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yellowmelle · 3 months

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I'm making a little panoramic, accordion-style booklet and eventually realized there was a whole backside to deal with 🥴 . . . . . #accordionsketchbook #wip #mixedmedia #watercolor #bookmaking #artzine

#watercolor #accordion sketchbook #mixed media #bookmaking #art zine

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fabdante-sparda · 1 month

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so im folding zines for an event im vending at in a few weeks, anyone want a zine folding tutorial video?

im sure there's a few thousand online but i also know making zines can be a little intimidating so, since im already folding about 60 of them, i figured i could make a video if people want it to explain how i make them

(i also asked instagram but you guys usually answer more readily when i ask things)

#i think im like almost half way through folding #it's kind of meditative at this point #and if you guys want i can also do a tutorial on how to make accordion zines #i like accordion sketchbooks a lot and you CAN make your own if you really want and its nice

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milkrave · 1 year

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scans of a lil zine i made

#my art #sketch #sketchbook #zine #bookbinding #accordion fold #tracing paper #star #my drawing #drawing #graphite #ink

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drawmusic78 · 1 year

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"My rusty dolce vita!" Heute geht die Art-Collaboration #gemeinsamkreativersein der #dienstagscrew in die sechste Runde. 9 Künstler stellen sich der Herausforderung ein Thema mit einem Crewmitglied zu kombinieren. Diesmal steht alles unter dem Thema "Rusty dolce vita" oder "eingerostetes süßes Leben" in das wir dieses Mal meine Person einbinden mussten. Die meisten von euch werden mich vielleicht in den Bildern erkennen. Es sind zum Teil viele Hinweise versteckt. 😘 Schaut bitte gerne bei den anderen Künsterler*innen vorbei und lasst viele ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 da: @julideas @bienescreative @konfetti.werke @kevin.kuelsen @huckepaeckchen @kreativ_im_zwergenheim @kreativkleckserin @drachenfuerstin21 @drawmusic_78 . . . . . #artcollaboration #artchallenge #challenge #dolcevita #rusty #accordion #music #watercolour #watercolor_art #watercolors #watercolorart #share_watercolors #miniature #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #miniaturepainting #illustration #gallo #watercolourillustration #artistsoninstagram #instaartist #instaart #germanart #germanartist #watercolorlove #aquarelle #aquarellepainting #monthlyartchallenge (hier: Potsdam, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck9BemPrkKx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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girlzwfun · 4 months

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✦‎۟ ࣭ ⊹🍒 IN COLOR is a repackaged album by cheri released on JANUARY 15, 2024. the album consists of 15 tracks with the title track WATER COLOR. water color received only 2 wins during the promotion period.

🖌️ — tracklist

1. i got love

2. water color

3. killing me

4. colors

5. rose

6. roller coaster

7. 11:11

8. four seasons

9. feather

10. cold as hell

11. loveable

12. pastel

13. heart

14. childhood

15. water color (ENG.)

🖌️ — styling

🖌️ — contents

palette ver.

outbox ( 105 x 102 mm. ) + photobook ( 100p ) mini poster + accordion lyric poster ( 1ea ) + cd + photo cards ( 2 out of 10 ) + mini sketchbook & pens

canvas ver.

outbox ( 105 x 102 mm ) + photobook ( 100p ) + mini poster + accordion lyric poster ( 1ea ) + cd + photo cards ( 2 out of 10 ) + mini easel ( 1ea )

🖌️ — photo cards

🖌️ — era notes

• she’s a hitmaker she’s a star she’s the people’s princess k-armys still hate her tbh

• unfortunately she’s also overworked and you can tell

• but she hit 20 wins!!! lfg!!!

• the styling was incredible per usual

• and everyone loves the album inclusions

• cheri pc collectors are not having fun getting these pcs though they’ve been distributed horribly and why are they selling for $300.

• not a whole lot happened during promotions but cheri cannot wait for tour to start

#˗ˏˋ new romantics ⟶ ❛ cheri ❜#˗ˏˋ new romantics ⟶ ❛ discography ❜#˗ˏˋ new romantics ⟶ ❛ eras ❜#ficnetfairy #bts 8th member #bts female addition #bts female member #bts female oc #bts addition #fictional kpop community #kpop oc #idol oc #fictional idol addition #fictional idol soloist #fictional soloist #fictional idol community #kpop au

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shelandsorcery · 3 months

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put together a new selection of colours for my travel watercolour palette and did some swatching and tests over a fancy tea in a cafe this afternoon and it made my brain go ~brrrr~

that's an etchr brand hot press watercolour paper accordion-style sketchbook btw -- I'd been hoarding it thinking i should dedicate it to a particular project, since it's an accordion style sketchbook, but I have talked myself down from that weirdly precious stance and honestly i think I'll really enjoy being able to unfold to make the page I'm working on as wide as i need in the moment!

anyone else here use accordion sketchbooks? what do you like/dislike about them?

