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@prettyoddfoxes
My head is going to explode because I think too much about that moment when someone pushed Neil aside at edens and he was involuntarily pressed against Andrew and froze for a second because he didnt expect Andrew to be that solid and imperturbable. Like omfg that was one of the first physical contact they had and he really went insane about it.
I know Andrew went insane too but for other reasons
AFTG in modern time and its videos titled “Neil Josten being unhinged for 34 minutes straight” then there’s “Kevin Day being gay for Jeremy Knox for over 6 minutes” “Jean Moreau and Jeremy Knox being adorable for 27 minutes and 38 seconds.” Lots of “Andrew Minyard being iconic for 8 minutes not so straight”. how can I forget, “Jean Moreau forgetting English core” and finally “Neil Josten vs. Press duty (feat. Kevin day)”.
neil is very much “that’s my man and imma stick beside him” and is completely unashamed and 100% proud of the ensuing chaos
while andrew is also “that’s my man and imma stick beside him” but is slightly embarrassed, throughly entertained, and 100% reexamining his life choices
imagine being 10 years old and your names kevin and your trying to play exy with your friends and you randomly get pulled aside to watch a man get brutally murdered and then just expected to go back to practice as normal
I would love to be tagged for the socmed au!!
Part 8 of the socmed au
Part 1, Part 7, Part 9
Sorry this took so long! Unfortunately the updates for this au are going to remain pretty sporadic but ill try to keep them closer together
once again if you want to see anything specific my asks are open and ill see what i can do!
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@thegoliathbeetle, @hellostarry, @iwannascreameurekaa, @5minyard, @floatingin-yourdreams, @curemymer, @atiredvampire, @brokenchairwrites, @ugliest-doogle, @shining-just-4-u, @whatever810, @all-for-exy, @bbuckwildd, @thismayflower, @pillsfearme, @porridge14, @inksmudgesandcandlelight, @hedgehog-troops, @akiiraastar, @all-the-jellyfish, @solflowers-and-solace,
everyone pray that the homie I forced to read aftg likes it
nicky is a bit crazy for being so ready to respond to andrew’s beck and call but it’s never as obvious as during that game when andrew calls him over and says he’s bored and nicky runs over and hits a guy in the shins to get carded. swung that racquet straight to the tibia and thought ”i can’t believe i’m finally bonding with andrew :D”
the monsters are pretty fly
I just KNOW when Wymack finds out Andrew and Neil WEREN'T together before Andrew got sent away, he's going to have a crisis
Just like "man, I thought that weird intense thing they had going on was them hooking-up, and honestly, the fact that they weren't together when Neil stuck Andrew's hands up his shirt as a goodbye is even weirder"
Nicky, after graduating and moving back to Germany, probably tells his new friends and coworkers about his and Erik's love story, how they managed a long distance relationship when Nicky moved back to the US to raise his baby cousins.
And how much he loves and misses those little guys.
That he was in the states for about 7 years to see them through graduation.
Everyone's imagining little kids that Nicky took care of until High School.
Until he shows them a recent picture from Aaron's graduation. They assume they're going to see young 20-something fresh out of undergrad.
They are flabbergasted to see that it was a doctoral graduation, and those "little guys" are a doctor and 2012 Olympic gold medalist Andrew Minyard.
So I love looking at Neil's dynamics with all the foxes (and Jean). Cause these people aren't just his family, every single one of them are his best friends. You can pry that belief from my cold dead hands. All of them are his best friend in a different way. Matt is like a golden retriever who loves him unconditionally. Dan his captain and someone who cares about him but also won't take his shit. Kevin was someone he idolised who then became real. Who even when they both thought Neil was going to die, didn't stop trying. Jean his misplaced partner, the only person who knew what it was like for Neil in the nest. Allison is hard won, but truly is gossipy nosy best friend. Nicky who mother hen's him but also is loud enough to quiet his thoughts. Andrew who took his half truths and told him to stay. Renee who see's him exactly as he is and is the calm in the middle of a storm. And finally Aaron, who will snark him and fight him and be a downright asshole to him. But at the end of the day is something akin to a playmate he never had.
Just saw a tik tok (ignitme_chapter55) saying that Nicky is the only one Andrew never had to make a deal with cause Nicky dropped everything for his cousins and Andrew knew he’d never leave him.
He held onto everyone else so tightly but Andrew knew Nicky would never let him go.
thinking about this again
Because. I don’t think Nicky is under the illusion that his parents are going to support him and the choices he’s made at any point in the series, even before Thanksgiving. What he’s clinging to—especially, I think, from Maria, who at least sort of stayed in touch while he was in Germany—is not a hope of acceptance, but a desperate belief that they’re willing to try to love him anyway.
We know Luther and Maria were the cause of Nicky being in such a bad place pre-Germany—they sent him to a conversion camp for a whole year, and accepted his “recovery” at face value, when the fact that Nicky was actively suicidal was apparent enough that his German teacher picked up on it. It’s only after leaving them that he’s able to start learning how to love and accept himself.
But, in spite of that, Nicky still wants to believe his parents could choose to love him in spite of their disagreements—and of course he does. It’s the same hope that led him to come out to them in the first place, when he knew their opinions about gay people. I imagine it’s the same part of him that continued to choose to teach the twins German and get them what they needed even when they didn’t show signs of caring about him. Nicky wants to believe that there’s good in the people around him, and that if he’s patient, it’ll come through, even if it’s in bits and pieces—and, in the case of the twins, I think he saw it pay off.
Now, here’s the thing: this doesn’t mean Nicky believes his parents are good people, or even decent ones. He moves back from Germany just to make sure the twins don’t have to live with them, uprooting his life and taking on an incredible amount of new responsibilities because the alternative is Andrew and Aaron experiencing what he did, and that’s unacceptable to him. His parents being shitty to him is one thing, but hurting other people? Especially either of the two people he loved enough to turn his world upside down for? And to use his desire for their love to do it? That’s unforgivable. And the moment they crossed even one of those lines, I think Nicky dropped any belief in finding a piece of good in them.
Purgatory for One Nicholas Hemmick
It cut Nicky deep to see them at the courthouse and realize they had not been deposed in support of his cousins. To learn that Luther had taken money, an anonymous donation to his church the weekend after Thanksgiving… he can't say he was surprised at Luther's actions. He never was a man of God in anything but ceremony. His mother, however… her betrayal cut deep. On some level he'd always hoped the secrets she'd whispered to him tucking him in at night after soothing his welts and bruises were true. They were no more than placation and falseties, nice words uttered to a child foolish enough to trust they held any weight; to an adult foolish still for thinking they ever had any substance to begin with. She always would submit to her husband over protecting her child...
As a lesbian, i love consuming and creating mlm content the way i love watching men at the Olympics: the complete safety of knowing I won't be expected to participate, but the audacity to think i know better than the judges
Some of the foxes getting ready for the day!!
SO CUTE WHAT THE HELL
Also who do we think is between Neil n Matt?
In the rare moments when Andrew lets out a low, barely audible moan or growl against the pillow, Neil always presses a lingering kiss to the top of his head or temple—a quiet way of telling him that everything is okay and that he’s doing perfectly. Neil knows full well that the gesture only makes Andrew more irritated by his own reaction, yet at the same time Andrew can’t quite hold back his voice when Neil keeps pushing him closer and closer to his limit.
