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Cabinet of Nonperishable Curiosities by KushielsMercy
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
06 Oct 2022
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Joe hates peaches, he’s pretty sure. They’re slimy, made worse by their fuzzy skin, and they make your fingers sticky no matter how much you try to lick them clean - not even in a fun way. The last time he ate a peach was in…the 1770s? Probably. When Nicky went through that phase where Joe couldn’t sneeze without Nicky putting a peach in front of him, because -
Because Joe loved peaches.
Or, what it really means to be half of a whole.
Bookmarked by Syysmyrsky (Arktikko)
06 Oct 2022
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i'll choose tenderness (and you) by yusufsmoon for Syysmyrsky (Arktikko)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
12 Dec 2021
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Nicolò didn’t know it could be like this: beautiful even as it aches, and tender even as it shatters him.
With all of the lovers he’s ever taken before, Nicolò’s never wanted softness— never wanted to give it, nor did he want to take it. He simply wanted to pull pleasure from his own body in the most efficient way for both of them. He knows that if he had ever tried for anything more, he would’ve given them a peek at the overwhelming flood of longing threatening to burst out from behind his ribs.
Nicolò could never love moderately, and so he had never tried to.
Oh, with Yusuf, though, Nicolò can’t stand the idea of giving him anything but softness. Wants to cleave himself open to show Yusuf the vulnerable, splintered parts of his heart, and ask for Yusuf to treat him just as gently.
Or: First kisses, and kisses that happen much, much later.
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Time unravels through their letters.
Bookmarked by Syysmyrsky (Arktikko)
12 Sep 2021
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Yusuf's father taught his children how to catch crabs on the beach, but that was a long, long time ago.
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- English
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Bookmarked by Syysmyrsky (Arktikko)
14 Jul 2021
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whatever here that's left of me by paigian
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
13 Jul 2021
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"Nicky is making himself a coffee, bleary-eyed from a fitful sleep, and trying to recall if Joe is drinking it this decade, and if he is then does he take it with sugar?, and he’s also thinking about The Odyssey, which is sitting in amongst a pile of books in the next room.
He’s thinking about a question written in the margins, scrawled in Booker’s handwriting: how long does it take for a man to return from war? Does he ever return, can he ever return, what does it mean to return home, when home is not home and he is no longer the same man?"
After Merrick, Nicky's right shoulder starts hurting, and it doesn't stop.
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Bookmarked by Syysmyrsky (Arktikko)
13 Jul 2021
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kneeled in shaking thrill by paigian for Syysmyrsky (Arktikko)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
27 Apr 2021
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He takes Yusuf’s chin between his thumb and forefinger and lifts it up so their eyes meet. It speaks to the trust that they’ve gathered like frayed thread over the last month that Yusuf doesn’t try to slit his throat for it. He does tense, but it’s anticipation trembling in the hard lines of his body, not fear.
The thumb of Nicolo’s other hand swipes the side of Yusuf’s mouth, where his beard gives way to bare skin. He brings it away, and dripping down the pad of his thumb is a fig seed, glistening in the orange firelight.
“Oh,” Yusuf exhales, cheeks warm.
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Yusuf and Nicolo, language barriers, and being bound together. A slightly post-crusades era fic with pining and resolved sexual tension.
Bookmarked by Syysmyrsky (Arktikko)
29 Apr 2021
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i’ll forget you by next year, some year by mellyflori
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
30 Mar 2021
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When Nicky was twenty-two, he was in love. With the world, yes, and with his own life, with the way having an Interrail Pass and some money in his pocket made him feel that anything was possible. But most of all, with Joe. With him, love was effortless. They laughed easily, they traveled together well, and they fucked like gods.
Nile never knew that version of him, the Nicky so in love that he stole Joe's t-shirt and stuffed it in his backpack, thinking he could wear it to bed and imagine Joe was still holding him. By the time he met her, Nicky had not only stopped sleeping in that shirt, he'd long-since shoved it in the back of his bottom drawer behind a spare blanket. After that, he could almost pretend it never existed.
Bookmarked by Syysmyrsky (Arktikko)
30 Mar 2021
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Men will always find new ways to wage war by beans_on_toast
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
04 Oct 2020
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Yusuf struggles to string his thoughts together in an orderly fashion. Every time he manages to capture one in his fingers, a sudden movement by Quỳnh scatters it to the four winds. She presses upon his side and he moans out a string of Arabic that is, undoubtedly, gibberish. Quỳnh responds in her mother tongue. Yusuf blinks slowly at her. He has begun to consider himself at least conversational, but in this state he’s not certain he can pin down the words.
(Or the gang comes across a new invention - the fire lance)
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- Part 3 of Whumptober 2020
Bookmarked by Syysmyrsky (Arktikko)
26 Jan 2021
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The team's first mission post-film goes pretty well, but no one's really as happy about it as they'd like to be. Nicky and Joe take advantage of their hotel room's luxurious shower to check in with each other and think about where they've been and where they're going.
