrew had not to roll his eyes and dismiss Neil on the spot. It was ingrained in him. It was how his essence was shaped. But Neil was slowly molding him into a person he didn’t recognize.

So, he didn’t.

“Yeah? With who?” he settled on instead.

“You know what I mean. We’ve never been on a date in the entire two years we’ve been…” Neil trailed off and looked out across campus. They were on the roof and had spent another pleasant evening of wandering hands and bruising kisses and wasted cigarettes.

“Since we’ve been what?” Andrew dared ask. He was afraid of the answer, but he was amused at Neil’s floundering for the right word.

“Us.”

Andrew sighed. They were an “us”. He stopped trying to deny it months ago. He was self-destructive, not stupid.

“We live together. We’re literally on a date right now. Look. This is us dating.” He spread his arms wide to encompass the campus and the cigarettes and the now dirty undershirt they had used to clean up.

“No, a real date. I want to pick you up and take you to a restaurant or something. Come on. It’ll be fun. You can sit in sullen silence while I force you to make conversation with my dazzling personality.”

“No.”

“I’ll buy you ice cream every day for a month.”

Andrew thought about it. He could buy his own ice cream every day for a month if he wanted. But the possibility of sending Neil on runs to buy made up ice cream flavors had real promise.

“Fine. I’m not dressing up. You’re paying.”

Neil smiled that smile that made the corners of his eyes crinkle and Andrew huffed and looked away. Where does he get off using that fucking smile anyway?

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thisisntworthless

Me Neither

Andrew dropped his hand and began running it through Neil’s hair. “This,” Andrew said, “I’ve never had anything like this before.” Neil looked up, noticing the slight catch in Andrew’s words. He smiled, “Me neither.” “I don’t want anything else.” Neil caught Andrew’s hand and brushed his lips over the scars, “Me neither.”

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anne of green gables quotes lockscreens

these quotes are from the books

like if you save

sbmln

Someday Anne will be walking down that isle to get married to Gilbert.

And that boy is looking like he goddamn knows it.

sbmln

“You have bewitched me, body and soul. And I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”

- Gilbert Blythe to Anne Shirley-Cuthbert, probably at any moment now

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Enjoy these GIFs of Gilbert asking Anne if she’ll ever fall in love with him, and Anne challenging him like ‘maybe…’ but then, ya know, in secret language.

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Find yourself someone who looks at you the way Gilbert looks at Anne

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Lol that inevitable moment when you finish watching a show or a show stops releasing new episodes while you’ve been dedicating your life to it since you started watching really leaves a black hole in your heart lmao. Like wtf am I supposed to do with my life now