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laviejaguardia · 10 months

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Technical Support - read on ao3

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Joe/Nicky. F1 AU. Rated M. 96k words.

Formula 1 driver Yusuf "Joe" Kaysani has just signed with Old Guard Racing, under the management of Team Principal Andromache Scythian. Like in any new partnership, there's edges to file down to fit and roles to coordinate so it all goes smoothly. In between those questions is the matter of who will be his new race engineer and run comms for him during races. It's a big ask that needs a delicate balance, it can't be just anyone. Engineer Nicolò di Genova has been working at Old Guard Racing for a few years, putting his analytical mind to good use filing down milliseconds off their lap times. He's been content with his work behind the scenes, only briefly stepping into the spotlight when the occasion called for it. Despite the sport's unpredictability, it's been good steady work, surely this new partnership won't change things much for him. Or: Joe runs his mouth when high on adrenaline, Nicky's voice is soothing, and a lot of things can happen in a single F1 season.

Hope you enjoy this labor of love, try to drop a kudos or a comment if you do, they're the blood and bone of fandom :)

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cinnamonplums · 2 years

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some nile, andy, and quynh doodles as kids

#that's quynh with her big brother btw i hc her as a middle child idk vibes #also nile with her dad a little before he died and andy with her mother figure (yes the one that betrays her)#anyway i did give up at some point bc my hand was cramping so here. have these sketches that took me way too long #i also wrote some tiny ficlets that go with these but they turned out too angsty and idk im very :/ abt my writing #the old guard #tog #nile freeman #andromache the scythian #quynh #quynh tog #my art #userhayls

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scorchedhearth · 2 years

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Is that what we’re supposed to do, and we don’t even know why? I can't be that.

#tog #the old guard #nile freeman #togedit #theoldguard #nilefreemandedit #*mytog #*mystuff #userhayls #yes i know every shade of red is different. if i had spent one more minute trying to color match i think i could have gone mad so deal w it

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coldasyou · 3 years

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liking a male character like...

insp: x / x

#hannibal #hannibaledit #hannibal nbc #will graham #hugh dancy #dailyhannibalgifs #bbelcher #cinemapix #userstream #userangel #userhayls #usermackenzie #my gifs

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andtheywerecocaptains · 3 years

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Marwan Kenzari - The Promise (2016) premiere

#marwan kenzari #the promise (2016)#simoedit #usercacau #usershan #userkayla #userhayls #userhegel #userbooker #usertriz #demonicneonfishy #shinylightblue #lazynbored #gifset

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the-maidofmischief · 3 years

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I wanna be your slave I wanna be your master I wanna make your heart beat Run like rollercoasters I wanna be a good boy I wanna be a gangster 'Cause you can be the beauty And I could be the monster

Måneskin II I wanna be your slave

#maneskin #maneskinedit #damiano david #victoria de angelis #thomas raggi #ethan torchio #maneskinsource #I'M SHOOK #tw flashing #userhayls #usersource #others #mine

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nevermindirah · 3 years

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part 3, "Kid": How every character in The Old Guard (2020) dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood relates to the main character, Nile Freeman

Stop writing people calling Nile "kid" 2k4ever

Andy calls Nile a baby one time, minutes after first dreaming of her. Andy then calls Nile "kid" three times, all to her face, all in the first few hours of their acquaintance. Booker calls Nile "kid" once, on the porch outside the bar. That's it. The context for these lines is super interesting, and calling Nile "kid" in fic doesn’t make any sense without the original context.

When Andy, Joe, Nicky, and Booker wake up from first dreaming of Nile, Joe and Nicky immediately start sharing facts they noticed, and Joe starts sketching. Booker is in his feelings but he contributes a few things to the saying-facts-out-loud rally.

Andy is 100% in her feelings. She starts the conversation with "No, not another one." Then once the boys have gathered a bunch of facts and Booker says "I felt her die" Andy comes in with this:

Andy: [stares at nothing straight ahead, voice is remote, detached.] She’s a Marine. [Joe and Nicky look up together.] Combat. Or near combat duty. Afghanistan. [Shakes her head slowly, wearily.] It’s been over two hundred years. [Whispers, anguished, buries head in hands.] Why now?

