“do you think they explored each other’s bodies?” they made extensive surveys of each other’s bodies complete with topographical maps and GPS coordinates

Guys. I've done it.

The animatic is finally here!!!! YAhooo!!

I really hope you like it. Took me something like two/three weeks on top of an insane amount of work, I don't know how I managed both-

If you want you can (re)watch it on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mki1Vl3ylMM (yes this is self promotion)

stay strong ✊

More AFTG Twitter updates because Nora likes torturing me

- Thea will make an appearance but Nora is aware she’s universally hated… so there’s that

- Blond Jeremy

- Auburn Neil. Auburn. Not ginger (but we’re free to ignore this)

- Neil gives Andrew the first cheek kiss and the first forehead kiss (mostly because Andrew can’t reach Neil’s)

- she really likes the bond between Jean and Neil and hopes to explore that to some degree. She says their experiences laid the groundwork for an enduring friendship and they have a very special kind of intimacy

- there will be flashbacks to Jean’s abuse in TSC

- if andreil ever got married Neil would pick Matt as his best man and Andrew would pick Kevin

- Andrew still pampers Neil with gifts and clothes even after Neil learns some fashion sense

- the marriage between Mary and Nathan was arranged

- Ichirou is 24 in TKM, 25 in TSC

- Kevin likes Hamilton and Andrew knows the Le Miserables songs because he heard them once

- Kevin does indeed appear in TSC

- Renee has a few scenes in TSC

- Jeremy’s family makes an appearance in TSC

- she hopes TSC will be a standalone

- the twins got on the horses in TKM with kiddie stools

- when the newbies start bothering Neil post TKM, Matt starts checking them so hard they see stars and denies he’s being overly aggressive when he’s confronted by Wymack

so Tashie just informed me that Jeremy is morally obligated to be blond unsure if being gaslit or bullied (pretty sure it's the former) had to slam the brakes on everything else to put the draft under a microscope and fix it I am so tired

unrelated, it feels a lil awkward taking inspiration from a song that was written specifically for another book, but "I Am Not Nothing" by Beth Crowley is quite lovely

if I'm being honest, I really hope she doesn't make Jeremy x Jean canon

given the partner system at the Nest, at least for me, I'd struggle to see Jean being in the right place in his recovery to be entering a relationship.

I just feel like it'd be better for the book to focus on Jean learning to be okay being on his own - among other things. Rather than entering a relationship being the sign he's gotten 'better'.

begging y'all to be mature if Nora doesn't make jerejean canon

nobody actually asked for my thoughts about Jean but i'm sharing them anyway <3

“As angry as he was with Kevin and Neil, he was always willing to die for them”

The fact that Jean won’t play with Kevin but he NEVER stopped caring for him!!!! 

He was willing to die for Kevin, which i'm, you know, normal about

Especially because, not only was he willing to die for Kevin, but for Neil as well!!!!!!!

He hardly even knew Neil!!! I wonder so much what happened during Christmas that made him care for Neil like this???

Was it just Neil’s effect on people??? Was it Neil just being his difficult self that made Jean decide he’d do what it took to save him??

“I said no, you have to live, and I never asked him if he actually wanted to”

Oh. OH, oh…

MA’AM.

The fact that Jean committed suicide in every draft before this. The final one. He didn’t want to live. But he was forced to. 

“You have to live.” you have to survive. you deserve this chance. you can’t give up like this. 

“It’s about a boy who shouldn’t be alive”

HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE!!! HE WANTED TO!!!

But finally he lived and that was it!!!

But it WASN’T!!! Because now he has to continue to live!!! And he doesn’t know how!!!!

He shouldn’t be here. He wasn’t supposed to make it. 

And he’s here. 

“And honestly, in this day & age, don’t we all deserve that”

Jean deserves to live. 

He deserves to have his story told. 

He deserves to be the one to tell it. 

New aftg book, new mdzs adaptation... life is good 😊

So for people worried about potential renee and Jean, you can rest assure. These are in the tags of a recent post on tumblr so it is new news so.

Also, once again please don’t bully nora offline again I swear to god. And I love jerejean like the sun but we have to respect nora and her books and characters. I don’t want Nora to write this book as a fan service. I want her to write whatever she wants and she see fits for her beloved characters and world.

Nora maybe you are doing this for us, for yourself for Jean. But we trust you and cannot wait to read the books.

AYO?!?!

The Great Battle of The Untamed Couples

Quarterfinals, Bracket 1

Group A, Round 2, Poll 5:

Propaganda under the cut

Mei Dragon

Mei is such a badass girlboss shes descended from a DRAGON and she has this awesome Jade dragon sword that can only be weilded by AWESOME PEOPLE SHE IS SO AWESOME

GIRL WITH SWORD. SWORD IS ALSO A LAZER. HER HOUSE IS LIKE SEVEN CITY BLOCKS. SHES A TWITCH STREAMER. SHES BRIGHT NEON GREEN. DESCRIBED AS SWORD GIRL GUY BY HER BEST FRIEND.

