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Lifeline

Summary:

Amid the gloom and despair of the occupants of Edgar Allen's Nest, Kevin Day finds a lifeline--a reason to keep going, to keep breathing, and to work towards a life outside of the Nest--in an unexpected relationship.

A special thank you to @solelystarling for creating such lovely art to go alongside this fic and for coming up with this prompt! I'm really grateful to have been partnered with such a wonderful person this year!!!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kevin Day/Jean Moreau, Kevin Day/Exy Characters: Kevin Day, Jean Moreau, brief Riko Moriyama, a fleeting Nathaniel Wesninski Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Excessive Eye Contact, Hurt/Comfort, Pre-Canon, mending what once was broken, or at least putting a bandaid on it, Soft Kevin Day, Kevin Day-centric, Kevin Day is a Mess, Past Kevin Day/Jean Moreau, jean moreau having a gay panic, kevin day having a gay panic, Tender - Freeform, Tenderness, AFTG Reverse Big Bang 2025, AFTG RBB 2025, solelystarling, sorry folks this is just pining and promise-making, (and we all know how these promises go), angst/comfort/more angst

My contribution to the @aftgreverse big bang this year. I collaborated with the lovely @thornilee013, who wrote the amazing fic for this entry, go check that out if you thrive for angst

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writing is so fun

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Please Reblog is Your Blog is Safe for Non-Binary People.

If my mutuals can’t rb this then we can’t be mutuals

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WIP Wednesday 15th 'a January

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Sorry for such a long period of inactivity. Life happened, and a lot of it was deeply unpleasant, but things are finally looking up again.

On the menu for this week we haaaveee:

1. Pulling Through 2. Baby Jean 3. 101 Ways Not to Say I Do 4. Silly Little Jean Moreau Fic 5. TLC 6. Dealer's Choice (aka you get to be indecisive)

A snippet that I just wrote because I miscounted how many Pulling Through asks I'd received:

(prev)

Edna was right; once he got the motions down, he didn’t even need to think about what his hands were doing. The mechanicality of it all drew him in. He wasn’t speedy by any means, especially not in comparison to the others around him, but it was a welcome alternative to tapping his pens on a table. The click click click click of the needles was mildly irritating at first, but it eventually became just another background noise.

Thank you again to everyone who sent in asks the last time, and my apologies once more on how long it took me to get around to them.

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WIP Wednesday 15th 'a January

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Sorry for such a long period of inactivity. Life happened, and a lot of it was deeply unpleasant, but things are finally looking up again.

On the menu for this week we haaaveee:

1. Pulling Through 2. Baby Jean 3. 101 Ways Not to Say I Do 4. Silly Little Jean Moreau Fic 5. TLC 6. Dealer's Choice (aka you get to be indecisive)

A snippet that I just wrote because I miscounted how many Pulling Through asks I'd received:

(prev)

Edna was right; once he got the motions down, he didn’t even need to think about what his hands were doing. The mechanicality of it all drew him in. He wasn’t speedy by any means, especially not in comparison to the others around him, but it was a welcome alternative to tapping his pens on a table. The click click click click of the needles was mildly irritating at first, but it eventually became just another background noise.

Thank you again to everyone who sent in asks the last time, and my apologies once more on how long it took me to get around to them.

[thornilee013]

WIP Wednesday 15th 'a January

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Sorry for such a long period of inactivity. Life happened, and a lot of it was deeply unpleasant, but things are finally looking up again.

On the menu for this week we haaaveee:

1. Pulling Through 2. Baby Jean 3. 101 Ways Not to Say I Do 4. Silly Little Jean Moreau Fic 5. TLC 6. Dealer's Choice (aka you get to be indecisive)

A snippet that I just wrote because I miscounted how many Pulling Through asks I'd received:

(prev)

Edna was right; once he got the motions down, he didn’t even need to think about what his hands were doing. The mechanicality of it all drew him in. He wasn’t speedy by any means, especially not in comparison to the others around him, but it was a welcome alternative to tapping his pens on a table. The click click click click of the needles was mildly irritating at first, but it eventually became just another background noise.

Thank you again to everyone who sent in asks the last time, and my apologies once more on how long it took me to get around to them.

