#ghost quynh

[bakingmoomins]

sometimes i open my wip folder and start trembling after seeing a very good concept i came up with and I need to scream for a second because i want to read it but that means I have to write

[toxotesj]

What exactly is the vibe here? Unclear, but feel free to tell me! Are they both dead without ever reviving, sharing a very nice tomb in a “there was only one bed” situation (and falling in love as ghosts)?

Did Joe sneak Nicky Content into a window he designed?

Do they own a bunch of gravesites in a ‘dads picking out a burial plot’ kind of way?

Is this just a fancy window in their cottage in Malta (I bet they built that thing how I build in the Sims: all my favorite things, not caring if they match).

Whatever it is, everyone certainly is yearning. (please notice the sun/moon, where Nicky is looking, and that Andy/Quynh weapons are also in this)

[moxiebustion]

I had an idea for the Old Guard and Sherlock Holmes a few months back, which goes like this.

John Watson is an immortal.

He doesn't remember the year he was born, but it was after Andy and just before Quynh; and in any case the calendar has changed over more than a couple of times since then.

He is, in an incredibly unlikely scenario, killed by Andy the first time, because this was way back in Andy's crusading days and there have been plenty of invaders to Albion. They kill each other and dumb chance has one of them getting washed away by a river or something and hey, look at that, no dreams, because technically they have met before. Hardly a meeting to engender the warm fuzzies in any case. Life goes on.

Andy goes back to her wandering.

Watson, after many aimless years believing himself to be cursed to be a walking ghost, watching all the people he falls in love with die, falls in with a leader of men - a truly unique mind - and it lights a spark and gives him a purpose, finally. When the king dies, he makes John swear that he will defend his lands and his people until his last breath, which, you know, might be a while. Watson vows it, and Watson is not a man who breaks promises.

Sometime in the ensuing centuries and far to the east, Andy finds Quynh (or more accurately, Quynh finds her) and oh, hey, those dreams were about an actual person, they're real, Andy is not alone. There is much rejoicing, etc, etc, and Quynh says hey, we might have to go find the other one.

And Andy is like... what the fuck?

So they head back west and lo and behold, it's the damn random soldier that wouldn't quit and got tossed into a river for his trouble. And he's amazed, astounded, enthralled. Well, he is after they've clashed swards a few times; in Watson's defense, he has no idea what the fuck is happening. He's been haunted by weird dreams of a lady getting it on with his murderer for years and, you know, this is centuries pre-Jung, he has no explanation at all for this except that he might be going ever so slightly, benignly insane.

So, anyway. Blood is spilled, then swords are disarmed, explanations are had, amazed, astounded, enthralled etc etc.

Andy says you should come with us.

John, channeling his inner Hobbit two and a half millennia before JRR Tolkien was even conceived offer her a polite thanks ever so much, but, um, no.

Andy's like, what the fuck?

And Watson is like, well, I made a promise, and you don't break promises, do you? I swore to protect these lands and by gum, I'm going to do just that, thank you.

And Quynh says, aren't you bored though?

And Watson just give her a slight smile because at this point he's had three wives and two husbands and has raised innumerable orphans and says well, no. Not really. Wherever I go I find interesting people. Truly unique minds. My king rises again, you see. And so do all my friends. They rise again and again. I see them everywhere, in every genius, every artist, every eccentric who takes a chisel to the universe and cracks it open. They're always there if you care to look. And I swore I would protect them and I'll keep my word, so I will.

Andy looks at him like he's insane, but shrugs and says, well, when you change your mind come and find us, we'll be out there doing some actual good.

And Watson just gives her a little smile and said gods go with you then, Andromache the Scythian. You'll have a hope and a sword arm with me if needed, but otherwise I'm staying right here, thank you very much.

And that's that.

Andy expects Watson to join them eventually. He never does. It drives her fucking mental, which means she respects the hell out of him for it.

