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all this longing - ships left to rust by theroyalsavage
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
05 Jan 2025
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Five years ago, Jayce made an impulsive offer to build Hextech weapons to combat the rising tide of Undercity airship piracy. In response, Viktor torched their research and disappeared from Piltover for good.
Five years ago, a new airship took to the skies, with a young captain and a misfit crew and a massive, impossible tree growing straight through the hull.
These two events are completely unrelated - unless, of course, they're not.
Jayce steps into Viktor's space. His fist closes in the lapel of Viktor's overcoat. It's a little foolish, but he half-expects this whole thing to be some kind of hallucination. Something at the back of his brain imagines his hand will pass through Viktor like mist. It doesn't, and that, more than anything, makes this feel like more than a hypervivid variation on the same dream Jayce has been having for years now.
In his dreams, Viktor always has the clammy chill of a cadaver. This Viktor feels so warm under Jayce's hand, he thinks his skin might come away scalded.Bookmarked by theoxfordcommando
23 Jun 2025
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Yusuf turned around—and immediately realised his mistake. They were both standing, eyes open, and if for one moment they were wide in shock and horror, the next they were blown great with lust. Looking at Nicolò was as looking at a distant mirage; every inch of his skin, covered and not, burned as steel under a hot summer sun, and the only thing that would cool him would be to dip into Nicolò’s waters, to drink him dry, to steal his lost breath from his mouth.
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Yusuf and Nicolò's tentative truce is put at risk when they end up trapped in a cave together.
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23 Dec 2023
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“Nile,” Joe says, the third time she asks about where they’re going and why they’re going so slowly. “I don’t blame you for the fact that your world is extremely fast-paced, but that is a product of a very recent period of time, and neither natural nor healthy.”
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Or: the peculiar clash of immortality and time.
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23 Dec 2023
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your love is sunlight by kaydeefalls for Mary_berry_boo
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
17 Jul 2023
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The worst part is that Nicky knows he's too old for this shit. A summer romance—that all-consuming passion crashing over you like a tidal wave and lasting about as long—is one thing for a teenager. But he's much closer to thirty than twenty at this point. He should damn well know better.
Yet here he is, flat on his back in the late morning sunlight, his shoulders splayed halfway off the side of the bed, sheets rumpled beneath him and Joe's beard rough against the skin of his inner thighs, and it's the closest to God that Nicky has ever felt.
(Modern!AU. Nicky's a bartender in Cinque Terre, Joe's a tourist just passing through, they fall in love. Because of course they do.)
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17 Jul 2023
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Leonardo Cristofaro smiled at her two afternoons later as they passed by each other at lunchtime, and though she didn’t think he’d started any sort of rumour, she glared at him so hard he actually winced a little. It didn’t help anything, but at least the girls stopped teasing her after that.
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Leo and Regina, over ten years of people believing they were together.
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18 Feb 2023
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If Never Again, If Every Day by gallifreyburning, takiki16
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
02 Jun 2022
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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.
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- Part 1 of Fic Tennis - The Old Guard
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21 Oct 2022
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i've a marvelous way (of telling you no) by mellyflori
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
29 Sep 2022
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They’re in the middle of a volley of commentary that can best be described as ‘bitchy,’ when all of it, even Joe’s sharp-edged defense of his own fingering technique, comes to a screeching halt as the stranger throws down a gauntlet.
“Prove it."
(Opposite POV for 'there's a trick with a knife (i'm learning to do)')Series
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29 Sep 2022
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“Nile?” Joe asks. “You alright?”
It takes Nile a minute to gather herself. Another firework goes off outside, and hot red light bleeds in through the shutters, painting Nile’s sweat-slick skin. Joe tugs a shirt on and approaches her.
“A nightmare?”
She nods. “But it wasn’t…” She gulps, and looks him in the eyes, and he understands.
He sits on the floor, an accommodating distance from her mattress. “You wanna talk about it?”
Nile blinks down at the sheets. She pauses for a long moment, then says, “‘S just, uh… The fireworks. They sound like gunshots.”
Joe nods, having already guessed. She’s still young, he realizes, with clarity. She was only mortal, in Afghanistan, a few weeks ago. It’s jarring, to say the least. He almost can’t remember anymore how it felt to be so… new.
“Maybe a distraction?” She requests, then adds, with humour, “Not Monopoly, please.”
Joe smiles. “That I can do.”
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In which Joe and Nile spend a few days alone in a safehouse and pass the time with one of Joe's oldest stories: The story of al-Tayyib.
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15 Sep 2022
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you made a fool of death with your beauty by paigian
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
03 Sep 2022
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Atef bandages the scrape along Yusuf’s knee, patting it gently with his hand when he’s done before scooching back to place everything carefully back into the little box.
When he’s done, his eyes flick to the fig seeds drying on Yusuf’s sleeve.
“I’m going to make you a deal,” he says then. “You can pick as many figs as you want, as long as you pick an equal amount for me. I cannot climb as high to reach the figs at the top anymore, so in this you’ll be doing me a favour at least.”
Yusuf goes to shake his head, fear striking his heart.
“I will never climb again,” he swears, with all the finality and graveness of a young boy who will certainly climb again.
