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that quote in tdt when ronan admits to sometimes sleeping at adam's floor drives me insane, i'm not kidding. he's like oh i could be sleeping in my bed, like i usually do because i have a house(ish), or in my car, because i'm crazy, or at my dear friend's floor; ha! did i not mention before that i crash there sometimes even though i have a perfeclty good mattress? well, sorry about that, won't mention it again, though! no explanation whatsoever!

especially because isn't that the key to what makes the series narrative style so incredible! we have unreliable narrators not because they intend to be unreliable but because their entire lives are built on secrets they keep from themselves! truths about themselves they won't admit! and in this particular moment we can see so clearly how ronan tries so hard not to think about this, not to speak about whatever it is he feels for adam. he tries so hard that he doesn't even pause to think about the reasons why he crashes at adam's sometimes (how often??), it's such a tangible thing that he can't just entirely whip it from his conscious thoughts but he's trying so hard not to let it linger, not to name it, not to pinpoint it...... god he's so insane and repressed and i love him and he drives Me insane.

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so happy for u guys that ur horrible little evil sports book series keeps getting more and more books. really wish right abt now that trc had some sequels. some more of those would be cool. but no yeah I'm really really so happy for u guys. wish u all the best and i hope that guy kevin is like. winning or whatever

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maggie stiefvater was right!!!!!! wake up!!! the world will collapse without art!!!! dreamers will fall asleep and the world will fall asleep and magic will fall asleep but we can do something!!!! make something!!! paint something, see something, weave something, write something, draw something, play something!!!!!! do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive!!!!!!!! care about something so hard that it hurts!!!!! there is still time!!!!!

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andreil rkgk 🦊🚬

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(,,>﹏<,,)☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ locked them in

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trb declan wouldve killed greywaren epilogue declan with hammers

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crying in high res

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Gideon & Harrow - The Locked Tomb series

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fast and furious at the parking lot 🛒💖‼️

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Adam’s first time coming back from uni 

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the dreamer’s dreamland 🌾

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it's autumn, time to reread trc <3

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Can you imagine how Andrew felt getting back from rehab? He’s just been through months of withdrawal and repeated trauma, but this is par for the course for him. This is what he does. He takes the brutality to protect his loved ones from it. And he gets back to find that the guy he had a crush on, who he thinks is a side effect of the drugs, walked into a torture dungeon for two weeks to try and save him from getting more hurt? No one in Andrew’s life had ever fought for him like that before. No one had tried to protect him before. Andrew knows how scared Neil is of Riko. But Neil went anyways. How heartbreaking must it have been for Andrew to finally experience being cared for?

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Put ‘em up 🙌

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October this year means costumes!! One of my fav times of year in general, so it’s another set of two stickers that will go out to my sticker club, the star tier on patreon 💕 anyone that joins in October will get one, even if you join only for that month and then leave again! Also ships international ☺️

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"Don't be so afraid to die," Andrew said to Neil during that car ride from the airport.

"Be a bit afraid to die," Andrew muttered to himself, while looking for Neil after that game in Binghamton.

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now that we canonically know that andrew hated people knowing about the assault and abuse he went through as a child, now that we know he sees it as something that will make his family lose faith in him and view him as weak, I wonder if part of his "hatred" for neil is that neil knows all of this ugly history, put himself in harm's way to protect andrew from more abuse, and still views him as this strong and steadfast person. in andrew's mind, it seems pretty black and white - he is either the protector or the victim. he spent so long building this identity as a protector, but his abuse coming to light means he is now a victim. so for neil to see him as a protector but also believe he deserves protecting as well, it shakes something pretty foundational in andrew's world view, which we know he never takes well. there are many reasons andrew hates neil, but this makes for a very interesting development.

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Neil strikes me as the kind of person that just like doesn’t blush. Like yeah sure he may get embarrassed a little at the Foxes’ dropped jaws when yet another pop culture reference flys over his head, but he’s so desensitized to things most people can’t fathom that I feel like he would never get flustered enough for his skin to flush.

But. Maybe it does happen sometimes.

Like when Neil complains that he feels like his feet are gonna fall off after night practice and Andrew just. picks him up. Bridal style with a deadpan face and bored eyes like he picks Neil up all the time. And Neil’s face goes red in seconds because he’s never been picked up and it was Andrew doing the picking up.

Or when Andrew shampoos his hair in the shower and takes great care not to get any shampoo in his eyes and Neil pinks at the sweetness that Andrew will deny later.

Or when Andrew insists on Neil actually using the curling gel Allison got him because his frizzy curls extend “a mile off his head”. Neil blushes when Andrew comes into the bathroom with him (cause he knows fuck all about taking care of his hair) and stares while he applies fumbles with the gel.

TLDR, I like the idea that Andrew is the only one that can truly fluster Neil and Neil is the only one who can fluster turn Andrew’s ears slightly red in turn.