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[nastasyafilippovnas]

Book of nile + #5 + #36 :)

okay sooo...(1) sorry it took me this long and (2) this prompt reminded me of your last fic, so i had to really think through to make something completely different, lol.

book of nile + 5. bar/restaurant AU, 36. text/letter fic

So, I'm thinking AU where Booker own a bar, which may have been a front for his forgery business/illegal activities. At one point he did have a wife and kids, but now it's just him and the bar no one comes to (unless they're looking for fake passports) and he spends most days drinking instead of serving alcohol. Cue Nile who just got discharged from the US Marines and is not ready to go home yet. She is walking aimless around the city when rain starts pouring and she walks into the first place she sees with an open sign. 

The bartender pays her no mind and she sits on one of the stalls in front of the bar. After a while (it might've been fifteen minutes, half an hour, she isn't sure), he comes around pours her a glass of whiskey. When she starts protesting she didn't order anything, he says it looks like she could use it. Nile sighs before drinking the whole thing at once. And, for some reason, she admits to that she has been trying to figure out how to tell her family she isn't coming home. "It has always been the three of us", she says, "They wouldn't understand me wanting space. They would try to help."

 He nods, as if knows what is like to having people trying to help and not wanting it. "Well, you need to be honest. You don't want them kicking down your door because you haven't talked to them in a week?" "Why do I have a feeling this is exactly what happened to you?" She says and Booker smiles, but doesn't answer her. Instead, he reaches down the bar and puts a pile of paper in front of her. "What is this?" "Paper." At her non-amused look, he adds, "Maybe...I don't know. You could write to them. Sometimes it's easier to put things into paper then tell face to face."

"A letter?" Nile asks. "You want me to write a letter? That's...old-fashioned." Booker shrugs and just says, "I'm old-fashioned kind of guy." He pours her another drink. "It seems like you're stuck. No harm in trying a different approach."

She takes a sip, savoring it this time and noticing he has been pouring her the quality stuff even though it's on the house. There really is no harm in trying, so she starts writing.

Other costumers come in, but they don't linger much. Mostly it's just her and Booker, musing their drinks in silence (she noticed every time he pours her one, he pours one for himself too). She goes through many drafts and he watches amused the pile of rejected papers next to her. At some point the rain stopped pouring and she notices it's dark outside when she finally has what she thinks it's the perfect letter. She hands it to him.

"I couldn't..." He tries to protest, but Nile doesn't hear him. "You helped me write it, it's only fair you get to read it too." He nods and takes the paper. His face doesn't betray anything like he reads, but Nile sees his hands shake at one point.

"I'm sorry." He says once he is finished and instead of acknowledging, all she says is, "I don't want to go to some hotel." He doesn't ask her to clarify, to admit she doesn't want to be alone. He merely turns the sign of the bar to closed and takes her hand, leading her through a stair in the back to the apartment he keeps upstairs.

Nile leaves he next morning before Booker wakes up. She has to post the letter to her family and her own journey to get around too. She starts with a road trip around the US, then quickly goes down to Mexico and the Caribbean. On impulse, she buys a very expensive ticket across the Atlantic. It's half running, half seeing the world, but who can fault her need to experience something different after all the bloodshed she has seen? 

Sometimes she thinks of the bartender who helped write the letter to her family. They didn't exchange phone numbers, but he said he was old fashioned so...She send him postcards of the places she has been. The first one just says, "thanks for the help. Nile." but slowly they become longer with confessions she can't share with her family. It's not like Booker will reply anyways. Even if he wanted to, she never puts the return address. Until one day - it's after she sees the blue of the Caribbean sea and it reminds her of his eyes - she gets bold enough to write down her number in the back of the card.

Two weeks later, she is - very fittingly - in France when Booker calls her.

send me two tropes from this list and i'll describe how i'd combine them in the same story

[tedxlasso]

He thinks he’s mad now, wait till we win him over. He’ll be furious.

