Generation Whedon—and it shows. Aggressively inconsistent with social media / shacked up with
@lemoniceefreeze
/ twitter/discord official with
@justadreamfox
The aftg plot hole that bothers me the most is how Riko and Jean Moreau managed to remove all those years of bleach and dye and restore Neil’s hair back to his natural color.
AU where the incoming freshmen Foxes play “people BINGO” with the existing Foxes. What do they put on their BINGO cards? Like…
“Neil says something horrifying about the mafia.”
“Allison tries to get you to bet $500 on how many times Kevin will shake his head during practice.”
Neil was torn between incredulity and disdain. Why Wymack set himself up for disappointment time and time again, Neil didn’t know. Neil would have given up on the Foxes years ago.
Sure, baby. Try that line again in six months.
AU I will never write: Andrew’s BFF and roommate Kevin comes home from the student union one day super cranky. See, Kevin has spent the last few years becoming the acknowledged SU games champion on campus. Table tennis, pool, cornhole—all of it. He’s the best.
If you happened to like Quicksand and have not read this yet, you’re sleeping on it. Stunning. I’ve never fallen so deeply in love before.
Slow Parade - Chapter 1 - stillmadaboutpetra - All For The Game - Nora Sakavic [Archive of Our Own]
Okay here’s the thing. The last chapter of Quicksand is taking SO LONG because the truth of my soul wants it to have a good dose of angst, but I also do not want to betray the ideals of the thirsty Andrew romp, so I keep trying to shove it into a lighter place. Thoughts??
Okay, I’m trying a thing. One fic, one year, 365 short updates. It’s an experiment. Can I do it? Can Andrew? Who really wins If he does? Will anyone give *me* $20k if I make it happen?
Holy shit, you guys. This is like, 100x better than the original and I vote we petition for a full rewrite and pretend it was the actual thing the whole time.
Quicksand Thanksgiving, from Neil’s POV - a work of staggering genius by
@Stillmadstaymad
Do you guys ever think about what the crime scene photos of your house would look like if you got murdered? And then get mortified because it’s SO not clean enough to get PHOTOGRAPHED?
Labyrinth AU. Andrew is the Goblin King. Neil jokingly summons him to make his hard ass team captain disappear. Andrew shows up and abducts Kevin.
Kevin: why did you kidnap me?
Andrew: some hot guy asked me to.
Neil goes on a quest to rescue Kevin.
AU where Andrew has to join a dance team for some reason and isn’t a natural and Neil agrees to help him improve with private practices. Neil is, of course, very good. Also, hot. Very hot.
I want random mass-produced PSU Foxes pens and flash drives and shit. If a friend and I bulk order a bunch of Foxes/PSU merch and put together little swag bags/gift bags and shit would people want to buy them? They’d be like $15-20 bucks? cost plus shipping? Like if yes/maybe
I truly wish I could have gotten college freshmen to bring half the level of analysis that the people in my comments are bringing. There are claims and text evidence and a broad range of interpretations, passionately defended. I had NO idea it would get this kind of reaction…
Okay but you know how Olympic athletes are just fuckin’ all the time in their village? Imagine a world in which Andrew (US) and Neil (UK) meet there for the first time.
But then they win at trivia, obvs, Kevin remembers the benefits of working together against *other* people, and Andrew gets to put his hand down the hot guy’s pants. Everybody wins.
Kevin gets the kid’s phone number. They text back and forth, shit talking each other constantly. Kevin drags the kid to hell and back when he rants about him to Andrew, but Andrew thinks Kevin is actually having the time of his life. Because he is a complete weirdo.
Except he’s met his match. Some freshman asshole just wiped the floor with him at table tennis. Repeatedly. Over and over until he told Kevin he had to go to class and couldn’t accept his “best out of 13” challenge.
Andrew…could not care less. He tries to care less, but it is impossible. Still, Kevin comes home at least once a week, furious. Every game they try, this kid beats him at. Giant Jenga. Shuffleboard. Everything.
