quick question, people are capable of liking something and not making it their entire personality?

let them smooch!! 

((neil is bending his knees a lil so andrew can reach🙏🏻🙏🏻)

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry that he hurt you, I’m sorry that you’re still afraid to talk about it, and I’m sorry that you think I’ll never understand. I’m sorry that he tricked you into thinking you deserved it."

Neil & Matt art 🫶

im not familiar with that movie but ive heard of its homosexuality

It’s high time I talk about Jerejean. The pacing of Jerejean is just perfect to me. Like in each POV, they’re checking each other out constantly. Jean is equal parts ashamed and frustrated in bisexual. And Jeremy is like “This is a bad idea… But oh no he’s hot.”

But this internalized attraction doesn’t bleed too far into how they interact. They feel natural. Circumstantial, sure, but their relationship is still blooming like a daffodil. Jean is still bringing in the Raven mindset when it comes to Jeremy, but their chemistry is off the rails even then. We get a reciprocated hug! We get multiple chin grabs, but more importantly “Who did this to you?” We get Jeremy rushing to Jean’s aid when he’s choking himself. We get Jeremy trying his absolute best to take care of Jean. To listen to him. To show him it’s okay to be vulnerable. We get the duo: Jean “I want to be left alone” and Jeremy “Even by me?” We get Jean admitting to himself after Jermey said, “Stay with me” that it’s the safest he’s ever felt in his room and, more slyly, there’s enough room for two beds. Jeremy might be doing it out of a sense of duty, because Kevin trusted him, because he’s just a good person. After all, Jean says that the captain of the Sunshine court can’t be a villain; but how long till he realizes that his care for Jean runs deeper than that and vice versa?

Either way, Jerejean is perfect in this novel. This is pure attraction, secrets, and an ending we’re dying to hear. Nora left food for thought about Jeremy’s past and left room for Jerejean to grow. They’re just as deep and intricate as other relationships in this series, even if the readers are more aware of their attraction towards one another. But most importantly, there’s hope for them. Kevin and Renee have to be mentioned here. We have unrequited love or a relationship that they will never be able to properly repair (</3), and a right person wrong time problem.

Jean has had these “failed” romantic relationships. But it’s all for a reason and I just neeeeeed to see where Jean and Jeremy do it right. I love them, your honor.

Anyway, one of my favorite one-liner internal monologue moments from Jean is below:

this has probably been done before but…

i missed this post

I feel like not enough people talk about this -

Jean's french accent is probably still so fucking strong. I have a french friend and she said that their accent is so deep rooted it is almost impossible not to have it, and Jean was 14 when he was transferred to USA, meaning he still spoke French the majority of his life, so Jeremy hearing his name from Jean, his crush, his TYPE, with a fucking french accent must have been disarming. I would MELT right there and then if I were Jeremy.

u bet your ass jeremy is gonna make the ugliest little ceramic bowl for jean when he starts taking his classes in the second book and jean’s gonna melt to the fucking floor

Real footage of Jean Paris Moreau arriving in California in TSC:

it is so funny to me that in aftg everyone always talks about how hot neil is. then in tsc when jean legit is like thirsting over practically everyone he refuses to see neil as anything other than the gremlin child that he is lol

i refuse to psychoanalyze a cardboard dog i refuse to psychoanalyze a cardboard dog i refuse to psychoanalyze a cardboard dog i refuse to psychoanalyze a cardb-

anyway jeremy not being able to have a dog bc his (estranged?) mother is allergic and then laila and cat offering to have one at theirs for him symbolizes his inability to be himself at home but that he feels comfortable around his friends. laila and cat being unable to have a dog in the end but still getting a fake one symbolizes how even though he can be more of himself around them there's still a part of him he's not comfortable showing even to his closest friends. the picture on the cut out being one-sided symbolizes that as well - he'll show part of himself, the happy part, but there's still the other side. the side that isn't all sunshine and happiness, the side that he hides.

obviously when he brings jean the dog it symbolizes him watching over jean - every time jean removes it from room, he brings it back because he refuses to give up on jean.

eventually jean turns the cutout around to face the wall, the part that isn't sunshine and happiness facing the room. and jeremy...jeremy might have to rethink his insistence to hide the parts of him that aren't golden.

but the curtains are blue, and i refuse to psychoanalyze a cardboad dog.

cardinal red