Andromache of Appalachia

I love to read and write. Fandoms: The Old Guard, the 100, Westerns, etc. Request are open! Ask me anything!

[andromacheofappalachia]

For the two users who sent asks to my inbox that I haven't answered yet I promise I see you I'm just drowning atm

[momentofmemory]

“sometimes you’re watching a great film actor, and if you stand ten feet away from them, you’re like, ‘god, they’re terrible. they’re not doing anything.’ and then you see the close-up, and it’s so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. they were acting for that camera and for no one else.” —finn wittrock.

↳ nile freeman appreciation week, day six: favourite closeup 

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

yall gotta be nicer about m/f  bc sometimes u guys like the blandest gay sutff ive ever seen in my life

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

gonna add onto this you all gotta stop acting like m/f is just cishet when bisexual people exist and straight trans people exist.

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

last add on alot of m/f ships of poc or white/poc ship are constantly downplayed for bland white m/m or f/f ships

[majorpepperidge]

#also sometimes u guys r just fuckig misogynist. abt the women in m/f ships. sorry

[strangehighs-archive]

#the mutual love really jumped out #🥺🥺🥺

[whitetyger123]

Andy is older than the pyramids, that's so crazy. I can just see Nile getting excited, like "So how did they do it? What's the answer?" And Andy just shrugs like "How should I know? I'm not a builder. One day I went to Egypt and there they were!" "You didn't ask anybody?!" "I was in the middle of a war, Nile, I wasn't about to ask for construction tips."

[megalooola]

headcanon andy was always in the wrong place at the wrong time and every time nile asks about an important historical event, she just shrugs and goes “it was just a normal day for me”. “i was fighting wars”. “i was severely hungover”.

nonchalant uncaring andy but for shits and giggles

[andromacheofappalachia]

Andy was around when Mammoths still walked the earth. Everyone, including Quynh, is always amazed by that, but for Andy, she just looks back on them the way we think about elephants and horses.

[spacewitchqueen]

Or… that time Andy lost a shoe

[morvith]

Booker headcanons

It has been pointed out that Le Livre is… a bit strange as surnames go, but what if Booker was a foundling? And the orphanage where he grew up was notorious for giving out “line-of-sight-names”?

To the point that, even 200 years later, he can easily spot the descendants of the other orphanage boys.

By the same token, he was christened Sébastien because he was born/found on Saint Sebastian’s day (January 20th). 

Secondly, he is the one most likely to have a problem with horses: city boy, poor, tall, which means he needs a bigger horse and he does not like those beasts already… Cars and motorbikes are the best things ever invented, thank you. He is Not Comfortable with means of locomotion that can think for themselves.

(Ask him about “intelligent cars” and then stand back and watch the fireworks)

[leedongwook]

[carlosreyes]

the old guard + faceless

[scorchedhearth]

Andy: you look ugly (affectionate).

Andy (lovingly) bullying her family <3

+ Bonus

[ID: The post is a gifset of the movie The Old Guard. In the first gif, Andy and Joe are looking at each other, Joe faces the camera and Andy has her back to it. They are both smiling and touching each other’s shoulders. Joe says “You look good” and Andy responds with “You look okay”. In the second gif, Booker is sitting in an armchair with a big open wound on his stomach. He asks Andy who is crouching in front of him “How bad is it?” and she answers with “It’s an improvement”. There are two bonus gifs after the description, one of Joe smiling and saying “Thank you!” while Andy walks away and the second of Booker laughing in the chair. /End ID]

[femmeberlin]

A terrible fact of fandom is that sometimes people who absolutely suck and have stupid takes are going to enjoy the exact same things you do and the only thing you can do about it is sit there with your mutuals who don’t suck like:

[andromacheofappalachia]

Andromache and Nile being foils to each other is so important, yet so overlooked by the fandom.

Equally, dare I say, Quynh and Booker.

[spacegirlsgang]

Immortal Life (4/7): Yusuf Al-Kaysani, “Faster than the elevator.” (The Old Guard)

[movingscastles-deactivated20210]

THE OLD GUARD: Nile Freeman + character tropes

[plecotusauritus]

There is always a fandom discourse about how fandom is too much about shipping and romantic love, but my beef is actually with people being too fond of the idea of a family as the purest form of love and the strongest unit.

Starting from pople tending to turn every story about siblings who are not besties into this huge tragedy instead of awknowledging that maybe, sometimes, people are not close with their siblings. Or that people are so weird about mothers.

But what irks me even more is the tendency to decide that two people who are close in canon have a "sibling coded relationship" which suddenly also means that shipping them together is wrong. Or if a character has an older person in their life whom they look up to - well that is their parent now!!!! They can't fuck their parent!!!!

There is this underlying idea that elevating characters into a familial bond is above such concepts as romantic love or sex. Which sucks because that is not what the concept found family means - it was meant to describe the queer experience of finding your people and community from outside of your blood relatives, and it was never meant to say that there can't also be romantic relationships within that community.

And it is not even always about the fact that I want to ship my blorbo with everyone who comes near him (although I absolutely do), but I think that sometimes there can be meaningful dynamics that are not about family. I want my blorbo to have friends, lovers, partners, mentors, neighbours, a trusted older person who they can call to but is not their parent.

Maybe some of this rises from the fact that family for me is something complicated and sore and not as important as my friends and community. But also the idea of a nuclear family as the pillar of society is such a conservative talking point and it is weird that people keep throwing a fit about romance and dating as societal standard but don't seem to notice this one.

[damnitfili]

I’m supposed to let you walk in there by yourself?

[andromacheofappalachia]

I know I love Dark!Guard, but I also love the idea of them just being feral with each other.