#sketchbook #cafe #watercolour

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annashadowstar · 5 months

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Mirage, Danny, and Annesa Felizima-@capturecharlesau

Crusher, Jay, Ulle, and Scottie -@jaytoons7

Amelia -@androidcharles

Brutus-@smoresthehalloweenqueen

Accordion and Violin -@bluetorchsky

Nicole -@lovelygirlnicole15

Cameron Calvin -@rarestdoge

Here’s the translation

Chapter 3: Food Thief

“ᔑ∷ᒷ ||𝙹⚍ ᓭ⚍∷ᒷ ╎ℸ ̣ ’ᓭ ᔑ ⊣𝙹𝙹↸ ╎↸ᒷᔑ?”

“∴ᒷ ↸𝙹リ’ℸ ̣ ⍑ᔑ⍊ᒷ ᔑリ|| 𝙹ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ∷ ᓵ⍑𝙹╎ᓵᒷ. ∴ᒷ リᒷᒷ↸ ⎓𝙹𝙹↸. !¡ꖎ⚍ᓭ, ||𝙹⚍’∷ᒷ ᓭℸ ̣ ╎ꖎꖎ ⊣∷𝙹∴╎リ⊣.”

“I ⋮⚍ᓭℸ ̣ ⎓ᒷᒷꖎ ʖᔑ↸ ⎓𝙹∷ ᓭℸ ̣ ᒷᔑꖎ╎リ⊣.”

“Yᒷᔑ⍑. Mᒷ ℸ ̣ 𝙹𝙹…”

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Mirage wakes up unpleasantly. Why? Danny busts into his room and calls for a meeting in 10 minutes. He did that to everyone else, making them a meeting in 6 IN THE FREAKING MORNING. Mirage walks down to the kitchen with a messing hair. He then looked around and noticed most of them looked very tired. Crusher hands Mirage a cup of coffee. “Want some?” Mirage gladly took it. “Why did you wake us up in the middle of the morning?” Mirage took a slip of his coffee. Danny sigh. “Someone stole our food again.”

Mirage almost spits his coffee. “Again?!” Danny nods. “They took only small amounts of our food and they left a note. Does anyone know how to read this?” Danny hands the note for everyone to see. Here’s what it says: gibberish. “How the heck do we read this?” Mirage asks, then everyone looks at Amelia, hoping she can translate it. Amelia's sweat drops. “Don’t look at me! I have no idea what it says. I don’t even know that language.” Amelia put her hand up as in surround. ‘But, aren’t you a android?’ Annesa asks with her sketchbook. “Not all androids know everything. They didn’t even have that language when I was awake. Plus, why can’t we do this later?”

Seems like everyone loses hope. Then their kitchen phone rings. Danny went up to pick it up while the others looked at the note the thief left behind. “Hello? This is Dan-” Danny was met by a loud yelling. “DANNY!! THIS IS BRUTUS!! I know it’s very early in the morning but please, come to our house and we will explain everything! Oh, and please bring a strange note with weird writing with you if you have any! Ok, Bye!” Brutus hangs up before Danny and says a single thing. Danny then walks back to the group, still trying to process what just happened. “Who’s that?” Mirage asks. “It’s Brutus. He wants us to come to his house with this note for some reason. Maybe he can understand this language.”

Everyone went back to their room and changed their clothes. Mirage finished changing and began to walk out of his room. This time, he didn't bring the feather with him. Mirage walks to his front door and waits for others to come. Crusher comes next. "Food thief, huh? You think you can read this?" Mirage rolled his eyes and took the paper from Crusher. He could make a few words. There's a word 'for' and 'your'. That's all Mirage could read.

"OK, we're ready. Let's go." Danny has to carry Annesa since she's too tired. Once they arrived at Accordion's house, he quickly let them in and put Annesa on Cameron's bed. "So, what's the rush and why do you call everyone here?" Jay asked, very tired, since it was early in the morning. "So, you all have this letter in your fridge with weird letters?" Everyone nods. "Well, believe it or not, those are from that lad."

