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perfection. i'm gonna need 250k words of this, please and thank you

james who wants to encourage toddler harry to gain more confidence, so he dares him to go into a shop and get the prettiest thing there for 20 pounds.

harry who gets out of the shop holding —a slightly confused— regulus' hand hostage, almost screaming "pa! i found pretty boy! he was free!!"

and that's how jegulus meet.

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happy pride month!! here’s a little treat 🤍

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Coach Rhemann trying his best to support Jean but also trying to figure out if some oddities are result of:

abuse from his time in the nest

a French thing

just his personality

Coach Wymack is the only one he knows with experience of helping a former Raven de-transition from the Nest so he'll occasionally call Wymack and give a vague statement to try to see if Wymack has dealt with this with Kevin, while not giving too much away in case it's just a Jean thing.

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Rhemann: So... some of my kids decided to take classes together, really stick to a buddy system sort of deal

Wymack: Yeah. It's a thing. Kevin's gotten better but he still gets anxious if he's alone.

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Rhemann: Some of my players are really excelling in language arts. Which is great for their grades, but their imaginative descriptions really toe the line between feedback and a yellow card.

Wymack: Jean, right? Kid speaks three languages that I know of and I think he's most adept at insults in all of them. He had more than a few choice words for me and my team when he was out here.

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Rhemann: A good thing about California is that it hardly ever rains.

Wymack: That's a good thing? Thought you guys were dealing with a drought.

Rhemann: Yeah, but sunshine and good weather most of the year. People don't have to worry about slick roads or getting wet.

Wymack: I guess?

Rhemann: Water.

Wymack: Hmm, yeah, not sure where you're getting at with this one. Whatever it is, I don't think mine had it.

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Another reason Aaron despises Neil is that he probably thought that they were becoming "friendly"

Due to his and Andrew's deal, Aaron could only have family, no friends. That was Andrew and Nicky, then expanded to include Kevin, and then the next year included Neil (even added to the family phone plan).

Neil hangs out with the monsters; sits with them, goes shopping with them, goes to Eden's with them, etc. Aaron got a list of single Vixen's for Neil to try to help this odd kid out socially. They looked out for Andrew together; Neil kicked down the door and Aaron killed Drake. Neil didn't tell Andrew about Katelyn like Aaron asked. They bonded a little over not telling Dobson anything.

Aaron, who had a lifetime of bad friends who used him to then no friends only family, thought he and Neil were becoming buddies or something.

And then Neil used him. He meddled with Aaron's relationship with Katelyn for his own gain. Yes, Neil's meddling got Andrew and Aaron in therapy together and started talking to each other, but Neil still used him.

That betrayal had to hurt.

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A glimpse of you.

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This is the only thing I can think of whenever I read this scene

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the pipeline from jean saying captain in tsc [defensive] to how he will say captain in tbc [h0rny]

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redrew this old piece from 2019.

happy pride month, hope yall have a gay one

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Jean noticed how Andrew and Neil moved like they were caught in each other’s gravity, in each other’s space more than they were out of it, cigarette smoke and matching armbands and lingering looks when one fell out of orbit for too long.

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i'm not sure if Jean just saying insane things as if they were normal is funny or devastating but it's one or both of those definitely

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"caramel brown hair" bestie r u sure? because Jeremy is actually blond

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okay i knew they were all traumatised but what on earth is going on in Jeremy's family ;-; i am on the verge of tears and nothing has even happened yet

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WKDJQKCHQIXBQIDBWUXBAIXHQHDWHDH HE CALLED HIM NEIL AND SAID IT WAS A GOOD GAME!!!!!!!!!!!

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Andrew Minyard being a comedian/sarcastic piece of shit/bastard for 3 books straight:

- “Congratulations are in order, I suppose! Since I have none to give, I will tell the others to respond appropriately.”

- “You are not very bright. Typical of a jock.”

- “How many knives do you carry?” “Enough.”

- “A liar who practices occasional honesty. Clever. Keeps people guessing. Very effective. I would know. I do it myself, you see.”

- “Is your spine the spine of the righteous? Are you trying your best to step on my toes because you’re feeling the tragic weight of the holier than thou?”

- “Hey Pinocchio, time to run. This one’s for you.”

-“Tick tock, says the clock. Get out of my room.”

- “It wasn’t me. Ask my doppelgänger?”

- “You have Joan of Exy over there. Make do without me”

-Wymack looked at Andrew. Andrew looked over his shoulder as if checking for a third goalkeeper.

-Andrew was systematically tugging clothes off their hangers and dropping them on the floor.

- “You have this way of making people want to kill you”

- “Who am I supposed to call?” “Nicky, Coach, the suicide hotline, I don’t care”

- “You could occasionally grow a spine”

- “Hey Jean. Jean Valjean. Hey. Hey. Hello”

- He slug a stripped inmate’s outfit over one shoulder and detoured past Neil on his way to the front of the store.

- “I’m not in trouble. Oh captain, my captain.”

- “Don’t make me hurt you. I don’t want blood in my ice cream.”

- “Neil, you wouldn’t know what to do with a god-fearing minister. You can barely stand to be around Renee. There’s no way you could last a sit-down with Luther. He’d end up exorcising you when you snapped.”

- “A tear for your discomfort” Andrew said, completely unsympathetic. 

- “Is your learning curve a horizontal line?”

- “What about Abby?” “You can’t bandage a zombie and she wouldn’t let us execute the infected”

- Andrew refused on the grounds he wouldn’t wish you on anyone except a mortician.

- “What are you doing with a Maserati?” “Driving it”

- “The only trick is figuring out how to pry Kevin away from the court” “I have knives,” Andrew reminded him.

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Amidst the pain, we are still looking for help, food is expensive and our stomachs are hurting from hunger, my child is 3 years old and he is crying a lot from hunger and I do not find anyone to feed him, I am sending messages asking for help and Even a little, and I do not find anyone to help us and feed us. What should we do, please?💔💔

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i'm reading the sunshine court and omg i get it i would die for Jeremy Knox

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close enough. welcome back, Regulus Black

“No,” Jean said. “I don’t swim.”