CoelacanthKing
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A hankering for home, and the closest approximation on this side of the Mississippi.
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Through lavender and a stolen hat, ghosts, tobacco smoke and the bulk of a black hoodie, Jesse McCree learns how to keep himself grounded. And, ironically, how to let it all go.
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Jack Morrison returns to Indiana one sweltering summer, and the memories that follow him are more tangible than he realizes.
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With shortness of breath, you explained the infinite; how rare and beautiful it is to even exist.
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The canopy was their sky, cloaking them as they walked the paths they had worn down themselves. Through crags in the rocks, following the creek uphill, searching for the lantern that hung from the bough of the old birch tree that grew near the fort.
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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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02 Aug 2025
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They follow the rocky beach around past Liscannor, taking their sandals off to ford the Inagh where its waters are shallow and warmed by the late morning sun. Past this point, the beach is broad and sandy and so Joe and Nicky amble along it together, shoes still in hand. Joe never thought that one day he'd be glad of sunglasses in Ireland, but so it goes.
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30 Jul 2025
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During a sunny sabbatical, months before Luther would post his theses which would ignite the later entitled Protestant Reformation, Nicolò had by chance acquired an unlikely but unfaltering companion in the form of a choleric winged beast. The fact that he made the acquaintance of the pope at that time was a lesser and entirely incidental affair.
It went like this.Bookmarked by CoelacanthKing
08 Jul 2025
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“What you say compels me… The two of us together in such an event. What makes you you, in me… what makes me me, in you. The car crash is the event. The car, the material used to reconstruct our bodies and selves, until we are one.”
Nicky took his eyes off the road to see the heat in Yusuf’s.
“One flesh.”
“One mind.” Nicky nodded. “Yeah.”
Then they both went quiet, Yusuf’s shimmering eyes only on Nicky, hungry and dangerous.
They said, Give it a try.Bookmarked by CoelacanthKing
08 Jul 2025
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They do not attend the funeral. It would be a stupid way to get discovered, Nicolò is very aware of that, but that doesn’t mean he does not feel the pinch of regret on the morning of, and then the next day when pictures of the crowd are plastered over every newspaper. Aerial shots, the blue-white-red of the flags a stark contrast against a sea of military green. They are back on the Old Continent by then, but Joe buys the New York Times from a little press kiosk in Berlin, Cuba Buries Che, the Man, but Keeps the Myth Alive in bold black letters on the front page.
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26 Jun 2025