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the body remembers

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one of my favorite little moments of tog 2

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some nile, andy, and quynh doodles as kids

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midimmortal-life crisis hair

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pit viper

(inspired by ngô thanh vân's new look)

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hello everyone! It's been a while since I've been active here, I'm going to be moving my tog content to my main blog @bakingmoomins and keeping this as an art blog, if anyone is interested in my tog takes and andromaquynh content you'll probably find it there alongside other dumb things <3

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correct answer: he's both (based on this)

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and as i get older i get more afraid

let me drown - orville peck \\ verse 1 \\ verse 2

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happy el muchacho monday

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baby i can be the one you drown tonight

let me drown - orville peck

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Just…just any thoughts on them being the wlw mlm gang of history 🥺🥺🥺🥺 (after typing this out I realize this sounds like a poor Victorian child in media “please any spare thoughts please 🥺” ajjdkflsa)

Oh so many thoughts, friend ;_; (disclaimer: I know we hardly have any canon content of the four of them together and I'm running on 374567 headcanons in a trench coat but I'm trying to stay on the canon track and also. i just love them a lot.)

I've said it before but the fact that they are the oldest couples in the world, and they're all gay..??? It's something about the level of closeness and understanding that they all must have had with each other, it just does things to me. It's no secret that the old guard is a queer story (both in the obvious sense as in there are queer characters, but also in the sense that it queers conventional big-action hero stories). It doesn't shy away from showing us just how isolating immortal life must be. Now, imagining that throughout hundreds to thousands of years... with four queer characters? Two of whom are racialized? We've got different levels of social isolation and oppression.

It's hard to even imagine the impact they collectively had on "social outcasts," so to speak, or people who were othered. And the fact that they were two couples adds another layer of love and trust and commitment to all their work.

It's no secret that queer people have been deliberately erased from history for centuries (and are still erased in media--looking at you, Disney), but the existence of Andy/Quynh and Joe/Nicky (as fictional characters and also as characters within the fiction) just prove all that shit wrong by being old af and explicitly gay.

In a crack-ier vein, I really do think that being queer would have potentially made their bond even stronger. It's like being in their own little in-group all the time (and we're delving into headcanon territory), travelling wherever and whenever but always as a unit, likely apart from most of the people they interacted with. I mean, I imagine spending centuries with the same handful of people would warrant a super tight bond and probably extinguish all modesty, but even moreso if all parties in the group are gay. (I may be thinking about the four of them doing all sorts of taboo shit, like sharing a bedchamber, a bath, helping each other get dressed, cussing in front of the "ladies," or more likely Andy and Quynh swearing like sailors, sparring together, sharing clothes, etc)

Anyway I've gone on a tangent <33 I will stop there!

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mando quynh!!! 

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mando nile :) 

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mando andy hehe :^)

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baby i can be the one you drown tonight

let me drown - orville peck \\ verse 1 \\ verse 2

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ive been thinking of turning this into my artblog and moving the main tog content to my main blog but idk

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Quynh