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nicky those are fighting words for someone who once threw out his phone because it ran out of battery

meanwhile, andy:

#i need joe's shirt

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—Sue Zhao

[image description: 3 large blended gifs of Andy from The Old Guard. All the gifs are are coloured blue, and have lines from a poem by Sue Zhao over the middle, in sans-serif caps letters. Gif 1: Andy sitting in the sand after the botched rescue of the little girls, her head in her hands before she raises it, overlaid with Andy standing over Quynh’s body when she first found her, the first gif disappearing as the gif pans up into the sunlight. Written across the middle of the gif is “I am every age I have ever been”, in a white-blue overlay. Gif 2: Andy standing at the window in Marrakesh, looking from the boys behind her to out the window, overlaid with Andy pushing herself up off the floor after being shot and resurrecting in the ambush in Sudan. Written across the middle of the gif is “all time ever does is pass”, in a white-blue overlay. Gif 3: Andy sitting in the dark listening to Nile speak of dreaming about Quynh, overlaid with Andy talking to Nile about not remembering her family, slowly closing her eyes. Written across the middle of the gif is “and all I ever do is remember”, in a white-blue overlay.]

#IT'S BEING SAD ABOUT ANDY HOURS #andy

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Charlize Theron as Andromache The Scythian The Old Guard (2020)

Character Intro Post, via @Skydance on Instagram, June 15th 2020

TOG Promo Material (Part 3/?)

#oh my god just remembered she's gonna have a mullet in tog2 if we ever get it #thank GOD #andy #gifs

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in the old guard, immortality = statelessness. to become immortal is to become a permanent non-citizen, to never be able to return home the same way.

#yes i think about this so much

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grandma ate my fucking pizza

#andycore #< prev

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tog fandom's favourite luca marinelli movie: ROUND TWO

Summaries:

Le otto montagne / The Eight Mountains (2022):

“An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps that follows the profound, complex relationship between Pietro from Turin, and Bruno, who grew up in an isolated mountainside village, over four decades.”

The Old Guard (2020):

“Led by a warrior named Andy, a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it’s up to Andy and Nile, the newest soldier to join their ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetize their power by any means necessary.”

RULES:

ideally vote based on which film is your favourite, but if you haven't seen both / either vote which one you'd like to watch most or prefer the vibes of

or any other reasonable metric of your choice

propaganda IS encouraged and can be sent to me or added to the post

go forth and have fun!

#this should be the final lmao #but le otto montagne a million times

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Yusuf +  his beautiful curls appreciation

#look at himmmmmmmmmmmm #joe #gifs

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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!

#!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nile Freeman (The Old Guard, 2020)

So why is this happening to me?

#oooooooh #nile

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nile freeman week - day 4 - favourite weapon

(finally got around to colouring this drawing)  uhh nile freeman + swords,,, thank you goodnight

#nile with a sword is something that can be so personal actually #nile freeman

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blood on her face friday <3

[ID: 4 pictures of Andy from the Old Guard, showing her head and shoulders, with blood splattered on her face.]

#BLOOD ON HER FACE FRIDAY

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have you thought about them yet today?

[ID: Three pictures of Joe from the Old Guard, showing his head and upper torso. In the first picture he is wearing a short-sleeved blue t-shirt and the outline of his pecs is visible through the shirt. In the second picture he is wearing a long-sleeved blue shirt and holding a gun, and his shirt is visibly stretched in the chest area. In the third picture he is shirtless and strapped to a table with blood smeared on his chest. End ID.]

#think about tits thursday?

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'Cause if I love you, then I love you too much'

carly rae jepsen's 'too much' yusuf anthem send post

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carly rae jepsen's 'too much' yusuf anthem send post

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mermaid yusuf. because i was inspired and because it is mermay. idk don't look at me like that

#!!!!!!! #joe

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A detail I love about the (as of yet, only) on-screen Head Bonk™ is that Joe bends his head to signal for them to connect. He meets Nicky halfway but doesn’t actually do the “bonking”; he presents the top of his head to Nicky and waits for Nicky to do it. 

I don’t know why I find this so endearing except that it gives a little more insight into their essentially Trademarked Non-Verbal Gesture of Reassurance; that it manifests itself, at least sometimes, as, ‘I present myself to you to show you I’m okay, and you bump my head with yours to tell me you’re okay too.’

#<3 #joenicky

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Nile Freeman from The Old Guard

#stunning!!!! #nike