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And for some blog business, along with abridging some fic summaries, we are adding a “keep reading” link on longer posts. -A

also see:

• andreil meet pre-canon 3 here
• andreil knew each other before millport here
• Neil meets the in-laws or the foxes here
• ‘Andrew’s Regret’ here
• ‘Just trust me, you’ll be fine.’ here (updated)
• ‘Joseph’ series here
• ‘Bittersweet Letters’ here
• ‘would we survive in a horror movie?’ here
• ‘Forget all the shooting stars and all the silver moons…’ here
• ‘you say i’m a dreamer, but i’m not the only one’ series here
• ‘Brittle Identities’ here (updated)
• ‘If I Killed Someone For You’ here 
• ‘Lilac Sunglasses’ here

raven!neil:

• ‘Through our memories, we live’ here (completed)
• ‘Midnight runaway’ here (updated)
• ‘Stranger To Stay’ here (updated)
• ‘Now I See Daylight’ here (updated)

other aus:

• ‘come find me in a crowd (of all the boys and girls)’ here (completed)
• ‘Bits And Pieces of My Heart and Yours’ ch 2 & 3 here
• ‘picking up mob bosses’ series here
• ‘None But You’ here
• ‘ANDROMEDA’ here
• ‘Say You’ll Stay’ here
• ‘waiting up for better things’ here
• ‘The Reapers’ series here
• ‘Lucid’ here
• ‘Red Rabbits’ here
• ‘Guardian Angel’ series here
• ‘Family Affairs’ and ‘The Way the Wind Blows’ here
• ‘I’ll be a Brand New Day’ here
• ‘As I Waited for You’ here (updated)
• ‘Damned If You Do’ here
• ‘Firelight’ here
• ‘No Saints in Sight’ here (updated)
• ‘Dead, Not Yet Buried’ here

you may also like:

• andreil are often in a secret established relationship in time travel aus; here’s our tag and here’s the filtered search on ao3

Keep reading

Oh my YES, I’m loving Andrew’s pov in ‘hey, you!’ Another favorite is ‘Trust Fall (And Welcoming Arms)’ – find links to both near the top of previous recs for Andrew & Bee. Hopefully I’ve scooped up some angstyish fics that you’ve missed. As always, previous asks contain a trail of previous recs and art! -A

angsty andrew & bee:

• bee & andrew here
• andrew + therapy here
• ‘hey, you!’ (referenced in the ask), ‘you know i didn’t want to have to haunt you,’ and ‘hope the skin heals where the pain enters’ here
• ‘Trust Fall (And Welcoming Arms)’ here
• ‘the icarus to your certainty’ and ‘Open Smother’ here
• ‘Tell Me How You Hate Me’ (updated) and ‘A Taste of Your Own Medicine’ here
• ‘Muscle Memory’ (completed) and ‘last piece of gold’ here
• ‘the foxes or Bee finding out about Proust’ here
• ‘Hearts In Halves’ here
• ‘until i see the light’ here
• ‘In My Head’ and ‘there’s a fine line’ here
• ‘breaking every finger, praying that it makes me clean,’ ‘Raw Sugar,’ and ‘After thousands of cold days’ here
• ‘Slings and Arrows’ here
• ‘Is It Still Worth It? (All The Pain You’re In?)’ series here
• ‘everything good or bad ends’ here
• ‘Is Neil Fucking Josten Worth It?’ and ‘Therapy’ here
• ‘So I Got Wasted (Like All My Potential)’ and ‘Bittersweet’ here
• ‘Unconventional Therapy,’ ‘Written On His Skin,’ ‘One Step Forward,’ and ‘Angry Alone’ here  
• ‘Not Yours To Bleed’ (updated), ‘Longing Distance,’ and ‘Already Gone’ (updated) here
• ‘not to blame for falling,’ series, ‘sidelines,’ ‘Lay my Curses Out to Rest,’ ‘skin deep,’ ‘Dear Diary, This is Bullshit,’ ‘Still, There Are Scratches Along This Wall,’ and ‘everything and nothing begins with you’ here

angsty andrew & wymack:

• ‘Haunted’ here
• ‘Odd Eye’ here
• ‘Cut at the knees (I’ll bash your head)’ here
• ‘if you really love nothing’ here
• ‘In The Dark Somewhere’ and ‘Oh love, I’m sorry if I smothered you’ here
• ‘Wanting To Be Found’ here
• ‘cause and effect’ here
• ‘glass in the trees (objects in the rearview)’ here
• ‘What Is It To Truly Lose Control?’ here
• ‘clusterfuck’ here
• ‘Vivid’ and ‘I took the pills for these empty nights’ here
• ‘Scared to Live (But I’m Scared to Die)’ here 
• ‘but i’ll know, i’ll know’ here (completed)
• ‘Beekeeper’ and ‘Three hundred’ here

andrew & bee

all this empathy is starting to wear me down by wyverning [Rated T, 6384 Words, Complete, AFTG Pride Zine 2024]