Everyone rather tensed up or froze. That place is a nightmare. "How do you know?" Brutus bit his lips. "I'm the last hybrid that escapes from that place. They had been trying to teach other hybrids to speak standard galactic language." Brutus explains. "You know what they say?" Ulle asked, handing the note she had to Brutus as he took it and read it. "This one says... 'We need to live. Hope you understand...' I think I read some wrong... What does yours say, Amelia?"

Amelia looked at the note and couldn't make a single word out of it. Only a few letters. "Um... I could only make some letters. Like 's, o, y, and... that's all." Brutus could only sign. He’s the only one who knows this language. “Anyone eat breakfast yet?! I made some sandwiches. Scottie yelled in the kitchen as everyone followed. Accordion and Violin were talking about what they needed for the babies, Ulle and Nicole were hanging out, Scottie and Danny were talking about what should they make during lunch, Amelia and Annesa were having a drawing competition, Crusher and Jay were having a conversation about Jay’s magic, Cameron and Brutus were trying to figure out who wrote this letter, leaving Mirage alone, got no one to talk with.

Damn, just how much he wants to show his hybrid form. Then he clicked. When was the last time that everyone showed their hybrid form? Maybe this can keep their head away from that strange letter. “Hey, guys.” Everyone turns to Mirage. “We have a pool in our backyard. Since it’s gonna be very hot today, why not come to our house and have a little cool down?”

Everyone seems to like that idea. It will keep their mind away from the food thief for a while. "But let's eat up first before we start having fun. It's still in the middle of the morning after all." Violin points out. Everyone agreed and went back to eating. After breakfast, Mirage, Danny, Annesa, Amelia, and Crusher begin to walk back home, getting ready for a pool party.

Once they were in, Danny went to get ready for the snacks with Crusher's help. Amelia and Mirage help to put the table away from the pool so the snacks and drinks won’t get wet. Mirage took a peek at the pool, hummed, and went back to work. ‘Wait…’ Now he fully turned to the pool, which was found empty. There’s no water. “Oh boy… how do you fill the pool?” Mirage walks up to the empty pool and tries to figure out how to fill a pool. He looked around and saw a water hose, which might work. He turns the hose on, but no water can out.

Mirage tries to shake it and look into the hose but only ends up with a drop of water. Unknown to Mirage, Amelia may or may not have stepped the water hose. Once she took her feet away, Mirage was met with a blast of water, rushing onto his face. Mirage is not soaking wet. “Amelia, I swear I will get you back!!!” Amelia makes some nervous chuckles and quickly runs away to help Danny and Crusher. Mirage put the hose into the giant pool and it started filling it up, very slowly…

Mirage let out a groan. “This is gonna take forever to fill it up… maybe I could find something else to fill up the pool?” Mirage went off and tried to find a faster way to fill the pool. Amelia and Annesa come back with some snacks and some drinks. They placed it on the table and went back in to help. Unknown to all of them, a portal opens on top of the table and grabs as much food as possible, before closing. Mirage saw all of that. "Che cosa. IL. Diamine. What did I just see..."

"MIRAGE!!!" Mirage finched and turned back to his house, and saw Danny standing at the doorway. "OH MIO DIO! WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?!" Danny yelled/asked, also saw what just happened. Mirage could only sigh. "Our food thief."

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Annesa, Mirage, Danny, and Crusher were annoyed. The food thief has magic AND steals their food twice a day. This time, it was snacks. "We really need to deal with this food thief. We can't just let them keep stealing our food. The more they steal, the more money we have to spend." Danny sighs in frustration. They might have to cancel the pool party because of the food thief. There was then a doorbell. Annesa stand up and went to open the door, to see everyone ready for the pool party.

"Hey, dear. Are you guys ready for the pool party? You see a bit down." Violin ask. Annesa signed and let them come in. Scottie, Brutus, and Nicole bought some food and drinks for the party. "What's wrong?" Jay asked, noticing the atmosphere was a bit tense. "Food thief happened. Again..." Crusher answered. Everyone groans or sighs. "In the middle of the afternoon?" Accordion ask. Amelia nods. "How?"

"They open a portal right on top of our food and took, like, half of the snack on the table!!" Danny already had enough and wanted to get rid of whoever stole their food. "...We can still have a pool party..." Ulle tried to change the subject and lighten the atmosphere, which was not helping. "You're really thinking about the pool party?! WE HAVE A BIGGER PROBLEM TO TELL WITH!!!" Scottie yelled.

