#nickie words

[nickiemoot]

randomly i am thinking of a game me + friends played a few times as teens, which i don't know if we ever had a name for. it goes like this: two people sit across from each other on the ground, about 10-15ft apart. a third person starts at one end and, without standing, must get to the person on the other side. the person who is on the side they start on is trying to prevent them from doing this.

things i have seen during this game:

a much larger person simply grabbing the runner and sitting them in their lap, which they are too small to do anything about

someone desperately army crawling to victory while someone desperately clings to their back

someone sprint-crawling unnaturally fast like a gremlin as soon as the blocker person gets dislodged or loses grip

pants coming off because the blocker person had a good grip on the runner's pants but not the runner themself

wrestling matches steering the runner away from the goal, and they somehow go surprisingly far in the wrong direction

allowing two people to team up on the biggest guy in the group when he was the runner, which sometimes didn't even work because he was actually a literal tank

[legendofnickie]

it's really funny to me that

gerudo consistently reject link in both botw and totk. they're just not interested in him.

zora are into link, in more than one game. two different zora princesses have literally proposed to him.

something about link is unattractive to gerudo beauty standards and really attractive to zora beauty standards. i think gerudo women aren't into twinks, because they often comment on how short or skinny link is. so now the question is... what does link have that fish people are so into lmfao???

[thensson]

Thinking of you, even now

Darling, I Left the House, by Joseph Brodsky || Nickie Zimov || Faces in the Crowd, Valeria Luiselli || Garden of Words, Makoto Shinkai || Love, Alex Dimitrov || This is Not a Love Poem, Caitlyn Siehl

[walison-abigobaldo-iii]

I need Aubrey Plaza to acknowledge the fact that she's Kathryn Hahns Baby Daddy

I also need Kathryn Hahn to post a photo of her and Aubrey, the kid who does Nicky could be in it too, on Instagram with the caption saying "Agatha and her baby daddy" or something equally unhinged

[100hearteyes]

I can't get this canon divergent headcanon off my mind: Nicky isn't marked for death at birth.

Instead, when he's born, Rio is right next to Agatha. Not because she has to take him away, but because she wants to be there.

Hours later, Agatha and Rio sit together under a tree, shoulders pressing and foreheads almost touching. They are mostly silent. When they speak, it's all hushed tones and lazy smiles.

Nicky is on Agatha's lap. The exhaustion of pregnancy and labour sits deep in her bones, elated and heavy and hungry, and she knows she will need to feed later. For now, though, she just wants to watch Rio play with their baby's tiny fingers and tickle his tiny feet, Death and new life so entranced with each other.

Agatha is at her most vulnerable, at her most open, her most comfortable and carefree and free. Her voice doesn't even carry that edge, the lilt and inflection that carries so many lies and masks so many truths. Here, with her two loves, Agatha Harkness is all awed whispers and tender smiles.

"We made this," Agatha breathes out, still in wondrous disbelief. She catches Rio's eyes, brimming with tears just like her own, and smiles, before planting a gentle kiss on the baby's forehead. "You and I, my love. We made him from scratch."

And Rio, gentle and loving like she only ever is with Agatha, can't hold in a soft smile as she takes in the flower of their love, so much like the ones she gives Agatha every time they meet — but this one has little toes and chubby fists and big brown eyes just like her own and he lives and he breathes and he smiles.

She wonders how she can be a mother to this creature, this miracle boy, when her job, who she is, already keeps her away from Agatha too much. How will this child grow up healthy and kind when one of her mothers kills witches to live and the other lives to collect their souls? It clutches her black heart, claws digging into it and squeezing and squeezing and squeezing.

Until she looks up and finds Agatha already staring at her, and the claws loosen their grip with a sigh and a smile. Today, she can stop thinking. She can just feel the joy of her miracle.

Rio kisses one of baby Nicky's cheeks twice, "One for me and one for your mama."

Tomorrow, when Agatha has sated her hunger and Rio needs to leave, she will kiss her son's rosy cheek twice more.

Today, however, Rio looks at this boy and she can't even make sense of the immensity of the love she feels for him. And she thought that her black heart would not have space for more, what will how full it already was with her love for Agatha — but maybe it has doubled in size, because what she feels for Nicky is just as big and it somehow still fits.

Even as the terror of absence threatens to crawl its way back into her heart, Rio takes comfort in knowing that many days after tomorrow, she will return to her family and she will twice kiss her son's cheek again, "One for hello and one for the next goodbye."

The weight of Agatha's head on her shoulder pulls her back to the present. Rio takes the baby from her love's arms and holds him close to her heart.

Mother and son sleep peacefully, now. Rio presses her lips to Agatha's head, remembering all the hello's and goodbye's they have collected over the decades, and it makes her feel a little more sure that they can do right by Nicky even through the death and the hunger and the absence. Love perseveres.

