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i never chase men but if he's a tall striker with dark hair and green eyes I might jog a little

might play exy if he told me to

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oh my god~ Neil is just "are you sure you don't wanna do a nice coffee shop au instead?"

but also imagine being ichirou and discovering that one of your many subordinates has sent you a message containing ✨x reader mafia smut with your little brother✨

aftg where everything is the same except neil and mary keep getting caught by the butcher's men because neil writes kevin x reader fanfic and overshares in the author's notes

#truly so many possibilities #jean could be his beta #my weapon is the pen not the sword but also my fists and exy sticks :)

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aftg where everything is the same except neil and mary keep getting caught by the butcher's men because neil writes kevin x reader fanfic and overshares in the author's notes

#I can't stop picturing Kevin leaving comments on the fics #trying to correct Neil for scenes he finds inaccurate #god and Riko would be so jealous #Kevin what the fuck why is he writing about you and not me #clearly the author must have terrible taste

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the foxes make neil buy his own clothes

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When you said fanon Neil exists as a phenomen, what did you mean? What is the fanon version of Neil like?

fanon neil is the product of two unspoken shipping culture rules 1) whoever’s the bottom becomes a very passive, sweet, soft, feminine, non-confrontational cinnamon roll as opposed to their tough very masculine possessive top (aka “the bottom treatment” - the term coined by my colleague @writingpuddle) and 2) the “someone will die - of fun!” dynamic has to be present at all costs so if one character or both don’t fall under the sunshine one vs the grumpy one personality types fans will make them so.

canon andrew’s already very masculine and grumpy so he’s fine and these sides of him don’t get erased, so his partner must necessarily be the blushing sunshine uwu boi. the fact that canon neil is much more active than andrew, very rude and confrontational, can stand up for himself, is also much more “masculine” than “feminine”, can say horrible things and handle very stressful situations without outwardly showing how he feels, is manipulative and tough af, has probably killed people - all of this gets discarded bcs it doesn’t fit the binary (and very heteronormative) tough boy/soft boy dynamic.

obviously not all fan works portray neil like this but there are enough to form a very unsavory trend

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here's the piece I did for the @aftgexchange , it's a gift for @/ghostyardx on Twitter and was originally posted there! it was so much fun to do <3 (it was also a lot of fun to picture sk8er boy Andrew trying to teach his favorite speed gremlin to skate properly)

#all for the game #the foxhole court #neil josten #andrew minyard #andreil #aftg fic exchange #aftg

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life in a day of kevin day

#kevin day #nicky hemmick #all for the game #I love Kevin #he's so pretty #i shall simply perish

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ok aftg fandom listen up

Half of us are spelling it Andreil and the other half is spelling it Andriel. It’s Andreil. Neil’s name is spelled Neil, not Niel, and therefore the ship is Andreil. 

This is literally the reason why Andreil didn’t make Tumblr’s top 100 ships last year, and we can change that.

 Aftg deserves so much love than it gets and we should get more people to read it, but aftg won’t be as easy to find if half of us are spelling the main ship wrong.

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Every time Neil and Andrew have a conversation I swear I have an aneurysm why can't these idiots talk like normal people I spend half of the time swooning and the other half wondering what the fuck they mean.

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you did such a great job!!! thank you so much for writing this for me, it was absolutely perfect :D

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard Characters: Neil Josten, Andrew Minyard, Aaron Minyard, Kevin Day, Jean Moreau, Nicky Hemmick, Marissa (All For The Game), The Foxes (All For The Game) Additional Tags: Fluff, Oblivious Neil Josten, which is basically cannon, hockey goalie! Andrew minyard, Alternate Universe - Roommates/Housemates, Friends to Lovers, Neil Josten & Jean Moreau Friendship, jean stole this fic from me and im not mad about it, Alternate Universe - No Exy (All For The Game) Summary:

“You’re hopeless,” Andrew eventually said. Yeah, Neil silently agreed.

 Neil has a crush on his roommate/best friend Andrew but he is stupid and thinks Andrew isn’t interested. Yall know exactly how this is going to go.

