MINYARDS

Carrie, 24. Mainly Aftg sideblog, following back from main. I write stuff

[strokeofinspiration]

I was reading one amazing fic entire month and now I’m going to share it with you.

I was that Impressed that I even redrew my sunflowers Andreil for the fic. Already show it to the author @minyards and was asked for the print of the art. I still don’t believe in that happiness 😭

Some of the favorite quotes. They are all so brilliant. I can’t hold my self from sharing. No spoilers tho.

🌻 To humour the universe once again, Andrew took Neil to the field full of sunflowers. The flowers of loyalty and adoration. He doubted Neil would know their meaning or think twice about the bright yellow plains, but the irony wasn’t lost on Andrew.

🌻 The tall plants behind him shielded him from the still-burning sun, their leaves rested on his shoulders. Some of the heavier flowers bent forward as if to kiss the crown of his head while he cradled one of their own in his lap.

🌻Andrew’s favourite colour could only be the vivid yellow that seemed to belong in Neil’s dark curls.

🌻The third petal Neil plucked off landed in Andrew’s outstretched, awaiting palm. He trapped it in his fist, crumpling it as he counted. On ten, he loosened his fingers and the wind stole the broken petal away. Andrew’s eyes followed it as far as they could.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[mel-tokio]

i can't believe "adults writing fanfiction about teenage characters is kinda creepy even if it's g-rated" is a take that i have had to read with my own eyes on more than one occasion.

like...buddy. where do you think the source material came from? exactly how old do you think the original creators of your blorbos are? i am begging you to think about this for ten seconds.

[kindaorangey]

andrew acts as like a mentor/guide npc for neil lmao. neil asks him what's up with matt, andrew tells him to ask matt himself, neil does, he gets the columbia story. neil asks andrew why he isn't with renee, andrew tells him to go ask renee, neil does, he finds out andrew is gay. this bitch is sending him on side quests

[coffeeco001]

Andrew's solution to his problems: kill it. Stabby stabby problem dead now. No problem. Pile of bodies.

[medusainmind]

I feel like we should talk about how key Neil’s asexuality/demisexuality was for Andrew. Like yes everyone talks about how painfully oblivious Neil was to Andrew’s interest and how that ended up being a bit infuriating (rip Wymack watching that car crash from the sidelines), but think about it. At no point does Neil look at Andrew with any heat or physical desire. Its all wow look at his strong shoulders that make me feel safe and like I can rely on him and wow look at the way the sun hits his hair through the windows in the back of the bus I can’t look away. As someone who had grown up with various instances of sexual abuse from multiple people, Andrew would have become acutely aware of how people looked at him. With Neil, never nada nope. All he saw was Neil looking at him like he was always paying attention, like he was the only one who wasn’t afraid of him after he went off his medication, and to then just looking at him adoringly?? To the point Andrew repeatedly tells him to stop looking at him that way?? Neil went from I see you, asshole to I see you and I am not afraid to all I see is you. THAT is what made Andrew feel safe. At no point did Neil want anything from Andrew beyond their deals and truths, he did not want anything without being willing to give something in return; playing by Andrew’s rules of engagement. He never would have unknowingly set off one of Andrew’s first warning signs ingrained since childhood, he would have always felt safe when Neil looked at him

Even as Andrew realized that his feelings for Neil had nothing to do with his medication, even as he fought tooth and nail not to care about this chaotic junkie timebomb who doesn’t swing to respect his boundaries, even as Neil looked at him like he was the only person in every room, even as he himself doesn’t know how to be loved, even then he would look into Neil’s eyes and feel safe

[ezrul-00]

[herondaleoffspring]

give him a rest 😭

[volkarlot]

So I’ve been wanting to do my own twist on the Kathy Interview for YEARS, and I finally did it. Also did you guys know that Kevin turned down the choice to wear suspenders and I am upset.

[rhyva]

pipe dream 🚬

[dreamterlude]

ppl are saying euphoria is unrealistic but when i was in middle school me and my mom had to run away from my father because he wanted to sell me to the yakuza to become a pro athlete

[lunapiq]

The one in whom Neil finds his peace of mind ❤️‍🩹

[southslates]

me, explaining that while i do like the crow casting in shadow and bone, it's not perfect for a lot of reasons (light washing jesper, etc) and that the reason i'll never truly be able to love it is because i know that a lot of the charm of six of crows will be lost on show-watchers because they won't feel the sheer horror, social commentary, and madness associated with a bunch of sixteen and seventeen year olds who are forced to run gangs, raised to fight wars, work in brothels and fight adults who are trying to kill them try to do insane things just for money and find family on the way. regardless of how great the actors are at acting like the crows, they are just too old to make you feel that, like alys van eck hearing their voices and innocently asking "where are your parents" and the utter shock of realizing that at the age of sixteen and seventeen you're supposed to be disobeying your parents, not raiding governments and building bombs. it's what happened with katniss and the hunger games, it hits hard but not as hard as it could have. the crows in shadow and bone are going to be the fun side characters who commit crime and dress up and are cute but that's not ever what i thought or wanted from them, i never wanted their story to be trivialized into goat comedy, i wanted people to see it and actually be forced to think about how terribly sad their motivations are. so while shadow and bone is like objectively fun to watch, the characters aged up ten years are not the same and the message is not the same, and it's enjoyable and made for a different audience and i really truly understand that but sometimes it makes me very sad

girl at the bar: i think i see my friends

[actuallyzeropercent]

Okay so it's 100% true and confirmed that we're gonna have a spanish translation of the foxhole court. And I assumed it wasn't going to be published where I am because there's quite a few countries where it could be getting translated into spanish

but

turns out

the publisher is from Barcelona

and they don't have a cover artist yet

so I sent an email like

"I did this for free for myself"

"if u hire me we could do something better together, just think about it" Wish me fucking luck

[actuallyzeropercent]

I love that a bunch of people liked this post so it popped up on my notifications because there's an update:

Anyway u can now buy tfc in spanish and I cannot believe this is real life (and I honestly won't believe it until I can touch the physical book tomorrow)

[piosplayhouse]

[washingmachineart]

murdered remembered

[kazzyboy]

Neil: I don’t understand why someone would actively try to die.

Also Neil: (the entire Aftg series)

[rainbowd00dles]

please do not use, edit or post my art to other sites

Andrew’s expression was deceptively calm, but there was iron in his grip when he seized Nathaniel’s chin. Nathaniel let him look his fill, because it gave him time to study the bruises lining Andrew’s face.

  “All that time fighting and you never learned how to duck?”

The King’s Men chapter 14