#andreil brainrot is real

[broken-heart-raven-queen]

We all know by now Andrew and Neil are light sleepers because of trauma and being in unsafe places but I just read some of the extras and I picture this scenario:

Andrew wakes up night after night when the cats jump onto the bed the first few months because he is not used to their weight and they didn't learn yet to do get on from Neil's side.

Neil of course gets woken up by Andrew's panic and gets worried (he's also starttled at first) and tries to help and reassure him, but at the end neither of them goes back to sleep.

At the beggining is fine, they are both used to fucked up schedules but they are people and obvious they start to get cranky and fight a lot (more) during the day for silly reasons. Other people is noticing it too and then it affects their performance on the court.

So one night, Andrew decides to "sleep" on the couch (he thinks he could be awake all night binging some show to avoid beeing paranoid) and this is because he saw that Neil really needed to sleep well at least one night. He does not feel guilty, tho, he's just Andrew and cares for Neil way more than he cares about himself.

Ok.

So that night he innevitably falls asleep and is woken up by Sir who is now on his chest curled up as a fluffy ball.

He starts to get mad, but he can't. Not really when he picks the cat up and it is sooooo soft. And then Sir tries to lick his hands (he might be snacking when he passed out) and lets out a quiet "meow" because he can't reach him well.

And Andrew looses it. He starts laughing to the point he cries.

Because everything is fine. It's just a cat. His cat.

And no matter how broken he is, Sir would love him and do it again a million times more. Because he had chosen him.

Just like Neil who's staring at this situation in silence from the livingroom door.

[whataboutnoope]

Objectively speaking, Neil should have issues with his sight if not be completely blind in one eye, at least the one near the burn scar.

For plot reasons none of this happened, but logically speaking being burnt so closely to your eye would damage the capillaries and the general sight + the other eye wouldn't be safe either because of the cuts, they got pretty close to it more than once so it should have some kind of damage.

This came up to me while i was thinking about Andrew discovering Neil's blind spot and using it so he can gaze at him for entire minutes until Neil finally turns around and catches him. (he calls this "observing" and "checking he's not hurt", but everyone knows he's just lovingly staring at Neil) (("You're staring" "No I'm not." "You were!" "Shut up, Josten."))

Neil at first doesn't even notice it, he knows that Andrew is always standing close to him, whether or not it's in his blind spot, so he doesn't bother turning to check, until one day someone sits on Neil's side before Andrew can and the blond almost breaks hell loose for his place. Neil calls himself stupid for not catching it earlier and the foxes are not even surprised it took him months to become aware of what was happening mere inches from him.

(everyone should thank @sapphoherselz for this one, she screamed at me to post this after i spent a good half an hour yapping)

[amityillustration]

Stay.

[cakemadeofbacon]

After reading blue lily lily blue i am so happy that pynch didn’t become canon in that book meaning andreil became canon two years before they did i need to go to sleep.

[elusiveclownbox]

SOME ANDREIL/NEIL/ANDREW CODED SONGS (in my humble opinion)(with links to listen)

(because i have the biggest brainrot, they’re also just great songs so please give them a listen!)

Neath The Grove Is A Heart

Yaelokre

“Home is where we are now. Home is where you are. Home is where I am standing. Where I'Il be staying forever now”

this entire post is just gonna be my biased interpretations of songs but honestly the entire song gives vibes to me…the places that one would refer to as “home” being a constant ever changing cycle of different places, never being able to stay and settle in a physical place. but finding a home in someone else.

Room By Room

Shayfer James (I’ve almost exclusively been listening to him, so the rest of the songs are his oops)

“If the keys in my hand turned a lock of your hair I would walk through the glance, but I'd stop at the stare. And I'd follow it down To the very last step and I'd wait by the room where your secrets are kept”

THOSE ARE THE FIRST LYRICS cmon mannnn,,,learning the brutal past of someone you love as they allow you in, do i even need to say it?

First Date

Shayfer James

“Tell me your story, and I'll tell you mine, I think we will get along fine. Tell me your riddle, I'll tell you my rhyme, I think we will get along fine. And if the rules change, don't hesitate to say you've had enough of me”

It’s literally the whole beginning of their relationship, a truth for truth, trade for trade. The game of, maybe not necessarily originally trust, but of mutual understanding that grows into trust and respect.

