Lightly, swiftly, as if on wings.

Ali, 34, and tbh Wisconsin is the real dairyland (and also my home).

[thriftedflannel]

finding out most people actually imagine themselves as one of the participating parties when reading m/m was jarring to say the least, because I've spent the whole of my slashfic career doing this:

[instigatorjosten]

if foxes playing Minecraft, who would be doing what? by type of construction, gardening, mining, and so on. The answer "wouldn't go" doesn't count.

you might have asked the one person in my generation who hasn’t really played or given a fuck about minecraft. which is even more of a statistical wonder when you remember im an architecture student. i think i played once at a friend’s sleepover, made a glass house by a waterfall and went to bed. last time i played flowers weren’t really a thing.

[wingedly]

To be fair, that's about the best the Foxes would have had too since Minecraft didn't come out until 2009 lol

I've watched a one (1) group play hardcore Minecraft, and I only recently played on a server for a few months, but I'll try my best. I will accept criticisms

Dan Wilds: Trying to organize everyone to follow the plan to get to The End. She started off the server by trying to make an organized starting zone, but gave up when Seth kept expanding the Cat Love Pit and the sound was driving her crazy (she refuses to change settings)

Kevin Day: Essentially always AFK, looking up strategies to speed run to The End so he can quit entirely

Andrew Minyard: Cave exploration, but he doesn't mine shit

Matt Boyd: Helping out wherever needed, gathering materials when people ask. He is secretly building a giant elaborate tower.

Aaron Minyard: Creating farms for everything. Don't go where he is. It's loud as hell because of the machinery and copper golems

Allison Reynolds: Finding every temple, trial chamber, and such to fight monsters. The group had to increase the grave time because she refuses to put down a nearby bed before running into a place

Nicky Hemmick: "Barefoot and pregnant" (i.e., tending the farm and cooking foods). He forced them to install the Farmer's Delight mod

Renee Walker: Building a mansion for their home base; there's a portal that leads to a mirror of it in the Nether

Neil Josten: Following behind Andrew and mining all the coal. However, that's ALL he mines. He refuses to mine anything else

Seth Gordon: Animal gatherer. As noted above, he's taken charge of the animal Love Pits. He insists on running around the Sheep Love Pit with shears and ignoring Aaron's sheep-shearing farm. He names every axolotl "Allison" because she helped him find the first one

[korakos]

it's obviously not ideal but what if we just aim for november at this point it's so so so far away I know, and yes I know it's perilously close to end of semester chaos for any students, but

[wingedly]

idk if you'll see this, but take all the time you need. I could honestly cry with gratitude that you provide us with updates

[korakos]

"please be kind to jeremy!!!" lol nah

[wingedly]

[fivescocoa]

the way nicky and aaron talked about andrew off his meds is exactly the way dog people talk about cats.

“you dont know what he was like off his meds… he was scary and violent.” and then he goes off his meds and is just incredibly quiet and wants to be left alone.

exact energy as ppl crying cats are “unpredictable and will scratch you for no reason” while disrespecting every boundary the cat has put in place. there’s a fundamental misunderstanding happening.

andrew minyard is a cat. in this essay i will—

[wingedly]

"What? Oh, no," Nicky hurried to say. "I mean literally soft. Too many curves, see? I feel like my hands would slide right off. It's totally not my thing. I like…" He drew a box with his fingers as he searched for words. "Erik. Erik's perfect. He's a total outdoors junkie, rock climbing and hiking and mountain biking, all that awful bug-infested fresh-air stuff. But oh my god, you should see what it does to his body. He's like this, all hard edges." He drew another box.

Nicky, sweetie. My darling boy. My sweet summer child. Bless your heart.

The women on your sports team could crush your head like a watermelon with their thighs

[nyaar0n]

years gone by

[rantabtaftg]

Neil, did you think Andrew was about to punch the ever living fuck out of the authorities who were gonna take you away from him for funsies?

[kaemoss]

[wingedly]

Interest check -- All For The Game Dolls

Is there any interest in AFTG-themed dolls? This one is a blank, but my plan would be to make them look like the characters (Neil, Andrew, Jean, Jeremy, etc.)

The doll is just under 5.75 inches/14.5 centimeters tall. I still need to test out how I want to do the eyes, hair, scars/tattoos, etc., but I wanted to see if there's any interest first. I'm open to comments and suggestions! 🧡

Would you buy an AFTG-themed doll?

Yes

Maybe/Unsure

No

Voting ended onApr 7, 2025

[wingedly]

Thank you all for the votes and replies! 🧡 Plans are still ongoing, and I'm experimenting with options. Here's a little silliness of that process: Neil with jacked up hair and haunted blue eyes

[wingedly]

How the hell has it been nine months since I made this post?? Sigh... Both a lot and nothing has happened, but I never did end up finding hair and eye options that I actually liked.

I'm hoping to someday restart this project, but I'm sorry it took so long to officially announce its hiatus.