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HI YES SORRY GOT DISTRACTED BY BOOPS BUT PULLING BOOP

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“I’ve made a lot of mistakes myself,” she said with a chuckle. “That’s how I know how to tell when I’ve made another. I’m sure once you get the hang of it, you’ll be the speediest knitter out of all of us. It’s one of the best feelings in the world to be able to hardly even focus on what your hands are doing and know that you’re making more progress in fifteen minutes than you once made in a day.”

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I'd like some Pulling through too

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Regardless, he tucked the finished, shitty square of knotted yarn in his bag and began his work on his first real project. The notion of what he was supposed to do and what the needles wanted to do didn’t quite align, and he found himself frequently holding his project out to Edna in complete silence, only for her to take a look at his work and quickly diagnose the issue and explain how to fix it. 

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GIVE ME ANDREW KNITTING 👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁

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Edna handed him another ball of yarn and, after making sure he still remembered the pattern, helped him cast on enough stitches for another scarf. That time, she told him to keep repeating the pattern until the scarf felt like it would be long enough. Andrew thought of Betsy and tried to imagine how long she would need the scarf to be. Definitely longer than his first scarf. Maybe he could give that one to the cats, or they could use it as a coaster.

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Pull through pull through pull through!!!

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He was Andrew Minyard. Simply put, he didn't make things. He was supposed to lash out and be violent and destroy everything in his way.

Proof of the fact that the very opposite was true sat in his hands, abundant in imperfections and yet existing nonetheless.

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FINALLY DEALER'S BOOP

prev | Baby Jean | WW 30.10.2024

She was usually a woman made of hard lines and soft edges, but the level of wistfulness in her voice was only ever present when she reminisced on a memory that had taken her years, if not decades, to extract the pain from. In other words, Jean knew that the story had to be good. 

“Something on your mind, Mamie?”

Whatever memory she’d been recounting faded from the forefront of her mind, and with clearer eyes, she shook her head, her smile still present but falling. “Nothing you need concern yourself with, dear.”

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CAN I ALSO GET BOOPY JEAN?

prev | Baby Jean | WW 30.10.2024

“So I shouldn’t mention the bruise I have on my leg from when Amélie kicked me in the middle of the night?” Jean grumbled.

“That would make them feel guilty, don’t you think?” his grandmother asked, leaning across the counter in Jean’s direction. There was a softness in her voice that hinted to a larger, unspoken story or memory, and Jean desperately wanted to hear all of it.

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HEYA LEE!!! Hru <33

May I request some babie jean ??👀👀

prev | Baby Jean | WW 30.10.2024

“Camille, Amélie,” Jean began, “I haven’t been able to sleep very well lately. My bed isn’t big enough for all three of us to sleep in it every night, and lately I’ve been too warm to be comfortable. I can still read you stories before bed, but I need to read them to you in your own beds from now on, okay?” 

His grandmother’s wrinkled lips thinned into a smile. “Much better.”

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And dealers choice for extra measure 🫵

prev | Baby Jean | WW 30.10.2024

His sigh turned into a groan as he peeled himself off of the countertop and sat up, properly. Back straight, his hands in his lap, his expression as controlled and manicured as the fancy but boring garden at the Parc Borély. His grandmother was fond of scolding him for how he carried himself, to the point that he could hear her mantra in the back of his mind without her needing to draw a single breath: You must hold yourself with the same respect you expect others to give you, for if you do not respect yourself, no one else ever will.

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And Baby Jean 💜

prev | Baby Jean | WW 30.10.2024

Although his grandmother clearly had to stifle a laugh, she managed to school her expression into one of moderate concern. “A young boy of a stature such as yourself should have a much higher self esteem than that,” she said, raising an eyebrow.  “Now. Give it another shot.”

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Baby Jean 🥺

prev | Baby Jean | WW 30.10.2024

Jean pouted and kicked his feet back and forth under the counter. He tried again, his voice little more than a grumble: “Could you go back to your own room? Please?” 

“No no no, not quite. I think you'll find a good approach soon, though. I believe in you, Jean,” his grandmother said.

“I don't,” Jean said.

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