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    Andrew tells Neil to experiment with his sexuality and Neil is having absolutely none of it.

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    07 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 59

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    The 'summer camp' is a converted gymnasium on the South Side, and Andrew is already plotting his exit when the kid hits another kid in the face.

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    my head canon that Neil and Andrew one day adopt the most problematic kid they can find

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Neil wasn't surprised in the least to find a grown — but short — man laying down in the empty stall, not with the way Katana was dancin' in her own. He was, however, surprised to see the man was naked as the day he was born, and brandishing a hoof pick like a knife out in front of him. Pallid and sweating, he looked like he done fell face-down in a sticker patch and run over by cows. Neil stared at him, unbothered, and the man said raggedly, "Back the hell up. I will hurt you."

    Neil snorted. "Not like that, you won't," he answered. "You mean to cause any trouble?" Neil asked him, eyeing him critically. "Or you just need some hair'a the dog 'fore I call someone to come collect your sorry ass?"

    The man glared up at Neil, but Neil didn't back down. "I could stab you right now," the man threatened, but his tone was sullen, almost chastened. Neil snorted again and the man shifted and winced. "Just give me a minute," he said eventually.

    "Sure," Neil nodded. "You take your time. But touch any of my critters or my kids, and I'll shoot you dead, you hear me?"

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    16 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 78

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    One year after he should have started at Palmetto, after he should have accepted Wymack’s offer and continued playing exy, Neil Josten instead finds himself working at a roadside gas station seventy miles outside Columbia. This Neil, never met Wymack or Kevin or Andrew after the dingos practice. This Neil never even made it to March in Millport, and now in the fall of 2007 he’s seriously starting to question how he’s going to live out the rest of his life.

    When a certain blonde buying absurd amounts of candy begins to frequent the gas station, Neil wonders if he might have an answer to that question.

    “You play?” The man nodded at the TV.

    “No sir.” Neil would give anything for him to leave. He pushed the bag of drinks a little further across the counter, eyes flitting to the TV again.

    “Ah, but you want to, huh? You look like you wanna climb inside that TV and join em.”

    Neil blinked at the man, unable to form a proper answer. Did he really look so desperate?

    “I don’t know.” It was a stupid answer, and it took him too long to get the words out, but it wasn’t like this conversation mattered much anyway. “I think I’m just not meant to.”

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    27 Apr 2026

  5. Rec 67

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    “You said it’s shit.” 

    “I did.” Andrew agrees.

    “You said it isn’t a permanent fix.” 

    “It’s not.” 

    Andrew reaches through the window, plucks the tree shaped air freshener off the rearview mirror, holds it to his nose. Neil waits, knows that it lost its scent months ago. He isn’t sure why he’s held on to it, just knows he likes the look of it dangling while he drives. It’s another identifiable feature to his car, another way to know Neil Josten drove this Subaru. 

    His mother would have hit him before throwing it away.

    Andrew places the scentless piece of cardboard back in its spot with a delicacy that indicates understanding. A gentleness that makes Neil wonder if Andrew Minyard, with his family and his fancy sports car and his leather jacket, is also learning how to be a real person. 

    “I can fix it.” Andrew says, and for the first time since he came upon Neil and his unresponsive engine, he looks away. 

    “You can fix it,” Neil echoes, a question and a statement in one. 

    “Yes.” Andrew replies.
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    Neil’s car breaks down. Cue the cute blonde with a knowledge of cars, a cool leather jacket, and a long term crush on the helpless redhead.

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