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can you imagine if aaron and katelyn fostered though

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can you imagine if aaron and katelyn fostered though

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It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?

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one thing about me is i LOVE outsider pov neil josten. maybe even more than his pov. never has any protagonist ever manic-pixie-dream-girled the way outsider pov neil josten manic-pixie-dream-girled. he's a little insane and feral and unpredictable and has a pretty face and a mysterious past and mafia connections. everyone fucking bends over backwards for him. he's just so ineffable.

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Imagine being Stuart Hatford and thinking for the better part of a decade your sister and her son are dead. Your god damn sister.

And then you learn - surprise! - they were not dead, they were just lying low, but then your sister actually dies and her son's idea of "lying low" is playing college stickball on national television and pissing off both the FBI and the Japanese mafia. Then you finally kill your nephew's psychopath father and reconnect with him only to figure out he's a package deal:

He comes with a murderous boyfriend (because, apparently, in the time he was on the fucking run, a college athlete, and evading the Yakuza's wrath he managed to get one of those) and a traumatized French Boy

You and the traumatized French Bond bond over dead sisters

It all comes full circle

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memories (?)

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Jeremy Knox is an English major. He shows up at the airport to pick up a new team member in a bright red sweatshirt and golden shorts, with a yo-yo and wired earbuds. “A little honesty? That’s just a mite bit hecked up,” he tells this new team member. He’s captain of the second-best Exy team, and second only to a college run by the mob. He dyes his hair blond, then relaxes enough to let his roots grow out. He’s adopted a cardboard golden retriever, now a de facto member of the household. He likes ceramics class. When he takes his new housemate shopping, he’ll be damned if he puts him in black and red, but if that’s what he feels safest in, Jeremy would back his decision wholeheartedly.

Jeremy Knox is an English major. “Speaking of playing around,” he says, fishing out a board game—“shall we see what kind of trouble we can get into?”

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girls dorm bathroom before the banquet !

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Sometimes tweeter people know their stuff- this is the right kind of toxic angst I want to read.

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I understand why andrew believed neil was a hallucination because what do you mean neil told him "you spend all this time watching our backs, who's watching yours? don't say you are because you and I both know you take shit care of yourself" ???

can you imagine how it felt hearing this for andrew, who has always been the one protecting people and has been called a monster countless times for being so unforgiving and ruthless when it comes to protecting his family?

andrew has never had anyone in his corner, he spent his entire life feeling completely and utterly alone. he is fine if his brother and his cousin hate him as long as they are safe. HE is the one who protects people not the other way around. and suddenly there is this menace of a boy, fiery temper and piercing blue eyes, who not only doesn't treat andrew like a monster but goes to great length to keep him safe, even if it means getting himself hurt.

the only person who has come close to understanding andrew is renee but she doesn't fully understand him, you know? and then this runaway boy comes into his life and can somehow basically read his mind and soul and tells him shit like "I think it's better this way, with you as the last line of defense. you let us run ourselves into the ground and clean up behind us. you play the game like you play life. that's why you're so good at it." and andrew is supposed to believe that this guy is real?

it's no wonder why andrew's mind can't process neil's existence honestly, he embodies everything andrew never had but always longed for : someone to lean on, someone who believes and respects him, someone who actually listens and understands him, someone who loves him unconditionally

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Kevin & Jean

That one scene in TSC

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Renee walker!

Redrew her because i wasn't too proud of my first interpretation of her

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btw dating sucks as a concept.

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hello 👁️👁️ maybe you can draw kandrew hug? platonic or no is up to you!

for details of that's okay: I don't think they are huggers so maybe andrew hugs kevin to soothe him? when he's crying? 🥺 love you🧚🏼

it's barely a hug but he's here for him

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For Seth, I imagine the story stops when he does. If you’d rather he continue to narrate as a ghost, imagine that.

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I just think part of why Kevin reacted so strongly to learning that Neil was Nathaniel was because Neil gave his game to Kevin at Kevin’s request—Kevin chose him and flew to Millport to convince him and committed to working with him until he was great and asked Neil to give him his game.

And then, at the banquet, he learns that Neil Josten is Nathaniel Wesninski, and that changes everything, not just because Nathaniel is supposed to be dead or because that future is dissolving in the face of Riko’s rage, but because Kevin knows better than anyone except maybe Jean what it means for the Moriyamas to own your game, knows how inescapable it is, and if Neil is Nathaniel, that means that when Kevin took Neil’s game, Kevin was stepping into that, and for the second year in a row, taking something that belonged to the Moriyamas.

And that’s why the scene between Kevin and Neil in the Foxhole Court after the banquet is one of my favorite scenes in the series: Kevin barely has hope for his own future, and he knows that he at least is a rung above Neil on the ladder. He’s mourning Neil’s potential, the future he had planned for Neil—had planned for them. But, in a move which I personally think is one of the most underrated moments of Kevin defying the Moriyamas in the series, because it isn’t as public as some others, when Neil asks “will you teach me?” still responds “every night.” Once he’s accepted that he won’t be able to get Neil to run, he steps back up and follows through on the promise he made at the beginning of it all. He doesn’t just stand by Neil in his defiance, he steps into it with him. He takes Neil’s game, even though he knows that, in the eyes of the people he is most afraid of, it is not his to take, and teaches Neil every night to craft it into the best thing it can be.

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The Golden Raven

I've been thinking about drawing this ever since Nora mentioned that this would be the name of the second book. I'm happy that I finally got around to drawing it, but Jean is in my head more than ever (not that that's a problem).