It has been an exciting few months, and we hope you all had fun and perhaps found new favourite artists or inspiration to create!
We thank everyone who helped mod, nominated works and voted in the awards, without you this wouldn't have been possible!
Feel free to go through the winning works and reblog them if you haven't yet (or also if you have, there can never be too many reblogs)! You can filter this blog for art, fic, gifs, moodboards, nsfw, other and the art categories Andy, Nile, Quỳnh, angst, fluff, scenery, clothing and art style.
Congratulations again to the winners, and if you have your works cross-posted to Ao3, feel free to add them to the winner's collection!
The reverse also goes if your fic is in the Ao3 collection and you have it cross-posted or linked on tumblr, just @ us on the post/in a reblog and we will share it here!
Send us an ask if you have any questions or want to join the Femslash Guard Discord Server!
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Tagging the winners to let you know that you can add your works to Ao3 as well:
If you want to check which of your works won, search this blog @theoldguardfemslashdiscord and the Ao3 collection bookmarks for your url!
We'd also like to @ everyone who helped, nominated, voted, shared works, tumblr just has a limit on how many people can be tagged! We hope you see this and feel appreciated anyway.
We had another wonderful headcanon elimination game on the femslash discord, this time with historical headcanons from past to future - these are the headcanons about the more or less recent past:
King Frederick I Barbarossa's death was due to some immortal intervention. (The dude was a king - of Germany and Italy? - in 1155 and led a giant army east in one of the crusades and then unceremoniously drowned in a river in Turkey. We don't know how or why it happened but about two thirds of his army deserted ... so he wasn't the most popular person around) - @jackwolfskid
The guard was involved in one of the defenestrations of prague - @waxwingsfail
Quỳnh thought she hallucinated it, but throughout her time in the ocean she actually saw many "cryptids" pass by her coffin. It isn't until Nile, Joe, Nicky and Booker are watching YouTube videos about various cryptids that Quỳnh realizes they might be real... - @insomnia-anonymous
Andromache met Anne Bonny (bisexual pirate, 1710s) and saved her from execution - @lilolilyr - 3d place in the game!
Andy invented some diving methods and marine technology in hear search for Quỳnh - @cryhardanddanceharder
Quỳnh kept a little bit of the money from everywhere they went through every change it had (Andy keeps the tradition up for her) - @waxwingsfail - 10th place in the game!
The old guard went on the expedition to Antarctica where the people ate the dogs and resorted to cannibalism yet still mostly survived - @authortrash
Andy accidentally lit the Great Chicago Fire - @authortrash
Andy was ‘Calamity Jane’ - @my-gaydar-is-on-point
The Guard was on the titanic (they had actually planned to get away from any important events for once) - @lilolilyr
The Guard is magically attracted to historical events. (Even when they just try to chill for a change, they end up in the most famous cruise ship of history (Titanic) or the coffee house they hang out in 18th century France happens to be the meeting place of the soon to be revolution leaders. "Fuck this is just another historical event" or some variation of the phrase has been said on multiple occasions.) Insert meme "if I had a nickle for each time I accidentally attended or messed with a historical event I had x nickels which is not a lot but it's weird it happened x times) - @jackwolfskid
Andy was a blacksmith for a time, and got quite well known in the area for both her skill and her strange companions - @mythologeekwriter
Andy learned to blacksmith (so none of her family would ever be without their favoured weapon) - @waxwingsfail
More historical The Old Guard headcanons can be found here, and a masterpost of all games here!
me when I check the Andy/Nile tag on AO3 and see a new fic to read 45 times and obsess over and gift with an excessively long and probably incoherent comment because I loVE them
playlist
♡Killer Shangri-Lah - Psychotic Beats
♡Me and Your Mama - Childish Gambino
♡Cherry - Lana Del Rey
♡6 Inch - Beyoncé
♡Andromeda - Weyes Blood
♡Tyrant - Kali Uchis
♡Kill For Love - Chromatics
Through August and September, nominations for the Fanwork Awards on the Femslash Guard Discord Server are open!
You can nominate different things such as:
fanfiction
fanart
manips
videos
comments on your fanworks
moodboards, memes, meta and more
These groups are split up into many more categories, you can find them all on the discord server! They're also separated by sfw and adult content, so minors can be part of the event but everything can still be nominated somewhere.
Until nominations close on the 20th of September, we will introduce a few of the categories to you in more detail, and you can join the server or follow @theoldguardfemslashdiscord to hear about them and show the categories that haven't gotten many nominations yet some love!
