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also like kudos to nora sakavic?? miss girly wrote the most iconic book series of all time, dropped off the face of the earth just to resurface and say hey do you want more? your favorite characters? more? like we are so lucky

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imagine after the Riko Roast the Foxes just start saying “you know, I get it,” at any minor inconvenience or annoyance. It becomes their new team-wide inside joke. Nicky burns his toast and just looks at the toaster, “you know, I get it.” Dan and Allison talking with each other about an annoying prof, “you know, I get it.” Matt locks himself out of the room, “you know, I get it.”

Neil being annoyed/embarrassed by it only encourages them to do it more and they start dropping it all the time. Andrew says it to Aaron every chance he gets. Practice basically stops when Kevin finally says it for the first time after everyone keeps fumbling the new drill. Dan even catches Wymack saying it while on the phone with Andritch. The new freshmen have no idea where it came from but eventually they start using it too.

And when Neil finally gets fed up with someone else and uses it again a year and a half later at another banquet or event, the team dissolves into an uproar like they just won championships.

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Someone: Is your husband... angry?

Neil: *looks at Andrew and processes all ten of his micro expressions and the position of his shoulders in the span of two milliseconds*

Neil: Oh! He's having a great time :)

Andrew:

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Neil really found out Andrew liked him and immediately went to try to fix his relationship with Aaron because he knew Andrew needed that, and did so by putting aside all his dislike for Betsy to reach out and ask her to do joint therapy for them.

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A sketch did last night of allison and renee

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I think one of my all time favorite parts of the aftg trilogy is in tkm where Neil is fully convinced he’s living the last few hours of his life so he says goodbye to Neil Josten and everything that name meant and immediately his internal dialogue flipped to referring to himself as Nathaniel.

His life as Neil was everything to him. It was the first time he’d had a genuine life to live in years and he gave that part of himself his own personal funeral so it couldn’t be something taken away from him by his father. His father could kill Nathaniel, but he’d never let him kill Neil.

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its so real to me that andrew is quietly sentimental, like he has a polaroid of neil in his wallet or car mirror. no one argue with me its true its real i swear, i was actually there!

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They're walking back from practice when Jean sees it. A burst of yellow light, there and gone again.

It's strange enough to rock his steps to a stop, And soon enough, Jeremy rocks to a stop as well.

"Hey," he asks. "Everything okay?"

Jean is...unsure. He is seeing bright lights, but the only other time Jean has seen bright lights unprompted is when he's been concussed. And as far as he remembers, he has not hit his head.

"Jean," Jeremy says.

Jean is running out of time to answer, and surely, if he tells them he is seeing stars, they will bench him again.

But he has already spent enough time off the court. He can not afford to spend any more.

He opens his mouth, intent on waving Jeremy off, on telling him it is nothing, but the moment he does, another burst of light appears, right off Jeremy's shoulder.

"What"" Jean says instead, "is that?"

"What is what?" Jeremy asks, and when Jean points to the space behind him, turns around. But there's nothing there. Just dark, just air.

Jean scowls. Jeremy turns back to him, frown etched across his face. "Am I missing something?"

"Yes," Jean says, all but growls.

Maybe they would bench him after all, for insolence, if nothing else. He opens his mouth again, but another light sparks up, and Jean spins Jeremy by the shoulders to make sure he catches it in time.

"There," Jean says again.

"Oh," Jeremy says. "The fireflies?"

He says it so calmly, and with such surprise, that Jean almost wishes he'd been concussed instead. The thought is only reinforced when Jeremy casts a glance over his shoulder, and eyes Jean's confused expression curiously. "Fireflies? Lightning bugs? The name varies, depending on where you live. But...l don't know about Marseille, but surely West Virginia had them?"

Jean stares at him rather than answering. Jeremy sighs. "Right," he says. "Well, we have plenty of them here. Off campus, toward the houses mostly. Swarms of 'em. Sometimes, I swear it looks like Christmas in July."

