#i was just thinking abt nicky

[themundanemudperson]

aftg au where everything's the same except the twins changed their last names to "klose" because nicky already married erik in germany, and they changed their names after he adopted them

#idk why #i was just thinking abt nicky #and the fact that he adopted the twinyards #aftg #aftg au #andrew minyard #aaron minyard #nicky hemmick #erik klose #andreil #kateaaron #nerik #twinyards

[kevindavidday]

as shifty as they were when they were younger, at the actual age that andreil are at do you think they've got the potential to be friendly strangers? like not overly friendly but the kind of people who understand what being human is

think about it, the experience of living a sheltered life and neil is standing behind someone in the grocery line, watching them unable to scour up money for ramen and water so he pays for it to help things along

andrew watching a little kid peer into his mega expensive car of the year and the kid gets scared of him and moves aside but andrew opens the door moves back, tells the kid he can have a look its fine

do you think they would interfere by force if they ever saw something bad happening in front of them? neil on his runs stopping to help someone cross the road, feeding stray cats in alleyways, yk the people who know what struggle is and don't want it for anyone else?

idk if they're the type to shrug off injustice so easily, i feel like whatever they learnt as children is buried deep inside the caution and fear of strangers and all but maybe what wymack taught them would rise to the surface too cuz if wymack hadn't chosen to help them they wouldn't be alive either

#sometimes i think about how neil cried when wymack passed away #and nora said in the EC thats one of the times andrew actively held him cuz he didn't know what else to do #yeah idk im in a mood #ofc this isn't just for andreil it applies to like kevin and aaron and nicky and all the upperclassmen too #might write more abt them too #aftg #tfc #neil josten #andrew minyard #andreil

[spaceratprodigy]

*gulp* deacon/iris "please just kiss me" intimacy ask........ NYE party- (i am shot)

@oldworldwidgets — [ intimacy prompts ]

It's in the stars, it's been written in the scars on our hearts

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again

pose reference

#if u need me I'm gonna be on the floor thinking abt the doomed love of the disaster besties #aud.. aud my love my darling.. this little scene we crafted has been rotating nonstop in my brain for months #it has fundamentally ruined me #but it's so perfect it hurts so good I love seeing the lines blurring I love them not being able to get it right #struggling to communicate through the heartache *chefs kiss* #him.. him being the one to ask.. #I am unwell you are always sending me banger prompts my dear AND you always know how to help put my chaotic ramblings in the perfect words #OUGH miss aud oldworldwidgets I love you with my entire heart and soul you are such a ray of sunshine in my life #also I still have the other two intimacy prompts u sent me for them in my back pocket..... #I've had some ideas of how they can spend the night on the roof under the stars together...... #more on that later #ANYWAY #ilysm I am blowing you so many kisses rn #finally the people get to know who miss iris really kissed on new years eve on this fine day of *checks watch* valentine's day #(sorry nicky ✌😔 just bestie things u know how it is) #my art #sole survivor #fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #deacon #deacon fallout 4 #deacon fo4 #oc x canon

[risetherivermoon]

honestly to me nark = "diversity win! the two worst people you know are kissing! and they hate each other!"

#tbh i think they think they hate eachother but dont and then hate that they dont #narks biggest haters are just nick and lark themselves #posting abt nark now randomly like i haven't been obsessed with this ship for like ever #rarepairs 😍😍😍 #'nark in this day and age' SHUT UP IM COPING #dndads #dndads s2 #dndaddies #dungeons and daddies #nark #nark nation #me rambling #lark oak garcia #lark oak #nicky close #nicky foster #nick close #nick foster #nicholas close #nicholas foster #nark dndads #dndads nark #dungeons & daddies #autumn rambles #🍁

[sofhtie]

“captain of everything she ever wanted” really makes me feel like i’m going insane. like totally crazy. it’s baru and it’s A Place and it’s freedom and it’s power which is just freedom again. how much time she spends denying that she wants anything at all and how simple it rly is when it comes down to it. how little it is and how long it’s been. it’s baru. whatever i’m tearing my skin off

#idk how seth uses the navy titles all that well but i Do think there’s smth to how captain isn’t a rank in the us navy + tends to bring #associations more tied to pirates/‘explorers’/etc as systems that rely on rank but are less tied to the formalized state milaitry and how #this is abt serving Baru instead of the masquerade #baru cormorant #<- sorry for main tagging i just use this in my own blog too 😭 #nicki talks

[justablah56]

new headcannon that Nick and Glenn used to dye their hair together all the time, and then Nick helped Terry bleach his pre s1 . then post s1 Terry helped Nicky dye his for the first time since he couldn't really remember how after becoming narcholas

#just blahs #dndads #idk how much sense this makes to me but i am Thinking abt it #dndaddies #dungeons and daddies #terry jr #terry stampler #nick close #nick foster #nicky close foster #nicky foster #nicky freeman #nicholas foster #nicholas close

[youssefguedira]

have a little more fencing world champion joe. because it's worlds again and olympics soonish. enjoy

The clock on the nightstand changes from 01:36 to 01:37, and Joe sighs, rolling over to stare up at the ceiling. Nicky, beside him, shifts in his sleep but doesn't wake.

Joe, however, has been awake since at least 12:08, and feels far too restless to sleep. It's almost certainly jet lag: they're in Chicago for a little while, visiting Nile and her family, and largely trying to enjoy the last little bit of free time they have left until training begins again in earnest. Of course, Joe's kit bag is lying open at the foot of the bed, and Nicky's beside it: just because they're not formally training doesn't mean they won't need it at all.

Still, Joe can't sleep. He sighs again, and gives up on trying to do so entirely. Maybe he'll be able to find some time to rest tomorrow, though he doubts it. Nile's got a lot of things she wants to show them, and Joe would ordinarily be thrilled, if he wasn't so tired.

It'll pass, Andy told him, though she doesn't seem to have been affected by it at all. He's almost certain they'll meet her in the morning for breakfast and she'll be exactly as normal, as if they haven't just crossed multiple time zones. Even Nicky, who hadn't struggled nearly as much as Joe had, had begun to slow down some time around midday, but Andy had been fine.

He gets out of bed, careful not to wake Nicky, who's rolled onto his side facing the door. With nothing else to do, Joe makes his way to the little balcony attached to their room, picking up his phone from the nightstand on the way. The sliding door squeals a little when he opens it, but when he looks over at Nicky he hasn't even moved.

While it's certainly quieter than it had been before, the city is nowhere near silent. It's beautiful, though, and Joe takes a picture to send to his sister.

She texts him back immediately. Pretty, but isn't it like the middle of the night for you?

1 am, Joe responds. Jet lag.

His phone lights up with a call then, but not from Amira. He reads the contact name and answers, heart in his throat.

Oof, is Amira's response.

He almost drops his phone when he realises what they're calling him for.

By the time they hang up, his hands are shaking: he stays like that, phone still pressed to his ear even after the call has ended, for at least a few minutes.

Finally, at a loss for what else to do, he lowers his phone and goes back inside. Sits down on the edge of the bed.

The movement is just enough to wake Nicky, who blinks a few times before sliding into awareness all at once, the way he always does. He sits up, leaning against the headboard, pushing his hair out of his eyes. "Joe?" he asks, voice still slightly hoarse from sleep. He frowns when Joe doesn't answer straight away. "Is something wrong?"

"No," Joe says. Fidgets with his phone, screen now dark, still in his hands. "Uh. They want me for the Olympic team."

Nicky is silent for all of a split second before his expression breaks into a wide smile. "Yeah?"

"Yeah." Joe can't keep himself from smiling now, either, as Nicky cups the back of Joe's neck with one hand, leans in to press their foreheads together. Joe closes his eyes.

"Of course they do, Joe," Nicky says then. "You're the best in the world right now. You're going to be incredible."

There are times when that doesn't quite feel real, even if it's been a while.

"You'll come with me?" Joe asks.

"Always," Nicky says. Then he pulls back and kisses Joe's cheek, his forehead, the space between his eyes, until Joe laughs.

"I love you," Nicky tells him.

They'd met fencing épée, of all things. Andy had invited the seven of them – they hadn't quite been friends yet, but Joe had known Quynh for a couple years by then, and Andy too, while Nicky had already known Nile – to train with her and Quynh for a while, and Joe couldn't possibly refuse, because Andy was both his friend and one of the best coaches in the world back then. She'd made them all switch to a weapon they didn't usually use, and Joe and Nicky had picked épée: Joe because he figured it would be easier than restricting his target area to the torso only, and Nicky because épée was far closer to foil than sabre. They'd been about evenly matched, and it had been – well, it had been fun.

Joe had left a week later with Nicky's number in his phone and a small, fluttering hope in his chest. And even if they hadn't kept in touch very well those first few months, when the World Championships came around, and Joe had qualified for the second time, Nicky had joined Andy to meet him at the airport, grinning widely when he caught sight of him.

The rest, as they say, is history.

"I love you too," Joe says.

"You want to tell the others?" Nicky asks.

Joe looks at him for a moment. Looks at the clock. "It's 1 am, Nicky. Andy will kill us both."

Nicky snorts. "In the morning, then?"

"In the morning," Joe agrees.

Neither of them end up going back to sleep until 4 am, and they're both exhausted at breakfast the next morning, but. It's worth it.

#neon writes #fencing au #(but like. professional) #the old guard #kaysanova #userlyde #userlinax #do i know what this is? nah. but i was thinking about then #*them #nicky also goes to the olympics btw. he finds out the night after #nile (who is lucky enough to be in the right timezone) also qualifies etc etc. my backstory for her is winning us collegiate and then #she also wins gold for women's individual and silver in team foil in the 2022 worlds. assuming this takes place in the real world #i think nicky has already been to one olympics (his backstory is basically the same as his regular fencing au backstory except he actually #goes to the olympics fairly young as opposed to dropping out for injury. #i think andy coaches for paris. this is also like her regular fencing au backstory #somewhere between cairo (2022) and paris (2024) she gets bored of competition and just coaches full time (for nile i think) #she and quynh ARE married but she doesn't coach quynh because otherwise they argue abt it. famously. work life balance and all that #anyway. that's your Infodump for today. i Do however think about them constantly so #gritting my teeth. maybe épée is ok and valid and has a purpose SOMETIMEZ #*sometimes. didn't mean to spell that with a z but oh well

[grantwilsonenjoyer]

guys what if i go full denial mode and write a series of the kiddads random college (slash early-adult-life) shenanigans

#t.j. psych major is so real to me. #&sparrow oak art major... #lark? who knows. prob not in college though #nicky close-foster goes to school for music and then drops out <3 he is mildly successful as an artist tho #grant is actually the most unknowable to me shockingly #all i know is he makes it thru highschool by a THREAD and ends up taking a break year before college #(he's probably just gen ed thru his associates now that i am thinking abt it.) #anyways. guys would u support me if i went off the deep end and fully diverged from canon

[ultrasopp]

Game review from real gamer. i am not finished at all but saga of sins. Yeah. Platformer where everything looks like stained glass and u turn into monsters to enter people’s minds and fight sin. U can pet the dog and also enter the dog’s mind (he is free sin)

#txt #its scratching the history/religion/art fixation part of my brain so good #u are a littel priest and u fight the demons in sinners’ minds to free them but… are u really freeing them or are u committing sin urself?? #its a lot of this tortured littel guy being all ‘hey what is sin REALLY? love thy neighbor but cannot fuck?? hello god whats up w that’ but- #-in a plagued by demons sort of way #what is the morality of it all? idk man the priest just got back from the crusade and have been just as many comments on how noble that is- #-as there have been ‘hey not cool’ and ‘why r u trying to purge sin when wrath made u kill fellow humans’ etc #im not expecting an answer on that exactly as the game is *very* european lmao #anyway i think its gonna end with either fighting god or fighting the devil OR u turn into the devil. some hell on earth kinda deal #also. hope no one reads so far but this dude looks like how i draw ye ole medieval nicky and i have brain worms. so its a bonus #but by itself. im fucking LOVE the stained glass look of it all #its not terribly original game play as it is a platformer but man never seen a game with this look #so 10/10 for aesthetics lol #yike im done now. sudden need to tell everyone abt my fav game of this week u know how it is

[primonizuto]

generally speaking i hate the 'primo is just 70s nicky' theory bc like there is absolujtely no fucking way nicky would have dick energy that big. he simply wouldnt. that man's whole vibe is about blending into a beige carpet meanwhile primo's entire day has been wasted if he hasnt worn at least two of his new and excellent outfits

#also primo is kind of evil etc etc. but like more generally speaking i hate that this fandom in particular has a weird thing abt #reducing actors' other characters to just being like 'past nicky' or 'past joe' or whatevr it is soooo boring to me. come up with ur own id #ideas.! #YOU HAVE NO GOOD CAR IDEAS!!!!! #steering wheel that wont whiff out the window while im driving etc etc #ALSO LIKE. i know straight up that its not a real Theory its just people having fun #but it annoys me. have fun in a way i can accept or dont haev fun at all #esp in the case of luca (Bc i have seen both tog and trust ofc) i just think its like #its so derivative of his acting ability in both films to be like hehe what if these were the same guy #THEY ARE NOT #they barely even look alike. stop it. #its like saying wow um au where michael corleone is just 50s nicky #like what hehe... what!

[strangeterrain]

Videodrome (1983) / Cobra Starship lyrics

#i am craaaazy abt videodrome is my fav horror ever . 1 of my fav films in general #this is just for fun really #i had more that were sillyer #but i Do think there is something u can say abt #the kindof . voyeurism of suffering . u could get some fob in here too lol #but like . uhm its warmer in the basement vs that bit in videodrome where she says #he was convinced that public life on tv was more real than private life in the flesh #and Yeah the city is at war has a lot of that too . and like i think that verse is Very kindof nicki brand #and like nicki w her emotional rescue show ? as a whole thing like . that always was interesting to me like . who is the audience and #like the faceless audience of channel 83 . and idk . #well i have thoughts about that film but this is a silly post . anyway

[amphibifish]

reading an abandoned fic this reading an abandoned fic that have you ever read the first chapter of a fic that could only be accessed through the internet archive that was finished only to find out the rest of the chapters were not archived

#fish.txt #IM JUST THINKING ABT THIS REALLY INTERESTING ROD/NICKY/RICKY FIC THAT I WILL NEVER KNOW THE ENDING OF #personal avenue q tag

[spaceratprodigy]

thinking so many thoughts abt iris fresh out of the vault so scared, confused, vulnerable, alone, grief about to hit in full force, and still malleable, just for poppy to be the first person to find her and she has iris wrapped around her finger for a while

#thinking lots of gut-wrenching thoughts to make miss ma'ams mental state even worse this early in her story #also to help solidify some details for funsies + actually develop the poppyiris dynamic and the complexities that come with it #was even thinking abt them both being the ones to give the other their face scars #plus I can have fun with iris's design bc I decided her fresh out the vault look is one of her older iterations from way back when– #and her current look is after she meets and becomes closer with nicky and he cuts her hair for her :] #I love rambling abt iris bc I just /don't/ talk abt her in depth beyond a select few close friends lmao so like iykyk I guess #I just have SO many new ideas since thinking up poppy being iris's first companion bc it just hurts so fucking good #also random nonsense that only I care abt: #a few weeks ago went bananas over imaging them playing co-op vampire survivors bc likeeee #the implications of iris picking luminaire foscari and poppy picking genevieve gruyere.. #oooo ooouuuoughoughhhgggggoougggh #rambling #miss ma'am iris is that you #poppy

[gemharvest]

It's really unfortunate that I haven't been able to get into Rare American's newer works bc their early discography is still some of my favorite music + meant a lot to me in 2020. Alas, there's just smthn abt how the new songs are written that I just find impossible to listen to.

#ramblings #its not that i think its objectively bad its just not for me anymore. like how i feel abt mother mother #sorry im only thinking abt this cuz brittle bones nicky came on the youtube mix im playing rn

[covenofthearticulate]

listen i have 0 experience writing nicki/lestat but i just got the juiciest fic idea so i need one of y’all to step up and write it for me 👀

#okay maybe this fic already exists idk i'm not huge on nicolas/lestat but HEAR ME OUT #i know we all laugh abt lestat never properly learning to read but i'm just thinking about the literal HOURS they must've spent together #because nicki literally had to read lestat his lines to memorize for the show #so anyway there's so much potential for what those Lessons looked like!! #give me 3am drunk nicki slurring his words and lestat repeating it back slurred the same way #give me stern nicki and bratty lestat employing some Alternative Methods to reward/punish as they work through a monologue #give me lestat the actor who recites his lines with so much passion and Truth nicolas doesn't even notice he's totally bullshitting the line #i'm telling you the possibilities are ENDLESS #also i'm dead serious i'm not gonna write it so if any of these ideas inspire you please take them from me and write them!!! #Lestat De Lioncourt #nicolas de lenfant

[justablah56]

doo dee doo I finished coloring that lineart I drew like a week ago for @inkedintothepaper 's king Doodler au :3

#my art #thinking abt them always <3 #also sorry this took so long i lichrally just had like one thing to add that i kept forgetting fhjsjshsjjsjs #but ough <33 themb <3333 #nark #lark oak #lark oak garcia #nicky close foster #nicky foster #nick foster #nicolas foster #nicholas foster #nicholas close #nicolas close #nick close #nicky close #why does that bitch have so many tags #i think at this point im just gonna tag him as nick close and nick foster #anyways #dndads #dndaddies #dndads fanart #dungeons and daddies