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

a no-exy AU where the missing Nathaniel Wesninski is the subject of a true crime podcast and media storm.

Unbeknownst to almost everyone, Nathaniel is alive and well and living as Neil Josten.

Featuring: estranged, post-college twinyards; platonic, banter-y neil-jean-kevin; developing andreil; and a surprising amount of tweets, articles and texts.

#aftg #neil josten #andrew minyard #andreil #fic #whtln tag

storm-of-feathers

a severe thunderstorm warning that doesnt follow through is worse than orgasm denial

medicatedmaniac

I’ve finally given in and drawn The Scene™️ of all time

toskarin

not to be overly political and dry, and also not to imply my stances on things have been exactly obscure by diaclaiming that, but recent events have revealed to a startling extent how much the average american's understanding of west asia is about on par with what one could absorb by having the intellectual curiosity of a human sea anemone

toskarin

the sheer number of opinions that can only be understood by tacking on "the person writing this believes iran is the same as iraq, both of which they cannot distinguish from afghanistan because they sleepwalked through the US War On Terror, and they also believe every Muslim Country is two cities in the middle of an enormous empty wasteland that exists only to be crossed by bandits, governed only by a single head of state who exerts power on his full lonesome" is actually madness inducing

skaraptor

AO3 should have an Annotation Mode where you can click to view all of the author's commentary and thoughts about certain parts of the work. A little comment that says "I spent five hours researching vintage radio mechanics for this and didn't even end up using it" or "this is an ancient Hebrew literary technique!" would make my day

#pls let me yap & read other ppls yapping <3

@heymickeyway thanks for the tag! this looks fun :)

Reading: A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford - very fun nonfiction about what it means to be human, extinct human species, and the concept of 'us' vs 'them', told via our genealogy.

Currently rereading: I'm actually not rereading anything right now BUT lately I've been starting and restarting The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman so many times that it must count.

Last Series: Broadchurch (I was very late to the club. David Tennant & Olivia Coleman? 10,000/10 no notes.)

Last Song: Sleeping Giants by The Crane Wives

Sweet or Salty

Coffee or Tea

Working On: Only two things! (Thankfully!) 'What Happened To Little Nathaniel?' remains my favourite child! What if the Butcher of Baltimore wasn't a mafia tool? What if exy wasn't a thing? What if the terrible things still happened?

And 'memento mori' is very dear to me already! I just think a what-if fic where Aerin wasn't the corrupted Valleros is a very fun premise. Mainly because Baldur would be both a terrifying and spectacularly bad Dreadlord puppet.

For anyone who follows me for AFTG, please do yourself a favour and play Blades of Light and Shadow via Choices. It is, to the best of my knowledge, pretty much the last genuinely good Choices visual novel.

Tagging anyone who wants to participate! Truly, say I tagged you because it was actually aimed at you :)

#also prev's book rec is so fun wtf? i am checking out the supernatural plague horror book immediately #tag games

inksplattersandearlyhours

“When I was young, women were raped on the campus of a great university and the authorities responded by telling all the women students not to go out alone after dark or not to be out at all. Get in the house. (For women, confinement is always waiting to envelope you.) Some pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one man.”

— Rebecca Solnit, Grandmother Spider in Men Explain Things To Me and Other Essays

aces-and-angels

caption by @/ashleytheebarroness on tiktok: People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that's our history. Local enforcement. Racialized suspicion. Vague authority. Taking people first, justifying it later. Gestapo is a warning. Slave patrols are a mirror.

valtsv

among my least favourite conversations i regularly experience in media analysis is when you interpret something as potentially alluding to an "uncomfortable" topic and people immediately start trying to defang it. "this reads like a rape scene" "umm actually it's not rape, it's just a very intimate act of violent assault that violates the victim's sense of safety and bodily autonomy with NO 🙅 sexual connotations or elements". you do realise that's neither any better nor functionally different, right?

valtsv

"this relationship resembles a traditional abusive marriage between a husband and wife" "well they're not married or heterosexual so you're wrong and an insane bigot for comparing them to such a horrible thing also" HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF A FUCKING METAPHOR???

radioactive-earthshine

You've heard of multi-shipper now get ready for multi-headcanoner: where multiple interpretations of the same character coexist in your head and they are all great.

What Happened To Little Nathaniel? - Chapter 15

Featuring: far too many internet people, a PR team in crisis-mode, Neil on his usual snooping agenda, and the Foxes at least trying to be emotionally-available people.

#aftg #neil josten #whtln tag #aftg fic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76896556

“If you knew even half of what I could do,” Baldur whispers, leaning in closer, “you would run screaming for the hills. And I would enjoy every second of it.”

“Raine, knock me out. I’m going to commit treason,” Mal mutters.

Or: In which the Dreadlord, for reasons beyond sensible comprehension, made a slightly different decision.

#blades of light and shadow #i remain obsessed with Blades #and as a result wrote a fic months after Blades finished. late to the party? yes.#anyone following me for aftg is deeply confused #my main aftg fic is not dead it's just been a rough few months #aerin valleros #mal volari #choices bolas