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Bookmarked by Arktikko
22 Jan 2021
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The Ninth Child by blackice for ParamedicMegan
Fandoms: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
15 Aug 2017
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Chirrut Îmwe, accosted by disapproving parents and an existential despair at home, enters the Temple.
A Disney-style spiritassassin AU.
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Bookmarked by Arktikko
04 Aug 2019
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Chirrut’s hands are in his hair, long, clever fingers separating the strands, combing the waves to glossy perfection, massaging idly at his scalp, and the press of them is something to fall into, to lose himself in as surely as they drift into the Force together.
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- Part 7 of Love Made Manifest
Bookmarked by Arktikko
29 Apr 2019
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“Today was perfect,” Chirrut says with a slightly dreamy sigh as he flops back onto his narrow, simple bed in the narrow, simple room they share. He threads his hands behind his head and closes his eyes and hums.
Bookmarked by Arktikko
01 Mar 2019
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The rumor goes out from one end of the universe to the other: the Whills has created a monster.
It begins with clay.
Bookmarked by Arktikko
04 Nov 2018
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drunk as drunk on turpentine, from your open kisses by rockcandyshrike
Fandoms: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
04 Jun 2018
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An idea slowly percolates in Baze’s head.
“We should hand off some of the toiletries to the younglings. I’m sure Bodhi will appreciate the mango-scented shampoo. We’ll have to pack carefully for the trip back to base.”
Chirrut swallows his mouthful of mini quiche and frowns perplexedly, “Why would we need to do that?”
Baze thumbs at a smear of cheese on Chirrut’s upper lip and says, “We’ll need to make room for your new formal wear.”
{The spiritual sequel to the fucking in the club fic}
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- Part 2 of The Wardrobe (or I didn't realize my clothing kink was so strong until I wrote several fics of it)
Bookmarked by Arktikko
05 Jun 2018
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They are stretched out beneath a tree in the far part of the temple garden, Chirrut’s outer robe under them and Baze’s over them because even in the summer Jedha is chill and the ground is packed clay that seems to hold the cold close against itself. Chirrut is humming tunelessly, mindlessly, as though he always needs to be doing something, and his hand has managed to slip under the layers that Baze still wears to find his skin, trace words and runes and designs there, each idle caress something that Baze would happily dissolve into. The touches are light: a breath of wind, a beam of light, a feather, the brush of flower petals, a silk scarf, but they make Baze burn and shift slightly anyway, each one reminding him that he is a creature of bone and blood and skin and desire, that Chirrut is the same, that they are drawn together by something he cannot quite explain except in poetry, which displeases him because those words always seem nebulous, never concrete and exact enough.
Bookmarked by Arktikko
17 Apr 2018
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Theia Mania by Raehimura
Fandoms: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars - All Media Types
06 Mar 2018
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When Baze returned, he knew he would never leave Chirrut's side again. Maybe he should have made that clear to Chirrut. When Baze is delayed on a mission, Chirrut fears he has left again. For good.
Baze arrives home to an angry guardian shoving him against the door and, when words aren't enough, he comforts Chirrut’s fear in a different way.
“I swear on the Force that I will never voluntarily leave your side again.”
Chirrut blinked uselessly for a moment. Then, with a smirk that wasn't entirely friendly: “You don’t believe in the Force.”
“Then I swear on my life, and yours, and all of Jedha.”
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- Part 2 of Kairos
Bookmarked by Arktikko
06 Mar 2018
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Where other people have a name printed in black calligraphy, Baze Malbus has a wrist full of scars and a heart too big to hold them, desperate to find his place in a world that wasn't built for him. He isn't sure if he believes in soulmates. Until he meets Chirrut Imwe, he isn't sure if he believes in anything at all.
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Bookmarked by Arktikko
10 Sep 2017
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Magikfanfic SpiritAssassin Drabbles by magikfanfic
Fandoms: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
11 Mar 2018
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This is what the tags indicate it is: just a place for me to put the SpiritAssassin drabbles I post to Tumblr so anyone here who is not following me there can access them.
Bookmarked by Arktikko
24 Aug 2017
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They are sixteen. Chirrut is walking on the top of the low wall that separates the gardens from the training yard while Baze trails along on the ground beside him, shorter than him for once because he doesn’t like heights. Chirrut allows him to hold his hand. They both pretend it is because he needs help steadying his steps, making sure he doesn’t lose his balance despite the fact that Chirrut’s balance is debatably the best in the temple. They do not admit that it is because they would rather touch each other than anyone or anything else on Jedha, potentially anything else in the entire universe.
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- English
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Bookmarked by Arktikko
16 Aug 2017
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Thirteen Precepts by straight_up_gay
Fandoms: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
29 Jul 2017
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In another universe, Chirrut Imwe and Baze Malbus are taken to the Jedi Temple as children.
(or, what does it mean to be a good Jedi?)
Bookmarked by Arktikko
30 Jul 2017