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them : )
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their potential in tsc? unmatched
#yaaaasssss omg#i fucking LOVE this#jean moreau#neil josten#kevin day#i want them all to do press together#the CHAOS that would reign#also like#this art is incredible?#the natural poses#the lines#the way they all have each others' backs#the skin tones and coloration#the fabrics#there is a naturalness to this that we rarely see#aftg#all for the game#tsc#the sunshine court#i need the next book like i need oxygen
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Fourth year at Palemtto Andrew is listening to Neil grumble about a sociology paper he needs to write for a humanities credit. The assignment itself doesn't sound too difficult, something about tradesmen and social life, but as Neil's only true love is exy (and allegedly Andrew, but thats under review), he's having fun making it seem like a bigger chore than it is.
"Ugh, whatever," Neil finally says. "I'll just do it about truck drivers. I've still got the interview notes somewhere."
Andrew grades a brow. "When the hell did you interview truck drivers?"
Neil pauses, looking at him in surprise. Then he grins. Andrew does his best not to find it sexy, because he's pretty sure that smile isn't a good thing. "You know, it's funny you ask—"
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the kevneil arguing dynamic is deeply important to me theyre like 2 chihuahuas yapping at each other. like 2 flies buzzing at each other and then hitting the windows
#stealing prev tags#love the annoying sibling energy between them tbh. like yeah that’s so real of them.#also#andrew just being like ‘😐 normal tuesday. nothing to do but let the kids power themselves out’ is the realest thing sjdjgghfhdgjd#aftg#all for the game#tfc#the foxhole court#kevin day#neil josten#andrew minyard#fanart
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Thinking about how badly Andrew must’ve wanted to be known. For someone to actually notice things about him and be curious and piece all these observations together. Like. The truth game was just as much about wanting to know things about Neil as him wanting Neil to know him. And even without the truth game being evoked, when he knows what answers Neil must be digging for, he gives in more often than not. I think about how when Neil started noticing Andrew’s odd memory, especially when Neil believed him not to be paying attention and when Neil started finally asking questions, and how quickly Andrew answered them, how he must’ve been thinking, finally.
How much he wanted to be known and by someone he knew by now he could trust. Someone he knew could understand him and the implications of things he’s told. Someone he could tell his own secrets and things he’s been keeping to himself. Everything he let other people assume or misunderstand about him. This little nobody runaway is paying attention, piecing it together, understanding in a way that no one has ever been willing to do, not even his own twin. And when Aaron and Nicky asks him when this happened or other variations of the questions Neil’s already solved himself, and Andrew tells them they should’ve figured them out himself.
The way Neil was the first person to take him at his word, especially about something that wasn’t violence. To look further into him and the things he says and does and actually try to understand him. Not just write him off as a violent psychopath who does things for his own pleasure. The way Andrew wanted him to see more of him and understand him. And I just. My mind is tangles. But I want to go on about this forever.
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'remember that next time you think you aren't worth saving' does neil know how many lives he's changed
A (very) incomplete list of things I loved in TSC: (obviously, spoilers)
- Jean having no sense of time at the beginning. he has literally zero idea how much time has passed and has no frame of reference. it feels like weeks; we only know because we read the original series
- the shift once again, this time from Jean's POV, from Nathaniel to Neil! it being a mark of respect
- seeing how Neil really relayed the deal with Ichirou to Kevin and Jean (that Neil totally glossed over in TKM)
- all of Jean's internal and spoken insults for everyone around him but especially all the Foxes
- Jean's complete and utter disdain for short people and how many there are, just, everywhere. why are short people allowed? they should be illegal
- Andrew's single word in the entire book being, "Leaving." just classic
- the whole scene where Jean watches the final game? where he is so invested in how the Foxes are doing that when they win he shoves the tv?
- Jean mentally adding Andrew into the Perfect Court because they need a goalkeeper, deciding that if Kevin and Riko die it would be ok because Jean, Andrew, and Neil were enough to rebuild around
- Jeremy standing at baggage claim playing with a yo-yo until he gets it tangled in his headphones
- Cat teaching Jean to cook
- Jean being adorably horny and constantly swayed by beautiful people
- Cat thinking Renee is hot
- Jean just...not understanding how people function if their every move is not controlled at first? and then starting to come around?
- Jean buying clothes! picking out things for himself!
