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Me: I'm going to leave Tumblr for a while because I want no TSC spoilers, and I am not yet mentally ready to read the book.

Also me: *spends an hour going through the All For The Game tag looking for Neil mentions*

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they are perfectly normal

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it has been 1,374 days since the old guard. 1,374 days since we met our gay immortal found family. so hey netflix! i know you hit a new rock bottom every day but why isn't the sequel on the 2024 list

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ao3 needs a “notify me when this is finished” button. different from subscribing. i don’t have the patience for single chapter updates but what i DO have is object impermanence. i want to forget this fic exists and weeks later get hit with an email notification and ignore everything around me to immediately read 50k in one sitting

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THE ENTERPRISE GETS ATTACKED BY A LARGE CLOUD OF SPACE ICE.

SIR WERE BEING HAILED.

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one of my favorite things about aftg is that in any given conversation not related to about, like, three things (exy, Andrew, and the mafia) Neil is just. entirely checked out. he was there for the first sentence of that conversation and immediately clocked out once he realized there would be no Stick Ball Talk.

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I fully believe Neil sent this to the foxes post Baltimore

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Aftg is fun cause all the characters are living in different genres like neil is in a mafia thriller while andrew is in some a24 drama film. Kevin is the horse girl in a horse girl movie and dan is in an underdogs sports story. Poor aaron is trying to have a normal slice of life forbidden romance type beat but then he has to go and kill a guy.

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Have you written anything about Neil being mic’d up? Bc I would love to read that

Tbh I feel like Neil would be the least entertaining when mic’d up. Not because he’s not funny but because he gets so hyper focused on the game he isn’t talking outside of shouting in French at Kevin. I think Kevin is the same way tbh.

What they would do instead is have Neil watch and commentate his highlight reels and explain his thought process.

*neil getting body checked by a 6ft3 back liner and just ducking and rolling to grab the ball again*

“Oh yeah that hurt. Mans a skyscraper but ya know it was just instinct. You just gotta like tuck your head in and pray” *demonstrates how to do a somersault in the least graceful way*

*neil staring at andrew from across the court*

“Andrew made an impossible save, it was hot”

*from off camera* “junkie”

*some backliner all up in neils face, clearly arguing and screaming at him*

“I don’t even remember what I said to him but it clearly set him off.”

*aaron and neil arguing with each other*

“I don’t even remember what I said to him but it clearly set him off. Probably deserved it”

*neil getting up after a nasty tackle and limping off the court after Dan sent him off*

“I was fine”

*Andrew from off screen* “You were not fucking fine you almost broke a rib”

“Yeah, but I didn’t” *shrugs*

*neil running and jumping into matt’s arms after the game ends*

“I was just thinking ‘this is what it must be like to be tall’ honestly”

“If that’s what Kevin and Matt are seeing all the time, I’m not interested”

*watching the teams shaking hands at the end of the game*

“Asshole. Asshole. Asshole. Good player. Asshole. Asshole. Fuck him. Good player. Honestly a good team overall, can’t complain”

His mic would pick him up mimicking the opposing teams accents (subconsciously or on purpose). And it would start a conspiracy amongst fans about what neils real accent is

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Starfleet: Enterprise, please confirm your location, over. Kirk: This is the Captain. We are in space, over.

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y'all have gotta stop putting matt in these "who would win!!" polls. it will never be him. he's going to break all of his ribs and black out. and then keep trying to fight the other party regardless. this is cruel

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Neil "you're the best thing that's ever happened to me" Josten, and Andrew "i don't have much competition" Minyard

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FEBUWHUMP 2024 PROMPT LIST

this year's prompts were chosen through a suggestion poll (in which we recevied 2,281 prompts) and a subsequent vote, where over 1,000 people voted for their favourites. the top 29 make up the core prompts, and a mixture of the next most popular - and this blog's personal favourites - have become the alternates

i’m so excited to see what you all create with these prompts, and hope they’re inspiring enough to trigger a whole month’s worth of creativity for you! if you have any questions, please check out the blog's faq before sending an ask, or check out the previously asked questions on the blog!

please note: this year, notifying the blog of completionist status will happen through a google form that will be released closer to the end of febuwhump.

full write-up of prompts and rules under the cut:

FEBUWHUMP 2024 PROMPTS:

DAY 1: helpless

DAY 2: solitary confinement

DAY 3: "bite down on this"

DAY 4: obedience

DAY 5: rope burns

DAY 6: "you lied to me"

DAY 7: suffering in silence

DAY 8: "why won't it stop?"

DAY 9: bees

DAY 10: killing in self defence

DAY 11: time loop

DAY 12: semi-conscious

DAY 13: "you weren't supposed to get hurt"

DAY 14: blood-stained tiles

DAY 15: "who did this to you?"

DAY 16: came back wrong

DAY 17: hostage situation

DAY 18: too weak to move

DAY 19: "please don't"

DAY 20: truth serum

DAY 21: unresponsive

DAY 22: "you weren't meant to be there"

DAY 23: presumed dead

DAY 24: "i'm doing this because i care about you"

DAY 25: waterboarding

DAY 26: "help them"

DAY 27: left for dead

DAY 28: "no... not like this"

DAY 29: not allowed to die

ALTERNATE PROMPTS:

is there a specific day’s prompt you don’t want to fill? here are ten alternatives you can switch them out for!

ALT 1: human shield

ALT 2: "i love you"

ALT 3: found footage

ALT 4: human weapon

ALT 5: cpr

ALT 6: immortality

ALT 7: last words

ALT 8: killing game

ALT 9: lightning strike

ALT 10: last man standing

RULES:

SOFT RULES:

prompts should be answered in the form of whump

creators can produce whatever kind of media they want

you don’t have to complete all the prompts! you can create however much you want to

you can use the prompts after the event ends and can complete them in tandem with any other event

you can post on any platform you want, however this blog will only be sharing those posted on tumblr

if you want to be featured on the hall of fame then you have until the 3rd of March to inform this blog that you completed all the days

if you have questions consult the faq before asking

HARD RULES: (specifically for being featured on the blog)

when uploading febuwhump content to tumblr, please use the tags:

febuwhump (i’ll also be checking febuwhump2024)

the relevant day’s tag e.g. febuwhumpday1, febuwhumpday2…

nsfw (if relevant)

and any trigger warnings that may be important!

you can also tag the blog, @febuwhump

i cannot guarantee your work will be archived on the blog because I have no idea how many participants there will be. a random selection of works tagged in accordance to the rules above will be reblogged every day of february.

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andreil are not hate-fucking nor dating, but a secret third thing:

bonded shelter-cats that can't be adopted separately

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happy new year neil josten

scene redraw from the first few pages of tkm 🫶

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Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook