Nicki Minaj ; Letter to the BaRbz🫂🩷✨ #

this is somewhat of a vent post & something i said i would not do again but has been plaguing me enough that i think getting it out might feel better. so. has anydoggy else been. Baffled and upset by nora sakavic’s refusal to speak on how terribly aftg has treated its characters of color? with the author of the series coming back with a new book and starting up on her online activity again, and questions of what she’d change about aftg bubbling up, it’s particularly glaring to me that we are all playing this very long game of pretend where we ignore how badly the non-white cast has been treated & her lack of thoughts on it

and i understand not wanting to bring up nicky and thea because people pick on her for it. i’m not trying to discredit nora sakavic’s terrible history of getting harrassed online by aftg fans. but i think it is very cynical, and it is very juvenile, and most of all very cruel, that she gets to ignore the very real ways the books have set up these characters to be hated. i think it’s obvious why the characters who get the most hate are the only canonical characters of color, and i think we do not get to treat this like a deliberate decision on the fandom’s part when the books have put these same characters in degrading and embarrassing and terrible positions in the first place. aftg is not a story about nice characters with clean pasts, but there is a very specific nastiness to the only characters of color being a brown man who sexually harasses and later assaults the main character, a black woman whose only scene is her lashing out at her love interest after being ignored for the first two books, and the japanese villain who gets maybe two lines of complexity before he goes back to being a terrible person. the white cast, in comparison, while not at all free from flaws, are never shown to commit mindless evil; all of their actions are ultimately justified. the book goes out of its way to give them concession after concession. we know exactly who to side with, because aftg tells us who these people are. does nicky’s assault ever get addressed in the books? does riko’s reasoning to be the way that he is ever gets more than briefly aluded to? is thea reserved even a shred of humanity or grace in her one scene?

anyway. it’s been years of talking about this and the fandom has been constantly hostile to criticism in this regard, and more recently any criticism at all, and it’s Grating to be on the other side of this discussion. it’s exhausting to know that in ten years we do not get even an acknowledgment besides the author saying she will not answer questions about nicky and thea anymore. it’s upsetting and it’s ugly and i wish no one had to talk about this again, but we do because what i thought was common sense has been washed away by a sudden influx of no-nuance adoration for the trilogy. basically i hope we all explode

two hours later edit: you're allowed to reblog this! sorry about the confusion

✨Fiiine boy Friday ✨

Hey Nicky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind hey Nicky hey hey Nicky🎶💕

Anywhore he's bbygrls design (of course I'm biased)

Here's your reminder that Nick was the star player in both timelines💕

*gulp* deacon/iris "please just kiss me" intimacy ask........ NYE party- (i am shot)

@oldworldwidgets — [ intimacy prompts ]

It's in the stars, it's been written in the scars on our hearts

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again

pose reference

V, JoeNicky & Nile

V. An abandoned or empty place.

When Joe pulls the sheet off the couch it kicks up enough dust that it makes Nile sneeze. The couch underneath is old, wooden frame rotting, fabric stained and full of holes where moths have eaten away at it. 

“Sorry,” Joe says to Nile when she finally manages to get the sneezing under control. “Didn’t realise it was that bad.” He puts his hands on his hips and looks down at the couch. Nile looks it over.

“There’s no saving that,” she says, wiping at her eyes. She can heal from falling over ten stories, but she can’t get away from allergies.

Joe frowns. “I liked that couch.”

The house is older than anywhere else they’ve brought her, and has been abandoned for long enough that it’s falling apart. But through some trick of posing as their own sons, or something, Joe and Nicky still own it, even if there’s a giant hole in the roof and all the windows are broken. Why they’d decided to come back here, Nile doesn’t know, but it’s a nice enough area, and a good distraction from, well. Everything. Growing back a leg, she’s discovered, is not fun. 

From one of the other rooms – she thinks it’s the kitchen, she’s not actually sure where Nicky had wandered to – there’s the sound of something breaking and crashing to the ground, and a muffled curse. 

Joe makes a questioning noise in the vague direction of the kitchen. A few moments later, Nicky appears in the doorway, covered in dust. “I am okay,” he says. “But I think we will need to go out to eat tonight.”

“Nothing?” 

Nicky shakes his head. “Unless you want to start a fire and go hunt some rabbits.”

Joe grins. “Just like old times, right?”

Nile shakes her head firmly, which makes Nicky smile. She loves them, but there’s no way they’re doing that. 