Your Father’s Son

Shayfer James

“So if you're any good at bluffing, I suggest you do it quick 'cause everyone is next to nothing, and every tock will have a tick. It fits so well. What you've become is your father's son which will never be much of anyone”

Oh Neil, you poor boy cowering in the shadow of your father, his legacy locked within your image and the face you share with him. No matter what new name and identity you create, you know your father will never be far behind, you will always be his son. At least, that’s how it used to be.

Learning to Be Lost

Shayfer James

“I am a plagiarized autobiography of wreckage, a shipwreck in sheep's clothes. Be patient with me, I am learning to be lost. Don't be gentle. Never gentle. Be mindful of me, I will sink at any cost”

This I feel resonates more with Andrew, but one could argue resonates with both. They both have tortured pasts that are unspeakable to almost all but each other, but Andrew shoves that past and those memories behind a face of calm indifference and apathy. But they are both navigating a relationship with each other that they are unfamiliar with, and didn’t necessarily intend to enter. As they reveal bit and bit of their pasts, they don’t want pity or sympathy, their pasts are what created them and they refuse to be treated as though they are broken, especially Andrew.

Lullaby

Shayfer James & Kate Douglas

“People can't be trusted and we have to fight to stay alive. We'll always be the enemy, oh. Eye for eye and limb for limb, The blood that I've been swimming in, oh. Mother, I've grown tired of this. Mother, I've grown tired of this. There's beauty and there's empathy, some people might've cared for me. I hid my heart, and stayed inside, instead of moving with the tide”

THIS IS ALLLLL NEIL BABYYY. Blindly continuing to follow his mother’s words and advice, she kept him safe for so long after all (in her own way). He trusted that she loved him, wanted to protect him, but he missed out on so much because of her. Missed out on friends and life in general, people who might have been able to actually help him. If it wasn’t for meeting people more stubborn than him, for wanting to just exist for once, he could’ve been on the run and never settling for so much longer. Or have died.

Carve A Smile

Shayfer James

“And with every kiss you make a better man of me. The safe disguise of accidental lies won’t hide us here, no more, my dear. And I would sacrifice the air that makes my body breathe, if it keeps you safe”

They are both so willing to put themselves in harms way to protect the other, even before they came to realize just how much the other meant to them. Andrew with the intention of winning, and Neil half the time not caring if he ends up dead as long as Andrew is alright.

PLEASE DROP YOUR OWN SONG REQS i love good music.

anyway if anyone has actually made it to this point thank you for listening to my babbling. I can associate any and every song i listen to to whatever i am currently hyper fixating on and i need to express it outwardly. Hopefully yall like the music at least, even if you disagree with my interpretations!

[cringeblogname]

Neil Josten Playlist

Songs for our favorite tiny runaway liar <3

- Hunting Season by Chelsea Cutler - It’s hunting season, I don’t have a weapon/ I am at your mercy, I was just a freshman/ Why the hell am I somewhere in between the crossfire?/ I say that I’m fine, I have become such a good liar

- Anti-Curse by boygenius - Salt in my lungs/ holding my breath/ making peace with my inevitable death

- We’re In Love by boygenius - I don’t need the symbol of a scar/ so put down the knife, we’re not swapping blood/ isn’t it enough that we stripped down to our skin, cold and porcelain/ like bathers in a painting

- High Tops by Del Water Gap - I used to see you on the sidewalk/ standing in your high tops/ ruining your pretty lungs with that cigarette smoke, it ain’t keeping you young/ touch me like you know me, baby when you’re lonely/ kiss me on my open mouth

- $20 by boygenius - It’s a bad idea and I’m all about it/ give me one more chance and then I finally had it/ when you wake up I’ll be gone again

- Coffee by beabadoobee - And I’ll make a cup of coffee with the right amount of sugar/ how you like it, how you like it/ don’t know how long I’ll stay for/ it’s ok, I’ll knock on your door/ won’t you come down and get me?

