I Second This Notion Like Coming From Someone Who Watched American Tv Shows Growing Up In The UK I Have

that's so damn weird like are they on about the same andrew like the one who didn't trust neil at all and thought he was a fucking mole like that andrew

I've said it before and I'll say it again but Andrew going after Nicky for his rape jokes towards Neil was a response to his trauma not that he thought Neil was a babe

I really just wanna iterate that it says so much that everyone just voted for yes with no context like this fandom is there like oh stabbing hell yeah

ok don't think about it just vote

keeping it appropriately vague to not spoil anything, it is aftg related, so just roll with it :]

I need to know how much you guys sleep. I sleep for an average of 8-10 hours every night (I go to sleep at 9:30/10 and wake up at 7 usually). I can function on six hours, though.

"happy 19th birthday junior"

it's my birthday tada

i think about a version of aftg where andrew had to chase after neil and actually catch him in order to keep him. like i imagine a scene where neil's paranoia gets triggered so he runs away and andrew chases after him, not used to the effort so his legs burn and chest hurts but neil is right in front of him, arms length. his knees ache, threatening to buckle but that firey hair in front of him urges him forward. he's about to give up, wonder what makes him even run after this thorn on his side but then neil's looking over his shoulder. eyes wide and blue, shocked for all they're worth and then neil's stumbling.

he falls and stares up at andrew's hunch figure over him amazed. no one has ever caught up to him, no one's ever tried. but here they were, eye to eye with neither one clear what causes the stand still. unsure of why andrew chased and unsure of why neil stayed.

beautiful. wonderful. no notes.

so we're talking baltimore, right? if neil found out lola and romero came for him and instead of going, he did what his mother taught him to do. he dropped everything and ran. he ran even though his muscles ached from the game and he ran away from the best year of his life because maybe for a fleeting second he thinks his mother is waiting for him he thinks she's going to be there when he turns the corner, she's going to give him a new passport and a new name and they're going to escape like they always do and no, maybe she's behind him, maybe she's calling his name, maybe he can hear her, why is he running from her, he needs to stay with her, he has to stay with his mother, he needs to keep her safe just like she kept him safe. for a moment he is alex and stefan and chris and nathaniel and all twenty-two names when he turns around for just a second, and it's not her, and it's not his father either.

the hands that catch hold of him don't hold weapons. andrew stops him from running and he says his name and suddenly neil isn't anybody other than neil, and for one fleeting moment he wonders if he dreamed it, if he could stay here for real. andrew looks scared, but his grip is firm and his voice insistent when he says "you're staying."

for a second neil thinks he can. for a second he wants to.

then he glances over andrew's shoulder, and the past he's spent nine years running from is standing right there.

all he can say is "you have to let me go."

OMG YAY NEIL GORE

neil josten gore sketch as the fandom sighs not another neil josten gore phase please

honestly tho they so would like yes they have a dysfunctional family but they care about each other they'd do a lot for each other, and like they want me to believe that show aemond is aemond from the book like I'm sorry but that is two diffrent people so glad the shows it's own canon and the books are their own canon

Just thinking about how book Alicent and Aemond react to the way their show version treat Aegon kill me 😂

Alicent: what's this bitch is doing to my sweet son? Oh no–

*Show Alicent slap Aegon*

Alicent:...

Aegon: mother? Are you ok–

Alicent: *throw the remote and break the TV*

Alicent: *hugs Aegon tightly, almost suffocating him*

Aegon: M-Mother, can't breathe–

Alicent: Shh, it's ok now, my love. Mother loves you, darling. No more nasty TV for you.

Aemond: what is happening? W-wait don't tell me...

*show Aemond trying to kill Aegon*

Aemond: *face go blank* my king?...

Aegon: hm?

Aemond: forgive me...

Aegon: oh come on it's just a stupid show no need–

Aemond: not that, I'm apologizing for what I'm about to do...

Aemond: *pull his sword out and put it on his own neck*

Aegon: wha... WHAT ARE YOU DOING???!

Aemond: PLEASE DON'T TRY TO STOP ME–

Aemond: *suddenly fall to the ground*

Aegon: *look back up and see Daeron standing there with a flowerpot in his hand*

Daeron: you're welcome.

why would they listen to that man anyway I sure wouldn't

Viserys: Did none of you hear what I just said? Helaena: I’ve been zoned out for the last two and a half hours. Aegon: I got distracted. Aemond: I don’t like you and ignoring you was a conscious decision.

let the guy do his homework he a college student he ain't getting sleep

Everyone ever, mortal and immortal alike: Well at least Percy Jackson will help us with this.

Percy, who has homework: no the fuck I will NOT

I don't need to think of this, I don't need to

hey hold on a sec. we talk about what baltimore was like for kevin, neil, andrew, but can we talk about wymack for a second. Can we just.

the year before the twins and nicky signed at psu, two of wymack's foxes, ian and kirk, died in a car crash.

the next year, kevin day broke his hand and went to wymack, the only person he thought would keep him safe.

the year after that, seth gordon, the only surving member of wymack's original lineup, overdosed after he was so nearly clean, and it almost destroyed allison.

months later, andrew was attacked in columbia and committed to easthaven. aaron killed someone. andrew was gone and the others came back shattered.

then neil claims to go home for the holidays, they don't hear from him all of christmas break, and on new years, neil calls him and asks wymack to pick him up from the airport. he's there instantly and god, he looks half-dead. neil sees the 4 tattoo and tries to cut it off his face. all he can say is that he didn't sign to the ravens.

then there's the blood in the locker room. wymack can't push away the feeling that something's getting closer, something is coming to hurt his foxes and there's nothing he can do to stop it.

then. the game at binghamton. neil looks on edge but wymack doesn't ask what's wrong. neil and andrew are above his paygrade. then the riot. he can't see any of his kids in the crush. he finally pulls them all out, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight–

neil's gone. neil's gone and they can't find him. andrew can't find him. neil got taken by someone. what was that like for david wymack? did it feel too familiar? did he look at his kids and think not again, i didn't lose another one again. does it ever scare him. does it terrify him. when aaron came back from the police station in columbia, twenty four hours in holding and he couldn't look wymack in the eye, did he think what if i can't save these kids? when andrew was lying in a hospital bed, too drugged to react, did he think what if i can't give them their second chance? when neil grabbed that knife, when he fell to pieces on wymack's kitchen floor, when he came back to them in baltimore, bloody and broken, did wymack think why am i always too late?