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Written for the S/H Advent Calendar 2022. This story is a Christmas fantasy miracle.
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Sometime after they stopped killing each other, Yusuf and Nicolo realize their feelings for each other.
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Rick Grimes, recently divorced and retired from the sheriff’s department after being wounded, decides to audition for a play, having enjoyed being in community theater years ago. While there, he meets some old friends from those days and makes some new ones. But there is one person there he isn’t sure about: Daryl Dixon.
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Yusuf and Nicolò are traveling with a camel caravan through the desert as guards. They are ambushed by bandits but the two warriors easily defeat them. However, fighting in the heat of the desert is too much for Nicolò.
This is Part 2 of my series, The Elements.
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- Part 2 of The Elements
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Nicolò wakes to find he has survived a blow from his enemy again, but what exactly is going on?
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- Part 1 of The Elements
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Nicolò would like nothing more than to take their lovemaking to another level. He might never have done it, but he knows the intricacies theoretically. What is taking Yusuf so long? Surely someone with experience such as him should have suggested it by now...
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There was a man sitting in the far corner of the living room, near the torn screen door. He was sitting on a rusted metal folding chair that looked like it might buckle under him, but he sat perfectly still, like a statue carved out of grief.
Daryl blinked, his eyes narrowing. He knew Will’s crew. He knew the regulars, the drifters, the desperate men who came for the free booze and the poker. He didn't know this guy.
The man - Rick, Daryl as had heard others call him - was a sore thumb in a room full of broken fingers.
The other men were red-faced, their skin shiny with grease and sweat, shirts unbuttoned to show sunburned chests. They were loud, taking up space, expanding with every drink.
This guy was... contained.
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Daryl Dixon’s life is a violent ledger where every day is paid for in blood and obedience to his father. His only hope of escape is a meager stash of cash hidden in a hollowed-out fence post. But when a quiet former deputy named Rick Grimes starts attending the Friday night poker games, the rules of Daryl's survival are thrown into chaos.
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Inspired - somehow - by Yusuf's tedious odes to Nicolò, Andromache gets it into her head to write poetry for Quỳnh.
There is, of course, one small problem.
Andromache is not a poet. In fact, Andromache does not like poetry much at all.
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Playing around with immortality is all fun and games until the moment you think it might be not.
— Four page historical flashback comic
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- Part 1 of Play Stupid Games, Win Sexy Prizes
Bookmarked by April_Valentine
03 Aug 2025
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Beautiful!
This is perfection. It captures their characters and is so. beautifully drawn. Thanks so much for sharing this. I've bookmarked so I can return to enjoy it over and over again.
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the difference between prayer & mercy by dana_norram
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
16 Jul 2025
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After being stored for almost three decades, Nicky isn’t surprised the rajika tasted stronger, richer, but now he almost wishes he hadn’t had that last shot. He’s not worried about snoring, though. He knows Joe never cares. Joe, now busy pressing their groins together, a hand sneaking under Nicky's shirt, palming his stomach, reaching for his heart–
‘It’s my new boyfriend.’ The words sound absurd even now, maybe especially now, and for a moment, Nicky wonders if he misheard them entirely.
He might have. He should ask Joe for clarification now that it’s just the two of them, but Nicky– he doesn’t want Joe to stop. He needs Joe’s hands, and Joe’s tongue, and the half words being whispered against his ear. Most of all, he needs Joe’s fire, for Nicky’s body still remembers the crash and the feeling of freefall crowded by the moment he stopped breathing as the water swallowed them whole. He has showered since, yes, but Nicky still can feel ice inside his bones, and he needs to be warmed from within.
What happens after Joe and Nicky leave the table?
(Smut, smut is what happens, and also feelings)