This fic is for @pomenixx for @aftgexchange Summer 2021! I hope you love it <3 I had so much fun writing this. 

#aftg fic #the foxhole court #aftg fic exchange

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If you're a writer and you see this post, stop what you're doing.

WHENEVER YOU SEE THIS POST ON YOUR DASH, STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WRITE ONE SENTENCE FOR YOUR CURRENT PROJECT.

Just one sentence. Stop blogging for one minute and write a single sentence. It could be dialogue, it could be a nice description of scenery, it could be a metaphor, I don’t care. The point is, do it. Then, when you finish, you can get back to blogging.

If this gets viral, you might just have your novel finished by next Tuesday.

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headcannon that Matt and Neil have art sundays where they have a pile of built up art equipment where they listen to music and do art together to destress

it started when Neil had a major panic attack after practice one Wednesday afternoon and ran for 3 hours straight without realising and everyone threw a giant search party to try and find him

no one wanted to admit how much it reminded them of Baltimore

so while Neil was laying on his bed recovering from the panic attack and the loss of feeling in his legs, Matt entered the room (Andrew sitting on the window bench having not left Neil’s since he was found on the sidewalk halfway to Columbia that night)

“hey buddy, I know you need to rest but I was wondering if you wanted to go shopping this weekend with me? I need to get some stuff and thought you might be interested to come along” Matt had said.

turns out, Matt wanted to get some acrylic paints at a small arts and crafts store five minutes away from campus to add to his growing collection (hidden under their bunk bed after Seth once found a watercolour paint set next to Matt’s bed and didn’t stop laughing and going on about how ‘girly’ art was).

Neil was overwhelmingly confused at the range of knowledge and understanding Matt had about the millions of types of colours, what types of brushes to use, what in the flying f**k is a painting palette knife??.

Matt- “Hey bud, can you grab me a tube of burnt umber oil paint?”

Neil- “A what amber?”

Matt- “ooooh I really want to try gauche, I heard it’s similar to watercolour but it’s so different”

Neil- “gu...ash? Gatch? Gwass?”

by the end of the shopping trip (two bags full of art supplies Matt insisted were for himself, but were really for his best buddy Neil and his fraying mental state) Neil was left with too many questions and a whole other perception of who he thought Matt was.

turns out, when Matt first got over his drug addiction, his mum sent him to weekly art classes for therapy and for Matt to use his hands in a way that is gentle and precise to counter the aggression he uses when learning to box. Matt stopped his weekly art sessions when he started university because he was too focused on not getting addicted to drugs again. 3 years later when seeing Neil starting to become overwhelmed with the lack of sleep from his nightmares, he thought that maybe art will help Neil as much as it helped Matt.

spoiler alert -> it did.

That Sunday when they got home, Matt dragged Neil to the small living room of the dorm Matt and Aaron now shared, placed a sheet of plastic on the floor (after throwing all the discarded clothes and shoes out of the way) and made Neil sit down beside it while he set a canvas on four small cups.

Matt explained acrylic pouring to Neil, showing him dozens of YouTube videos of tutorials and tips. They then mixed all the paints with the pouring medium. Matt made Neil choose the colours (Neil being the original one he is chose orange, black and a little brown like Andrew’s eyes, Matt added some gold to the final pouring cup as well for ✨aesthetic✨ purposes)

then the pouring begun. Matt’s insides slowly started coming apart while watching his always tense and alert best friend become absolutely transfixed on how the paint formed beautiful patterns and cells. It was like Neil’s anxiety was shut off for the hour they were making art.

Andrew also noticed how tranquil Neil had become compared to how he was just a few hours before when Neil went to their room that afternoon. He himself started to relax a little more knowing the one person he cared about more than himself had found something that can ease his anxiety in a healthy way.

Art Sunday’s became a regular part of Matt and Neil’s routine. As soon as the cousins, Neil and Kevin would come back from Columbia, Neil would head straight to Matt’s dorm where Matt would be waiting with a new art project set up.

