(Art: Painting by Peter Wever)
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Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.
~Andrew Boyd :: (Book: Daily Afflictions)
[Philo Thoughts]
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Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.
~ Andrew Boyd
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"Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors."
- Andrew Boyd
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'"You're a Fox," Andrew said, like it was that simple, and maybe it was.'
I could've added a lot more details to this and it's not 100% accurate to the book, but I had to stop myself or this would've taken me another week to finish lmao
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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
- 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
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obsessed!! w the idea that the foxes are literally just college students. give me aaron living at the library, class president and head of premed club. give me andrew knowing every sesh spot, nicky with a tie wrapped around his head at a house party. i want neil notorious on campus for being "the mean hot guy", matt dapping up every person he sees, kevin chugging a mickey of vodka to prove to people that he can. and finally allison always getting free club entry, dan being friends with every employee at the school gym, renee blushing in the club bathroom as a group of drunk girls hypes her up. just. college students. absolutely obsessed with the fact that they are simply a group of stupid young adults <3
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Matt: *lifting weights*
Neil: wow...he's instense
Nicky: I know right? I wonder what drives him
Matt, internally: I'm gonna be so good at giving hugs
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matt and neil hiking + camping shenanigans :)
matt: nobody wants to go hiking with me .dan is busy and im lonely (sighs dramatically)
neil: I'll go with you Matt :D
matt:
matt:NeilI need you to know that I would do anythiggn for you you're such a good boy you're like my little brother you're a blessingto this world
extra thoughts:
-mosquitos find neil tasty and he still gets tons of bug bites even with the bug spray. sorry neil
-they find a banana slug and neil is enamored
-when they're going to sleep, night 1>
Matt: Neil, I need you to know that I get really clingy when I sleep. so if I end up hugging you, just push me off okay?? That's what Dan does!!
Neil: Okay :o
Matt ends up doing exactly what he said he would. Except Neil can't manage to budge Matt off so he lays there for the next 8 hours having to endure Matt's bear hug and only getting 4 hours of sleep.
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