- Amoeba by Clairo - Aren’t you glad that you reside in a hell and in disguise?/ nobody yet everything, a pool to shed your memory

- Hit the Back by King Princess - And ain’t I the best you had?/ and I let you throw it down, hit the back/ tell me I need respect/ and you know that I’m around, I’m your pet

- Happy People by Joe P - Happy people always get it right/ we’d probably hurt ourselves if we tried

- I Like America & America Likes Me by The 1975 - I’m scared of dying, is that on fire?/ Am I a liar? I can’t be quiet/ I’m scared of dying, no gun required/ my skin is fire, so desired

- Graceland Too by Phoebe Bridgers - Said she knows she lived through it to get to this moment/ ate a sleeve of saltines on my floor/ and I knew that I would do anything you want me to/ I would do anything for you

- The Wire by HAIM - You know I’m bad at communication, it’s the hardest thing for me to do/ and it’s said it’s the most important part that relationships go through/ and I gave it all away just so I could say that/ well I know I know I know I know that you’re gonna be okay anyway

- I Know the End by Phoebe Bridgers - Somewhere in Germany, but I can’t place it/ man I hate this part of Texas/ close my eyes, fantasize/ three clicks and I’m home

[serraphique]

found andrew's favorite place to eat

[ninyard]

ur response to my vape question is so real… I agree andrew seems like the person to go cold turkey. also if he did vape YES he would be so obnoxious about it.

I guess I wasn’t thinking about him vaping to stop smoking but in conjunction to it…I was on the fence because that man does NOT care about just smoking inside so he probably doesn’t have a use for it… but I can also imagine him with a… how did u put it… blue razz elfbar at the exy banquet or inside edens. ESPECIALLY if while medicated.

now ooc but imagine andrew exclusively vaped and he always smelled like blue raspberry ice mint strawberry banana and neil is forced to replace the memory of his dead burning mother with… that

anyways thank u for listening to my brainrot. nicotine is uncool and I’m glad andreil are peacefully blowing bubbles on the roof now

“Neil Josten let his disposable vape glow until the light started flashing”

Andrew smelling like triple melon pineapple ice sour razz apple. Neil picking up his vape and saluting him.

I could see Andrew in some ways vaping some fruity stuff purely for the fact that he does have a sweet tooth. The foxes would be sitting on the bus during a long, through-the-night trip and somebody suddenly smells mango and Wymack just shouts ANDREW HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU TO STOP VAPING ON THE BUS

[inadvisablebutinevitable]

what time period accurate songs do you think jeremy would be listening to in tsc? 👀

Miss California by Dante Thomas

Anon I love you so much because you have no idea how much I ask this to myself on a regular basis. A couple weeks ago I was walking to work whilst brainstorming Jeremy Knox music headcanons and almost died to the tune of Believe by Cher while crossing the street. (Embarrassing, but also, what a way to go)

after changing my mind about 700 times, I decided that Jeremy, at least on a surface level, will dance/sing to literally any popular song with a good beat, (whether or not he actually sings the right lyrics is always 50/50) but he does love to sing. This comes from a tumblr post I saw like years ago saying that Jean takes a video of Jeremy singing Kylie Minogue’s “Your Disco Needs You” at 3am, and now that’s just canon Jeremy to me.

Jeremy was a kid in the 90s so TONS of 90s nostalgia stuff, all upbeat. Song 2, All star, What is love, Baby one more time, Tubthumping, all the catchy earworms he would hear on the radio and belt out as a kid. (It’s @kevinsdsy’s fault song 2 was the first on this list. The Jeremy Knox blur brainrot is real)

Jeremy, having heard these songs as a kid, knows all the lyrics just by memory. Even he doesn’t know about this until Cat plays Ricky Martin on her boombox and all of a sudden Jer is on the table with a solo cup microphone.

(“isn’t he only attracted to men?”Jean whispers to Cat as they watch Jeremy belt out ‘She Bangs’ in the most enthusiastic way possible.

“Honestly, l didn’t even think about that. I’m just pissed that they’re only playing the English version”, Cat whispers back)

Jeremy is also notorious for dancing to other team’s entrance songs when they walk on the court. The Breckenridge Jackals, for example, walk on court to Who Let the Dogs out, and Jer unironically uses that as pump up music. He aggressively nods his head to the beat of Let’s Get it Started when Penn State walks out. This leads to many (many) YouTube compilations titled something along the lines of “10 mins straight of Jeremy Knox shaking ass to his opponent’s anthems”

BUT also, privately, on his little 2006 iPod Mini (lol remember those), Jeremy listens to more alt rock (modern-day dad rock), like Muse, The Killers, Queens of The Stone Age etc… (this is based on a lighter version of the style of music Nora assigned to Andreil in the EC, and also my personal taste from that time period). I think it’s what he listens to on bad days, either bc he needs to drown out his depressing thoughts after seeing his family, or bc he isn’t quite mentally ready to fully process the insane truths Jean reveals on a day to day basis. Also days where he’s feeling more in-tune with his emotions and stuff.

anyway, I’m sorry, this got really long. I guess the tl;dr would be: imo, In TSC Jeremy loves to sing and dance to literally any popular 90s/early 00’s song bc that’s just who he is but privately on bad days he likes 2000’s alt rock.

