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wymack making dan captain despite everything other people said and criticized just because she’s a woman and making her the first and only female captain & rhemann making jeremy captain despite his scandal and everything he went through his freshman year, making an openly gay player the captain of such a high ranked team

jean was so real for calling them fathers

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Neil and Andrew seeing that Kevin covered his tattoo, getting ecstatic about it and then making out is for me the most Kandreil moment in canon

I swear, if Kevin wasnt drunk as hell, both Andrew and Neil would make out with him at that point

Like, those are quotes from the book:

-"Neil's whole body felt on fire, he couldn't remember the last time he was so excited about something"

And

-"Andrew smiled from beside Neil, it was the first time he smiled since coming off the drugs"

Hello?????? This is all towards Kevin and it is so fucking gay. They both looked like they were about to kiss Day right there, and I will die on this hill

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How can he be this good at flirting and sweeping Andrew of his feet.. and not even realize it??

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nothing in my mind except neil josten doing those gimmicky interviews

lie detector interview? he lies flawlessly. they ask him what team he’s on to test it and he says the trojans. the needle doesn’t move. no one knows what to do

answering the internet’s most googled question? neil doesn’t give away shit. (“what is neil jostens favorite hobby?” “lying to cops”) every question is answered with some version of your mother or an anecdote about something illegal

hot wings but neil and kevin do it versus each other. it quickly devolves into psychological warfare. neil adds hot sauce to kevin’s wing when he’s not looking

neil takes a buzzfeed which exy player are you the most like and when he gets riko he just walks out

literally any gimmicky pr stunt just dissolves into chaos

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Hi I just wanted to say that your next gen foxes have been haunting my thoughts (in a good way)

omg thank you HEHE i love them very much 😭🥹🥹🥹

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I am Jean Moreau. I belong to the Moriyamas. I will endure. I will endure. I will endure

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nothing. NOTHING. prepares you for neil fucking josten. the monsters take him to columbia bc andrew doesn't trust him and all his secrets and lies. they drug neil against his will to make him talk and his solution is to tip a busboy 100 dollars in cash to knock him out. at this point he's blackout high as all hell and the most he's given away were several creative death threats. he wakes up in an unfamiliar bed in an unfamiliar house and his immediate first response is violence. he throws an alarm clock and an empty water glass at aaron. the second he's presented with the opportunity to escape, he wiggles out the window of a bathroom. "desperation is a valuable lubricant". he calls matt and casually doesn't mention the fact that he's stranded with no way back to palmetto other than walking. instead, he hitchhikes all the way back. he comes up with a list of convincing enough interview questions to pass as a sociology student and hitch a ride with truck drivers. he SUCCESSFULLY does this and spends the entire time asking and answering questions he makes up on the spot and taking notes to make it look legit. he does all of this while hungover. no one knows where he is during this entire trip back. he could have asked to be picked up at literally any moment and matt or wymack would've done it in a heartbeat. he genuinely did not consider this as a viable option. truly the character of all time i love him so much.

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still waiting for this like

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kevin's pro teammates will never live up to neil josten. kevin lets them know this daily.

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Imagine Cat and Laila get Jeremy and Jean to sit down and watch Pride and Prejudice (the 2005 version, obviously). Jean would protest because they could be watching an exy match instead, but would then immediately stop complaining the second he sees Kiera Knightley as Elizabeth Bennett (reasonably so). He becomes super self-conscious watching it because he doesn't want anyone to notice how hot he thinks she is, and just when he's managed to calm down, all of a sudden Mr. Bingley is introduced. And it's something about his character, but his bright personality reminds him of Jeremy, and now he is doubly flustered and he absolutely hates this movie—

All the while Jeremy cannot focus on the movie at all because Jean won't stop having a celebrity crush on Kiera Knightley and it's written all over his face. And how is he supposed to compete with her, she's Kiera Knightley?!

Cat and Laila meanwhile are stifling their laughter while they are eating popcorn, silently making bets on who's going to break first and demand to stop the movie.

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jeremy's beige flag is that he brought a yo-yo as his only form of entertainment to an airport at the ripe age of 22 but his green flag is that he FAILED to do anything with it

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Andreil are so “I’d find you in every universe” but Jerejean are “this universe is our only shot and I need to make the most of it”

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Rereading The Foxhole Court after finishing The Golden Raven is just absolutely wild, because I went in thinking "well of course everyone is Aware of Andrew Minyard wherever he goes, he is (or projects himself to be) a Dangerous Man." But instead BOTH Jean and Jeremy's narration forgets about Andrew immediately. At one point he leaves the room and nobody notices or comments at all. Whereas by contrast Neil's train of thought goes "Andrew Andrew Exy Andrew Kevin Andrew Andrew Kevin Andrew Andrew Andrew Riko Exy Andrew."

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one of the standout things from tsc and tgr that I’m still thinking about is just everyone highlighting just how Unsettling Neil Josten actually is… Jeremy being unnerved by Neil’s smile, Jean noting the ice in Neil’s stare… incredible, amazing, give me more

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A collection of some of my favorite Cat moments from TGR:

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imagine the chaos after kevin and andrew came back from LA

andrew: you killed a guy and you didn’t tell me

neil: well i was preoccupied with the FBI stuff

andrew: AND YOU DIDN’T TELL ME ABOUT THE FBI STUFF

kevin: can you guys believe that jeremy wants to be a lawyer

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jean-yves moreau is the Character of all time. he’s bisexual. he’s french. he hates being social. he refuses to go anywhere alone. “chances of them knowing french?” “none. they’re american.” he doesn’t know how to make friends. he almost broke someone’s neck for his self declared partner. on the topic of said partner jean stood between his legs with his shirt half unbuttoned “platonically”. he hates english and he’s right. “a single word is seldom rude enough to make a point.” he’s canonically called someone a half-baked baguette. he owns two shirts and they’re both black. “your apologies are as useful as perfume on a frog.” he hasn’t seen a microwave in years. he doesn’t celebrate national holidays. absolutely classic.