Jin Guangyao

Out of a desperate attempt to scrape out a space where he belongs, feels safe, and gets what was denied to him. ...He does not succeed at this and instead racks up an impressive body... not that anyone would believe it for a long time on account of all the aforementioned gaslighting

ancient Chinese equivalent of an underpaid retail worker. also the illegitimate son of a powerful sect leader, who rose to power and became leader of that very sect while murdering all the people who have ever wronged him along the way. with a manipulative smile and a knack for looking like a pitiable weakling, he participated in the genocide of an entire sect to earn his father's approval, he led on his best friend in order to better solocit his protection, and he tricked this same best friend into murdering their third friend for revenge. he also used sex workers to kill his shitty father AND murdered his own son, and then played the mourning son/father facade to perfection. right up until the moment he gets stabbed to death and everything falls apart is he relentlessly manipulative, dishonest, and corrupt.

I hate this man but his entire life is him gaslight gatekeep girlbossing. He made it to the top by killing, lying, torturing etc. all while smiling and acting like the sweetest thing since sugar. He killed an old friend wjo didn't trust him and kept his decapitated head in his closet Wiped out an entire clan Killed his son Killed his father Sent his half brother into a dangerous situation that got him killed, because he was jealous Found out his fiancée was his half sister, didn't tell her and married her anyway. When she found out about that and him murdering their son he tried so hard to convince her she was crazy and being manipulated by someone that hated him, and when that didn't work he sedated her, locked her away and drove her to suicide His other half brother was the subject of a lot of horrible rumours. And Jin Guangyao kicked him out, back to his mother's abusive family. I don't think the rumours are confirmed to be from him, but it's certainly suspicious, especially since he didn't like his half brother and saw him as competition Traumatised sex workers then killed them Worked with a serial killer, then tried to kill him Kept an undead man who was fully sentient sedated in captivity to experiment on him And many other things. He even died trying to make his friend feel bad. It worked. Despicable man

so we already know how excruciating this moment is to witness in cql episode 26

but have we taken the time to appreciate how much worse it gets for jgy as soon as wwx shows up

jgy: wei-gongzi, why have you arrived so late? please have a seat--

wwx: don't bother, i need to ask jin zixun something

jgy, internally: [emergency broadcast signal intensifies]

and there's jgy standing between them, the jianghu's most unwilling participant in this shit sandwich of a situation.

just. look at his face.

could this day get any worse? is that even possible??

free him

Someone: Jin Guangy-

Everyone: he dubconned his sister to gain political power, made her kill herself, murdered their son with his own hands, was the only one to witness Jin Ling's first steps, sexually assaulted Mo Xuanyu and gaslit him into believing the opposite was true, killed cats to lead the juniors to Yi City, didn't like Jiang Yanli's soup, smiled when Jin Zixuan tripped over his feet, made their wedding too good just to spite Wei Wuxian, made Lan Wangji's life a living hell, put mercury in Jin Zuxun's cinnabar, betrayed Wen Ruohan, protected Xue Yang, introduced Xue Yang to tinder, didn't wear gloves and safety goggles when experimenting with demonic cultivation, subjected Wen Ning to Su She's flute playing, kicked Xue Yang out, made Jiang Cheng cry, tricked Nie Mingjue into kicking him down the stairs and tried to make him feel bad about it by acting pitiful and bleeding from his head, stole Lan Xichen's marriage proposals and led him on, gifted Nie Huaisang fans painted with poisonous pigments, made Jin Guangshan drink sub par wine, took over a day to respond to Sect Leader Yao's letter, personally killed my grandma and laughed about it. How dare you mention his name? 😤

Someone: Jin Guangy-

Everyone: he dubconned his sister to gain political power, made her kill herself, murdered their son with his own hands, was the only one to witness Jin Ling's first steps, sexually assaulted Mo Xuanyu and gaslit him into believing the opposite was true, killed cats to lead the juniors to Yi City, didn't like Jiang Yanli's soup, smiled when Jin Zixuan tripped over his feet, made their wedding too good just to spite Wei Wuxian, made Lan Wangji's life a living hell, put mercury in Jin Zuxun's cinnabar, betrayed Wen Ruohan, protected Xue Yang, introduced Xue Yang to tinder, didn't wear gloves and safety goggles when experimenting with demonic cultivation, subjected Wen Ning to Su She's flute playing, kicked Xue Yang out, made Jiang Cheng cry, tricked Nie Mingjue into kicking him down the stairs and tried to make him feel bad about it by acting pitiful and bleeding from his head, stole Lan Xichen's marriage proposals and led him on, gifted Nie Huaisang fans painted with poisonous pigments, made Jin Guangshan drink sub par wine, took over a day to respond to Sect Leader Yao's letter, personally killed my grandma and laughed about it. How dare you mention his name? 😤