#the raven king

matthew decides to start answering the phone by saying

“HEWWO??? this is matthew :)”

and it makes declan very upset and ronan isn’t sure how to feel about it because he was the one to come up with matthew so he has a crisis because ronan realizes that matthew’s humor is really just his sense of humor. ronan decides that it’s not a big deal, since it was 3 year old him that came up with matthew, so that’s why matthew’s sense of humor is weird.

but then opal starts doing it.

shout out to all of us for not really knowing what a pipedream is but feeling secret emotions whenever we see it

*andrew age 16, desperately trying to make nicky realize he’s gay without having to say it but also being stubbornly unwilling to make it easy for nicky*

nicky: those are some colorful socks

andrew *wearing socks with gay flags on them*: yeah, you could say that i take great pride in my socks

nicky: okay. im not sure if you know this but those are gay socks

andrew: yes. they bring me much joy.

the real reason andrew went through neil’s bag was to figure out his clothing size so he could pick out a Hot outfit for neil when they dragged him to eden’s

thinking about andrew and neil sitting together on long bus rides

neil sleeping on andrew’s shoulder and andrew resting his head on top of neil’s

andrew sharing a pair of ear bud’s with neil, listening to playlists andrew put way too much time into

neil bringing a backpack full of snacks and energy drinks. andrew tells him the only reason he deals with him is because they are trail mix compatible. andrew gets all the raisins and chocolate, while neil gets all the nuts

aftg where everything is the same except neil and mary keep getting caught by the butcher’s men because neil writes kevin x reader fanfic and overshares in the author’s notes

ronan is a baking god, he can follow any recipe and his food will always end up looking better than the picture. when adam stays over one night he decides to make cinnamon rolls with him in the morning.

at first everything is going well, adam is just measuring the flour on a scale and pouring stuff from measuring cups. they dont have any eggs in the house so they go out to the chicken coops to get some. ronan has adam head back in with the eggs and tells him to crack three of them into a bowl while he checks on the cows.

when ronan comes back in, adam is sitting in the middle of the floor with egg guts all over him and his hand bleeding. adam managed to cut himself on the eggshell because his hands are so dry and ronan can only throw dream lotion at him so many times. when he cut himself he also dropped the egg which he slipped on and then when he was falling he grabbed the basket of eggs and brought them down with him.

ronan had never been so happy to have made himself a dream phone with a nice camera until this moment, because he has to document his perfectionist boyfriend failing at something.

the feminine urge to reread aftg

kevneil au where neil joined the ravens when he was a kid

(neil and kevin are a year apart in this au)

• when riko broke kevin’s hand neil made kevin go to the foxes. kevin didnt want to leave neil behind, but neil knew kevin wouldn’t last long if he didnt have any value to the ravens.
• when kevin showed up in the foxes bus, wymack immediately took him under his wing. he took him to abby’s to get patched up and then sent andrew after him to make a deal, and kevin became one of the monsters.
• slowly kevin integrated himself with the foxes. at practice kevin would throw impossible passes, and seem surprised when no one was there to catch them. but then neil showed up and suddenly someone could catch kevin’s impossible passes and complete his overly complicated drills.
• (neil, in all of his wisdom, had talked to ichirou and convinced him to let him join the foxes, promising ichirou impossible results by the end of the season)
• andrew was the first to catch on. at first he pushed aside their lingering eye contact and touches as casual familiarity. but then he noticed the small things that they did for each other.
• every morning neil went on a run, and every morning kevin made protein shakes. when neil stayed over at abby’s, kevin started to ‘accidentally’ make extra, and neil would 'reluctantly’ drink the left over shake becuase it would be wasted if he didnt.
• when kevin dragged neil and andrew to practice during break, neil would always bring an extra water bottle that he let kevin steal. nicky tagged along one of the days and tried to use the 'extra’ waterbottle but backed off when kevin threw a ball at his head.
• neil and kevin watched recordings of exy games religiously, and had a set method of gathering data on other players (unless it was related to jeremy knox. knox’s glory could not be captured by mere numbers) while neil argued with every conclusion he came to, even when they agreed.
• when the season started neil and kevin would talk rapid fire french at each other during breaks and at half-time. andrew decided to try his best to copy what they said into google translate after the game, but came to the conclusion that his memory must finally be faulty because dear god he sure hoped they weren’t talking about that in front of the entire team.
• their relationship was only really confirmed when andrew walked into his dorm room to find neil inside the oversized sweatshirt that kevin was also wearing, cuddling on the couch watching their exy videos together.