Time goes on. Life goes on. Seven husbands and three wives later, Watson meets the new guys. He adores Nicky and Joe - he's known as Galvagin by this period of history, and Nicky and Joe are fascinated by this immortal who has travelled every continent in earth (and married on them), but never wanders. He has a home. He has people who know he's immortal in his home. His spouses all knew, so do most of his children. They keep the secret. He becomes a local cryptid of sorts. Oh, yes, that's just the old soldier's house, ha ha, they say he's immortal, ha ha. And no one ever examines the joke too closely. Besides, some old-fashioned jingoism helps keep the secret too. He's their immortal, isn't he? Proper British and all that. It's not as if he's some foreigner.

The Old Guard come and go through the years. Sometimes Watson will join them on a grand adventure or a fight for a few years, but he'll always head home. Sometimes they'll lodge with him and explore every nook and cranny he knows of the isles. Andy and Watson's relationship becomes strained after Quynh is lost, because look at you, why do you defend them?? But Watson gave his word and he will not break it, even for Andy. What people are without sins, he asks, without treachery and cruelty and ignorance? The Old Guard has helped plenty of pretty shady regimes in their time. They can only be made better, only helped to change. He will search every inch of the coast, he promises, he will chase every rumour and every hint that comes to him. He will sail every boat that might conceivably travel across where she might be. He will try. But he will not leave.

He does help search. But eventually the others, grieving and in despair, must leave again. Watson promises to keep his eyes peeled in the meantime, a solitary watchman.

Watson doesn't see them again - except for letters - until the advent of Booker. He connects with Booker over his grief - oh, how many children has Watson lost! Spouses too! And over an astounding number of stories of unique minds, his resurrected friends, that Watson has found over the years. Watson is himself a very interesting man, and a good storyteller and Booker shares this love of stories. He tells him if he ever needs respite, he can come to Watson's home for a while.

Booker opts to stay with the Old Guard only because he still doesn't like the English very much, and also because running into jobs and missions sometimes distracts from the wailing grief inside his head.

When they finally all meet again, Victoria is on the throne, steam trains are ascendant and Watson has shacked up with another unique mind at 221B Baker Street.

He's an interesting one, Watson, who is now Watson properly on paper. And he smiles. He has found another friend, risen again.

Why John? Andy asked.

Boring, Joe says, who is still somewhat smarting over Joseph Jones.

John shrugs and says: There's enough Johns to make it commonplace, and I'm pretty commonplace. And Watson because, what son am I, where is my father? I do not remember.

Besides, he adds ruefully, no one uses Galvagin these days. No one east of Wales can pronounce Gwalchmei correctly...

(Booker nods in fellow feeling).

And Gawain just sounds pretentious. So... John.

It is a good name, Nicky Smith smiles.

And in the corner Sherlock is losing his goddamn mind because he had a) no fucking idea what kind of mismatched pidgin they are speaking and b) every single logical deduction he tries to make about these people all make perfect sense until they open their mouths and start talking about their lives, and then it's like OUT OF CHEESE ERROR, REINSTALL UNIVERSE AND REBOOT.

The problem with John Watson is that you have to eliminate the impossible, and the marker for that keeps fucking moving.

(Mycroft, on the other hand, as this era's Copley, sweats bullets every time John gets within spitting distance of the Stone of Scone)

[throwingbread]

10 fic for International Fanworks Day. Here are some fics from my bookmarks that need more love, in no particular order.

Those Who Come Closest (30325 words) by dagas isa Chapters: 11/11 Fandom: Final Fantasy X Summary: How do ordinary people become Fayth? It takes a certain amount of desire, dedication and desperation. These are their stories. Propaganda: You want worldbuilding? This fic has got worldbuilding out the wazoo.

Apprentice of the Beast (1651 words) by JetBlackKobold Fandom: Final Fantasy XV Summary: On their journey to the Disk of Cauthess, five men stop to rest and, bound in each other's company, talk a little. Ardyn is a strange man with a fondness for old stories, poems, songs, and rhymes. With a little prompting, he shares a story about a Beast and a Soldier whose good intentions are corrupted by power. Propaganda: Backstory, in Ardyn’s own words.

