‘The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain’
cutie pies Dante Quintana and Ari Mendoza from Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz. I finished it a few days ago and wow……it is an AMAZING book. i cried several times
How Adam’s college friends thought he was weird, but it turns out that he’s pretty “normal” compared to his friends HC
-ronan never really goes up to college with adam, because adam’s the one who escapes back home on his time off
-adam’s college friends all think there’s something off about him, even tough they all also think he’s perfect
-his nickname with the college friends (that they never say directly to his face) is “Perfect Adam” to differentiate between him and another adam.
-how he disappears on weekends and holidays and doesn’t really tell anyone where he’s going
-how there’s a chest under his bed they’ve never seen him open
-fun fact: it’s Persephone’s tarot cards and he keeps them there for Reasons
-how there’s photos of a small girl in a black beanie on his wall and desk, but all of the photos are just of her face, never below the waste
-how adam has a boyfriend, but whenever they ask about this dude, the story changes for each person (they’ve compared notes and it just confused them more)
-“he’s tattoo’d and street races sometimes”
-“he’s a lonely farmer”
-“yeah he’s got a kid”
-“he’s an asshole I went to high school with”
-“trust fund kid”
-and then
-one day the rest of the gangsey decide to drop in unannounced because Henry, Blue, and Gansey are in town and Ronan’s missing his bf
-Opal is left in the care of 300 Fox Way because you can rip the fact that those women adore my small goat child from my dead, headcannon loving hands
-and they just watch as Adam’s face breaks stoic-Adam-bitch-resting-face as a beat up orange ass car pulls up and a sleek black one behind it
-gansey is the first one out
-that little boy fucking runs into adam’s arms and hugs him for longer than socially acceptable
-“stop stealing my man, Parrish”
-Blue definatly interrupts like this, insults Gansey’s boat shoes for the 28839439th time that day and kisses Adam on the cheek
-henry is a good bean and he just waves and stands next to Blue and Gansey
-and adam’s college friends are like “is that dude that hugged him the bf????”
-and Blue and Gansey are laughing while Adam shakes his head and Henry pulled out his phone to take photos because the other two of his roadtrip buddies are fucking gremlins that never take photos and then are sad that they don’t have photos of the memories
-yeah, Blue, Henry and Gansey are all in a beautiful poly-relationship and Blue and Gansey can now kiss because they DESERVE IT OKAY
-anyways, Ronan is the last one out
-and Adam looks Ronan in the eyes and goes “hey asshole”
-and adam’s college friends are fucking shook
-and ronan’s reply is “fuck off” because it’s ronan
-and adam just turns and goes “this is my ex Blue, and her boyfriends Gansey and Henry. And this is Ronan”
-adam’s poor college friends are so lost and confused and Blue isn’t helping because she KNOWS they are and is attempting to make it worse
-“throw back to when Adam and Gansey were lovers”
-“henry, remember that time you got a boner for perfect Adam?” “blUE-“
-“adam’s my second favorite boyfriend” “i’m your first right?” “Whatever helps you sleep, Boat Shoes” “thanks- wait-“
-(her favorite bf is Noah,,,)
-and they all just continue on with this for a while, everyone walking back to the dorms or something and adam’s college friends are just trailing with confused expressions
-and finally one of them stops adam and is like “are you really dating all of them???” And adam just goes “no???? I’m dating ronan???? I thought you knew????”
-“he’s a farmer?!” “…yeah?” “,,,he’s fucking terrifying” “yeah”
-and the rest are all like, “ronan’s barely said a word or even hugged adam and he’s the supportive and loving bf adam cares for????”
