Neil Josten lets Andrew's his cigarettes burn to the filter without taking a drag. He hates vegetables. He knows all the places you can shoot a man without killing him. He doodles fox paws on his homework. He's not scared of knives or violence or the yakuza. He is scared of cellphones and therapists and his own reflection. His favourite colour is gray. He got told he couldn't play exy with a bloody nose so he sniffed back the blood until they let him. He doesn't like movies or loud music. He hitchhiked halfway across South Carolina by pretending to be a sociology student. He gets sad when Kevin watches exy without him. He wishes he had his mother's patience instead of his father's temper. He's brilliant at manipulation. He's stupid on purpose. He was every inch a lie but his friends made him into someone real. He doesn't wear a jacket to the roof when it's cold because he knows Andrew's body heat will keep him warm. He thinks the hardest thing he's ever had to do was opening a tub of ice cream after kissing his boyfriend and not like, all the torture he's been through. Nobody is doing it like him
Does anyone have any book recs similar to trc????
Who's handling who in this relationship anyway??
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Neil josten:
andreil going viral after Nicky uses that song a boy who's jacked and kiiind to make an edit of Andrew picking up Neil and throwing him over his shoulders like a potato bag to drag the idiot away from useless fight
Maura continued, “You’re avoiding a hard choice. Acting by not acting. You’re ambitious, but you feel like someone’s asking something of you you’re not willing to give. Asking you to compromise your principles. Someone close to you, I think. Your father?”
“Brother, I think,” Persephone said.
“I don’t have a brother, ma’am,” Adam replied. But Blue saw his eyes dart to Gansey.
omfg this is incredible
Prompt: Andrew and Aaron "bonding," with mixed results
they can’t play any sort of racing-based video game with each other because once andrew said ‘if gays can’t drive then why do you keep eating my dust’ and aaron threw a controller at him and hit the wall instead. aaron tried to lie about why there was a dent in the wall. andrew did not.
‘minyard bonding’: anything from ‘we’re dyeing our hair matching shades of green because it’ll piss kevin off’ to ‘property damage? property damage.’ dan will never quite forget the matching look on their faces as they were leaving fox tower one night with backpacks full of spray paint
‘aaron if you steal syringes from the bio lab i can use them to inject chocolate syrup DIRECTLY into cakes. steal them aaron. do it.’ (aaron does it. he doesn’t ask but they both know andrew got the idea from gbbo)
the day after they finish finals their last year they take all of aaron’s lab notebooks outside and burn them. andrew brings a kazoo and plays the palmetto fight song extremely off-key. did i mention it’s 1am
speaking of kazoos: they both have them and it’s a Problem especially since neither of them can match pitch
more under the cut!
their other hobbies: going to a store in matching outfits, but only going in one at a time and checking out a few minutes apart at the same register with slightly different items to make the cashier think they’re losing it; the ‘what if we got mixed up at birth and you’re actually aaron and i’m actually andrew’ discussion that inevitably turns into existential crises at 3am in columbia; fighting over whether peanut butter or mint goes better with chocolate; punch buggy that goes WAY harder than necessary
‘what if i locked you in the bathroom and took your finals for you and answered every question with b’
‘what if i emailed all of my professors from the bathroom and claimed you stole my identity and then emailed all of YOUR professors and told them you like eating chalk and your favorite flavor is purple’
'there was no call for that kind of slander'
'there was no call for that kind of damage to my gpa'
other noted forms of minyard bonding: making fun of each other re: significant others
‘hey ANDREW you looked pretty comfortable in the LIBRARY yesterday. thought you didn’t like libraries hmmm???????????? is it because....... neil was there’
‘rich coming from a guy who changed sections of his neuroscience lecture because katelyn had a class across the hall’
‘at least i don’t have to compete with kevin for katelyn’s attention’
‘i don’t compete with kevin. i win’
‘my point still stands’
‘no it doesn’t’
‘yes it does’
nicky: oh my god guys do you have to have this conversation while we’re literally in the middle of a game
andrew and aaron, simultaneously: yes
aaron complains about some book he has to read for his literature GE class and andrew memorizes it and follows him around reciting it. other things andrew has memorized specifically to harass aaron: the bee movie, my immortal, moby dick, the cheesecake factory menu
andrew tries to steal aaron's fries at sweeties and aaron whips out a spray bottle and spritzes him in the face and says 'NO'
'neil did you know the real reason andrew never dances at eden's is because he only knows fortnite dances'
'that is false'
'sure it is'
neil: what's fortnite
andrew, wielding scissors in a threatening manner: we look too alike
aaron, not looking up from his phone: fucking get a nose piercing or something then, not my problem
aaron also has a massive sweet tooth but unlike andrew he actually gives a shit about staying relatively healthy so he doesn't indulge it too often. but then they get drunk and order 10 pounds of personalized m&ms and argue for forty minutes about what color to get (the only thing they can agree on-- not fucking orange). aaron forgets this happened. andrew does not. when 10 pounds of personalized blue and green m&ms that all say 'fcuk ravenz' arrive at fox tower, it causes quite the uproar
i know this isn't the point and i understand why the book didn't reveal this to us but i NEED to hear everybody's theories on how keema lost his left arm i'm just nosy like that
foreshadowing done well makes me go feral like there’s NOTHING better than getting to the end a book or an important storyline moment and realising that the author laced information so intricately into their writing that weren’t noticeable upon first read but when you read back sections they’re light giant red flags like wow writing is amazing
when u pull up to the 'unreliable narrator' competition but nobody's there
turns out Richard Papen subtly implied it was now and u unquestioningly believed him but really he won hours ago
books >> | six of crows, the raven cycle, aftg | dark academia | currently writing (thinking abt) my book | tiktok: @write_the_room
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