18+ only. Multi-fandom blog, mostly slash (including RPS) with a splash of witchcraft and nature slung in. All fandoms are tagged if you need to filter. Mostly reblogging with some personal comments and general fandom content. Some personal stuff as well. Variety of fandoms but currently (very) focused on The Old Guard and Joe x Nicky. Others include HLoTS, Kiefer Sutherland, Stucky/Evanstan, Ineffable Husbands, Merthur and Person of Interest but you'll find many others as well!
Okay, so I’m creating a pinned post because I think that might be a useful thing to have. Just to say a bit about me and what you’ll find on this blog. I’ll endeavour to update 'Current Fandoms’ below so anyone new to it who decides to follow can see what I’m into (and what they’re getting into!) and what they might need to filter.
Edited for the cut below as promised and to add current/recent tags list :)
Current fandoms: THE OLD GUARD. Oh my god, how deep have I fallen?!?! I’m still occasionally reblogging other random fandoms but I’m going to be honest this has turned into a 98% Joe x Nicky blog and a slight obsession with the two actors.
Main tags: #the old guard, #the old guard cast, #joe x nicky. Plus individual actor tags. I'm not reblogging much on the discourse but anything I do will be tagged #tog discourse if you want to avoid.
Currently back into comfort fandoms. Starsky and Hutch (tv series only) rewatch and re-read of old printed fic. #starsky and hutch.
Other fandoms/pairings:
Stucky/Evanstan (yes I do RPS so be warned) all rps posts will be tagged with #stucky and #evanstan and now #marwan x luca
#finnpoe plus #oscar isaac and #pedro pascal and occasionally #oscar and pedro
#due south for #fraser/rayk and #fraser x rayk
#whitechapel and #kendler
#kiefer sutherland (mostly his 80s/90s films)
#1917 film for #blakefield,
#person of interest for #rinch,
#homicide life on the street
Me: So I’m elamae (not my real name) I’m from the UK (yes, feel my tears of pain right now, tears that have been falling since 2016). This is a primarily a fandom blog. You won’t find much in the way of politics or stuff going on in RL here but a few posts will sneak in as there are some very important things that should. I’ll tag those with - #RL stuff - so you can filter if you need to. Personal posts are tagged - #elamae personal - for the same reason. Occasionally I feel the need to have a rant about something, well, personal, which helps me but you can filter those out because if you’re here for fandom why should you have to listen to me whinge?
I’m a slasher and I’ve been in fandom, normally lurking, since 1997, so about 23 years or so (God I feel old!). But I’ve been what I would consider a ‘fangirl’ since I was about 4 years old. I’ve always been into tv shows starting out with Knight Rider, Airwolf, The A Team, Macgyver, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Land of the Giants! Looking back now I was wanting to explore the characters and stories even back then. Found fanfic when I went to uni, very quickly discovered slash and never looked back. Warning that 99% of this blog will be slash focused.
I also do rps so if this squicks you out you can blog the appropriate tags (mostly #evanstan and #marwan x luca atm but there may be others so do please be aware).
As of my 2012 list (yes this needs updating) I’ve been into 64 fandoms since I was a child (*this doesn’t include those in the last 8 years and doesn’t differentiate between childhood obsessions and adult slashy ones but I’m going to do a spreadsheet, because I’m nerdy like that, to track all fandoms and pairings because I want to KNOW!) *But* this should give you an idea of how into fandom I am, how much I slash and how quickly I can sometimes trip from one fandom to another!
Edit: I did the spreadsheet and I have 102 identified. Take away the 6 that were childhood or ones that I didn’t watch that much or didn’t read fic and we’re at 96. It's very hard to differentiate between those I’ve watched a lot but not written for and those I’ve not watched a lot but have written for. And then those that fall somewhere in between. Especially those which have been both childhood shows and adult slash pairings.
Other posts: I also reblog cute cats, animals, nature, houses, autumn (although I have a separate blog for that) and other random stuff. There may some posts on anxiety and mental health. I have ocd and mild to moderate issues with anxiety, stress and low mood. I’m also borderline hoarder so there may be stuff on these that comes through. These will be tagged #mental health.
Tags: I do try and tag everything as much as I can, particularly fandoms and pairings as I know that, as a multi fandom blog, people may follow me for one specific fandom/pairing and not wish to see my other obsessions. So most of my reblogs/posts will have a simple/obvious tag which are mostly easy to figure out. I’ll use other more specific ones (and rambling ones) but there should always be a main one for each fandom. I’ll endeavour to list them up above. I’m going to try and be more consistent with tagging as I think that’s only fair for both followers and myself.
Ok but real talk. Even without the serum, if skinny!Steve heard that Bucky was captured behind enemy lines, he still would have been determined to walk to Austria to save him.
THIS!!!! @iamnmbr3 speaks the truest truth to ever truth.
I think a lot of people missed the point of CATFA - the point of CATFA is that the serum simply enables Steve to not die doing the stuff he already does anyway. Steve would 100% walk to Austria or die trying. He’d crash that plane. He’d punch the Red Skull in the face if he got the chance. He’d flirt awkardly with Peggy and he’s fight the war like any other soldier. He’d do anything he does in the movie, except he would’ve died a lot sooner, so he wouldn’t get to do it all.