-and then ronan, in his terrifying, shaved head, tattoo’d glory turns to adam and chucks his hand cream at the boy’s head and goes “oh yeah, got you this” “thanks”
-and adam and ronan’s smiles are really soft in that moment and the college friends are like “OH”
-“stop flirting. I want to eat some college dorm room ramen” “Adam, are you living off of ramen?” “Gansey, it’s not that big of a-“ “im buying us dinner now”
-and Blue and Henry are just being weird and making fun of Gansey
-ronan just calls everyone “asshole” or “jerk”
-blue flips him off at least once
-honestly, what a weird constellation these dorks make
-but soon, the trio has to leave because they’ve got to visit Helen and her gf and the elder Ganseys
-and it’s just Adam, Ronan and the college friends left
-and adam starts his homework at his desk while Ronan lounges onto adam’s bed
-“btw, I brought chainsaw” “in the dorm?” “In the dorm”
-and a small chainsaw heads pokes out from Ronan’s hood at the sound of her name
-college friends fucking loose it now and just disperse because they can’t handle anymore of this
-and poor adam’s roomate is left alone with adam and the terrifying creature that is Ronan
-but adam and ronan are being chill, but somehow Roomate can’t concentrate with ronan and chainsaw there
-and then ronan just gets up suddenly and walks out and adam doesn’t even flinch when the door slams, just smiles and rolls his eyes and continues with his work because he knows ronan will be sitting on the trunk of his car when he finishes this chapter
-and he meets back outside, but it’s cold now and adam’s an idiot who didn’t think to bring a hoodie so he’s cold in his cocacola shirt that he’ll probably never get rid of
-and ronan’s there, sitting on the trunk, feeding chainsaw out of his hand with feed adam expects is dream-made
-and they just sit there in silence for a bit, watching chainsaw eat
-they’re shoulders are touching and ronan’s slightly leaning into adam, but not overly so and he’s sitting on adam’s good side so that he can hear him
-“squash one, squash two-“
-adam laughs before ronan lapses into humming old songs he learned from his bagpipe training, bless his heart
-and adam just listens, occasionally petting chainsaw as they sit
-and it’s over too soon because Ronan gets a call from Maura’s phone, but it’s Opal asking to talk to Adam and wanting to be picked up soon because “maura’s making tea again” and ronan should leave home before his poor goat daughter is destroyed by shitty tea
-and they don’t kiss or hug, ronana gets into his car and drives off as adam stands on the curb and watches him disappear
-“he left fast” “yeah, he needed to pick up Opal” “his… daughter?” “Yeah”
-and none of the college friends question adam directly, but they all accept that perfect, but weird Adam is definatly the least-weird of his friend group
-(and they attempt to compare notes on what happened that night, but get even more confused because one noticed that Blue wore weird clothes and another was like “but Gansey looks like white priviledge” and “ronan can’t be the gay farmer with a kid”, “adam must have two boyfriends”, “adam said that ronan has a daughter named Opal”, “IS he the gay farmer???? I thought he was the streetracer????”, “was Gansey the trust fund boyfriend????”, “how come his ex is dating his bf????”)
a concept: yuuri discovering that his fiancé’s been wearing reading glasses and looks damn good in them 😳(even though yuuri sorta denies it) (redbubble)
bonus: they end up switching glasses (even tho yuuri can’t see shit lmao)
bonus x2: victor’s trying not to open his eyes bc the glasses are too much for him so he ends up hitting the wall (and even yuuri can see it lmao)
This was my piece for @requiemofkings‘s tfc lookbook zine, sandbox!
Thank you so much for having me as a part of this ❤ Much thanks to the other guests artists as well for good fun times @foxesrefuge@captain-ferid@lio-zehel
If you haven’t already gotten yours, you can still get a digital copy here (x) and as far as i know, there’s still physical copies here (x)!
i feel like you’re full-naming me and honestly? i’m kinda into it
things that make kevin happy:
learning, because kevin loves to learn, especially history, but he’s one of those people who always seems to know random facts about all kinds of topics
…learning to ski
thea, because she’s beautiful and intelligent and skilled and takes no shit from him or anyone else. also because she has a wicked sense of humour, and because she brings out just a little of that in him
his dog, who likes to go running with him but is really bad at fetch and also really bad at not being a naughty brat, because it turns out kevin isn’t great at training dogs? andrew compares the dog to neil when he watches it blatantly ignore kevin yelling at it as it bolts across the park after a squirrel
kevin likes the park squirrels, too. they’re really cute. thea calls them fluffy-tailed rats which kevin finds genuinely offensive
seeing the foxes succeed – watching dan’s team win, seeing aaron graduate and nicky get married, even the other pros beating him with their teams makes him smile a little
knowing that, even though their relationship will never be great, jean is happy and healing
helping people. he’s not renee, but there’s something nice in giving back. he gets into philanthropy and allison rings him once a fortnight to recommend charities and also make fun of him
buying a house and making it his own, because he’s never really had a space of his own since he was a kid. he gets super into design shows and thea has no time for it at all. they do, however, spend a weekend painting rooms in colours kevin picks. kevin gets paint in his hair and it’s a big thing with his fans for weeks afterwards
his mother, because grief fades a little with age and leaves him more and more able to appreciate the memories
wymack and their relationship which gets more and more established with time, less fox-coach and more father-son in all the good ways. they dad-barbeque together, and wymack is the best babysitter in the world, probably because he got lots of practice with the foxes. also, kevin is terrible at taking exy advice from wymack, but he drinks up all of the actual-functional-adult advice
his daughter, who is mostly thea with a touch of him thrown in, and who has him absolutely wrapped around her finger as she traverses the world with twice the confidence kevin has ever had
travelling, the kind where he stands on the top of a hill he climbed up, looking at the view and being impressed that he made it in the broader sense that, hey, he’s still alive, and that’s something worth celebrating
and everyone reacts like you would expect – they’re pretty goddamn happy to see him happy
Nothing but My Aching Soul 