[theialif]

foxes read books about themselves🦊

[plainlyshimmeringwolf]

[kushichiba]

[kotabear--24]

i had this silly funny thought of kevin walking into the dorm w aaron following but he walks in and sees andrew and neil making out, really going at it, and he yelps and shoves aaron back and out of the dorm, slamming it behind them so he doesnt see bc he knows andrew wouldnt want that and aaron being like wtf and kev being like 'trust me dude you dont wanna see andrew like that or smth' lookin all haunted

funny, right

but then i thought how aaron would hear that+see kevin's stricken expression and immediately lose his fucking mind panicking like 'wdym is he okay whats happening kevib get out of the way let me see my brother' shouting thru the door for andrew, shoving kevin bodily to make sure his twin is alright.

and that just made me so sad :(

[wingedly]

Obligatory "did you kiss the brick before you threw it" statement

But, in good news, Andrew is hypervigilant, so he'd become aware of Kevin and Aaron pretty quickly. Maybe we can spin this back?? Like maybe Aaron walks back in and Andrew is just CHUGGING chocolate syrup from the bottle, and like, Aaron is fine with Andrew's ice cream and candy habits but what the fuck is this

[oh-phoenixx]

i think one of the most devastating parts of the sunshine court is when we see jean-yves start to realise that the gap between first and second place was so small yet the difference between the ravens and the trojans so big.

the ravens put everything they had into being first; they weren't allowed family or friends, they practiced obsessively, they were punished for every small mistake. all of it be first.

and then jean-yves gets to usc and he knows they come second or third every year so there's no way they aren't just as disciplined and obsessive as the ravens, right? but they're nothing like them, they're allowed to eat what they want and have lives and families and hobbies, they're allowed to make mistakes without being hit for it, they're allowed pain meds and time off. sure, the ravens were the best. but it was never worth what it cost.

it wasn't as if coach moriyama had to push them that hard in order to win to win—the foxes consisted of dysfunctional kids with trauma and trust issues, and they still beat the ravens. the ravens could have been the best without the cruelty or the controlled meals; they could have been the best without having to give up their families; they could have been the best without sixteen-hour days and no sleep; they could have been the best without jean-yves spending five years being torn apart over and over and told to play anyway. and jean-yves starting to realise that is so important and SO tragic to me.

[instigatorjosten]

kevin, drunk out of his mind: nicky please no dont leave me here to sleep alone

nicky, who has just carried kevin to his room, sighing and tucking him in: its three am kevin i need to go to bed

kevin: no please please no, *whispering* there’s a monster under the bed

andrew, in the bed bunk under him: i can fucking hear you

[wingedly]

I wonder if Andrew ever gives in to the Human Urge ™ to kick the top bunk mattress 🤔

[instigatorjosten]

Nicky hemmick is so very much white washed and at no point in the aftg books do we see any latino representation from him. however. do i care? do i, fuck. no. he is my latina baby and i will continue to picture him celebrating dia de los muertos and making arepas.

[favbitchcharlie]

I think one of the things totally glossed over that really shouldn’t have been is that Nicky’s mother Maria was “rescued” by Luther on a “mission trip” aka basically stolen by a colonizer and then when she came back with him, just by the brief interactions we see in canon and Nicky’s lack of Spanish language and Mexican culture, we can infer that she was basically cut off from her culture and forced to assimilate to a strict white Christian culture that stripped her of everything she came from. Who wants to bet Nicky has a big thriving family in Mexico somewhere that he’s never met, maybe never heard of? Who wants to bet that everything he does know about his heritage and culture and bits and pieces of Spanish and Mexican family is from careful whispers when Maria tucked him in at night? And people in-universe had the nerve to think the only thing that got him on the foxes was taking care of the twins. As if the homophobia and cultural erasure he faced in his own home wouldn’t have been enough to qualify as a kid in need of another chance.

[instigatorjosten]

i need to write a fic about luther dying and nicky having some reconciliation with his mexican roots as a way to also reconnect w his mother now

[wingedly]

Luther dies, and Nicky immediately goes home to help his mother in her grief. While there, he is going through the kitchen when he finds a recipe card that is worn, folded, taped shut, and hidden away. He carefully undoes the tape and realizes it's a Mexican recipe that he's heard of but never tried before.

He goes out and buys all of the ingredients and tries to make it. He does a terrible job, but presents it to his mother anyway. She bursts into tears because she immediately recognizes the dish. The recipe was her mother's, given to Maria before she left, because it was her comfort food as a child. However, Luther forbid her from making "that ethnic stuff". He claimed the spices would stink up their house and ruin the resale value.

Still, Maria held onto the card, tucking it away for safety, and any time Nicky was sick as a child, she pulled it out but never dared make the dish. Now, in her time of despair, her child--her brave, willful child--has dared to defy his father's rule. For once, her house doesn't smell like cleaning agents and Febreze. It smells like home.