I’m a sucker for “remember aftg is set on the 2000s” and I don’t think I ever realized the things that were happening at the same time on the backstories:
1998: Mary runs away with Neil (10). Renee (15) is arrested
November/December 1999: The twins (13) find out about each other. Tilda begins hitting Aaron
Late 1999 - early 2000: Allison (14) is hospitalized for bulimia
March 2000: Andrew is sent to juvie
May 2000: Aaron and Tilda move to Columbia
Summer 2000: Nicky (17) goes to Germany. Neil (12) moves from Germany to Switzerland
2001: Luther finds out about Andrew, six months later (late 2001- early 2002) the twins(~15) meet
Spring/Summer 2003: Andrew (16) leaves juvie and moves in with Aaron and Tilda
Summer/Fall 2003: Tilda dies five months after Andrew moves in and Nicky (20) goes back to Columbia to be with the twins. Dan (18), Renee (20) and Allison’s (17-18) first season. Neil (15) is in Canada
Early 2004: Nicky (20-21) is attacked and Andrew (17) is put on medication
Summer 2004: Matt’s (17-18) and Kevin’s (18) first season
Fall/Winter 2004: Kevin offers a spot at the Ravens to Andrew
Winter 2004 - early 2005: Wymack offers a spot with the Foxes to the cousins (18 and 21)
Summer 2005: The cousin’s first season (18 and 22). Mary dies and Neil (17/18) moves to Millport
December 2005: Kevin (19) gets his hand broken
Circa April 2006: Neil (18/19) signs with the Foxes
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I live for twinyard angst man, it was really good to read :]
hey do you ever wonder if sometime during his degree aaron took a class about drugs and drug addictions and found out that quitting cold the way he did from the amount of drugs he was on could've killed him. do you ever wonder if andrew knew. do you ever wonder if there's a different timeline where aaron didn't survive the bathroom
another one is, the baby bump very helpful I use it for ocs it gives girl, boy, gender non conforming, with the whole abcs
You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended
I RAISE YOU POLYAMORY BETWEEN AARON, KATELYN, KEVIN AND THEA.
(I will not explain why I raise this I just do)
microwaved take but while i like and enjoy kevaaron as a ship, i will NOT tolerate kevaaron happening via aaron cheating on katelyn like i'm sorry but do you seriously think that AARON FUCKING MINYARD as in the bitch who figured out he could use neil to break off andrew's deal before NEIL realised that, who was actively spending as much time as he could with katelyn when andrew was in easthaven, who agreed to joint therapy with his brother just so he could keep his girlfriend, you think that man is cheating on her??? like, ever???
either kateaaron doesn't happen or its a mutual breakup of some kind but in NO universe is aaron cheating on katelyn
writing is fucking hard cuz you gotta make it coherent like I'm trying to get layouts for episodes/chapters for an oc fic done I've got three plus the prologue done I wanna have five of the actual chapter episodes layouts done before I start writing them do I know how to start the episode four layout no am I aware that from episode 2-4 probably 5 are flashbacks to 2 weeks before the shit starts even tho the prologue I'd like 2-3 months prior to everything yes, I can't tell coherent shit I normal do rp shit with friends or its just wips about ocs that never see the light of day am I now invested in stardew valley and have lore for my farmer yes am I gonna do wips of that yes will I ever post them maybe
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First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die
How you dying 👀
I legit thought that the two were dating but no we suffer from another non relationship break up that ended in deaths, man that shit could have been solved by kisses and hand holding
oh he was itching to hold his hand
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?
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."
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explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.
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hi uhhh I'm aroace ghost rat ting here, 19 years I use any pronouns as icba to care what you use should clarify that I'm a massive bitch
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