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last man to die by small_grasshopper_celestial
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025)
07 Jun 2026
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Nicky’s brow had been furrowed, and in another life, Joe would have been seated next to him on the sofa, and not nearby in an armchair, and in another life, Joe’s thumb would have brushed Nicky’s soothingly, and in another life, where they were not broken by the loss of Quynh and the reward of Sebastien, Joe would not be bitter and Booker would not kind in his sadness. But this is the only life Joe has ever had, and so Joe is bitter and Booker is kind in his sadness, and it is this that makes Joe want to swim across the Mediterranean until he is dragging himself onto the shores of Palestine again. Maybe if he had been a better man, all those years ago, maybe if he had never killed in the first place, Allah would not have given everyone Joe has ever loved such grand pain.
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In which Quynh's disappearance ruined all of their lives, in more ways than one. One day, perhaps, they will all find their ways back to one another, but before they can do that, they have to find Booker. -
los de entonces by small_grasshopper_celestial
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025)
22 Jan 2026
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“And so I will love you?”
Quynh considers saying more than she already has and decides it will all come out eventually. Andromache is the one who asked, anyway.
“For the rest of your life. But it will not be an easy thing.”
Andromache tilts her head to the side, waiting for Quynh to go on.
“You will get older, and I will get younger. And then, one day, I will not know you, the same way that you do not know me, now.”
Andromache shakes her head. “You are feeding me tales.”
But Quynh can see that she believes her. “If I was feeding you tales, then you would have killed me before I had even gotten two words out.”--
In which Quynh moves backwards through time, death after death. She and Andy fall in love anyway. It's not an easy thing.
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Andy’s heart stops. All the blood leaves her face and rushes directly to her ears. The only thing she can hear is the sound of it pumping through her veins. Copley and Nile are both studying the photo closely, but Andy hardly notices them, even right beside her. All she can see is the blood, the look on her face, the tremble in her jaw as she died –
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She is almost four thousand years old – there is quite little that feels older than her in this world, but Discord feels older. She feels ancient compared to Quynh, especially with all of the knowledge she holds that Quynh does not. “You have been withholding it from me, a carrot to keep me here so that you do not have to find a stick. It is hard to punish someone who has lost so much, is it not?”--
For five years, everything goes smoothly. Five years of Booker in exile, five years of Nile on the team, and five years of Andy grappling with her newfound mortality.
But, like every other plan they've ever had, it has to go to shit at some point, and go to shit it does.
AKA the sequel we deserved, rather than the one we got. -
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She takes another drink. It’s almost sour in its potency. She licks her teeth and stares out the window some more, eyes drifting across the dirty street. There’s a tavern not too far from here. She’s already drunk, doesn’t need the alcohol. But she needs to feel something, anything, and unfortunately, throwing herself out of the window is a good way to get noticed.
Andromache sighs and downs the rest of her cup. She sets it down on the night table and ignores it when it clatters onto its side and rolls just to the edge of the surface and stops. Frozen in time, almost, on the cusp of falling but not yet given all the way over.Or: Two scenes, one hundred and fifty years apart. A study on Andy and Booker, and their monumental failings as partners.
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lay me in my grave (as you have lain in yours) by small_grasshopper_celestial
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
04 Jul 2025
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Strange, Andy thinks, the way the courses of her life and Nile’s are pulling them in opposite directions, granting them this brief junction for however many more years Andy can eke out, before they are separate again, left to have lived the vast majority of their immense lives without one another. Andy thinks, desperate for the briefest of moments, that she needs more time for this, for Nile, more time to guide her, to prepare her, more time to carry the weight that has been breaking her back for millennia so that Nile can live without the pressure on her spine. She understands, finally, why her mother cried as she went. Andy thinks she might, too.
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Or: Andy and Nile through the years, together, and apart. A story about mothers and daughters, about scholars and warriors and countless gods. About faith.
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gives & lives expensive jewels by almondrose
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
24 May 2026
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On a roadie, Hayden convinces Shane to come shopping for an anniversary gift for Jackie with him. Surely they're the only two hockey players at this Boston jewelry store, right?
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09 Jun 2026
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there are things i was never meant to keep (will you be another one of them?) by eurydicees
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
18 Dec 2025
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The first snowfall in Boston that year brings several things: a heavy layer of dirty snow coating all the roads of the city; a freezing, threatening cold to the air both inside and out; all incoming flights to Logan getting grounded before they could even think about taking off; and the breaking rumors that Ilya Rozanov is fucking men in his spare time.
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07 Jun 2026
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It is December, and Scott has been out for long enough to pretend to be used to it, and things are not perfect but they’re fucking good, and Ilya Rozanov is at his apartment for dinner—has been for over an hour—and he’s still waiting so stupidly hopefully to introduce a boyfriend who very, very clearly isn’t coming.
(Or: studies on coming out, learning patience, one-sided conversations, and other absurdist waiting games.)
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07 Jun 2026
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when you leave here by Idday
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
10 May 2026
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“It just feels like such a nothing story," Shane says. "But my mom’s so fucking... worked up about it.”
Ilya watches him. “I think,” he says carefully, “that your mom is also the parent of a teenage boy who played on that hockey team. And not just the manager of a person who is being asked for comment on a bad story. Yes?”
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(Shane was fifteen years old when he moved to Sarnia.)
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06 Jun 2026
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The morning after Ilya Rozanov kills himself, he wakes up next to Shane in their shared bed in their shared house in their shared life, and Shane is still sleeping, so he doesn’t know what Ilya’s done yet.
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06 Jun 2026