A look into some of the ways Yusuf has dodged, (narrowly) avoided, or out-smarted death in his long life – or, a slightly exaggerated but mostly true account of the times Yusuf thought he would die, but didn’t.
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- Part 2 of you and me and the olives
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04 Sep 2022
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where no one has gone before by liadan14 for captainshakespear
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), Star Trek: The Next Generation
24 Aug 2022
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Already standing in his customary position above the captain’s chair, legs wide, arms clasped behind his back, chief of security Nicolò di Genova doesn’t even flinch when Joe walks in. He probably gets up at six on the dot to comb all his hair precisely into place and iron his mustard-yellow uniform.
“We’re not actually military, you know that, right?” Joe mutters to him for the second time this week as he slides into his bridge position, which is a sort of casual lean against the first officer’s chair.
“I see you’ve forgotten your comm,” di Genova responds, just like he did yesterday. “Again.”
Same old di Genova, reliably a shit.
In which The Guard, one of Starfleet’s flagships flying under the unorthodox command of Captain Andromache Scythian, keeps reliving the same Tuesday.
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25 Aug 2022
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Solid Ground by KushielsMercy
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
22 May 2022
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It’s the little intimacies that make loving Nicoló easy.
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28 May 2022
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"I have had hundreds of years to learn this precious body," Yusuf says, ignoring Nicolò's pained expression. "I can play it like the finest violinist draws music from her instrument."
"Or I'm just really easy," Nicolò says.
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22 May 2022
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"We worked as caravan guards before we came to Baghdad," Nicolò said, which was true enough, as far as it went. His hand rested easily on the pommel of his sword and he was smiling, a faint and casual enjoyment of his own assurance, and Yusuf loved him desperately.
"Just like old times," Yusuf agreed, and tossed his bag over to the handlers on the barge.
Nicolò looked over at him, his face suddenly, awfully, blank, and that was the end of that.
In the wake of the Frankish conquest of Tyre, Joe and Nicky leave their settled home in Baghdad in order to help a friend. Naturally, things escalate from there.
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26 Apr 2022
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the deaths of nicolo di genova, in ascending order of sexiness and descending order of actual dying by paigian
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
09 Feb 2022
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They fall together, curled around each other’s figures, blood pouring out around them, until it becomes impossible to tell whose it belonged to. The fight continues on around their lifeless bodies while the sun burns and the city walls bear witness. What’s two more lives lost? What did their deaths mean? A better question: what did it take?
Night falls like a hush, washing over the fallen. Outside the wall is still and quiet. And then it isn’t.
Nicolo di Genova is dead. And then he isn’t.
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- Part 1 of you and me and the olives
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09 Feb 2022
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Love Scene by nicelytousled (dtbird)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
30 Apr 2021
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If someone else were to enter their room and switch on the lamp they would be able to gather clues as to how he and Joe spend their nights. The hand-knotted afghan rug by the balcony door is askew, and a pair of empty whiskey tumblers sit on the coffee table glittering in the light. The bed is unmade, a discarded tie looped lazily around one of the slats in the headboard, and a chair is pulled out haphazardly from the heavy wooden desk in the corner. The desk itself is littered with drawing paper and charcoal pencils and crescent moon shapes scratches into its surface. The space smells like them, like Joe, like men and sex and sleepless nights. Nicky can almost feel the phantom sting of carpet burn on his knees.
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08 Feb 2022
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Nicky loves his family, he really does. But the blessed indulgences he gets to share with Joe when there’s no one else around to interrupt or bear witness, he misses those things as much as he misses his family when he’s been without them for too long. Nicky has spent several long hours deciding exactly how he would like to be taken apart when they’re finally alone. How he would like to take Joe apart.
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Or, 5 times Nicky and Joe wanted to do butt stuff but couldn’t +1 time they finally didBookmarked by theoxfordcommando
29 Jan 2022
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During a stint in Los Angeles in 1998, Joe makes an interesting discovery in the closet of their temporary residence.
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18 Jan 2022
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“Do you prefer the company of men or women?” Nicoló asks.
Yusuf continues coughing.
“Sexually,” Nicoló clarifies.
“I can’t say I have ever been asked so directly,” Yusuf huffs.
Unrepentantly, Nicoló shrugs.
“Men,” Yusuf mutters.
Or: 4 times Nicky came on to Joe very badly and Joe still hit that, and one time it was the other way around.
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08 Jan 2022
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someday when the lights are low by liadan14 for theoxfordcommando
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
12 Dec 2021
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His skin feels like it’s burning where Nicky’s hand is on it.
“Let me help you,” Nicky says softly.
In his chest, Joe’s heart pounds.
Fuck, what’s he going to put in his notes for this shit? Symptoms: Normally endurable attraction to co-worker has become excruciating?
Torchwood AU in which Joe is dosed with alien sex dust. (No familiarity with Torchwood necessary to read this, although it probably helps.)
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12 Dec 2021
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He tries again, to pursue relationships with other sweet, interesting men that go beyond simply sharing thoughts and meals. If everyone else likes sex so much, then there is nothing for him to do except get used to it.
The anxiety persists. None of these romances last long. He starts wondering if it’s not a problem with his partners, but a problem with him.
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29 Nov 2021