The Endlings (664 words) by TheBrightestNight Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics) Summary: end∙ling /εndlŋg/ n 1 the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. Propaganda: Extinct animal feels.

at the last trumpet (9830 words) by liesmyth Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir Summary: the line of the Tomb-keepers demands an heir, no matter the cost. Featuring a small-scale genocide, the breakdown of a marriage, an angry ghost of the MILF persuasion, and a normal amount of bones. Propaganda: Yes more worldbuilding. Glorious cursed necromantic worldbuilding.

freedom so liberating that we call it magic (2566 words) by EtchJetty, FlaringK Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Summary: People don’t talk about Sheik that much. It must have been hell for Zelda, to pretend to be a gender she wasn’t. Especially if she had done it before. (or: what if zelda was a girl?

Propaganda: TRANS GIRL ZELDA

setting sail, coming home (5989 words) by beaufort12 Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Hades (Video Game 2018) Summary: In which Zagreus escapes the underworld, keeps running, and never looks back. Propaganda: Shameless fix-it fic.

The Moonstone (21266 words) by Vriah, gisho Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022)

Summary: Morpheus finds a way to avoid killing a vortex - he gives Rose his own heart, forcing her to take his place as Dream. The new Dream has to deal with a life she never expected and try not to repeat her predessor's mistakes. In the waking world, the people she left behind grieve and wonder. And when Roses's little brother Jed is offered the chance to switch from superhero to questing knight, with some help from an old friend, he leaps at the opportunity. Propaganda: My boy Jed!

Lampshades on Fire (5739 words) by ostreatus, stellarators Fandom: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Summary: Or, How Dr. Olivia Octavius Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Morally Unambiguous Nature of her Violent Actions. Summary A review of the scientist-to-supervillian pipeline, based on a longitudinal case study.

Propaganda: The villain origin story we were so cruelly deprived of in canon.

built a lot of castles (12055 words) by basketofnovas Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020) Summary: In the eighties, Quynh is rescued by a marine archaeologist, and finds herself in an alien world with no easy way to contact Andromache - or even know she's alive. Propaganda: In which Quynh receives some much-needed comfort in the form of random human kindness.

Inferno Seized (14726 words) by MuseofWriting Fandom: Hades (Video Game 2018)Relationships: Asterius | The Minotaur/Theseus ( Hades Video Game) Summary: The monster went to Tartarus. The hero went to Elysium. Or, depending which storytellers you asked, and which songs you heard, maybe the Underworld got it backwards. Or maybe neither of them were monsters or heroes. Maybe they were just imperfect beings, tied together, messily, terribly, inescapably. This is the story of how they found each other. Propaganda: Look its the most eloquent Minotaur/Theseus fic I’ve ever seen.

[kaydeefalls]

WIP Ask Game

tagged by @what-alchemy - thanks!

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it. Tag as many people as wips.

I am once again restricting this to WIPs that have been touched within the past year, or I'd be listing a whole bunch of ghosts of fandoms past in here. This list...has not changed much since the last time I played this game, to my chagrin, but now featuring more than just TOG fandom! And I should note that one (1) of these currently consists solely of notes to myself and no actual fic written yet but uh have at it anyway.

heartstopper canon divergence

inception au

J/N Firefly

Quynh/Nile ficlet?

cadfael 2 electric bugaloo

who dares wins

Tagging anyone who wants to play, seriously, consider this your excuse!

[druckkugelschreiber]

I have a reincarnation OC for an the old guard fic floating around my brain for a while now and so I'm putting this here so maybe she'll stop haunting me.

Her name is Ezra and she's only a little younger than Quynh and has basically been thirdwheeling Andy & Quynh (and Lykon) for millenia, but she never really got pulled into the polycule because she was just always the emotional sounding board and friend for Andy and just other emotional shenanigans and Ezra never standing up for herself.

So in WW2 they're fighting to take down a concentration camp and Ezra is loosing her immortality. She's known for a few days but not told Andy or the rest of the team and then she gets hot (throwing herself in front of one of the people she was rescuing).

Andy turns back. "Ezra?"

