#the Nest

[boricuacherry-blog]

This is so beautiful.

Jeannie Piersol - The Nest (1969)

Jeanie Piersol was briefly in the Great Society along with Grace Slick, but that doesn't prepare you for this soulful psych tune, with a very cool guitar freak-out towards the end.

[dawnatlas]

forever partner friday but it's on a saturday and i gave up halfway through so its messy as hell

anways... what's spookier than the nest am i right

[thepriceofsurvival]

Current WIP

[m1ll3nn1uml1nt]

Actually obsessed with the trojans (specifically Jeremy) calling out the weird ass language Jean and Kevin use. Like no it’s weird that Kevin casually talks about Jean submitting. It’s weird that a grown ass man insisted on being referred to as ‘the master’ by his team. Like we get used to it with the foxes bc they just talk Like That, but to any normal person it’s jarring as hell.

Like to me it really points out how everything, down to how the ravens talk, was a means of control and manipulation and how it’s so indicative of a the abusive culture of the nest

[fairvstairs]

You just don't get him like I do.

Wymack pulled a bottle of vodka out of the bag and put it down beside Kevin. “You have ten seconds to inhale as much of this as you can. I’m timing you. Go.” It was alarming how much a man could drink when he needed an emotional crutch. Wymack had to pry the bottle from Kevin’s desperate fingers afterward.

Kevin was silent for an endless minute, then said, “You should be  Court.” It was barely a whisper, but it cut Neil to the bone. It was a resentful goodbye to the bright future Kevin had wanted for Neil. Kevin recruited Neil because he believed in  Neil’s potential. He brought him to the Foxes intending to make a star athlete out of him. Despite his condescending attitude and his dismissals of Neil’s best efforts Kevin honestly expected Neil to make the national team after graduation.

“Good thing you’re not there anymore.” “Jean still is.”

“Let Riko be King,” Kevin said, with the exaggerated enunciation of the thoroughly sloshed. “Most coveted, most protected. He’ll sacrifice every piece he has to protect his throne. Whatever. Me?” Kevin gestured again, meaning to indicate himself but too drunk to get his hand higher than his waist. “I’m going to be the deadliest piece on the board.”

Before he stepped on Kevin tapped the butt of his racquet against the floor and passed his stick to his other hand. He stroked to half-court head high and left-handed and the crowd went wild.  

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: insect

[broken-heart-raven-queen]

*At Christmas break in the Nest*

Jean: I don't know how he didn't budge by now and signed the contract. Can't you guide his hand when he is unconscious or something?

Riko stabbing Neil on his side and looking at Jean: No, Jean, that'd be highly illegal.

[bees-figurines]

If Exy was a real sport would I watch a single match? No. But would I click on a 3h long video essay on YouTube titled "I read all of the Nest conspiracy theories so you don't have to"? Absolutely yes.

[okjii]

once again thinking about the parallels of Neil going into the Nest over Christmas break for Andrew and Orpheus going into the Underworld for Eurydice. hows your day going though.

[corner-collects-rocks]

sometimes i wonder if kevins obsession with exy is actually some deep rooted need to be connected to his mom, who like created the game. im sure riko made quick work of putting kevin in his place once he got to the nest so im sure he buried himself in exy originally as a way to escape riko sure. but all that trauma so quickly? part of his obsession has to be because hes trying to hold onto his mom or a time before everything got bad. idk sometimes the way neil and andrew talk about kevins obsession with exy it sounds like kevins doing everything in his power to use exy as a coping mechanism. (im sure i couldve worded this better if it wasnt 2:30 but like- think about it)

[andrew-03-minyard]

just remembering how Kevin is such a nerd he begged Riko to major in history with him while at the nest and Riko was such a simp he agreed without hesitation

[sunriseabram]

i like to think that neil adapts his accent to match whoever he is talking to...so does that mean in the nest he spoke in a slight french accent

[aziraphale-is-a-cat]

I think the most ironic part of the Nest and the power balance between Riko and Jean, Kevin, and Neil is that out of the four of them, Kevin is arguably the only one not an owned man.

