#some andrew content :)

[g4rdensofb4bylon]

y'all remember when dante wrote a fanfiction of the bible and then hozier wrote a fanfiction of said fanfiction?? iconic if you ask me

[graveposting]

had to make these...

[bolotosd]

I may or may not have an oral fixation🧍‍♂️

[somequicknewmusic]

I'd lower the world in a flood / Or better yet I'd cause a drought.

[foxstens]

so when will we talk about how robin literally takes kevin's place

[coffee-system-uwu]

It takes alot for Andrew to blush. Most of the time Neil noticed that when Andrew's embarrassed he clenches his jaw and just looks away. So clearly, Neil made it his personal mission to make Andrew bright red.

It started with a kiss on the cheek in public, then, Neil initiated hand holding for once. No reaction. Nothing. The same stoic indifference as ever, despite the reciprocation.

One day, in their dorm, they were watching a movie together and Neil got another idea. Andrew wasn't big on initiating not sexual touch, but he didn't hate it, right?

"Yes or no?"

Andrew stared at him for awhile, probably trying to figure out the motive for the question, but nodded his head.

"Yes."

Neil slowly shifted and placed his legs across Andrew's lap, and leaned into him, holding one of his hands in both of his. The affect was slow. Neil could see him process the change, and slowly turn red, not the cherry red Neil was aiming for, but a light pink blush.

Neil smiled at him, and when Andrew realized he was being stared at, he pushed Neil's face back towards the TV and swatted one of his hands. But he didn't let go.

[phoenix--flying]

i love seeing videos of the actors and turning it into a scene for the characters

[tigerbears]

Homestuck Spoilers Out of Context.

[purpleshadow-star]

Here's a reminder that ANDREW DOES HEAL AND LEARN TO FEEL. Nora never said that Andrew never heals or that he doesn't get less apathetic. She said the opposite, actually. If you don't like the extra content, that's fine, but please actually read it before deciding to spread the incorrect assumptions people have made up about it. Just because Andrew never gets to the point where he smiles and laughs all the time doesn't mean he doesn't heal.

(Also, Nora never said Andrew never smiles, just that it's hard to imagine, and if he did, it'd be with only Neil around)

[if-you-built-yourself-a-myth]

*deep sigh* can anyone give me some Andriel-and-the-Foxes-going-Court fic recs? Or do I have to write it myself?

[be-queer-do-arson]

Controversial aftg take: the extra content was more good than bad.

Don't get me wrong, there are a few things from the extra content I absolutely hate. For the most part though? So good. We get canon answers for the most obscure shit, like nicky's taste in music and which fox's kid would curse first and andrew's exact subway order, for gods sake. We get robin and andriel learning russian and dan taking over the foxes after wymack retires.

There were a handful of things we all clearly disagree with, but I also think we should acknowledge that there's way more good stuff in there than just sir and king, you know?

[spider-stark]

so like… what if we all just… get together… and write chronicle fan fiction????

it’s a good idea i promise

[siriusblackisdead]

The foxes ice skating

Neil

While Neil’s skating abilities are NOT olympic-worthy, his balance is unbelievably strong and thanks to that he would be able to skate good enough for the other foxes to ask him where he learned it.

He would enjoy it SO much that the foxes decided to go to the nearest ice rink every weekend during winter, which made Kevin have about fifteen temper tantrums (not like anyone cared much) about how they had to be preparing for the championships and how much of a stupid thing ice skating was (he just couldn’t stay in a vertical position on the ice for more than 30 seconds). They still went every Saturday tho.

Neil would also make the most out of pocket “jokes” (trauma dumping) such as ‘well skating is surely easier than having to run and drive a car with a knife in the stomach being followed by the people of your murderous serial killer father’ or when he would fall and someone would ask him if he was okay he would be like ‘oh yeah it definitely hurts less than that time when my father decided to burn my skin off with a flatiron’. The foxes would be terrified. Andrew would sigh every time (he loves his boyfriend so much)

Andrew

He would not like the ice but he likes Neil so he’d end up on the ice anyway

His skating abilities are not a total disaster but since he’s a little scared of losing his balance he is not very stable, so they always hold hands with Neil (they act like it’s purely of romantic reasons but 80% of it is just Andrew holding onto Neil for dear life)

He would always wear a green hat Neil had bought him (Kevin and Nicky would find it oh so amusing until Andrew colored half of their wardrobe green while they were on a training (there is no way Neil had helped him not at all)

Kevin

A fucking TERRIBLE skater. Every time he would step on ice it would be a fight for life and for the first time in his life he would NOT be winning. The foxes would give him so much shit for it and he would hate it (but he would still go because he would see Neil smiling and being happy and careless and Kevin would love to see that boy finally happy that he just couldn’t NOT go)

Aaron

Aaron would not like skating but would have to put up with it because if he didn’t he would be the only one left out (Katelyn made him)

He would hold hands with Katelyn and hold onto her for support just like Neil and Andrew and when they find out they are both furious. Neil and Katelyn find it hilarious.

