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Title of my BAMF!Nicky Long Shot

Forged in Our Blood

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Opening of my BAMF!Nicky, hurt!everyone, pre!Nile Long Shot:

The world is black, red, and white when Nicky comes back to life with a painful jolt, each breath the prick of a searing hot needle digging into his chest.

In the first moment, he is blind.

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BAMF!Nicky it is :)

Trying to get my ass up to finish two bigger writings, collecting dust on my computer, but I can't decide which one to finish first soooooooooooooo...here you go.

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YUSUF AL KAYSANI & NICOLÒ DI GENOVA

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Trying to get my ass up to finish two bigger writings, collecting dust on my computer, but I can't decide which one to finish first soooooooooooooo...here you go.

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MAKE ME CHOOSE: anonymous asked

↳ THE PHARMACY SCENE or THE CAMPFIRE SCENE

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Trying to get my ass up to finish two bigger writings, collecting dust on my computer, but I can't decide which one to finish first soooooooooooooo...here you go.

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To be honest, I also missed Sniper!Nicky.

My take on The Old Guard 2

Before I begin my rant, I simply want to stress that this is my opinion on the second movie.

If you liked it, that is perfectly fine :) If you didn't like it, that is perfectly fine either :) If you agree with me, that is fine :) If you don't, that is fine too :)

To start on a positive note, here are things I liked about The Old Guard 2:

the fight choreography slapped

most of the time, the fighting felt like flirting, especially between Andy and Quynh, or when Nicky and Joe fought against the baddies together (Joe shoving the dude down on Nicky's blade with his foot? chef's kiss)

the usage of ancient weapons

I know we already see Andy, Joe and Nicky use their weapons of choice in the first movie BUT I loved how Nile took this thing of the wall and just went "That is my weapon now" or how Booker chose the saber-thingy, showing that he actually has fighting abilities in this area too (I mean come on, he fought with Napoleon!! And I liked how we got to see a glimpse of that), also Quynh's and Tuah's weapons, suiting their characters so well

the Nicky-Joe-banter

it felt good to see them joking around so much and laughing (not just smiling but full on laughing), stressing that they are not only their significant other on a romantic level but also their best friend

the team as a family

joking around during a mission, snippets of their history together, the post-mission drinking and eating, laughing, simply amazing

Nile being the kick-ass-lead woman

I loved that for her because it really suited her well

Copley's integration into the team

I was incredibly happy to see him actively participating in their missions and also him kicking ass too

Now, just as a warning, if you don't want to read my ranting, you can stop here :)

What I didn't like about the second movie - basically everything else. Okay, jokes aside, here are some major points that annoyed me:

the characters all felt somehow extremely flat and not at all like their scharacters from the first movie

I especially noticed that with Nicky (he is my favorite character and I'm always hyper-focused on him, and I don't know if it makes sense, but I was really missing the emotional warmth and his kind, philosophical self? I don't know how to describe it, but all the characters didn't feel like themselves at all for me

Discord and Tuah

they literally popped up out of nowhere, didn't get any reasonable explanation, and Discord??? At first, I thought I had misheard because watching in English still is difficult from time to time, so I was like "Did he say Discord?" and my friend was like "Yup", and I tried so hard to contain my laughter because Discord??? Seems like Facebook and WhatsApp were too occupied to join the fight, and although Tuah seems like a nice guy, he too was missing substance

the whole shit with the first and last immortal and the fucking legend and what not

just no... if they had given me any good and logical explanation, then maybe, but they didn't, Tuah was just like "There is a legend" and Discord (*throws up for using this bad name*) was like "You are the last immortal, Nile", and that was it

they fully threw the dream-thing overboard (like Quynh's iron maiden and my expectations) and IT MAKES NO SENSE???!?!?!?!

if they hadn't explained it in the first movie, it could have worked (maybe) but they built a fundament on the "We dream of each other. They stop when me meet" and just chose to absolutely ignore this shit in the second one. No one knows Tuah before they meet him? Dreams?? And even if they had met him unknowingly, it is sooooo wild that Nile only dreams of them at the beginning of the second movie instead of in the first one, where she literally dreams of all of them???

