#crugayders

[kyueishin]

fagtom blood

bisexual tendency

stardust crugayders

diamond is unbreakable

gender wind

stone butch

steel dick&balls run

jojolgbt

pronounlands

[perforaretur]

THIS IS A REAL FUCKING COFFEE AU AND THE GUY IS A SIDE CHARACTER

imagine your otp

#drarry #wolfstar #destiel #patrochilles #ineffable husbands #sarawatine #gumlee #sabriel #peraltiago #nabrina #bubbline #starco #kataang #zukka #mailee #crugayders #midam #saileen #klave #vanya and sissy #perciver #apollocinthus #spideypool #huh 40k

[cryptidcaptain]

let !! them !! rest !!!!

#joe x nicky #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #the old guard #crugayders #my art #oh i actually like this one !!! #joe esp #his hand was fun to paint ! #this took uhhhh 3 hours ?? so im getting quicker !! #this is. my most popular post of all time #<333333

[starlightervarda]

Some fun facts for The Old Guard/Kaysanova

1. The Arabic word for tangerine is Yousefi | يوسفي .

According to my nana, it was named after the man called Youssef Afandi who who imported it from Italy during the reign of Muhammed Ali Pasha in Egypt. Make with that what you will.

2. Joe is not an uncommon nickname for men called Yusuf/Youssef, especially those who live abroad and/or come from bilingual families. I’ve known at least five Youssef/Yusufs - including my cousin - who answer to Joe. So, it’s not unusual or disrespectful to call him that in fics/discussion.

3. The Arabic version of Nicolo is Nicola | نقولا‎ .

4. Joe being from either Tunisia or Egypt makes him a North African. There has been a movement to make a distinction and reclaim ethnic identity, giving rise to the acronym MENA (Middle Eastern North African) as opposed to inaccurately calling everyone Arabs.

You can count North Africans as part of the ‘Arab World’ in the sense that they speak a dialect of Arabic. If he is Tunisian in your story then he is specifically a Maghrebi/Maghrebien. He’ll be more inclined to that identity because during the Crusades all of Northwest Africa was simply called the Maghreb.

PS. Maghreb means ‘the sunset, coming from the word gharb meaning ‘west’ i.e. the sun setting in the west.

5. In the time period in which they met, Nicky won’t think of him as ‘an Arab’ of any kind, but as a Moor. Joe will think of him as a Frank/Afranji.

6. If you are writing a Modern AU then a Maghrebi Joe will be fluent in French, if he’s Egyptian chances are he also had to learn French.

7. Medieval Muslims frequently drank wine (let’s be honest a lot of modern ones do as well, but to avoid public scrutiny it’s either done abroad or in private or you have to be wealthy to get away with it), there is a library’s worth of poetry of them referencing how much they love it. So, it’s not unusual to depict him drinking like he was in the movie.

8. Joe being North African and Nicky being Italian makes them both Mediterranean, they could have an interesting amount of culture and history in common.

9. If you want to explain how they understood each other when they first met, the lingua franca in the Mediterranean was Greek. There’s also a high chance that they both knew Latin.

10. In religious discussions between them, remember that Muslims also revere Jesus and Mary. Jesus, or al-Messih (the Messiah), is an important figure in Islam and is considered a prophet born of a virgin - just not the son of God.

According to my teachers, he wasn’t crucified or resurrected, but ‘raised bodily into heaven’. In the End of Days he’s set to have a Second Coming to fight al-messih el-dajjal / the false Messiah akin to the Antichrist in Christianity.

11. If you’re going to talk about how Christianity feels about gay men for conflict, include Joe’s side. That is, unless you’re starting with Joe as an atheist and Nicky as a devout priest.

The story of qoum-Lut / the people of Lot - as in Sodom and Gomorrah - is not taken lightly in Islam. The term Luti (of Lot) is shorthand for ‘homosexual’ and it’s an insult. People who are struggling with their sexuality are told that ‘the devil is whispering in your ear’ and there are hadiths that say ‘if you find someone doing what Lot and his people did then kill them both’. Others say that you can have feelings, but you should remain celibate, and having sex would be zina (sexual sin) worth getting stoned.

Being gay can get you ostracized, committed, jailed or killed or all of the above in most Muslim majority countries. So, if you’re going to showcase this, please take it seriously. This is something I and a lot of friends had to grapple with, and most of us have left Islam with irreparable damage/trauma, so it’d be interesting to see our experience represented with Joe, since it’s often either ignored, or just about Nicky’s Catholic guilt.

12. To follow-up on my previous point, in the Middle Ages, people usually turned blind eyes to homoerotic poetry or homosexual activity, it was seen as avoiding ruining a woman’s honor/siring bastards and that they’d stop once they got married. Kind of like how it was in Ancient Greece, something you did in your youth and ‘grew out of’. They played fast and loose for a few centuries until governments started cracking down on people not abiding by religious law around the 19th Century.

However, that was assuming you had the safety-net of a rich family, a position in the court of someone important or powerful, or your own power. If you were a commoner and you got caught, you faced the consequences.

There is a fair-bit of homoerotic poetry, namely by Abu Nawas, you could reference. His stuff got censored and burned by the thousands for that...

Also, the Hanafi school of Islam says that, like wine and other haram things, they are permitted in death/in paradise. So you could argue that since Joe already died, he’s exempt from abiding by any religious law.

13. Last, it’d be interesting to see a fic use courtly love and how it evolved from around the First Crusade and traveled up into Europe, becoming a staple in medieval literature and how it originated from Andalusian Spain and Arabic poetry. It could tie into how flowery and incurably romantic Joe is.

