The Andreil beanbag scene (TKM p363-364) and why I believe it is the most pivotal moment in Neil and Andrew's relationship (as well as my personal favourite)
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She might have been a sweet or happy girl. She had a brother she loved and was close to that she never spoke to again. She died after fighting for years to protect the last person she had to love and he didn’t even like her. She is so so resilient and strong 🤍
Mary Hatford would have been just around 18-20 if not a teenager when she was promised off to Nathan :( she must have had friends in England, hobbies, a life, all thrown away for a duty to her family that got her killed. My baby
@sehaniine its weird because there certainly are genuine criticisms you can make about the writing but most of this boils down to "the plot is weird" like okay yeah. you opened the weird plot books what did you expect
whilst i understand people's criticisms regarding aftg but i don't quite understand the widely accepted notion that it has bad writing because that's blatantly not true
This and the fact that Neil doesn’t properly speak to Andrew for 13 whole days after their rooftop kiss. He was genuinely putting that man through psychological torture.
@dmiwby okay but the concept of them missing each other when theyre pro so for once logging in to their accounts just to stalk each others recent pictures
what's ironic to me abt the abuse depiction in aftg discourse is that, personally, the books hadn't rly felt grounded until i got to the thanksgiving scene. there was a shift in the tone cus now the prospect of such terrible violence wasnt just neil's past looming over the story
Rooftop kiss happens on day 48 and their first “real” kiss happens on day 35 and we aren’t told about any significant conversation between them at all between those two events apart from Neil ogling him which Andrew 100% noticed and did not comment on.
Not to mention THIS is how he was acting the whole time too and he just wasn’t saying anything about it. And then 2 weeks later he throws himself at Andrew with no other preparation. He’s actually sick and crazy