"HEY!! At least I'm trying to lighten up the atmosphere and try to push aside all the problems with have right now! Plus, this is a vocation for us. Shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves?" Ulle... did get a point... Since this is a vocation for everyone in the Toppat Clan. The chief did say they will send them some money if it's not enough. But they do need to find a job...

"OK, we will enjoy ourselves for now and deal with this 'Food Thief' later... Let's go and have some fun!" Cameron then quickly ran to the swimming pool while Brutus followed before all of them heard a big slash. Wait... the pool is already filled? It has been only an hour! Mirage jumped up and went to check if those two couples or ok. Cameron was giggling while Brutus was in the pool, which was half-filled.

"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR TRYING TO PUSH ME IN!!!" Cameron point and continue to laugh. Mirage sighs and looks into the forest. Maybe he could set up some traps.

After the pool was filled, everyone started to get playing. People slashing water at each other, some of them were talking, while the others were sunbathing, with sunscreen on, of course. Only Mirage, Danny, Annesa, Cameron, and Amelia stay away from the water because... well... What do you expect more from a cat hybrid and a computer mouse? Most of them were in their hybrid form. Jay quickly joined them. "Oh, hi Jay! Have fun?" Jay nervously chuckles. "Well... I'm not a big fan of water..."

"How come? I thought foxes could swim." Mirage asks. "Yes, foxes can swim, but remember I have firepower? So... yeah... That's the reason..." Everyone (Mirage, Danny, Annesa, Cameron, and Amelia) looks at each other and turns back to Jay. Danny makes a small smile. "Jay, you don't need to worry about that." Jay raised one of his eyebrows.

"What?"

"Yeah, we're now in a vocation. There will be no fighting for a whole year. Just enjoy yourself." Danny explains. Jay didn't say anything and smiled. "I will try..." This moment was ruined by Cameron, spraying water at Amelia. Amelia is now wet, very wet... She snaps to Cameron, who's laughing at her. "Just because you're a cat, it didn't mean I won't do anything to you..." Amelia's hand turns into a water gun and aims at Cameron. Cameron notices this and sweat-drops, then begins to run, while Amelia chases, what becomes a cat chasing mouse... or mouse chasing cat?

"Those two will never change... SCOTTIE!!! WE DON'T NEED TO WASH THE BREAD!!!" Danny ran over to Scottie and quickly stopped them from washing bread and other food. Mirage and Annesa sweat-drops at them. Mirage feels a pull on his shirt and looks down at Annesa's note. 'What are you gonna do with the food thief?' Oh yeah... "Um... maybe put some traps around? Oh, Maybe I can prank them! That will teach the some lessons!"

'And what do you need to make traps?' Mirage hums and looks back at the house. Maybe there's some stuff useful in the basement? "Tell Danny I will be right back." Annesa gave him a nod and went to Danny while Mirage went back to the house, searching for anything he could use to set up a trap for the food thief. He went to the basement and opened the light and OH BOY!!! There's so much stuff you can use to set up a trap.

There's even enough wood. "This might be some easy traps..." Mirage grabs some wood, nails, some ropes, and surprisingly, there's a net Whoever lived here before must be a hunter. Mirage grabs all of these and walks back to the pool, starting to build his trap for the food thief. Danny saw this and was about to ask what's he doing, but was stopped by Annesa. 'He's setting up some traps for the food thief.' Danny hums and lets Mirage do his things.

After like two hours, the trap has finally been set up. Now, all he needs to wait. "How's the trap going? Nicole asked. "Well, it's been coming alone. Once the thief steps on those leaves, it will set off a net and launch them into the air until someone helps them to get down." Mirage explains to Nicole. "Oh, good to know. just want to tell you to come and eat or else the others will eat them."

OH SHOOT!" Mirage starts running back to the pool. "LEAVE ME SOME!!! I HAVEN'T EATEN ANYTHING YET!!!"

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Night time has come and the trap hasn't moved yet. "Why are you still not asleep yet?" Danny walked up to Mirage and asked him. "I was about to sleep. Do you think the traps will work?" Danny hums and looks outside the window. "I think they will. Is pretty dark tonight. Go to sleep, brother. Let's just hope those traps will get those food thieves."

Mirage smiles as Danny exits his room. Mirage got in bed and was ready to sleep.

After, like, 4 hours, it was already in the middle of the night. Mirage got off his bed and went to use the bathroom. He then went to the kitchen and grabbed a cup of water then... he heard something. He quickly turns into his hybrid form and listens carefully. There was someone out there in the yard. His traps WORKED!!!

