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AO3 is great, but can it run Doom? Of course!!
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29 Aug 2022
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“You have a lovely mole,” Yusuf said. Nicolò didn’t catch his last word. He looked at him questioningly.
Yusuf tapped on his mole gently as he rinsed his blade. “Mole,” he repeated in Arabic.
“Mole,” said Nicolò in Zeneize. Then he tried to imitate the Arabic word.
Yusuf smiled at his effort. His dimples were showing. It felt like a discovery every time Nicolò saw them.
Nicolò didn’t know what possessed him when he reached out to touch that spot and said, “Dimple.” in Zeneize.
“Dimple,” repeated Yusuf and of course he did perfect the first time. He said the word back in Arabic. Nicolò tried to repeat it. By the way Yusuf smiled, it looked like he did a passable job.
Then it’s all over too quickly. Yusuf scooped some water and rinsed Nicolò’s face, then used his own shirt to dab it. “All done,” he said.
Then their eyes locked and something else, something that in hindsight felt inevitable, shifted.
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Or Love and Lust in Paradise, in which Joe and Nicky reminiscing a few firsts, including a journey across the desert, dying in each other’s arms, and the inevitable changes between them.- Language:
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25 Apr 2021
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A group of pirates kill a merid, only to find that she was a mer-matron, and they have orphaned her young daughter. Who would they be if they did not save the child?
They wouldn't be the legends they are now, that's for sure.
Special thanks to otherwindow (tumblr), redporkpadthai (tumblr), and the corvidprompts discord server <3
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08 Feb 2021
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“I have to go.”
He nods, throat so tight that all he can manage is a short, “I know.”
“I have to go, Nico. I can’t let Tunisia fall to Mussolini,” Joe mumbles, still unable to look him in the eye. The fight at home is spreading like an infection and it is no longer enough to keep cutting the sickness out from the source. Nicolò nods again, numbness creeping to his heart like winter’s first freeze, and hears Joe’s soft voice say, “I’m sorry.”
When the news of Italy’s plans to invade Tunisia reach Joe and Nicolò, Joe goes home.
Nicolò is forced to wait.
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03 Feb 2021
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quia peccavi nimis (my fault, my fault, my most grievous fault) by Draco_sollicitus
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
29 Jul 2020
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After Merrick, Nicky takes Joe back to Malta. They distract each other from the pain of almost losing each other again but it seems that trouble isn't too far off.
Merrick had competitors, after all. And when data gets into the wrong hands as a result of corporate espionage, others come for Nicky and Joe. They only need one of them, and it's an easy choice for Nicky -- he just prays that Joe will some day forgive him.
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27 Jan 2021
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There's a Ghost Down Every Street by paperstorm
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
11 Oct 2020
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Joe has been so thoroughly torn in two. Half of his heart wants to drag Nicky into his arms, kiss him until neither of them can breathe, whisper to him until they feel safe and whole again, find salvation in him like they have since long before Joe lost the ability to properly gauge the passing of time. His other half can’t bear to even look at Nicky for too long. He can’t see Nicky’s eyes, normally wide and beautiful and the color of sea-glass, without recalling them screwed up in pain. He can’t see Nicky’s skin without remembering it sliced into, pieces extracted, the stain of blood that lingered. He can’t see Nicky’s hair without remembering it caked in blood, too.
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Nicky and Joe return to Malta after the events of the movie while Nile and Andy head for a safehouse in South America, because they're both a lot more wounded by it all than they'd like to admit, and are desperate to find each other again.Series
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08 Jan 2021
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“Don’t -” Nicolo begins, but has no idea what should come next. He has no idea what he needs the man not to do. He only knows what he wants the man to do, and that is to lay hands upon him again. Nicolo has the sudden, mad urge to drop the knife, close the distance between them in the hopes that he might be killed a second time.
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10 Oct 2020
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Sweet Certainty by NamelesslyNightlock for SalamanderInk, Rabentochter
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
02 Oct 2020
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“Nicolò,” Yusuf said, his voice turning hard. “You have not washed in weeks. If you do not get into the water right now, I will kill you, then I will throw your corpse in the lake and wash it myself.”
…or, five times Yusuf convinced Nicolò to join him, and one time he didn’t have to.Bookmarked by robable
02 Oct 2020
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da adesso fino all'eternità by maroon
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
19 Jul 2020
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“So,” Nile begins, sitting in the beat up Hyundai with some meatballs in her lap, still dressed in her running gear. “Sexiled, huh?”
Andy nods, chewing away at her own meatballs. She points at herself. “Professional third-wheel here.”
Nile nods. “Well, they’re in love.” She shrugs, and Andy raises an eyebrow at her. “What? Love makes you do stupid stuff.”
Nile experiences the whole world, learns some disgusting secrets, gains another set of parents—as well as a cranky vodka aunt—and learns what it means to be immortal.
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29 Sep 2020