the handling of Booker

oh, DON'T GET ME STARTED!!! I loved his character in the first movie because there is so much to Booker but in the second one he seemed to get downgraded to "Depressed, only wants to die, dies" and I fucking hate how they robbed us of any chance of reconciliation between Nicky and Booker or NickyJoe and Booker as a whole, and character development of Booker. Him and the team didn't have one significant scene in the whole movie and the only one who did get an impactful moment with him was Andy who he then saved (logically) but oh BOY HIS DEATH was SOOO stupid??? and the whole thing with "This is my expiration date" no, nooooooo, Andy could have killed all the guys he killed (while he got himself killed) with ease but they tried to show his death as some kind of heroic act and in my opinion it absolutely wasn't. I know that depression has a lot to do with how you act around people and how you treat them but you cannot tell me that Booker, who lived with this found family for like 200 years, laughed with them, cried with them, bonded with them, wasted no thought on saying some kind of goodbye to Nicky and Joe ???

the way they absolutely gave no fucks about Copley at the end

I know he betrayed them in the first one, but they can't just show us how he became some kind of team member, only to never get mentioned again after hearing some gun noises over the radio and him struggling against enemies, (Is he dead? Is he alive? Did he get kidnapped too?)

no kisses

okay, kisses are not always necessary, I get it, but when you have a healthy, gay relationship that has been existing for more than 900 years, I expected some more intimate gestures. Especially when Nicky held that beautiful little speech, they could have exchanged a quick kiss (listen, they don't even need to make out, okay?), but no, they shuffled quite awkwardly toward each other to make a forehead bonk (i like forehead bonks but I was missing a kiss). You want to tell me that two immortal warriors that have been together for more than 900 years wouldn't even kiss once during this whole fucking time?? Especially considering that Joe was like "I'm afraid we're gonna die"

the missing depth

one of the things I LOVED about the first movie was the emotional depth it had, this underlying melancholy, the pain and history of the characters, the great impact their actions had and still have on them - this one felt rushed, shallow, out of character, had logical errors and plot holes so big I could've fallen into

I have to say all the actors put their whole heart into this, and gave amazing performances (without them it would've been waaaaay worse to watch this movie), but I still felt my heart rate spike after the first twenty minutes out of sheer frustration and utter disbelief.

That's it for today. Thank you for listening to my rant🌼

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My take on The Old Guard 2

Before I begin my rant, I simply want to stress that this is my opinion on the second movie.

If you liked it, that is perfectly fine :) If you didn't like it, that is perfectly fine either :) If you agree with me, that is fine :) If you don't, that is fine too :)

To start on a positive note, here are things I liked about The Old Guard 2:

the fight choreography slapped

most of the time, the fighting felt like flirting, especially between Andy and Quynh, or when Nicky and Joe fought against the baddies together (Joe shoving the dude down on Nicky's blade with his foot? chef's kiss)

the usage of ancient weapons

I know we already see Andy, Joe and Nicky use their weapons of choice in the first movie BUT I loved how Nile took this thing of the wall and just went "That is my weapon now" or how Booker chose the saber-thingy, showing that he actually has fighting abilities in this area too (I mean come on, he fought with Napoleon!! And I liked how we got to see a glimpse of that), also Quynh's and Tuah's weapons, suiting their characters so well

the Nicky-Joe-banter

it felt good to see them joking around so much and laughing (not just smiling but full on laughing), stressing that they are not only their significant other on a romantic level but also their best friend

the team as a family

joking around during a mission, snippets of their history together, the post-mission drinking and eating, laughing, simply amazing

Nile being the kick-ass-lead woman

I loved that for her because it really suited her well

Copley's integration into the team

I was incredibly happy to see him actively participating in their missions and also him kicking ass too

Now, just as a warning, if you don't want to read my ranting, you can stop here :)

What I didn't like about the second movie - basically everything else. Okay, jokes aside, here are some major points that annoyed me:

the characters all felt somehow extremely flat and not at all like their scharacters from the first movie

I especially noticed that with Nicky (he is my favorite character and I'm always hyper-focused on him, and I don't know if it makes sense, but I was really missing the emotional warmth and his kind, philosophical self? I don't know how to describe it, but all the characters didn't feel like themselves at all for me

Discord and Tuah

they literally popped up out of nowhere, didn't get any reasonable explanation, and Discord??? At first, I thought I had misheard because watching in English still is difficult from time to time, so I was like "Did he say Discord?" and my friend was like "Yup", and I tried so hard to contain my laughter because Discord??? Seems like Facebook and WhatsApp were too occupied to join the fight, and although Tuah seems like a nice guy, he too was missing substance

the whole shit with the first and last immortal and the fucking legend and what not

just no... if they had given me any good and logical explanation, then maybe, but they didn't, Tuah was just like "There is a legend" and Discord (*throws up for using this bad name*) was like "You are the last immortal, Nile", and that was it

they fully threw the dream-thing overboard (like Quynh's iron maiden and my expectations) and IT MAKES NO SENSE???!?!?!?!

