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A Bard Behind an Oaken Door by bitterestbug
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
15 May 2026
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Julian has spent his entire life composing songs that he'll never be able to call his own. He has spent years living in fear, in agony, waiting in anticipation for the next day and then the one after that. Most often, though, he finds himself wondering if his very existence has upset the gods; but, when a certain witcher with radiant white hair appears in the doorway to the suffocating room he calls his own, Julian feels as if things are about to change.
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27 Apr 2026
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down for you always by dreamtiwasanarchitect, liadan14
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 May 2021
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Joe squints a little. “So you were born in what, the 1060s?”
Nicky nods. “1069, I believe. I died during the first crusade. For the first time, anyway.”
“Wow,” Joe says. “You are very well preserved.”
Joe's a millennial with student loan debt, a dead-end career as a personal trainer, and a lumpy futon for a bed. He's also the new immortal.
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- Part 1 of the new me (is really still the real me)
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24 Mar 2026
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never happens like you think it should by dreamtiwasanarchitect
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
06 Feb 2021
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Being in the kidnapping business, Nicky thinks, is rather distasteful, but it’s more or less a matter of routine. You take someone, the family pays, everyone goes home happy—grazie, prego, kiss kiss.
Just as long as you don’t catch feelings for your captive.
(Or: A trashy pseudo-bodice ripper disguised as something vaguely resembling a Trust AU.)
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- Part 1 of the good are never easy (kidnapping AU)
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22 Mar 2026
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Trust AU
The Reality Of Everything story
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Ma se ti svegli e hai ancora paura ridammi la mano by Srin
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
19 Mar 2021
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"I always thought that would be nice. The fantasies of children, hmm?”
He says it as though the idea of him ever going to Malta is as far-fetched and ridiculous as other kids’ plans to grow up and become dinosaurs or superheroes, and the thought makes Joe feel unaccountably sad.
“Maybe when you get the ransom money,” Joe says. His brow wrinkles, like he’s not sure if Joe means the comment as a sincere ‘maybe one day’ or a sarcastic call-back to what he said yesterday about how no one but the bosses was going to see any of that money, and Joe’s honestly not sure himself, caught uncomfortably between the instinct to like this man and the more logical inclination to remain wary if not outright hostile towards all of his captors.
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A not-quite-modern AU in which Nicky isn't a crusader but is mixed up with a different set of people who do very bad things for not very good reasons, and Joe isn't defending Jerusalem but does end up in a different sort of trouble far from home, and a lot is different but some things never change. -
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Jaskier finds himself in the halls of Kaer Morhen, home to the Warlord of the North. He didn’t expect to find the Warlord so attractive though.
Jaskier figures his normal gambit of flowers and poetry won’t go down well with a witcher, which leads to the immortal question of how to court one. Geralt figures if he wants to catch Jaskier’s eye he needs to compete with the techniques of the fancy courts Jaskier is used to. Both end in much confusion and little success.
Eskel, Lambert, Yennefer, and Ciri have a betting pool, and watch on in amusement.
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04 Feb 2026
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A Ready Heart by what_alchemy
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
26 Jan 2024
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Nile Freeman’s just trying to have a one night stand when destiny lands in her lap.
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19 Jan 2026
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Nile and Booker soulmates, butt plugs, missing each other
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Missed You By a Few Minutes, a Few Centuries by just_another_tinker
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
19 Dec 2020
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Nicolò di Genova was killed on one of the endless mornings of The Crusades, struck down by a scimitar. He woke again later that evening.
Yusuf al-Kaysani bled out hours later from wounds left by a sword. He woke again that next morning.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he chose to avoid it.
Alternatively, Nicky and Joe's second meeting was over 900 years too late. And neither one knows the other is immortal, or that they've already met.
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- Part 1 of Missed You
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- 12/12
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18 Dec 2025
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The Path Not Taken by sospes
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
20 Apr 2020
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Jaskier comes across an injured witcher in a backwoods town, months after the events of the dragon hunt. It all just sort of escalates from there.
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- Part 1 of The Path Not Taken
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- English
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- 5/5
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06 Nov 2025
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Eskel was unconscious beneath two monsters at the farm
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Hob leans back in his chair, a tight look in his eyes. “I think we both know why the divorce happened,” he says, a sharp edge back into his tone like earlier in the day. Except this time he seems to be painfully aware of it. “Gods, sorry.”
“No, you’re not.” Dream is surprised to find it doesn’t sound like an accusation.
Hob smiles and it’s back to being sad.
“No, I’m not.” He looks away. There’s a tick in his jaw muscle, like he wants to say more, but in the end he just sighs and stands up.
(Or: How Dream and Hob learn to heal, listen and love again.)
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18 Sep 2025
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"This is a very simple experiment, bard." Cold blue eyes met Jaskier's. "The Witcher over there? He's dying. There's only one thing that can save him at this point."
Jaskier glanced towards Geralt apprehensively; his head lolled back. If he was conscious, he gave no sign of it.
"I want you to bond him."
Jaskier jerked, staring at the man in horror. "No."
Soul-bonding was intimate, a moment reserved in private between two people who had decided to share every joy and every sorrow. They would feel each other's pain, know if the other was on the brink of death. It was a bond that could only be forged with good intention, with the purest motive. There was no way to undo it. Bonding Geralt would mean surrendering half his soul to the Witcher, to experiencing every pain, and every woe. But worse than that. Witchers didn't have souls. Jaskier would be throwing away the greatest connection he could ever experience, for a man who would never be able to return it. Jaskier was romantic enough to admit that he wanted a romance of the ages, and a bond of certainty.