[blowingwinds]

10 (female) characters from 10 fandoms ↳ tagged by @markcampbells and @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme​

Sarah Manning (Orphan Black) || Issa Dee (Insecure) Lagertha (Vikings) || Karen Page (Daredevil) Britta Perry (Community) || Vivienne 'Viv' Odesanya (Sex Education) Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans) || Mia (Humans) Marina Thompson (Bridgerton) || Arabella Essiedu (I May Destroy You)

[malecislovely-blog]

Thank you for all the fantastic Marcos and Lorna gifs you've been making! They are making me day :))

I am completely enamored with these two, separate and together! Thank you! Its difficult to color at times but I’m glad you like them. More to come!

[theoldguard-recs]

Shades of Blue by takethisnight_wrapitaroundme

Nile briefly meets a friend of Joe’s, only to learn later that his life is far more complicated than she could’ve ever imagined.

Written for the prompt Booker/Nile + Modern Widower Booker.

Tags: Alternate Universe: Mortal, Canonical character death, implied/referenced character death, child death, developing relationship, POV Nile Freeman Booker/Nile | 10,028 words | Gen - No Archive Warnings Apply What I Loved: The only word I can ever think of for this fic is “Immersive”. It is such a fully realized little snapshot of grief and growth. Nile is VERY present and very much Nile in this and I love her characterization. The author does such a fantastic job of translating Booker’s backstory into this modern setting. The best thing I can say about this fic is that it feels like a short film. It’s melancholy but it just settled in right under my heart and I love this fic. The author has written other fics for The Old Guard on AO3 and I believe you can find them at @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme here on tumblr!

[nevermindirah]

Thanks @rupzydaisy for tagging me! Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and i’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs

Nile & Sam are cousins

historical-flavored nonsense

what if Nile had died a week earlier

corset porn

fic ideas December 2020 (contains EIGHT fic ideas/snippets in addition to things I’ve already posted or listed elsewhere here)

fireworks fic

Nile Booker Rachida ( @victimhood I made progress on this one this weekend!!)

post-quarantine thirst trap

prompt ideas Feb 2021

recognizing him from the abs

sugar daddy and sugar baby book of nile

tog snippets

trans Booker

TOG rewatch relationships with Nile (meta)

jewish booker passover headcanons (meta) (yes there's more in addition to what I posted a few days ago)

brotps (meta)

Yeah I’m not tagging 16 people in this just because I have sixteen active WIP files (just files, I have at least 25 actual WIPs holy shit @ me). Tagging a few people off the top of my head who I don’t think I’ve seen do this yet! @victimhood @mprosperossprite @hauntedfalcon @hottopicmonk @emjee @miraxb @flawlessassholes @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme @viridianpanther

[harrynightingales]

i was tagged by @emmswoodhouse and @ngoveronicas 

the rules: tag five or more people that you are thankful for in your 2020, that you’re thankful exists in a world that’s hard to live in. whether that be through random reblogs on your posts, or people you have had full blown conversations with. whether it’s just seeing them on your dash, or interacting with them

i’m honestly so grateful for tog and the wonderful people i’ve met because of it over the past 5 months - y’all really saved 2020!!!

@ceilingninja @emotionallycompromisedrobots @emjee @polarcell @of-scythia @joenicky @emmswoodhouse @ngoveronicas​ @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme @jenderstudies @shatterstared @luminarai  @wisherwell​

[lonestarbabe]

Do you have any lone star fic recs?

I have some recs here. Some authors you can’t go wrong with are @eveningspirit, @sneetchestoo, @bellakitse, @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme, @lire-casander , @harvestleaves, @brillliantbanshee

[kimcheehan]

requested by @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme

[apple-grass-and-smiles]

So, I got tagged by the lovely @stevesharington, @brvceselina, and  @selinaakyle, all of whom I love dearly, to tag some people that I love on here. I love them, so they’re included, but also:

My Unofficial Batcat Fam: @gothamstreetcat (is always learning and sharing her talents with people), @stevesharington (it’s her birthday today and she’s so cool), @selinaakyle (have you seen her tags; if not, they’re the best meta you’ll ever read), and @brvceselina (no one can tie Batcat and Cornelia Street together at midnight like Itzel can).