When Betsy Dobson is assigned as Andrew’s court-mandated psychiatrist, he’s expecting more of the same bullshit: so-called professionals who see him as some sort of irredeemable, irrational monster have become routine in his life by this point, and they never last.
He’s not expecting her to be incredibly perceptive and take the time to get to know him, or for this therapy thing to actually work.

tw: implied/referenced self harm, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: internalized homophobia, tw: implied/referenced nonconsensual drug use, tw: implied/referenced drug addiction

i’d promise you anything for another shot at life by orionauriga [Rated M, 15745 Words, Complete, 2024]

Let’s go back. Andrew would like that. All this time claiming regret is a foreign concept and here it hesitates on the tip of his tongue — this, the one time he would say such a thing: if I could go back and change it, I would. Maybe then his brother would still be here.
—
Just because Aaron died on the upstairs bathroom floor doesn’t mean he’s entirely gone. At least, not to Andrew.

tw: major character death, tw: child abuse, tw: implied/referenced murder, tw: drug addiction, tw: detox, tw: vomit, tw: violence, tw: implied/referenced hate crime, tw: recreational drug use, tw: suicidal thoughts, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: hallucinations, tw: alcoholism

Ripped at Every Edge by Sohotthateveryonedied2 [Rated M, 52659 Words, Incomplete, Updated Apr 2025]

Predictably, Neil’s automated voicemail message answers for him. The number you’re trying to reach is unavailable at this time. The message runs through its spiel, informing Andrew that he can leave a message after the beep.
Goodbye hovers on his tongue. It’s the least that Neil deserves from him. There are so many more things to be said.
Andrew shuts his phone without leaving a voicemail. He drops his phone onto the counter and slips a knife out of its sheath.
-
Right before spring break during his fourth year at Palmetto, Andrew Minyard attempts suicide. Now everyone has to figure out how to move forward from here.

tw: suicide attempt, tw: suicidal ideation, tw: graphic depictions of violence, tw: self harm, tw: blood and injury, tw: self hatred, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: depressive episode, tw: hypomania, tw: ptsd

Before the Sun series by Technodrome [Rated T, M, Collection, 2 complete works, Updated Jan 2025]

Part 1: No Children [M, 3550 Words]
“What are we fixing?” Neil asked again.
Andrew tipped the Gatorade bottle over the parapet and listened for the splat it would make as it hit the ground. “Is there something that needs fixing?”
They watched the bottle bounce and roll until it came to a stop in the road. Neil tilted his head like a beagle, eyes squinted in concentration like he could will it back up. “If you ask, then I’ll help.”

tw: suicidal ideation, tw: implied/referenced self harm, tw: urge to self harm, tw: depression, tw: implied/referenced csa, tw: implied/referenced child abuse

Part 2: Waiting Room [T, 1215 Words]
Something sparked in Bee’s eyes as she caught on. “How do you feel, Andrew?”
“Oh, Bee. Classic.”
“Fine,” a long, dramatic eye roll as though she were expecting any other answer. “The medication is helping, but you feel frustrated about that fact. True?” 

tw: suicidal ideation, tw: depression

motion sickness by mostly_maudlin [Rated T, 841 Words, Complete, 2022]

He spins in the colorful carnival teacups of life. Everything he touches is electric — the zap! zap! zap! feeds something to his core. Or maybe it sucks something out, making him feel weightless, letting him fly above it all. Andrew doesn’t like heights, but it feels so fucking good to soar that he doesn’t even care. He’s feather-light, he’s worry-free, he’s so fucking empty that nothing matters at all. Nothing matters, everything matters, everything is so much, everything is nothing, Andrew doesn’t matter—
-
Andrew’s first session with Betsy after the events of the Foxhole Court.

tw: medication addiction, tw: implied/referenced murder 

if i felt any regret by 2ndtolastrow [Rated T, 1321 Words, Complete, 2024]

“And?” Andrew asks. It’s one part implicit agreement and one part bait.
Aaron follows through. “I could’ve died, Andrew.”

tw: implied/referenced drug addiction

give it a name by seasy33 [Rated T, 11955 Words, Complete, 2022]

Part 3 of When It Breaks, can be read as a standalone

“What if we left right now?”
Andrew looks over at Neil. He’s tying knots in the strings.
Andrew doesn’t need to ask him to elaborate –he knows Neil means the road trip. What if it started now? It would be stupid to leave now. No one would know.
Andrew pictures going back to Abby’s, locking and locking the front door, going into the room with the squeaky fan, alone; waking up to the wrong sunlight.
Or he could leave right now in the middle of the night, driving on an open road, no sunlight. With Neil.
It feels more right than it should.

