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mortt-artsy · 4 years
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A lesson in history
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coffeebeannate · 3 years
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kaysanova + "stew of romance"
You just had to do it to me didn’t you, Kayla?
(I appreciate it IMMENSELY)
(Feat that ‘Stew of romance’ line Joe has and that Nicky promptly roasts him for in The Old Guard Vol 2: Force Multiplied that I still have to start properly eep.)
Mixing it with the movie verse because..I said so. IDK work with me.
The thing is, for all that Joe was a masterfully intense wordsmith, he had some truly..interesting turns of phrase that sometimes made Nicky pause, turn and ask if he’d heard him correctly-or stare at him incredulously and wonder what terrible corniness had temporarily possessed his husband’s language-portion of the brain.
That being said, Nicky loves those moments almost as much. Even if the phrase ‘stew of romance’ was one that Nicky teased him about for days. (Because really, “I like a good stew, Nicolò.” Was the weakest justification for such a phrase)
(Not that Nicky is immune from receiving as good of a tease himself, usually at the fact that he could sometimes just not help himself in making bets.) 
Joe had also taken to modern slang (any modern slang, it never depended on the time period, he adapted nearly instantly) like a duck to water. Which was how Nicky could hear “Can you hand me the spatula, darling?” the same day he’d hear, “Babe, where’s my pants?” (Though Nicky was glad they’d left the 90′s and he didn’t have to hear Joe call things ‘radical’ anymore, that had gotten..out of hand)
He loves him all the same, of course.
However.
He was wholly, completely and utterly unprepared for what having Nile around would do to Joe’s vocabulary. And if he had thought ‘radical’ had been bad, it was nothing to turning around from the coffee pot one early morning only to hear Joe whistling from the doorway and happily proclaim, (with a completely straight face)
“Someone is looking a snack this morning.”
Nicky blinked, slowly at first, then twice rapidly.
“...Pardon?”
Joe, apparently undeterred, crosses the kitchen in three strides, places a shockingly delicate tap to his hip and proclaims, more slowly. “A snack, you, dear.”
“I’m..flattered?” Maybe he was still sleeping. Maybe he was dreaming, or maybe Nile and Andy were around the corner and he was missing some truly intense prank.
“Mmm, you should be.” Joe says, drawing him into a good-morning kiss, feeling Nicky’s confused frown against his mouth, “Delectable, truly, the taste of you. Still all warm from sleep.”
Well, ‘delectable’ would be a more appropriate association with snack, and oh, for the love of-
“Nile’s been having fun, I take it?” Nipping teasingly at Joe’s bottom lip, smirking at the slight grunt he gets. “She has such a vast dictionary at her disposal, after all, why not put it to use?” Joe says, crowding Nicky against the counter, sighing when he occupies himself with finding a pathway down Joe’s neck. 
Why not indeed.
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moonlightperseus · 3 years
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7. Lightly kissing on top of a freshly formed bruise for tog, your choice of relationship
“You’re injured,” Quỳnh’s words were barely above a whisper as she stared at Andy.
This wasn’t the reunion Andy had wanted, nor the one she had even expected, but beggars cannot be choosers, and Andy had certainly begged for this.
Their attackers- an unlucky group who had thought the two women to be easy targets- were gone now, they were left alone again, staring at the other without speaking.
Fighting side by side with Quỳnh had been like coming home, they moved together with such fluidity, it felt as though they had never been apart- but they had, for five hundred years, and a lot had changed since they last fought side by side.
The nasty bruise forming on Andy’s shoulder was proof of that. Quỳnh’s eyes were locked on it, and Andy wished she had been wearing something other than a sleeveless tank-top.
“It’s just a bruise-” Andy tried, but Quỳnh moved closer towards her, and all the words she wanted to say died in her throat.
Quỳnh reached out but didn’t touch Andy, her hand hovering inches above the spot on Andy’s shoulder, “How long?”
Andy stared wordlessly at the other woman, her breath hitching slightly when Quỳnh raised her eyes to meet her gaze.
“How long, Andromache?”
Andy’s shoulders sagged under the weight of Quỳnh’s gaze, she ignored the pain in her bruised shoulder that came with the movement, “Six months.”
“You could’ve died,” Quỳnh was quiet again, her eyes dropping away from Andy’s.