Ezra sunk down against a tree, hand across the rapidly bleeding wound in her abdmonen, her breathing too heavy.

Andy knows deep down what is happening. She knows the pain in Ezra's eyes from Lykon's death, but she doesn't want it to be true. "Come on, we have to go."

Ezra shakes her head. "This one isn't going to heal."

Tears run down Andy's face.

"It's okay Andromache. Go save them. I chose this." [Not only did Ezra chose to fight that day but she chose to throw herself in front of that woman and her child. She chose death in a way because she didn't want to live in a shadow of her own emotions anymore].

Andy has to leave Ezra behind and run as they are pursued by Nazis.

And in the absence of Ezra, as Andy has to mourn another longtime friend, she realises how much she misses the other woman, how many feelings she has for Ezra she never saw especially not after grieving Quynh and Lykon both.

So at one point Quynh comes back and finds out Ezra died and she's like "And you lost Ezra as well?" in reproach because Quynh always loved and protected Ezra like a little sister and is generally angry at Andy (as we all know).

A few years after Nile joins the team, Azriel appears, Azra for short, she's a new immortal, a circus artist who died in a fire and not only does her name remind Andy eerily of Ezra but her eyes, her smile, the way she looks at the world.

Andy is instantly wary, reminded of her old pain and just generally burned out. She's reluctant to open her heart to Azra because of old pain and wounds and because she keeps seeing the ghost of Ezra and how Andy feels she has wronged her and she doesn't want to repeat those mistakes with Azra so she'd rather stay away alltogether.

However Azra has memories of what happened to Ezra (as she is a true reincarnation (there's a really fun science experiment super power backstory there I'm not putting in here) and she's fucking pissed. She's not about to stand back and do one sided pining for like 4000 years. She's here to fuck around and find out.

Andy doesn't know what she's in for.

[shadowen]

Ask meme: detailed synopsis of a fic you might never write

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OK SO. I’m a big fan of all things related to hauntings, demonic possession, and Evil Places, and I’m low-key obsessed with Ed and Lorraine Warren. (If you like spooky stuff and don’t know who they are, definitely look it up.) The fic I want to write is an AU in the vein of those types of movies (The Conjuring, Annabelle, etc.) in which the TOG team are paranormal investigators, with Joe and Nicky as an analogue to the Warrens.

The premise is that Nile’s family somehow acquires the Generic Cursed Object, and Haunting occurs. Nile’s mom has tried every reasonable avenue to figure out what’s going on, and finally turns to this team of “ghost hunters”. Nile, who isn’t part of the team, is understandably skeptical and spends a lot of time hovering over their shoulders and asking questions, which leads to a lot of conversation about how each of them got involved in this and their views on death and spirituality. 

The Buffet of Tragic Backstories features: 

Joe, because being Muslim and gay and psychic in America is not a great time

Nicky, the former seminarian who hates the Church but just can’t let go of being Catholic

Andy, the lifelong Atheist still looking for evidence of Something Beyond

Quynh, the thrill-seeking Old School Goth who once Fucked Around and Found Out (that ghosts are real)

Booker, who presents himself as the Agnostic Jew in order to mask a tumult of deep-seated doubts

with a special appearance by Lykon, who used to work with the team and decided to get the fuck out after an especially traumatic experience. He teaches Wicca classes at a community center in Oregon. They visit him every year for Imbolc.

Our story begins at a deli in Chicago…

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Nile isn’t sure what she expected self-professed “demonologists” to look like, but the two guys sitting across from her are definitely not it.

The white guy looks more like a highschool science teacher than anything else, clean cut and casual in his polo shirt and khakis, and he’s got an accent that Nile can’t quite place. The other guy, who Nile thinks is middle eastern, is the complete opposite, wearing a sleeveless Trevor Project T-shirt that shows the maze of tattoos all over his arms, his dark hair in a riotous tangle of curls. They introduced themselves as Nicky and Joe.

