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#i have probably laughed more at this video #over the years #than at any other video ever #animal humor #deer man #audio is a must if you somehow haven't seen this

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going for the neck...

#ok but like #can someone please trim jean's nails? #give 'em a little file and buff #so he stops breaking skin so easily #bundle him up in a blanket like a cat if you have to #anyway love the art #tsc #the sunshine court #aftg #all for the game #tsc spoilers #jean moreau #jeremy knox #whump #fanart

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catalina alvarez is everything to me. she's a lesbian. she rides a mothercycle. she is clumsy as hell. she cooks to stress relieve. she has improptu dance parties by herself. she hums while eating when she's happy. she knows her girlfriend so well to reach exatcly where laila "lost" the remote. she named her queer friend group "the floozys". lesbian in stem. loml. cannot wait for more of her in tsc2

#all of this #i loved her from the 3 sentences in tkm #and now? #i would burn the world for her #catalina alvarez #aftg #all for the game #tsc #the sunshine court #tsc spoilers

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Sketch of Jeremy with his yo-yo. I just wanted something simple to doodle and this book has been heavy on my brain 😂

#amazing #love how he looks like an athlete #also his world-weary expression at the tragedy of tangled cords #jeremy knox #aftg #all for the game #tsc #the sunshine court #tsc spoilers #fanart

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Things I’m learning about All For the Game fans: a lot of y’all didn’t grow up with a cheese drawer in your fridge and it shows

#of course i have a cheese drawer #i think it's supposed to be for cold cuts? #but i don't eat those #so....cheese #aftg #all for the game #tsc #the sunshine court #tsc spoilers #sorta

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i love their friendship so much i just had to draw them

#this is amazing! #love cat + jean so much #she's so practical in her love #she WILL be his friend #she WILL teach him to cook #whether he wants it or not #and of course he does #so badly #he just doesn't know it yet #aftg #all for the game #tsc #the sunshine court #tsc spoilers #jean moreau #catalina alvarez

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to you, it’s a shitty sentence. to some random bitch 500 miles away, it’s a fire line that’ll haunt them for the next 17 years.

you don’t know how impactful your writing is because it’s been in your brain for far too long now. you’ve stared at it for hours and repeated “this sucks” over and over again to the point that you killed your capacity to feel anything about your work.

but trust me, once you get your shit out there, someone’s gonna go over that paragraph you hate and go “jesus fucking christ” and put the book down to have an existential crisis.

#oh i love this #such a good summary of perspective #when you're too close to something #it frequently looks a mess #when you stand back with fresh eyes #its beautiful #like an impressionist painting #anyway write the thing #and share the thing

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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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Yes Neil ordered a hit on Jean's abuser, was a bitch to the FBI but also the little things?? How he deliberately made the FBI wait so that he could finish his drink... It wasn't just to piss them off but to give Jean some time to process his sister's death and he does that so casually, asks if Jean wants to take a way out from the escape exit because obviously he's already noticed all the escapes. When Browning asks about Jean's scars, he says he's French and runs off his mouth, yeah total bitch behaviour but that was also in order to help Jean. On the way back in the car he uses Jean's sister to show him that just because he's a Moreau doesn't mean he deserved how he was treated and he also should be loved, only then did Jean start feeling differently about enduring. Because he is Jean moreau, he will endure. And then finally, how much does he have to?

#yes yes yes! #so much this #the jean + neil dynamic is so fascinating #because this is jean's story #and neil is such an integral part of it #he is the catalyst #for so much of the ravens drama #for jean realizing he can move on #for jean realizing he deserves saving too #and jean? he makes neil more compassionate #think of neil with jean vs with aaron #how many small kindnesses he shows #neil gives jean hope for a better future #and jean makes neil a better man #aftg #all for the game #tsc #the sunshine court #tsc spoilers

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#wow #that is...the best description of this #i have ever heard #so true

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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.

#yes yes yes #this is the foundation on which they are based #aftg #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #neil josten #andrew minyard #andreil

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cardinal red

#love this #another one i thought i had reblogged but alas #tsc #tsc spoilers #the sunshine court #aftg #all for the game #jean moreau

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tsc sketches, I missed these books ahhh

#omg love this! #the expressions are amazing #tsc #the sunshine court #tsc spoilers #aftg #all for the game #jean moreau #jeremy knox #kevin day #fanart

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'remember that next time you think you aren't worth saving' does neil know how many lives he's changed

#one of my favorite lines #honestly that whole scene #neil cares about jean #they're each other's lost forever partners really #tsc #tsc spoilers #the sunshine court #aftg #all for the game #neil josten #jean moreau

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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."

#tsc #the sunshine court #tsc spoilers #aftg #all for the game #jean moreau #jeremy knox #catalina alvarez #neil josten

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I guess it is.

#god i love this #911 #911 on abc #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie

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#incredibly powerful #politics #us politics #abortion #abortion rights #this is what's at stake friends #we already lost roe #but we can regain it #but only if we get the republicans out of power #the 2 sides are not the same