@ana_quien
They don’t RSVP, they just show up. US Court Exy stars Andrew Minyard and Neil Josten just popping into the Hyatt in Millport, AZ. Andrew in an $800 jacket, Neil in whatever Andrew told him to put on. Who would even have the courage to approach them first??
I like the idea of Neil flopped in his dorm with a bowl of pretzels balanced on his chest, switching back and forth between (playfully) taunting Kevin and (disastrously) flirting with Andrew—while they sit on their own couch not paying attention to Game of Thrones.
Should Andrew meet Neil separately somewhere? Probably. They can be in the same math class. Andrew has been putting it off, Bc math is dumb (don’t @ me). So he’s been “flirting” with the hot guy from his math class the whole time and definitely NOT mentioning it to Kevin.
At some point, their worlds have to combine. Andrew has long refused to be dragged to the student union to provide moral support in Kevin’s battles against his mortal enemy.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Feelings are cancelled for the rest of today. Please inform your feelings that they are to immediately vacate the premises, but may return to work tomorrow as usual.
WHAT IF Kevin decides to change the venue completely. Challenges Neil to go against him at trivia night. Andrew agrees to be on Kevin’s trivia team bc then he gets free drinks. He figures, might as well ask the hot guy from his math class. They have Jeremy (?) but they need 4.
Hot math guy says sure. He has to go to that anyway. Imagine Kevin’s horror: Andrew’s date (do NOT let him hear you call it that) shows up and it is THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD.
Note of warning: if you tell a friend (who got you into aftg but left the fandom before you got there) about a fic wherein Neil kills Drake, you MAY need to clarify that you mean shitty book Drake and not hip hop/R&B superstar Drake.
Only one more chapter of Paper Anniversary to post and then I can’t obsess over it anymore. Please empathize with me about how stressful sequels are, thanks.
It’s been exactly one year since I posted the first chapter of my fake dating high school bullshit, the longest fic I’ve ever written. It’s crazy how time works.
MAY I PRESENT TO YOU:
QUICKSAND drabbles in Neil POV by
@likearecordbb
(yes, i successfully bullied my platonic girlfriend into polishing and posting this today, yes you helped, and yes you are welcome)
Is there an AU where the Wesninski have a vacation home on a lake and the Minyard/Hemmicks are a townie family there? And people row across this big ass lake to see each other? And blah blah true love?
yes, yes, the mafia stuff is vaguely interesting, I guess, and I suppose being on the run from your murderous father was eventful, but more importantly--what do you do with your dick in bed? do you put it in stuff or not?
I’m staying out of the comments bc it’s not my place or right to tell people how to read the story, but some of y’all missed your callings and should go to grad school for English. You’d write the BEST papers.
Ahem. I had the great privilege of pinch-hitting and writing a second mixtape fic. Here I am, shamelessly sharing the header thing I made for it.
he’s a nightmare |
Just think about all of the late night practices. Alone. So much sexual tension and touching that is theoretically only about the choreography. So much spontaneous contact when Andrew gets better and is more comfortable leading.
Two things I ❤️ about fandom:
1. The beautiful range of diversity in ships, dynamics, tropes, kinks, settings, styles, characterization, horny/weird usernames
2. The space this diversity gives us to engage with what brings us joy and respectfully not engage with what doesn’t.
Deleted line from my weird, moody
#aftgmixtape2020
fic:
Andrew thinks, sometimes, that if he had a truck like Matt’s, the roads would simply be where he said they were.
I am having A LOT OF FEELINGS today about Andrew and Neil and their incredible relationship and how beautifully they mesh and are equals and stubbornly, aggressively love each other SO MUCH.
@sambutwithbooks
I have this HC that the second time they kiss, when Neil is all “It’s okay if you hate me!” Andrew’s internal monologue is like YOU FUCKING IDIOT WTF