[wander-wren]

Wren’s Fanfic Masterpost

completed works or wips already posted to my ao3!! alphabetical order by fandom, post order within fandom categories. feel free to ask me about any of them but especially the wips—no guarantee i ever finish anything unposted, but showing interest might kick my motivation up. once it’s posted, it WILL eventually, someday, be finished.

everything is a oneshot unless stated otherwise. everything is a happy ending unless stated otherwise. for space, i only included archive content warnings, but all fic notes/tags should have more detailed CWs.

other posts have my current wips or concepts im kicking around.

Arcane

afterimage- post-s1 nightmare fic featuring jinx, with vi and caitlyn there to help. strong focus on jinx’s trauma and hallucinations.

transformation- sort of trans jinx (nonbinary girl) character study, including trans dad silco and some stumbling blocks on the road to healing between vi and jinx.

day off (off day)- caitvi hurt/comfort where cait gets badly hurt on the job, ft hospitals, feral protective vi, and panic attacks, hooray.

the things the war leaves behind- whumptober prompt fill for “say goodbye.” a look at what happened when ekko tried to save powder from silco.

BNHA

i’ll set the table (you can make the fire)- post canon/pro hero au with krbkdktd. izuku overuses ofa at work, causing a pain flareup, and his boyfriends take care of him

all systems red- 3-chapter todoroki-centric sickfic that spiralled out of control and turned into an “erasermic find out about endeavor and adopt todo” fic. mostly a fic about my headcanon that todoroki is dissociating half the time.

not what time steals (what it leaves behind)- whumptober fill for “caged.” old guard/immortality au where dabihawks have been psychically connected for centuries, but separated bc hawks is used as the commissions favorite torture experiment. then: rescue!

can’t believe what you see (all eyes on me)- whumptober fill for “waking up disoriented” and direct sequel to “not what time steals,” so same plot/premise.

lie still and let the lights pass by- decidedly unwhumpy whumptober fill for “tossing and turning.” platonic or pre-slash tdbk, there was only one bed, nightmare fic.

wrong place, right time- after all might crushes deku's hero dream, aizawa finds him on the edge of a rooftop, and they have a very long talk. first installment of my quirkless!deku au.

Check Please!

there’s a ringing in my head- whumptober fill for “dazed and confused” featuring concussed!bitty and pre-slash zimbits. iffy on the happy ending bc of miscommunications between jack and bitty.

The Old Guard

in the sea that’s painted black (you’re a king and i’m a lionheart)- au where only nicky was kidnapped by merrick, with much worse and very gross torture, then rescue and healing. and joenicky being in love, of course

walking heavy till the dying’s done- joenicky fic that asks “so what if you were impaled, stuck, but unable to die? wouldn’t that suck?” and yes, it would.

dry drowning- whumptober fill for “running out of air,” ft booker/nile and bonding over quynh dreams

The Raven Cycle

how to keep turning when the world goes still- non-tdt compliant post canon au where adam and ronan are accosted by the past at harvard, and adam doesn’t cope well.

how to be still when the world whirls on- same universe as above, but now facing ronan’s ghost. discussion of past rape/non-con in the usual vein of rovinsky toxicity

stealth missions (your cover’s blown)- transmasc adam has been going stealth at aglionby, terrified that if his all-very-cis friends find out he’s trans, they’ll drop him. turns out he’s wrong about…all of that. mostly platonic gangsey, bit of pynch.

this black thing inside of me (call it irrationality)- also a non-tdt compliant college au, pynch/adam-centric sickfic and emetophobic!adam. sort of a vent/projection fic for me.

hostage situation- whumptober fill for “ransom video,” where greenmantle kidnaps adam to get to the greywaren and ronan goes ballistic.

shields, surrender, shadows on shoulders- whumptober fill for “silent panic attack,” direct sequel to “hostage situation,” covering the hospital visit after the kidnapping.

this circular humanity- whumptober fill for “whipping,” set roughly around dream thieves. pynch crumbs. adam returns to the trailer to speak to his mom, and it does not go well, but his friends help.

old habits- non-tdt compliant au with established pynch, where the boys work through ronan's trauma re: past abusive rovinsky. yes i have two fics like this now, no i don't know why either