Neil and Jean were given to the Moriyamas, but Kevin was raised as the child of a late colleague. Over the course of the story the only person really coming after Kevin was Riko, the Moriyamas family really had no interest in whether he remained a Raven until Neil came into the picture.

Kevin could, and did, walk away from Edgar Allen, and Neil was never required to stay there by anything other than Riko's seemingly unaffiliated blackmail, the only interest the main family had was in the potential profit of their careers. The Nest was never a prison made for them, and in the end it even let go of Jean, but Riko could never leave.

If Riko decided he'd had enough of the Ravens and tried to transfer out to another team like the others, he wouldn't be able to. If he decided he wanted any other life than what he was given, he couldn't have it. Riko was trapped in the Nest in a much more permanent way.

Riko spent his whole life convincing Kevin that he was property not of the Moriyamas specifically, but of the Nest, because that's what Riko was. Kevin was the first to leave, but Riko never did.

[sadboyjacinter]

we all talk abt how funny it was that it took three people to get andrew to stop choking kevin, but what abt kevin? do u think kevin, who believed andrew would never hurt him, saw andrew lunge at him and was stricken with fear? do u think he remembered riko? do u think he pleaded in french? i know kevin is cool with andrew after but i do wonder if the way he saw andrew after was a little different. if he had to remind himself that this was andrew he wasnt really going to hurt him. right? do u think he was jealous that suddenly neil mattered more when that was supposed to be kevin?

[deeppenguinstudent]

I don't care. I will ALWAYS defend Thea muldani. You guys talk about the age range between Kevin and Thea, which is so dumb because Kevin was 18 and Thea was 21. That is basically Jerejean's age range (22 and 19), which is 3 YEARS. And I don't see anyone talking about Jeanne's age range? (19 and 24).

To the people saying that got mad that she said, "Are you sure ur not up to ur old tricks again?" literally just what? Please, please read her wiki because the reason she said that was because she thought tetsuji was the one who beat him up, NOT riko.

She was the ONLY one so far that even questioned riko's authority and acknowledged he was a bastard (somewhat). She's not fucking blinded by the Nest. She's JUST Exy obsessed like Kevin!!

Also let's talk about this?

The rumours had gotten so bad that both the master and Kevin also believed Riko's words? How the hell was Thea supposed to know anything? She was a victim as well and it just annoys me so much when people use this to just completely stain her character and make her a huge bitch. She's literally a dark skinned woman. Even tetsuji told her that she has to work twice as hard because people wouldn't take her seriously. If she even had an inkling of an idea knowing what they did to him, she would fuck them up

Also the reason why no one batted their eyes was because the Ravens fucking eachother is completely normal. It's some sort of screwed up thing that's been going on for generations, even before Riko and Kevin had joined Evermore.

To the people who say Thea does not care about Jean I will literally chew your lungs BECAUSE HAVE WE BEEN READING THE SAME BOOK.

Do you guys not realise how close Jean and Thea truly were? Thea and Kevin were the only two that Jean actually had a good relationship with in the Nest. Just look at the text!! Thea is one of Jean's weaknesses because he trusts her so much, and we know that Jean always blurts out shit he's not supposed to when he's beside people he really trusts (Neil, Jeremy, Kevin)

Her little parisian duckling! He literally followed her everywhere 🙁🙁 Gosh they mean so much to me. (Also, the reference to Elodie's duck dress and Thea's way of calling him?)

Last bit. I just find their relationship is just watered down SOOOO much because people hate Thea for unconventional reasons. You can dislike her character for sure, but I feel like a lot of people have so many misconceptions about her so I just wanted to clear it up!!

Please Nora give us more Thea and Jean in TSC2 😔😔😔

Edit: Sexual grooming is the action or behavior used to establish an emotional connection with a minor under the age of consent and sometimes the child's family to lower the child's inhibitions with the objective of sexual abuse. This is the definition of grooming btw and it's confirmed that Thea dated two other people when Kevin was a minor and didn't think of him like that until he was a freshman in college ie 18 years old?? It's completely different because she wasn't even pursuing him at all??