#betsy the cat

[foxesscramble]

Could you do another social media post where it’s Neil Andrew and the foxes posting various things about Andreil’s cats? I feel like Matt would love them and would want to steal them, and anyone who says anything rude about the cats would be met with a “only I can insult my children” reply from Andrew

oh ABSOLUTELY

a series of instagram posts about sir and king

[hyperboleigh91]

I think everyone and their cousin wants Jean to get a service dog. And agreed. Nora, we're begging you to give Jean a service dog!

--------

I think Kevin or Neil will ask Betsy to take a trip to California to help Jean, and Neil will send whatever cash he has left with instructions "use for Jean (and don't ask where it came from)." She gets to California and decides that Jean needs a constant companion that can offer him comfort, especially when he's not feeling safe around humans, so she uses Neil's cash and her connections to speed up the process and get Jean a service dog ASAP.

Betsy works everything out with Jean's coaches, teachers, and landlord (they can't have a pet dog, but surely that doesn't apply to service animals) and Jean gets to pick his dog from a handful of potential matches.

Jean sees a golden retriever with a rainbow collar and doesn't even have to think twice about it.

--------

*He names it DJ

**Jeremy thinks Jean is saying a French name and constantly says "DJ" with a French accent

***Cat buys Jeremy a shirt that matches the dog's work vest, and the gift tag says, "For human Jeremy," and then Jeremy realizes Jean is saying "DJ" and what it stands for

****Dog Jeremy

[detectivebambam]

inspired by a recent post i saw about Kevin Day holding a baby, here's Bam Bam's professional ranking of Foxes and Co. by best to worst at dealing with children:

Andrew and I am always going to stand by this. He grew up in foster care so it's entirely possible he's raised a bunch of babies in his lifetime, but I think he'd by driven by breaking the abuse cycle. if he can keep a kid safe, even if it's only one, he's going to. Andrew social worker au when? anyway. Designated Babysitter.

Laila. No clue why tbh she kinda just gives those vibes

Katelyn because she's a sweetheart. whether they're her kids or someone else's, i just feel that she's really great with them

Seth was very good with kids. babysat his younger siblings a lot, didn't really want kids, but if you gave him a baby he might not give it back

Wymack is scared of babies. The younger a child is, the more fear he has. The first time he held a baby he was like... 50-60. (bonus points if it's Kevin's kid). but he's very good with them. very gentle and sweet

Matt. golden retriever yk. idk what else to say. he's also Big and babies tend to like that. lots of sleeping room

Aaron. he thinks he'd be terrible so he stays away from them. when he and Kate start talking about having kids, his biggest fear is turning out like his mother. they do end up having kids and he is the Best Dad to ever dad

Abby is really good with kids in that she knows what to do with them in the most basic sense. when they need to be fed, how to get them to stop crying, etc, but other than that she's pretty indifferent to them

Jeremy. he's kinda lost when it comes to kids. he'll hold them for a little bit but unless they're older than six he gets bored so easily

Bee. she'll hold a baby cuz they're cute, but toddlers exhaust her. she'd rather spend her time with older kids and young adults

Renee thinks kids are cute, but doesn't really want anything to do with them. if someone asked if she wanted to hold the baby, she'd politely decline. very funny for the Foxes watching her try to interact with a child and realize that Andrew is actually better than her at something

Dan. not great with kids because she gets very impatient and doesn't want any due to some lurking childhood trauma (sometimes i give Matt and Dan kids for funsies, but realistically i don't think they'd have any)

Kevin. 😐 he's. not great. he kinda shakes a lil when he holds them, and holds them so gently that you'd think they were made of glass. he will only hold a baby if he's sitting down. with older kids, he tries to hard to be logical with them which ends up not working. to be fair, he's probably never seen a baby face to face before.

Cat. life or death situation, she could take care of a child. does she want to? no. and unfortunately i think she's one of those "kids are gross and annoying" people 😔

Nicky loves kids! he's just Very Bad with babies. if a baby even senses that Nicky is near, it starts crying. heartbreaking. this gives him the opportunity to adopt an older kid, though.

Alison doesn't care until the kid is old enough to go shopping with her. and if they start crying she's taking them home.

Neil. with Andrew's help, he does okay, but when left to his own devices he bluescreens. no, Neil, a 2 year old can not sit on the table while you do dishes.

Jean would be fantastic with kids, but they all remind him of Elodie, so it's more of a mental struggle than an actual inability to care for a child. if Andreil ever adopt, he likes to babysit

[popfizzles]

Does Val have any coworkers at the diner??

Aside from the owner and the cooks, Val works as a waiter with a few other familiar toons!

[andriel-islife]

How relieved/happy for Andrew and Neil do you think Wymack was when he finds out they stay together after his team, move in together, own two adorable cats, and go pro together. Like obviously he was like the first person to catch on about their relationship, but he probably didn’t think it was much until he was cuffed to Andrew during their reunion with Neil. Imagine how healing it is for Wymack to see his two most troubled children, not only happy, but healing because of each other.

Abby and Betsy definitely “force” Wymack into sending sweets and liquor as housewarming gifts. And the team never lets Andrew live down the fact their cats names are Sir Fat Cat McCatterson and King Fluffkins. But Andrew doesn’t care as long as Neil is happy.

[hazelwhisker-designs]

Betsy

[braddocklegacy]

Marvel Contest of Champions Shines partners with Marvel artist, Luciano Vecchio, for this years Pride piece!

