#aftg boys poll

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish - The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard - All For The Game by Nora Sakavic

[twokisses]

please reblog for a bigger sample!!!

very curious about the tumblr culture surrounding this

[sharkszone]

Made this for friends, but figured you guys would enjoy too

[leapingthroughworlds]

at first i genuinely thought it was one of those *know your mutuals* sort of things but then i was like oh i do hope any of that ever happened to anyone tho??

[evenfallwriter]

WIP WARRIORS | FANDOM FREE BINGO EDITION [AFTG]

all of these are pretty much andreil, only the last two are kevandreil.

feel free to ask me about any of them! I will most likely do one more of the exact same poll after this one ends.

(links/au explanation underneath)

little oasis sequel [mom bee & abby - andreil different first meeting au]

andrew and neil meet much earlier than canon, in the spear household. (abby and bee end up taking both boys under their roofs)

misfortune of the fortunate [fortune/chaos au]

in a world where humans are separated according to their core energy's- neil happens to belong to the rarest group out of all five of them, a child of fortune. joining the foxes, a group that consists mostly of children of chaos and darkness is pretty much suicide- but knowing that he will die sooner rather than later, it's easy to decide that he want's to try living till his time finally runs out. it isn't his fault that exy is the only thing that makes him feel alive- neither is it his fault that the foxes are his best bet at that point.

bared teeth stained with blood [spy au]

neil is a hacker known as black rabbit and ends up working with the foxes a spy agency who are searching for the nephew of the stuart hatford heir.

promises better not kept [esper & guide au]

neil is an esper that has only ever known the lab in which he lives in, andrew is a guide that has stopped living the day that he entered the lab. the two young boys, who are so very different and yet alike at once, come to care for each other the longer they know one another.

teach me how to be a fox [memory loss au]

nathaniel wesninski, former raven, was killed by the butcher at the age of 14 before his father died right after him. after an accident, neil josten wakes up in the hospital without any of his memories, a man named erik being the only contact on his phone. erik klose, who soon enough becomes takes him in and gives him a place to stay. (neil is adopted by the klose family)

more than just a pipedream [soulmates au]

everyone had different marks left on their soul by their other half, something that bound the two souls to one another. and nathaniel, he had his dreams.

[transmigrator au - kevandreil]

transmigration fic

[normal au & trans neil josten au]

an au in which neil is simply a boy from millport arizona, who has a shitty father and whose mother ran away when he was young. he still ends up with the foxes.

[coach neil josten au & single foster parent andrew au - kevandreil]

kevin an ex-exy player that is rising once again after a tragic 'accident' that took place during his high-school years. andrew is a cat-cafe owner (a cafe that was left to him by his foster parents that adopted him after a while) and a criminology graduate who has recently decided to foster a kid. neil is a coach that teaches kids how to play exy, who started off as an assistant coach at charlie hernandez' side and took over after the man retired.

[bloody-wonder]

Hello, can I ask from this ask game :

https://www.tumblr.com/threecheersforinking/677824836625694720/anime-ask-game?source=share

You can pick for either of these series : the lymond chronicles, all for the game, a song of ice and fire, harry potter, captive prince?

Thanks 🌻

thanks for the ask!

⚔️the lymond chronicles⚔️

favorite character: phelim o'liamroe, prince of barrow and lord of the slieve bloom...😐🤥 jk it's lymond - the man, the myth, the lemon. i mean if lymond isn't your fave character in the lymond chronicles are you even reading them right?

character i think is underrated: hmmm margaret lennox? i don't see people talk about her too often. justice for the evil ex!

character i think is overrated: philippa. don't even get me started🙄

favorite ship/pairing: while reading i did ship lymond with each and every one of his boytoys which was very entertaining but i wouldn't actually like any of these relationships to be endgame. i firmly believe lymond is bisexual, aromantic and non-monogamous, therefore the only person i would want him to "end up with" is marthe - not as a slash ship but as in lymond and marthe, both in drag, ride into the sunset together to cause chaos and mayhem✨

favorite arc/episode/scene: the hume castle shebacle from book one is my platonic ideal of a fictional experience. just thinking about don luis fernando de cordoba y avila with his "long, exquisite legs" and his perfecto scottish is enough to raise my mood for the rest of the day😁

something i love about this series: tbh the thing i love the most is lymond to the point that i'm afraid to try dunnett's other books bc there will be no lymond in them. however, i will still read them sooner or later bc my second favorite thing about the lymond chronicles is dunnett's witty but sophisticated prose which i'm sure i will find in abundance in her other works

🥍all for the game🥍

favorite character: i love both of my boys equally but i will admit i voted for andrew minyard in that best queer character poll bracket🙈

character i think is underrated: actually i don't think there is one. some of the aftg characters are controversial but i think everyone gets their fair share of love and attention🤷‍♀️

character i think is overrated: in the og trilogy it's nicky and in tsc it's sort of everyone?😅 lol i just don't think they're that interesting but i'm glad other people are having fun with them

favorite ship/pairing: andreil, obviously.

