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I’mma go in a different direction here: Andrew cares more about the cats than Neil does. Like, Neil loves them and all but he’ll shove them over so he can sit on the couch, and Andrew won’t. Andrew will basically rearrange his life around them especially if they are sleeping.

thebetterminyard:

I love this I love you I love Andrew and i love Neil and i love those stupid fucking cats okay here I go

-every night with Andrew is like an absurd game of tetris, or maybe even just a contortionist act
-Neil has no issue with shoving Sir or King out of his side of the bed
-but they are cats
-cats are crafty
-Neil’s side of the bed is taken? okey dokey, let’s BOTH sleep on Andrew’s side
-the first time they do this Andrew has a staring contest with them for a good five minutes
-eventually he shrugs and just contorts into a weird S shape, with Sir in the crook of his knees and King tucked into the curve of his torso
-Andrew’s back kills him
-worth it
-the cats sleep fitfully each night, and oftentimes Neil awakens to find Andrew with entire limbs held in the air just so he won’t disturb one of the cats
-Neil thinks Andrew is an idiot
-Andrew raises the percentage
-cups of coffee are moved for petting time on the counter
-movies are watched from the floor to accommodate a purring couch-cat
-Andrew goes days without wearing different clothes when the cats take turns sleeping on his laundry
-Neil is grossed out so Andrew just wears his clothes
-still worth it
-no item of clothing escapes the wrath of cat hair
-Andrew still doesn’t give a shit
-Neil is perpetually unamused
-the cats are happy
-Andrew is most likely part-cat anyway so Neil slowly accepts it
-by slowly I mean he stops raising a brow at Andrew’s unusual sleeping positions after a good 8 years
-Andrew takes what he can get
-which includes maybe a fifth of the entire bed
-sacrifices must be made to appease the beloved cats
-Andrew would die for them
-Neil loves them but still makes jokes about getting the cats armbands too
-Andrew actually considers it
-Neil hates everything
-what’s new

write that athletic trainer au thx

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au where Neil is a professional exy player and Andrew is the unfortunate son of a bitch athletic trainer in charge of patching him up.

Hate That You Know Me HC

  • most days, Neil begins or ends practice with some sort of injury
  • he’s an absolute glutton for punishment and has a bad habit of talking himself into situations that he can’t get himself out of
  • a fair amount of fights are started by Neil’s mouth, to be sure
  • but there are also a hefty number that are started by his racquet
  • both inside in out of practice, Neil isn’t afraid to high stick a bitch if the card is worth it
  • a good portion of Neil’s time in the stadium is smack inside Andrew’s little room
  • Neil has to take ice baths fairly often because he pushes himself harder than anyone else on the team, and stripping down in front of people isn’t something that Neil does
  • the first time Andrew told him he had to take an ice bath, he immediately bristles. logically, he knows that he can keep some of his clothes on, but it’s hard enough dealing with the stares for the scars that he can’t hide. he’s not really interested in letting it be known that he is a patchwork of ruined, pink skin where it should be a golden tan. shiny and smooth where there should be hair.
  • Andrew immediately senses his tension and leaves the room for a supply run for something Neil doesn’t even really hear him say
  • for the entire duration of his ice bath, no one comes in Andrew’s room
  • it’s not exactly party central to begin with, but there is typically a steady trickle of people coming in to get athletic tape or over the counter painkillers. some of them even come into Andrew’s room for the silence. Andrew doesn’t waste words and if you need five minutes of silence from the rowdy locker and weight rooms, Andrew’s room is where you go.
  • Neil finishes his ice bath and leaves, without seeing Andrew.
  • the clinical way that Andrew deals with Neil, and his growing knowledge of the extent of Neil’s scars, is endlessly fascinating to Neil
  • most people that get a glimpse of his torso when his shirt rides up ask him hundreds of questions
  • all Andrew does is run them over with an intense eye, once, then he never looks at them again
  • Neil hasn’t felt like an actual person in so long
  • they start to have conversations while Andrew is patching him up
  • most of them are about how fucking stupid Neil is and that he is just trying to keep Big Pharma in business by getting busted up every other day
  • Neil might be more interested in Andrew than he’s ever been interested in anyone else before
  • but that is a bitch because he’s never been interested in anyone else like this before
  • Matt encourages him to ask Andrew out, but like, Neil doesn’t even know that he swings at all and doesn’t know how you would tell. how would he even know if Andrew is interested?
  • so he just ignores it. that’s healthy right? because he does it with everything else too
  • Neil is considering googling “how to ask out your cute AT” when he gets high sticked in the face and gets a bloody nose.
  • he doesn’t think it’s broken, but noses always bleed like a bitch so coach wants him off the court and he finds himself in Andrew’s little room
  • Andrew is wrapping an ankle when he catches sight of Neil
  • “don’t get your blood on the floor, I literally just mopped, and you know how much I hate mopping”
  • “was that more or less than you hated me?”
  • “less”
  • Neil grinned and exposed a set of bloody teeth to Andrew
  • Andrew huffed and looked up at the woman whose ankle he had finished wrapping, intending to scaring her off, but she just looked between the two as she hopped down off the table
  • and before she walked out the door she turned to Neil, who wasn’t even aware she existed anymore, and said, “one day you’re going to have to tell me how you won Minyard over with a bloody nose”
  • Andrew looked like he was considering double homicide, but the woman was unfazed and continued walking out the door
  • “you like me?”
  • “I hate you.”
  • “does that mean if I asked you out for coffee, you would go?”
  • “you don’t even drink coffee, Neil”
  • “yeah, so? you do.”
  • “I know six different ways to immediately kill you where you stand without you feeling a thing.”
  • “is that a yes?”
  • “…yes.”

