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    you wait and you wonder who'll take on your odds by

    Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)  

    25 Mar 2021

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    “Don’t think of it as marriage,” Benny tells her. “Think of it as castling.”

    Beth raises an eyebrow. “Am I the king or the rook in this analogy?”

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    25 Sep 2025

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    though you are alone and not quite beyond loneliness-- by

    Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)  

    12 Aug 2020

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    “Joe didn’t lie back in that lab,” Booker tells him gently. “I am selfish. I am a liar. But beyond everything else, Nicky, I’m a coward.”

    “Really,” says Nicky, looking unimpressed.

    [Booker tries to save his family from Quynh. He's rather good at it, if not a little dramatic about the entire process. In the meantime, he learns a little more about himself, his family, and the definitions of bravery, forgiveness and love.]

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    04 Sep 2023

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    the best rendition of this raccoon man and his family trying to help. i love him and this story so much

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    Retrograde by

    Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)  

    15 Dec 2020

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    Nicolò looks sheepish. "I killed you yesterday, and you awoke at the same time, the same place. But when I die, I wake at different times, different places. This bolt," he tosses it to Yusuf and it lands in the dirt by his knee, "it killed me yesterday, but I woke up many years from now. I lived several lifetimes in those places before returning here and pulling it from my neck."

     

     

    Nicky's lives and deaths are different. He is unstuck from time - at every death he revives into a different point in his life. Each time he is struck down he wonders, will he awaken to deserts and swords? Will it be gunshots in cities? Joe and Nicky build a fractured life together, falling in love across two different sets of centuries, then patiently waiting for the other to fall in love too. He meets the rest of their little family out of order, but they still build a family around Nicky's involuntary time-traveling.

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    28 Feb 2023

    Bookmarker's Notes

    i challenge anyone to read this and not cry through the last chapter. go on. you can’t

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    What God Gave You, He Gave To Me by

    Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)  

    29 Apr 2021

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    “Nicolo would never risk the fates of children over his own.”

    “And look where that got him!” Andy roars, her throat burning with a desperate rage that has nothing to do with the pills, and right there, in that precise moment, she watches, devastated, as the words carve ruin into Joe’s grief-stricken face.

    She hears the tiny intake of Booker’s breath, sees the even tinier lift of his shoulders towards his ears.

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    An Old Guard, incomplete, and how they find each other again.

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    08 Feb 2023

    Bookmarker's Notes

    canon, reimagined. the prose in this is lyrical and heart wrenching.

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    nor need we power or splendor by

    Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe  

    12 Apr 2016

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    She hadn’t been sure, at the time, what had finally driven her away from the training center, brought her to book a flight to Waterloo and rent a car for the drive out out to the farm. But when she had packed a bag and headed to the nearest airport, it hadn’t been her apartment in New York or her condo in DC or her London townhouse or any number of hidden bolt-holes she kept around the world that she’d flown to, but a creaking, busy farmhouse in Iowa. (Or: It's been a long journey to get to where they are, and it'll be an even longer journey home.)

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    20 Jan 2023