Vessel’s Little “whoop”s Gives Me Life. It Brings Him Closer To Human In My Eyes. It Does So Much

Making posts about aftg is so funny because the characters live lives of such epic proportion that I feel like I have to first name last name them. I'm not calling the self-proclaimed queen of a fictional sport kevin. That is Kevin Day. The name just has weight. Neil Josten went to great lengths to claim his damn name. Jean Moreau is taking active steps daily to shift the meaning that his name holds positively. Jeremy Knox existed for years in collective imagination, yes for his personality, but also, I'm sure, it's cause that name is just weighty.

But then there's Andrew, who is so important to the fandom that he lives in a different realm of notoriety in my head. I just say, Andrew. Like one just says Zendaya.

neil rlly does spend a lot of time insulting andrew's height in tfc for a guy who is 3 inches taller and also cant see the top of the fridge / reach the top cupboard / be at other people's eye level

Hear me out- If Kevin wasn’t good at exy he wouldn’t have survived. His love for it is partly a survival tactic. Him teaching other people and making them better- in his eyes- is protecting them. He is teaching them how to “survive.”

There was something else I was gonna add to this but I forgot as I was typing… oops.

I think Kevin’s love language is chronically misunderstood. Him wanting to train others and making them the best at the sport that means the world to him is like a love confession. Like people. Can’t you see how he’s letting you into his precious and broken little exy heart. Exy is what kept him alive during the Nest. He’s just trying to give others that same comfort and joy.

It’s the equivalent to a child coming up to you telling you all about their favorite topic. They feel joy about it so they want to share that with you. You may not be interested or find the same joy that they do but it’s an effort to include people in their happiness. And Kevin is trying to do just that

i have officially reached a new level. i stared reading omegaverse fanfics. idk how i got here and idk how to feel about it. it’s all for the game fics if you were wondering.

As soon as the brick hit him in the head he picked it up and started whacking people with it. You can’t call that innocent.

"neil is innocent and doesn't know when andrew is flirting with him-"

WRONG ❌

once neil figured out how to play along he was a fucking menace do you not remember this????

Neil's two true loves

I am unwell

HELLO?!?

Fuck he is gorgeous

I think people don't actually know what Andrew means when he says he hates Neil. He doesn't mean he actually hates Neil, that'd be an obvious lie. He means he hates that he wants Neil, when everything else he's ever wanted has turned to ash under his touch. He means he hates Neil because feeling apathetic about everything and everyone is much less painful than finding out you actually do care. He hates Neil because Neil gives him something to live for and when you've lived years on survival mode you'll find that living is much harder than dying.

This is the most surface level thought about Even In Arcadia but I really appreciate that the songs are long.

Artists are writing shorter and shorter songs to compete in the attention economy and are even writing based around a short snippet they hope will go viral on TikTok.

The shortest song on Even In Arcadia is Past Self at 3:35. A full 5 songs are over 6 minutes long.

Sleep Token, who *had* that taste of viral TikTok fame themselves, looked at current trends in music and went "hmm. No thank you."

Ahh, that guitar intro... then the saxophone outro! ♥︎