The (s)Exy Nerds

First, people ship kandreil because they have chemistry. Because Nora did it first. Because in my entire fucking life I’ve never related more to a character than I relate to Andrew Minyard and when my favorite author tells me that she had an entire draft of my favorite novel written about Andrew being in a polyamorous relationship I felt so fucking grateful. Because as someone who has trouble believing that just ONE person could love me, a storyline that implies that TWO could brings me to tears.

I don’t ship kandreil for the smut. I have read ten times more fluff/angst/everything else fics about kandreil than smut because it is about their dynamic. Kevin gave Andrew and Neil BOTH a new look at life, he made them believe that they truly COULD be what they wanted to be. By saying that kandreil only exists as fanservice is disrespectful to the characters and Nora’s writing. And extremely disrespectful to polyamorous people like myself who are grateful to see any kind of validation for their identities.

And now on to Dan. I fancast Dan as black from the first moment she came onto the page. Dan was black in my mind long before I ever knew she’d been a stripper. I fancast her as black before this fandom had more than 16 fucking people in it and other people just made edits of her as a white girl with long brown hair. I respect everyone’s right to fancast as they feel, but it’s absolutely a fucking reach to imply that people who fancast Dan as black are somehow being racist????? Dan is the strongest and most loving female character in the series. She is tough but she is caring and thoughtful and COMPLEX and I just happened to think she was black.

books (re)read in 2022. all for the game by nora sakavic

you cannot tell me these jerks wouldn’t fist fight the entire school