He would try to trip Kevin (every time he would manage to stay standing for the shortest moment at least) and would mostly success, even though in the end he would most of the time fall with him as well (Katelyn somehow manages to let go of his hand every time (such bad luck isn’t it) (now for real she is a little devil and enjoys seeing Aaron fall. There is just something so funny about him cursing in both English and German as he tries to find out which leg is his and which is Kevin’s. She still helps him stand up (mostly))

Nicky

He would be actually so good at it but he would be so scared of falling that he would refuse to let go of the glasses at the sides of the rink for the first few times

Then Allison would grow tired of it and would take Nicky’s skating into her hands

It would be an exhausting and traumatizing experience but in the end he would be able to stand on the ice like a decent human being and after an hour or so he would remember everything he learned in Germany with Erik (Allison would be pretty angry when she found out he already knew how to skate and was just a ‘scared little whining child’ as she called him)

After that he would be some of the best ones among the foxes

Matt & Dan

I believe that when Matt was still living with his mother, he was playing hockey as a hobby and he actually used to love it so much until his father decided to fuck him up and he left the hockey team

So he would be good at it and he and Dan would make the biggest power couple out there since Matt used to go skating sometimes in his free time after leaving his father and would teach Dan how to play hockey, which she found just as interesting as Matt and enjoyed it just the same.

They would be those people who you are afraid to step on a same rink with, scared of being ran over by their speed (they never ran anyone over tho (or not by accident))

Allison

When she was little her parents made her train as a professional ice skater and she would show off her abilities as much as she could (no way she was trying to amaze Renee no it wouldn’t be that no way)

She would be able to do every spin known to man but could not jump for the sake of her life which made her furious (especially because of Jean)

She would try to teach Dan some steps but would soon give up and help Renne stand instead

Renee

She would be actually quite good for standing on ice the first time in her life

Like it would not be perfect but she could at least stand alone and wouldn’t need to hold Allison’s hand the whole time (Allison totally mocks Andrew and Aaron about it every time they meet. “You both are SO lame just look at my fucking wife and see how it’s supposed to be done, like in a year or so she could go to the Olympics while you both will still be here falling on your asses every time Katelyn or Neil let go of you, so pathetic…” and Renne would smile and blush every time)

She would be the one person that would help you stand up every time you fall (even Kevin) but would trip Aaron only because she can (he would never find out it was her and that’s the best part about it all)

Jean

Because yes I’m totally counting Jean in he would go with them argue with the wall

He would be the BEST ice skater ever seen to man

That man could go to Olympics the next Monday and win and do one would be surprised

Before he was sent (sold) to the Moriyamas he was training to be an ice skater and he loved everything about it. He planned a whole future, decided that he would go pro one day and did everything to achieve that (only to get that dream destroyed by exy (he actually hated exy first because of that but grew fond of after accepting the fact that his ice skating dream was never going to happen)

He would be SO good at jumps and would do them as if they were nothing and would grin at Allison every time he effortlessly did one (she would curse at him every time and have a smaller temper tantrum and Andrew would start joking about how she is starting to turn into another Kevin)

He would also teach is boyfriend (Jeremy) and after a few weeks of watching Kevin die again every week he would try and teach the bastard too, which finally strengthened up their friendship (and saved Kevin)

[kevingayimeanday]

My absolute favourite piece of discourse started by the extra content is whether or not Andrew smiles again. Nora says no, however, he’s fictional and whatever happens after the end of the series is just headcanon, regardless of whether or not it’s the author saying it.

Anyway, my not so hot take is that a lot of people (myself included) relate to Andrew. Whether we’re survivors of csa, former/current foster kids or just struggle with mental health in general, a lot of people in the aftg fandom get it and have been in a (maybe not quite so) dark place like Andrew. Part of what makes Andrew fabulous, despite all his horrible actions, is his ending. He’s got Neil, a family, a future and he’s a massive symbol of hope for those of us who relate. So, I think he does learn to smile again, even if it’s a decade later. Because I want to keep that hope that things do get better and it’s possible to heal. It might not be realistic, but neither is anything that happens in the series. One day I want to be happy too, and if I want to project the idea of healing and having a happy family and a good support system onto a five foot tall fictional man I will.

[john-laurens]

John Laurens's black regiment plan may or may not have been known by Andrew Pebbles, a black private from Virginia who noted Laurens's death in his 1818 pension application. On the day before his discharge, Pebbles, who had been wounded in the shoulder, hand, and stomach at Eutaw Springs, participated in the action that spelled the young Laurens's demise. Pebbles noted that Laurens had replaced another officer, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee, who had gone home to get married. The black man did not know that Laurens disobeyed orders when he led his men against a British foraging unit. He did not mention that in a last futile attempt at glory, young Laurens had put his men's lives on the line. Indeed, three men died, two on the field and one later on from his wounds. Thirty-six years later, when Pebbles recounted his revolutionary service for the court, this African American veteran's wife and child were still enslaved. The entangled stories of blacks and whites are evident in the case of the Laurenses and Andrew Pebbles. As a free black soldier, Pebbles personified John Laurens's aspirations. The old veteran's family situation, on the other hand, reflected Henry Laurens's failure to make his private convictions a reality in his lifetime.

From Standing in Their Own Light: African American Patriots in the American Revolution by Judith L. Van Buskirk

[axoltex]

i drew my silly little josephine