do you think neil and andrew would want to get married someday tho

pipedream:

FJHFH IM SO GLAD U ASKED okay so i know nora said that they don’t but i think she’s Wrong and let me tell u why,

  • nora says andrew and neil don’t believe in love and i can understand andrew holding on to that mentality for a long time but neil?
  • at the start of the books neil said “i don’t believe in family” and by the end of the second book – not the third, the SECOND book – neil calls the foxes his family
  • and that’s because his perception of family changes in front of his very eyes
  • now imagine that lifetime we know he spends with andrew and how his perception of love would change in front of his eyes in the same way
  • neil realises that love can be whatever he wants it to be, which in his case is the keys, the trust, the honesty and the kisses all that jazz
  • love is andrew joseph minyard
  • now on to the actual point of Getting Married
  • rmr how fuckin ready neil was in tkm to have his name become official and irrefutable??
  • the details of his relationship with andrew may be private, but they don’t hide the fact that they have one – it’s a real and tanigble thing they’ve never been ashamed of
  • i truly don’t think neil would be opposed to the idea because it’s something to say that they are officially a unit, just like those papers he signed in baltimore say that neil josten is a real person
  • andrew would see the perks too, mainly tax benefits he can use to fuel his luxury car addiction and being able to see neil in hospital with no setbacks
  • also if it ever came to it, andrew would be the one to ask
  • fight me
  • it would be a throwaway suggestion he’d make over breakfast and they’d be married before dinner
  • matt literally gets on a two-hour flight just to be witness 
    • andrew wanted kevin because he’d make the least fuss, but neil insisted he owed matt for him having neil as the best man at his and dan’s wedding
  • matt arrives at the courthouse in a smart albeit rumpled suit and his hair is surprisingly nice considering he ran all the way over since the taxi wasn’t getting him there fast enough
  • meanwhile andrew and neil are literally just wearing sweats 
    • neil has his team jersey tied around his waist bc andrew said he couldn’t actually wear it for the ceremony, so they compromised
  • they keep the certificate in their bedside drawer and don’t really talk about it again 
  • but if neil slips up every so often and refers to andrew as his husband well then,

foxvvixen:

there’s so many foxes-playing-never-have-i-ever au headcanons going around but i give you this

