monster movie night!
Tag: the monsters
The Foxes + Candy Corn
(Just the monsters this time because I’m lazy)
Neil: He’s actually the worst and I’m going to tell you the fuck why. Neil Josten loves candy corn. And the way he eats it is by biting off every color one. by. fucking. one. Matt was actually the one who introduced him to candy corn last fall. Neil doesn’t like super sweet things but he isn’t opposed to a pinch of sweet (I mean, that’s what kissing Andrew is like 99% of the time anyways). He doesn’t really find them festive but does think they taste good. Fundamentally doesn’t understand why candy corn isn’t sold year round as nothing about them truly alludes to a specific season in his opinion. He’s tweet roasted his local drug store for not carrying it year round.
Andrew: There is nothing more disappointing to Andrew than a candy that does not taste sweet like a candy should. Candy Corn are a disgrace to all other candies and should be completely eradicated from the earth. First of all, it’s called candy “corn” and if there is one thing Andrew cannot stand by it’s a candy with a vegetable in its name. He finds Neil’s love for them absolutely atrocious and refuses to kiss a mouth that just had candy corn in it which delays quite a few of their make-out sessions. It turns into a war of stubbornness between them where Neil will purposely eat them in front of Andrew in the most seductive ways possible while Andrew stares blankly at him.
Kevin: I know what you were thinking. “Ah yes, a candy with a vegetable in the name is probably the only candy Kevin Day would ever indulge in.” WRONG! You’re so wrong. Kevin does not eat anything with “candy” in the name and that was your first mistake. How dare you suggest Kevin eat anything except for grass fed beef patties (no bun, no sauce), and kale & egg smoothies. That’s it. That’s his diet. Fuck off. Don’t bring up the vodka clear liquids are acceptable.
Aaron: Aaron goes into every fall season strangely optimistic. He enjoys the colder weather as it makes outside practices more bearable. The trees actually look pretty and he’s found that he’s weirdly talented at carving pumpkins. So when the weather starts to change and the bowls of candy corn start to appear, Aaron always happily reaches his hand into the bowl and takes a few…..and then the entire good mood he previously had is fucking ruined by how disappointing the taste of candy corn is. Unfortunately, it’s not so disappointing that it becomes memorable. It’s just….not good. The cycle of him thinking he should eat the candy corn continues for the entire season, constantly eating a few pieces before remembering he shouldn’t have.
Nicky: The source of all the bowls of candy corn Aaron keeps eating. Also the supplier of Neil’s addiction to candy corn considering Andrew won’t buy it for him or will purposely take it out of the cart when they shop together. One time Nicky was greeted at their door by Andrew holding a knife before proceeding to make Nicky empty all his pockets to show he didn’t have any candy corn on him. When Neil showed up with a bag of it the next day, Andrew asked him where he got it. “Nicky brought it over yesterday.” Little did Neil know he was eating from a bag that Nicky had smuggled in the door through his underwear. The greatest irony of all, however, is that Nicky doesn’t even like candy corn. He just likes that it’s festive and is a big fan of seasonal decorating and finding little ways to get under Andrew’s skin sometimes.
hey, i made something
its poor made,lazy and in different art styles cause im a piece of shit
if andrew is the monsters’ squad mom does that make neil squad dad
backpfeifengesicht is a german word that means a face in badly need of a fist and i sleep soundly at night knowing that andrew’s group must have used that word frequently.
alternatively: four assholes and the guy who pays the mortgage
headcanon eden’s twilight is actually a gay club and neil just doesn’t notice because 1) he doesn’t swing and 2) most of the time he’s there he’s pretty preoccupied
Oh my god imagine Andrew dragging Aaron and Kevin to a gay club. And everyone just thinks it’s for Nicky’s benefit, especially after the “incident” with Andrew beating up those four guys, so they don’t say anything. Nicky still has no idea about Andrew and Roland. He just thinks Andrew disappears outside to smoke when he’s not at the table drinking because they’re in a gay club. He doesn’t think it’s Andrew’s scene in more ways than one.
Also, Neil totally gets hit on by a ton of people and they barely even get two words out before they’re frightened away by Andrew’s glare. He doesn’t notice a thing.
Reason 3 Neil never notices: when he finally get to Eden’s without being “pretty preoccupied” he’s already realized that he swings in one direction alone, which is Andrew’s, so he spends his time staring at him and doesn’t pay any attention to all the rest.
our boy matt is like a year behind the girls right?? so there’s a whole year where it’s just him and Andrew’s lot (and the freshmen) and yeah come on I know he’s an actual puppy and tries to get along with the newbies but like,,, you know there’s that /one/ snide remark or eyeroll from that one freshman that finally sends him over the edge and into the boys’ dorm. Everyone looks up. “What the fuck do you want,” Andrew asks. Matt says nothing. He falls into the beanbag that Nicky offers him and resigns himself to the fact that the monsters are his new squad for the rest of his university life. Monster Matt.
He’s probably super excited tbh. Like finally, this is his chance, he’s going to be /cool/. But then he realised that all the monsters do on their down time is play video games and eat icecream and mimic Kevin in high pitch British accents and it’s low key better than anything he ever imagined…
Matt is the good kid trying to play bad-boy and the monsters think it’s hilarious? Nicky does, if anything. Matt goes out by himself to buy clothes for Eden’s Twilight the first time the monsters decide to take him along – Aaron ditched them for Katelyn, that time – and he looks like someone dumped a ton of leather on a poodle.
