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Momo Ayase wants nothing more than to join the roster of her grandmother's wrestling promotion, but Seiko is insistent on keeping her behind the scenes as a Talent Relations Manager. It is only when she meets nefarious heel Turbo Granny's grandson, Okarun, that they hatch a scheme to help her achieve what she's wanted her whole life. Can she juggle her desk job, her alter ego Lady Phantasma, and her less-than-appropriate feelings for Okarun?
Probably not, but damned if she isn't going to try.
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- Part 1 of WrestleDandadania
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31 Mar 2025
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Princess Momo was blessed by the gods with the power to control auras and has trained to be a high priestess under her grandmother her entire life.
Prince Ken was born unlucky and was cursed by a demon as a child and is reviled both by his family and by everyone in the palace.
When their parents place them into an arranged marriage without warning, both kingdoms want to keep their scions' secrets until the wedding is over.
But when both Ken and Momo sneak out into the capital in disguise, a chance meeting will change the course of their lives forever.
Will they unravel the secrets of Ken's curse? Or was this always doomed to end in a bloodbath?
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31 Mar 2025
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the endless string of summer storms that led me to today; began one afternoon with you, long ago and far away by MarsBar2019
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
29 Aug 2021
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Caleb and Essek settling down in Nicodranas and building happiness together, making the most of the time they've been given.
This will be a mid-length multi-chap of a year in the life of wizards in love. I'll promise right now that we're not getting angsty in this. L*fespans will be mentioned, it's inevitable, but it's not going to be featured, because they are trying to live in the here and now, dammit. Nobody breaks up, nobody dies. I am simply not strong enough for that. Only good soft happy fluffy things.
(E rating for Chapters 2, 4, 6, 8, if that's what you're here for. 90% of these tags are for Chapter 4.)
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- Part 1 of love, love is gonna lead you by the hand
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28 Feb 2024
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It’s late autumn, 1489, in the Central Asian mountains. On their way to help fight the war for Kazakh independence, Yusuf, Nicolò, Andromache, and Quỳnh pass through a city where people, supposedly bewitched, have been disappearing in the mountains for years, obsessed with meeting a creature of which Yusuf has only heard from a tragic legend.
Or: A love story, of sorts.Series
- Part 2 of The Tetrad Mysteries
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29 Jul 2021
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The First Few Hours of Forever by Emotionally Compromised Robots (CDRomelle)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
26 Apr 2021
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Nile makes it to the highway before she throws up.
It happens all at once: one moment she's buzzing, barely aware of her body, her mind back in the lab calculating angles and covering sixes and watching Andy, always watching Andy--and the next moment her stomach is churning with that same sick swoop of oh fuck that she'd felt when she had turned around in the lab and Andy was gone-
And then Nile was in the back of a car, wedged between Nicky and the door, and the air was stuffy with blood and sweat and car-smell.
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26 Apr 2021
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"Maybe it’s the way Nicky is holding him as time dances clumsily across the decades, maybe it’s the decadent despair of grieving a man that’s standing right next to him. He’s tired in that way that old oak creaks when you press your palms to it. That way it splits, splinters down the spine if you push too hard. That way some wounds cut you when you press your fingers to the sharp gaping hole it creates."
Joe and Nicky contemplate the same things seperately, across centuries, and Joe has some disagreements about Neruda.
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- Part 3 of sonnet xvii
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28 Feb 2021
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The whole business began on an ordinary enough night. Nico had fucked Josef so well that he’d come untouched, and after, as they curled together, Nico had remarked upon it.
After that, it became a bit of a wretched obsession.
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04 Feb 2021
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"Yusuf hums non-committedly, pulling away from Nicolò to lean back against the bench beside him. He digs out an arancia, the citrus sweet smell filling Nicolò’s nostrils, and rolls it around in his palms absentmindedly. Nicolò catches his eye and raises one questioning eyebrow.
They definitely don’t have enough between them to afford an indulgence such as this, unless Yusuf traded some of his labour or artwork for it. But Nicolò knows that the only orange blossom tree that grows in this village belongs to a merchant family, and their youngest daughter has been covering the stall. Which means-
“A gift, Nicolò. Isn’t that nice?” Yusuf says in way of answer, pleasant and naïvely pleased in a way that Nicolò usually finds endearing."
In which Yusuf is gifted with oranges, and Nicolo has a minor crisis.
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- Part 1 of sonnet xvii
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02 Feb 2021
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everything feels too large (the steadings and the fields) by harryhotspur
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
31 Jan 2021
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After London, Joe and Nicky go back to Malta. With Joe struggling to process everything, things are going to be difficult, and recovery is not a linear road. But they will get through it.
