smth

It’s aftg (obv) and the plot is basically that all the foxes get locked in a room and like some magically being tells everyone everyone’s business and then at the end said magical being reveals that they all have to choose someone to remember everything they just saw and everyone else will forget.

No because I’m actually never gonna get over any part of tgr but ESPECIALLY not Andrew during it. Because what do you mean the trial, Jeans Speech TM, and the brawl happened in the span of a couple of months. What do you mean Neil walked up the steps with Kevin. What do you mean Wymack held Andrew back as he and his limp arm dragged his way to Neil. What do you mean he had to watch it all. What do you mean said injury is probably the only reason he walked away without a murder charge (because he definitely would have killed Lane if he had two available arms). What do you mean he had to have surgery. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE WAS BEDRIDDEN FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.

So when people say things like Andrew bottoming (something Nora said he one day does in the ec) don't make sense, or just overall say things that imply Andrew is exactly like how we see him for the rest of his life, it kills me. Because we saw him at one of the worst points in his life, but more importantly we saw him get given the tools and the people to heal. So yes, he's always gonna be rude as fuck and generally off putting, but he's gonna grow and transform in ways we couldn't imagine. He'll always have trauma, and his outlook will always be influenced by it, but he was a teenager in those books, and he has an entire life to live and heal with Neil and Bee and yes, Aaron.

Like at thanksgiving, Neil never once says the word rape. He brutally describes the scene in front of him but he never outright says what it was. Hell, I don’t think the word rape was ever once used in these books, yet it is consistently alluded to in various different ways.

When talking about Drake, Andrew (and the fandom) constantly use phrases like “a matched set” and words like “misunderstanding”, to describe something absolutely horrific. Using these words instead of labeling what is actually happening makes you 10x more sick to your stomach.

Andrew saying something like “he wanted to rape me and my twin brother” is fucking insane and it makes your jaw drop and ur stomach twist. But him saying “he wanted a matched set” is somehow just SOOO much more violent to read.

It’s like these phrasings simplify or almost mock what’s actually happening, playing down the severity of it so that the contrast makes it so much worse.