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Honestly, I was not expecting Arcane to wrap up all those story lines so well.

Season 2 introduced so much and I was like ‘YOU FOOLS’ and then they goddamn did it. Like…damn… well done to you writers.

Also, Ekko is my MVP. Got damn when he was back on his hover board I was like… my badass bitch

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Why so many people here mad at the finale ? It’s great! None of us actually guessed the ending, those writers kept us on the toes the whole time. And they kept it satisfying.

the road being a con ? So in keeping with Agatha. lol that the line about’ coven two’ was actually the original line, instead of ‘coven true’. Agatha being like, don’t correct me ? I wrote it!

Agatha’s face when she’s pulling her con in the basement and you see her face go…. Fuuckk there’s a maximoff in my house.

Urrrggggg Billy’s anguish over placing Tommy in a new body. But that line of them breathing in sync, really hit home on how close they are. You don’t feel in wanda and vision but that line sold me on their bond, I can’t wait for that to be developed.

also everyone thinking Mephisto is the dramatic one with the trials but forgetting what a gay dramatic icon Billy is. This boy broke into a house with his best dramatic movie inspired outfit - hoodie up, face mask and all.

I loved it. Can’t believe marvel gave me the witches show I need. They treated these witches as complex women with their own agendas and it showed death isn’t fair, she just comes as nature dictates and that’s painful.

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This guy, Nightrizer put Trollhunters in an animatic/beautiful way

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Come to me feathered and frayed,

For I am the ugliest prey.

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holy ……!

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nicky + spinning

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joe gets into this habit where whenever he hears a song about everlasting love or loving someone forever he jokingly goes, “nicky that’s our song!” and of course nicky always just smiles indulgently while joe playfully swoons at him

until one day in one of their home bases joe stumbles over a battered old notebook and when he opens it it’s just full of hundreds upon hundreds of titles of love songs and their artists, scribbled carefully in nicky’s handwriting. so then joe is like, “nicky what’s all this?” and nicolò di fucking genova just blithely goes, “oh it’s our songs! i didn’t want to accidentally forget any so i wrote them down :)” and joe just

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A Thought

Any analysis of Superman and Captain America should involve two main points. 1) They are every bit the caricature of honest goodness that they are said to be. And  2) BEING a a caricature of honest goodness means not just fighting obvious villainy, but raging against institutional injustice, even when it comes from “Legitimate” sources.  There is a difference, however. The Kent’s raised Clark with a strong moral compass, but also good sense. He’s very aware that, as Superman, anything he does comes with a tinge of Threat. He’s keenly aware that with the power he wields, the only way he can continue to operate is by appearing completely nonthreatening to the status quo. Unless he is preventing immediate, obvious harm, he has to be very careful with his intervention. He’ll see a city councilman skimming funds from schools, a factory illegally disposing of waste, or Cops inflating their quotas with bogus charges, and he’ll be outraged. But, Superman can’t do anything about those things. If he intervenes, people won’t see Superman protecting civilians from police abuse, they’ll see Superman Threatening A Cop. If Superman expresses any opinions besides the most milquetoast “Be Kind To One Another” stuff, it gets spun into “Scary Indestructible Alien Man Wants To Take Over The World”. So, Superman takes all that rage, every injustice and abuse he sees, and those that he cannot solve as Superman, he gives to Clark Kent.  And behind the “Aw Shucks’ Kansas Farmboy affect, Clark Kent is RUTHLESS. He will pick apart your life and nail you sins the sky for all to see.  Like, everybody knows about Lois Lane, and she’s objectively the better journalist, but people always underestimate Clark. Those that remember anything about him usually think of him as harmless, the guy who comes to collect the statements your media people prepared, so you’re caught off-guard when the fangs come out. A Clark Kent interview goes like this: First Question: Hello Police Chief Smith. So, how did you get involved in law enforcement? Second Question:  What are the key values that drive your police department?  Third Question: On September 14th, you called your officers together and told them to, and I quote “ Pull over every [racial slur] you can find out there. If they let you search, say you smell weed and bring them in. If they don’t, bring ‘em in for refusing to cooperate. Just get those [expletive deleted] in cuffs and paying fines, or else start looking for a new job”. Would you say this policy of deliberately targeting racial minorities is in line with the values you described earlier?”  And Clark Kent doesn’t stop after he gets his headline. It might end up on Page 3, but he’ll keep the story going until your career is torn to shreds and staked outside as a warning to others.  And then it’s back to human-interest stories and the feel-good beat until he selects his next target.  Superman is forced to overlook things, but he IS looking, and he won’t forget, and just because he’s not throwing you into the sun, doesn’t mean he intends to spare you.  Steve Rogers on the other hand will interrupt an interview to kick the shit out of a crooked real estate developer for driving people out of their homes. When arrested he’ll say “I’m sorry, how about we just chalk up the next time I save the world as community service”. 