Six of Crows

the world owes me nothing (i’m taking from it still)- trans!inej character study set pre-canon, with hints of kanej and lots of Gender Feelings. tagged rape/non-con for canon-typical depictions of inej’s backstory.

without armor (or not at all)- post-ck, kanej, kaz-centric focusing on overcoming his fear of touch. very sweet imo as the author lol.

to take up swords and strike the sea- unfinished 1/3 part pirate!inej fic post-ck. not kanej, not kaz friendly but not kaz unfriendly. inej gets a gf. both of them are trans but that’s just a bg element. also discusses, not in detail, abuse and rape, bc *waves at inej and her entire mission*.

no matter how broken (come home to you)- ck au where inej’s legs are broken by van eck and she grieves, heals, and grows. lots of kanej, lots of crows friendship, lots of disabled characters still being badass.

best laid plans- whumptober fill for “ambush.” pre-canon, jesper, inej, and kaz attempting a bank robbery that goes wrong when dime lions show up. technically sad/cliffhanger ending, but no mc death or anything.

ghost of you- whumptober fill for “back from the dead” ft wesper. jesper doesn’t come back from a job when he says he will, and wylan panics. presumed death and misunderstandings cause angst trope?? my faves

Warrior Cats

swiftpaw’s chance- swiftpaw lives au with bright/swift/cloud, focusing mainly on his journey and healing from the trauma of the dog pack through the rest of tpb. 16/16 chapters.

dusk to dawn- sequel to swiftpaw’s chance, rewrite of the new prophecy focusing on whitewing and nightcloud, then squirrelflight and tawnypelt as well, with others thrown in for spice. 48/70 chapters.

Welcome to Night Vale

unsolvable calamities- carlos goes on a work binge in an attemot to solve night vale and stop so many people from dying, then collapses. cecil helps.

not quite perfect (so you say)- trans!carlos comes out to cecil, panics, and then they have a Talk about how things are different in night vale (they’re better. night vale is queertopia).

wilderness survival guide- whumptober fill for “self-done first aid/makeshift splint.” carlos nearly gets swallowed by the whispering forest and doesn’t make it out unhurt.

[dearqueerdeers]

WIP Writing Game

I wasn’t tagged by @non-un-topo but I am doing the game anyways! Titling these as their names in my google docs. which may or may not actually be descriptive of what the fic entails

1. ‘god is your father’ - a mischievous cat causes a 10-year-old Nile to have delusions about ghosts for roughly the next 17 years

2. ‘nicky vamp’ - what if being a vampire were an allegory for being gay but also you are actually gay as well . and repressed about it

3. ‘nile nicky’ - nile and nicky have a no good very bad time together

4. ‘The Aftermath’ - sequel to the above, in which nile and quynh become girlbesties via trauma dumping

5. ‘Steel Blade’ - homoerotic boy besties in 1100 having their first big fight that doesn’t end in killing each other

6. ‘wolfie & silver’ - guy who can shapeshift into a wolf becomes homoerotic boy besties with a shapeshifter cat. also shapeshifting is an allegory for being trans

tagging @lambfromfield and anyone else who wants to do it!! please tag me, I’d love to see what y’all are working on!

[talesofmetalandmagic]

Are you going to continue your Thir13een Ghosts/The Old Guard crossover?

First of all, thanks a lot for support.

Secondly... tbh I don't know. I still like combining these universes, but the lack of news for the sequel – which is where Quynh would have shined the brightest – is making me more and more cynical and jaded towards the Old Guard and its future.

