#Neil josten demisexual

[yourleftpinkytoe-blog]

Me when people dismiss Neil’s canonical sexuality just cause they want him to fuck every male character in the series:

[floretissogay]

everyone: which way do you swing?

neil: ...towards the goal?

[froggisarethebest]

wishing my demisexual king neil fucking josten a good asexual awareness week. i hope he continues to obsess over andrew’s capable shoulders and the way the sunlight reflects on his hair casting golden halos around him like something out of a fucking baroque painting. go shine king

[denkit0ri]

demiromantic neil josten i did for the #ABpride2024

[fortheloveofexy]

my contribution to the @aftgpridezine 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ happy pride month everyone!!

[notacluedo]

jean and neil 🤨💅

[chaoticas-hell]

Neil being demi is actually so important I will fight people on this. It fits his character so perfectly and I get upset when people erase his ace-ness just my demi king live his demi life

[little2nerdy]

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.

[artofalyksandr]

Happy Asexual Awareness Week to Neil Josten specifically

Also small gay disaster Andrew

[fridayswewearorange]

I'm here to remind you that Andrew is biblically buffed and hot as hell, thank you for coming to my ted talk

[orionchildofhades]

for pride month I'd like to reinforce the following idea

demi sexual Neil Josten 🤝 demi romantic Andrew Minyard

[bisexualchaosdemon]

This came to me in a dream

[timdrakemybeloved]

PSA: NEIL JOSTEN IS DEMISEXUAL. NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK YOU READ THE ONLY PERSON HE WAS INTERESTED IN IS ANDREW. KISSING GIRLS DOES NOT MAKE HIM BISEXUAL BECAUSE HE DID NOT FEEL ATTRACTION FOR THEM. SHIP WHATEVER YOU WANT I GUESS BUT DON’T BE ACEPHOBIC AND ACT LIKE HE WAS ATTRACTED TO WHOEVER YOU SHIP HIM WITH IN CANON. OR LIKE HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATION IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE HE KISSED A GIRL.

[shouts-into-the-void]

Just gonna say it:

A lot of AFTG fans' insistence on erasing Neil's demisexuality while shooting down any argument against it with "but it's my headcanon!1!" or "he shows attraction to women in the books!!" (he doesn't) while not doing this to any of the other characters with canon sexualities (Andrew, Nicky, Jean, Jeremy, Cat, Laila) is acephobic

Also in the book, because apparently some of you misread this bit, is that he kissed a couple girls while on the run and was not into it. Kissing people does not inherently signify attraction, and he pretty clearly says he found doing so awkward and uncomfortable until Andrew. He also clearly states he only had an interest in girls because he knew other guys his age were attracted to them and wanted to know what the hype was about.

Neil is confirmed to be demisexual by the author, and literally says in the books that he's not suddenly sexually or romantically attracted to other people just because he's attracted to Andrew (there is literally a whole scene about it).

Neil is not gay because he's attracted to a man, he's not bisexual because he's kissed both boys and girls. He's demisexual because he only experiences actual attraction for people he's formed a deep emotional bond with, and that just so happens to be a guy.

[that-vampire-loser]

Headcanon that Neil is touching Andrew at any opportunity (with permission, of course)

Sitting in Andrew’s lap at Eden’s

A hand on Andrew’s thigh underneath the table at sweeties

Laying his head on Andrew’s shoulder during bus rides

Sitting on opposite sides of their couch with their feet tangled together

Sitting between Andrew’s legs on the floor during movie nights with the upperclassmen with his head resting on Andrew’s thigh

Sitting with his legs sprawled over Andrew’s when they’re in the Fox lounge

Holding hands on the center console of the car

Or having Andrew rest his hand on Neil’s thigh when they’re in the car

Laying his head in Andrew’s lap at any time since he knows Andrew likes playing with his hair

Laying his head on Andrew’s chest when they’re sleeping

Having Andrew sleeping practically on top of him on the couch

Holding his hand whenever he can

Basically Andreil just being in love, and neither of them are afraid to show it

[s-exy-sapphillean]

Just saying but this too is erasure of neil's demisexuality

Yes there is a level of obliviousness leading up to neil's realization that he's into andrew, but that still only started after a build up of a bond between them.

Stop trying to find ways to twist his experience into something allo. Stop equating his first moments of trusting & developing a bond with anyone outside of his mother to catching feelings. This was the start of the groundwork necessary for neil to be able to develop feelings, not the the moment he started developing feelings.