Jean is not sure what that's meant to imply either, and judging by the world weary sigh he lets out, Jeremy understands that.

"We'll have to take you out to catch them one night," he says, rallying. But Jean isn't listening to a word h saying. A firefly-lightning bug?—has landed in Jeremy's hair. Jean stares up at it, watching as it glows, pondering the way like calls to like.

There is so much light in California, Jean thinks. Too much, for someone so used to the dark. But he can't deny that he likes it.

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Sometimes I think about "Andrew's bottomless rage would never hurt Nathaniel, and that made all the difference in the world." And just. Pause.

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TGR Spoilers

I love that Dan protected Kevin in the Fox v. Raven match turned brawl.

Her entire team was being attacked, and out of everyone she has the most issues with Kevin with his attitude and resenting him for not telling Wymack he was his son for years.

She could have gone to help Matt, her boyfriend, and the twins. She could have gone to help Neil, someone she cares about very much and is her Vice Captain.

But Kevin was on his own and at a disadvantage as he tried to protect his left hand from injury again. She "barrelled out of nowhere" and threw Dawson off of Kevin.

And she didn't let up. She didn't give him the chance to go after Kevin again, the referees couldn't stop their fight and it took Matt to pry her away.

Dan protects her family, even the one who gets on her nerves the most. And I really love that Kevin wasn't abandoned to fight on his own. That his new family protected him from his former team/cult.

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As a fandom, we moved past Jeremy throwing an entire semi-finals game because of HONOR and that without him, the entire original trilogy would have ended very differently… WAY too quickly.

Like, even Nora was like “Nah, Trojans too good. Gotta find a loophole here. Oh, an honor-bound bleeding heart of a twink that half The Perfect Court wants to bang… yes, yes. This opens ALL the doors.”

Jeremy Knox changed the entire trajectory of All for the Game, and you can fight me on it, but you would be WRONG. Those who get Jeremy Knox, get it.

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I’ve figured out what I would love for Jeremy to give Jean as his birthday present. Hear me out.

Get that boy a grill. I know Jeremy’s financial situation; it can be cheap. Almost tiny. But.

Jean has told us time and time again how he finds a soothing comfort when he helps Cat cook. Imagine if it applies to both indoors and outdoors? The prepping and the cooking?

Imagine Jean helping Rhemann harvest veggies and then bringing those home to make a part of that night’s dinner. Except he has the option: inside or under the stars?

He’d chose the stars aka balcony, easily. Or the sunset. Or the waning afternoon sun. But just consider Jean Moreau who was starved of the sky cooking a hearty meal for his loved ones under the same gentle glow he was kept from.

From farm to home aka fathers to family; to grill to plate or consideration of love’s warranty.

Just consider it because I love the idea. Jeremy gifting Jean a grill even if he can’t be there every night Jean cooks. Jean taking photos of the stars to send to Jeremy. Send cute tumble.

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the way neil was willing to let himself be tortured on andrew's behalf literally months before they even kissed.... like he didn't even know he liked kissing andrew yet, he didn't even know that was an option for him!! but that didnt matter because andrew needed him and neil was going to do whatever he must to try and keep him safe.

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I feel like the double d's get cutness aggression with Jean, but they know they can't touch him, so they're just standing next to him like clutching at the air mimicking squishing his face and he's stood there like wtf is happening

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the press going insane after andreil coming out because they finally after years!!! understand what neil means by "i swing towards the goal" that he says when a reporter asks about his sexuality

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imagine being such a good boykisser that the boy who never wants to kiss anyone thinks he could die happy after spending his last days on earth having the privilege to kiss you and the kicker is, he means this literally bc he's certain he'll die, and then he almost does. not only that, but you're such a good boykisser that after said boy is tortured and almost killed and left extremely injured, one of his top sources of anxiety is that you might not kiss him again. genuinely no one was doing it like andrew minyard.

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Jeremy Knox! :)