Mirage quickly put on his shoes and ran to the backyard to check on his trap. There! One of the traps was set off, and there's someone in it! It keeps struggling. "Ah HAH!!! THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR STEALING OUR FOOD!!!" The thing inside the net glares at Mirage before continuing to struggle. "Hey, I will let you down if you stop stealing our food."

The thing inside the net didn't seem to hear him. Mirage could only sigh and begin to cut the net. When he almost finished, a portal opened below him, making him and the thief fall through it. The portal the close and now Mirage is in the middle of nowhere. "Great... Just make it more difficult." Mirage turned back to the thief, who was now covered with ropes. It can't move anymore.

Mirage walks closer to get a better look. He can tell it has big wings and other small wings as their ears. "So... you're the one who keeps stealing our food, huh? Guess you just got karma for stealing." It didn't say anything but glare at him.

"Glare at me all you wanted, I'm gonna try to find a way back." Mirage only walks for a few step and look at the thief. This thief is a hybrid. He needs to survive... "*GROANS* I will free you but stop stealing our food!" The thief didn't say anything. Mirage raised his knife. The thief thought he's gonna kill him and closed his eyes, ready for dead. Mirage looks at the thief and walk closer before...

Starts cutting the ropes.

The thief feels the ropes are getting loose and looks at Mirage, who's cutting the rope as fast as he can. Once the rope was completely loose, he moved his wings. Mirage turns to the wing before getting slapped into the tree. Mirage hiss in pain and feels something sharp on his neck then look up.

Oh boy, he's dead. It raised his arm, ready to strike. Mirage closed his eyes, ready for the pain. The thief didn't do anything and decide to spare Mirage, not before leaving some wound on his neck, before fly away.

Mirage watches fly away and feels his neck, checking how big it is. Luckily, it's not too big. Now all he needs is to talk home... without knowing which to go. "You can at let sent me home..."

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3 hours... It takes three hours to get home... This is what he calls 'Pain'. Once Mirage returned to his room, he lay down after treating his wound. How is he gonna explain this? He was too tired to think so he was fast asleep. After, like, 5 hours of sleep, he wakes up and comes downstairs, to be greeted by Crusher. "Wow... you look awful. You sure you had a good sleep last night? And what happened to your neck?"

"Thief happened. Now leave me alone and let me drink a cup of coffee." Mirage grabs a cup of coffee and lazily sits on the chair. "Brother? Are you ok? You seem very tired." Danny asked, finished making breakfast.

"I only get 6 hours of sleep... You think I'm doing alright?" Mirage asks. Dude, why can't he sleep longer? "How about after eating breakfast, you go to sleep a little longer and tell us what happened to your neck?"

"Bet." Mirage finished the breakfast, put the dish in the sink, and beeline to his bedroom. "I never see someone eat their breakfast so fast. Surprisingly he didn't choke." He heard Amelia tell everyone. To be honest, he didn't care. He just wants to sleep and little longer. And he did.

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Hi! Shadow is here. Thank you for reading this chapter. Sorry for taking this long to post it. Want to play some Minecraft and I do need to continue to draw the next chapter, which will be a two-page comic. I hope you have and nice day and thank you for your patience.

#the henry stickmin collection #thsc oc #thsc #danny felizima #mirage #thsc crusher #thsc accordion #thsc violin #thsc nicole #ulle meadows #jay benson #brutus dan gerbreaker #amelia copperbottom #annesa felizima #scottie #cameron calvin #hybrid au

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yellowmelle · 3 months

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I made and filled an accordion sketchbook to make a little wandering zine. Video is on youtube, but here's a little trailer of sorts! (my literal video rendering skills are not the best but I tried lol 😅)

#finished sketchbook #accordion sketchbook #loop animation #mixed media art #art zine

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krampus-chai · 4 months

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Post it sketch portraits from a show I'll never watch + songs I like right now.

Artists note:

I've never finished or properly completed a sketchbook, so I'm going to try and do it at least once, have fun with it and try new things. I've got some things that slide open, a waterfall card, some accordion sketches, different textures, ect. If anyone has any favorite methods or techniques, hit me up.