[joejhang]

my aftg hot takes

most of these are pretty lukewarm but i'm gonna get flamed for them anyway but whatever. spoilers ??? ahead ??? idk read at ur own risk

i don't think andreil ever say i love you to each other; i feel like the discourse about this is virtually endless ever since nora said it but honestly her explanation was so valid??? they're such a show not tell couple it just makes so much sense for them to show the "i love you" in their actions than ever saying the words out loud. esp bc neither of them have ever really heard those words and have them mean anything real or true or actually loving. personally i think their little percentages and the "i hate you"'s and kisses and keys mean more to them than an "i love you" ever could. i'm not a purist on this tho i do think i could visualise it happening maybe somewhere along the road i just think nora's explanation for this is very very in line with canon andreil.

i don't hate thea muldani; i've made a post abt this but basically my thoughts around her are literally just: she's a human being, and she's never gonna be perfect. i also find it very...interesting how the fandom likes to flame thea (an explicitly stated woman of colour) for being "problematic" and a "terrible person/character" when she doesn't act all that different from andrew, neil and kevin (white men) ??? idk it seems a little strange to me bc she seems pretty on par with them on whatever moral compass this batshit crazy fandom has decided to impose on these fictional and very much morally ambiguous characters. anyway go check out my post i go a lot deeper into thea's character and why she does a lot of things wrong but i don't rlly think she's deserving of the insane amounts of hate she gets in the fandom.

i don't think andreil ever get married; this MIGHT be me projecting bc the idea of marriage is just a very complicated and rough concept in my mind but also just i feel like there's something so beautiful about andreil never really putting a label on their relationship??? like they never define it by calling the other their "boyfriend" or "husband" they just are. they have nothing "concrete" binding them like a marriage certificate but they choose to stay with each other through everything. idk it's real to me but again i'm not a purist people can do whatever they want.

i've said it before but i'll keep saying it till enough people hear me: the aftg fandom mischaracterises literally the main fucking characters; i'm mostly talking about andrew and ESPECIALLY neil here bc neil is not a sweet, sunshiney, oblivious, blushy softboy and andrew is not a cold, unemotional, stoic, "conceal don't feel" stone. since i've already bitched on and on about neil's mischaracterisation let's just talk about andrew for a sec. i think andrew is actually a deeply emotional person and is fully aware of the feelings he experiences. does he vocalise or express them often? no but more often than not they show themselves anyway. him crashing out after neil was kidnapped, letting himself get walked like a dog by neil for three books straight, choking allison for slapping aaron, idk i could go on. but yeah you get it.

i don't actually think neil is that oblivious; before people come at me like "but nora said!" or whatever yeah, i know she said he's as dense as a brick when it comes to people flirting with him. considering how much of the ec the aftg fandom likes to disregard allow me to disregard this little bit of it, yeah? this isn't me tryna impose my own projections onto nora's characters, this is lit just me tryna explain how i understand neil josten (he's my bsf btw). he literally clocks his feelings for andrew in trk (after his deep convo™ with nicky) but he just files it away for later bc he doesn't consider attraction or romantic interest anything to be thinking about considering he's got the mafia and his serial killer dad on his tail. i also don't really blame him for not catching onto andrew's feelings earlier (tho doesn't he get pretty fucking close during that one convo they have in exites in trk???? someone correct me if i'm wrong but) bc dude andrew was out here sending fucking mixed ass signals like bro was saying "you are a pipe dream" and "i hate you" in the same fucking conversations like??? neil has always taken andrew at face value and he's not about to question him now. he's also never confused or uncertain about nicky or marissa and what their comments about him meant, he just genuinely does not gaf about them so he doesn't acknowledge them or pay them any attention in his narration. i truly truly think his dismissal of all the advances made upon him in aftg were borne out of indifference, not obliviousness.

