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*looks at books* too tired for you *looks at films* too tired for you *looks at art supplies* too tired for you *eyes fall on tumblr* oho ho

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Me 🤼 Latin style Thai fonts

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first award of the night 🥹🥰

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I just saw your post about Joe body blocking for Nicky and I'm dyingggggg. Sir, are you aware that your husband is also immortal?

you know what Gets me about that, is like. joe is both... protecting and not protecting nicky there.

bc if you look at what joe is specifically doing, he’s not actually killing the mercs between him and nicky. he’s disarming them, disabling them, and then shoving them behind him for nicky to kill off.

you can see him knee that merc, rip his gun out of his hand, then shove him away to deal with the next guy. (who he also disables then shoves past)

and Thats the hallmark of joe & nicky’s fighting style, bc (excluding the hallway scene at the end of the movie where joe & nicky both have pistols, the sniper scene pre-kill-floor, & the stabby stabby scene pre-kill-floor) thats just how joe + nicky fight. one disables, one kills. in the merrick fight scene joe is doing the killing & nicky is doing the disabling

(and oh my god the way he does it. look at him put his BACK to the second merc after only shooting the guy in the leg. he almost got up and shot nicky if it werent for joe scrambling to kill him right after. like christ the faith nicky must have in joe)

but anyways in the kill floor fight joe is doing the disabling, + nicky is doing the killing. (more or less -- i dont remember the exact count, which of course i did count at one point, but its like 3-2 or smth like that, one of them kills three and the other kills two. or something close) but joe is actively relying on nicky’s participation in that fight either way. he’s not fighting for nicky, he’s fighting with nicky

But Also: he’s standing Right In Front Of Nicky. they could have stood back-to-back. they could have stood side-by-side. but no, joe had to go right in front of nicky

(which honestly might actually be hindering nicky a little. his sword requires ample space to swing around, and joe is literally a foot away from nicky. you can even see when nicky pulls his sword he has to angle it so he doesnt smack joe in the back)

so joe isnt doing the fighting for nicky, he’s actively relying on nicky’s participation-- he knows very well nicky can fight. their skill level is equivalent, they have exactly the same amount of combat experience. but Even So, he still stands right between nicky and the mercs.

& lets be honest. its not like nicky’s in any considerable amount of danger here. they just all got a Very Inconvenient confirmation that their immortality is still kicking, so no chance of perma-death, and the way they rip through those mercs implies they weren’t much of a challenge w/o the advantage of surprise. most of the mercs have empty guns. the absolute WORST thing that can really happen to nicky here is that he might get clipped by a couple bullets by a lucky merc, which would take seconds to heal.

and like. thats all joe is realistically protecting nicky from. a few seconds of temporary pain.

joe:

1. forces his still-healing, shaking self off the ground

2. abandons booker on the other side of the room

3. nearly tramples andy

4. sprints halfway across the room

5. spends the whole fight hand-to-hand fighting anyone who gets close to nicky

all to *potentially* save nicky from a couple seconds of pain

& that makes me think abt this one bit from a meta post-- i dont remember the context bc it was months ago i read it and it was a long post, but it said smth like ‘joe feels nicky’s pain more acutely than his own’ which i think is really on point.

it reminds me of one of the million Little Things the movie does with joe&nicky-- specifically during the keane fight scene: when keane kills nicky, nicky takes the whole thing silently. keane throwing him to the ground, kneeling on him, grabbing his hair, jamming the gun in his mouth-- silent. but right after the gun goes off, joe screams out like he’s in pain.

im just saying. joe kills me sometimes.

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Never speak to me or my 452 unread books again

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boy there are a lot of glasses on that table

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*nicky getting gruesomely half-run over* OMG MY BESTIE

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Nile Freeman being the leader she was born to be!

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KiKi Layne as Nile Freeman in The Old Guard 2

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on close examination I don’t think Nicky’s getting out of the car chase thingy with his spine intact, however temporarily, and I better see fic writers maximizing bad jokes about that

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NGÔ THANH VÂN as QUỲNH

The Old Guard 2 (2025) dir. Victoria Mahoney

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Official poster, and tomorrow (May 8th) we will get the trailer of The Old Guard 2

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Joenicky making out in their movie haircuts. I’m full of joy

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The Old Guard 2 2 July 2025