Also, Matt has a truck, so Andrew pretends he lost his keys every time one of the other monsters need to go somewhere and he doesn’t want to take them. Neil never takes out his, because he knows from experience Andrew will throw them out the window if he tries. Matt gets therefore roped along for every late night alcohol-and-junk-food trip for Nicky, accompanies Aaron to get Katelyn from the airport after breaks -and they’re adorable?!- and listens to Kevin anxiously rambling when he takes him over to Coach’s when Abby decides is time for father-son bonding x-activity, and he loves it all.
Low-key Matt keeping an eye on his adoptive brother Neil and realizing that, wow, he and Andrew are actually a good couple? They respect each other so much? They bicker like an old marred couple? So one night he calls Dan and is, no, listen, we got the wrong one, it’s Andrew we should be worried about, Neil is going to get him a heart attack if he keeps antagonizing people!
honestly, you can live without having read the extra canon content, but then you’ll never get to read about nicky hemmick meeting his new exy team wearing a tight black tee that says “GET THIS STRAIGHT – I’M NOT.” and if you don’t read about that, are you really living?
Okay but like every single thing about that scene is iconic.
’ “I’ve met Dan an’ Matt. For the rest of you: I’m Nicky. I’mma be one of your backliners this year, ‘cause Lord knows I love a rearview best.” ’
Nicky omfg
’ “What’d you call me?” Juan demanded.
“He called you an asshole,” was a bored response, and one of the twins stepped up beside Nicky. Judging by the cool look on his face, this one was Aaron. Nicky was quick to prop his arm on the shorter man’s shoulder, and Aaron didn’t try to dislodge him. Aaron met Juan’s glower with an unimpressed stare and said, “That wasn’t news to you, right?” ’
I love my son Aaron. Also Aaron likes Nicky. Fight me.
’ “Sure is,” Nicky confirmed. “Macon only offered Spanish and German, and why would I put myself through more Spanish?” He waved it off as an obvious choice. “Since we all studied it, we run a bilingual household. I can’t afford to fall out of practice while I’m in the States and it keeps things interesting. What about you? You good with your tongue?” ’
Fucking Nicky Hemmick everybody. He’s talking to Matt btw.
‘It was a hundred degrees outside, but Andrew had come in a long-sleeved black shirt and boot-cut jeans. A skull cap was pulled down low on his head, nearly hiding his eyebrows, and his hands were crammed into his back pockets. He stared wide-eyed at his cousin, seemingly oblivious to the rest of the gathered Foxes, and rattled off something else. Nicky gestured and responded, and Andrew’s answering smile was all teeth.’
Andrew was wearing a fucking skull cap. He’s so emo. I am in love.
‘Seth stabbed a finger in Nicky’s direction and glared at Wymack. “Funny you told them all about us and forgot to warn us about the fag. I’m not changing out in front of him.”
Wymack stabbed a finger toward the back door. “Get out. You can spend the rest of this meeting in my office. As in now, Gordon,” he said when Seth just stared at him in angry confusion. “You have been here long enough to know I won’t tolerate slurs in this locker room. From anyone,” Wymack added with a cold look around the room. “I took on your anger issues willingly, but no one pays me to put up with your prejudices.” ’
Papa Wymack is not taking any of your homophobic bullshit Seth.
So basically the extra content (especially Son Nefes) is a gift and definitely worth a read.
man whatever you do, don’t think about andrew minyard’s first year after graduating palmetto state.
don’t think about how he goes from sharing a tiny ass dorm bed with neil every night for an entire year to sleeping alone in random hotel rooms and an empty apartment. don’t think about how he and kevin had only been apart once since kevin had come to south carolina but now there’s no more late night exy practices with neil and kevin and there’s no nicky and aaron wandering into their dorm at all hours of the day and night. there’s no more video game marathons and no more movie nights and no more dinners at sweetie’s or late nights at eden’s twilight.
definitely don’t think about how this is the first time they’ve all been out of his sight since he went to easthaven and this time, they’re all hours away and not going to be waiting for him when he gets back. now he can’t protect them
and there’s still life on the road with cigarettes and drinks in between but it’s… alone.
(most of all, don’t think of the way aaron’s chest gets tight when he’s stumbling exhausted out of his last class of the day and his brother is leaning against a wall just outside, waiting for him.
don’t think of halloween that year when nicky wakes up hungover, with a pounding headache, to a text from andrew. it’s just a picture message of some nut job dressed as a bull, and nicky laughs so hard he wakes up eric.
and sometimes kevin will be up late at the court by himself, looking at the goal without seeing it and thinking riko, riko, rikorikoriko and his phone will ring. andrew will say, “go the fuck to sleep you idiot. you’re fine.” and hang up. kevin will never, ever admit that from half a country away it still makes him feel safer.
really, really don’t think of neil coming back to the dorm after practice to find his room has been broken into. and he’s on high alert, of course (neil is always going to be more than a little paranoid) but he pushes the door open silently to see a dark silhouette perched on his desk, cigarette smoke around them wafting out the open window. and instead of feeling like he’s stepped into a cramped, drafty dorm room neil is blessed with the unmistakable feeling that he is home.)
Nothing but My Aching Soul 