[dotkilop]

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[scorchedhearth]

if you still feel like answering the fake fic name here's one more: "Please be true" <3<3<3

yeah! i'm having a lot of fun with these, thank you <33

this one is giving me a lot of ideas, but i'll settle on a modern au jaykyle fic. they start out as the friend of a friend, finding each other annoying then upgrading to a proper petty feud with each other for months. it shifts into a friend with benefits situation when they're both too insufferable for anyone around them to handle them and the hatefuck after fighting feels good actually, makes them both feel alive and young. but they catch feeling, both of them, jason dealing by repressing them hard and acting even more cold and kyle by pinning and indulging what ifs, even if he hates that he's thinking about jason. during all this time they aren't honest with one another, not about their feelings but also not about their life and random things, they don't know much about their jobs, private lifes and interests, a lot of details from their respective pasts are missing, that kind of thing, they both shield their selves after one too many hurt hearts. the fic starts when the pinning and unwanted emotions are starting too, and it follows as they get together. whatever events that force them to be close/have others see them closer will push them over the edge, and when jason does/says something loving to kyle, kyle says out loud "please let it be real". either jason confirms or says nothing, and maybe they do get together or they don't, anything could happen as the ending

this would be in the emt/firefighter ideas of a modern au i have. maybe kyle gets hurt and jason takes him to the hospital and says he's his bf so he can stay with and watch over him, or kyle ropes jason in to be his pretend date at a firefighter event when the others keep teasing him about the fact that he's single and they work a bit too well as a couple

send me a fic title

[lesbianlotties]

I DID IT. I FINALLY FINISHED THE FIC THAT WAS DRIVING ME CRAZY

[kaydeefalls]

WIP snippet game

@tardis-stowaway tagged me in a WIP snippet game (thanks!), looking for the words fire, table, fresh, peace, and hand.

So what the hell, I'll bite. For once, I managed to find all of these in active (by my standards) Old Guard WIPs.

Fire (from Firefly AU):

She fires off two warning shots behind them, and at least one of the assholes in question yelps audibly. Joe's already on the comm to their ship. "Nicky, Booker, we might need to leave in a hurry."

Table (from the last chapter of Carthaginians, which I badly need to get cracking on):

Many, many centuries later, in an abandoned church in Goussainville, the newest among them will look around their dinner table with wary eyes. "How are you all in my dreams?" she asks.

Fresh (from a Quynh&Nile ficlet that may or may not ever be finished):

"Where does she go, in the between times?" Quỳnh asks Booker, because he is the closest to Nile in age and furthest in demeanor. They share a strange and sometimes uneasy kinship, the two youngest among them. The burden of still-fresh memories of their first lives weighs upon them very differently, but they understand each other in ways neither always likes to admit.

Peace (Quynh&Nile, again):

Half a century and more since she emerged from the ocean, and still, she can't quite keep up with the relentless pace of modern life. She needs longer breaks than the others, to let her mind catch up with her body, to make peace with her many ghosts.

Hand (Lykon-as-new-immortal!AU):

The combo of leather jacket, tasteful jewelry, and well-groomed beard is fucking catnip as far as Lykon is concerned. "Well hello, Daddy," he purrs, taking Joe's proffered hand. "It is very nice to meet you."

So that was fun! Feel free to hassle me about any of these, I'm desperately trying to force my brain back into writing mode after recovering from three solid weeks of travel plus work conference.

If you want to play (no pressure!), tagging @turtletotem, @knoepfchen, @werebearbearbar, and anyone else who wants the excuse to share a WIP snippet - your random words can be interest, eye, thought, morning, never.

[andromaquynh-ficrecs]

my heart (is like a haunted house) by @daniwouldnever (ao3 moonflowery)

Summary: My heart is like a haunted house There's things in there that scratch about They make their music in the night And in the day they give me such a fright

Andy, troubled past and full of skepticism, finds herself with an odd job in an old, abandoned, English building. She doesn't believe in ghosts, she doesn't believe in herself anymore, and she's never had a reason to believe in love. And then... there's Quynh.

Rated: Teen Up Audiences | Words: 29898 - Chapters: 13 | Alternate Universe - Ghosts

What i loved: Everything!! the characters are so well written and developed. The mystery. How the story progress in letting us know about Andy story and Quynh story. How it describes Quynh’s feelings and sensations about being a ghost. How Andy and Quynh help each other to heal and falls in love. All the cute moments between them. The teasing!! Soft Andy, caring too much about everyone. Nile being all kind, literally a ray of sunshine and a very good friend. A happy ending, like we deserve ☺ 

[perpetual-trashcan]

Nicolo Di Genova and looking after your new little brother.