Andy frowned, “They barely landed the one hit-”
“Not from them,” Quỳnh hissed, cutting Andy off.
She gave Andy a sharp look and Andy’s heart sunk, the realization of what Quỳnh had meant hitting her before the actual words came.
“I could've killed you,” Quỳnh whispered, her gaze dropping again to Andy’s shoulder, “if we hadn’t been interrupted- if I hadn’t seen-” her fingertips brushed against Andy’s shoulder, causing a shiver to run down Andy’s spine- “I wanted to-”
“But you didn’t,” Andy said, surprised to find her voice working- her brain had all but shut down upon Quỳnh’s skin brushing hers, “and if you had, it would’ve been well deserved.”
Quỳnh was silent, her eyes tracking the movement of her own hand as she continued to trace her fingertips across Andy’s shoulder.
Andy closed her eyes, resisting the urge to lean into Quỳnh’s touch, it had been so long since she had last felt Quỳnh’s  skin against her own, and the ghost-like touch left her craving more.
“I think,” Andy whispered, her eyes still closed, “if my last death were to come at your hand, it would be a mercy-” she forced her eyes open, looking at Quỳnh, who had gone still at Andy’s words- “for you, I would die a thousand deaths, and for you, I would happily die my last.”
Quỳnh moved so quickly that Andy hardly registered the movement until Quỳnh’s lips were pressed against her own.
Fighting beside Quỳnh again had been like coming home, but kissing Quỳnh again- there were no words to describe just how right it felt. All Andy could do was relax into it, letting her hands find their place on Quỳnh’s hips, holding her close with a firm but gentle touch.
When they finally broke apart, needing to regain their breath, Quỳnh leaned her head down just over Andy’s shoulder- close, but not touching. Andy subconsciously followed the movement, her nose brushing against the top of Quỳnh’s hair.
“I think-” Quỳnh paused to press an ever so delicate kiss to the bruised spot on Andy’s shoulder- “I would much prefer if you lived for me.”
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nilefreemans · 4 years
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160, Andy/Quynh!
It wasn’t a guarantee, not anymore, not after Lykon - but they would survive this, they had to. There were two men waiting for them, counting on them to save them. 
That didn’t mean Quynh couldn’t be annoyed at the situation.
“First we survive this, then you can yell at me.” Andromache says smiling, blood in her teeth as she raises her labrys slashing down at another enemy. She’s breathtaking in all of her deadly fury and Quynh understands why she had been known as a goddess so long ago.
“When we get out of this, we are going to-” Quynh grunts as a man stabs her side, but before she can take him down Andromache is at her side and the man who had hurt her is long dead. “We are going to take a damn vacation.” 
“We’ll go to your homeland,” Andromache suggests and Quynh grins, memories of the last time they were there still pleasant in her mind even after all these years. “We’ll teach our brothers how to hunt properly, and we will make love under the stars.”
“Romance now Andromache?” Her beloved laughs and offers her a sword from one of the bodies she had cut through, Quynh takes it, letting her fingers linger on Andromache’s own. A touch, a tether. 
They continue their way through the enemy camp, leaving no one who dares cross their paths alive. They share a deadly dance, blood spilled around them like petals from a rose, the clash of steel their applause, the dead their audience. They are beauty and pain, a sight that survivors would whisper about in the dead of night. Angels of death.
Finally, their victory is sealed and they take a moment to just breathe. Andromache bends forward so that their foreheads touch, and they calm one another, their heartbeats beating as one. 
The night has fallen and Quynh shivers from the adrenaline crash and the cooling of the night air. Beside her Andromache sighs, her shoulders slumping as her own exhaustion takes her. 
“I’m still mad you let them be taken,” Quynh reminds Andromache, but there’s no heat in her words, only amusement. She had left the three of them at their camp to travel for the town and had come back to Andromache breathing back to life while their brothers had been dragged away. “I leave for one day-” 
“Yusuf can tell you the tale, he’s the poet,” Andromache interrupts, looking only slightly embarrassed, and Quynh supposes she can wait for the tale. Yusuf has a way with words that her beloved did not share, and she looked forward to hearing Nicolo’s quiet corrections as they both pretended not to be hopelessly in love. 
Perhaps tonight she could finally win back her favorite dagger from Andromache, this bet has been going on long enough. 