- Jeremy buying people in need gift cards because he can
- Barkbark von Barkenstein being the silent unwitting center of a tiny war between Jean and Jeremy
- Rhemann starting to realize what Jean/the Ravens have been going through at the hands of their coaches and needing to take a minute or fifty to get over it
- Jean finding himself adopted into a queer family and just rolling with it
- Jeremy and his complete and utter avoidance of every possible personal problem. nothing to see here, folks
- Jean's glee when the Trojans first curse, being absolutely certain that this is revealing some deep well of depravity
- the Trojans' techniques for staying sportsmanlike on the court (while really aggravating the fuck out of their opponents)
- the fact that Neil and Jean together are basically a buddy comedy (which I NEED MORE OF)
- Neil from an outside perspective as a weird little man who can negotiate without flinching with dangerous people, navigate an unfamiliar city after briefly studying printed off Mapquest instructions, coolly order a hit in the middle of a restaurant, and develop a convincing lie at the drop of a hat
- Neil's tactless but relentless kindness?
- "A cool evening breeze. Rainbows. Open roads. Friends."
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard Characters: Neil Josten, Andrew Minyard, Aaron Minyard, Nicky Hemmick, Renee Walker (All For The Game), Danielle "Dan" Wilds, Allison Reynolds (All For The Game), David Wymack, Original Dog Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Baseball, Alternate Universe - No Exy (All For The Game), Epistolary, Flashbacks, neil runs, And then Neil Returns, Andrew Minyard Has a Service Dog, References to Canon Traumas, Mental Health Issues, Hopeful Ending Summary:
One summer, Neil and his mother hid out in a baseball town. One summer, he made some friends, sold some hot dogs, and fell in love. One summer, Neil became real, for the first time in his life.
Before autumn, he was gone.
Now, everything in his life has fallen apart, and all he's left with is the memories of a place that was the closest thing he can imagine to home. But can he ever really return to all that he left behind?
Read it here!
Listen to the playlist here!
#aftg#all for the game#neil josten#andrew minyard#andreil#tfc#the foxhole court#baseball au#in which no baseball is actually played#but postcards are written#and friendships renewed#it's about leaving#and coming home again#my writing#fandom trumps hate#self reblog#but I remembered to add the playlist this time
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard Characters: Neil Josten, Andrew Minyard, Aaron Minyard, Nicky Hemmick, Renee Walker (All For The Game), Danielle "Dan" Wilds, Allison Reynolds (All For The Game), David Wymack, Original Dog Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Baseball, Alternate Universe - No Exy (All For The Game), Epistolary, Flashbacks, neil runs, And then Neil Returns, Andrew Minyard Has a Service Dog, References to Canon Traumas, Mental Health Issues, Hopeful Ending Summary:
One summer, Neil and his mother hid out in a baseball town. One summer, he made some friends, sold some hot dogs, and fell in love. One summer, Neil became real, for the first time in his life.
Before autumn, he was gone.
Now, everything in his life has fallen apart, and all he's left with is the memories of a place that was the closest thing he can imagine to home. But can he ever really return to all that he left behind?
Read it here!
Listen to the playlist here!
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Last line challenge!
Tagged by @stick-ball Ty 🫀
“I put him down because his pain was too much to bear. I’d rather keep the memory of him the way I knew than to let him bite someone else again.” Ichirou digs his thumb painfully against Stuart’s collarbone— a reprimand. “You should have put your sister down. It would have saved a lot of people from suffering.”
I tag @justadreamfox @justthislazy and @likearecordbb 💋
Last line challenge!
Tagged by @dogintheboiler <3
Except tonight, it seems. Kevin’s hand is firm at the base of Neil’s spine as he finds their table and guides them seamlessly through the crowd. They both hate these events, but at least Kevin is good at it - throwing thousand watt smiles in every direction, shaking hands, saying just the right thing.
Neil mostly keeps his mouth shut because that is literally in his contract, too.
Last line challenge!
Tagged by @justadreamfox, thank you my friend!
