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Renee flashing Riko the peace sign while zooming out of the dumpster fire that is Edgar Allan with a half-dead Jean in the passenger seat is the funniest thing ever. Like the peace sign probably pissed Riko off more than if she had flipped him off or screamed GET FUCKED about the window. There’s no malice in the gesture, no violence. No need for it. Riko doesn’t deserve her violence. Renee rescued Jean. She gave him an opportunity to find peace. Riko can die mad about that.

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nora pls tell me why the FUCK the monsters have a cheese drawer 💀

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one day nicky discovers his old camera from when the twins were teens and the footage in there is gold. for the next movie night he plugs it in as a surprise and everyone watches in delight (or horror if you are andrew + aaron) as andrew locks himself in his room because aaron told him his use of hair gel makes him look like an emo draco malfoy.

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Things I’m learning about All For the Game fans: a lot of y’all didn’t grow up with a cheese drawer in your fridge and it shows

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aaron minyard doesn’t hate neil josten because he’s annoying or because he’s his brothers boyfriend.

no, aaron minyard hates neil josten because one day, neil will be asked to kill his brother and andrew would hand him the gun without hesitation.

it starts when neil joins the team. sure, things were rough before, but this kid showing up out of nowhere and trying to fix them rubbed salt in the wound. he sees how neil interests andrew, how his brother keeps giving the liar his yeses and his deals and promises. it doesn’t sink in until baltimore, until andrew breaks his deal and chokes out kevin. watching andrew kneel in front of neil (nathaniel), a broken boy made from butchers and glass, that’s when fear starts to claw into his heart. he interrogated neil at the cabin, and the whole time there’s a whisper in his head saying “just how far will andrew go”

aaron watched andrew fight his way into being his own person after a childhood of tragedy upon tragedy. he was there when nicky adopted them, when andrew explored his agency and rebuilt himself from the ground up. and then he watched as andrew found neil and piece by damning piece built his life around him. they’d deny being codependent but there is no more andrew minyard and neil josten there is only andrewandneil.

neil makes a deal with the mafia and aaron wants to scream, shake the man and ask him where his brother fits into all this.

but he knows.

he knows that one day, neil josten won’t be a professional exy player anymore. he knows that the man will grow old and slower, and one day he won’t have a paycheck to send to the moriyamas. they’ll consider him a liability, show up at his home (the one he shares with andrew)

and when neil josten will fall, so will andrew minyard.

his brother claims he is an independent person but he is lying

aaron is terrified, because he knows there is no corner of hell that neil josten could not lead his brother to.

neil josten is andrew minyards death sentence, and aaron is the only one who can see it. he cares too much about his brother not to.

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Movie night in the girls' dorm goes wrong, and Andrew is unforgivably betrayed by the one thing that has never let him down before.

Cookies.

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Chapter 2 of my Andrew allergies fic is out now!

This also fulfills part/month 4 of my self-assigned ‘post one work each month of the year’ challenge. I’m posting chapter 2 for April. Chapter 3 will come out sometime next month for May.

Go check out the fic!

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Why are we not talking about the fact that Jean was also a sassy little shit to the FBI? The entire bureau of federal investigations was not prepared to handle this particular pair of nineteen year olds

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The realization that Jean and Andrew are/were both number three might break me after the parallels between them in tsc

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Jeremy repressed his problems so well we couldn't even get anything from his own fucking povs. Boy doesn't even think about them

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I can appreciate the aftg fandom for what it is.

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jeremey is the polar opposite neil. Neil will spend pages upon pages internally describing his insane traumas while whole days pass in book time.

meanwhile Jeremy is like “i am experiencing trauma beyond belief. Check out this cardboard dog i got cuz my parents won’t let me have a real one :)”

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Getting Jean's perspective of Neil has casually reminded me that Neil really was out here in tfc acting like Andrew was insane for thinking he was a mole for the Ravens.

Like the man was so offended that Andrew would assume that, even though he spent every moment before that being completely fucking feral, having a literal shrine to Kevin and Riko in his bag at all times along with $250,000 in what amounts to cash, knew french well enough to not only yell at Kevin with no context, but say something that got Kevin to throw him against a wall in retaliation....

This is the man who had the audacity to act like Andrew's assumption that he was hired by the Moriyamas was completely unreasonable.

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so sorry to nicky but if i had witnessed neil’s ability to convince andrew to do things, andrew’s violent reaction when neil went missing and then the whole entire scene in the hotel room, my immediate assumption about andreil’s relationship would not be that they were hate-fucking. like that is the most in-love-with-each-other behavior i have ever seen

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big thank you to jeremy knox for finally verbalizing what we’ve been thinking for an actual decade now

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I don’t know if you all realize how often I think about @02511213942 ‘s art and specifically the “Aaron and Neil were friends first” lol. Neil brought snacks for the study session

(I do know there’s a fic about the topic out there as well but I.. don’t read fic much so 025’s was my intro the au train of thought and I fell in love with it. Andrew’s throwback memory is their art from the above linked post and the whole thing is worth seeing again even if you’ve already seen it 😂💕)

Anyway Aaron, new counterargument: what if Neil brought Andrew a little treat tho

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'i would prefer if you didn't call me by my last name' see this is what i mean like yk who else would say something like that? our resident wesninski but jeremy didn't even acknowledge this for a SECOND in his pov bro is pretending to be an unbothered king so bad i want to sit in his brain for a while

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Neil Josten, Nathaniel Wesninski, Neil Abram Josten.