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[knewitiknewyou]

"i asked chatgpt" yeah? well, i asked kevin day and he said to get your ass back on the court. the team needs you.

[inafieldofstarflowers]

and what if i said that i actually don’t think running is often neil’s instinct, he’s just spent enough time being told it should be that the option is always floating at the forefront of his mind

[crows-murder]

nothing. NOTHING. prepares you for neil fucking josten. the monsters take him to columbia bc andrew doesn't trust him and all his secrets and lies. they drug neil against his will to make him talk and his solution is to tip a busboy 100 dollars in cash to knock him out. at this point he's blackout high as all hell and the most he's given away were several creative death threats. he wakes up in an unfamiliar bed in an unfamiliar house and his immediate first response is violence. he throws an alarm clock and an empty water glass at aaron. the second he's presented with the opportunity to escape, he wiggles out the window of a bathroom. "desperation is a valuable lubricant". he calls matt and casually doesn't mention the fact that he's stranded with no way back to palmetto other than walking. instead, he hitchhikes all the way back. he comes up with a list of convincing enough interview questions to pass as a sociology student and hitch a ride with truck drivers. he SUCCESSFULLY does this and spends the entire time asking and answering questions he makes up on the spot and taking notes to make it look legit. he does all of this while hungover. no one knows where he is during this entire trip back. he could have asked to be picked up at literally any moment and matt or wymack would've done it in a heartbeat. he genuinely did not consider this as a viable option. truly the character of all time i love him so much.

[jknox11]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[faewaren]

Thinking about how Adam liked Gansey so much and enjoyed spending time with him SO much that he tramped around in the woods fruitlessly in search of magic he didn’t even believe in for EIGHTEEN months before anything supernatural even happened. Even though Ronan was actively hostile and jealous to him (which he’s described as “enduring” to be friends with Gansey 😭) and he was killing himself by working two jobs on top of school and never slept enough and hardly ever did anything for himself at all. Being friends with Gansey was the thing he chose for himself even though it made his other goals harder. Because he was so fond of him. Because he liked him and Gansey liked him back. Because Gansey is the first person to love him in a real way. My god.

[ninyard]

Exy Fans on Twitter (Neil’s tattoo edition)

[nezumimir]

Jeaneil’s dynamic is such that if any of the Trojans ever ask when was the last time Jean spoke to Neil, he undoubtedly says some shit like, “I go to great lengths to avoid speaking to that devil child more than is absolutely necessary,” but then like a week later his housemates get into an argument in the kitchen while Jean is doing homework on his laptop and he suddenly goes, “You may not want to discuss that here; I am on a Skype call with Neil.” Laila turns to him, incredulous, because “I thought you didn’t speak to him??” but Jean just answers very seriously, “We are not speaking.”

[mooniism]

sobbing over this

[tediousmalcontentt]

So crazy how this whack asf scene actually invented sexual tension

[dykekarkat]

"i wanna see you lose control" and "so do you just not like being touched or do you not trust anyone to touch you" might be the andreil moments of all time. what i wouldnt give to be in andrews head when neil was saying shit like that.

[dayurno]

38 year old kevin day sending andrew his uber location whenever he takes one despite the fact that andrew is states away

[purpleelephantsocks]

Actually hilarious to me that Riko & co. thought that Kevin went out and recruited Neil Josten aka Nathaniel Wesninski aka The Butcher's son ON PURPOSE

They really thought my guy went "you took my hand? Well I'm taking your runaway backliner who's been missing for the past eight years." And that he went and did it BY HIMSELF in FOUR MONTHS

I know Kevin is and has always been That Bitch™, but he could never dream to serve the amount of cunt Riko thought him capable of when he first got the lab results back from Kathy's show. No wonder they were so mad lol

[propheticlyre]

imagine you are fbi agents trying to nail down the biggest case of your career and you just can't stop running up against college athletes who you need as witnesses but they won't take your help and just keep saying "but, ball is life??" when you suggest they go into witness protection

[threewaywithdelusion]

I wish more people liked Canon Nicky. Like yeah, he sucks a little bit, but that’s the point.

All the Foxes suck a little bit. They’re not perfect victims, they use slurs, they do bad things to each other. Seth’s a selfish homophobic asshole, but he saves Allison. Kevin’s a one-track-minded alcoholic who hears his teammate died and wonders how the team will keep playing, but he also gives Andrew a chance before anyone else does. Wymack’s lucky they didn’t have cancel culture in 2006, because some of the things he says are horrifically not PC. But he’s not some perfect savior of a coach. He’s a guy with a terrible past who decided to make it his life’s mission to help troubled kids. And if he gets it wrong sometime, it’s because absolutely no one in these books is 100% mentally well and they’re definitely not coming across mental health tips on TikTok or reading books about how to do better.

Nicky is terrible at boundaries and consent. It’s probably a trauma response to his upbringing and conversion therapy, but that doesn’t make it okay. He makes creepy comments all the time and he assaults Neil in Columbia.

I’m not excusing any of that. But Nicky isn’t only that, and that’s why he’s interesting.

He’s the one who texts Neil a million times a day, until Neil stops looking frightened every time his phone beeps. He gave up Nicky and Germany to raise two angry teenagers who never reciprocated his affection. He had a relatively normal upbringing (religious trauma aside) and then got thrown into dealing with the twins and having to navigate 1) Andrew locking Aaron in the bathroom to get clean (is he being a good or bad guardian by letting that happen?) 2) working two jobs to pay for the house 3) Andrew being arrested 4) Andrew being put on meds that made him manic and unreliable 5) Aaron’s homophobia 6) Andrew’s violent threats and so much more.

When exactly did he find out Andrew had killed Tilda? Which of the twins told him? And did he ever wonder if Andrew would kill his newest guardian if Nicky messed up?

Nicky is incredibly selfless, brave, and patient. And he’s also pushy, kinda creepy, and incapable of understanding boundaries. He’s both. And I wish the fandom wouldn’t sanitise him, because I think that’s part of the point.

[kingofcups]

aftg fandom im begging u write about this missing bit from andrew choking kevin

the angst!!!! andrew and kevin's respective sense of betrayal!!! holy shit can u imagine

[blogaboutyafavbirdboys]

I've been in this fandom awhile and I've never seen this. Holy shit this just makes everything about that scene click perfectly into place. Of course Andrew chokes Kevin.

[aglionbyacademia]

In my head Adam is an honorary member of the 300 foxway household in the sense that they took him in like a stray kitten but he’s an outdoor cat so he’s not always there but everyone loves him nonetheless and they get worried when he hasn’t been around in a while

[bees-figurines]

If Exy was a real sport would I watch a single match? No. But would I click on a 3h long video essay on YouTube titled "I read all of the Nest conspiracy theories so you don't have to"? Absolutely yes.