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happy birthday to my demi chaos child Neil Abram Josten. I love you

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I got a phone call from the police station about my teenage llama this week, telling me some tourists had called them upon seeing a llama crossing the road, who “stopped when she saw us” and “refused to give way” (their complaint in French sounded amazingly traffic-related, “elle n’a pas cédé le passage”…) The policeman told them yeah that’s our Pampe! don’t worry about it she’s living her life, you can try to pet her but she’s shy with strangers… Imagine calling the police about a llama refusing to abide by basic road rules and being told haha that’s our girl! Give her a pat for me! Pampérigouste, you are very annoying and very loved.

I started following that road looking for her, occasionally calling her with my special I Come Bearing Muesli whistle (and it was a lie), and as soon as I got mobile reception I received a text from a neighbour telling me “Ton affreuse est là” (“your horrible one is here”). I turned around to go pick her up, and discovered that he had locked her in the Horny Bull Pen, aka his most securised enclosure. When Pampe escapes to his farm just to be a pest she usually hangs out with his cows until I arrive and he doesn’t mind, so it was a little joke, and it was so funny finding Pampe languishing in a high-security prison. She looked very put out and I told her she absolutely deserved her sentence. Then I opened the gate and I didn’t even need my rope, she was happy to be pardoned and to see Pandolf, and followed us readily, on the road and then through the woods to my farm, it felt so companionable, the three of us walking home together.

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Rb if you want all the hcs people have about you in your inbox

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100% agreed.

i know people like to joke that andrew keeps giving in to what neil asks of him because he has a crush and can't say no to neil or whatever and while that's all in good fun, personally i'm not very fond of that idea

1) because i don't like the implications that andrew not being able to say no to neil have about andrew's agency. it's important to him and he holds onto that dearly, doles out his yeses and noes very carefully because he wasn't able to do so for so long. so the idea that andrew cannot help but give in to neil (and because neil's attractive) isn't appealing to me in any way

2) to me, it cheapens the sentiment and importance of andrew only ever saying yes to a select number of people—people who have already proven themselves to him that they would listen and respect his boundaries. like wymack at times and betsy most times probably. and neil most of all. these people earned that trust from andrew, neil earned that trust. it didn't just grow overnight

3) this is probably not completely related to the books but i never really liked the notion of romantic attachment being associated with helplessness (eg. "can't help falling in love" or "helpless to it" or something along those lines). because while feelings oftentimes cannot be controlled (only actions), the basis of any relationship for me is choice. andrew chose to protect and be with neil, neil chose to stay and be with andrew. andreil chose to trust one another with themselves and their truths

4) the main driving force of andrew saying yes to neil isn't some magic trick or whaveter it is that the other characters seem to think neil does to make andrew give in but understanding. neil understands how andrew operates and rolls with it instead of simply imposing himself or his wants on andrew. so while he does push and prod at andrew sometimes, he also gets that he has to be willing to give something up in exchange in order for andrew to agree to what's being asked of him

so yeah. idk where i'm going with this tbh, but here's my two cents about that popular interpretation/trend

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there’s got to be at least one trans woman named eve out there whose deadname is adam. and she’s the funniest person to ever grace this earth with her presence.

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here’s a list of things that are funny-

1)Donald Trump’s hair

2)Donald Trump

3) comedians

4)my non existant love life

5)memes

^) and loads of other things

BUT do you know what’s not fucking funny? like really it has absolutely zero percent of humor in it?

Russia trying to evade Ukraine, there’s nothing funny or even slightly humorous about it.

It’s not something like “ Your eyes are suddenly blue what happens next will shock you” that you can make a fucking pov video of (they were highly fucking annoying in the first place)

let me clarify,

PEOPLE.( yes living breathing people like you yes you who is reading this) WILL DIE. THEY WILL LOOSE THEIR HOMES, THEIR FAMILIES, get it?

or do I have to explain what Death, being homeless and a loss of family member means? I hope ur not that much of an idiot but who am I kidding ur making a joke about it of course you’re that MUCH of an idiot.