One thing that pisses me off about the fandom is that there’s this trope about how Steve gets to protect Bucky now that he has the serum. Bullshit. Steve gets to protect Bucky whenever the damn hell he wants. Bucky doesn’t stop having Steve’s back after the serum, Steve doesn’t start having Bucky’s back only after the serum. They just look after each other their entire lives, period. If you don’t think Steve would stupidly kill himself trying to save Bucky during the war, then clearly you and I haven’t been watching the same movie. And Bucky knows it too, and it’s totally why he wants Steve to stay home and help the war in a way that doesn’t include getting himself killed.
If you ignore the fact that Steve would walk to Austria, serum or not, you’ll automatically make Bucky an extremely patronizing friend, and Erskine a terrible judge of character. Pre-serum!Steve = Post-serum!Steve. Whatever differences he has come from the war fucking affecting him, not from him having physical strength.
I simply must reblog this highlighting @baggijaggi‘s tags
#friendly reminder #that drugged out of himself #bucky was surprised by steves size #not by the fact #that steve had shown up #to rescue him #because that is a quintessentially steve thing #to have done #the idiot
You think I go too far? That I am unethical? I would say immoral. I believe this can change the world. A fine justification. I’ve heard it so many times before.
LUCA MARINELLI as NICOLO DI GENOVA
THE OLD GUARD (2020) dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood
This strawberry blondie recipe is so easy to make from scratch! With white chocolate chips, fresh strawberries, and a slightly tart lemon flavor these blondies are the perfect summer dessert for your next potluck or picnic!
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sew-much-to-do: a visual collection of sewing tutorials/patterns, knitting, diy, crafts, recipes, etc.
There are two types of summer; White and Dark. White Summers are those full of summer And linen, the seaand doft sunshine,cherries and children’s smiles,in which you feel disconnected and light, almost, floating,dreamy and distant in a haze of White dandelion fluff,you don’t ever want to land. Dark Summers are honeyed and sulky, full of pomergranates , thunderstorms, Magnolia’s and unkept promises, cinematic and shadowy, you exist in a trance of melancholy, and feel passionately, through feign detachment Pandora opens the box, and lightening fills the sky.
Cooking as a love language is absolutely beautiful and we should discuss more about how Nicky shows love by cooking and caring for his loved ones this way? (had few discussions about how my roommate counts her love language as cooking? and thought yeah it’s definitely a love language!) I also like to HC Nicky spending years to replicate and perfect Joe’s favorite childhood dishes? Nicky keeping in mind everyone’s favorite food to cook for them when they seem down? Just very soft thoughts….
((speed painting after finishing up important final presentation todaay as treat for myself….))
First off, I'd like to say how much I appreciate the work you guys do for fans and fandoms. I'm graduating uni in a couple of months and I'm writing my honors thesis on the benefits and drawbacks of reading and writing fanfiction for students. Do you have any good resources you could direct me to, particularly regarding the history of fanfiction? I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me. Thank you!
Thank you for the question! The first place to start would be the Timeline of Fanfiction Meta, which has some excellent links to meta essays, news media commentary, and other discussion about fanfiction. It’s a long list!
The article on “A brief history of fandom, for the teenagers on here who somehow think tumblr invented fandom" has a great breakdown of modern fanfic history, but if you’re looking a little further back (okay, a lot further back), the 2018 essay “In defense of fanfiction" has an overview of transformative works starting with The Epic of Gilgamesh around 2000 BCE. If you want to add a source from news media, The Mary Sue had an article in 2014 called “None Of This Is New: An Oral History Of Fanfiction.”
Lastly, check out “As a professor, may I ask you what you think about fanfiction?" for a great bird’s eye view! It has some fantastic history and a bit of commentary on why fanfiction is a very, very good thing.
Happy writing, and best of luck on your thesis! We’re excited to see what you contribute on the topic!
After this rewatch I can confidently say that Nicky and Nile are probably going to bond over being the only two members of the group who use guns as they were properly intended.
Nile uses a gun as a blunt object only once through the whole movie, while they’re fighting their way out of Merrick’s labs - she uses it to disarm a guy she then shoots and hauls behind her back. Nicky never does, not even during the chaos of the killfloor scene.
@wickedpact did the Lord’s work on cataloguing all the times Joe ditches a gun after one/two shots to either 1) start using his scimitar, 2) receive another Big Gun from Nicky or 3) go with his fists. Booker hits people with his rifles just as many times as he shoots. Andy mostly Uses Guns Properly, but in the killfloor battle she presses the pistol to a guard’s body to shoot them (they are less than a metre from you, Andy, you’re afraid of missing them?) and she also uses a pistol to hit the goon on the neck after she’s shot them.
So yes, to connect with this glorious post, Nile totally goes to Nicky to Master her Gun Training not just because he’s a ridiculously good sniper, but also because he’s the only one whose gun use doesn’t make her Military Trained mind go * [KILL BILL SIRENS]* UNSAFE GUN HANDLING!!!!!*
(Bonus screenshot because That Nicky Face makes me Feel Things)
