✭RAY✭

I'm only here for the tragic gays

[r4y-fr]

There aren't enough people who talk about Kevin Day's birthday being February 22nd. Literally 22/2 (or 2/22 if you're weird and American). He was quite literally BORN TO BE SECOND PLACE. It's his birthday and he can not outrun that. He can cover up his tattoo, and undergo as much personal development as he'd like, but it doesn't change the fact that being second place was determined for him from birth, both by the Moriyamas, and the calendar fucking date. His birthday will always serve as a constant reminder to him of his own short-comings.

[r4y-fr]

When your favourite fic that's been on hiatus for over a year with no action from the writer on any other platform finally updates so life is actually worth living again.

@major816 I LOVE YOU 🙏🏽

[minyard-05]

"kevin's such a diva" yeah yeah but we are SLEEPING on this iconic ass seth line

[r4y-fr]

I could write a whole fucking essay on this scene alone.

⚠️ YAP SESSION INCOMING ⚠️

Everyone's always so fucking quick to be concerned about how Andrew is a danger to others that they don't clock how he's the biggest danger to himself. BUT NEIL DOES. On top of that, everyone always believes that Andrew is perfectly willing and capable of protecting himself, I mean he's protected all of his family for years now so of course he is right? WRONG. While Andrew likes to act like he can take perfect care of everything including himself, and while he really IS capable of taking care of himself, in reality he just doesn't give enough of a fuck about himself to take proper care.

AND NEIL IS THE ONLY ONE TO CALL HIM OUT ON HIS BULLSHIT

Then the whole "If it means losing you then no" HUHHH???? MIND YOU THIS WAS BEFORE THEY WERE ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED. LIKE???

No because Neil is a man who is used to having things taken from him (if he ever had anything to call his own in the first place, that is) and now he's finally FINALLY found something that he can hold onto if only for a little while before what he believes is the inevitable end, and that thing is Andrew mf Minyard (and the foxes in general really, but mainly Andrew yk), and he was willing to go through LITERAL HELL just for the chance to keep him safe (the fact that after all that Andrew still wasn't kept safe fucking kills me but that's a whole other rant), and after going through everything, here he is saying that he'd do it all again to not lose him.

AND THEN Andrew goes in with the "You were supposed to be a side effect of the drugs". Was NEIL meant to by a side effect of the drugs or were YOUR FEELINGS FOR NEIL meant to be a side effect????? HUH ANDREW????

AND FINALLY!!!! :

"You are a pipe dream"

A PIPE DREAM??? PIPE DREAM AS IN 'AN UNATTAINABLE OR FANCIFUL HOPE' AS STATED BY THE OXFORD FUCKING DICTIONARY??? THAT TYPA PIPE DREAM???

ANDREW MINYARD YOU ARE NOTTT (🚫) SLICK.

I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE. AS A MATTER OF FACT IVE BEENNN KNOWING WHAT YOU ARE.

[r4y-fr]

I find it funny how everyone else was freaking out over January 19th because it was the tiktok ban day but I was just freaking out because it's Neil Josten's birthday

[r4y-fr]

Neil's two true loves

[r4y-fr]

Hey so it's actually batshit crazy that the upperclassmen (other than Renee probably) still think that Andrew is the crazy/fucked up one in the relationship when this was Neil's internal monologue.

Like he's really sat in the back of a COP CAR, covered head to toe in bandages due to the FRESH TORTURE WOUNDS he's currently sporting, and he's just destressing by daydreaming about his father's death THAT HE WITNISSED AND WAS FUCKING LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY ABOUT AFTERWARDS.

[r4y-fr]

When the sibling relationship is so tragically complex you just have to sit there and cry.

Like the way almost everyone including Aaron thought that Andrew was just pretty much incapable of feeling emotion, let alone caring deeply about people, and then this scene happens. I can't. They make me physically unwell.

[r4y-fr]

Forever thinking about how Regulus and Sirius probably both died thinking the other hated him.

[r4y-fr]

Love how when Neil finds out Andrew's gay not only is he not phased at all, but his immediate thought is that Andrew and Kevin are dating, and then he proceeds to be completely shocked at the news that Kevin has a girlfriend. He really looked at the possibility of Kevin and Andrew being in a secret gay relationship and went "oh yeah that would make much more sense than Kevin having a girlfriend".

[r4y-fr]

Rereading aftg for the hundredth time right now, and I'm at the point in trk where Renee tells Neil that her mom got killed in prison, and Neil's first thought is "Damn I'm jealous, I wish the inmates at my dad's prison weren't such pussies and actually worked up the courage to kill him". Unhinged doesn't even begin to describe this man.

[r4y-fr]

I feel like as a fandom we don't appreciate enough how much of an absolute DIVA Kevin Day is. Like I actually have to hold back tears every time I remember that he isn't a real person so I'll never get to see a cunty lil edit of him to a brat song. Like an edit of him to 365 by charli xcx???? or to diva by beyonce??? like???? I'd simply be deceased.

[r4y-fr]

I love how as a fandom we've collectively agreed that Andrew is hotter than Aaron even though they're completely identical

[r4y-fr]

Every time I reread aftg I always find it so funny how most of the foxes never saw Neil as the unhinged son of a bitch that he was. Like this is the same guy that wanted to keep using the racquet that was used as a literal MURDER WEAPON simply because it "didn't kill anyone important" . My boy was nothing but unhinged for three books straight and it baffles me how the foxes just didn't pick up on it???