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For centuries, I've watched you fight to protect humanity, while forsaking your own kind. I will destroy you and everything you stand for, with a power you can't even imagine yet.

THE OLD GUARD 2 (2025) dir. Victoria Mahoney

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I took a break from Tumblr, and what a wonderful way to return

#the old guard #2 old 2 guard

astrabear

Old Guard fandom today

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#the old guard #2 old 2 guard

dearpatroclus

the old guard as text posts 11/?

#the old guard #tog #immortal husbands #nicolo di genova #nicky #yusuf al kaysani #joe #humor

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Asher Perlman for the New Yorker

Nicolo and Yusuf, early days.

#the old guard #nicolo di genova #yusuf al kaysani #kaysanova #immortal husbands

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Fathers

#the old guard #fanart #MY HEART

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I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.

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Eyam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people. It has barely grown since 1665 when its population was around 800.

Where the story starts with Eyam is that in August 1665 the village tailor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas. A few days later on September 7th the tailor’s assistant George Viccars died from plague.

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Back then people didn’t fully understand how disease spread, but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people.

So two religios leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Mompesson, got together and came up with a plan. They would put the entire village of Eyam under quarantine. And they did. For over a year nobody went in and nobody went out.

They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and left money in vinegar filled basins that people from out of town would leave food and supplies by.

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Over the 14 months that Eyam was in quarantine 260 out of the 800 residents died of plague. The death toll was high, the cost was great.

However, they did successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through their sacrifice.

So I really like this story, because it’s a sad story, because it’s also a beautiful story. Instead of fleeing everyone in this one place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others and I guess it’s one of those good stories about how people have always been people, for better or worse.

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It gets better.

Here’s the thing. One third of the residents of Eyam died during their quarantine, but the Black Plague was known to have a NINETY PERCENT death rate. As high as the toll was, it wasn’t as high as it should have been. And a few hundred years later, some historians and doctors got to wondering why.

Fortunately, Eyam is one of those wonderful places that really hasn’t changed much in hundreds of years. Researchers, going to visit, found that many of the current residents were direct descendants of the plague survivors from the 1600s. By doing genetic testing, they learned that a high number of Eyam residents carried a gene that made them immune to the plague. And still do.

And it gets even better than that, because the gene that blocks the Black Plague? Also turns out to block AIDS, and was instrumental in helping to find effective medication for people who have HIV and AIDS in the 21st century.

Here is a lovely, well-produced documentary about Eyam and its disease resistance. It’s a little under an hour. Trigger warning for general disease and epidemic-type stuff, but also, maybe it will help you have some hope in these alarmly uncertain times.

#historic #niche interests

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The Old Guard + popular tumblr text posts

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Happy St. Pádraig day to my anglophone followers. One of the sorrows of history is the death of languages, whether through capitalism/colonialism, genocide, or natural disaster (though the first two are far more common than the last). I'm too tired to truly reflect on the global scale of tragedy that comes with severing people from their language (and culture), so I will focus only on Celtic culture and language. Both Irish and Socttish Gaelic are endangered languages, arguably because of English colonization of the British Isles. Native languages of the country we call France are also in danger of dying from similar forces, some of which have celtic roots as well. Native languages like Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic are not just "spicy english" or funny spellings, they are the remnants of a conquered people of England. You can see the scale and severity of endangerment at https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/apr/15/language-extinct-endangered

#languages #endangered languages #st patricks day #irish #scottish gaelic #welsh

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So peaceful Souvenir. A brother singing ancient Andalusian song in Al-hambra palace.

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Unmute

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The right amount of melancholy

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This is one of my most favorite Andalusian muwashshahat (an Arabic poem that’s specifically written to be sung). It was written in the 3rd century by an Arab poet from Granada, so it’s not very far fetched that the song has been sung at some point in that very palace centuries ago.

These are the lyrics in Arabic and English, in case anyone’s interested.

When he appeared with a sway in his walk My darling infatuated me with his beauty Oh, my fate and my confusion Who will have mercy when I complain Of anguish in love Except for the holder of beauty?

لما بدا يتثنى حبي جماله فتننا وعدي و يا حيرتي من لي رحيم شكوتي فى الحب من لوعتي إلا مليك الجمال

#we need more joenicky fics set in al-andalus #joe | yusuf al kaysani #immortal husbands #the old guard #tog #stealing tags

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andy and mammoths...

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Andy says she knows a place and takes Nile under the permafrost for some steak

A gastronomic investigation of mammoth feasts

#forbidden food #andycore #andromache the scythian #tog #stealing tags #the old guard #andy #nile freeman #nile

luminarai

“I was winning,” local woman tells paramedics after getting hit by bus while fighting alligator

#the old guard #fan art #luminarai

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Back in the early days...

Dialogue loosely based on this fic!

#fan art #the old guard #kaysanova #fanfic

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Nicky always carrying 50 things at once but they’re at a supermarket and Nicolò “we don’t need a shopping cart” Di Genova is balancing enough food for a small army in his arms, eggs on the verge of falling and holding way too many carrots between his head and shoulder, with only the power of spite on his side