The Old Guard Resources
Useful nonfiction work that might be helpful to people making fanworks for the 2020 Netflix film The Old Guard
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Recent works
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The Old Guard Rarepair Guidebook: A quintet of Shipping Manifestos by LightDescending
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
04 Dec 2020
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In the months since the release of the Old Guard, a number of primary pairings have emerged as the most popular in fanworks, as evidenced through content produced and posted to AO3, Tumblr, and other locations. Major ships include the juggernaut of Joe/Nicky (Immortal Husbands, Kaysanova), as well as the Andy/Quynh (Andromaquynh, Immortal Wives) and Booker/Nile (Book of Nile) ships. However, these are far from the only pairings that can be explored for this particular piece of media.
Rarer, though not wholly absent pairings, include Andy/Nile, Andy/Celeste, and Booker/Copley. Canonical interactions, subtext present in the film, and fannish interpretations of these characters amount to an under-explored rich substrate of fannish material from which new works could be derived. Each of these alternative pairings, in short, have the potential to be Very Good Ships. In these shipping manifestos, I will…
(Or; by golly I actually wrote this thing)
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Keane in The Old Guard as a homophobic villain with plausible deniability by ViridianPanther
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
05 Sep 2020
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An analysis of Keane (Merrick's head of security) in The Old Guard movie, and his vendetta with Joe and Nicky.
TL;DR: Keane’s behaviour is used to code him as a homophobic bully, using violence to subjugate and dominate a happy queer couple. Edited 28 Sept 2020, please read the notes
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A historical overview of the term Saracen and its implications: a primer for the TOG fandom by stonecarved (figure8)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
31 Aug 2020
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What it says on the tin! This is a surface-level introduction to Medieval Western European/Muslim relations, to give Joe/Nicky fic writers some historical context for period pieces.
Content warnings: outdated terminology, mentions of fascism/imperialism/colonial violence, and references to historical religious persecution/religious conflict.
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- Part 1 of TOG Meta
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Expanded Transcript. Dialogue provided by Netflix. Description -- all the actions and reactions -- provided by StarWatcher. A gift to Fandom -- I hope you'll find it a useful resource.
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Fandom stats: descriptive statistics of "The Old Guard" works on AO3 by Garonne
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), Fandom - Fandom
20 Aug 2020
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2020/08/20 : Updated to add two new chapters with reader interaction stats (hits, kudos) and languages used in work titles.