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louisegluckpdf

i lowkey carry within me an ancient sadness

brandneweyescd

they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

choysum

Anne Boyer

ultimate-marysue

I really want Jean to have a moment where he truly gets over his complicated feelings for Kevin. To accept that things were fucked because there was no other option. That Kevin still cares deeply for him even if he doesn't see Jean that way.

I also want Jean to text Kevin "Had sex with your crush. Die mad about it" and not elaborate.

amphiptere

I do love though that so many of Jean's survival mechanisms and trauma responses are harmful to others. He's not a docile sweet little uwu boy, he's someone who's been through a lot and survived it by, among other things, helping torture someone, and now occasionally reacts instinctively to triggers by being verbally cruel or physically attacking others. He's really messy and while he does tend towards staying silent and dealing with trauma by hurting himself more than anyone else, he doesn't always. cause like you do what you have to to survive but recovery can be messy and inconsistent too.

cupofmaddy

The way Nora writes different kinds of trauma responses is something I deeply appreciate because it's accurate for what these people went through. Kevin's deep obsession with giving everything he has to exy as well as his functioning alcoholism. Neil's deeply seated fear of authority (especially from middle aged men) and his penchance for running. Andrew keeping everyone at arms length and his violent tendencies because he's not always in control of his own body or mind. Jean and the way he either fawns or lashes out because he had to utilize both in order to survive evermore. Renee turning to god in a desperate bid to repent despite the fact that what happened to her wasn't her fault. Jeremy and his secrecy with what happened to him, the way he exudes perfect sunshine boy but seems to have a bad relationship with cops. They are realistic victims with very real coping mechanisms that align well with the things they've been through. It's made apparent through the series how important therapy can be, but also, like in Andrew's case, how it is not a simple fix. Thank you Nora.

alltheshadesofamber

AFTG is a very good example of narrator bias, because if we didn’t get a book from Jean and Jeremy’s POVs we would have no way of knowing the world does not actually in fact revolve around one Andrew Minyard

sunriseabram

Everyone seems to want Jeremy to get mad...but I want Jean Moreau to set the world on fire. I want all that anger he has kept under his skin for so many years to build and build and build until he can not contain it any longer.

I want him to be mad. I want him to be vengeful. I want him to be so angry that he cries with rage because he doesn't know what to do with it. I want him to feel and think and say everything he has pushed down for years.

How could they have treated him like that? How could they have done that to a child? How could they have taken his life away from him? How could they leave him behind? How could they throw him away like that? He was a kid. He was only a kid.

Jean Moreau has been obedient for far too long. It is only a matter of time before he snaps and I can't wait to see it.

dustisus

Jean Moreau is so in love with the world. When he is confronted about the ravens he looks out of windows, as if to assure himself he is no longer in a dark basement. He steals the photo of Renee by a rainbow, and rainbows are the first thing he adds to his list of good things/reasons to live. During his first walk in LA, Jeremy is distracted by the "blatant curiousity in Jean's wandering stare". He looks out over the ocean from the back of Cat's motorcycle and thinks "Oh. It's so big." When Wayne, a Raven, dies, Jean wonders "was there no sunlight where he lived, no open sky to consider in dizzying wonder?"

melodymuse24-deactivated2024011

zegalba

Lamp design by Carlo Nason (1969)

odetojupiter

andrew being in the foster system for 13 years before juvie, his home with nicky being his 13th, bee being andrew’s 13th therpaist, the ravens scoring 13 goals in their first match against the foxes on the 13th of october, there are 13 ravens drills, neil’s interrogation with the fbi lasting 13 hours, andrew and neil’s numbers adding to 13

andrew: do you believe in luck?

neil: only the bad sort

13 being the ‘lucky number’ of the series despite it being a superstitious sign of bad luck. mirroring the subversion of expectations within the series that starts with andrew and neil beginning to understand each other after a shaky start, and ending with the foxes beating the ravens.

palmettoshenanigans

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP AND NEVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN

oursisthetear

not funny didn't laugh, just cried

getghosteddd

the fact that there are only two lines in the entire show that allude to heterosexual romance and one was given to yoongi while the other was given to jungkook is sending me