Not this.
"Let me make this easier for you: bond him, or I'll kill you."
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- Part 1 of Ruin Me, Love Me
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15 Sep 2025
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let not time deceive you (you cannot conquer time) by Draco_sollicitus
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
28 Sep 2020
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Nicolo Genova, or Nicky to his American friends, is just trying to get through his PhD program. He's writing his dissertation on Post-classical homoerotic poetry, but he cannot find anyone who speaks an extinct dialect of Arabic so he can translate a famed love poem by a little known poet, al-Kaysani.
Strangely enough, his friend knows a professor on campus who can translate the poem. What starts as a simple request for assistance on his dissertation blossoms into something that Nicky -- shy, reserved Nicky who abandoned his plans for the priesthood months before ordination -- had never imagined for himself: true love.
What he doesn't know is that Dr. Joseph Jones (his handsome, erudite, kind, lovely Joe) is harboring a secret too large for anyone to believe -- and that secret might just cost them everything.
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30 Aug 2025
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“Is that why you missed our meeting then? Some fucker had you in a cage?”
There’s a slight growl in Hobs voice as he has to speak his friend's fate aloud, he expects him to again be amused by Hobs anger but he simply looks away towards the window with no clear expression.
“…perhaps.” There’s no real intonation in his tone and Hob feels a brief stab of anxiety over what that could mean.
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In which Dream and Hob have a conversation which quickly leads them to decide that meeting once every hundred years isn’t quite enough for them anymore. -
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The famous Italian short story 'La Realtà di Tutto' is the tragic tale of two men who fall in love in the rolling hills of Calabria and are then separated by forces beyond their control. Nicolo di Genova- one of the few openly gay actors in cinema - has spent years trying to adapt it into a film, and he has assembled the best in the business to help him shepherd the film to success. There's only one thing missing just weeks from day one of shooting: the other leading man.
When Joseph Al-Kaysani - a moderately successful comedian - is cast in what Variety calls, 'the most hotly anticipated film on Netflix's docket,' and what industry insiders call, 'that gay mafia movie,' it's a complete surprise. Joseph is best known for his unflinchingly honest storytelling style, but there's one thing he's never shared with his audience or his family - he is gay.
But Joe isn't the only one with secrets.
_______________Inspired by a KinkMeme prompt.
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07 Aug 2025
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And here you are living despite it all by sharkie335
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
11 Jun 2023
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Joe escaped from an abusive relationship.
Nicky left the seminary and his old life behind.
They're stronger together than they were apart.
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03 Aug 2025
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"Nah--" The bad guy grinned. "Not you two." He waved his gun in Joe and Nicky's direction. "Those two."
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03 Aug 2025
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Love this nonsense and always want to come back to it!
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Dr Nile Freeman, the brilliant mathematician Booker engages to help find Quỳnh, is not entirely as she seems.
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“I’m not as young as you think,” she said. “My parents were mathematicians, father in the military, I was largely homeschooled and matriculated early. Maybe I’m a bit of an overachiever but not uncommonly so."
She spoke with a rehearsed proficiency. Something in it rang false, though he couldn’t say what. If she was lying she had a talent for it.Bookmarked by Golden___Raven
29 Jul 2025
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Forgotten meetings of secret mathematicians
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Booker meets Nile while she is still mortal. It changes things.
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[“Dude, you gotta help me out here,” she said again, “are you…en vie?”
The question made him laugh, which was a terrible idea. He breathed through the sudden roil of nausea and finally looked at the very determined Good Samaritan who had resolved not to leave him in peace.
“I am not dead,” Booker informed her gravely, “not yet.”]
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- Part 1 of THE OLD GUARD
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15 Jul 2025
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Traumatised scarf wearing Nile & married life
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Blood on the Side of the Mountain by anicewarmfire
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
25 Jul 2025
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It had seemed like empty threats, the claims that Lambert would not return to the keep for winter if his friend could not join him. Then the cat died and Lambert disappeared from the halls of Kaer Mohren. While Vesemir can't help but feel the absence of the youngest wolf, Lambert struggles to move past Aiden's death. Eventually Geralt's search for Ciri brings him face to face with a vengeful Lambert, but when the dust has settled will the path ever lead him back to the keep?
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To Feel the Sun Upon My Face Once More by anicewarmfire
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
29 Jul 2025
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Jaskier ends a tiring performance with a drink only to wake up in a dark cell, bound and chained. He is alone save for the witcher confined to the cell next to him who won’t even share his name with Jaskier. Their captors want information he cannot give.
Betrayed by his own brother, Aiden has endured months of torture, so many days passing that he stopped keeping count. A new prisoner arrives just as he is losing hope of ever setting his feet upon the grass again. While no one came for him – such is the life of a witcher – perhaps someone cares about the bard enough to track down the madmen holding them hostage.
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Do I have to be who I am? by persephonesprince
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski
19 Jan 2023
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Julian Pankratz is sent to Kaer Morhen to appease the Warlord of Kaer Morhen.
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01 Jun 2025
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Did jaskiers parents attempt to murder him? And will they ever stop pining??