help i've been rotting over TOG once again and---

I think I-- I see a pattern--

If I have a gold coin every time a gay Italian man is called Niccolo, I'd have two. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice now

I've reached the conclusion that every Nico is an undisclosed Niccolo until otherwise disproved bring 'em all to me

The photo is my exact and accurate reaction to hearing Nico's full government name in The Sun and the Moon

My collaboration for the @theoldguardevents with the amazing @negotiumcrucis and her fantastic beta-readers @queen-of-badomens & @instantpeach is here 🥰

History has cut our throats

I’ve read the second comic <3 I’m soooo curious how Netflix is gonna deal with it.

What it did to me:

1. cry over Booker.

2. Being in awww with Nicky who got really cool action scenes (besides Andy of course).

3. Got me a little bit annoyed with Nile.

4. Andy’s lost hurt so much :,(

5. Thinking Booker should keep the long hair. He really looks good with it.

6. OMG Joe was so scared on the ship when Nicky and Riko where on deck in the storm.

7. Cry over the end (and be a little bit pisst with everyone because HOW COULD YOU LEAVE HER BEHIND AFTER ALL SHE’S BEEN THROUGH?).

Now that the little Old Guard mini-comic is out, I have a couple of thoughts:

I've been wondering if comic!Nicky and Joe had met Lykon, judging by the timeline in there, and it's great to have an answer. However, did they ever mention him to Booker either? Comic!Booker has no idea who Noriko is, apparently has never dreamed about her, and nobody told him about her for 200 years. Explain yourself, Rucka.

Lykon's epithet is apparently, "Lykon the Freedman." My brain refuses to draw any links to "Nile Freeman" and any possible implications thereof.

It was a cute and adorable comic though, and I like Fernandez's art in here much better than previously. I found Noriko's ninja get-up a bit distracting though, but not as much as when she's got her tits out.

just read The Old Guard and eXCUSE ME?!?!?!???? I'M OBSESSED AGDHSJHS

The Old Guard Book Two (comics) spoilers below:

I’ve just read The Old Guard: Force Multiplied and I have a question, did anyone else feel like that ending was bad writing? Because I just can’t believe they would ALL leave Andy while she’s full on having a mental breakdown. Maybe leaving her alone so she can breathe? Believable. All of them, even Booker, abandoning Andy? Nah man I can’t take that

Merrick, who is on the search for immortality bursts into the lab angry after Doctor Ivanov has told Merrick, that after testing Joe and Nicky, she has found out, that Joe and Nicky are exceptionally healthy but ordinary men.

This is an excerpt from the comic: ’The Old Guard’ written by Greg Rucka.

my creation

This will be Markiplier’s cameo in the FNAF 2 movie

"You're quite the poet for a barbaric Christian"

Read "Suki, Alone". Liked it in general. But can they please, please hire someone who knows both the show's actual events and how to follow through on a character arc? Because guys. Guys. That comic is not implying about Suki what they meant it to be implying, and all because of literally one line.

So like. From a writer's standpoint:

What they meant to do: show Suki as a community-oriented person who cares for her people, and believes in everyone succeeding together.

As opposed to (spoilers): the thief girl they set her up in contrast with, who's pretty upfront and consistent on primarily looking out for herself. She betrays Suki for one (1) corn chip to improve her own life at the prison, no surprise.

But the problem is: they give Suki an inspirational line to the effect of "we're all working together and we'll all break out together"

You know

The thing she does not do in the show

So if both the show and this comic are canon, then instead of setting up a compare/contrast with the thief girl, they've just set up a comparison. One were Suki is arguably worse, because she's been leading a significant number of prisoners on with her "we'll all fight and win our freedom together!" business, only to straight up cut them out of the escape loop and abandon them, whereas the thief is only leading Suki on in the sense that Suki keeps telling her what it's morally correct to think and confuses snide replies with agreement

My dudes. My fellow writers. You people actually being paid for this. There were so many ways to fix those awful implications against our girl's character, the simplest of which would be to not include that line. Or they could have, you know, made it canon compliant with what actually happens in the show, so that this comic doesn't set Suki up as a betrayer instead of a community builder. Like... just send all her good prison buddies off to other prisons in the wake of the warden finding out they're colluding. Have it timed to be right before the next new prisoners arrive, thus setting it immediately before the Boiling Rock episodes, so Suki didn't have anyone left in the prison she'd want to take with her on a breakout. For bonus points, include a page or two of her and her Kyoshi warriors opening up the cell of one of her prison friends post-war, thus implying she's tracking down and actually fulfilling her promises. Maybe even show her doing the same with thief girl, who was established as being imprisoned on false charges anyway, and also showing that Suki is A) the bigger person, and B) willing to acknowledge her own role in mistakes (because I cannot emphasize enough how much thief girl was not hiding her own priorities, and it was Suki who approached HER with all this, not the girl ever doing anything special to weasel her way in) (this would also open up an opportunity for paralleling Suki's earlier in-comic mistake of not listening to one of her friend's very valid thoughts and feeling, which lead to the girl leaving their island alone pre-canon; a "seeing people as they are, not what you want them to be" moment)

Anyway yeah enjoyable enough for a quick read but another one for the "this can't be canon or the characters are So Much Worse than they were in the actual show" pile

At least Aang didn't promise to murder anyone in this one

The timeline/lifetimes* of all the known immortals in The Old Guard graphic novels.

(*Subject to G.Rucka's tentative relationship with continuity)

SUN AND MOON DUO SHOWDOWN - FINALS

atp i genuinely doooon’t care if the old guard two is the worst thing put to film i just want to see the best character of all time (andromache the scythian) and her loser henchmen and everyone’s favorite girl nile freeman again

Image! 30th Anthology #12 - The Old Guard

Young adults kaysanova?