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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
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A group is hired to kidnap Joe.
It doesn't turn out how they expected.
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(based on the "you don't have him, he has you" meme.)
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- Part 18 of Amiril Fic (Not Cover Art)
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30 Jul 2025
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Between One Breath and the Next by DreamingAngelWolf
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
13 Jul 2020
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There’s a lot on Nile’s mind on the night of her twenty-seventh birthday, least of all the fact that she’s stood underneath one of the most breathtaking natural wonders of the world and all she wants is to be back in Chicago.
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- Part 1 of In the Quiet Spaces
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11 Jul 2025
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he never asked me once about the wrong i did by incurableromancer
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
30 Sep 2022
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This house is big and drafty, is another part of the problem, and Joe is an old, old man. An old man in a much younger man’s body, yes. Joe does not know the ache of arthritis. If he wanted to go run laps outside he could, and then he could keep busy for the remaining hours of the day with all of his youthful energy, his excellent circulation keeping him warm enough to go on, in reality. But he is feeling cold and weary down to his bones today. Nicky knows. Nicky understands. And Nicky is wearing two pairs of socks right now, because the cold bothers him more than it bothers Joe.
Joe can’t remember the last time they kissed, and that just won't do.
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- Part 1 of Slice of Life Joe/Nicky Fics
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30 Apr 2025
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Breaking through the general chatter, the model called cheerfully, “Good afternoon, I’m Joseph, I’ll be your model for the day. I will be enacting a few different poses over the course of the class, I hope the muses are kind to you and I hope you are kind to me.”
“Depends on what you’re hiding under that robe,” a student called out.
Joseph only winked as he undid the belt of his robe. “The human body is never cause for shame,” he said, and let the robe fall to the floor.
Or: Three times Joe was a muse for someone else, three times he was inspired himself, and one time Joe's art inspired something very non-artistic
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25 Apr 2025
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“Nicolò,” Yusuf looks him straight in the eye, “I know this will change everything, and I am sorry, but you must know this: I love you.”
This declaration doesn’t bring the reaction Yusuf was expecting.
Nicolò’s brow remains twisted in confusion. “Well, yes. Of course. I know that.”
Yusuf sighs. This is going as terribly as it possibly could.
“No, Nico—” Yusuf holds Nicolò’s hands in his own, trying to convey the heaviness of his statement, “I’m in love with you.”
“Yes,” Nicolò says inexplicably impatient, “I am in love with you too. We are together, in every way. What does this change? I don’t understand.”
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24 Apr 2025
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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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31 Mar 2025
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the stiff heart by dana_norram, eiseul02
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
08 Mar 2021
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“Today I met a boy who escaped al-Quds,” Yusuf says, and Nicolò stares back at him this time. His clean face is solemn, his pale eyes almost sad, and Yusuf wishes he could see some anger in them. Anything but this. “They killed his whole family.”
“When you say them,” Nicolò blinks, and there is a twitch in his strong jaw. “You mean me. My people.”
Yusuf feels he has been running his whole life.
He ran from his duties as the family’s heir when he refused to marry the woman chosen by his parents. Yusuf eventually made a new home in Jerusalem, and he thought he was done running. Then the Franks laid their siege and Yusuf was killed and brought back to life too many times. Before he realised, he was on the run again. Only this time, he is not alone.
Or; a road trip around the Mediterranean in which Yusuf struggles with his new life, searches for the women in his dreams and learns how to open his heart. Also, there is only one bed.
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30 Mar 2025
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“And it didn’t bother you that the guard thought you were -- that we were -- ?” Nicolò asks, for what is definitely the fourth time, as they bed down, hopefully hidden from view by the reeds and trees of the Nile delta.
Yusuf sighs, rolling onto his back. “Do I mind that he thought I would be foolish enough to abandon all reason and take up with one of the men who helped sack Al-Quds? Yes, a little. Not enough to stop from using it as a perfectly serviceable escape route.”
“No,” Nicolò says, “I mean, that you would prefer the company of other men at all.”
Yusuf blinks, bemused. He hadn’t even thought of that. “As a rule, I try not to be insulted by accusations that are true,” he says drily.
OR: Five times they were faking it and two times it was real.
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28 Mar 2025
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Ode to Nicolo (and His Terrible, No-Good, Humiliating Praise Kink) by incurableromancer
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
26 Jan 2021
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That’s what struck him most of all. How obscene, how embarrassing a thing it was to be affected by, relative to all of his prior knowledge and experience. He didn’t think it was normal, was the thing, and that was the worst feeling of all, like he was depraved, somehow, and he had to find this out about himself when his tentative travelling companion went and said something nice to him, something that made his dick hard faster than he could process what the words even meant.
Or: Nicky has a thing for being praised, and Joe has always loved to spoil him.
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24 Mar 2025
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The Old Guard Movie Transcript - Revised and Expanded by StarWatcher
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
30 Aug 2020
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Expanded Transcript. Dialogue provided by Netflix. Description -- all the actions and reactions -- provided by StarWatcher. A gift to Fandom -- I hope you'll find it a useful resource.
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They kill each other once. Again. The third time, Nicolo stands and watches Yusuf heal before he pulls him to his feet. “Come. I will be gentle this time.”
Yusuf laughs at him. “You won’t have a choice.”
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In A Hundred Worlds (I'd find you and I'd choose you) by noangelsinthegarrison
Fandoms: Supernatural
22 Feb 2014
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It’s like a drug, this magical wardrobe, a compulsion. Four universes, he’s seen now. Four Deans who love him, who'll kiss him when his own will not. And he doesn't know if they're real, if these universes truly exist somewhere out there, or if they're just showing him what he wants to see but he's not even sure he really cares.
He takes a shaky breath and climbs through again.
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Stay away from the light-beds. Stay in the deep.
It is the first thing hatchlings are taught the moment their fans unfurl and they can swim without their parents to buoy them along. It is the first rule, the first law. It is the beginning of every boogey-monster bedtime story told when they settle against the cliffs to sleep.
Castiel should have listened better.
(Dean's Drabbles - certain scenes from Dean's POV.)
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- Part 1 of Out of the Deep
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‘We may have won the battle, but I fear the war with winter is just beginning.’
The aftermath of war is no laughing matter. Those who died must be honoured, those who are wounded must be healed, and those who remain need food and clothing, peace and sanctuary. With Thorin's life hanging in the balance, it is up to Bilbo and the rest of the Company to rule the rag-tag remnants of Erebor in his place.
Then there is the matter of the gold...
Can Bilbo save both king and kingdom, or is Erebor destined to fall deeper into ruin?
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- Part 1 of The Riven Crown Universe
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This time he would not let Thorin fall to madness.
This time he would not let them die.
This time he knew he could handle it.
This time he would not tolerate the wizard's carelessness.
This time he would claim what was his.
Bilbo Baggins was definitely not the hobbit Gandalf expected to find.