oddity

he/they my pretty mouth will frame the phrases that will disprove your faith in man☁️

[hamrikaa]

PSU Foxes 🥍

[hamrikaa]

[mooniism]

“i didn’t kill anyone important” neil josten you will always be famous

[xieliancore]

i cannot believe kevin day duology is a thing now

[sonacava]

beloved exy boyfriends 🤲

[anotherdoomsday]

I really hope Nora writes the story she wants to tell. I really hope she doesn't feel she has to compromise her view to appease the fandom or a subset of it. This applies both for The Broken Cage and the Kevin books. I may not ship Kevin and Thea, but I'm excited to know her, to see how their relationship started and how they complement each other. Even if it's not my cup of tea, I'm willing to give a straight ship a chance lol. And idk, maybe we'll have a confirmation that Kevin is bi (we all know there's no hetero explanation for Kevin), and I wouldn’t mind if he ends up with Thea, as longs as it is interesting. Knowing Nora, it will be very, very interesting.

And hey, if we're sad that Kandreil or Kerejean or any other Kevin ship isn't canon, we can still fanfic our hearts away.

But I just really, really want Nora to do what she wants, and for us as fans of her and her work to respect that. I want her to have fun while writing, as her clear passion and enjoyment that gives these books that spice that we love so much. Whatever she has in store, I just can wait for it.

[ganseysaidyeehaw]

Actual footage of me finding out about the Kevin duology:

[tireddreamergirl]

HOW ARE WE FEELING, AFTG FANDOM?

this is me rn:

everything starts and ends with Kevin Day, truer words have never been spoken!!

[glazedcecilia]

andrew minyard pov of aftg

[all-for-the-game-confessions]

A lot of people don’t actually like Andriel. Which isn’t to say that they hate it, but I see so many people upset that Nora said they wouldn’t get married or say ‘I love you’ and it’s like, did.. did we read the same books? Andrew’s whole character is ‘love’ (said like that because it sounds wrong. I mean it like ‘care’) behind a stone wall of silence. Like, he does care. Obviously. But he can’t stand the word ‘family’, you think he’s out here saying ‘I love you’? He’s not gentle or sappy. He can show restraint and be merciful, but he’s not going to coddle Neil. Neil has never been coddled, and he doesn’t need to be. They still care about each other and show affection. He doesn’t HAVE TO SAY IT. Neil KNOWS. He’s not insecure and friending for Andrew’s attention and affection. In Baltimore, he literally knows Andrew won’t leave without at least talking to him. They have ‘I hate you’, and keys, and a home, and ‘stay’. Neil gets that. He makes dumb decisions in accordance to survival, but Neil is incredibly smart, especially when it comes to understanding Andrew. Marriage has never meant anything to either of them— it didn’t matter to any of Andrew’s abusers if they were married, and he probably saw so many fights and divorces that marriage is as fake to him as everything. Neil’s mother, assumedly married to his father, was KILLED BY HER HUSBAND. MARRIAGE MEANS NOTHING TO THEM. “I LOVE YOU” HAS NEVER MEANT ANYTHING TO THEM BC ANYONE WHO HAS EVER SAID THAT TO THEM, IF IT WAS EVER SAID, HAS CAUSED THEM SOME FORM OF PAIN. ‘B-but if they say that, it means they healed!’ ACTING ACCORDING TO THE NORMAL STANDARDS OF A CONVENTIONAL RELATIONSHIP IS NOT THE BAR FOR HEALING. Which brings me to another thing,’w-what do you mean Andrew doesn’t heal?!’ It means he doesn’t act ‘normal’. He’s fundamentally not normal. Neither is Neil. Neither of them ‘heal’. They are not half as low as some people think, and they don’t have to smile or act like a sitcom couple for them to love each other. Andrew choked someone out with A BROKEN CLAVICLE BC THEY HURT NEIL, EVEN WITHOUT A PROMISE, BECAUSE HE CARES. Andrew still cares, Nora said he eventually finds himself being okay and even maybe having fun with Exy (of course taken with a grain of salt bc it’s not in the book it’s a post she made but still), Andrew goes to therapy and HUGS HIS BROTHER BEFORE THEY PART WAYS at the end of college. THEY ARE NOT AS LOW AS YOU THINK. If you are upset they do not meet a convention, you have completely missed the point. They are supposed to be UNCONVENTIONAL. They are NOT ‘NORMAL’ HUMAN BEINGS. One of the reasons I love them so much is because they’re not just your average couple. They feel like actual love, or at least magnetism/attraction, because they’re not in it trying to hit every milestone everyone else thinks they should have because they’re together.

Rant over. To each their own, but I love Andriel as the unglorious assholes they are.

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[sohotthateveryonedied]

rest in peace barkbark von barkenstein

[unsettlingoddity]

i made this two wallpapers, i don't know who to credit for all of this fanarts i found on pinterest, if you know tell me so i can tag them too

art credit - @emry-stars-art @hamrikaa

[lifeofbrybooks]

Oh, Jean’s “It is a lot of mess for a little thing” after finishing his first cup in ceramics class. How something that seems so easy, so small, so insignificant could take so much effort and make such a mess. And how it feels symbolic of the effort the Trojans are taking to help Jean acclimate both on and off the court. Because he doesn’t understand why’d they go out of their way to care about him when he doesn’t have a racquet in his hands. How he feels himself as a human being is a small and insignificant thing. But the Trojans care about Jean Moreau the person more than the player. They want him happy. Sure, it’s messy. It takes effort. But there’s a cup at the end. A lot of mess for such a little thing. But it’s not a little thing at all.

[lorasx]

how much is an appropriate amount of time to pass until i start begging nora for the third book

[kevindayscrown]

I can't stop thinking about Jeremy Knox. Like, it's becoming a problem.

He needs to be loved. He needs to be shown he deserves better. He needs to get out of that house and finally have control over his life. He needs to learn that he doesn't need to practice 'control' by letting assholes disrespect him. Someone tell him that he is actually just passively giving away control to them instead. That's all he's known. All he's ever had is the pretence of control.

But, please, let him snap and break down as he realizes that he's just been perpetuating a cycle because he's never really had any choice. All his choices have always come with compromises. Study to prepare for law school and then you can play exy. Have a college life, but we are going to be checking every purchase you are making and questioning you daily. You can be gay as long as you don't embarrass your family. Might as well marry some nice influential girl that would suit our tastes.

He talks of redemption, but if you've never really been given a chance, can you even call it redemption? PLEASE, I need to see him acknowledge that he has been fucked over so badly and let himself throw control out of the window. I need to see him realize that he isn't the one who killed his brother or the one to be blamed for it.

Cause do you realize how fucked it is to know that you are trapped in that dollhouse, your documents locked away somewhere where you can't find them and your only future is one where you live to uphold a family name that's not even yours? He's become the scapegoat of a fucked up family that can't process any feelings.

[nitrousoxide90]

@tativati0n

[ohsleepie]

I have no excuse for this one. I woke up from a fever dream with this prompt in my notes app. I think Neil just really reminds me of a scruffy scavenger animal you'd find in a trashcan. Anyway bonus panel: