#the old guard

[paigian]

sometimes i think of yusuf, at the beginning. poet son of a merchant boy in borrowed armour, skull cracked open on a rock. how long until he returns home again? How does he return, estranged, to those Ithica-like Tunisian shores? Can his father still recognize his covered face?

yusuf al-kaysani, the son, the poet, the not-soldier, made and unmade each night in the looms of his mother's memory, mindbody woven and unwoven by something infinite and nameless.

sometimes i think about "di genova" vs. "al-kaysani". a land versus a bloodline. How they lose both, and then the names, too. immortal odysseus, ogygia-bound, longing to see the smoke that rises from his homeland, longing for death, kept in the soft-tender company of his murderer.

(really, you were founded on the bloody rock of holy ground. really, sometimes there is no return from war. at least not from this. not from the way he touches you.)

#the old guard #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #meta #kaysanova

[hachinana87]

call!

#the old guard #nile

[hope-father-thus-cup]

#cigarette #taylornation #the arcana game #illustrators on tumblr #the old guard #tangled #ptv #oneshots #ww2 #lion king #sexy pose #romantic #grey academia #art history

[security-these-common-since]

#running #the bad batch #cassie ainsworth #bunny #macabre #urbanwear #the song of achilles #the arcana game #tododeku #walking dead #the old guard #israel

[ournextdoorneighbor]

from my tog archive :)

#the old guard #luca marinelli #nicolo di genova #the old guard fanart #was this ever posted?????? idk #ournextdoorneighbor art

[mearchy]

people will always be like "i lost 3 followers over this post..." and it's like. how do you know that?? do you guys check your followers, and track when they go down when you post certain stuff??? i don't pay jack shit attention to my followers list i just occasionally click through the recent people who have followed me to block bots and underage people. also i notice and get really excited when i see i have become mutuals with a blog i like. anyway take my poll.

*I can see this being the case for small blogs, like if you always have had ten followers and then one day you see you have eight, it makes sense you might draw a correlation to a specific post.

#to be clear im not some huge blog #i have like 300ish followers #which is not that many #but like. i don't notice when people unfollow me??? #probably so many people have #because this blog has changed fandoms many times over the years #but unless its a known mutual i remember having #i do not really notice #is this weird of ME #am i the weird one? #fandom #tumblr polls #a poll a day #random polls #star wars #x men #doctor who #the old guard #ALSO bottom of the tags but #so sad that i am trapped in sideblog hell #you will never know we are mutuals...... #how many mutuals do i have and i don't even know it.... #queue

[non-un-topo]

Rating: T

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Word count: 12,872

Relationships: Andy | Andromache of Scythia & Nile Freeman & Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani & Nicky | Nicolò di Genova

Tags: Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Introspection, Aftermath of Torture, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Nile Freeman is a badass, Fist Fights, Catharsis, Background Joe/Nicky, Canon-Typical Violence, Fanservice, overuse of italics

Summary:

She lands on one foot, then swings her heel around to meet his face. It’s becoming her signature move — the crowd is expecting it. They shout. As she spins with it she sees the shine of their greasy faces, bills waving above heads, mouths opening wide to cheer for Lazarus! The man hits the ground, and as she twists and catches herself her crucifix kisses her cheek.

#sage writes #the old guard #tog fic #eyy i finished something

[hashtagloveloses]

do you guys remember the Old Guard. remember when there was a major mainstream hollywood action scifi motion picture starring hot women with guns where gay people kissed on the mouth passionately. and the movie was both critically and financially successful. that movie feels like a fucking fever dream. i'll never achieve the high i got when that movie came out ever again

#original post #the old guard #my god i miss it

[kinnsporsche]

You're a child. An infant. Your mocking is thus infantile. He's not my boyfriend. This man is more to me than you can dream. He's the moon when I'm lost in darkness and warmth when I shiver in cold. And his kiss still thrills me, even after a millennia. His heart overflows with a kindness of which this world is not worth of. I love this man beyond measure and reason. He's not my boyfriend. He's all and he's more.