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bookersebastien · 3 years
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thoughts on quynh's first impressions of booker and nile?
ahdjdks listen i love booker and all but i just need 2 old 2 guard to pick up where the first leaves off and just quynh beats the shit out of booker for betraying her family and almost killing andy and then she just fucking loses it over the state of his apartment because he deserves it and she wasn't trapped in the ocean for 500 years to almost coming back to everyone gone. however after that i think she'd find bookers cynicism and self deprecating jokes kinda funny and would love his "whatever works" fighting style because she saw him obliterate someone with a lamp and now she wants to try
as for nile, she'd fucking love nile. she'd be the sweetest to her, letting her know that she knows it was hard to leave her family but makes sure she knows that the guard is her family too and that they love her. she would love the idea that she would get to teach nile things and also has someone raised in this century to teach her as well
send me thoughts on _______?
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18 and 19 for the fanfic asks! :)
18.  Do you have a fic reading/writing routine?
I’m an outliner. And I outline HEAVILY, even sometimes writing lines of dialogue or descriptions that go unchanged in the final edit. I also tend to write scenes with lots of talking through without adding any descriptions, even of who’s talking, then go back and add that stuff later. I like to think it makes my dialogue sound more natural since I just let it flow, idk if that’s true though.
And as far as my routine for where I write.... I don’t really have one. Lately I’ve been sitting in my 3-year-old’s tree/playhouse writing while he runs through the sprinkler lol
19.  What’s your favorite character headcanon?
Right now? I’ve been obsessing over Nicky pledging himself to Joe as his sworn Knight at some point. I saw it SOMEWHERE, but I can’t remember where, and now it won’t leave my brain!! It’ll probably be the next thing I do after I finish my current WIP. 
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togpositivity · 4 years
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A shout out to @afterlaughy her writing is so wonderful. She's really helping to carry the andy x quynh tags and I for one am grateful to her for doing so.
Positivity for @afterlaughy ❤️
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waxwingsfail · 4 years
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I've been thinking excessively about Andy and sea shanties. She's got to know basically all of them just from travelling or from her time aboard ships looking for Andy. The consequences of this have to be that she sings them randomly and if/when Quynh comes back thats got to be a problem
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lgeelove · 3 years
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tag nine people you want to get to know better! I was tagged by @afterlaughy 😊
last song: Seven Wonders by Fleetwood Mac
last movie: Rebecca (2020)
currently watching: I'm rewatching The Haunting Of Hill House
currently reading: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
currently craving: chocolate (as always) and love (as always)
I'm tagging @awryjigsaw @alwayshungrytoo @oreohamster @theircrookedheart
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etherealperrie · 4 years
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tagged by @afterlaughy, thank u!! 💛
rules: list your favorite characters from 10 different fandoms and then tag 10 people.
what follow is in no specific order
1. Maeve Wiley - Sex Education 
2. Bella Swan - The Twilight Saga 
3. Midge Maisel - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 
4. Helena Bertinelli - Birds of Prey 
5. Rey - Star Wars 
6. Sabina Wilson - Charlie’s Angels (2019) 
7. Schmidt - New Girl 
8. Steve Trevor - Wonder Woman 
9. Tris Prior - Divergent  
10. Lady Mary - Downton Abbey 
I don’t feel like tagging 10 people, but I will tag: @wasabiholland @feminismercury & @isitstraightvodka (also anyone else who wants to do this) 
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diving-llama · 4 years
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rules: tag 10 people you want to know better.
tagged by @afterlaughy. thanks for the tag and all your thoughts on the old guard, andy x quynh.
relationship status: single and pretty happy about it
favorite color: blue
three favorite foods: (the hardest one to answer on here) lemongrass chicken bahn mi, hurricane popcorn, coconut milk ice cream
song stuck in my head: gimme time by snow tha product
last song I listened to: take it all by adele
last thing I googled: i was double checking the meaning of ‘swarthy’ and found it specifically refers to dark-skin and is not the same as someone with dark features
time: 10:17 pm
dream trip: iceland
anything I really want: to reach the potential people keep saying i have
10 people? i dunno if i want to know about that many ppl, lol. let’s go w/ @save-the-witch, @female-overlord-3, @fuckyeahisawthat, @yumekuimono.