favorite arc/episode/scene: aftg is full of amazing scenes, both quiet and spectacular, but if i have to pick just one i'm gonna go with the first riko roast bc fun fact: i actually abandoned tfc halfway through the first time i tried to read it bc i just didn't know what to do with it - but then i decided to give it a second chance and the riko roast was the scene where i finally comprehended and internalized the chaotic but rebellious vibe of aftg. that's why i never dnf books - you never know which weird selfpub sports anime might become your all time favorite story!

something i love about this series: the way it depicts the relations between the society and people who are treated like outsiders due to their trauma - it always sides with the latter! exemplified by how the team needs andrew and so they have to put up with his little quirks and find ways of communication - instead of him making himself act more normal and agreeable in order to fit in. which i think is pretty much the status quo of writing about trauma so aftg feels very radical in that sense

👑captive prince👑

favorite character: it's laurent, lymond's baby cousin😅

character i think is underrated: aimeric? tbh i haven't read anything capri related in a while, maybe he's the newest fandom fave by now

character i think is overrated: never have i ever understood why everyone insists on resurrecting auguste. he dead! and not that interesting in any case😒

favorite ship/pairing: damen/laurent, since their love is the whole point of the series, but i will say for me it's more like. i'm obsessed with laurent and so i like that damen gets obsessed with him too and falls in love with him bc that's what laurent deserves. however i do not actually like damen nor do i like the final jump from enemies to lovers in the second half of book 3 soooo yeah. many caveats🤷‍♀️

favorite arc/episode/scene: laurent's duel with govart. listen, i'm a simple girl, i love me some competence porn and power fantasies with swords. also! laurent calling out aimeric for all the bad things he secretly believes about himself which leads to aimeric's suicide. that's some fucked up shit, love it👀

something i love about this series: the witty, backhanded, at times scathing exchanges which i started calling pacatesque dialogue upon encountering it in other books (of primarily australian sff authors who are personally acquainted with pacat, it's a whole thing). i know other booklr girlies like to talk about themes and motifs and whatnot but for me all of that is vastly inferior to lines like "tell my uncle boykiller etc etc". i think i just have lots of bottled up bitchiness inside me and like to live vicariously through characters who can vocalize it in such a brutal yet elegant fashion

🐉a song of ice and fire🐉

favorite character: tyrion lannister. lol at this point you can see a pattern: if he's shrewd, traumatized and blonde you can safely bet he's on my blorbo shelf😅

character i think is underrated: i'm gonna go with doran martell. he represents one of my favorite character archetypes - someone who is seen as a simpleton and a pushover but has actually been scheming and masterminding stuff all along. "oberyn was ever the viper. i was the grass. who fears to walk upon the grass? but it is the grass that hides the viper" - is actually one of my favorite quotes from the series. comparing book doran to show doran one can see how he's sort of emblematic for how the show butchered the dorne plotline😒

character i think is overrated: i did like sansa's journey in the books but they end just on the cusp of her turning from a pawn into one of the most capable and dangerous players on the board - something she however hasn't become, not yet. so i think the hype she gets in the fandom, largely based on the show which skipped a lot of steps in her character arc and made her a very basic girlboss, is somewhat undeserved🤷‍♀️

favorite ship/pairing: i definitely feel a certain kind of way about jaime & brienne but idk if i ship them in the proper sense of the word. their developing relationship is probably the most compelling in the series and some of its aspects are very personal for me as a weird looking ace girl, among other things, so i don't think i want them to become a *couple*. but i do want them to become *something*. if they survive, that is😬

favorite arc/episode/scene: tyrion's trial is one of the most excruciating and heart-wrenching yet dramatic scenes i've ever experienced. i have to admit i remember it better from the show bc that was just Peak Television and peter dinklage's acting?? unparalleled. a scene so epic it made me cry every time i watched it. just thinking about it gives me chills🫨

something i love about this series: i've spent an ungodly amount of time thinking about what makes asoiaf superior to other fantasy series and the character work and complex morality are certainly up there but the one thing that speaks to me personally and which i struggle to find elsewhere is something i call the slytherclaw ethos. normally the characters of western sff are rewarded by the narrative for being brave, kind, other boring gryffinpuff things, regardless of whether they could've *realistically* prevailed thanks to those qualities alone. in the world of asoiaf one is instead rewarded for cunning and ambition - or at the very least it's clear a character will not get anywhere without learning how to play the game of thrones. this difference is at the core of the subversiveness asoiaf gets both praised and criticized for and, as someone who relates to characters who rely on their brain more than their heart and other muscles and would like to see them elevated above generic fantasy protags, i find this approach to storytelling in general and to sff specifically very appealing

[evenfallwriter]

WIP WARRIORS #2 | ORGANISED BY FFB [AFTG]

all of these are pretty much andreil, only the last time travel is kevandreil (the foxes time travel fic might end up andreil or kevandreil, haven't really decided just yet)

feel free to ask me about any of them! I will most likely do one more of the exact same poll after this one ends.

