#the palmetto state

[oldlinetrad]

Presidents House - 1770. The College of Charleston. Charleston, SC.

[heartshapedcaskett]

Came here chasing the past. Marlboro County, South Carolina

[shutterandsentence]

Actual photo of my feelings about 70-degree October days! A little bit beachy, a little bit spooky! :-)

Photo: Hilton Head, South Carolina

[iromyshop]

before paint and resin... el naturale

[bloodfiresandabram]

personally a huge fan of fics where the foxes seem to forget that neil is a genuinely dangerous person because neil lets himself laugh and smile, where the foxes continue to assume that andrew is the bigger threat, except for aaron.

fics where the foxes are like “dude why do you hate neil so much” and aaron is like “because he’s an idiot and he’s not safe to be around and if he could very easily hurt my brother” and the foxes are all like bro what? have u seen him? he’s currently napping on the floor in the corner with a fox plushie??? babey??

and then some shit happens and neil pulls the wesninski mafia upbringing out of his ass to defend andrew in one way or another and there’s a multi layered realization

one layer is the foxes, seeing neil as the deadly threat that he’s capable of being, reminding themselves that he chooses to be gentle and to laugh and to smile, but that he is more than capable of drawing blood without even a flinch

the other layer is aaron seeing neil bring out his dangerous potential for the sake of fighting for andrew and having to finally admit that maybe there’s no reason to hate him

just like i love fics where neil is allowed to be soft and gentle and warm, he deserves to have that—but also i love fics where the sharp edges of himself make other people bleed

[dykekarkat]

i do believe in neil's ability to cry on command, and this is not like an ugly cry it's like the most beautiful cinematic movie perfect crying ever seen. it was like the second thing mary taught him while on the run because crying children are extremely sympathetic + u gotta start the manipulating gene young. anyway i think he starts using it to run cons on the foxes during his second year. Most affected are matt and nicky (andrew is adamant that he's not affected but he almost always indulges him), least affected are dan and aaron. renee thinks its funny + allison is just extremely jealous and annoyed because he does it better than her (neil loves dunking on her w this). in my vision the first time this happens it's because the foxes bet that neil can't get the press to shut up without tearing them to shreds, and neils like ugh whatever bets are stupid but this is his Pride on the line. so he waits for someone to ask something suitably insensitive and then just bursts into gorgeous photogenic tears and the foxes are freaking out and the reporter is like oh my god im a horrible person and quits his job and then they get into the locker room and neil just. flips the switch. and everyones like ohhhhhh you bastard. you're evil. also kevin and renee are the only ones to win the bet

[little2nerdy]

i don’t think people realize how well neil’s demisexuality is written. you can see his emotional connection to andrew change and grow as he learns andrew’s motivations and boundaires long before you can see his attraction to andrew appear.

i think the best example is how neil describes andrew in tkm. he never really thinks about it in detail at all and then all of a sudden “andrew looked as he always had, and neil knew his face as well as he knew every iteration of his own. despite that, something seemed different. maybe it was the sunlight streaming through the window, making andrew’s pale hair shine brighter and his hazel eyes seem almost gold. whatever it was, it was disorienting.”

demisexuality sometimes feels like a switch gets flipped out of nowhere. and andrew flipped neil’s switch because neil trusted him. trust and safety and boundary respect was literally the turn on.

[rainynovaside]

due for some rainbows..

[er-the-surgeon]

Neil Josten really spent his entire life on the run, then said “fuck it” just so he could shit talk a guy on TV. A true hater

[hamrikaa]

'"You're a Fox," Andrew said, like it was that simple, and maybe it was.'

I could've added a lot more details to this and it's not 100% accurate to the book, but I had to stop myself or this would've taken me another week to finish lmao

[oldlinetrad]

College of Charleston - Charleston, SC.

[oceanichymns]

I am Jean Moreau. I will endure.

Just wanted to thank @korakos for sharing The Sunshine Court with us. It is everything I didn’t know I needed. ❤️‍🩹

[jtl-fics]

Just thought about the Foxes having a game where they try and find one another's mugshots and treat them like rare cards depending on difficulty to obtain.

The grand prize is finding Pre-Neil mugshots in the wild. Like sometimes they just find kids who kind of look like Neil but aren't actually him and sometimes Andrew comes with a mugshot of a kid who looks nothing like Neil and Neil's just like "Oh man, Maine was a weird time in my life."

[iromyshop]

once had a family and if I remember correctly two kids and their parents I was in Wynwood 2nd Ave... the dad says "let me take a video I will make you famous I have a huge following" - my reply "I already am famous every store I go into they know me for giving roses, no videos and photos please this is an 'in the moment' live art experience'"

and in the photo a natural sunlight photograph of one of my most recent pieces. Handmade leaf roses, arcylic paint maybe a little oil paint and art resin. This will go hundreds of years I once saw in downtown Charleston SC a piece of the same leaf used for the roses nearly 100 years old still going strong. Meaning if the roses without paint and resin can go a hundred years... well it's 'blue chip' artwork folks... enjoy! Thanks for being here! -Joey

[bloodfiresandabram]

neil being demi is so important and incredible but also i just love thinking about the period of time post andreil where like, it’s early 2000’s yk, they foxes are dumb college students who know gay, straight, maybe bi, unless nicky or some of the other foxes gets involved with the queer community more it’s very reasonable to assume that none of them would know demisexuality or other aspec labels without having the forethought of looking into it, and i can so easily see the foxes being like ok so u only swing for andrew but aaron is his twin so does that mean you find aaron attractive too???

and like, at this point him and aaron still just kinda fuckin hate each other for no reason other than they’re both too stubborn to admit they have no real reason, but the animosity is alive and thriving so neil could just be like nah they’re way different to me, but what’s the fun in that? so instead he’s like “i mean this genuinely, deeply, wholeheartedly, and with every drop of honesty in my soul… aaron is the ugliest piece of shit i have ever had the misfortune of laying my eyes on, and i have seen many, many, many mangled corpes in the aftermath of my father torturing them, and aaron is worse”

and the foxes do not get it they’re like literally HOW can you say that when him and andrew look EXACTLY THE SAME, COPY AND PASTE??? but neil is just not budging at all he’s like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ idk man andrew’s hot and aaron’s not

[eatsbooks]

we know renee made a deal with andrew to protect the rest of the foxes outside of his core group, so do you think her guilt rivaled neil’s for failing to keep seth alive? do you think she would stare at the ceiling at night in the days after, unable to even close her eyes to pray for seth’s soul because she kept seeing his face stamped into the backs of her eyelids? do you think her chest would seize so tightly she couldn’t breathe when she heard allison’s muffled sobs from their bedroom? do you think she couldn’t meet andrew’s eyes for fear of the judgment nestled beneath his manic grin, his bored glances? do you think she took her knife out of her drawer sometimes, turned it over, over, over, swore to herself that she would not lose another one — she would not lose another one, all her fault, all her fault, all her fault?