  • super late post game stoli rasberry vodka shots
  • okay that’s one of my favorites but whatevs we’ll use it
  • andrew only drinks jack daniels
  • because he’s p r e t e n t i o u s
  • i hate jack
  • the freshman and the whiskey
  • and it’s so easy to make andrew drink and he hates them all so much because never have i ever killed someone? never have i ever been to juvie? never have i ever punched through a window?
  • these assholes play by targeting and tonight andrew’s the one getting targeted and he’s furious but neil’s laughing so whatever it’s fine
  • even the casual ones; never have i ever given a blowjob or never have i ever punched someone in the face ((everyone drinks))
  • but there’s one that nobody’s said yet because half the team can’t say it
  • they’re all thinking it but they’re all guilty of doing the same
  • finally when it’s renee’s turn allison whispers something into her ear. renee laughs (she has a laugh like windchimes)
  • “okay. never have i ever thought about kissing neil.”
  • there’s a brief pause, then;
  • andrew drinks
  • nicky drinks with the most guilty look on his face
  • allison drinks
  • matt and dan link their arms and take their shots together, laughing at an inside joke that no one wants to ask about
  • kevin lifts his glass halfway to his mouth, sighs, and takes the shot
  • neil watches this absolutely confounded
  • aaron looks a little sick
  • renee has the most smug grin on her face and it matches allison who was the real mastermind behind this one
  • “what the fuck.” neil says
  • aaron mimics it and reaches for the full bottle of vodka praying he won’t remember that in the morning

hemminicky:

quensty:

the most unrealistic thing about tfc????? five main characters speak at least two languages and none of them ever forgot a word in one of them. are u telling me, an offended bilingual, that neil josten never forgot the word for sock in french? “like…a fucking glove for your foot, kevin.” are u telling me nicky hemmick didn’t once forget how to say lawyer in german so he said “i need to pay a bitch to fight for me.” are u telling me neil josten never meant to tell andrew minyard after a good game “it gives me goosebumps to watch you play like that” but didn’t know the right way to say it in russian so said instead “it physically ails me to see you do that” which is…………….not nearly as romantic. is that what you’re saying.

Ok but sometimes you forget words in your mother tongue as well and can only remember them in one of the other languages, so just imagine Neil forgetting the simplest English word but knowing it both in French and German and being utterly frustrated cause whoever he’s talking too doesn’t understand him and Andrew isn’t cooperating in helping him translate. Also Kevin half-yelling at one of the new recruits but then stopping abruptly in the middle of a sentence cause he can’t find the right word in the right language and the new recruit is terrified by Kevin just staring at him more and more angrily with each second that passes.

yay okay minyard-josten rivalry headcanons??

seairis:

!!ok also read the coin toss fics if u haven’t already bc they deal w the rivalry and are gr9

  • so it started when they were still at palmetto
  • during a press conference they got put on together (who did this oh god)
  • (allison and nicky its all a conspiracy)
  • nicky said “be gay my sons”
  • so neil andrew were really decidedly not gay or relationshippy at ALL
  • there was like a foot between them
  • they kept interrupting each other
  • andrew at one point shoves neil backwards (gently ofc but neil makes a Big Deal out of it bc he’s a goddamn drama queen)
  • (also one of the reporters was just getting too close to him andrew wasn’t having it neil is his boyfriend no he’s not what)
  • they’re only like five questions in and neil sasses andrew for standing so far from him
  • “god andrew, i know, i know. it must be so hard to stand within a foot of me. oh gods! what cruel torture! do you always act like a brat like this or is it just around me?” then to the cameras “he’s the biggest man child ive ever met” back to andrew he says (in the fakest whisper ever) “could you act like the grown ass adult you actually for once in your pathetic midgety life? act professional, we’re teammates, at least make an effort to pretend you don’t abhor my every breath.”
  • wymack says pathetic midgety life at one point right?
  • andrew snarls and storms out
  • (450% josten what the fuck that was so hot)
  • the next morning everything is like “Tension among the Palmetto state Foxes? What this could mean for their season.”
  • “No surprises here! The two most temperamental Palmetto State Foxes have a rivalry.”
  • “Minyard-Josten Rivalry!”
  • and thus the rumour is born

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cabeswaterlovesthem:

This post got me thinking about all the ways the Foxes are petty with each other just to be assholes. So here’s some thoughts I had on the lengths the Foxes go to in order to get on each other’s nerves. 

  • When Kevin looks through the cabinets and finds candy and sweets, he always moves them to the top most shelf so that Andrew can’t reach. Oddly enough, he’s never seen Andrew climb the cabinets for the sweets. And yet somehow, he always has a bag of them open in his lap. Turns out Andrew just planted the sweets in the cabinet as a decoy and has his own hidden stash under his bed.
  • More often than not, Kevin gets super bossy during practices. So Dan likes to assert her position as captain by making Kevin run random laps in the middle of practice. Eventually, Kevin had broke down and turned to Wymack asking “Are you seriously letting her stop the scrimmage for me to run a lap?!” but Wymack just shrugged and said, “She’s your captain.” Secretly Wymack enjoyed Kevin’s incredulous expression of annoyance.

