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Andy’s wrist sits steady on the wheel. She puts her other hand on Nile’s thigh and Nile exhales in a rush. Andy’s palm is warm from her grip on the leather steering wheel cover. Her ring finger grazes the line where Nile’s thighs are pressed together, forward and back against the soft hair there.
“In that case,” Andy says, “don’t mind me.”
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In which the team debates the metaphysical nature of lasagne, Nicky loses his can opener, Joe asks the big question, and Nile has a conniption about a French skiing village.
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This is what Sunday afternoons were invented for as far as Nicky is concerned, making love, making time. There’s a reason they call it that too. Nicky has no idea how long they’ve been at it besides the fact the sun is lower in the sky than when they started, painting Joe’s skin gold through a gap in the curtains and warming Nicky's side. It's heady, unhurried, and there's not a thought in Nicky's mind 'sides the way Joe feels underneath him, clenched up around him, the heat and the friction.
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- Part 5 of the brooklyn verse
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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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There’s another world war on, and Andromache says their skills are best distributed widely. The world is a safer place, she says, when the sun never sets on them, so they split up.
Much like its predecessor, this world war won't be the war to end all wars, but Nicky thinks it's having a mighty good go at it anyways. The Western Front is just as despondent as it was twenty years ago, though, and being a medic is just as unforgiving. Nicky eats and sleeps and drinks himself blind with the rest of his company, and decides who gets to live and who can't be saved, and misses Joe with his entire body.
And he's not one for love declarations, not the way Joe is. He tends to keep the things he says out loud simple and exact and consistent. He can't wax poetic to save his life, not that it would matter, but lately he's practically tearing at the seams with things he wants to tell Joe.
Thank God for the postal service.
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the brooklyn verse by GayLittleEarring, nicelytousled (dtbird), yusufsmoon
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
24 Oct 2021
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Fics inspired by some of my favourite poetry.
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I couldn't help but ask for you to say it all again by crookedcrown
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
06 Aug 2020
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The five times Booker and Joe were mistaken for a couple.
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14 Nov 2023
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It's a square gem in an antique gold setting, real antique gold, with the sort of dullness to the metal that tells its age. There's nothing particularly ornate about it. The ruby itself is a simple cut – he’s not a jeweller, doesn’t know what to call it precisely, but it’s square-ish and bevelled at the edges – but it catches the light in such a way that it makes it seem like it has a thousand facets all across the surface of it. The rain creates a stippled effect, and even through two separate panes of glass Hob can see his reflection peering back at himself through the ruby’s deep face. £2500, says a placard set in front of it. Early 1900s RUBY pendant - real!!!
In 1989, drunk and heartsore and stumbling home from the soon-to-be-destroyed White Horse, Hob Gadling -- world's most loyal hound -- comes across a familiar-looking ruby in a pawn shop window.
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09 Sep 2023
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In the Last Year, 1718, the Seas Witnessed the Deaths of Two of the Worst Menaces to Sail. The Pirates Edward Teach, commonly Known as Blackbeard, and Stede Bonnet, also the Gentleman Pirate, once Captained Together before the ultimate Capture of Bonnet in October. By November, the dread Blackbeard was Killed in Battle; not a Month after, the Gentleman Pirate was Hanged for his Crimes at Charles Town. His Majesty the King ends this Curse of Piracy by Sending these Devils back to Hell.
Or not.
or: a retelling of the not-so-real deaths and eventual happy endings of stede bonnet and ed teach.
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03 May 2022
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seeking a friend for the end of the world by andromedaries
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
07 Jan 2022
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Even now that she has her power to see others’ thoughts back again, with Jaskier she hardly needs to. He wears his longing all over his face.
“Well, Geralt, I think Jaskier would like to get back to what he was doing, if you don’t mind. If you’re going to stay and watch, would you at least close the door? You’re letting in a draft.”(in the wreckage after ciri's possession by voleth meir, yennefer goes looking for something comforting. she finds more than she expected.)
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14 Jan 2022
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Joe debates the relative merits of making a fuss and decides ultimately that his best bet is to just make sure it’s a party he himself enjoys and, ideally, Merrick doesn’t.
Finally, when he realizes his lunch break is twenty-five minutes away and he’s wasted enough time thinking about this that he doesn’t want to actually start working on something real in what little remains of his morning, he picks up his work phone and dials the number Merrick dropped on his desk.
On the second ring, a deep, pleasant voice answers, “Hello, this is Nicky speaking?”
“Hi Nicky,” Joe says, twirling the phone cable around his finger. “I’m Joe. I’m supposed to help coordinate the holiday party with you?”
In which Joe is coordinating a holiday party over the phone with a guy named Nicky who keeps praising Joe just a little too much for Joe to be casual about about it. Thankfully, the nice HR guy called Nicolò Joe emails sometimes says it’s okay to date coworkers.
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