tw: mild self harm, tw: alcohol abuse, tw: vomit, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: implied/referenced csa

see me for who i am (make me see myself this way) by lunekei [Rated M, 1012 Words, Complete, 2024]

“does it disturb you that they call you a monster?”
after an incident of andrew lashing out towards the team, betsy has a therapy session with andrew.
—
or andrew feels seen for who he is

tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced self harm

Don’t Be A Stranger by thieramwrites [Rated M, 11386 Words, Incomplete, Updated Dec 2023]

Betsy cared deeply for all of her patients, and wanted the best for every single one of them. Whatever she could do to help them, she would do so without a second thought.
However, Andrew was not Betsy’s standard patient.
-
Glimpses of Andrew and Betsy’s relationship throughout the series, from Betsy’s POV.

tw: implied/referenced self harm, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced csa

under there surface (try to pretend) by 11moons [Not Rated, 18116 Words, Complete, 2024]

The twins have become to separate entities entirely, no matter what the freshman or upperclassmen think. The therapy, just because its happening, doesn’t mean its worth it. At least, if you asked Aaron. they’ll figure it out though, he hopes.
or, the twins fix it a little (but they break it first obvi)

tw: implied/referenced drug addiction, tw: implied/referenced murder, tw: implied/referenced drunk driving, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/ referenced self harm, tw: religious trauma, tw: depression

very lovely morning, by nanatsuyu [Rated T, 1786 Words, Complete, 2023, Locked]

one of andrew’s first sessions with bee

tw: suicidal ideation

sometimes i wish i kept some of my feelings in the basement by Moondal [Rated M, 6060 Words, Complete, AFTG Mixtape Exchange 2023, Locked]

You handed him a loaded gun and pointed it to your chest when you gave him your keys and asked him to stay.
-
Moments in Andrew’s life colored in red
[or 6 things Andrew didn’t tell Bee until he did]

tw: child abuse and neglect, tw: implied/referenced csa, tw: self harm, tw: drug addiction, tw: murder, tw: car accident, tw: canonical character death,  tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: assumed major character death

A Wondrous State by hetrez [Rated G, 1717 Words, Complete, 2017]

Andrew wants to be the stretch in Neil’s muscles and the pop of Neil’s spine.
OR, Andrew gets poked, prodded and psychoeducated into taking steps toward healing, and then he grabs healing by the face and kicks it into submission.

tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: implied/referenced csa

I sank. all. the way. down. by foodforworms [Not Rated, 2340 Words, Complete, 2022]

The couch in Bee’s office was extremely uncomfortable, the clock was ticking just a smidge too loud, and every few minutes the air conditioner would choke, sputter, and die, before huffing out a loud puff five minutes later, and start all over again. 
Existing was exhausting. 
____________
A small Andrew stream of consciousness one shot with way too many boat metaphors

tw: dissociation, tw: implied/referenced csa, tw: implied/referenced self harm

Sometimes I feel by VioletteHoneyBee [Rated T, 2223 Words, Complete, 2020]

There were many words people would associate with Palmetto State’s exy goalie, and monster was one of them, and perhaps out of all of them that was the worst to Andrew Minyard.

tw: implied/referenced abuse 

mama bee appreciation by @kukobs [Tumblr, 2024]

if anyone knows about Proust other than Neil, it’s Bee meta by @ninyard [Tumblr, 2021]

andrew & wymack

Brain Damage by Andy_Day02 [Rated E, 6581 Words, Complete, 2024]

“Proust believed in reenactment therapy,” Andrew said.
“Reenactment therapy,” Wymack repeated.
Andrew felt walls close around him. Walls he knew so well. Walls he stared at every time they strapped his limbs to the bed because Proust labeled him a ‘danger to himself.’
“Kid, look at me,” Wymack said.
The walls, Andrew remembered. When Proust did his fucking therapy, Andrew remembered the walls.
“Andrew, are you telling me he–”
“Yes.”
—
Andrew tells Wymack about rehab.

tw: suicidal thoughts, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: implied/referenced csa, tw: self harm, tw: reenactment therapy, tw: implied/referenced alcohol abuse, tw: depression, tw: insomnia

Five Hours Away by mostly_maudlin [Rated T, 2012 Words, Complete, 2022]

Part 1 of Five Hours Away, part 2 recced here

This conversation requires an emotional finesse David doesn’t possess. He tries anyway. It’s not part of the job description, but David’s never been able to hold that line of separation in his head. It’ll all kill him early, he knows. The booze and the smoking and the endless parade of messed up kids. Too bad he’s no good at quitting.
Andrew’s in Nashville. Neil’s in Palmetto. They’re both well-practiced in surviving alone.
But now, it’s Wymack’s problem. 