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olivergrahams · 5 years
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#WHAT DO YOU MEAN POPPY#OH SHIT#HOLD ON ONE FUCKING MINUTE#THEY WERE ALL POPPY#I AM LOSING MY MIND OSMEBODY HOLD ME#WHY AM SO STUPID OF COURSE ITS POPPY TALKING YOU DUMBASS#BUT HOLY SHIT ITS POPPY TALKING ITS NOT THE CRAINS#FUCK U POPPY#thohh
( x ) im screamin @afterlaughy
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coffeebeannate · 3 years
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One person pouting, only to have it removed by a kiss from the other person. | quynh and andy please...
Anon Friend!
I am so sorry I kept forgetting this askdjdna PLEASE FORGIVE ME. I hope this makes up for it.
Types of Kisses Prompts
The alt ‘Quynh never got put in the coffin’ au timeline I’ve decided to keep writing in.
“Andy.”
Silence.
“Andromache.”
More silence.
“Andromache the Scythian.”
Continued silence.
Sigh.
“Andromache, love of my life, who I am considering slowly and carefully lovingly stabbing with the finest of my knives. The woman who lights up my earth, the fire in my blood and the radiance in my bones-”
“Bone’s don’t glow, Quynh.” Though she continues her pouting.
“Oh? Then tell that to those X-Ray machines they use now.”
“That’s radiation, dearest.”
“Radiation for radiant bones!”  Quynh’s crawled into her lap now, Andy forcing back the giggles that want to spill in favour of her valiant effort to keep pouting.
“That doesn’t even make sense.”
“Does it not?” Quynh protests, slightly curious. “Neither of us are that scientific.”
Andy’s still pouting, but it’s slowly twisting to more of a smile, which Quynh steals right from her lips with her own. There’s an admirable grunt in protest before Andy relaxes into their ancient dance, only this time her pout is for when Quynh pulls away to breathe, keeping their distance minimal.
“No, bones still don’t glow.”
“Perhaps not,’ Quynh admits, willing to accept her defeat with the goal achieved, returning to their kisses.
“But you do.”
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moonlightperseus · 3 years
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164. “Kiss me or kill me. It’s your choice.”
i am once again, shifting a prompt slightly to fit the niche that is sitting in my head. thank you for the prompt though!!!
“Kiss me or kill me, Andromache,” Quỳnh whispers without so much as opening an eye, “but please stop hovering over me.” 
Andy blushes, but she doesn’t move off of Quỳnh, “I thought you were still sleeping.” 
“Yes, well, it is hard to do so with you breathing in my face.”
“I’m sorry,” Andy tilts her head  forward, resting her forehead on Quỳnh’s shoulder, “I’ve just missed this.” (Missed you.) 
“You have missed subjecting me to your morning breath?” Quỳnh teases softly,  but she brings a hand up to card her fingers through Andy’s hair. (I have missed you too.)
Andy shifts slightly so her eyes can find Quỳnh’s, and sure enough, the other woman’s eyes are open now, staring back at her with so much adoration in her eyes it made Andy’s chest physically ache. 
“I love you,” Andy whispers. (I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I should’ve looked harder for you. I will never forgive myself for this, but I am sorry.)  
“I know,” Quỳnh responds with a smirk, before gently tugging at Andy’s hair, trying to pull her her head closer to her own.  
Andy complies, for Quỳnh she will always comply, she lets Quỳnh guide her head back upwards, until they are nose to nose, their faces mere inches apart.
“And I you,” Quỳnh says, before tilting her head just slightly upwards to meet Andy’s lips with her own. (You are forgiven, my love, you are always forgiven.)
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nilefreemans · 4 years
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18 and 28 for the ask meme!
18: Favorite cheesy trope?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S ONLY ONE BED???!!!??? oh but it’s big enough for two but not big enough that we can’t accidentally touch, and its cold too???? damn I guess we better snuggle for warmth
28: Your icon is now the voice of your inner therapist. How is this gonna go?
I’d like to think Nile would be kind, she’s very insightful that way, but also poor girl I’ve got so many issues I wouldn’t want her to deal with that
send me asks
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how-to-sit-gay · 5 years
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debbie's german rant at the security guards is also one my favorite scenes!!!! seriously top 3 funniest moments from the whole thing. i laugh like an idiot each time
it’s amazinG!!! Fun story: I watched the movie in English in the cinema and was completely confused at first about the subtitle cos ‘I understand everything, why are there subtitles?!’ :D now I’m curious, what’s the 3rd moment? :)
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