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when someone mentions not liking when book characters don't communicate I just think about what we, the tsc Fandom, had to face and overcome during all of these years.

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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Everything I say is stupid and every thought I have is dumb and I’m way too much and not enough and I’m sorry, and

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Taylor Swifts new album has me ready to break up with the boyfriend I don’t have

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“Neil pauses at the door of Andrew’s old bedroom. He hovers at the doorknob on his way downstairs. They hadn’t been back here since the day they moved out – Kevin and Aaron’s drama started almost immediately, and they’d been preoccupied. His heart warms as he takes in the sight of the bedroom. Clearly, no one has been in here since they left. A few old, tattered books still occupy the small bookshelf, takeout menu’s litter the desk along with a few of Andrew’s old high school textbooks that he, for some reason, never got around to disposing of. Neil walks over to the tiny closet to find a pair of his old running shoes on the floor, abandoned hangers decorating the rail. The bed is empty and soft-looking. It looks appealing, still made and adorned with the fabric of Andrew’s old comforter, cosy and worn.

This room feels straight out of Neil’s memory. Small, warm, theirs. A place where their nothing was the only thing that mattered.”

- The One Where Everyone Finds Out, Chapter 4

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“He hears Andrew scoff on the other side of the line. “My PR agent just called; SPORTS UNLIMITED wants to know if they can use the picture Kevin tweeted last night on the cover of their upcoming issue. They’re running a segment on you two for some unknowable reason. Also – I do not want to deal with this.”

“Hold on,” Aaron says as he logs back into his Twitter, begrudgingly. Nicky is quiet, so Aaron assumes that he hasn’t seen the picture as yet either. “Also, how is your PR agent even involved in any of this?’

“Also also, why do you even have a PR agent when you refuse to talk to literally everyone?” Nicky adds. He’s not wrong. Andrew doesn’t really need a PR agent. Neil needs a PR agent.

“Probably because I’m in the picture too and because you don’t have a PR agent and we have the same face – now what they should have done is contacted Kevin’s agent, but he’s kind of an arsehole who is dealing with a lot right now I assume he told them to shove it. Also, you may need to get your own PR agent.”

Aaron finally bypasses all the (still active) notifications and finds Kevin's tweet from 13 hours ago. It’s a picture that Aaron doesn’t immediately recognize, of both Aaron and Andrew, just like Andrew had said. It was taken from a few paces behind them and features the twins engaged in conversation – heads slightly turned towards each other – walking together through the village market near the stadium.

The factor that intrigued SPORTS UNLIMITED was undoubtedly their attire. Both twins are sporting exy merchandise of rival teams. Andrew is wearing his own team shirt – probably his own uniform since they seem to be on their way to one of Andrew’s games. It’s his Knights shirt with their surname and the number 3 on the back in clear, white letters.

Aaron, however, is wearing Kevin’s merchandise. The Wyoming Wolves shirt – the team Kevin used to play for, at the time – with the name Day and the number 2 in black letters. It wasn’t actually Kevin’s own shirt, just merchandise.

Aaron admits that in light of recent events, it’s a cute picture. But the true story isn’t even a romantic one. Aaron isn’t wearing Kevin’s number to be cute; he’s wearing Kevin’s number to be a shithead to Andrew – it’s become a sort of tradition.

Since they’d graduated and Andrew and Kevin had both gone pro on rival teams, Aaron had found himself attending their games whenever he was free. He obviously supported them and wanted them to win, but – that’s boring. The first time he’d done it, it was to annoy Andrew – Andrew didn’t care, but Neil got annoyed, so it was still a win-win situation. Aaron had worn his Kevin Day Wolves shirt to a knights game when the Knights weren’t even playing the wolves. He thought it was funny, and even if Andrew didn’t give a shit – pissing Neil off is always a good pastime.

The next game he’d attended was one of Kevin’s, and he wondered if he could get the same rise out of Kevin he’d got out of Neil. The Wolves were playing the Panthers, and Aaron showed up in a Knights shirt with Minyard 3 on his back.

It became a fun game, wearing Andrew’s shirt to Kevin’s games and Kevin’s shirt to Andrew’s. Finally, the Wolves and Knights played each other, and the Foxes had placed bets on what Aaron’s move would be. Choose between Kevin and Andrew, finally? Normal attire? Wolves merch in the first half and Knights merch when Andrew finally shows up in the second half?

Aaron had worn his own Foxes, Minyard 5, shirt to that game, and every game Andrew and Kevin played each other in future.

“I do not need a PR agent,” Aaron finally says. “I did not get as far away from exy as I could, and go to fucking medical school, to be on the cover of a sports magazine,” “that’s the type of thing you should tell your PR agent,” Andrew advises.

-Chapter 3, The One Where Everyone Finds Out

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I love that Neil is rich it's just so fucking unhinged

the foxes: oh no, raven fans crashed our cars!

allison and neil: so buy new ones?

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The one book series I'd never recommend but also never shut up about? It's sort of like a cult.

Aftg is such a trip because like. The timing is objectively off. It's better that way. It's badly written but actually no it's not. Here's a whole new sport. We lied, its just lacrosse in a silly hat. Trauma galore. By all known laws of book tropes, the main couple should be toxic as hell. They're too cagey and paranoid and possessive not to be. But the main couple, not caring about trope law, creates the healthiest relationship ever written anyways. It's problematic as fuck. It's the best series ever. It's completely unrecommendable. It's gay, but not how you think it'll be in the first book. You'll hate it the first time you read it. Six months later you'll have a whole blog for it.

Aftg isn't a book, it's a fucking experience.

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I'm going to save Camelot but I'm going to roll my eyes while doing it

I like how even when Arthur's life is literally being threatened, he's still being a brat about it. The all-powerful keeper of the unicorns tells him the rules to a test that could make or break his entire kingdom and he's all "What kind of a ridiculous test is that!?!? What does that prove" and then makes this face

Like this is why people wanna kill you babe

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So I've just started reading Sword Catcher today and I'm REALLY enjoying it, but I just realized that this entire time I've been envisioning 'The Ragpicker King' as Kaz Brekker and now I can't change my mental image of him

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"I've never kissed you in the library. Think of all the places we could have kissed if we'd figured this out sooner."

"If you'd figured it out sooner..."

I could argue with him, tease him, return his serve. But I don't want to. I push him back against a bookshelf and kiss him some more. My hands are on his waist. I can feel his skin, cool through his cotton shirt.

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This is so true and Neil josten

Fuck personality quizzes who do you think of when I say Neil

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This is my fav Shep quote!

Inktober Day 08 ⁘ Toad

He flashes a smile at me, pulling his arm away and sliding it into his jacket. “I’m going to miss your lamenting, Penelope Bunce. And your derision. And the way you occasionally threaten to turn me into a frog. Will you threaten me by text every once in a while? So I know you’re doing okay?”

–Any Way The Wind Blows, @rainbowrowell

Love that Penny brings up the topic of turning someone into a toad frog in all three of the books.

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This is their song now

No more keeping score, now I just keep you warm.

No more tug of war, now I just know there's more.

This song was made for them BTW

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Bazzy's little braids >>>

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Is it just me or is Lacy (Olivia Rodrigo) Snowbazcore?

Like I can just picture Baz's dramatic emo ass playing it on violin, thinking of Simon.