Okay this is just a dumb little headcanon I have, spawned partly by this thread  (i rambled in the tags, forgive me) with @sunsetcurveauto.

I have this idea, where Booker has just joined the guard. It’s not long after the last of his family has passed. And it hurts all kinds of different because it was his little boy. His son who he loved more than anything, and its tinged with his son’s fear and anger that Booker can do nothing about.

(I think Booker wouldn’t have kept in contact with the guard, even after he found out about the immortality. At least, until he had no other choice. I think there’s a lot of resentment in those early days because it’s not a gift he wants, and if he can’t fight the choice, then he’ll fight the people who share it with him, especially if they try to tell him it’s okay which some of them are probably likely to do in those early days, trying to starve off panic)

And while Booker travels with them for the most part, he’s a bit of a ghost in the house. He’s withdrawn and quiet, not leaving his room for days, or he’s passed out on the couch, waking with hangovers that don’t last nearly long enough.

The guard have tried to reach him. Nicky is the caregiver of the family and it hurts his soul to see someone so in pain. Both he and Joe have tried to talk to him, soft words that beg understanding but Booker either ignores them or leaves the room with a polite apology. Only twice has he snapped at them and he looked ashamed as soon as the words had left his mouth. But he didn’t stay. Didn’t reach back.

Booker does seem to find some common ground with Andy, having just lost Quynh and knowing his grief all too well. But they don’t talk. They drink and enjoy the silence that comes with each others company. Occasionally Andy teaches him to fight, or shoot because she intends to keep the idiot alive as long as possible until he gets to the other side of this. And it’s during these times that she learns he’s capable of an unfairly funny quip or joke that under no circumstances makes her snort.

But Andy still gets tired. Nicky hasn’t and will not give up on his new brother but Booker is not the only one who needs him. Andy buries her grief just as deep, if not deeper and while there is a mission - and there is always a mission, Booker not included - nothing is allowed to distract her. So Nicky does what he does best, and tries to look after his family.

Sometimes, that’s just making Andy baklava. They’ve travelled with each other long enough that Nicky knows his sister, and while he can’t fix everything, he can do this.

So one afternoon, he comes out to the backyard of their latest safe house while the two of them are training, baklava stacked high on the plate. Booker and Andy are taking a water break and even though Nicky’s been making it more often than not these days, Andy still perks up every time. Nicky has to suppress his smile as he hands it over, talking about how he’s been trying new recipes - it’s not perfect yet, and Andy deserves it to be perfect - and asking suggestions. Booker is quiet at Andy’s side as he always is, just watching the side of her face as she eyerolls and hums her way through Nicky’s rambling.

And then it happens. Andy is shoving baklava in her mouth, somewhere between heaven and bliss when Booker turns his eyes from the side of Andy’s face to Nicky. It’s only several centuries of training and experience that stop Nicky from visibly straightening but his entire being is aware of the fact that for the first time, Booker is looking at Nicky’s face and not down at his own shoes.

And while Booker looks shy and uncertain, there’s an amused twitch to his mouth that Joe swore Andy was making up when she told them about it. And he makes a joke. Or least an attempt at one, teasing that he has a good test subject, that surely Andy has eaten enough Baklava to guess every flavour by now.

And Nicky knows that he’s probably right, even taking away how long Andy has been around. But this is the first time Nicky’s new little brother has spoken to him. Has looked at him. 

 And maybe this, this dumb little joke is how he starts to reach Booker. This is where they start communication. Not with heaviness or grief, but with small moments of humour and joy. Like Nicky had been trying so hard to give Booker in the first place.

The grief will always be there but maybe here is where he can build a foundation to eventually help Booker. And while it’s weak and tenuous, Nicky wants to grab it with both hands. So he does.

Nicky looks back at Booker, mouth twitching back in a soft smirk as he says, “you think so? You want to make a bet?”