Arts and crafts projects they’ve tried out:

-watercolour painting (Neil does not have the patience for the amount of layers needed, especially since he has a habit of never fully cleaning the brushes and his paintings always ending up a muddy brown colour)

-clay flower pot making (the first pot Neil make was in the shape of a fox, and it was actually really life-like. He gave it to Abby, who’s house may as well be a forest with the amount of house plants she owns Neil ends up loving clay pot making so much that he regularly makes flower pots for Abby who eventually starts giving some of them to Betsy since she does not have enough space left in her house)

-embroidery (Matt ended up having to call Abby for medical aide since his big burly hands got in the way and he accidentally stabbed himself with a needle when trying to make a cute rose design for Dan to hang in her dorm)

-Oil painting (Andrew refused to be anywhere close to Neil if he didn’t shower enough times to get the smell of turps out of his fingers because the idiot decided to ruin his hands by finger painting and using turps to soften some areas of the painting)

even after they were graduated, Matt and Neil still made time (an hour each Sunday) where they would video call and do fun arts and crafts which helped maintain their already strong friendship.

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can you hear me sobbing–

I know that Andrew and Neil never have kids, that they never adopt or foster or anything, but there’s one thing in my head you can’t convince me of.

You can’t tell me that one year, there isn’t a fox that reminds Wymack so much of Neil or Andrew. And it kills him to see this kid struggling, rejecting their role on the team, fighting him at every turn. You can’t tell me that after trying his best, never gaining their trust, Wymack doesn’t decide that they need a mentor and call Neil. And you can’t tell me that Neil wouldn’t try to help. That he wouldn’t see this kid, so terrified and untrusting, and feel it in his soul that this was himself when he joined the Foxes too.

And sure, the kid is in college, and to them it doesn’t need to be said- but they welcome this kid into their home, and let them know that they are always welcome. There’s an open invitation to every holiday, they get mailed a key to the new house whenever they move after the pros. And they come home. For every holiday. Because they feel safe there, maybe Neil and Andrew were the first people who made them feel safe and protected, maybe Andrew and Neil never say ‘I love you’, but this kid knows that this is what love is really like. So maybe, they don’t adopt or have kids, but they change some kid’s life forever. And that kid becomes a part of their family, and sees them as fathers, because they may be dysfunctional and a little abnormal and they are totally weird and complex, but they look out for this kid when no one else does.

Anyway, you can’t tell me otherwise.

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If Andrew got taken along with Neil during the riot ~

Nathan: this one thinks he’s brave

Andrew: it’s hard to be afraid of someone not wearing shoes. This is your house. How were you not ready in time? I cannot be afraid of someone so ill-prepared.

Nathan:

Andrew: :|

#SCREAMING #all for the game #I would die for Andrew Minyard

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andrew loving hours

do not repost

#it’s always andrew loving hours here #andrew minyard #all for the game

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daily aftg hc: just neil carrying andrews things around. i feel like neil usually has a bag with him, whether it be his gear, a duffle bag, or just a backpack for his stuff. andrew would not let a backpack ruin his aesthetic, and neil doesn't have enough stuff to actually fill a bag, so most of it is andrews. old cigarette packs, books, pens, phone, etc. just everything andrew cant fit in his pockets or doesn't feel like holding. i imagine if neil doesnt have a bag and theyre going shopping or something, he just mindlessly follows behind andrew with like twenty things in his hands. both of their phones and key rings, a lighter, a pack of cigarettes, probably some pieces of gum and candy. literally just everything. andrew will occasionally hand things off to him and he doesnt even look at it, he just fits it in somewhere. its like jenga but mobile and a little more romantic

#wait but this makes sense #cause the bag is probably a comfort item for Neil after having his duffel for so long #and then if people ask he can say he has it for Andrew's stuff too and it's a reasonable excuse

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THIS

please I am begging you to draw Andrew wearing a frog hoodie to match your sketch of Neil in a fox hoodie (if you have the time ofc <3)

u want me to draw what??