#the old guard #tog #joe al kaysani #yusuf al kaysani #yusuf/nicolo #yusuf x nicolo #nicolo di genova #kaysanova #old guard #andromache the scythian #andromache #booker #crugayders #sebastien le livre #nile freeman #joe tog #nicky tog #joe/nicky

[ofqueensandwitches]

My mum just watched The Old Guard for the first time today, and within five minutes of seeing Marwan Kenzari she went, "Damn, what a man."

And then she proceeded to fangirl over him throughout the rest of the movie.

#the van scene #pretty sure she almost swooned #and i was like #same mum #the old guard #marwan kenzari #yusuf al kaysani #crugayders #the immortal husbands #nicolo di genova #luca marinelli #andromache the scythian #charlize theron #sebastian le livre #matthias schoenaerts #nile freeman #kiki layne #quyhn #van veronica ngo

[matuk-art]

🤫

#the old guard #yusuf x nicolo #joe x nicky #nicky x joe #gay warriors #immortal husbands #cuddling goals #luca marinelli #marwan kenzari #art #nicky and joe #joe and nicky #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #crugayders #yuni

[northamlet]

nicolò and yusuf at some point in history

#the old guard #netflix #nicolo di genova #yusuf al kaysani #joe x nicky #luca marinelli #marwan kenzari #charlize theron #andromache the scythian #nile freeman #crugayders #immortal husbands #kaysanova

[lilywoood]

Me: I watch The Old Guard for the plot

The plot :

#netflix the old guard #the old guard #nicky x joe #joe x nicky #nicolo x yusuf #yusuf x nicolo #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #luca marinelli #marwan kenzari #crugayders #immortal husbands #i mean i watch it for the plot #but sometimes my eyes goes beyond the plot #like come on you cant deny it

[immortalwarriors]

The Old Guard + text posts (7/?)

#joes speech in the van is the DEFINITION of lovey dovey bitch #the old guard #andromache the scythian #sebastien le livre #nile freeman #yusuf al kaysani #quynh #nicolo di genova #joe x nicky #nicky x joe #crugayders #quynh x andy #andy x quynh #the old guard netflix #tog #immortal husbands #text post #the old guard text post

[giotanner]

Netflix Italia bio: “Find someone looking at you like Joe looks at Nicky since Crusades times”

#the old guard #joe x nicky #immortal husbands #nicolo di genova #yusuf al kaysani #crugayders

[fangirlshrewt97]

Villain: Now that we’ve captured you, we’re going to call your husband

Nicky: Please don’t

Villain: Beggin will get you nothing!

Nicky: You don’t understand. He’s going to cause a massive scene. I’m trying to save both of us a lot of trouble here

#incorrect the old guard quotes #the old guard #tog quote #incorrect tog quotes #nicolo di genova #nicky x joe #joe x nicky #immortal husbands #crugayders #source: ??? #kaysanova

[stydiaeverafter]

With you by my side, we’re unstoppable.

#joe x nicky #the old guard #immortal husbands #nicky x joe #nicolo x yusuf #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #crugayders

[thiswomanshouldbewriting]

Look, I know we all lost our shit at “Nicolò destati” and for GOOD REASON, but let’s not sleep on Nicky’s reaction. What’s the first thing you say if you wake up and someone is calling you in panic? “I’m awake” and “I’m okay” are probably the most common responses. Instead, Nicolò says “Sono qui/I’m here.”

He says “I’m here” because he knows that’s what Yusuf needs to hear. That he’s still here, that they’re in this together, because for them the greatest horror would be to be separated. And then he adds “Ovunque qui sia/Wherever here is” which, of course, in this case means “I literally have no idea of where we are” BUT can be read on another level. He’s literally saying “I’m here with you, no matter where we are” because that’s exactly what they do, what they’ve been doing for about a thousand years: they’re always there for each other, no matter the time and place. 

I’ll go cry now. 

#Crugayders #Immortal husbands #The old guard #Sono qui #Ovunque qui sia #My thoughts

[cryptidcaptain]

they deserve some champagne after all that !! some NICE champagne on a plane where they arent being held prisoner !!

#joe x nicky #crugayders #the old guard #my art #G OD #THIS #I SPENT UHHH #6+ HOURS STRAIGHT ON THIS PLS REBLOG IT SKJHKJFS #i cant do clothes aaaaaaaa #they dont make sense !!!! #im bad at imagining folds sdkfjhsdf

[coelacanthking]

There’s no denying that they’re absolute devils in a fight and will fuck your shit up from here to Kingdom Come, but I appreciate that the men of the Old Guard embody vulnerability and softness in a way that most stories never do for their own.

Booker is the mind. The gears inside his head are never still, and while this can lead to moments of intense melancholy, he can make out the intricacies of the world that, in a way, allow him to be the most empathetic of them all.

Joe is the heart. He loves hard, he judges hard, he works and he plays hard. The man will never do anything half-assed, and his willingness to stick with it and wear his emotions on his sleeve speaks volumes.

Nicky is the soul. The one who believes in the values of the Guard the most. The work is good, even if it’s difficult, and he’ll put himself in harm's way time and time again to stand alongside each individual as an equal and a friend.

These men will not tolerate your bad vibes and toxic masculinity in any way, shape, or form, and you can get right outta my face if you think otherwise.

#The Old Guard #Booker #Sebastien le Livre #Nicoló di Genova #Yusuf al-Kaysani #NickyxJoe #Crugayders

[perhaps-short-of-a-marble]

people posting joe’s speech in text, video and gifs every 2.5 hours and everyone else reblogging it like they didn’t just reblog another one

#joe x nicky #crugayders #nicolo di genova #yusuf al kaysani #yusuf x nicolo #the old guard #immortal husbands