[pieph0n]

TSC/AFTG Brainrot so real help

in honor of TSC release (bitches be taking the day off work to stay in and read [it's me I'm bitches])

I've been working on my Jean playlist (because that is my outlet for my hyperfixations [I have ones for Andreil/Neil/Andrew/Kevin and a Jeremy WIP as well help])

And I just wanted to share in case anyone else might wanna cry with me ToT

It's still being added to and I don't even know if any of this will feel true after TSC comes out but I'm putting my energy into the universe c,:

[broken-heart-raven-queen]

Este post va en español porque no se puede explicar su majestuosidad en inglés.

Yo estoy CONVENCIDA de que Andrew y Neil se refieren a los nenes (especialmente a los hijos de Aaron) como "criaturas" y todos los miran raris.

[void-and-virtue]

OP I LOVED UR ANDREIL POST GOING CRAZY THINKING ABOUT IT if you have anything else in that amazing brain of yours on this take please do share because i absolutely LOVED how you articulated this aspect about andreil. its something i particularily appreciate about their dynamic and relationship with anger and Their Issues TM. your post will cross my mind whenever ill think about it from now on.

I don’t think I have ever gotten an ask and this is kind of making me go insane??? I hope you know that you made my day and also, I’m so glad people share in my endless brainrot bc when it comes to this series and these characters I simply cannot stop

It really isn’t nearly talked about enough that the thing that got Andrew to actually look at Neil and become interested was (as cited by Neil himself at some point tho I can’t remember in which book that scene is from the top of my head) Neil’s bone-deep jealousy of Kevin. It’s—it ties into that whole epiphany that Neil has at some point, when he looks at Andrew and realizes that while he is hurtling towards his own breaking point and about to burn out and shatter into something he’s not sure he’d recognize if he survived the encounter, Andrew hit that point and broke from it years ago. And that’s an understanding that goes both ways between them—in a fucked up way, it feels like Andrew might be the future that Neil has waiting for him if he doesn’t end the year six feet under: hollow and drifting, passionless after everything he had to rip away from himself to be able to survive. At the same time, Neil probably reminds Andrew of how he used to be, back when he had hope for things only to have that hope rip him apart—which is exactly where Neil seems to be headed for the majority of the story.

I think that a lot of Andrew’s understanding of Neil comes from the fact that he knows intimately what it feels like to be caught between a rock and a hard place and cut his own lifeline, only to then fail to die on impact. Neil hasn’t had to resort to that yet, but he is hanging by a thread. You’d think that watching him struggle would only serve to drive it home for Andrew that he made the right choice in closing himself off, except… well. His expectations of life and the people in it are so bleak, it’s no wonder he finds himself drawn to Neil’s messy emotions and every unexpected show of spine like a moth to a flame.

Neil, for all of his issues and scars, can still feel things—can still want something so badly it defies all logic. Can want something with such visceral, fucked-up intensity that it resonates where it shouldn’t. It’s an ability that Andrew thinks he’s either lost or cut out of himself to stay somewhat safe, sane and alive a long time ago, but that remains as the most fundamental crack in the foundation of his being. It’s a fascination that seems to come out every time he’s sober and eventually ties into him wanting Neil—wanting something worth wanting and putting a name to it once he finds it. They look at each other and don’t want a watered-down version of the person in front of them. It creates a relationship that embraces issues big and small and accepts (even values!) the messy parts of being human. It means that any space shared between them immediately becomes safe once they settle into something comfortable together. The way they handle the uglier sides of each other’s personality honestly makes me feral because it’s always done with understanding and acceptance and they even find positives or comforts there that the other can’t see and that’s probably a reason for why 1) their chemistry is so off the charts and 2) their relationship is so damn healthy (in addition to their communication being stupidly good when it comes to each other).

Andrew wants something real and Neil wants to be real. And then they get to have exactly that.