(links/au explanation underneath)

night's filled with hot choco and peach tea [andreil different first meeting au]

andrew and neil meet much earlier than canon, in the spear household. (abby and bee end up taking both boys under their roofs)

misfortune of the fortunate [fortune/chaos au]

in a world where humans put into different classes based on their core's, nathaniel is a child of dusk, the rarest class. joining the foxes, a group made out of mostly those of night and dawn, is a death wish for someone like him. yet he still takes his chances, knowing that the foxes are his best bet at playing exy for a while longer, to knowing what it means to be alive.

promises better left unkept [esper & guide au]

in a world where espers and guides exist, nathaniel and andrew, an esper that has never seen the sun and a guide that has never known what it means to hope or to trust, meet in evermore facilities for the first time as kids.

t&n fic [for the 'then and never' event]

fic that is being written for the then and never event, hosted by @ aftgtandn

let bygones be bygones [presumed dead nathaniel au]

nathaniel is both the best and the worst thing that has ever been given to mary and nathan, is the one to get injured as he tries to protect his brother and is left to watch strapped to the medical bed as jean and kevin leave the nest. the first time that he allows himself to act selfish is when he joins the foxes.

till forever falls apart  [dead neil & foxes time travel au]

neil dies in baltimore, alone and bleeding, crawling in a desperate attempt to get to his foxes. the foxes, who grieve him when they get the news of this death, who mourn him and miss him for years. his foxes, who one day wake up in the past, days before neil joins the line up, and swear to protect the redhead who had changed their lives for the better, no matter what.

[the martian au]

in a world where the moriyama empire nor the name that the butcher makes for himself exists, neil finds himself meeting a young boy, matt, on the rooftop who dreams of things much bigger than both of them. those dreams soon end up becoming neil's too. their dreams save the both of them, and give them a much better future surrounded by those who are similar to them in different ways

[apocalypse/time travel au - kevandreil]

neil josten is the last man standing at the end of the world, no one but him and the zombies that surround him. when he finally closes his eyes, he wakes up days before the end and finds himself running to save those that he loves this time around. (also highschool au)

[evenfallwriter]

WIP WARRIORS #2 | ORGANISED BY FFB [AFTG] (2)

all of these are pretty much andreil, only the last time travel is kevandreil (the foxes time travel fic might end up andreil or kevandreil, haven't really decided just yet)

feel free to ask me about any of them! I will most likely do one more of the exact same poll after this one ends.

(links/au explanation underneath)

also, decided on making two polls instead of one this time around, one of them that ends in a day and the other in a week.

night's filled with hot choco and peach tea [andreil different first meeting au]

andrew and neil meet much earlier than canon, in the spear household. (abby and bee end up taking both boys under their roofs)

misfortune of the fortunate [fortune/chaos au]

in a world where humans put into different classes based on their core's, nathaniel is a child of dusk, the rarest class. joining the foxes, a group made out of mostly those of night and dawn, is a death wish for someone like him. yet he still takes his chances, knowing that the foxes are his best bet at playing exy for a while longer, to knowing what it means to be alive.

promises better left unkept [esper & guide au]

in a world where espers and guides exist, nathaniel and andrew, an esper that has never seen the sun and a guide that has never known what it means to hope or to trust, meet in evermore facilities for the first time as kids.

t&n fic [for the 'then and never' event]

fic that is being written for the then and never event, hosted by @ aftgtandn

let bygones be bygones [presumed dead nathaniel au]

nathaniel is both the best and the worst thing that has ever been given to mary and nathan, is the one to get injured as he tries to protect his brother and is left to watch strapped to the medical bed as jean and kevin leave the nest. the first time that he allows himself to act selfish is when he joins the foxes.

till forever falls apart  [dead neil & foxes time travel au]

neil dies in baltimore, alone and bleeding, crawling in a desperate attempt to get to his foxes. the foxes, who grieve him when they get the news of this death, who mourn him and miss him for years. his foxes, who one day wake up in the past, days before neil joins the line up, and swear to protect the redhead who had changed their lives for the better, no matter what.

[the martian au]

in a world where the moriyama empire nor the name that the butcher makes for himself exists, neil finds himself meeting a young boy, matt, on the rooftop who dreams of things much bigger than both of them. those dreams soon end up becoming neil's too. their dreams save the both of them, and give them a much better future surrounded by those who are similar to them in different ways

[apocalypse/time travel au - kevandreil]

neil josten is the last man standing at the end of the world, no one but him and the zombies that surround him. when he finally closes his eyes, he wakes up days before the end and finds himself running to save those that he loves this time around. (also highschool au)