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if you're on a mission you got my permission by nightcamedown
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
15 Nov 2020
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Yusuf's jaw clicked shut against the deeply unfair, though heartfelt, complaint he had been about to make. He pushed himself up onto one elbow, and reached out to brush a hand tenderly across Nicolò's jaw. "Sorry for what, my love? Doing exactly what I asked, without hesitation or complaint?"
Nicolò's brow furrowed. "Yes?"
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07 Jun 2026
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“The Foundation’s Instagram post should already be up,” Shane continues, pulling his phone from his pocket. “And I can share - “
Several things happen quickly before Shane can finish the thought.
“David,” Yuna says sharply, her voice echoing in the empty hallway, and Shane jerks his eyes to her before looking where she’s looking, to where Ilya has staggered against David, who shoulders his weight without flinching. Like he expected it.
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Shane and Ilya hold a press conference to announce The Irina Foundation. Ilya is fine, until he's not.
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07 Jun 2026
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i’ll forget you by next year, some year by mellyflori
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
30 Mar 2021
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When Nicky was twenty-two, he was in love. With the world, yes, and with his own life, with the way having an Interrail Pass and some money in his pocket made him feel that anything was possible. But most of all, with Joe. With him, love was effortless. They laughed easily, they traveled together well, and they fucked like gods.
Nile never knew that version of him, the Nicky so in love that he stole Joe's t-shirt and stuffed it in his backpack, thinking he could wear it to bed and imagine Joe was still holding him. By the time he met her, Nicky had not only stopped sleeping in that shirt, he'd long-since shoved it in the back of his bottom drawer behind a spare blanket. After that, he could almost pretend it never existed.
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25 May 2026
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The Decree of the Tide, the Will of the Moon by Tam_Cranver
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
17 Sep 2021
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Deep under the ocean, Quỳnh drowns again and again in her iron coffin, until a curious merman finds her, and the two of them save each other. Or: a fix-it AU where Nicky is a merman and Quỳnh gets revenge.
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12 May 2026
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The Dreamer and the Exile by Highsmith, what_alchemy
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 Jul 2025
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Nicolò, olive tender and town pariah, finds a kindred spirit in Yusuf, a wanderer with a gifted tongue and a deadly secret, but Yusuf is always gone by morning. Will what he’s hiding be their undoing or the key to their freedom?
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09 May 2026
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Joe’s going to get over his break-up blues by sleeping with the most attractive person he knows who he’d happily never speak to again. And it works like a charm! The cursed kind.
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11 Apr 2026
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“Joe,” Nicky said, with a touch of reproach, using his weight to keep him still. “It’s a yes or no question. Or I can go to bed early. By myself.”
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11 Apr 2026
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Yusuf frowned further. “How can it possibly be that good?”
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11 Apr 2026
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show a little faith (there's magic in the night) by liadan14 for knoepfchen
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
20 Feb 2022
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Nicky laughs as Joe noses into his neck. “You’ll give me the wrong idea,” Nicky says. They’ve done this before enough times that Joe knows, theoretically, to steer clear of Nicky’s neck; it’s a hotspot for him and intentionally letting his beard scrape along sensitive skin is a little mean.
“What if it’s not the wrong idea?” Joe says.
Nicky pulls away to study him. “What do you mean?” he asks.
Joe shrugs. “What’s a little fun between friends? I don’t want to be alone tonight, and I don’t want to put myself through meeting someone new. Plus, you’ve been a very good friend, and you deserve to be rewarded for it.”
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08 Apr 2026
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It’s unfortunate that Nicky was at the same nightclub as him tonight, that Joe spotted him across the room throwing back shots, that Joe was unable to look away from the long line of his throat. It’s even more unfortunate that Nicky caught his eye and smiled so fucking widely before coming over to greet him; there was no polite way to escape the interaction, and all Joe could do was match Nicky shot for shot.
Nicky’s hand was clumsy on his arm, Nicky’s breath was mostly vodka ghosting over his face, when he leaned close and asked Joe if maybe he’d like to get out of there.
Joe was drunk as fuck and unable to say anything besides, “Sorry, I don’t fuck Christian missionaries.”
(In which Nicky thinks the mission trips he went on as a teen are a net positive for the world and Joe has a problem with that. (Un)Fortunately, it's not enough to stop him from hooking up with Nicky.)
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06 Apr 2026
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whatever here that's left of me by paigian
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
13 Jul 2021
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"Nicky is making himself a coffee, bleary-eyed from a fitful sleep, and trying to recall if Joe is drinking it this decade, and if he is then does he take it with sugar?, and he’s also thinking about The Odyssey, which is sitting in amongst a pile of books in the next room.
He’s thinking about a question written in the margins, scrawled in Booker’s handwriting: how long does it take for a man to return from war? Does he ever return, can he ever return, what does it mean to return home, when home is not home and he is no longer the same man?"
After Merrick, Nicky's right shoulder starts hurting, and it doesn't stop.
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29 Mar 2026
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must be an imaginary love (to start with) by kaydeefalls for andrealyn
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
03 Sep 2022
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In which Nicky joins a queer football club, makes some new friends, and offers to help Joe piss off his ex by pretending to be his new boyfriend. This is a very reasonable scheme that will definitely not lead to any feelings whatsoever.
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28 Mar 2026
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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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26 Mar 2026
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Historical AU set during the Fall of Carthage (2nd century BCE). When Carthaginian merchant Yusuf first met Nicolò in Rome, he thought him simply a pleasant night's distraction from the looming threat of war between their respective homelands. He did not expect to meet him again in battle outside the walls of Carthage—or, well…anything else that followed, really.
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26 Mar 2026
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bird in the hand by novembersmith for torakowalski
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types
19 Jun 2015
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This whole conversation had started in the midst of foreplay, both of them down to boxers and bikini briefs. Grantaire had been teasing Enjolras, trying to get her to talk dirty – it’d be a useless cause, except that Enjolras’s dry, slightly quizzical delivery does it for Grantaire every time. She’s pathetically gone on this girl. Also, every now and then, something extraordinarily hot slips out. Hot, or hilarious, or confusing, or an insane mix of all of the above.
Like, ‘I want your hand in me.’
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26 Mar 2026
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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.Bookmarked by MaeSeaStar
18 Mar 2026
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Nicky stares at the screen of his phone. He shouldn’t be doing this, shouldn’t still be doing this. It’s been years now. They both deserve better than this. It’s fucking unhealthy is what it is. But Joe’s message is clear as anything, sent not long after Nicky’s plane took off.
Come right over
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Or, Nicky goes home for the holidays.Bookmarked by MaeSeaStar
15 Mar 2026
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It's 1120, and Yusuf and Nicolò are living in Bukhara, having gone into business together copying books. Everything would be perfect, if only Nicolò could get himself to stop pining over Yusuf. But then Nathaniel ibn Isaac, a Jewish physician from Córdoba, comes to them seeking someone to help him complete a manual for an astrolabe plate he's invented. Nicolò enjoys the job, until someone starts making attempts on Nathaniel's life. Now his life, Yusuf and Nicolò's secret, and their corner of the scholarly community in Bukhara are at risk until they can find the would-be killer.
ETA 3/21/23: For folks who were interested in the research for this story, I added a bibliography of things I used that can be found online for free, including links. If sources on medieval Bukhara and astronomy and such seem like your jam, feel free to check chapter 11 out!
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10 Mar 2026
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It started with hair braiding. Which, if anyone had told Eleanor before she died that she would find love in playing with someone’s hair, she probably would have punched them. Or thrown a drink at them. Maybe even shoved them in a trash can.
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18 Feb 2026
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15 Feb 2026