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Nile meets fellow single-parent Sebastien at a Kindergarten welcome event. A couple weeks later, he walks into her seminar for first year graduate students.
There are all of the reasons they shouldn’t fall for each other. More reasons that Nile can ever know.
And yet.
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Nile has RSVPed for their 10th high school reunion and everyone in town, including Booker, knows it.
A story of romance, family, and success, set in the modern American West.
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Booker "plays" with Nile.
A relationship in three short vignettes.
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In bed with Quynh, Andy can finally, fully relax.
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When Booker was seven, Sundays meant playing pretend with Nile in the synagogue basement while their moms worked. Twenty years later, Booker receives a letter from a country he’s never heard of claiming that the ketubah he wrote in magic marker that one time he played pretend wedding with Nile requires his presence forthwith, so he can begin courting the heir to the throne. Booker insists it’s all an elaborate prank right up until his arrival on the lush Caribbean Isle of Nok. Instead of mischief afoot, it is an ancient fey magic, and Booker now faces the very real possibility of being married to a gorgeous soon-to-be queen.
Regardless of what anybody else thinks, Nile and Booker must figure out how to reconnect and decide if they think they have a future together on Nok.
Or, rom-com fantasy tropes crash landed into an exploration of intergenerational trauma, oppression, and liberation.
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Joe and Nicky contend with what the AIDS crisis in New York City in the 1980s means for their role in New York's gay community and their own sex life.
A story about science, immortality, compassion, community, and principle.
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Against all odds, a Black girl from the South Side of Chicago and a French stable hand's kid become the horse world's most famous and successful power couple.
A story of six Olympic games.
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“Do you ever know that what you’re about to do is really stupid, but do it anyway?” Nile asks.
Booker does.
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The Very Thing of Woman by Marivan for OldMagpie (MagpieMorality)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
15 Feb 2022
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The year is 1170. Andromache and Quynh are in Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine's service.
In a court obsessed with love, Quynh gives some advice on the topic and then makes some love of her own.
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Your One Wild and Precious Life by Marivan for Yuliares
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 Jan 2022
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In a world where magical folk hide in plain sight, Nile Freeman – shepherd, homesteader, witch – gets invited by her neighbor Nicky to join his family’s late summer canning.
It is the beginning of a year in which she will take care of her sheep, make friends with other real-life witches, and learn more about the world than she ever imagined. It is the beginning of a year which will be the beginning of the rest of her life.
Aka a homey, found-family, magical-historical AU.
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In Nile's absolutely very biased opinion, Booker’s "homework" has been one of the major perks of his time in culinary school.
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Nile discovers an odd wooden book on the shelves of their safehouse in Lucknow.
She learns it was a gift from Nicky's old friend Mahatma (surname: Gandhi. Yes, that Gandhi) during the Indian Independence Movement.
Or, Nile comes to understand her place in the world through learning something older than even Andromache the Scythian.
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The day begins like a normal Tuesday.
Then, the ground shakes. Buildings collapse. Fire and smoke fill the sky.
All Nile’s left with is a little boy who’s missing his Papa and her iron-clad will to survive.
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In the aftermath of Alexander the Great's campaign in Judea, they were meant to find each other.
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At the safe house in Goussainville, he could barely disguise his interest. There was Andy and Quỳnh, after all, and Joe and Nicky. Was she supposed to be his, just 200 years late?
Then, it all went to hell. Nile hurled herself from a window. Booker offered her his hand. She accepted. Everything changed. Nobody realized.
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Booker and Nile are generally smart and usually rational immortal beings. They make decisions all the time. So why do Nile's visits always seem to bring warmth and sunshine to Paris? And why does this thing between them feel like destiny?
Or, a Hades and Persephone fusion in which Booker and Nile find family, find each other, and find their fate.
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Transfigured So Together by Marivan for marbletopempire
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
27 Jul 2021
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Nicky is selkie, neither fully human, nor fully seal. He has never felt fully comfortable in either skin.
With his accidental bond-mate, Joe, struggling to accept that selkies are real, Nicky returns to his childhood home on Orkney, hoping to reconcile these two parts of himself.
He discovers instead that the in between -- between human and seal, between knowledge and faith -- actually suits him (and Joe) just fine.
A Sequel to This Rough Magic.
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- Part 2 of What We Are, What We May Be
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Booker punched Ernest Hemingway. What? He deserved it.
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- Part 5 of Nobody Left Behind
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Life -- and death -- in the Red River Delta for a woman and her son.
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- Part 4 of Nobody Left Behind
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Andy and Quynh meet the new one. It does not go smoothly.
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- Part 3 of Nobody Left Behind
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Nicky does a mitzvah, in 1860.
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- Part 2 of Nobody Left Behind