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Brie Larson for NET-A-PORTER
Welcome to Nile Freeman Week 2020!
Nile Week is to celebrate the newest member of The Old Guard, Nile, with creations of all kinds, as well as to connect with each other over a mutual love for Nile! For those unfamiliar with celebration weeks, each day will have a theme to base creations around. There is no minimum requirement to participate! If you only make one thing for one day, that still counts!
Nile Freeman Week will take place from September 6-12 2020.
Promps for gif-makers/editors/artists:
Favorite Nile Outfit (September 6)
Favorite Nile Relationship (September 7)
Favorite Nile Fight Scene (September 8)
Favorite Nile Weapon (September 9
Favorite Nile Dialogue (September 10)
Favorite Nile Closeup (September 11)
Free Choice (September 12)
Prompts for writers:
Nile + Love (September 6)
Nile + Sadness (September 7)
Nile + Alone Time (September 8)
Nile + Comfort (September 9)
Nile + Identity (September 10)
Nile + Death (September 11)
Free Choice (September 12)
All contributions of any size/format are welcome.
For your contribution to count, it must be posted to Tumblr. You may crosspost anywhere you like, but this event is centered on Tumblr. Please tag your creations #nileweek2020 in the first five tags so we can reblog it here!
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Booker + folklore lyrics
[ID: Three gifs of Booker from The Old Guard. Gif one shows Andy staring up at Booker from the floor, looking shocked and devastated. Overlaid is a gif of Booker whooping and pumping his fist in joy. It says “you never gave a warning sign”. The second frame of gif one shows Booker leaning over Andy on the floor (Andy is out of frame) with a sad look. Overlaid is a gif of him drinking from a flask with a blank expression. It says “I gave so many signs”.
Gif two shows Booker standing on a rocky beach, looking sadly down at his hands. Overlaid is a gif of Booker’s flashback. He walks towards the camera with a sad expression. The gif says “And I can go anywhere I want (just not home)”.
Gif three shows Booker using a rifle to beat one of the guards in Merrick’s lab, then shooting another. The first frame has a gif of Booker waking up on the train, looking upset. It says “they told me all of my cages were mental”. The second frame shows a whiskey bottle slipping out of Booker’s hand (the only part of his body visible) and shattering on the floor. It says “so I got wasted like all my potential”. END ID]
Nicky helps her wash her hair after.
They go back to a safehouse, another new one Nile is unfamiliar with, before they decide what to do about Booker. Everyone is bloody and in need of a shower, and it gives them time to think on what to do about his betrayal. Nile understands his hurt and his choice; but she knows it isn’t her decision to make on how he should pay. She hasn’t known him since his immortal life began, and she didn’t suffer at the hands of his choices in the way the others did. She can see how deeply this betrayal cut in every breath in this home. Joe won’t look at him at all. Andy shot him in the chest when they were safe and secure, watched him bleed, then sulked off to her room to clean up.
“Let me help,” he says to her as she wets her hair in the sink. Her braids are soaked through enough with blood to need undoing, a slow and tedious process she must go through to feel clean again while Booker uses the shower. “It’ll be faster.”
He takes the end of one of her braids and begins to unweave it. His hands are surprisingly sure, but gentle nonetheless, conscious not to pull or to be too rough with her. Between the two of them, it only takes a few minutes, and then she can start to actually wash it.
“Why?” she asks when he pulls up a chair and nudges her into it, so she can just lean back against the counter while he washes.
“We are a family. We take care of each other.”
Joe walks past them to get a water bottle on the fridge. Without looking up, he gets two extras and sets them at Nile’s side. One for her, one for Nicky. “Joe and Andy, they need to be taken care of, too.”
“They have each other right now, if they need,” he says. He lathers up his hands with shampoo and gently works it through her hair, stripping away the mess. “You have blood and brains in your hair, NIle, and you were washing it alone in the sink. You shouldn’t have to do that.”
She hears some of the gore he mentioned splash into the sink and takes a deep breath. Falling onto that car from the penthouse was a nasty death, and a painful healing, and she had pushed glass out of her cuts into the car seats the whole way here. Joe, sitting beside her, brushed it off the seat and made no mention of the red smears she left.
“I know you are new, and the way you met us all was bad, but that doesn’t mean we don’t care for each other, or you. If you need help, you only need to ask.”
He begins to rinse her hair. Then he washes it a second time, and asks her if she has conditioner. Before she can respond, Booker is there with it in hand, as well as a tee shirt to wrap her hair in while it dries. She doesn’t remember telling him, or any of them, how she washes or cares for her hair, but they saw, remembered, helped.
“Thank you,” she says. He’s gone without a word. “You too, Nicky. You didn’t have to.”
“I chose to.”
When it’s all finished and her hair wrapped up, he kisses her forehead in brotherly affection. They have seen, done, and experienced terrible things in the last few days, but no matter what, they still have each other. Tonight, Nicky washed her hair. Tomorrow, she will make coffee for the others. In the days to come, they will share pains and joys, and take care of each other, because that is the family they have chosen to build.
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A year ago, I ran an event on my former blog, and with some encouragement, I'll be hosting it once more!
The challenge is to create something for these prompts every day- a fic(let), art, gifs- to encourage people to create. There is no required fandom or participation. All fandoms and original content are welcome. Any amount of participation counts, even if it's just something small for one day.
(Edit: I thought this was obvious but all fandoms are welcome except racist, antisemitic, homophobic, or otherwise bigoted media. This includes but is not limited to H*t*lia)
Tag your participation with the event tag, #nosdecember so we can all see! I'll be reblogging participation as well, so feel free to tag me via @neworleansspecial or #userglow.
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What a Feeling (1.6k)
Eddie watches Chris dig out a card, handmade, and gets a smile as it’s handed to him.
“Don’t open it until I’m gone,” Christopher says, and gives a vaguely stunned Eddie one more squeeze before he clatters onto the bus.
It takes maybe twenty minutes for them to finish loading the bus, and Eddie gives Chris a little wave as it pulls out, tries to keep the smile firmly on his face until the bus is out of sight, then he looks at the card.
The paper crinkles in his hands as he opens it, rainbows and smiles drawn on it in crayon.
You’re going to have a great time.
The final installment of the Small Dick Buck Series
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Welcome to the Kink Meme for TOG!
This blog is made as a Kink-Meme space outside of Dreamwidth- many people don’t use Dreamwidth, be it personal preference, or the tendency of many threads (including the TOG one there) promoting or allowing harmful content.
For those unfamiliar with Kink Memes, here’s how it works:
People submit prompts for smut they want to see- pairings, kinks, etc. This blog gathers and sorts them for future use.
Anyone who wants to can fill the prompt!
It’s an exchange of ideas and content for smut, allowing creators to be inspired and requestors to find someone who wants to write what they’re looking for. This can also be a great way to find new blogs to follow! Looking through people who submit prompts, or people who have sent in fills, is a great way to reach out and connect. This Kink Meme is not limited to Joe/Nicky. It is open to all TOG pairings.
All posts on this blog are okay to reblog!
Check out our rules (/rules on the URL or under menu on desktop) regarding how to submit prompts/fills. Feel free to shoot an ask or DM if you have any questions.
Enjoy!