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i don’t think we realize how groundbreaking the kevin and jean interview is going to be. like. imagine if you’re the fan of literally the most famous collegiate exy team ever and everything is normal normal and then all of a sudden these two are like “yeah it was a cult and also. the yakuza” i feel like most raven fans would just drop dead.

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“Daddy I want to be like him when I grow up!!”

Browning just start crying

Headcanon that Agent Browning has an exy-obsessed kid who thinks Neil Josten is the coolest thing since sliced bread and won’t shut up about him

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Aaron is stronger than me bc I’d point out that Andrew was a sugar baby during any argument no matter how small/petty

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Yeah so if the twins got their jobs at eden’s twilight when they were 16 years old (max 17, because Andrew got on his meds at 17), that means that when Andrew and Roland, a full grown adult, started hooking up Andrew was still underage. I mean yeah it was consensual, but still…

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I don’t understand how people got over the fact that Neil once said to himself “desperation is a valuable lubricant” while wiggling out of a tight window.

Because I’m sure as hell not. I don’t think I’ll ever get over it.

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 I love powerpoint night things lol i thought id try my hand

Matt: aw no big deal man

Allison: wdym places youve slept??

Nicky: do we finally get to know all the countries youve lived in?? omg

Neil: um

Nicky: oh

Aaron: wtf where else would you sleep

Kevin: is that andrews bed

Dan: i feel like that ranking is a little high but whatever

Allison: why is that chair in the woods

Neil: ok next slide

Andrew: nice

Renee: oh it is a nice view

Aaron: how tf did you get up there

Matt: WHY did you get up there

Allison: how does that have a 6/10 neil how low are your standards

Andrew: pretty low

Nicky: what

Neil: oh yeah that one was a hassle

Nicky: ALMOST FELL??

Neil: woops

Aaron: smells like what

Andrew: junkie

Kevin: that is not what a locker room is for

Dan: whose locker room is that??

Dan: ON A? ON A TRUCK???

Matt: how did you even get up there?

Renee: actually thats really impressive

Neil: thanks :)

Nicky: we're not gonna talk about the 'almost fell' again? or the 'yelled at'?

Andrew: whats to talk about

Nicky: no comment

Dan: i think we need to start considering the possibility that neil has superpowers

Kevin: climbing trees is childsplay

Allison: yeah but sleeping in them?? without falling??

Nicky: its important to note that this one does not say 'almost fell'

Neil: i was surprisingly secure

Matt: wdym 'kind of obvious'

Neil: when you see someone sleeping in a tree thats pretty suspicious

Andrew: have you met yourself

Neil: and i try not to draw attention to myself, yknow father and mafia and all

Andrew: have you met yourself

Allison: not surprised about the beef with squirrels tho

Renee: neil when did you get good at climbing

Neil: its a talent

Aaron: surprisingly high rating again, are we sure neil knows how rating works

Allison: EW YOU SLEPT THERE?

Nicky: neil...honey...

Neil: it was one time guys

Dan: at least this is the worst one right neil

Neil:

Dan: right neil?

Nicky: i am very concerned for you neil

Aaron: how tf do you even manage that

Renee: we're not gonna talk about the fact that he passed out ??

Dan: this rating i can understand at least

Allison: no. no this is where i draw the line

Kevin: this and not the stairs or the alley?

Nicky: its the fact that this is rated higher than either of those for me

Matt: your lack of self preservation skills still astounds me

Neil: try before you deny

Aaron: fuck no

Neil: coward

Renee: well wasnt that just a great presentation guys

Dan: neil please have a sleepover with us

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Ship dynamics are always like Sunshine and Sunshine protector~ Cinnamon roll and their grumpy one 🤗 Well what about 2 cunts. They're both cunts and that's the dynamic. cunt4cunt.

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Wymack collecting mafia kids like they’re pokemon cards 😭

"I know why you think you have to go back to Evermore, and I know what's waiting for you there. I will burn this house down before I let him touch you again."

Guys. I love Wymack so much.

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i imagine that when andreil get into a another petty argument andrew offers to make it up by taking Neil to a secret date and he takes him to a baseball match😭✨ knowing Neil's hatred of baseball and Neil would just either walk out or just straight up goes home and throws away Andrews candy like jean did 😭

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Very excited to see what colourful insults Jean has in store for us in the golden raven.

And will one beat “aside from an astounding murder charge, there was nothing interesting about that fox (aaron)”

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i love how fucking freely neil gives his money and how drastically the use of it changed from start to end of the book. like giving away 100$ for a cop out on telling the truth and giving the same guy you were avoiding a stack wad of cash to a buy a cool car a few months later is just. like. maybe the real treasure was the sugar daddy we made along the way.

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*Jean having the worst fucking day of his life*

Neil: Take a couple minutes to breathe Jean you’ve had a rough day. I’ll buy you some time and go antagonise the FBI agents!

Jean: Neil NO!

Neil: Neil yes.

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Yeah, you read that right, I convinced my university to let me research All for the Game for my degree!

Take the (anonymous) questionnaire here!

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i don’t think people realize how well neil’s demisexuality is written. you can see his emotional connection to andrew change and grow as he learns andrew’s motivations and boundaires long before you can see his attraction to andrew appear.

i think the best example is how neil describes andrew in tkm. he never really thinks about it in detail at all and then all of a sudden “andrew looked as he always had, and neil knew his face as well as he knew every iteration of his own. despite that, something seemed different. maybe it was the sunlight streaming through the window, making andrew’s pale hair shine brighter and his hazel eyes seem almost gold. whatever it was, it was disorienting.”

demisexuality sometimes feels like a switch gets flipped out of nowhere. and andrew flipped neil’s switch because neil trusted him. trust and safety and boundary respect was literally the turn on.

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Kevin likes Jeremy and Jean and feels like he's cheating on Andrew and Neil. He's single tho

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I can just picture Andrew coming back to the dorm one night after a very long night practice with Kevin and Neil and being so annoyed and over it that they are still and always talking about fucking stickball and all night he’s been thinking about what chocolate bar he’s gonna eat before bed (does he feels more caramilk? Reese? Kit kat?) and when they finally, FINALLY comes back he open the candy drawer,

And it’s empty.

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fic idea where aaron gets knocked around at a game and gets amnesia. when people are allowed to see him andrew is the first one inside and the nurse is like "oh, this must be the twin brother." and aaron blinks up at andrew and smiles, no resentment or hurt or shame in his eyes, expression open and trusting because he hears 'twin brother' and thinks 'of course we love each other.'

andrew doesn't know what to do with a brother who doesn't hate him.