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Xie Lian felt a bead of sweat drip down his face. It was useless - he hadn’t the first clue what Hua Cheng was so excited about. As far as he could tell, there was nothing special about February 29th.
“San Lang… can I be honest with you?” he eventually asked.
Hua Cheng nodded firmly, then wove their fingers together. “Of course. San Lang wishes for nothing more.”
“...I’m terribly sorry, but I have no idea what we’re celebrating today.”
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Or, Xie Lian and Hua Cheng spend their first Leap Year together. And it's as precious & over-the-top as expected.Bookmarked by dtbird
13 Aug 2025
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I couldn't help but ask for you to say it all again by crookedcrown
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
06 Aug 2020
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The five times Booker and Joe were mistaken for a couple.
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14 Nov 2023
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It's a square gem in an antique gold setting, real antique gold, with the sort of dullness to the metal that tells its age. There's nothing particularly ornate about it. The ruby itself is a simple cut – he’s not a jeweller, doesn’t know what to call it precisely, but it’s square-ish and bevelled at the edges – but it catches the light in such a way that it makes it seem like it has a thousand facets all across the surface of it. The rain creates a stippled effect, and even through two separate panes of glass Hob can see his reflection peering back at himself through the ruby’s deep face. £2500, says a placard set in front of it. Early 1900s RUBY pendant - real!!!
In 1989, drunk and heartsore and stumbling home from the soon-to-be-destroyed White Horse, Hob Gadling -- world's most loyal hound -- comes across a familiar-looking ruby in a pawn shop window.
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09 Sep 2023
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In the Last Year, 1718, the Seas Witnessed the Deaths of Two of the Worst Menaces to Sail. The Pirates Edward Teach, commonly Known as Blackbeard, and Stede Bonnet, also the Gentleman Pirate, once Captained Together before the ultimate Capture of Bonnet in October. By November, the dread Blackbeard was Killed in Battle; not a Month after, the Gentleman Pirate was Hanged for his Crimes at Charles Town. His Majesty the King ends this Curse of Piracy by Sending these Devils back to Hell.
Or not.
or: a retelling of the not-so-real deaths and eventual happy endings of stede bonnet and ed teach.
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03 May 2022
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seeking a friend for the end of the world by andromedaries
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
07 Jan 2022
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Even now that she has her power to see others’ thoughts back again, with Jaskier she hardly needs to. He wears his longing all over his face.
“Well, Geralt, I think Jaskier would like to get back to what he was doing, if you don’t mind. If you’re going to stay and watch, would you at least close the door? You’re letting in a draft.”(in the wreckage after ciri's possession by voleth meir, yennefer goes looking for something comforting. she finds more than she expected.)
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14 Jan 2022
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Joe debates the relative merits of making a fuss and decides ultimately that his best bet is to just make sure it’s a party he himself enjoys and, ideally, Merrick doesn’t.
Finally, when he realizes his lunch break is twenty-five minutes away and he’s wasted enough time thinking about this that he doesn’t want to actually start working on something real in what little remains of his morning, he picks up his work phone and dials the number Merrick dropped on his desk.
On the second ring, a deep, pleasant voice answers, “Hello, this is Nicky speaking?”
“Hi Nicky,” Joe says, twirling the phone cable around his finger. “I’m Joe. I’m supposed to help coordinate the holiday party with you?”
In which Joe is coordinating a holiday party over the phone with a guy named Nicky who keeps praising Joe just a little too much for Joe to be casual about about it. Thankfully, the nice HR guy called Nicolò Joe emails sometimes says it’s okay to date coworkers.
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01 Jan 2022
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They met because Nicky's drink had ended up down Joe's shirt in the jostling around the perimetre of the bar.
Nicky didn't ask him out on an actual date because Joe took him home that night and fucked him on every improbable horizontal surface but the bed until four in the morning.
Nicky asked him out because when he told him he was a data analyst Joe said it was neat with crinkles at the corners of his eyes. Then made him espresso in the correct way.
This was four years ago.
(Inspired by this outstanding piece of fanart.)
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04 Dec 2021
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“We did good, Dean,” Sam says. “We got him back.”
Dean huffs a hollow laugh, because yeah, that’s always what it’s about, isn’t it? Cas or Sam or Dean getting themselves lost or dead, and then taking turns dragging each other back from the brink. He shrugs, shoving his hands into his pockets.
“We got him back, yeah,” he says. Sam nods, watching him. “So now what?”
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21 Nov 2021
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two men walk into a bar by incurableromancer
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
08 Dec 2021
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"Haven't you ever considered that the problem with all of your past relationships was that they were with women?"
And just like that, Nicky's turbulent mind goes entirely, perfectly blank.