Dear Andrew, You called me Pinocchio once—you weren’t wrong. I’ve never been anything, I don’t know how to be, not anymore. I miss feeling like I could be real, even if I barely remember it. It’s like a dream an hour after you wake up, vague and half-forgotten, just the impressions are left. I doubt you even know what I mean, you were always the most real person I’ve ever met. I don’t know if I’m going to write again. I don’t even know if you care, but I wanted to let you know, because I broke my promise but only literally. I left everything of me that was ever real in Palmetto.
tagging, uh, anyone who wants to do this? I don't even know who's still writing who hasn't been tagged already, have been living under a rock ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Neil is a horse boy, and Andrew doesn’t fuck with horse boys - even though he maybe used to be one (but we don’t talk about that).
ft. lots of limes, dicks waving about, horses, stargazing, lying liars who lie!
an Andreil fic for the lovely, the incomparable @fuzzballsheltiepants
what @justadreamfox doesn't say here but SHOULD is that this fic is absolute magic from start to finish. they have managed to capture Andrew's (and Neil's, and Kevin's) character in this very different AU with utter perfection, and with some of the loveliest prose you can imagine to boot.
if you like horses - or even if you don't - you will never get to read a fic that better encapsulates the way it is to be a horse person. the way the obsession lingers and lives under your skin, even when you think you're over it. we know our boys are obsessive (or obsessively in denial) in canon, and this shifts it over to the very real, and very weird, world of competitive jumping and it's glorious.
do yourself a favor and slip into this world. you don't have to like horses, or know anything about them, to appreciate the wonder that is this story
Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard Characters: Andrew Minyard, Neil Josten, Kevin Day, Jeremy Knox, Alvarez (All For The Game), Jean Moreau, David Wymack, Danielle "Dan" Wilds, Abby Winfield, Coach James Rhemann Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Magic, The Minyard-Josten Rivalry (All For The Game), Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, Reality TV, Fluff and Humor, Implied Sexual Content, pure silliness, who let me write this?, Social Media Summary:
Andrew still isn't sure what possessed him to sign up to compete on The Magic Touch, a reality show competition for people with Magical Energy Processing Disorder. Somehow, he made it to the quarter finals, and this is where it starts getting weird.
If you've been waiting to start this because you don't trust my ADHD ass to finish things, well, that's fair. But I did! Chapter 3 features more hijinks, more chaos, more magic, more cameras, more reveals, more social media bullshit, more twinyards, and more...plants?
Read it from the beginning here!
(reminder that this is best read with the creator's style on!)
Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard Characters: Andrew Minyard, Neil Josten, Kevin Day, Jeremy Knox, Alvarez (All For The Game), Jean Moreau, David Wymack, Danielle "Dan" Wilds, Abby Winfield, Coach James Rhemann Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Magic, The Minyard-Josten Rivalry (All For The Game), Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, Reality TV, Fluff and Humor, Implied Sexual Content, pure silliness, who let me write this?, Social Media Summary:
Andrew still isn't sure what possessed him to sign up to compete on The Magic Touch, a reality show competition for people with Magical Energy Processing Disorder. Somehow, he made it to the quarter finals, and this is where it starts getting weird.
Chapter 2 is up! Featuring more chaos, more social media bullshit, more secret Andreil, more magic going haywire and Neil being Neilish.
Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard Characters: Andrew Minyard, Neil Josten, Kevin Day, Jeremy Knox, Alvarez (All For The Game), Jean Moreau, David Wymack, Danielle "Dan" Wilds, Abby Winfield, Coach James Rhemann Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Magic, The Minyard-Josten Rivalry (All For The Game), Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, Reality TV, Fluff and Humor, Implied Sexual Content, pure silliness, who let me write this? Summary:
Andrew still isn't sure what possessed him to sign up to compete on The Magic Touch, a reality show competition for people with Magical Energy Processing Disorder. Somehow, he made it to the quarter finals, and this is where it starts getting weird.
A gift for the always incredible @likearecordbb. Read it here!
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Coming back just to post this I decided to finish it after all 💛
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It's finally complete!
Chapters: 17/17 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard Characters: Neil Josten, Andrew Minyard, Kevin Day, Matt Boyd, Danielle "Dan" Wilds, Jean Moreau, Jeremy Knox, Laila Dermott Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Paramedics, Paramedic Neil Josten, Advice Column, Strangers to Lovers, Found Family, Mild Angst, Mild Gore, found cat, Depression, humor too, let's be real, It's one of my fics, there's a little bit of everything Summary:
Paramedic Neil Josten has been lost since his mother died, moving from town to town, searching for something. He's not sure what. Himself, whatever that means. Or a life that won't keep shrinking in on itself. But after Kevin, his best friend from paramedic school, called and ordered him to move to South Carolina, Neil ends up with a new partner, a group of friends he can't avoid, and the local advice column he can't stop reading. He finds himself interested in the writer behind the column...
But then he meets Andrew who is weirdly good at everything, and maybe life is not so small after all.