#tgr was so good

[leragoessouth]

Erm how are we tonight

[doesephs]

one last kevjean before the ship sinks forever

[kippenanzuender]

Finished tgr idk how to feel

(Old Andrew drawing)

[inafieldofstarflowers]

so like do you think that when jean was watching the ravens and foxes fight he was thinking about the last time he had to stand helplessly in front of a tv while watching someone swing at neil with a blow that could kill him, do you think that what he was muttering in jagged french were commands for neil to get up, pleas for him to be okay, curses at whoever decided the ravens were ready to be on the court?

[ninyard]

i also can’t stop thinking about this moment. She’s just disregarded his sexuality, looks at him so disappointed and resentful, his brother is an asshole to him and she looks at Jeremy like it’s his fault. She treats his presence likes it a meeting, dismissing him when she’s finished, no love or warmth or bother that her son is home. And then she offers him this moment of softness, false kindness. Something that keeps him there, thinking that she will someday love him and care about him. Such a subtle gesture that should be so loving but really doesn’t feel like it at all.

[haveawinningday]

JABBERWOCKY MOREAU 😭😭 i'd die for him

[kevindavidday]

What’s your favorite Kevjean quote(s) (from any book)

Currently my absolute favorite has got to be from TGR:

In quiet French he said, “I should not be here for this.”

Kevin put his hand over Jean’s to hide the half-moon marks Jean was tearing into his skin.

“Stay with me,” Kevin said, just as soft, and Jean forcibly relaxed his death grip.

But I kid you not, every single interaction starting from the first book to TGR is embedded in my head, so excuse me for the long ass list of quotes/scenes below. I have never been normal about them :D

TRK:

"Hello, Kevin."

"Jean," Kevin said quietly.

Jean's smile was lazy, but the look in his gray eyes was ashen ice. Neither of them had anything else to say to each other, but they stared each other down unblinking.

Kevin finally found his voice. "They know how I feel, but words alone won't fix anything. A team that needs this much work requires a larger commitment than that."

"You won't stay," Jean said.

TKM:

Neil considered that, then said, "Good thing you're not there anymore."

"Jean still is," Kevin answered, and Neil knew better than to comment.

"He isn't safe with us," Kevin said. "I won't give him false hope."

"Some hope is better than none at all," Renee said.

TSC:

Kevin caught hold of his face with both hands, forcing Jean to look at him when Jean tried to turn away.

“Breathe,” Kevin said, from a thousand miles away.

“My place is at Evermore,” Jean agreed, “but you did not have to slit my throat on the way out.”

“I’m sorry,” Kevin said quietly.

He held out his hand. Jean glowered at him for a moment, but Kevin was willing to outwait him. Finally Jean relaxed his grip and set his hand in Kevin’s, palm-up. Kevin curled his fingers gently around it so he could turn Jean’s arm this way and that.

“Your blind loyalty to those clowns is exhausting.”

“Some of them you like,” Kevin reminded him.

“Don’t you dare,” Jean warned him, unamused.

“You have a choice,” Jean insisted. “Kill me and let me be done with this.”

Kevin’s expression was forbidding. “You made me a promise.”

“Fuck you. You have no right to hold me to it.”

“But I will.”

“Jean.”

“If you tell me to follow his lead, I will cut your throat open with my teeth,” Jean said. “Go away and don’t come back.”

Jean knew how every shade of fear looked on Kevin’s face, or so he’d thought.

“You did this to us,” Jean accused him as Kevin finally pried his hands away from his face.

“I don’t trust you that close to West Virginia.”

“It’s not your call to make,” Jean said.

“I made it anyway,” Kevin said, unrepentant. “Talk to him.”

“I—” Jean started, but Kevin hung up before Jean got out the, “—won’t.”

I'm sure there's a lot more from TSC but I can't remember them all right now.

TGR (my beloved):

"When did you learn how to cook?” he asked.

“Cat is teaching me,” Jean said. He could have left it at that, but after a beat, he admitted, “I like it. It makes everything else go away for a while.”......Kevin offered Jean a second arepa, waited for Jean to reach for it, and said, “I’m glad.”

Jean went still with his fingers on the dough.

“He was not my partner. It was not his job to protect me, and I didn’t want him to. I just wanted him to die.”

“Our damage control needs damage control. I will never do an interview again.”

“Don’t lie. You like the sound of your voice too much to give this up.”

Literally every single conversation between them when Kevin was in California. If I put it here it'll get too long, but trust all of it was like drugs to me 😭😭

“You are supposed to be better than this,” Jean said, a quiet accusation.

“You have always known what I am.”

[starstruckwithdumbluck]

How is it over already 😭 I’m gonna need like 1-2 weeks to recover, this series is so good it’s just ahhhhh

[liveblogsandthots]

my golden raven wishlist:

more neil jean interactions

neil and jean talking/spending time together

jean and neil

[petricorah]

finished the golden raven

[lars-the-looser]

Cody will forever be my favourite trojan

We are lowkey the same person just different font

- I want a ton of piercings and they have a lot

- we both have a buzz cut granted I am growing mine out

- Im also dying my hair bright orange in a bit so

[aelysalthea]

There’s so much about the adoption scene that I love so much it hurts:

- the build up, and how the decision hinged on Jean but it wasn’t really a decision at all; Laila needed it so it happened

- Jeremy’s dog talk, which is distinctly different to baby talk and makes me think either Nora has dogs or knows people who has dogs pretty well

- the long-suffering dog ‘huff’ sigh. Iconic

- that Jabberwocky decided Jean was his favourite throne/person right from the start #kindredspirits

- the heartbreaking reality of dogs being given up by their family after 6 YEARS, as though they’re not family at all

-👏adopting 👏older 👏dogs

- Jeremy’s irrepressible urge to kiss his new lil’ pup and just cuddle him is so inherently animal-person coded, I love it

- that’s whole interaction with Renee. Priceless. Jean, you poor sod

I just can’t describe how much it was a needed end to tgr but also makes the wait for the next one so much harder!

Yes, I’ve just finished it. And yes, it was enough to drag me out of the tumblr-less pit I’d fallen into for literally years.

[librarylocal]

what having a protagonist in the lineup does to an exy team

[chauves0uris]

LET'S GO LET'S GO KEVIN'S BIRTHDAY FOR THE TGR RELEASE DATE!!!!!

[avocadohass]

I will be living out my life and suddenly Im like "wow we actually got the trojan/jerejean sequel"

Because for years it was such a crack random thought, a truly hopeless dream because in the main series there were absolutely NO HITS.

It was just a wild manifestation of a bunch of fans that REALLY loved side characters, and I can say it because after reading aftg in 2016 my favorite character was fucking Jeremy, so I know what I'm talking about it okey.

I been in a state of shock since it was announced, and even after I read it, that just now while we wait for the golden raven it just hit me like we actually getting a trojan trilogy A JEREJEAN TRILOGY LIKE????

I remember I found out about jerejean after reading the jean extra content, and thinking that he needed something good in his life and immediately seeing that people ship him with Jeremy, a character who he never interact with in canon but was probably gonna in the future and I was like "that makes so much sense" and this was when there were like barely fics of them

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I cannot believe that saying "the trojan sequel" isn't synonyms of impossible dream anymore

[feverdreamsandlucidnightmares]

I’ll actually never be okay again after reading Jean thinking about siblings and referring to Tanner as a “little duckling of his own” I’m not crying you’re crying