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Thank you so much! I'm so excited to read it

Happy holidays :)

hi! @mascarasalocaso I’m your secret snowflake<3 I hope you enjoy!

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I think it's vital for Neil's characterisation that he does not know how insanely good he is at anything. In his mind he can either do the thing well enough and live, or he can't and he dies. It doesn't compute to him that most people couldn't sew themselves up with dental floss and vodka even if they tried. He doesn't see the grace with which he manipulates people as something evil-mastermindy, he's just checking off the correct dialogue tags like it's a videogame. He knows his physical skills and limits very accurately - over or underestimating himself would get him killed in a chase, and that's about the only area in which he knows his worth.

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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.