“The diversity of our Developers, Summoners, and Champions forms the core of The Contest. We are honoured to partner with @LucianoVecchio to create this art piece that celebrates some of our 🏳️‍🌈 Champions!”

[marmosetpaw]

[dan-i-am21]

Okay I’m gonna write a Karaoke fic of the foxes. Neil is going to sing Renegade and debating if Andrew should sing Tequila. But I need help figuring out what other songs the other foxes are going to sing. Also Katelyn will be in this maybe Erik too. Wymack Abby, and Bee are debatable.

Jean and the floozies could be another fic. I will love comments for them too

[crazyhickofftheirrocker]

Fast-forwarding beyond this upcoming hiccup and waiting for the day when Swain comes in after a fairly dodgy late shift to see Carla and Betsy asleep on top of each other on the couch, unspecified cat also somewhere in the mix, both failing at trying to stay up to welcome her in the door (and make sure she's in one piece), and poor wrecked Lisa is standing there going "Great. Now there's two of them to get narky with me when I wake them up."

[eggfeather]

betsy

[fanartbyherd]

Corn from no evil.

Corn holding the mercy bow.

This outfit is not one that is in the series but I wanted to draw something

[sweetriverstyxwarriorsarchive]

[detectivebambam]

AFTG Characters I would trust with my drink:

Renee

Kevin

Jean

Cat

Laila

Wymack

Abby

Bee

Andrew if we were buddies

Matt

Dan

AFTG Characters I Would NOT Trust:

Andrew if we were not buddies

Aaron

Nicky

Seth

Jeremy

Neil

Alison

[lichfucker]

line for each letter

tagged by @laufire like two weeks ago, but I didn't have enough written then to fill out the letters lmao. but we're here now!

my word is LYRIC. here's a line (using the world's most generous definition of "line," because I'm me) starting with each letter, all from the upcoming chapter of Through His Stomach:

L

Legend says the Cook has been here forever. Men have died at sea in search of this hut for decades, centuries. A witch concocting vile brews; a lone magician on an island; fucking Shakespeare wrote about the Cook. (James recalls his lied assertion to Miranda: you are nothing like him. A matched determination in their eyes, a lineage of push, prod, provoke. She’d call him Prospero if she were here.) Most who look upon the Cook see only the legend, only the aggrandized myth—they must, for it to propagate. Thomas speaks like legend’s all but shorn away and left behind a man like any other, a man aged not a millennium but younger, even, than himself. A man who pets his cat and prunes his plants. And James with head-splitting dissonance sees them both, sees myth’s ghostly apparition like a translucent mask over the Cook’s face, a glamour, a shade. A visage false, and the true one, identical, just beneath.

Y

“You braved such a squall to get here,” the Cook says. “I’m flattered.” “A ship-killer,” Mr. McGraw says in between long swallows of broth. “That’s what they’d have called it in the Navy.” “You didn’t consider turning back?” “Never.” The color returns to him with every sip, that ghoulish seasick blue rightly rendered red again, enchanting to behold. “Besides, I was already halfway here when the rain started. The closer I got, the more it escalated—it knocked me back a few times, but if I could just push through… I knew what was on the other side.” Hunger flares in the Cook’s chest. “The sea tried to keep you from me.”

R

Redundant thunder doubly cuts the thick air that had cocooned them—Mr. McGraw will surely sputter and scoot away, ashamed for having been so near, and the Cook doesn’t want to fucking deal with that, so he stands first. When he turns, the cat swipes with extended claws at the leaf of a tomato plant, reaching down from its pot as though to pet her. His shoulders tense with agitation: the tomatoes know she’s irritated by them, but they simply cannot help themselves. Now they’ll sulk, petulant, their fruits gone limp and wrinkly in the wake of this most grievous injury, the slight nicking of a single leaf. Ridiculous. The Cook stalks across the room and snatches the cat off the floor one-handed, mug still clenched tightly in the other. “Behave, both of you,” he says, glaring alternately at her and the tomatoes. “What did I say about keeping our hands to ourselves?”

I

“If you’d like me to be comfortable, good sir,” Thomas says, “then please, for the love of all that is holy, I beg you, call me Thomas. I am not a lord, and I had no interest in such deference or formality when I was. No man should be above another—thus, all being equals, I would like you to call me Thomas.” “As you wish, my lord,” says the Cook with the sort of playful grin that’s sure to set Thomas alight. Of all the words James has used to describe the Cook, he’s never said playful before, and Thomas loves nothing so much as play.

C

Cardamom and quince, maybe—the Cook knows about that. No, he can’t quite pin the taste, casting about in the dark for anything that might melt on his tongue. The Cook’s cavernous throat: down, down, the infinite falling; whatever melts may never come to rest. Anyway, he drinks his broth. He wishes it would fill. But there’s a leak in him, somewhere, a hole through which everything pours, and nothing stays. It must be near his heart, he thinks—between esophagus and stomach, some missed connection. Yes, the hole is near his heart. Perhaps it is his heart.

ooh okay I'm gonna tag @etoilesombre @boasamishipper @grasslandgirl and anyone else who wants to! idk who's working on any wips right now. absolutely no pressure

your word is INGOT (because obviously if I have to pick a five-letter word, it's gonna be ingot lmao)

[graphicpolicy]

Marvel celebrates its LGBTQIA+ icons with new Pride variant covers

Marvel celebrates its LGBTQIA+ icons with new Pride variant covers #comics #comicbooks