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16 Nov 2021
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in ventos vita recessit by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics), The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
23 Aug 2020
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The first time I meet her, she’s lying dead on a battlefield turned to mud and muck from the thunder of two armies crashing together, the sky turning a sickly blood red above us. She’s bleeding out from a wound in her back, delivered by the last person she would have expected, but that’s no matter.
There have been others in history like her, but no one will ever be quite her.
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- Part 1 of death and all her friends
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09 Nov 2021
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Interlude by crookedcrown
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020), Discworld - Terry Pratchett
18 Sep 2020
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Death greets them like old friends.
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09 Nov 2021
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It’s September 18, 2008. Castiel is being deployed to rescue Dean Winchester from Hell.
He lands in Dean Winchester’s motel room in 2003. Things go from there.
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23 Oct 2021
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5 times they didn't have the words and 1 time they did by mehm, OldMagpie (MagpieMorality)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
19 Oct 2021
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It’s one thing to die — it’s another thing to resurrect, constantly, at the side of someone with whom you don’t share a single word.
In Yusuf and Nicolò’s earliest days — 5 times they didn’t have the words for each other, and the 1 time (+1 extra) that they did.
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19 Oct 2021
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“Nicky’s been interrogated,” Nile says slowly, “with truth serum before.” Her voice has that same mix of incredulousness and acceptance she gets every time they tell her they’ve done something she thought was impossible.
Booker grins. “And he’s good at it.”
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It's Booker’s first mission with the team since London, so of course Nicky gets injected with a truth serum.
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11 Oct 2021
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Every day brings with it a fresh batch of work, and a man throws himself into his bed late at night without having completed what he had expected to do; then in the morning he hurries to the unfinished task of the previous day. Life goes, and there is no time left to think, no time to consider the direction that one's life is taking. - Pyotr Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Nile and Booker meet up mid-exile, get into productive trouble, and go on a journey (metaphorical and literal).
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11 Oct 2021
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love you in moderation (don't you know i wish i could) by nondz (pinkjook)
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
06 Jun 2021
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Nina looks at him like he’s an idiot. “Just keep the gloves on, then.”
“What?” Kaz blurts.
Or: Kaz Brekker conquers intimacy. It's both easier and harder than he planned.
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- Part 1 of never thought i'd live to see the day
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16 Sep 2021
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the dark matter of you by Syysmyrsky (Arktikko)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
06 Sep 2021
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“Aha! I know just the tale,” Yusuf finally says, slapping the bed victoriously. “And I will bet it is even funnier than the one you just told.” Nicolò’s smile widens at that. Yusuf knows he can’t resist a good bet.
“What would be the prize for winning?” Nicolò asks, lifting one brow at Yusuf who grins at him, the kind of grin that makes his eyes crinkle at the corners. Nicolò loves him desperately.
“Suppose a kiss will do?” Yusuf asks. Nicolò pretends to think about it.
“I suppose so… though it will have to be a good one.”
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One night, a few months after they first become lovers, Yusuf and Nicolò make a game out of which one of them can tell a funnier story about a past flame. However, the mood of their evening changes as Nicolò slowly notices that the story Yusuf starts telling is much darker than he seems to realize himself.
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07 Sep 2021
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Joe catalogues every part of what he’s feeling. Takes a deep breath, and then lets it out. These are the imprints of his existence in the world; this is the evidence of his life here.
There’s also this: the discarded bag on the counter. The extra pair of shoes at the door. The second mug in Joe’s hand.
There’s Nicky.
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07 Sep 2021
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‘So, you’re Nicky, I take it? I’m Joe.’
‘Sorry, I don’t speak English,’ Nicky says. It’s about the only sentence he knows in English, a dubious badge of honour he nevertheless wears with pride. Or rather, he did until about five minutes ago, when Andy said there was someone she wanted him to meet. In English.
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Modern AU with language barriers: Joe speaks Dutch, English, and Arabic; Nicky speaks Italian, Spanish, and German. Andy didn't know that when she introduced them, but it doesn't really matter.As the poets say, love finds a way.
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05 Sep 2021
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Joe is one of those people, Nicky realizes, who seems to have unlocked the secret that beautiful people have: how to carry themselves, how to exude. Nicky doesn't dislike his own looks -- yes, during his teenage years he'd been self-conscious of his awkwardly big hands and his inescapable nose, especially whenever starting over in a new place -- but as he's grown into adulthood, it's all evened out into an appearance he's more or less satisfied with. But he's never mastered that next-level, head-turning attractiveness that Joe has.
Or: Five times Nicky thinks Joe is one of the most beautiful men to walk the earth, and one time Joe looks objectively awful and truly wins Nicky's heart.Bookmarked by dtbird
05 Sep 2021