#sketchbook #drawing #original art #euphoria #nate jacobs #uhhhh thats the only character name i know lmao #my favorite one is cassie i believe #bottom left anyways #hunter schafer is so and very #same with mr jacob elordi but he is over a foot taller than me and i percieve him as a threat

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lindsayraegun · 1 year

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Accordion Fold Sketchbooks:

damn image limits are upped to 30 meanwhile adding 4 images makes this site break

#work in progress #watercolor sketchbook #women in bloodsport #bloodsport #combat fights unlimited #cfu #women of wrestling #wow women of wrestling #kzt #masha slamovich #lady frost #ray lyn #randi rahrah #janai kai #zeda zhang

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the73rdpostscript · 2 years

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This is a not-so-serious fic about not-so-serious things. I call it: Snakes In A Can.

(Inspired partly by that post about Nile having her own apartment. I originally wrote for @raedear and figured i’d share it)

Nile doesn’t tell them about her apartment until a few weeks after she buys it. They’re thrilled for her, naturally, and Joe immediately offers to help her decorate.

Nile waves him off with a smile, “The point of buying my own place is filling it up with all my old crap from famous dead artists, Joe.”

It’s another few decades before they’re able to see it for themselves. They’re running a mission in a neighboring country, and on the way to meet Andy and Quynh they need to stop so Nile can pick up a few things. ("At last," Joe mutters beside Nicky, quiet enough that Nile definitely can’t hear it but happy enough that Nicky smiles back and squeezes his hand.)

The apartment is homey and beautiful. There was never any question Nile would decorate it well, but seeing the touch of her personality in every choice is moving. Nicky tells her so - admiring the collection of records she’s amassed. Nile thanks him with a smile and the intense expression she gets when she’s focused on the thing at hand. “Make yourselves at home. I’m gonna grab a few things.”

“Take your time,” Joe says – already leaning in to study an old faded poster for a romantic movie. (The title of the film is about love and sports and Nicky shakes his head at the predictability of Joe’s interests. He makes a bet with himself that Joe will complain in the car about not having enough time to see all the art and the sketchbooks piled on the bookshelves.)

Nicky leaves Joe to the living room and wanders into the adjoining kitchen. He spends a few minutes poking around in her drawers and admiring her choice in cookware (La Crueset. She does listen when he talks about cooking) when Nile herself sails into the room with a bag over her shoulder.

He watches her rummage through a cabinet, saying something about her organizational system and something about time. He really can’t hear what she’s trying to tell him because he has spotted it: The 2 very large jars of Prego “pasta sauce” sitting innocuously on the shelves.

Nicky has taken bullets for his family, been tortured for his family, and he has witnessed their suffering when he could not prevent it. But right now, he feels like he is bearing a burden just as heavy by saying nothing while Nile continues to speak to him as though she is not aware of the horrors she has allowed in her home.

“Here it is,” She says suddenly, slamming the doors shut and waggling a thermos at him, “Give me another minute and we’ll get going.”

Nicky nods, still struck dumb with what he’s seen.

They take off in the car after another ten or fifteen minutes, and Nicky sits silently in the back seat – feeling no pleasure when he hears Joe’s complain that he was too distracted by the art and wanted more time with Nile’s sketchbooks.

By the time they get to the cafe he feels capable of smiling at Joe again, but the restraint he uses to stay silent must be visible, because Andy finishes hugging them all and then keenly observes, “Nicolo you look like you’re seeing Quynh for the first time all over again.”

“He saw my emergency food stash. I keep Prego in the cabinets,” Nile says easily, settling into the seat at the table and performing nonchalance with a traitorous dedication.

Beside Nicky, Joe lets out a loud laugh, and Quynh looks confused for a moment before smiling as Nile explains what Prego is.

Nicky shakes his head, muttering half-heartedly in Ligurian and finally allowing himself a small grin at the sly glance Nile shoots him.

By the time Booker joins them Nicky is once again laughing with them all, but his mind is elsewhere.

That is why Nile gets back to her apartment a month later to find a gift of Nutella on the counter. She lets out a very startled shout when she opens the jar and an old-fashioned accordion snake pops out at her.

It will take another 50 years before she figures out how Nicky got back to her apartment and in and out before her. And the year she figures it out is about the time that they all finally call a truce on the retaliatory prank war that had been raging all that time.

#the old guard #fic #mine #nicolo di genova #nile freeman #Yes that is a Love & Basketball reference. I saw a chance to reference Gina and I took it.#look me in the eye and try to tell me that Nile doesn't LOVE that movie. You cant.#also shoutout to of-scythia for the post that kind of inspired this #Nile's apartment is such a perfect idea and I think about it literally all the time

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