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imagine being andrew minyard during/after baltimore

your boyfriends just been fucking kidnapped

your boyfriends been kidnapped and you missed the goodbye he gave you and he left his fucking bag behind so that you’d know he didn’t want to leave willingly

you’ve got a sort of ok idea of what his past is like

you fucking choke out your best friend sort of and you find out the shit is so so much worse than you thought

and you cant do shit

like you’re literally screwed you can’t do anything about this even if you really fucking want to

(because lets be real- andrew would’ve gone after neil, the foxes probably had to lock him into a room after he figured out what happened)

and then he comes back??

he’s fucking torn to shreds and burned to shit and you’re handcuffed to your fucking coach so you’ve got one hand to figure out what you’re working with

and like? all you can see when you take the bandages off and see the fucking shit that happened, is that you couldn’t keep him safe

you don’t feel regret because it’s useless but you do feel angry as all hell

you won’t let the godsdamned nurse near your boyfriend because he’s yours and the idea of letting whats yours get worse?

absolute hell

like dude

absolute fucking hell you can’t let fucking anyone near him

and the fbi guys ?? just try to take him from you even though he’s yours to protect even if that deals been broken

you get to go with because neil won’t talk without you but honestly that might be even worse because damn

you have to sit through him describing in painful fucking detail the shit that happened to him

all the people that hurt him

all the pain he’s dealt with

and you have to sit there and listen to him describe how he knew what was going to happen when he went with them

he knew he was going to fucking die and was willing to do it without any fucking deals to anyone

he was going to die and he just left without asking for any help

to keep you safe

how do you even recover from that man

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If i see one more American joking about a war breaking out, I'm just gonna fucking dropkick them out the window.

It's easy to joke around when you're all the way on the other side of the globe isn't it? Well. It's much less fun when you're in direct proximity of Ukraine.

"oh it's just jokes" then where's the punchline. Where does the funny start bc i don't see it. Please tell me.

"it's a way of coping" YOU'RE IN AMERICA.

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Was anybody going to tell me Neil and Andrew hold hands and sit in each other’s lap and get two cats and an apartment together and they tell each other “stay” and “welcome home”, that they join the same pro team bc they’re a “package deal”, that they don’t celebrate anniversaries bc why put a unit of time on something immeasurable, something that will last forever, and that they know they’re never going to leave each other, that they never CAN leave each other, and they communicate well which is ironic considering Neil used to lie to Andrew with every second breath and Andrew falls asleep every night facing Neil so when he wakes up from nightmares all he has to do is open his eyes to know everything is going to be ok or did I just have to find that out from the authors tumblr myself??

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alex claremont-diaz and henry fox — a playlist

thinking about history makes me wonder how i’ll fit into it one day, i guess. and you too. i kinda wish people still wrote like that. history, huh? bet we could make some. (insp.)

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My pieces for the AFTG Reverse Big Bang 2022 @aftgreverse in collaboration with my writer @andthenthefirenationattacked

These are for the fic You can’t take the sky from me by attfna on AO3

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Heartbeat

“We have forty-six hours to the concert and this kid really has the balls to be late,” Kevin says out loud to no one in particular, annoyance sharpening his tone.

He paces in the middle of the room, the worn carpet of wearing out further under the soles of his shoes. He comes to a stop near Andrew, huffing out a breath and leaning against the lone desk in the room, which Andrew is perched on.

Andrew turns to him and blows out a smoky breath right in his face. Kevin’s eyebrows scrunch together as he flaps a hand in front in his face to disperse the smoke.

“Are you sure he has the right time?” Aaron asks again. His feet are propped up against the same desk, those black shoes too close to Andrew’s ass for his comfort.

“Yes, he does,” Kevin insists. “I told him myself.”

“I bet he backed out,” Aaron says. “Coward.”

Andrew thinks back to the phone call from yesterday, the undertone of fierce longing in the voice on the line and thinks no. This is not a case of cowardice.

This is a case of not seeming desperate.

“I bet he’s already here,” Andrew tells the other three members of The Monsters, and watches the expressions of outrage, surprise and doubt unfold across their faces.

To be fair, though, this exchange was born of desperation alone, from both parties. The Monsters needed a drummer, and this Neil Josten, whoever he was, clearly got something remarkable from this too.

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its so fucking fucked up I learnt about the WW3 STARTING FROM A FUCKING MEME.

I fucking hate IG

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IKR!!!!!

i REALLY WANNA GO ON A RANT ABOUT IT ON HERE BUT MY TIME HERE IS LIMITED BUT YOU ARE ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY CORECT

to put it simply, demigod children of the big three should have a power threshold that makes them eldritch horrors to all other demigods, and that’s that on that

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Hate to be that person, but WW3 trend on TikTok is not funny at all, especially your stupid POVs. Because no, Jessica from Chicago, you won’t have to hide in the basement to avoid being nuked and no, Kyle from LA, you won’t get drafted to the front lines. 

You again missed the whole point and managed to make this situation all about yourself, so I’m going to assure your stupid ass - this war is not going to affect you in any way, but you know who it’s going to affect? Actual people from Ukraine, who are going to lose their lives and be displaced from their homes, just like for the past 8 years. 

So congratulations on your stupidity, because it’s not about “I need a way to cope 🥺🥺🥺”, it’s about you celebrating and making fun of other people’s death.