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say whatever you want about jeremy and neil's relationship, but they both have the unique experience of thinking the boy they like is more interested in renee walker

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emotionally constipated but so aesthetically devastating. that’s my andrew minyard.

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the bear fox

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Ozai is so pathetic, like that “take his bending away haha he’s harmless now” trick would never have worked on Zuko, if you took his bending away he’d just grab his swords and come at you twice as hard, Azula doesn’t have swords or anything but she’s pretty good at hand to hand and amazing at talking her way out of problems, Iroh bust himself out of prison with no bending at all, meanwhile Ozai? Gets his bending taken away and then just collapses, doesn’t even try anymore, then just sits in prison and tries to get into Zuko’s head some more, he could have trained up and tried to break out too! But no! Bet he can’t break steel bars with his bare hands. Bet he can’t kick a steel lever in two. Bet he can’t even do a flip.

Also we never really see him do any really impressive firebending apart from when he has magic comet power, I guesss he shoots some lightning at Zuko, but that’s it and Azula is still better at the lightning thing. Azula has blue flames. Zuko can do firebreakdancing and bend with his swords. Does Ozai, who is not 14 years old, have blue flames? No he doesn’t.

He didn’t even do his coup himself, Ursa had to kill Azulon for him! Could have just challenged Iroh to an Agni Kai for the throne but he didn’t bc he knew he’d lose.

And then he only ruled for like 6 years! He lost a war that had been going on for 100 years bc of a bunch of kids.

Loserlord indeed

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Imagining in the future when Kevin is on a pro team (with a bunch of players who obviously aren’t up to his standards, because who is) and he is absolutely laying into them all the time and is always bringing up

“Neil Josten would come to the court every single night and practice these drills and you can’t even do them for fifteen minutes”

“Neil Josten once fired shots with Andrew Minyard in goal for a whole night and blew out his arms just because he was stubborn and you can’t even handle shooting on (insert goalie’s name)?”

“Neil Josten played better than you while he was actively running from the Mafia. You think you have other things on your mind?”

Bonus if after a year or two of dealing with this Kevin’s team finally meets Neil at an exy banquet and tattle on him. And Neil is just “??? You literally texted me two weeks ago just to tell me my passes are dogshit? My team hadn’t even played a game or anything, you had just remembered and felt like bringing it up?”

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listen to me: you DO NOT always need to give it your 100%. you really do not. because let’s be honest, you’re human and you’re simply not always going to be able to. there are days when you can only give it your 80%. or your 50%, or heck, even your 10%. and THAT IS OKAY. only skimming one paragraph, only solving one equation, only memorizing 5 words is better than not doing anything because you have this idea in your head that things are only worth doing when you can give what you consider to be your 100%. 10% is better than 0% and some days that is all you can give. it will still add up, and you will still succeed, i promise.

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can we please please please learn to differentiate between things that are good but devalued because of their association with women (caring for children, being compassionate), things that are neutral but seen negatively because of their association with women (the colour pink, having long hair), and things that are bad but associated with women because of misogyny (being materialistic, being stupid) because otherwise we’re gonna keep getting takes like “being gender nonconforming is anti feminist” and “not studying for your classes is feminist”

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the beauty of andrew and neil's "what will you take?" / "what will you give me?" is that yes it's 'i won't ask for anything more than what you're willing to give', obviously that's a huge part of it, but equally so it's saying 'and what you do give, i will take.' give your back to me. put the weight of your trust on my shoulders and i will bear it. if you show me your worst parts, i won't flinch. i won't buckle. i won't run from you. it's both sides of that trust, coming from both of them. neil never touches andrew until he's given permission, and andrew never forces neil to give him any truths. neil learns about drake and the others, and he doesn't see andrew differently. andrew finds out about neil's father and his past and doesn't change his deal. between the two of them, it isn't just about giving but taking as well.

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to the people who hate reading exy games: i hope u know what you’re getting into with the kevin books

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he’s an asshole. he’s the kindest friend you will ever have. hes an alcoholic health freak. he’s a heartless machine that only cares about playing stickball and has little interest in real people. he will make outstanding efforts to never ever ever have to be alone for even one second. he’s half of a duo. he wishes he could stand on his own. he mourns a man that no one else on earth loved (even though no one on earth has been as hurt by that man as him). he knows you will die and he does nothing to even attempt to stop it– he still makes sure your remaining time is the best time anyone’s ever had. he leaves you even though he’s all you have, but he never stops sending you postcards, he never stops trying to save you. he promises you he will find you a purpose in life, and he always finds it. he always finds it.

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he’s an asshole. he’s the kindest friend you will ever have. hes an alcoholic health freak. he’s a heartless machine that only cares about playing stickball and has little interest in real people. he will make outstanding efforts to never ever ever have to be alone for even one second. he’s half of a duo. he wishes he could stand on his own. he mourns a man that no one else on earth loved (even though no one on earth has been as hurt by that man as him). he knows you will die and he does nothing to even attempt to stop it– he still makes sure your remaining time is the best time anyone’s ever had. he leaves you even though he’s all you have, but he never stops sending you postcards, he never stops trying to save you. he promises you he will find you a purpose in life, and he always finds it. he always finds it.

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every time i make an aftg playlist, i find a song that doesn't quite fit the playlist but does in fact fit a different character and that's how i end up with so many - here's a list of all of them so far

sunrise, abram, death : the original, just a general aftg playlist with strong neil and andrew vibes

that was french earlier right? : aftg but make it multilingual and slightly sadder

open roads : first true character playlist! jean moreau you have my heart

strongest piece on the board : playlist in its very baby stages, kevin day playlist that spawned from the jean playlist, fun fact if you look up "queen chess piece aesthetic" you get very dramatic photos

jeremy playlist (still unnamed) : playlist in its very very baby stages. like two songs atm. but we'll get there eventually

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spoke deeply to me.

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Imagine after ELEVEN YEARS she announces a new spin off series to close out a characters story who was originally supposed to die, and then at 1am on a random Wednesday SAYS SHES WRITING TWO MORE BOOKS AND THEYRE ABOUT KEVIN FUCKING DAY

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nora dropping the kevin duology announcement out of nowhere same energy as kevin switching to his left hand mid game

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NO romance in the kevin books i want 400 pages of his deep and borderline erotic obsession with exy. i wanna see the nothin but court through his eyes

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I've been useless all day after this news how am I supposed to continue my life without an ounce of information besides "apparently maybe this will be a thing"