#andrew rants

[the-grave-of-andrew]

Nothing like some pre-teen paranoia to get your heart racing.

Designs are based on pesudo-memories

[andrew-the-lego-maniac-mandrew]

I DESPISE, modern day media discussion especially when it comes to romance plots. Just a few years ago, if an author spent the whole story hinting at the main boy and girl charaters being in love and didn't have them get together at the end. Everyone would agree, that it was lame, and pointless, and bad writing. But, NOW? You get a billion self proclaimed "media literacy gods" jumping you for accusing the author of such a thing and gaslighting you into thinking it was "deep and subversive storytelling about how the girl/boy gets over their crush!" When there were absolutely 0 scenes where this happens or is even hinted at being a theme. All of it is just cope done to try and absolve writers for weak storytelling decisions and it annoys me.

[timaeusterrored]

I miss talking about Samurai:((

[kylesgarrick]

maybe i need to post another fic again cus why am i my own biggest fan😭💀

[feverdreamsandlucidnightmares]

Honestly if the situation was less dire 24 year old Renee Walker watching her 19 year old best friend be horrendously down bad for the new 19 18 year old asshole striker would have a lot of comedic potential. You know he’s furious about his crush. In denial. Renee sure as shit knows. Wymack knows. Kevin is tired as hell and trying to domesticate Neil like a feral cat.

[thatcrimsonsun]

[bisexualchaosdemon]

Thinking about Andrew Minyard becoming a household name once he joins the pros. Thinking about him defying every single person who thought he would never amount to anything. Thinking about him spending his whole life being tossed aside as worthless, only to become Andrew Minyard, best goalkeeper in the NEL and Olympic gold medalist.

[the-grave-of-andrew]

Here's 2 of the 3, the 3rd one hid behind a bunch of boxes in our shed and we couldnt get it out without moving a bunch. We think these 2 are both boys.

Andy and I are now proud kitten parents oh my god

[quotes-and-recs]

There's a special kind of ecstasy I feel when I read an Andrew Joseph White book and his protag unapologetically talks about the horrors of being a woman (without pulling any punches), and talks about the horrors of being a woman when a woman is not what you are

[stankrhodes]

need people to expand their understanding of hozier’s music beyond the fact that they’re love songs. not only are the songs he writes love songs but they’re songs of revolution, of faith, devotion, and most importantly, of anticolonialism.

[the-grave-of-andrew]

Time for leisuring

Been a while since I've posted art. I've been really busy but Leyley commissioned this piece and I had time finally to make it.

[luvingsolace]

Can I be honest for a second?

So many people open up a conversation about the fetishization Nico and Will are subjected to in the fandom and they make absolutely no effort to build a logical or serious one.

The fetishization of queer people in media is a serious thing and I believe it deserves to have a serious conversation about it.

I hate when all those people do to prove that Nico isn’t an “emo femboy” is just listing all the badass things Nico did in the books, as if of course he wouldn’t be able to do any of those if he was in fact femenine. He wouldn’t be able to survive tartarus, to kill Bryce Lawrence or to kick anyone ass if he was femenine because of course to people femenine=emotional=fragile=weak. I’m tired of this type of conversations. Nico isn’t an “uwu gay boy” because he survived tartarus, because he’s strong or because he killed Bryce Lawrence and not even because he’s the ghost king. He isn’t an “uwu gay boy” because he ISNT. Listing all the tough things he did in the books doesn’t make him more masculine or shit, you are literally just perpetuating the idea that femeninity equals weakness and need for protection.

Not to mention, perpetuating this idea when you are trying to have a conversation literally ABOUT queer fetishization, which ALSO includes that VERY SAME type of idea, makes the whole thing even more insane.

The modus operandi of completely erasing the fragility and sweetness that Nico’s character HAS only for the sake of making him as tough and strong and masculine as possible as a way to “counterattack “the fetishization is absolutely bullshit.

Again: nico ISNT an extremely feminine guy, but that has NO CORRELATION to the fact that he’s a badass.

Nico is a very tough guy and went thru a lot, but he’s still a genuinely sweet guy, and to assume that portraiting that part of him = femenization is just stupid, not to mention a disservice to his character.

This being said, I’m no way even remotely suggesting that the fetishization isn’t happening, or that it’s not wrong. Both Nico and Will ARE fetishized in this fandom, but if you wanna have a conversation about it, instead of perpetuating stupid and old ideals, you could talk about the fandoms need to always pin point roles on characters, which often stems from heteronormativity (especially seeing the correlation that has with the sexual roles)! You could talk about how there’s always this association between femininity and need for protection! there are may things to be said about this, what I’m trying to say is that it is a serious conversation, and it’s an important one to have, but it is also important to be mindful about some things we say.

[timaeusterrored]

Sorry for lack of posts during pride month, my drivers test is Saturday and it’s been tearing me up so bad I’ve been feeling nauseous

Hopefully will be back to regularly scheduled programming soon😭

[kylesgarrick]

lowkey might js end it this shits insane wtf

[d4rkshad0w]

knowing Neil loves taking about exy and him knowing Kevin was talking about it with the rest of the team yet Neil chose to go to the back of the bus to sit with Andrew after Kevin told him to go back and argued with him and yet the Foxes acted surprised when Andreil came out

[thatcrimsonsun]

Nora Sakavic did NOT need to have the covers of deeply-traumatizing-mafia-based-every-trigger-warning-possible-containing book series look like children's coloring book😭😭😭