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Thank you for alerting me to this awesome song 💕

hot take: devils backbone--the Civil wars

Is the perfect joexnicky song for a modern au full of catholic guilt

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Yusuf: *Has men and women throwing themselves at him, due to him being both a snack and an intelligent, charming academic*

Nicolo: *Unwashed invader. Holy trash panda, full of rage and gay sin. Voted most likely to vibe with jesus*

Yusuf (watching nicolo find the only rock in the whole desert and fall over it) : I want that one.

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DESTINY

Before they were Nicky and Joe, they were Nicolo and Yusuf…

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The Old Guard cast is incredibly attractive

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This was so beautiful and touching.

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I know there’s already posts about Sun and Moon imagery fitting Joe and Nicky but I’ve been thinking about it all day and it’s just absolutely sending me.

Joe is a big grin in the helicopter and Nicky is a crooked smile in return.

Nicky is a close but soft hug with eyes closed and a hand gently cupping Andy’s head and Joe is a bear hug that lifts Andy off her feet and makes her laugh.

Joe is a shout of laughter and Nicky is a huff and a smirk.

Joe is a swift glance of concern on the kill floor and Nicky is a look of cold fury.

Joe is the big spoon, warmth and gentle touch at Nicky’s back, and Nicky is the wall between Joe and the world.

Joe is warm and easy teasing, “depends on the century” and Nicky is quiet sincerity, “we were meant to find each other.”

Nicky wakes instantly, reaching for a gun and Joe wakes slower, reaching for Nicky.

Joe is “wake up” and Nicky is “I’m here.”

Joe is an impassioned speech about his love, and Nicky is a look and an “incurable romantic.”

Joe is an irritated headbutt and a “there’s your balance, asshole,” and Nicky is the quiet threat of “as is yours.”

Joe is shouting his heartbreak at Booker’s betrayal, hurling angry words and Nicky is silence and a hard stare.

So many little ways that they are opposites and reflections of each other. So many little ways they fit together and I’m just a mess about it, okay??

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Nicky is clearly framed as The Sensitive One: the one who worries about Nile being scared and alone when she first discovers she’s immortal, who invites her to talk through her nightmare with them, who’s still thinking about the kids they thought they were rescuing after it’s clear they’ve been set up, who thinks about small things like offering a non-aggressive greeting to civilians they pass while armed to the teeth in a former war zone (“peace be with you” might just be a standard greeting in Nuer, the same way it is in Arabic, but I think it’s also his way of saying “don’t worry, we’re not here to harm you.”)

But also…Nicky’s the sniper, a kind of violence associated with coldness and deliberateness and ruthlessness, and we see that he is very good at it. When he and Joe are sleeping, Nicky’s always the one in front, between Joe and the door, and when they wake up in the safe house Nicky has a gun in his hand before Joe’s even fully woken up. (He’s also the one who sees Nile put herself between Andy and a bullet when that needs to be done and copies the move immediately after.) And when we see him and Joe fighting together in the lab, he is usually the one in front, attacking first to disarm or disable an opponent and relying on Joe, behind him, to guard his back and finish the job. And they do it so fluidly that this is clearly an established pattern with them.

The only time we see him get visibly angry is when someone hurts Joe, and yes, of course. But also, “cinnamon roll who goes absolutely feral when you hurt someone they love” is a trope we have seen before, and I think there’s more going on here than that.

Nicky is quiet and attentive to others and emotionally intelligent, and he is extremely competent at violence; he’s just not quick to anger and he’s not cocky or showy about it. “He thinks you’re a mouse, Nicky,” Joe says about Merrick, and he thinks it’s funny, because he’s seen this so many times before, someone underestimating Nicky because they think he’s soft, and he has most definitely seen that be the last mistake they ever make.

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Why do they look like they’re studying for a test and Joe is panicking while Nicky already lost his will to live

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Yo I’m reading an amazing fanfic that is pretty close to this premise if you want it. But in it Joe finds the others, but Nicky believes he’s all alone. It’s not finished yet so not sure if it’ll stick the landing but damn all the emotions are there.

The Old Guard AU where the team doesn’t dream about each other when they become immortal, so they have no way to know if there are others like them in the world. Joe and Nicky just missing each other throughout history. Each of them living solitary, sad lives. Joe and Nicky finally meeting for the first time in the sixteenth century and thinking the other is a mortal man. They fall deeply in love and have an intense but brief affair before Nicky leaves Joe without an explanation. Nicky thinks it will hurt less to cut it off early. Joe would have told him he was immortal if Nicky had stayed.

Joe and Nicky running into each other again in the twentieth century, and each not thinking the other is real. Then realizing they came from the same place, at the same time, and they lost hundreds of years they could have spent together. But finally, finally they’re not alone.