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Desi Neil josten.

#its canon to me #neil josten #aftg

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i love the way you draw Renee (I love your art style in general but I just really love the way you draw her), have a good day/night! :)

thank u kind anon! have a renee doodle 🫶

#shes so pretty 😭 #fave #renee walker #renee walker fanart #aftg

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#fem andreil my beloved ❤️ #fave #aftg #andreil #fem!andreil

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#my jaw is on the floor are u kidding me this is stunning #aftg #andreil #andreil fanart #fave

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what is your holy trinity of fruits

#mango pineapple cherries #objectively the best fruits

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i didn't even realise that neil grabs jean's sleeve before he leaves the car when he tells him grayson won't bother him again. his sleeve !!! because he knows not to touch him without warning. the same way he does for andrew. i'm literally about to cry on the train. neil josten the boundary-respecting consent king you are !!!

#cant believe i didnt pick up on this omg... #i love him #fave #aftg #neil josten

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myth retellings, fantasy inspired by xyz culture and cultural appropriation

today the youtube algorithm led me to the best book related video essay i've ever watched and i simply have to (emphatically) recommend it here

it discusses the problems greek myth retellings have narratively, as books and as retellings, but more importantly it also touches upon the problem of cultural appropriation - something the lovers of speculative fiction inspired by cultures outside of the us and other anglophone countries are reluctant to acknowledge. as someone who's been an avid fantasy reader and booktube watcher for the past five years and who comes from one of the cultures anglophone authors like to get "inspired" by, i'm very passionate about this topic and i'd like to spread awareness about it since it seems that even a community as progressive as the online book community has a huge blind spot when it comes to sff, publishing and cultural appropriation. people tend to get very defensive and say stuff like this:

this is one of the top comments on the video essay above and, in my not at all humble opinion, it is a bad faith argument. on the surface the person is stating something it's hard to disagree with whereas what they really do is dismiss the concerns of the people complaining that their cultures are being stolen, trivialized and sold back to them. now, instead of talking about harmful structural problems in publishing that favors books by anglophone authors instead of translating and promoting foreign works, we're centering the conversation on a cosmopolitan author figure who contributes to Art and Culture by getting "inspired" by the cultures of other people - while willfully ignoring that this "inspired" author is almost always american, british or at the very least a native english speaker.

this is of course a nuanced issue and the solution isn't banning all authors from ever writing outside of their own culture. however, i do believe that in order to make the situation less unjust for authors and readers whose cultures popular anglophone authors like to borrow and profit from we need to acknowledge that something unjust is indeed happening and we need to recognize this injustice for what it is - cultural appropriation. even if the term offends the sensibilities of a reader who loves greek myth retellings or of an aspiring author who plans to write their very own fantasy inspired by eastern european folklore one day.

#important

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#:') #fave

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me reading a book that is not about neil josten: man i love neil josten even more

#my entire tsc experience #b4 i read the book properly i just searched neils name and read all that stuff 😭😭 #aftg #neil josten

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imagine putting a hit out on someone in public twice in the space of a few months

#“you know im good for it” speaks volumes #neils like this isnt the first time ive sent u money to kill a rapist u know the drill by now #fave #aftg #neil josten

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Rusreal

#andreil #andreil fanart #aftg

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Neil Josten moodboard

#no other character like this #aftg #neil josten #fave

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cannot stop thinking about how, from jean’s pov, neil is a Creature. an insane little man. jean expresses physical attraction or at least physical appreciation towards many of the characters in this book, and despite the foxes’ insistence that neil is good looking, to jean neil is always just… a weird and slightly unsettling presence. a strange and arrogant creature with no leash on him. an uncanny force of nature.

#this is why they need to be best friends #aftg #neil josten #jean moreau

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toxic yuri couple in honour of nora sakavic rising from the grave

#aftg #andreil #andreil fanart #fave

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why do I seem to need to? || tsc chapter 6

#aftg #andreil #fave

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god I feel ill...

#my thoughts exactly

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jeaneil in tsc bc they make me go crazy

#tsc spoilers #tsc #jeaneil #jean moreau #neil josten #fave #jeaneil is rlly starting to grow on me im going to be disappointed i fear