[thepiratequeenkt]

Right, the climax of the movie and they didn't want to - I dunno - choreograph it?!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/movies/charlize-theron-uma-thurman-old-guard-2-interview.html

[thepiratequeenkt]

We're just going to throw that sequel out and go back to fanfic - none of that is canon.

Someone in the writers room needed to tell the person who kept going 'BUT WHAT IF!?' to hush up!

Andy healed after Nile stabbed her in the Old Guard - it wasn't until the Church fight she didn't - Nile doesn't have immortality sucking powers

Lykon's immortality ended on it's own because it was time

You can't uno reverse card Andy's mortality onto Booker - it cheapens it!

Andy is the oldest, then Quynh - no secret 3rd option (even if it let Uma come play!)

If Tuah existed Nicky.Joe.Booker.Nile would have dreamed of him before and it wouldn't have been a revelation they were helping humanity at the end of the last film with Copley's conspiracy string wall because there was already a librarian

They're family! Ohana! We're not leaving Tuah isolated and alone for half a millennia

NOBODY freaking kissed?!

We can keep the 35 seconds of Joe & Nicky and the Andy/Quynh fight

The film's funeral is at 7, please join us afterwards for refreshments and our favourite fanfic re-readings as we mourn the Old Guard fanfic renaissance we could have experienced if this film had been even a C+ result.

Also, film a fight scene - not a jump cut sequence - as some one who wasn't even watching for the action it was poorly shot.

I'm so sad for my babies (the characters and the actors) - I wanted them in a better film! I wanted to like it!

[expressions-of-nature]

by Zbigniew Gałucki

[everythingfox]

His throwing skills only get better

[fangorn-forest]

hgggg okay but in p&p 2005 lizzie looks like she’s about to laugh/holding back laughter so often and darcy looks like he’s going to run away sobbing but as time goes by he starts smiling and she cries in front of him and THAT is The Moment

[poop4u]

wholesome doggo

[anarkissa]

Local dog accidentally creates a religion.

[kwason]

You could call it a “shoeperstition”

[bauliya]

i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other, as in theyre the retelling of the same war with one saying here’s what happened, we all died, and it did not matter at all and another going hush little boy, of course we won, of course your friends came back

[bauliya]

someone should remake lord of the rings as a grandfather telling a fantasy story to his grand child with flashbacks to world war one showing the dead boys and men the characters were based on. grandpa why didn’t they just fly. because they didn’t. they didn’t.

[bauliya]

i’m fine

[moonlightredfern]

I will never get over how Tolkien & Lewis took the horrors of war and spun them into fantasy.

Shivering in the trenches dreaming of cozy hobbit holes, shaking as bombs pockmark a forest and imagining each shallow mud-filled crater contains a new world—that maybe there are still as many beautiful things in the universe as there are bombs—that maybe the world is bigger than this moment and this ugliness and one day this will be a peaceful forest again full of small ponds.

I mean look at these photos of the shell craters in Sanctuary Woods, near Ypres Belgium and tell me it’s not the Wood Between The Worlds:

[laurenthemself]

…oh.

[gffa]

[detroitbydark]

I will reblog this everytime I see it until my dying day

[skdubbs]

What is this?! Why have I never seen this?! 😍😍😍😍😍😍 absolutely awesome!

[doobiwankenooku-deactivated2022]

Yessss

[the-stars-are-warring]

The TIMINGS On this thing

It’s so GOOD

[foldingfittedsheets]

Part 1 | Part 2

Please enjoy this cute sapphic comic about accidentally adopting a werewolf from the pound based on this post. (Except I made it gay.) Meet Sabine and Jazz as they fall in loooove.

If you enjoyed please consider donating to my Kofi! Comics are a labor of love and tips really really help me out while I'm in school!

[entheognosis]

“The oldest olive tree in the world located on the island of Crete. It is estimated to be as over 3,000 years old and still produces olives.”

—

[wyomingnot]

gotta share @telesilla’s tags -

#that was (give or take) around the time of the bronze age collapse #crete was no longer a major player #and the known world was kinda in turmoil #and yet someone planted an olive tree #i’m not saying there’s a direct parallel #but you know…systemic collapse thanks to many things including climate change #and it sucked for a lot of people #but they still needed olive oil #and idk man…maybe plant a tree #because the world has ended so many times #but the tree is still here #and so are we

[marlynnofmany]

the world has ended so many times but the tree is still here and so are we

[thecoeur]

It’s PRIDE MONTH and wanting to start with this little remembrance from queer people in the past.