have already said this in detail but i don't think andrew's actually a misogynist; the wording doesn't feel right. i'd probably describe andrew's distrust of women (esp. those in motherly/mother roles) as a similar ingrained wariness that neil has for older men. this is something borne out of trauma and shitty experiences that takes time and trust to unlearn. nora says a lot of things the fandom disregards and for me, this is one of those things i'm a little iffy about. misogyny actually isn't reflected in andrew's actions at all, i'd say. does he respect women? no. but he doesn't respect anyone unless they've actually earned it. and among the people he does respect and care for there are women (renee, bee). he doesn't treat women any differently and obv doesn't think they're any weaker than men are (considering renee wipes the floor w him their first sparring sesh). andrew's an equal opportunity hater and i don't think he actually has any sexist or even misogynistic tendencies. i think what is there is just a slightly biased worldview of disliking/mistrusting mother figures, given his bad experiences w tilda and cass (they've left him w more long-term emotional damage that's probably rlly difficult and complicated for him to work through esp considering cass did love??? him and he did want her enough to be willing to suffer dr*ke to be close to her; there's more to it but for the sake of word count i won't go into it) but honestly it doesn't actually show that much??? if people wanna say he hates women, sure, but for one, he doesn't hate a lot of things he's just very indifferent to them and two, he holds a pretty similar apathetic distaste for most people and things, so it's not like a very big distinction. i also think the whole "no girls" thing w aaron was very much a personal thing, and his mistrust of katelyn probably came from aaron's past (apparently negative) experiences w other girlfriends and friendships in general. and if i remember correctly the deal wasn't even "no girls" it was just "family only" which is why aaron didn't make friends w the rest of the foxes either. i digress but i don't think saying "andrew isn't a misogynist" is robbing him of any nuance as a character.

i like nicky and honestly feel similarly towards him as i do about thea; he isn't perfect and never will be and i think while the way he acts towards neil and others (see: matt, kevin) is pretty untoward and inappropriate, i also do see where he's coming from, esp after aaron's explanation of it. that it's a defence mechanism coming from someone who's experienced a lot of prejudice and harm because of his sexuality. obv i think everyone can agree his assault on neil was fucked up but i think nora was right in saying that nicky was high and drunk and not rlly in his right mind at the time, and he does apologise and i'm pretty sure she also said he and neil work it out privately anyway. he's a messy character and definitely not perfect queer rep but again, he's pretty realistic, and i think he's honestly a rlly well-written and complex character.

[neil-minyard-josten]

RIP Andrew Minyard, you would have hated Sabrina Carpenter's new song

[ciricegh0st]

show armand has the rage that only a girl at 16 can feel, but the vampire lestat's armand has the biblical fury of a 1950s housewife on the strongest dose of vallium

[nickiemoot]

BIRFDAY 🎉

[legendofnickie]

gonna post an opinion but not gonna tag it because fuck that im too old for fandom wank. but i love ranting

lady yona is not there for "forced hetero relationship because of sidlink shippers". what are you all talking about. her existence has nothing to do with the sidlink ship. why are we assuming the games writers thought about noncanon fan ships literally at all? i say this as a huge shipper that adores sidlink btw. you guys need to step back and look at things from perspectives other than the deeply entrenched in fandom pov.

lady yona is there because it was planned for sidon to inherit the crown, and he needed a queen. obviously they had to give him a fiance before he became king. thats how royalty works. like there is no reason to assume malicious intent when there is a very simple explanation like this.

and i have no issue with her being from another domain. that's not unusual for the series. previous games have had different clans of zora before. i remember when there was a distinct split between freshwater and saltwater zora even within hyrule. and obviously a world exists outside hyrule, its just one kingdom. and important one, but still.

tldr: please calm down and actually think. yona's existence is not a threat to you.

[aigoos]

The Starry Tatooine Night Art

I have died and gone to heaven.

Seriously, when I commissioned @nickytess a couple of months ago, I knew she was talented, but holy !@#$%!@#$% shite, this artwork went beyond my expectations. When I presented my idea to Nicky, I did emphasise that this would be a background heavy request. And when I presented my entire idea, I was stoked that Van Gogh is one of her favourite artists! What a happy coincidence!

I had envisioned this scene of Anakin pointing out Tatooine's three moons to Obi-Wan during their visit to Shmi and the Lars family. The AU of them being a happy couple visiting Anakin's childhood home with "The Starry Night" scheme wouldn't leave me alone, so that was when I reached out to Nicky . . .

And she delivered beautifully. This is such a breathtaking art. I'm so blown away by this piece. I'd planned on making a photo tile of this finished work, and I will definitely move forward with that idea.

Thank you so much, Nicky, for working with me to bring this amazing art to life. No words can fully express my awe and gratitude with this gorgeous piece.

[perfectquote]

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Nicky Gumbel

[andrewminyardslawyer]

I will never get over Neil telling Andrew he wanted to see him lose control because 1. It's hot as hell and 2. Everyone else thinks Andrew is already out of control and Neil is the only one who knows how much he holds back everyday. How hard he works to try not to feel anything at all and all Neil wants is for Andrew to let it all out

[foxesscramble]

a series of instagram posts from one: jean moreau

[friendlygirlswag]

rip gale dekarios you would’ve loved abba

[moonlightperseus]

we died together, intertwined, literally bleeding into each other, we came back together, in the same drawn breath. we were connected before but now we are as one entity separated by different bodies, our pain, anger, fear and joy shared between us. you cannot separate us, not even with death, we will always come back to each other. we will never leave each other. our very souls intertwined.