Got it. Joe and Nicky are the competent soldiers, Booker is the semi-competent drunk, Andy is the boss. Andy is the fucking depressed boss. It's in this context that Andy, having analyzed the information her direct reports just gave her, made the determination that Nile is a Marine in Afghanistan, and let her team have a brief back-and-forth about whether to change their plan to go retrieve the new one before announcing the decision that is ultimately hers to make, refers to Nile as a baby.

Andy: Get to France. Use the Charlie safe house. I’ll meet you there. [Joe examines his sketch, blows pencil-dust off it. She stares at Booker.] Find Copley. [Joe tears out the page and hands her the sketch. Andy stares at it.] Jesus. She’s just a baby.

Andy's metric fuckton of I AM BEYOND DONE just leaps off the page/screen. Keep that existential exhaustion in mind as we see her early interactions with Nile.

Nile: [stands, panting, regards Andy suspiciously.] Who are you? Andy: I lead a group of immortals. An army, I guess. Soldiers. Fighters like you. [softer tone.] Look... [Andy steps toward her; Nile steps back.] You’ve got questions, kid. I get it. [tiny smile, small nod.] You want answers? Get back in the car.

Andy: [lightly] And I was the one who cut your throat. Right? [stares at Nile, who stares back, then looks away; she has no answer for that.] Listen, kid. You already believe in... [points upward, follows it with her eyes.] You should just keep following that illogic. [Pulls her jacket over her shoulders as a blanket, turns on her right side, back to Nile, lies on the pile of duffel-bags like a reclining chair.] You’re already on board with the supernatural. [Speaks with eyes already closed; it makes no difference to her.] If I were you, I’d get some sleep.

[Nile stands slowly, glaring at Andy, sets her body as she prepares to continue the fight.] Andy: You really want to do this, kid? [Andy’s eyes are bright, her expression relaxed but anticipating; she looks like she thinks this will be fun.]

Andy is looking at this retrieval mission as something that must be done, but quickly and with as little disruption as possible to her team's ongoing mission to find Copley and protect themselves from exposure. And then here comes Nile Freeman, competent as hell, taking no shit, questioning everything, stabbing her and escaping a moving vehicle and just fucking fighting her at every turn.

"Jfc kid will you just get in the goddamn car" feels pretty reasonable in that context, yeah? At least from Andy's perspective. From Nile's, you're fucking right you're gonna ask some goddamn questions before getting on a drug-smuggling plane with someone who just shot you in the head.

It's worth noting that Andy doesn't precisely say "jfc kid will you just get in the goddamn car" — she says "I need you to get back in the car please." She says "can you please not do that again" when Nile fucking stabs her. She's exhausted and frustrated and just trying to get through this and back to her main mission, and from what we see of her so far she's generally gruff as a person, but she's not an asshole, and she’s really showing Nile some respect here, all things considered. I mean, imagine being this polite when someone stabs you. This is a tired adult trying to get another tired adult on board with a sensible plan.

Andy: Argh! [Andy grabs Nile’s knife hand.] Fuck! [throws it violently aside, forcing Nile back a step. With the knife still in her, Andy sighs deeply and looks at Nile. Nile recovers her balance and stares that Andy is hardly reacting to having a knife in her.] Can you please [grabs the knife with left hand, yanks it out] not do that again? [throws the knife on the ground.]

Once they fight on the plane, Andy never calls her kid again. Andy is already starting to regain some of the energy her long life has worn away from her after just 10 minutes on screen with Nile. Andy went into this retrieval determined to be someone Nile can rely on, and that still stands, but by the time they’re in France she’s realizing she’ll come to be able to rely on Nile too. She introduces her to the boys as Nile and that's that.

The only other time we hear the word "kid" in the entire movie is near the end, outside the bar with Booker.

Nile: Yeah. [takes a breath.] Talked to Copley. Said he could fix it. Make it look like I was killed in action. [nods gently to herself] My family will mourn, but, uh... [tiny shrug, head-shake.] ...they’ll be able to move on. It’s just like what we did with my dad. [sighs. Turns to look out over the water. Voice wavers.] I just really want to hear my mom’s voice one more time. Booker: [looks down, pauses, turns to lean next to Nile.] You’re a good kid, Nile. [looks at her, speaks earnestly.] You’re gonna be great for the team.

Sébastien le Livre, whose greatest tragedy is that his children disbelieved and rejected his love for them, would be very moved by Nile's concern and love for her mother. "You're a good kid, Nile," in the sense that she's honoring her parent in a way he, a bereaved parent, appreciates.

There's also the fun shippy reading that he's preemptively friend-zoning her because there's about to be several lifetimes between him and spending any more time with this woman he was having an obvious "oh no she's hot" reaction to over dinner in Goussainville, but I, a feral BoN shipper, like the first reading even better.

But the point is, calling Nile "kid" is an element of the movie that says a lot about the characters using that word. When it gets repeated in fanfiction, it says something about the author.

If you're reading this and reflecting "oh shit I wrote the team calling Nile kid without thinking about it at all beneath the surface" I have a really cool suggestion for you: just edit it. Or at least consider not doing it again. We all make mistakes. We all run with things that we pick up in canon or see in other people's fic that seem funny and harmless, and once we think about those things more deeply we might find that actually it's kinda fucked up, or not what canon was trying to say, or fine on the surface but not fine if it becomes The One True Fanon. Having characters who are either white, men, or both call the adult protagonist who's a young Black woman "kid" all the time carries a weight to it. Please let's let that weight fall off Nile's fully-grown shoulders.

Next up, orders, suggestions, assistance, and other flavors of mentoring Nile and/or telling her what to do. Credit and appreciation to StarWatcher for transcribing the movie here on AO3, all my line quotes are pulled from there.

#nile freeman #andromache the scythian #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #sebastien le livre #book of nile #dirah discusses tog team dynamics #tog meta #tog #mine #userhayls

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ongreenergrasses · 3 years

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alright guys i caved and got a tracked tag, #userhayls tag me in anything! tag me in everything! tag me in your meta! tag me in your edits! tag me in your rants! tag me in your writing! i will love to see it and love to share it all!!!!

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villanells · 4 years

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03x01 | 05x01

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#peaky blinders #peakyblindersedit #pbedit #peakyblinded #tommyshelbyedit #tvedit #bensolcs #itsthatunique #userhayl #blakelivey #*#peakyblinders*#thomas shelby #1k #2k

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waking-dreams-of-harmony · 4 years

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"Jon, what are you standing there for? Your daughter is kicking up a storm," groans Daenerys as she reaches out him with an outstretched arm. "Come soothe her with that northern voice I love so much."

"A daughter?" Jon asks. "You sound very sure that we'll be having a princess," smiling as he comes up behind her to press his hands against her belly on either side, and rub in gentle, slow circles.

"I am," she replies, hands covering his, pressing them a little bit harder against her stomach until he feels two kicks in answer. He's learned to trust his wife's intuition, and simply hums in agreement.

"I think we should name her after my mother, and yours, but I'm unsure how to honor them both." Dany's eyes narrow slightly in thought.

Jon kisses her cheek in appreciation for wanting to include his mother, and murmurs, "What have you come up with so far?"

"Rhaeanna?" A pause. "Rhyella?" She shakes her head, then hesitantly says, "Lyella?"

He repeats the name against his wife's soft skin, and smiles. "It's beautiful, Dany. I think it will suit our daughter very well."

She lets out a contented sigh and draws his arms tighter around her, snuggling deeper into his embrace. "Lyella Targaryen," she whispers, her own smile widening.

Jon brings her hand up for a kiss, before linking their fingers together and resting them against her belly again.

"Stay with me a bit longer?" She asks, voice soft.

Jon closes his eyes and presses his lips to her head. He pulls her closer against him and says, "As long as you need me, my love."

#jonerys #jon x dany #jon x daenerys #daenerys targaryen #daenerystargaryenedit #daenerystargaryendaily #gotedit #asoiafedit #userdaenerys #userhayl #my edit #daenerys edit #jonerys edit #iceandfiresource

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cinnamonplums · 2 years

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