You Come From Warriors

I love this damn movie beyond measure and reason An Old Guard sideblog Jack they/them Follows from jackies-ear

[captain-grammar]

the old guard + fine literature

[captain-grammar]

the old guard + screenshots of despair

[guillermosfamiliar]

- the great believers by, rebecca makkai

[perenial]

↳ the old guard + text posts (17/?)

[jacksonmaine-deactivated2024013]

[dolly parton voice] here i go again

[polarcell]

still thinking about my TOG roller derby au and how good it was. especially thinking about Nicky as the most unflappable ref ever. He can skate backwards with his eyes closed and still see that foul elbow and he WILL send you to the penalty box, no i don’t care that you’re basically family andy, no you cannot intimidate me like you do with all the other refs, i am Just and All Knowing and you will go sit your 30 seconds

[kazzsbrekker]

BOOKER + Hamlet act iii, scene i

[nastasyafilippovnas]

(for @georginadymova​)

[particolored-socks]

#oh please don’t do this to me i am already too vulnerable from those tags#and i imagine how viscerally he feels this death when he is already carrying another one inside of him#how the rest of the team wake in varying stages of ready to fight and remember the details!#but booker reaches immediately for his flask because HE IS STILL LOST IN HOW IT FELT#reeling from the agony of it. half-choking with the taste of someone else’s blood in his throat.#and he’s of no help to them because he’s still there in her memory#she touches her hand to her throat across time and space#and he remembering does the same#the google doc is just nonsense fragments but the first one remains:#‘Or perhaps further: that he had felt the rightness of her when he dreamed of her death and woke feeling her loss.’#he’s not there physically the moment she is reborn like nicky & joe were but#he is there no less meaningfully.#again i am asking you to get out of my house

via @danielederossi

[hiriaeth-deactivated20241104]

#my turn to hiss in agony!!#tiny brain: booker contributed little during the dream recon because he’s just an idiot and no one expected anything more from him anyway#giant galaxy brain: he was too completely bamboozled by the sameness of their first deaths the parallel and the alignment of them#to be of use to anyone or anything except: she cannot be caught by this#this was his first new person EVER and it was HER#choking on blood the way he choked on air#hands to their throats across the miles …#across two centuries. God#they match their demons MATCH#ALL OF THEIR DEMONS MATCH#how am i supposed to live like this!!#anyway. ANYWAY#shama if/when you ever finish that google doc with that GLORIOUS quote#you must dm me personally so i can read it#that’s the law now  via @particolored-socks

[nastasyafilippovnas]

#reblogging the version with both set of tags because you know what .. we’re RIGHT#this isn’t booker being selfish. everything he does with nile is the furthest thing from selfish#also i feel like this isn’t said enough - THIS IS THE FIRST NOT-QUỲNH DEATH HE HAS EVER DREAMED#give the man a SEMBLANCE of a break i swear to God#y'all love tripping over yourselves painting everything in black and white. Jesus. ANYWAY.#yes of course nicky is checking for blood and then not commenting on it because he knows there are other things to focus on#because he’s DONE THIS BEFORE#BOOKER HAS NOT DONE THIS BEFORE!#IT’S BEEN 200 YEARS! WHY NOW!#THIS IS NEW TO HIM HE IS NEW#AND NOW SO IS NILE#‘we all remember what it was like’ and booker doesn’t argue because YEAH OF COURSE HE DOES#HE’S THE ONE WHO WAS CLOSEST TO IT!!!#new kids together at the edge of eternity come on come ON i am BEGGING YOU#he feels her die and their deaths match and it is the ONLY THING he knows about her#and his FIRST INSTINCT is to get her away from merrick!#he may be selfish about his own death but not about hers!!!!!!#book of nile#the old guard (via @particolored-socks)

[shitty-old-guard-deaths]

I had a friend in college who was a petroleum engineering student. One night, he decided to make a homemade flamethrower. In his dorm. At 11 at night.

To this day I have no idea if he saw something in his textbooks that made him think this was a good idea.

His idea was to get a super soaker and fill it with barbecue lighter fluid. He tried to shoot it off in the common dorm shower. Well the stream it put out was too strong and kept snuffing out the match he held in front of it.

To solve this problem, he took the shower head off the shower and duct taped it to the end of the super soaker.

Did I mention he was the one holding the match? While pressing the trigger on the super soaker at the same time.

The resulting fireball was about five feet tall, five feet long, and three feet back. He singed himself but managed to get away mostly unharmed. The shower wasn’t so lucky. The fiberglass was melted and the tiles above the stall were burned.

The floor RA noticed this the next day, but never found out who did it.

Hear me out: Quỳnh does an engineering degree a couple decades after rejoining the gang.

She’s the first one of them to be expelled AND banned from a university campus.

They throw a party in her honour.

[niccolos]

KIKI LAYNE as NILE FREEMAN The Old Guard 2 (2025) dir. Victoria Mahoney

[beyondmeasure-andreason]

I made a set of old guard embroidery ages ago, and then moved twice, and just found it all again

I lost Booker

[silver-trumpets]

and all this longing and the ships are left to rust that’s what the water gave us

[niccolos]

Alright, guys. You know what to do. Get as many guards to chase you as you can.

[polarcell]

can i just say the dinner scene with their drinking and food and dice games and joe yelling that he knows andy's tells and andy shoving her hand in his face and silly goofy good time.... i love thinking that the history of old guard is just thousands of years of THAT. that is SO good to me!!

[twobabkas]

Joe and Nicky in THE OLD GUARD 2

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[dontyouknowemma-itsyou]

| that's truly immortal