[jeremysknoxes]

url change swift-of-corvids -> jeremysknoxes

intro post!!

hi, i go by calista but you can call me cali :) i go by she/her, and im a minor! im an aquarius and an intp, and im a ravenclaw. im a swiftie, and i listen to maisie peters, hozier , olivia rodrigo, conan gray, fall out boy, and twenty one pilots as well :)

previous urls @greekmyths-and-swifts, @swift-of-crows13 and @swift-of-corvids

mutuals if you want to, please ask for my discord in dms! (talk to me i need company)

art blog is @the-feathered-paintbrush side blog @cards-on-the-table (cant link it but its that also i rarely use it)

oh i love corvids by the way

fandoms im in (in no specific order)

six of crows /grishaverse

the raven cycle and the dreamer trilogy

secret shanghai

*sighs* shadowhunters (this fandom is a blessing and a curse) (the brainrot is brainrotting so hard)

the magnus archives and the magnus protocol CEASELESS WATCHERRR

merlin :D

all for the game (you know, i get it- *gunshot noises*)

the song of achilles

GOOD OMENS

dead boy detectives im so sudhudshsuhasi abt it atm

classic lit (wuthering heights, pride and prejudice, the picture of dorian gray)

shakespeare

probably more but i forgot

brainrotting over jonmartin, andreil, merthur, jerejean, gracetopher and thomastair at the moment send help

i held off on making this for so long because my pirating post is just way too useful for me so ill put a link here: pirating post

and thats all! hello nice to meet you!

random tagging system below the cut:

#cali says shit or #print.calishit - random things i wanna say #lord shit wotton -shitposts #all i really want is queue - queue (self explanatory) #oomen's eyeball - faves or #favs #say you'll remember me - things i wanna come back to or #hope i never lose you #where i pace in my pen - art, writing (mainly used in @this-could-either-break-my-heart) #cali's bookshelf - general book things! # i dont want the world i just want you - things that are not a want they r a need (also choosing an alec lightwood quote is so real of me)

#saves - saves

[six-of-snakes]

I'd just like to say that the Andreil brainrot is real and I'm being consumed

[pociondeodio]

re the ship poll: while reading tfc for the first time, I would’ve 100% agreed with you; nothing happens but somehow everything happens and it’s so bad. but after finishing the series…. oh uh. andreil brainrot is real. :D wouldn’t have thought the poll would go this way tbh, but then again they (…we) did manage to tie the character poll earlier too

jckdndkd it's your fault that we decided to read it.... you guys make so much great art and make them sound so cool that we thought the source material would be better 😭

[dayurno]

great thing that i‘m on my phone 24/7 cause now i can tell you immediately that ivy kandrew???? IVY KANDREW????? i think i am passing away right this second HELLOOOOOOO??????? this is it, this is the good shit, the angsty shit, this is what the people need, what the people want!!!!

in other news. illicit affairs kandrew before neil joins the foxes. just. think about it and suffer a little BUT ALSO renegade. it‘s giving so much kandrew. so, so much. just… is it insensitive for me to say get your shit together so i can love you????? the brainrot is real and i am not gonna do anything about it cause these two are like heroin for me

IVY IS SO BLATANTLY KANDREW. "whos the husband" riko is, and he wants whats only andrews btw

ILLICIT AFFAIRS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE ORIGINAL TITLE FOR TNOTG!!!!!!!! clearly i have thoughts and feelings about it. i think personally it fits kevineil a lot too ("tell your friends you're out for a run / you'll be flushed when you return")............ i feel like if evermore is a kandrew album then folklore really takes the kevineil cake (lover is andreil btw)!!!!

also also also. TIS THE DAMN SEASON..... post-canon kevin in the pros kandrew vibes..... (andrew jealousy pit minyard: if i wanted to know who you were hanging with while i was gone, i would have asked you) (kevin commitment issues day: we can call it even you can call me baby for the weekend) (the holidays linger like bad perfume, you can only run so far / i escaped it too, remember how you watched me leave?)

also a bit unrelated to kandrew hehe but closure to me is such an andrew song in relation to cass spears. its been a long time but seeing the shape of your name still spells out pain / it wasnt right, the way it all went down / looks like you know that now. when nora sakavic says cass sends him a letter later down the line and andrew never reads it. "yes, i got your letter / yes, i'm doing better / i know that its over, i dont need your closure" "dont treat me like some situation that needs to be handled / im fine with my spite, and my tears, and my beers and my candles / i can feel you smoothing me over"

just you know. andrew minyard man. fucked up little guy