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15 Jan 2026
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'Tis The Damn Season by Lolo (TheLittleLo)
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
05 Apr 2026
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Dear Stephen King, please forgive my transgressions for not setting this in Maine.
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Billy Stebbins never left the small town he grew up in. He works at the garage his father owns, lives with his mom, step-father and two brothers, and has never really thought about life outside his town.
When his best friend Ray Garraty's cousin Richard Harkness comes to visit for winter break, Billy and Richard begin to slowly realize they might like each other as more than just acquaintances that see each other once a year for two weeks.
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28 Dec 2025
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03 Oct 2025
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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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- English
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- 67,230
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- 13/13
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29 Sep 2025
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Nile is new to Montreal for grad school, but she's fairly hopeless setting up her own wards. She needs help. And for that, she needs to actually find a connection into the local magical community. She's never really been a true part of the community anywhere but her home as a child, so she doesn't understand all that much about it or magic itself, but she's learning.
And if the man she finds to help with her wards also happens to be trying to figure out how to build real roots in the city he's been living in for years, that's something she might be able to help with.
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22 Aug 2025
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Suowei can’t stifle a moan at Chi Cheng’s words. On the other end of the line, there is abrupt silence. Dangerous, calculated silence. And then…
“Da Bao.” Chi Cheng’s voice is at least an octave lower than it had been, and Suowei just barely catches another moan before it can slip out. “What are you doing right now?”
“What do you think?” he asks, his hand quickening its pace.
“Wu Suowei, did you leave my bed to go jerk off?”
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Suowei gets some education.
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- Part 1 of Good Things Come To...
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- English
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- 4/4
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04 Aug 2025
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When it was all over and this little chapter of their lives had come to an end, she left.
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04 Aug 2025
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i could be your frankenstein by incurableromancer
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
05 Oct 2022
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Booker joined a support group expecting to find support (also, perhaps, free coffee and cookies). He took a side job at a seasonal haunted house attraction expecting to make the spare cash he needs to get his student loan paid off. He did not walk into either experience expecting to meet Nile Freeman. And he certainly wasn't expecting her to be the breath of fresh air he's been unknowingly craving.
Or: Booker and Nile fall in love against a backdrop of healing, hope, and Halloween.
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06 Oct 2024
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She was a child of Night, swaddled in moonbeams, powdered in stardust. The celestial spheres sang her to sleep, and she raced comets across the starfields, laughing, swam and tumbled in the surf of supernovas. And so she grew, wrapped in her mother’s loving embrace, until she took a post at one of the countless doors to the Temple of Night.
Nile gradually met others like Andromache. It took centuries; her threshold was one of many, and the exiled souls were few. They remembered nothing of her or the doorway when they returned to their lives, as the veil of death was impermeable, but their memories came back when they did; and so she gradually got to know them. By the time she met them, they were accustomed to their strange fate, but she did wonder what it was like the first time an exiled soul arrived at the threshold. How would she know to turn them back?
Eventually, she found out.Bookmarked by StopCrying
03 Oct 2024
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Dear
Nile FreemanCorporal Peacock,You are cordially invited to a
murderous eveningdinner party at Merrick Manor this Saturday. Please take care not to reveal your true identity.Yours faithfully,
James CopleySteven MerrickP.S.: Relax. You are being blackmailed.
Clue(do) AU: Six strangers find themselves blackmailed to attend a dinner party at a remote manor in the English countryside. But are these people really strangers? And what will happen when nothing goes to plan and they find themselves with a body on their hands - a dead body?
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18 Sep 2024
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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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12 Sep 2024
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Some picture "stories" I made on Tumblr
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24 Aug 2024
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“You’ve watched me with my clients” He says when the silence gets heavy again and Nile thinks clients, okay.“I wasn’t watching you with your clients” she defends because his tone was condescending and she hated that she liked the harsh sound of it.
“I was checking on you, and you so happened to be doing that.” It wasn’t her best argument and it made her feel incredibly childish but she needed to say something. “Did you turn it off?” The undercurrent of ‘I know what you did’ is back and Nile presses her lips tight because she very much did not turn it off. She one hundred percent did the opposite of turning it off.
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02 Aug 2021
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So what happens exactly if two parts of a regenerative immortal are left to regrow in separate places? Any theories, gentlemen?
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24 Jul 2021
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14 May 2021
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A girl from the South Side of Chicago. A boy from the rough suburbs of Marseille. A second-gen Tunisian from Amsterdam. A hard-nosed Genoese who captains the Italian national team. A careless homophobic insult during the men’s World Cup final of 2026 sets in motion the series of events that leads one of the game’s biggest players to come out.
The Beautiful Game claims to be about football (soccer), but it is really about life itself. It’s about falling in love, choosing love, valuing your friends, making mistakes, learning from mistakes, building community, what it means to sustain a family, sticking through hard times, being at the top of your game, and desperate hope for the future.
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- Part 1 of The Beautiful Game
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- English
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- 141,998
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- 110/110
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20 Apr 2021
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Nile checked her gun. "How long does it take to get used to all the blood and guts?"
Booker laughed. "You ever seen Joe or Nicky when the other one's leaking badly?"
"So, forever."
"I can only say that I'm not used to it yet." He looked down at himself. "But if it's mine, it's not as bad."
"Is that why you jumped on the grenade?"
"I don't know. I saw it, I went for it. If I weren't immortal I would be dead many times over. I'm not a fancy fighter." He took a peek and got grazed on the side of his head. "Ow. Fuck. How are you handling the transition?"
"It's weird," she said truthfully. "Everyone's a million years older than me."
"Yeah," he said with a horribly insincere grin as blood trickled down the side of his face. "And they'll never really get it. Quynh was a hundred by the time Andy found her. Joe and Nicky died together. And then there's us."
Everyone else is very old and paired off, so Nile decides her cohort needs to unionize. Any good union comes with benefits, even it takes you both ten years to be ready for all of them.
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- English
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- 14/14
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20 Apr 2021
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A General Librarian by jasminetea for BeGhey_DoMothmens
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
16 Nov 2020
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“My gift is a sign of my vow to come and be wed and reside within your walls. To add my book and my life to your shelves.”
After she is forced to retire from the military, Nile is sent to be wed to the Lord of the Castle That Is a Library. Neither the Lord nor the Library are what she expect… but they might be exactly what she needs.
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19 Apr 2021
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Vaguely placed out West at the turn of the 19th century.
Booker and Nile dancing around their feelings until the literally get the opportunity to dance.
inspired by "Ballroom of Romance" by Celtic Woman
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- English
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- 2,353
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- 1/1
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12 Apr 2021
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“Book, look at yourself,” he says. “This is fucking sad. They’ve already lost their mom. Now they’re gonna lose you, too?”
Booker can’t look at Joe. He can’t see those eyes— Sophie’s eyes— so concerned and so sad and so disappointed. “Fuck off,” he says. “Get the fuck out of my house.”
Joe shakes his head. He bends over and saddles a duffel bag on his shoulder. “You want your sons back?” Joe says. “Get sober. Then we’ll talk.”
Fourteen months after the death of his wife, Booker hits rock bottom. But he didn't know that getting sober would mean gaining so much more.
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- Part 1 of The Steps Verse
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24 Mar 2021