Latest Posts by ellyus - Page 5

I'm trying to prove a point to my brain: Reblog if you think fanfiction does not need sex to be good.

There is a trend I’ve noticed that smut fics tend to be much more popular than anything else and honestly I just want to have something to look at to remind myself and that writing doesn’t have to have sex to be worth putting out into the community.

I don't think you understand how much Jean referring to Neil as Nathaniel has effected me emotionally.

Now that I finished my second read of tsc, there's only one reasonable thing to do.

*Neil Josten let his cigarette burn to the filter without taking a drag.*

I feel like the aftg fandom has just swung hard from one mischaracterization of Neil to another.

Yes, Neil is not an innocent little soft-boy like a lot of fans made him out to be pre-TSC, but he isn't some cold, calculated badass either.

He took out a hit on Grayson over Thai food. He doodles fox paws in his notebooks and hates vegetables. He insults FBI agents' parking jobs and he spent a bus ride staring over the back of his seat making heart eyes at his boyfriend. He manipulated the agents while eating takeout in the interrogation room. He canonically internally panics and overthinks the entire time he's attempting to manipulate anyone. He uses people's family trauma to manipulate them. He misses his mom.

Neil Abram Josten is a multifaceted character

do you ever find it funny that Riko wanted to make a perfect team of players for the USA nation while he's Japanese, Kevin is half-Irish, Jean is French and Neil is half-British and the other half is Polish???

Like dude almost nothing about ur team is American tf do u want to do?!?!?

another: who is richer, Jeremy or Neil?

one question: how rich is jeremy’s ass

follow up question: is he going to try and buy jean’s freedom from the moriyamas

A graphic of what reading tsc is like:

Nora, I am suing you for the damage that Jean's angst has done to my mental health. But also I forgive you just because you let Neil go feral.

idk why but i'm obsessed with this scene. like neil is smiling the butcher's smile and he knows he is, and tries to hide it !!!!

andrew SPRINTED! i need you all to understand! andrew RAN FOR NEIL. i don’t know why this never clicked in my head because neil was about to get fucking killed and of course andrew was there. but the fact that andrew ran for him, after an entire series of neil running and realizing what it meant to stay—this was andrew’s final nail in the coffin that neil’s this isn’t nothing was real after all. i need to lay on the ground

My biggest flex will always be how I knew Neil was the more feral and dangerous one than Andrew this whole time even before tsc and seeing the entire fandom freaked out makes me want to kiss and hug Nora and just thank her for finally finally showing everyone and I’m not just crazy

post-win andreil bone crushing hug at the olympics. injected into. my veins

flyby updates: - very promising progress with regards to audiobooks & translations, but still locking a few things in. ty for your patience & sorry for the wait <3 - got the first paperback proof but the formatting was weirdly off, so made some updates and am waiting for the next proof to arrive in the mail (should be here Tuesday) - have one last round of updates for the ebooks that I haven't pushed through yet - don't remember if there was a fourth note, if I remember it I'll come back and update this post

and EC reminds us that he worked through all of the people that hurt his people

Yes, Neil ordering a hit on Grayson in the middle of a restaurant was The Move™️ of all time, BUT let's not forget that it wasn't the first time Neil ensured someone's death in public.

He might not have officially ordered and paid for this one, but he sure did sick Stuart on Proust to make sure he died in the middle of a crowd at championships.

if you can, please BUY The Sunshine Court yourself.

It will be less than a dollar to purchase. Don't get it from third party book sharing sites.

If you are able to, please support self published authors.

never gone from amused to devastated quite so fast before

never change, neil josten

'i would prefer if you didn't call me by my last name' see this is what i mean like yk who else would say something like that? our resident wesninski but jeremy didn't even acknowledge this for a SECOND in his pov bro is pretending to be an unbothered king so bad i want to sit in his brain for a while

jeremy saying he's always wanted a dog and comparing jean to a starving dog vs andrew saying he wants nothing and calling neil nothing

Nathaniel is Jean's broken promise.

Jean is Neil's "what if..."

What if Mary didn't give a fuck about her son, just like Jean's parents didn't? What if she didn't love him enough to try to save him? What if they didn't run away?

Sold to Moriyama and Riko specifically, given a number on his cheek, broken, scared, tortured and raped.

Jean-yves Moreau is Nathaniel Wesninski Neil Josten barely managed to avoid becoming

Finished and just have to Say Neil Josten the absolute man that you are. Insulting cops on their park jobs. Casually ordering a hit on Jean Moreau’s abuser while at the table with him ? Icon

the Andreil scraps nora fed us were 🤌🏻✨ Andreil are canon protective boyfriends cos what do you mean Neil crosses the court to retaliate for someone fouling Andrew?? What do you mean Andrew throws himself out of his goal like "all hell was at his heels" to protect Neil??? What do you mean they look for each other in lingering looks and matching armbands and cigarette smoke "whenever one fell out of orbit for too long"???? Are you trying to kill me?????? 😭😭😭

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.

Y’all we just got a RELEASE DATE how the fuck are we not trending???? how the fUCK ARE WE NOT LOSING OUR MINDS??? TEN DAYS YALL!!! TEN!!!!

1 I think we've all seen it by now but tsc will be out april 13. english ebooks will be avail same places the first three are, paperbacks will be a lil bit later (easier to correct digital than print, so delay is a buffer for any emergency typos) 2 probably won't see the cover until it's out, bc it's not ready yet, but it's not an emoji (woe) or a sun. (unfortunately it cannot be a mascot either on account of me not wanting USC to execute me on sight)

3 still sorting out which pics of LA to post, I've got about 30 set aside to review but I def don't want to upload that many. they'll likely go up the same day the book is out

4 wrt TSC2, one person guessed correctly that TEB is "Two: Electric Boogaloo". TFS is "this fuckin sucks" because tsc2 is being a nightmare. TAF is "these're all fake". Its actual title was decided back in mid Feb but yall will have to wait til later this year for it

NOBODY understands that short, depressed, asshole, med student, who’s just trying to graduate without being targeted by the mafia or an over dramatic college sport cult, the way that I DO

One thing I genuinely think the fandom forgets or underestimates is just how weird Neil is. Like we paint him to be this carismatic, flashy, cocky bad boy, but in reality he's stingy, skittish, balks at anything more personal then his thoughts on Exy and Cannot for the life of him socialize. Like in the Raven King, right after Seth dies, he straight up goes:

"Neil had to patch things up with [Allison] somehow, but he didn't know where to start. He'd never been good at winning people over. Someone like Allison wasn't likely to be his first success. "

Neil's spent his life living on the outskirts of "average" life. Ergo, he's cagey and flighty and so far removed from normal that even among the Foxes he'll always be a little unpredictable and odd. And you know what, good for him; we all deserve an antisocial introverted asshole to raly behind.

nobody understands how fucking insane I am about neil josten. I want to build an art gallery for that man, a museum, a cathedral. I want to capture the sound of his laughter in a bottle. I want to interview the monster that lived under his childhood bed. I want to study his profile while he’s sleeping. I want to know every speck of color in his eyes. I want his bones that healed wrong. I want to catch the way foreign curses fall from his tongue and make a wind chime out of them. I want to pluck the sun out of his hair. I want to see his already questionable humanity decay. I want to taste his terror and despair and I want to cradle him in my arms and never let another person hurt him ever again

I told my friend about Edgar Allan ravens, the nest and moriyama lore, the image she had in mind when I finished was this

accurate much?

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