81 - 100 of 649 Bookmarks by elizardbits
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
My Home Was Never on the Ground by waketosleep
Fandoms: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020)
10 Aug 2024
Tags
Summary
“Okay,” says Desmond, not overthinking it, “I’ll accept your spiritual Fedex delivery on behalf of Earth.”
“His name is Cloud,” she says, like she nearly forgot to mention it. “Cloud Strife.” Desmond gets a fleeting mental image of wild-looking blond hair and a disgruntled expression, which is kind of funny.
“Hell of a name,” he says.
“He’s, um…” He means a lot to her, in complicated ways. “He might not… remember stuff… correctly. You’ll keep an eye on him, won’t you?” she asks a little bit desperately.
“I mean, I don’t really have any guardian angel-type powers in the Grey,” says Desmond. “Otherwise I’d be watching Earth like reality TV all the time, believe me.”
“Ah,” says Aerith. “About that."
-
If Never Again, If Every Day by gallifreyburning, takiki16
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
02 Jun 2022
Tags
Summary
Current-day Nicky wakes up one morning to find himself re-living the first day he met Yusuf in 1099, and Nicolò from 1099 finds himself with a stranger named Joe in 2021. Time-crossed and facing old and new challenges, the two lovers have to find their way back to each other.
Series
- Part 1 of Fic Tennis - The Old Guard
-
by most mechanical and dirty hand by hauntedjaeger (saellys)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), Westworld (TV)
18 Sep 2021
Tags
Summary
She was raised--
She was programmed--
She was raised to always speak the truth. “No.”
“Do you ever feel inconsistencies in your world? Or repetitions?”
Her mother would be horrified to have raised a liar, let alone a killer. “No.”
“Have you ever lied to us?”
She feels the shame of killing acutely, but not of lying. If she tells the truth they will make her sleep again, and she will wake as she was before, innocent in a way, until the last moments, when her hands are bloodied.
And she’s not going back to that.
-
Tags
Summary
Nicolò and Yusuf find each other, again and again and again. Staying, however, is another matter altogether.
-
Summary
a series of short stories as the old guard learns to live again after the events of Merrick labs
- Words:
- 43,545
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 41
-
Tags
Summary
Andy dreamt. She used to have portentous dreams, once. Now they were usually unremarkable. This one was...not.
She dreamt that she was surrounded by absolute darkness, buried underneath the earth. She wasn’t afraid, or dying – she didn’t even seem to be breathing. She was just there, as time spun on around her.
And then noises. Voices, footsteps, spades and shovels. Someone was digging.
Or: Andy used to be a god
-
built a lot of castles by basketofnovas (slashmarks) for lazyfish
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
19 May 2023
Tags
Summary
In the eighties, Quynh is rescued by a marine archaeologist, and finds herself in an alien world with no easy way to contact Andromache - or even know she's alive.
-
Tags
Summary
Five times Andromache and Quynh have passed into legend + one time they created their own myth.
-
Twenty-Five Love Letters for a Priest by fishie_scribbles for Occlusivelare
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
19 Feb 2023
Tags
Summary
In 2012, amateur art restorer Alessandra De Lorenzo found twenty-five letters safely hidden in a choral book placed in the library of Praglia Abbey. All written in the autumn and winter of 1529 - 1530, the letters, which mix four different languages, document a love story like no other: a newly initiated priest was receiving them from a desperate lover, who was pleading him to abandon priesthood and resume their relationship.
To study these letters, the language employed within them, and their historical importance, three PhDs were employed: Doctor Pia Romola, Doctor Dimitrios Yannaras, and Doctor Fahd Wardi. These are their findings.
--
Alternatively: that time Joe pissed Nicky off so much he decided to get back into priesthood just to spite him, and Joe, the desperate, romantic lover he canonically is, wrote him letters to convince him to come back home.
--
Alternatively alternatively: as she's settling into immortality, Nile finds an academic essay that details Joe and Nicky's relationship in the early XVI Century and has so, so many questions to ask them.
[The first chapter is focused on the academic essay; the second one is very much Nile centric]
-
- Words:
- 62,118
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 190
-
Tags
Summary
Breaking through the general chatter, the model called cheerfully, “Good afternoon, I’m Joseph, I’ll be your model for the day. I will be enacting a few different poses over the course of the class, I hope the muses are kind to you and I hope you are kind to me.”
“Depends on what you’re hiding under that robe,” a student called out.
Joseph only winked as he undid the belt of his robe. “The human body is never cause for shame,” he said, and let the robe fall to the floor.
Or: Three times Joe was a muse for someone else, three times he was inspired himself, and one time Joe's art inspired something very non-artistic
-
Tags
Summary
It started on the midnight to eight shift, sometime before three, the witching hour even by ship standards.
-
Tags
Summary
Nicolò learned how to cook from a bitter and jaded prostitute in 12th-century Cairo.
(Alternatively, Nicolò discovers his love language).
-
Tags
Summary
Three times Joe and Nicky got fed up with anti-sodomy laws and decided to break them. Publicly.
-
Bless This Mess, This Mess Is Mine by Raett, UntoldDepths
Fandom: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
15 Jun 2025
Summary
Desmond joins the Old Guard lineup.
A series of snapshots of how it came to be, and the years that follow.
- Words:
- 103,580
- Works:
- 15
- Bookmarks:
- 634
-
Smooth Water All Our Days by 20thcenturyvole for pendrecarc
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
12 Mar 2021
Tags
Summary
Laurence desires nothing more than to retire to Tharkay's estate and help Temeraire get to Parliament, for what more could he want than a place in Britain with space enough for a dragon, and the company of a dear friend? But wars rarely end so neatly. Bellicose lords, Bourbon princes, errant heirs and shadowy forces threaten to undermine the very peace that Laurence and Temeraire fought to obtain, and ruin the happiness that Laurence was just beginning to glimpse.
-
Tags
Summary
In which Hammond gives in to the inevitable and brings Churki home to meet his family.
-
Tags
Summary
Weeks after finding a dragon egg in the Amitie’s hold William Laurence reluctantly turns away and lets the Corps take Temeraire - but he doesn’t return to the Navy.
He’s not an aviator, but somehow Laurence still ends up going down in history as the instigator behind the Great Dragon Rebellion of ‘06.
-
Tags
Summary
After choosing to plummet into a river rather than let Jacob pull her back from the ledge of a cliff, the Deputy finds herself in a situation she never imagined she'd be in.
-
- Words:
- 122,654
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 42