#happy neil josten

[hamrikaa]

Happy pride month 🧡

This is one of my pieces for the aftg pride zine ✨️

You can find the zine under @aftgpridezine and @/aftg_zine on twitter!!!

There are awesome fics and a lot of beautiful art in there 😌

I made another little illustration that'll be available as a print with the physical zine, as well as other stunning merch by amazing artists 👀

And if you didn't already know I liked kevaaron– you know now.

[allfor-thegames]

hc that immediately after the events of the trilogy neil crashes so hard. from christmas onwards his body has been abused and in various stages of healing and he is running through it all on adrenaline. this boy wins the championship and secures his safety and i bet just turns off.

there's no nathan or riko to be running from. the season is over, he has his trophy. there is nothing immediately pressing that concerns his performance on the court or his/andrew's/the team's safety and his body finally gets to come out of fight or flight and man is he fucking tired.

[tidalst]

They drinking hot chocolate & watching the fireworks for NYE :) ((Made for @mostlymaudlin's #foxynewyear2024 event!))

[notacluedo]

Andrew has had the same conversation like five times

[denkit0ri]

demiromantic neil josten i did for the #ABpride2024

[emry-stars-art]

Bringing back my love for aftg tv/actor au

Taken from this post (again) (there’s another one here too btw) by @thespineoftherighteous 😌💕 I love it so much lol

I need to do the "are you flexing your abs rn" one too *sighs* one day

[odetojupiter]

uhhh so the number four is associated with death in certain cultures, including japanese, which is fitting for the butcher’s son, yes but just remember neil was supposed to be number three and jean was supposed to be number four ,and in every draft but one jean dies. he is symbolically saved from that fate by dodging the number four (being given, instead, the number three which represents REBIRTH of all things - i made a whole post about that if ur curious) because it means he was never marked for death. so in this draft, where he’s number three, but was supposed to be number four, he comes so close to death - to the point where renee doesn’t know how he’s still alive - because he was supposed to die, doomed by the narrative, but that number three saves him. that number three represents resurrection, and so he doesn’t die like he was supposed to. because he’s not number four, he’s number three. he comes back. he transforms, he heals. he becomes number 29 (i will eventually make a post about jean and the 29)

neil, though, was marked for death. he had the number four tattooed on him, and he goes through his own narrative believing he will die by the end of it. his survival, however, is foreshadowed in the very moment neil thinks he’s about to die - when he is kidnapped. lola burns the number four - the signifier of death - off his face, leaving him scarred, yes, but not marked for death anymore. and so he lives. and guess what: the number 10 represents the start of a new chapter, that one cycle is coming to an end and a new life is starting, one that you’ve worked hard for. so for the number four to be burned off of neil, that tells us neil is going to live. and when neil becomes neil legally, he settles into the number 10 properly. and his new life begins.

[sadlad03]

first art of 2024 lol

[naturecalls111]

[sunflowerius]

happy pride month to whatever the fuck the literal human incarnation of a guard dog and that fucking ginger have going on and to THEM ONLY !!

[oceanichymns]

49.......48...........

[youaremysunshine-court]

this is my favourite description of Neil so far I get why andrew calls him Junkie he's literally high on life

[blue-jos10]

love that for the current neil, nathaniel wesninski hasn't entirely ceased to exist. he's simply been demoted to one of those tiny cartoony hovering devils whispering weird shit in his ear at times.

occasionally neil listens to him and does stuff like ordering hits on rapists and the people who know neil can tell that that was just him nathanieling a moment to get things done

[jortenthusiasst]

POV: The sunshine court blinds Jean

[ionlydrinkhotwater]

Can you imagine if Andrew and Aaron's deadbeat dad (if hes not dead) tries to connect with them after all these years but only because they are both rich &/or famous? Like one is a doctor and the other is a famous Exy player so he thinks he can mooch off them after everything?

Big mistake Pal. BIG MISTAKE.

If Andrew doesn't murder his ass his mafia connected partner will happily do the honors.

(I bet deadbeat dad goes after Aaron first cause of Andrew's scary rep but Katelyn calls Neil and is like TELL ANDREW WE NEED TO SHUT THIS SHIT DOWN.)

[very-small-giant]

i think they should all kiss each other and be happy