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Between her sons, Yusuf had been the fighter. He had been her bright star as a child, racing through the house, excited about everything he learned. He’d learned swordplay like it was a science; learned science like it was poetry; learned poetry like it was breathing. Ibrahim had been her steady pair of hands, hiding behind his brother when strangers knocked on the door, handing her spices while she cooked, always the voice of reason to back up his brother’s verses.
He leaves an empty, carved-out space in their home, and in his place, Yusuf has brought home a ghost.
OR: Yusuf's mother meets Nicky.
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03 Jan 2026
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The thing about being a thousand years old was that years didn’t feel very long anymore; they were an over-produced commodity. The years of studying at al-Azhar wouldn’t feel like much at all to him now, but back then, they’d lasted centuries, and perhaps it was because all the time he spent without Nicky felt interminable, even before he’d known who it was he was missing. He’d carried with him a vague and inexplicable sense that he was waiting for something to begin, though he knew not what.
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“I think I was in love with you before I knew you.”
Nicky laughed into the corner of Joe’s jaw, breath tickling his neck. After all these years, he’d memorized the shape of Nicky’s nose, the sensation of his stubble at every stage of unshavenness, absolutely every imaginable corner and contour of his body, and the more he knew it the more he loved it, like an old favorite song that developed new layers of meaning every time you listened. “Always the poet.”
“I really do think so, though,” Joe chuckled. “I die of love for you,” he said, switching to old Arabic, quoting Abū Nuwās. “And then I return to life so I can kiss you one more time,” he continued. His own words.
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27 Oct 2025
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How Booker, having crossed a line, is driven by stormy exile to his home country in France; and how from thence he made his course to some kind of equilibrium; and of the things that befell him; and in what manner Sebastien le Livre came back to his own country.
Booker shoots the albatross, fails to die, and makes his peace.
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- Part 1 of the ornithology anthology
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14 Oct 2025
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“Nicky brought the mustache style to Italy, you know,” Joe offers out of nowhere. He can nearly hear Andy’s eye roll. “I believe it was sometime in the early 1400s - wasn’t it?”
“Ah, yes,” Nicky says, with a sage nod. “You inspired me one morning, and I thought to shave off the bottom.”
“It was the eve before the Battle of San Romano, I believe, and not a man could take his eyes off of you the next day.”
“That explains why you died at least twice that day.”
“I am forever fixated on you.”
“You’re both kidding,” Nile says, “Right?”
“You should probably just sleep,” Andy advises. “They do this a lot.”-----
In which Nicky and Joe take liberties with recounting history, because it's fun.
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13 Aug 2025
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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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11 Aug 2025