come find me in a crowd (of all the boys and girls) by neitherwitnorwords [Rated T, 42160 Words, Complete, 2024, Locked]

Allison ignores him and simply holds her phone out across the table. Andrew takes it from her, extreme curiosity mixing with unbridled caution. The instagram page that’s pulled up on the screen seems innocuous enough at first.
in which palmetto state has a university crush page, allison wants to meet the new coffee shop worker, and aaron couldn’t care less.
and Andrew? Andrew is really tired of everyone crushing on his boyfriend

tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: implied/referenced csa, tw: implied/referenced self harm, tw: nightmares

you ain’t gotta go home (but i wish you would) by incogneat_oh [Rated T, 4606 Words, Complete, 2024, Locked]

“Minyard,” Wymack grunts, after a moment, once it’s become clear Andrew was not going to speak first.
“Coach,” Andrew returns, flatly. He looks bored, disinterested as usual. But Wymack knows him well enough to read the very slight tension in his jaw, the fractional drawing together of his eyebrows. But then it’s not as if Andrew would stop by unless there were some sort of emotional crisis driving him out of the dorm.
–
Coach has an unexpected visitor to his apartment. Twice.

tw: implied/referenced self harm

Running is as easy as breathing byonlythebrave_28 [Not Rated, 5568 Words, Complete, 2025]

Neil’s fifth year was harder than he thought it was going to be and when he cant take it anymore he runs. Wymack calls Andrew.

Put The Monster Away byBisexualChaosDemon [Rated T, 3394 Words, Complete, 2025]

When the anniversary of Drake’s attack rolls around, Andrew’s family are all affected. But, to Andrew’s surprise, that doesn’t mean he’s alone.

tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: implied/referenced csa, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: ptsd

Life without you (is not like living at all) by deathabram [Rated T, 7345 Words, Complete, 2024]

Neil Josten dies in Baltimore and Andrew doesn’t know how to cope.
The direct aftermath of his death.

tw: major character death, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: self harm, tw: alcohol abuse, tw: implied/referenced suicide

Nothing Is Fine by mostly_maudlin [Rated T, 2161 Words, Complete, 2022]

It’s not good, not at all, not for Andrew, or for this foul-mouthed FBI agent telling him to “forget about Neil Josten,” or for Wymack standing between them in this Baltimore motel room. Oh, sir, don’t you know how hard Andrew has tried to forget Neil? Don’t you know that boy is an expert in getting under people’s skin? Andrew’s knuckles itch to clutch scarred shoulder, to brush against auburn hair, but they’ll settle for crunching against this fucking agent’s nose.
-
They say Neil’s fine, but those words mean nothing until Andrew gets his hands on him.

tw: implied/referenced torture

Give It Your All by chocymille [Not Rated, 5246 Words, Complete, 2024]

‘Andrew,’ Wymack raised his voice and Andrew turned to face the man, leg still bouncing, ‘for once in your miserable midget life play like you want us to win, would you?’
Like he wanted the team to win, huh? A smile spread across his face so wide Andrew knew if his lips were any more chapped there would be blood dripping down his chin.”
Retelling of the first Raven game because I wanted to see more of Andrew dealing with withdrawal while playing such a high-level team.

tw: medication withdrawal

Monster? by TheLastLife [Rated M, 25786 Words, Incomplete, Updated Mar 2025]

The older students were never able to see behind Andrew’s mask of indifference.
Even after the Thanksgiving incident, after Aaron’s trial, The Foxes continue to see a monster and a psychotic.
What will it take to prove that Minyard is also just a fox who has been hurt too many times?

tw: graphic depictions of violence, tw: child abuse, tw: rape, tw: nonconsensual drug use, tw: blood, tw: vomit, tw: ptsd

Nightmare by zahirwon [Not Rated, 16851 Words, Incomplete, Updated Jan 2025]

Andrew Minyard carries storms inside him. The scars on his hands, on his wrists, on his soul, are maps of a past he never wanted to remember, but which insists on following him. His mother, Tilda, a woman with eyes full of guilt and whispers, lives on the edge of the real world and the unreal. And there is something, or someone, that she fears more than anything.
There are voices hidden in the flowers. There are secrets dancing in the mirrors. There is a name never spoken aloud, a shadow that watches, waits, and promises.

tw: bullying, tw: nightmares, tw: violent imagery

Art

Andrew Minyard Animatic by @mini-minish (tw: drugs, self harm, blood)

B R O K E N art by @jojen-hewitt

andrew + things in his bag and return of the lime green kt tape art by @ezrul-00 

“Welcome Home” and first Kindergarten Brawl art by @clementinecloudz

Betsy Dobson concept art by @allfortheslay25

Maybe it’s past time to put the monster away by @manekkii-art

“This is why we can’t have nice things” art by @llstarcasterll

Mom and Dad and Mom art by @llstarcasterll