[welpnotagain]

From the book: Baby, You Are My Religion by Marie Cartier

[great-and-small]

Had a woman bring in her ferret for an exam and when I went into the room a second ferret poked its head out of her bag. In delighted surprise I exclaimed “oh you have two!” and she immediately responded “yes, I’m a small business owner”

Have to admit it took me a second

[nyanbinyuri]

[avatarsymbolism]

Sorry Aang, Zuko’s was cooler. Granted, that’s mostly because Zuko does things ten times more dramatically than everyone else. 

Katara should really be more careful though.

[blue-corvid]

This is so interesting to me. Zuko grabs Katara (rather than shoving her) as he runs past, goes into a roll (he lands first, absorbing the shock,) and finishes the roll shielding her from the debris without landing on top of her. The whole action is designed specifically to protect her (and to a lesser degree, himself) from as much damage as possible – from any source, including his own body.

Aang on the other hand, just frickin’ tackles her.

The difference between a battle-hardened veteran with years of combat training… and a regular (if agile) dude who really just wants to save her from death by boulder by any means necessary.

It’s some really brilliant, subtle acting. We already know that the animators on this show are amazing, but this is a really good example of why. Not just the flawless rendering of what the characters are doing, but the careful consideration of how they do it.

Without a doubt, though, the best part of this post was this masterpiece of a tag: #katara vs. rocks

[avatarsymbolism]

#atla#I wonder how much this has to do with aang being an airbender too#like he literally just kind of throws himself at things a lot because like#he can fly#and generally use airbending to cushion impacts#whereas firebending by necessity probably involves a lot of ‘stop drop and roll’ technique#especially when involving a kid like zuko

Oh, that makes sense as well (And stopping, dropping, and roolling is what what we;re supposed to do if we’re caught on fire, so it makes sense that a firebender would know know this. 

[marlynnofmany]

If there isn’t a bit of firebending breakdance called the “stop drop and roll,” there REALLY should be.

[valtsv]

tired: mermaids are all women

wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty

[valtsv]

inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they're an entirely different species with their own unique culture

[valtsv]

marine scientist: what's your gender?

merperson: what's a gender

marine scientist: like, are you a man or a woman?

merperson: i'm merfolk

marine scientist: no, like, what's in your pants?

merperson: i don't... wear any? i don't have legs?

[9lunarseas6-deactivated20240914]

It’s a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.

[witchcraft-in-wonderland]

Merfolk are all canonically genderfluid and we love them for that

[anonymous-lizard]

Human: (invites merfolk friend to a boat party with their friends)

Merfolk: oh man, there are a lot of women here. Haha don’t worry guys, I got this :) *changes into a man to keep a balance because that’s culturally polite for merfolk*

Human: (spits drink) what the FUCK

[snow-bites]

FUCKING LOVE THIS

[eraserheadbabyabortion]

i cant even imagine where id be without "thats a really mean way to think about me, i wish you wouldnt think that i dont know what im doing when i love you." and "people want to be useful, trying to do everything yourself makes the people around you think that you dont trust them or that you think theyre incapable" and "people are made to be burdens. we are made to carry each other and not leave anyone behind." and "its rotten work / not to me. not if its you."

[mixmioart]

🦇Service Mindset🦇

Don’t be rude to whoever has the midnight shift at McDonalds

[uberguber89]

If i had a manager that killed rude customers, I'd keep any secret in the world for them!

[teaboot]

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

[teaboot]

They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her

[edgar-allan-possum]

I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.

[elidyce]

Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW. 

Odysseus: Regret it why?

Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.

Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in. 

*A couple of months later* 

Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit. 

Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure. 

Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family. 

[cipheramnesia]

Cassandra: Penelope, I’ve had another vision.

Penelope, sighs: Go tell your father.

[plush-anon]

#awww #wholesome greek mythology #bet you’ve never seen that phrase before (via @philosopherking1887)

[opheliedulac]

rbing again bc i saw someone noting that Odysseus isn’t technically Nobody until after he blinds Polyphemus, which, correct and fair.

But consider: Odysseus is exACTLY the kinda smartass who’d chime in “oh i’m Nobody” just off the fuckin’ cuff if presented with “Nobody will believe me!” Like it’s a Dad Joke. 

[elidyce]

That was my exact reasoning! I mean, if he could come up with ‘Noman’ on the spur of the moment once, surely when presented with an opening like this he would go straight to ‘… hi, I’m Nobody’. The man may not have always been pleasant, but he *was* always wily. 

I remain extremely proud of this post. It’s nice to see it still going around. 

[jackironsides]

My classical mythology lecturer said that part of the joke of ‘Nobody/Noman’ is that it sounds very similar to the word metis, or ‘cunning intelligence’.

So the idea that Odysseus, a man so cunning he could become Professor of Cunning at Oxford University he might be a child of Hermes, might hear a prophetess say that nobody will believe her and respond in a way where it’s ambiguous whether it means that he is the Nobody who will believe her, or that he is the personification of cunning who will believe her … it really does make sense.