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pipedream:

i got the idea from this post but here is an extensive list of names the foxes group chat was definitely called at some point:

  • stick ball squad (the og name, lasted all of two seconds before kevin changed it)
  • the david wymack fanclub
  • nicky hemmick’s back up singers
  • fitness gram pacer test survivors 
  • neil josten appreciation task force (aaron left and had to get added back to the group chat upwards of thirty times during the duration of this name)
  • plexiglass fuckers anonymous
  • palmetto 99 
  • neil minyard™ (in homage to a misprint of neil’s name in the paper)
  • bad and naughty children get put with kevin day to atone for their sins
  • The Fuckening
  • neil’s moist bandana
  • we’re all GAY fuck you aaron

Describe the foxes’ hands pls :) im trying to draw them but i dont have any imagination :/

badacts:

oh my god

  • kevin: artist’s hands, with long deft fingers. really nice nails that look like he has manicures even though he doesn’t (well, maybe sometimes). his left hand swells when he works hard (so, every day, pretty much) but the bones set surprisingly straight considering they were never properly treated. he makes fists of them when he’s nervous. there’s a blog dedicated to his sexy man hands and all the kevin day fans share them everywhere
  • dan: TEENY LITTLE HANDS with broad palms and quite short fingers. strong-looking, calloused across the base of the her centre three fingers. she paints her nails in bright colours (like orange!!! but also yellow and pastel pink and neon green) and moisturises with lemon-scented creme that allison buys her each birthday and christmas. loves to wear pretty rings, anything from fine plain metal to big chunky statement ones
  • matt: GIANT HANDS which means there’s a pic on the wall of dan holding her hand up against matt’s to compare (from before they started dating. they’re actually about to arm wrestle). thick-knuckled from boxing. shares dan’s moisturiser, so his hands smell citrusy too
  • renee: small hands with neatly trimmed nails that she doesn’t often paint unless they’re all doing them together. wears cute gloves all through winter because they get cold. red-silvery ropes of scarring in the meat of her palm where she once grabbed a blade aimed at her belly, to match the tracery on her knuckles where she was cut once or twice. they ache sometimes in bad weather, and swell in the heat, and she often clenches and relaxes them to ease stiffness. they’re helper’s hands, made to work as well as fight, and more soft and generous than they look like they should be 
  • aaron: workmanlike square hands with bitten nails and major tan line from his watch on his left wrist. they get cold easily but he never buys gloves so he often shoves them in his pockets and hunches his shoulders. has a crooked finger where he hit someone once (they deserved it) and it never healed right, but it doesn’t bother him much (except that he looks at it sometimes and thinks vaguely about becoming a doctor because everyone – even bratty poor kids –  deserves proper medical care)
  • allison: the kind of hands you see modelling rings – long fingers, slim lovely wrists, perfect nails in shell pink and iridescent silver and shimmering gold. she pays for manicures and moisturises obsessively. doesn’t mean she doesn’t have calluses, though – and she’s proud of them. these hands are beautiful, but they’re still as likely to make you lose a tooth as the hands of the other foxes
  • nicky: big mobile hands that are always on the move. the kind where you can make out every well-shaped bone and tendon moving under his skin, no marks to obscure them. he’s lazy about moisturising ever so they’re always super dry and also really warm. he always briskly chafes them over the hands or shoulders of anyone who complains about being cold. catch him holding hands with any and all of his teammates to keep their fingers warm 
  • andrew: broad palms, thick fingers; strong like the rest of him. scarred knuckles like tiny white starbursts where he’s punched things he shouldn’t – walls, mirrors, windows. misshappen knuckles from punching all kinds of stuff, actually (including people). broke bones more than once before he learned some technique for hurting people without hurting himself. under the marks, his skin is fairly pale from all the time he spends with them in his pockets, and also soft around the callouses from his racquet
  • neil: knobbly wrists but elegant slim hands that move quickly and lightly. they give him away sometimes, forming fists when he’s angry, and fluttering when he’s anxious or irritated. the burn scars stay rippled and obvious, but many of the finer scars between them eventually fade so you can only see them in the right light. often seen hooked into the hem of andrew’s sweater, or through a belt loop. andrew calls him “lost child” with a hint of mocking sometimes, but doesn’t tell him to stop