“We can probably clear out enough space in here,” Joe says, gesturing to the floor. “Get the sleeping bags out of the car. Probably have to start a fire anyway, but…”

Nile looks around again while Joe says something to Nicky in Arabic that makes him laugh. The house is falling apart, sure, but it’s structurally stable, and the bones are all there. It could be something. They’ve got time to make it something. 

Nicky is the one who goes for pizza in the end – he doesn’t trust Nile and Joe to order it if left to their own devices – while they try to clear out a space in the living room. Eventually, though, after Nile has another sneezing fit, Joe suggests they just take the sleeping bags outside instead, which works out a lot better. He sets about starting a fire with practiced ease while Nile sets out the sleeping bags around it. They’re far enough away from civilisation that she can’t hear cars passing by, which is kind of surreal, and the stars are brighter than she’s ever seen them. 

When Nicky gets back, two boxes balanced on one arm and a bottle of wine in the other, he looks over their makeshift camp and laughs. “Just like old times, then?” he asks.

Joe grins. “Except we have pizza.”

“And actual sleeping bags,” Nile says.

“Ah, these modern inventions could never quite match the comfort of a pile of furs,” Joe says wistfully. Nile gives him a look. She’s ninety percent sure that one’s bullshit, but she can never quite tell with him. 

Nicky sets down the pizza boxes, and jogs back to the car to grab the pack of plastic wine glasses they’d bought before they got here. 

“We should’ve bought marshmallows,” Nile says. “Could have made s’mores.”

“Well, we’ll have to go to the hardware store tomorrow anyway,” Joe points out. “And I think it’ll be a little while before we can actually sleep in there.”

“Tomorrow, then?”

“Tomorrow,” Nicky agrees.

hey remember how I said I'd post midnight kiddads ? ok I lied , have some 2 pm kiddads <3

might color in a background at some point but eeaaaughhh no <3

yes to scrabble ideas!! scrabble ideas please!

so 🤺 wrote the original games posts but we have discussed our ideas so here they are:

it would have to end with someone flipping the board. votes on this are either kevin or nicky tbh.

dyslexic nicky claiming that being made to play the game is hate crime (there was no ‘being made to play’, he was absolutely down for it). as he’s playing, he literally just lays tiles and hope something sticks. nothing sticks. all of his words have errors and he point blank refuses to correct them because that would be ableism.

kevin has a legit official scrabble dictionary for which he is, understandably, mercilessly mocked. he gets especially pissed when andrew just holds up a scrabble dictionary on his phone and shakes it at him. kevin insists it must be done ‘by the book’. neil makes a comment about even he has embraced technology and starts calling kevin ‘grandpa’, which is weird for everyone involved.

neil starts laying words from any language and also claiming that nicky’s nonsense words are from a variety of languages? aaron is not having it at all but the upperclassmen are sufficiently fooled. either that or they’ve run out of energy to argue with neil. one of the two.

they either play it tournament-style where the winner plays the winner OR, since they are the foxes, they go seriously more unhinged and all of them play at once. they can only have like 5 letters each. this has kevin literally in tears because the rules aren’t being followed!!

andrew’s memory serves him so well but he does not give a single fuck so he basically just plays three letter words until he whacks out a seven letter on a triple word space. this also has kevin basically in tears, because we know kevin’s feelings on andrew’s potential. neil finds kevin’s pain hilarious.

in a rare use of an english word, neil makes the work ‘serial’ off of matt’s ‘killer’ and everyone looks at him. he stares back entirely straight faced. the moment is so bizarre that andrew cracks a (very small) smile in front of them all.

aaron is trying so fucking hard which is absolutely hilarious because he’s doing so badly. he is also wound up by andrew’s uncaring attitude, which makes andrew care even fucking less.

matt and dan are both pretty good at scrabble but they’re mostly focused on keeping the game vaguely on track because it’s basically constant near fights after each word. matt tells nicky that as a fellow dyslexic, nicky has no excuse. nicky just throws a tile at him. matt’s a collegiate sportsman, so naturally he catches it. after which, he just gives nicky a massive thumbs up and a shit-eating grin.

renee makes the word ‘assassin’ from nicky’s ‘ass’ and nobody knows where all the damn s tiles came from. nicky just asks what ‘ass-ass-in’ means.

allison is just trying to make names of anyone vaguely related to the foxes, which makes kevin nearly cry because ‘there shouldn’t be any proper nouns!!’. allison just lazily flips him off and tells him to focus on andrew, who has successfully stacked three tiles on kevin’s head in the last thirty seconds. allison is really trying to make wesninski and neil has fully caught onto this but isn’t concerned because there’s no feasible way she’ll get the letters she needs.

in the entire chaos of the night, no one realises renee is just whacking letters out of her own bag, swapping other people’s letters to shit tiles and has consistently made sure everyone has less tiles than they’re supposed to. she doesn’t even care about winning, she just adores the chaos.