if they hadn't explained it in the first movie, it could have worked (maybe) but they built a fundament on the "We dream of each other. They stop when me meet" and just chose to absolutely ignore this shit in the second one. No one knows Tuah before they meet him? Dreams?? And even if they had met him unknowingly, it is sooooo wild that Nile only dreams of them at the beginning of the second movie instead of in the first one, where she literally dreams of all of them???

the handling of Booker

oh, DON'T GET ME STARTED!!! I loved his character in the first movie because there is so much to Booker but in the second one he seemed to get downgraded to "Depressed, only wants to die, dies" and I fucking hate how they robbed us of any chance of reconciliation between Nicky and Booker or NickyJoe and Booker as a whole, and character development of Booker. Him and the team didn't have one significant scene in the whole movie and the only one who did get an impactful moment with him was Andy who he then saved (logically) but oh BOY HIS DEATH was SOOO stupid??? and the whole thing with "This is my expiration date" no, nooooooo, Andy could have killed all the guys he killed (while he got himself killed) with ease but they tried to show his death as some kind of heroic act and in my opinion it absolutely wasn't. I know that depression has a lot to do with how you act around people and how you treat them but you cannot tell me that Booker, who lived with this found family for like 200 years, laughed with them, cried with them, bonded with them, wasted no thought on saying some kind of goodbye to Nicky and Joe ???

the way they absolutely gave no fucks about Copley at the end

I know he betrayed them in the first one, but they can't just show us how he became some kind of team member, only to never get mentioned again after hearing some gun noises over the radio and him struggling against enemies, (Is he dead? Is he alive? Did he get kidnapped too?)

no kisses

okay, kisses are not always necessary, I get it, but when you have a healthy, gay relationship that has been existing for more than 900 years, I expected some more intimate gestures. Especially when Nicky held that beautiful little speech, they could have exchanged a quick kiss (listen, they don't even need to make out, okay?), but no, they shuffled quite awkwardly toward each other to make a forehead bonk (i like forehead bonks but I was missing a kiss). You want to tell me that two immortal warriors that have been together for more than 900 years wouldn't even kiss once during this whole fucking time?? Especially considering that Joe was like "I'm afraid we're gonna die"

the missing depth

one of the things I LOVED about the first movie was the emotional depth it had, this underlying melancholy, the pain and history of the characters, the great impact their actions had and still have on them - this one felt rushed, shallow, out of character, had logical errors and plot holes so big I could've fallen into

I have to say all the actors put their whole heart into this, and gave amazing performances (without them it would've been waaaaay worse to watch this movie), but I still felt my heart rate spike after the first twenty minutes out of sheer frustration and utter disbelief.

That's it for today. Thank you for listening to my rant🌼

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I just watched The Old Guard 2 and...uhm...yeah no...

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When you're trying not to spoil yourself with content but have no strength to scroll down when sighting said content.

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I'm going to disappear until I have watched the sequel, and when I return, I'll either be incredibly disappointed, mildly okay, or positively surprised by the second The Old Guard movie.

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Remember lads, no matter what happens

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It is so surreal that we get to see TOG2 in two days. Feels like a fever dream.

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Reminders for fanfic writers who think it “doesn’t count”

✦ Your writing counts. like, a lot. If someone felt something because of what you wrote, then it matters. That scene you almost didn’t post? Yeah. Believe me, someone out there bookmarked it for a reason.

✦ Writing existing characters doesn’t make it “less than.” You’re building arcs, crafting dialogue, emotion, pacing. You’re studying character psychology like a scientist. That’s not “just fanfic,” that’s storytelling.

✦ “but it’s just fanfic” ...no. STOP, it’s craft. It’s understanding tone. It’s hitting emotional beats. It’s layering theme and backstory and prose into something people feel. You’re doing the work, you just don’t get graded on it. (Which, honestly is a blessing.)

✦ Writing fanfic means you love stories enough to live inside them. You care, deeply. You care enough to reimagine, to explore, to add something of yourself to a world you didn’t create and somehow still make it feel brand new.

✦ Someone out there rereads your fic like it’s their favorite book. Maybe they’ve saved a line to their notes app,or they quote it to a friend. Maybe they just think about it when they’re having a bad day. That little fic you almost deleted, it’s comfort now.

✦ Your comments section is real. Every “I needed this” and “this made me cry in a good way” is proof, you don’t need a book deal to matter. You don’t need a publisher to have an impact, because you already do.

FANFIC IS WRITING! Fanfic is yours.

You’re not “just” anything. You’re a writer, own it. Be proud of that.