#the old guard #theoldguardedit #togedit #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #joe x nicky #immortal husbands #lgbtedit #filmedit #filmgifs #dailynetflix #chewieblog #dailyflicks #userrlaura #usersteen #userairam #usernati #userange #useraurore #**

[drizzledrawings]

Scrappy 14 year old kid tries to intimidate two outlaws and fails miserably!! He doesn’t even have shoes on

#the curious couple and their unruly son #rdr2 #arthur morgan #ourthur #rdr2 fanart #rdr2 hosea #dutch van der linde #hosea matthews #red dead redemption fanart #red dead redemption two #the old guard

[gaal-dornick]

uh oh besties, first case of scrapping off and shelving for life a whole filmed movie on netflix. we're in real danger now

#personal #tog besties #the old guard

[ndcgalitzine]

THE OLD GUARD (2020) - Yusuf al-Kaysani & Nicoló di Genova ~ everyone's favorite van scene ♥

#The Old Guard #theoldguardedit #filmedit #Joe x Nicky #Immortal Husbands #Yusuf al Kaysani #Nicoló di Genova #Marwan Kenzari #Luca Marinelli #lmarinelliedit #mkenzariedit #* #*you know how everyone and their grandmother has giffed this scene?? #and I've reblogged every single one of those gifsets more than once #more than twice #probably more than three times #??? #well now that I finally know how to make gifsets from screenshots and not just from a video #I COULDN'T RESIST #💖💖💖💖💖 #E N J O Y #1k

[blumineck]

hi! you're great I love your work! I've got a weirdly specific archery question and thought I'd send it to you in case you'd find it fun to have a crack at

say you're an expert archer originally from Vietnam sometime in the late bronze age. say you're a super duper expert archer because it turns out you're immortal, and so you do your archery across Eurasia through the first millennium BCE and the first millennium CE and into the age where gunpowder weapons are evolving into cannons. that's a long time to be alive and you do lots of hunting and fighting with all kinds of bows and shooting styles, especially war archery on horseback. then you're out of the picture for a while, let's say you're peacefully sleeping for a handful of centuries. (this is about Quynh from The Old Guard who alas was not peacefully sleeping)

all of a sudden you blink and you've gone from the era where firearms were just starting to develop and maybe with this new flintlock thing guns could eventually get good enough to rival a bow and arrows— bam, now you're in the 21st century. what kinds of modern archery tech would you be most excited to try out? what would you think of a compound bow? Olympic style archery? plastic fletching?? how about the modern reproductions of what are now considered historical bows and shooting styles? is there anything about 21st century archery that you'd want to rant about at length? other opinions about these newfangled takes on your trusty old bow and arrows you care to share?

This is a phenomenal question, and thank you for asking it! Here’s my 2 cents:

The thing about modern archery is that for the most part, modern bows are designed to make it easier to be accurate, to the stage that modern target accuracy is probably better than it’s ever been historically.

BUT, if we assume Quynh is capable of feats of archery that match the level of melee combat skill that e.g. Andy has, then she doesn’t NEED it to be easier to be accurate.

My guess is that someone like her would actually find most modern archery developments needlessly slow and awkward. Compound bows and Olympic recurves are NOT designed for instinctive, fast shooting, and would probably feel quite restrictive once she got over how easy they made accuracy.

BUT, I imagine she would be blown away by the range and arrow speed that modern bows can generate, and there are some recurves (and at least one compound bow), that have been designed to make use of the efficiency of modern materials and bow design, while still allowing traditional shooting styles, and those, THOSE are something an ancient immortal archer might fall in love with! (FWIW, my own go-to is a horsebow made with carbon-fibre limbs and a modern limb profile, and for impact energy it can match some traditional bows with a draw weight that’s 50% greater. The Oneida eagle compound could trump that).

So yeah, it might take her a bit, but once she gets her hands on the right equipment, she’d be (even more) TERRIFYING!

#archery #bows #arrows #writing ref #the old guard

[captain-grammar]

She's everything

He's just Ken

#the old guard #tog #andromache the scythian #andromache the scythian / andy #sebastien le livre #sebastien le livre / booker #booker #andy #andy x booker

[randomfandombullshiz]

Just asking y'all to stop this bs PLEASE

#tagging fandoms i see doing this the most #sambucky #samsteve #sam wilson #bucky barnes #steve rogers #the old guard #joe x nicky #interview with the vampire #loustat #chucky #jake x devon #YES THEY DO IT TO THE BABIES AS WELL

[mearchy]

#mine is 295 pages somewhere around 5600 fics #and i’ve had that account for six or seven years #im about to tag the hell out of this for exposure sorry #i’m trying to get the widest sample size #the old guard #star wars #doctor who #polls #ao3 #fanfic #writeblr #the clone wars #the mandalorian #our flag means death #spn #supernatural #destiel #good omens #ineffable husbands #bbc sherlock #x men #cherik #immortal husbands #kaysanova #sequel trilogy #prequel trilogy #reylo #(can’t believe i used that tag. first time) #911 fox