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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

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Exy Fans on Twitter (Nathaniel Wesninski edition)

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The King's Men - Epilogue

Day: Saturday, April 27th / 28th* Time: 3:10 AM EST

Neil waits off to one side while the others file out, knowing Andrew will be the last to leave. Wymack knows better than to stick around and follows his Foxes down the hall. Andrew brings Neil's duffel to him. Neil takes it but drops it off to one side. Andrew studies it for a moment, then shrugs out of his own bag and puts a hand to the wall near Neil's head. "Your close calls are getting old," Andrew says. "I thought you knew how to run." Neil affects confusion. "I thought you told me to stop running." "Survival tip: no one likes a smart mouth." "Except you," Neil reminds him. A year ago Neil had been a scared nobody, hating himself for signing the Foxes' contract and counting down days until he moved in with Wymack. Tonight he is the starting striker for the first-ranked team in the NCAA. In two years he'll be captain, and in four he'll graduate from Palmetto State. Neil will find a professional team first and then fight tooth and nail to make the cut for Court. Neil can already imagine the weight of an Olympics medal around his neck. He doesn't even care what color it is so long as it is his. Better than that bright future is what he already has: a court that will always be home, a family who'll never give up on him, and Andrew, who for once hasn't wasted their time denying that this thing between them might actually mean something to both of them. Neil didn't even notice the silence at first, too distracted by his dizzying thoughts. Now he can't help but smile and pull Andrew in. This is everything he wanted, everything he needed, and Neil is never letting go.

END OF ALL FOR THE GAME SERIES.

Art commissioned and used with permission by the incredible @hamrikaa!

*Due to the Leap Year, I have opted to highlight the day rather than the date to keep the events in occurrence to the 2007 year. I will continue to mark both days accordingly.

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Neil

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Okay yes we know that Andrew sprinted, dashed, HURTLED even, when he saw Neil on his knees even after blocking 150 + attempts on his goal because he loves that man. But also-

It had been Andrew’s idea to put Neil against Riko in the first place.

For Andrew it was reach Riko or die. (Die knowing that his contributing to exy ended Neil’s life.)

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I imagine the fbi agents looked up what his tshirt meant after, which brought them the need to get drunk or a rise in salary for dealing with this.

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Renee flashing Riko the peace sign while zooming out of the dumpster fire that is Edgar Allan with a half-dead Jean in the passenger seat is the funniest thing ever. Like the peace sign probably pissed Riko off more than if she had flipped him off or screamed GET FUCKED about the window. There’s no malice in the gesture, no violence. No need for it. Riko doesn’t deserve her violence. Renee rescued Jean. She gave him an opportunity to find peace. Riko can die mad about that.

#and he does die mad about it XD

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nora pls tell me why the FUCK the monsters have a cheese drawer 💀

#i absolutely refuse to believe it's andrews 😭😭😭 #i gotta blame nicky or someone just not andrew #all for the game #aftg #the sunshine court #tsc spoilers

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one day nicky discovers his old camera from when the twins were teens and the footage in there is gold. for the next movie night he plugs it in as a surprise and everyone watches in delight (or horror if you are andrew + aaron) as andrew locks himself in his room because aaron told him his use of hair gel makes him look like an emo draco malfoy.

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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

#i am allergic to cheese so i dont have one now #but growing up we still didnt have a whole drawer for cheese #we did however have a drawer for deli meat and stuff like that and the chese would go in there

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aaron minyard doesn’t hate neil josten because he’s annoying or because he’s his brothers boyfriend.

no, aaron minyard hates neil josten because one day, neil will be asked to kill his brother and andrew would hand him the gun without hesitation.

it starts when neil joins the team. sure, things were rough before, but this kid showing up out of nowhere and trying to fix them rubbed salt in the wound. he sees how neil interests andrew, how his brother keeps giving the liar his yeses and his deals and promises. it doesn’t sink in until baltimore, until andrew breaks his deal and chokes out kevin. watching andrew kneel in front of neil (nathaniel), a broken boy made from butchers and glass, that’s when fear starts to claw into his heart. he interrogated neil at the cabin, and the whole time there’s a whisper in his head saying “just how far will andrew go”

aaron watched andrew fight his way into being his own person after a childhood of tragedy upon tragedy. he was there when nicky adopted them, when andrew explored his agency and rebuilt himself from the ground up. and then he watched as andrew found neil and piece by damning piece built his life around him. they’d deny being codependent but there is no more andrew minyard and neil josten there is only andrewandneil.

neil makes a deal with the mafia and aaron wants to scream, shake the man and ask him where his brother fits into all this.

but he knows.

he knows that one day, neil josten won’t be a professional exy player anymore. he knows that the man will grow old and slower, and one day he won’t have a paycheck to send to the moriyamas. they’ll consider him a liability, show up at his home (the one he shares with andrew)

and when neil josten will fall, so will andrew minyard.

his brother claims he is an independent person but he is lying

aaron is terrified, because he knows there is no corner of hell that neil josten could not lead his brother to.

neil josten is andrew minyards death sentence, and aaron is the only one who can see it. he cares too much about his brother not to.

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Movie night in the girls' dorm goes wrong, and Andrew is unforgivably betrayed by the one thing that has never let him down before.

Cookies.

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Chapter 2 of my Andrew allergies fic is out now!

This also fulfills part/month 4 of my self-assigned ‘post one work each month of the year’ challenge. I’m posting chapter 2 for April. Chapter 3 will come out sometime next month for May.

Go check out the fic!

#aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #neil josten #andreil #aftg fanfic #aftg fanfiction #aftg fic #all for the game fanfic #all for the game fanfiction #all for the game fic #purpleshadow's fics

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Why are we not talking about the fact that Jean was also a sassy little shit to the FBI? The entire bureau of federal investigations was not prepared to handle this particular pair of nineteen year olds

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The realization that Jean and Andrew are/were both number three might break me after the parallels between them in tsc

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Jeremy repressed his problems so well we couldn't even get anything from his own fucking povs. Boy doesn't even think about them

#neil: we know everything about him but nothing about anyone else #jeremy: we know nothing about him but everything about everyone else #the sunshine court #tsc #jeremy knox #aftg #all for the game

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I can appreciate the aftg fandom for what it is.