Together.
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01 Feb 2021
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Everything has changed. Truths etched in stone are cracked and broken. Andy is unbreakable. Booker is an asshole. Joe is a pillar of strength. Nile is young and has so much to learn. And Nicky never lies.
Yes, this is THE Sequel
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- Part 5 of Immortal Husbands Collection
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26 Dec 2020
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Nile was so used to Nicky being the heart of the group, there was something almost disturbing about being faced with the utter brutality he was capable of when Joe was in danger.
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18 Dec 2020
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“And it’s enough?” Nile asks. “It’s enough to keep you going?”
“It’s enough to make me love this world and so many of the people in it,” Joe says, soft but sure. “We can’t change evil. We can only try to end each day having come out on top of it, and hopefully having helped others do the same. It may never go away, but other, better things aren’t ever going away either. That’s so much more important. Vital. That’s what I’d want you to remember, if you can.”
When you have a seemingly infinite number of days ahead of you, some will turn out well and some won't. And sometimes you can’t tell which is which until the day is over. Nile gets to experience the whole gamut with each of her new family members while finding her way through this weird, wonderful immortal life.Chapter 1: Nile and Quynh
Chapter 2: Nile and Booker
Chapter 3: Nile and Nicky
Chapter 4: Nile and Joe
Chapter 5: Nile and AndyBookmarked by maplemuse
01 Dec 2020
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Andy and Quynh and the rest of the immortal family tuck themselves away in a high mountain cabin.
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30 Nov 2020
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“I close my eyes and you don’t heal”
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“I close my eyes and you’re lying there, you’re not moving - and - your eyes, your eyes are so empty”.Or
Five days after they escape Merrick’s, Joe and Nicky share their feelings via emotional sex.
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22 Nov 2020
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19 Nov 2020
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The Extraordinarily Complex Task of Condensing a 920-Year-Old Romance into a 145-Word Speech (While Being Abducted) by Liketheriver
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
18 Aug 2020
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At times, it seemed like all they did was no more than a single raindrop of hope in an ocean of despair and chaos, but together all those raindrops had evidently helped. Copley had captured it all, the last one hundred and fifty years of their lives condensed down into a few dozen photos and newspaper clippings. It seemed so small, and yet, all encompassing at the same time.
Kind of like how a declaration of love in a van during an abduction had condensed down all nine hundred and twenty years of an epic romance into a few hundred words. It seemed an impossible feat, but then, his Yusuf was just the kind of guy to pull it off.
Or, the stories behind the speech in the van.
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04 Nov 2020
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HEAVEN IS A PLACE by WeTheWriters
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
18 Oct 2021
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When Nicolo was younger - much younger, or perhaps just less war-worn - he was often told he had a face of an angel. He wondered now, as he did many times before, if that trait was somehow instrumental to his destiny in priesthood, and thus to his becoming what he now was…
If he had a face of an angel, then the eyes across from him had to be the eyes of some vengeful god. It had to mean something… He dreamt of those eyes ever since he arrived into this strange, ruthless land - the holiest land. Those eyes must’ve been a premonition, or perhaps a catalyst in their own right…
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20 Oct 2020
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The Symmetry of That by charlottechill
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
27 Aug 2020
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Nile’s face looked sour and annoyed. Andy’s looked amused.
“What is it?” he asked.
Andy smirked. “Joe’s amusing himself. Nile walked in on him.”--- OR ---
The unsettling changes require careful attention. And the teasing of Nile.
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17 Oct 2020
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During an undercover rescue mission, Joe had a bit too much fun tightening Nicky's handcuffs. The following morning brings Nicky a chance for revenge—and he's definitely going to enjoy it.
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14 Oct 2020
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All of this scared me. Yusuf scared me. He scared me with his easy repudiation of my beliefs, his laughter, the way he looked at me, the things he made me think. My belief in God scared me too, standing as it did on shaking legs. I had suffered for Him and suffering should have proven my love, but it never made anything better. But who was I, if I was not a God-fearing man? What would I become?
If you will not die, why continue to suffer?
I stopped walking and sat in the grass, looking out at the mountains as the moon and clouds cast dark shadows upon them. Beautiful and unknowable, like…
“Like God,“ I muttered to myself. But of course I really meant, like Yusuf.
______No longer a work in progress. Now just a work.
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- Part 1 of Centuries and Centuries
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12 Oct 2020