More headcanons! This times victim: Nicky!

So I think pretty quickly after the kids started understanding everything going on with Nick, they took quickly to calling him saint Nicky. 1: because they didn't think it was fitting to call him Narcolas anymore, 2: It was ironic, and 3 the most important of it all: It pissed him off a little. So every chance they got they called him it.

When they were 14, on the night of christmas eve, Lark thought it would be fucking hilarious if they gave Nick milk and cookies. Sparrow agreed and Lark said that they should buy some on they way over to their place. Sparrow disagreed and asked what time it is, Lark said it was around 3am and why was Sparrow getting up?

Sparrow proceeded to spend the next two hours to make his famous cookies that everyone loves, especially Nicky. They headed over to Hell with Henry and to no ones surprise Glenn and Nicky were both dead asleep, because apparently they need to sleep every 6 days. So they headed to Nicky's room, put the cookies on his dresser, grabbed some milk. And lightly shook him awake.

Nicky then woke up to them saying, "Good morning saint Nicholas", and him groaning so loud and attempting to block them out with his pillow. But the he saw the cookies, and said that he would take the shitty nickname if they made him cookies

So it became tradition, Sparrow would bake him cookies every year and him and Lark would wake Nicky up, and once he was done he would drag out the presents from the office because "He's Saint Nick!"

But after the betrayal they obviously couldn't do that anymore. And because Nick had been so down Jodie made him cookies, his favorite too! chocolate chip, the type Sparrow would make too. Of course Jodie didn't know any of this, because it was the boys special tradition. So when he saw Nick wasn't awake yet he didn't think much of leaving the cookies on the night stand.

But when Nick saw it he knocked them to the ground, refusing to leave his room until Glenn came. Nick can't eat cookies anymore, they've made work-arounds, like cupcakes and macaroons. But they'll never forget the time they tried to give him a chocolate chip cookie and he stared at it as if they had just given him a knife after telling him to kill himself.

Sparrow still makes them, every christmas. He makes one batch for his family, another two for Terry and Grant. Then one for Cassandra and Taylor. They don't quite know who is leaving cookies at their door every christmas, but the note said that they were Nicky's friend. So Cassandra trusts them.

Right I randomly decided this, why I don’t know 🤷‍♀️ but I do know the boys needs know how much their fans love and support them!

Soooo I am going to post a picture or gif of them (together or individual)

So here we go! Day 1!

The Young Bucks appreciation posts!

So day 1

“To first blood?” Nicolo asks, but even as he says the words his mouth pulls down, rueful, at Yusuf’s raising brows. What is first blood to people like them?

For so universal a mixture by @wrenaspun - In which duelling to the death becomes the most intimate engagement in the world.

Thanks to the @theoldguardevents Reversebang <3

I asked my friend to place drivers on a political map based on vibes:

Nonono you guys don't get it I NEED to spread The Old Guard propaganda.

Think found family. Thinking of it? Okay good. Now think about it on steroids. THAT'S what this movie has.

You wanna know what else it has? Queer immortal soulmates. MULTIPLE queer immortal soulmates (though two of them are only explored in the comics as of right now, but we ARE getting a sequel that's in production)

There's great diversity. KILLER (literally) action sequences. GORGEOUS gorgeous gorgeous characters and character development.

And the characters themselves? We have:

Angry old immortal woman with an axe

Two soldiers who did a classic enemies to lovers on the battlefield

French guy who needs the BIGGEST fucking hug

The most LOVABLE newbie to the team who I would DIE FOR

Guys. Guys watch The Old Guard. Or read it! Or do both.

Still waiting for them to come home…

Songs I think should be in JD+ (Left to right):

Disturbia, Starships, Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), Super Bass, On The Floor, Where Have You Been, She Wolf, Timber, Rock Lobster & Pound The Alarm

happy birthday to Taylor's debut

it's been an amazing 17 years with you

You were the first album taylor released and I'm so happy we got you

you're really underrated tho but I love you <33

@taylorswift @taylornation

poor Nick Lightbearer getting too sleepy to stay awake while getting railed by Foggy Jack.

it’s okay, though- Jack doesn’t mind doing all the work ;)

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