My WONDERFUL Friends + Finances chat who put up with me being salty about Iron Fist all day today: @ironwingblog (screams at Anna with me and has very scary PI skills) and @the-wingway (you know what you did, but we love you anyway because you give us content)

As well as just a bunch of people who have been kind enough to talk to me over the years: @countryole (one of my first internet friends who is cool and has the best horses), @hoexnard (one time she sent me a Rey stuffed doll even though she doesn’t care about Star Wars), @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme (wrote some of the best Jeller fic until she created the Hardings and we all fell in love with them), @electricbluebutterflies (suffered through the Gifted hiatus with me and we talked about mental health and it was great), @diplobrocus (we had the same icons for quite a while and it was a blast), @ahsoka (literally one of the sweetest humans ever and I’m so happy she has her URL now), @sweetrupturedlight (made THE BEST alphabet Blindspot edits that I still look at to this day), and @bpdanakins (she has listened to me rant about TLJ for multiple days now and not run away, which is impressive).

[nastasyafilippovnas]

Nile & Booker for the ships meme. :))))

BABESSSS. I love that, in the movie, Booker literally doesn't know what to do with Nile, she is the unexpected variable he never predicted. And Nile, just by being herself, pushes through his defenses. She makes him smile, makes him open up and talk about his family. And more than that, she understood him. She saw him AT HIS LOWEST and she was still thought he was worth saving (”no man left behind”) and of being forgiven (“Nile was going to let you off with an apology”). After knowing him for what, 48 hours? If that?? It still blows my mind!! Last but not least, they are both really hot. I’m a shallow bitch and I just want them to bang. How can anyone look at them and think “he is like her father” is beyond my comprehension. 

give me a ship and i’ll tell you my thoughts on it

[take2intotheshower]

Someone had written a great fanfiction story that started exactly like Jeller's 4-13 get-away (broken car in the woods). Do you happen to remember which story that was? That writer had done a way better job than the show!

I’m sorry but I don’t remember a broken-down car fanfic, but it did bring to mind @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme‘s excellent fic from her Within the Ruins series, How Well We Used To Know How to Shine, where Jeller spend a weekend away in a cabin in the woods.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/13880832

[lonestarbabe]

This is not a tag meme but I’m going to add some more love for great writers @brillliantbanshee @911lonestars @aziraphalescrowley @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme and of course @lire-casander! You’re all great!

When your super talented friends create new content:

[dailygoodplace]

as we are soul mates, perhaps I should also dress down...

requested by @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme

[inmyblindspot]

Will be watching Law & Order: SVU tonight for the first time in ages because it has both Philip Winchester AND Kylie Bunbury in it and I miss both Strike Back and Pitch a lot (and they will forever be Michael Stonebridge and Ginny Baker to me!)

(tagging @ourstartingpoints & @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme because I think you’re both also Strike Back & Pitch fans? Just in case you didn’t know about this!)

[lurkingwhump]

Tag Game

Rules: tag blogs you’d like to get to know better.

Tagged by @take2intotheshower . Thank you, my friend :) ! 

Nickname(s): Ansku

Gender: female

Sign: Taurus

Height: 5′3″ = 161 cm

Time: 8.30pm /20.30

Fave Bands: I'm more into soundtracks, but currently Poets of the Fall and the Heavy

Fave Solo Artist(s): Do composers count? Hans Zimmer is one of my favorites. And I do tend to like the soundtracks of the shows I'm into, so I'll add Mark Snow, Sean Callery, Scott Shields and Blake Neely.

Song stuck in my head: None right now, thankfully. Ear worms drive me mad :D

Last movie I saw: The Last Jedi

Last show I watched: Strike Back

When did I create my blog: October 2017 (IIRC)

Last thing I googled: I google a ton of stuff because of my job, but it this case it was skyscanner. Planning for the summer.

Do I have any other blogs: Nope

Do I get asks: Not really

Why did I choose my URL: I tend to lurk more than I post and I'm into whumping my favorite characters (as if my followers haven't already noticed :D) . Thank you @the-wandering-whumper for luring me to Tumblr.

Following: 74

Followed by: 148

Average hours of sleep: 6.5

Lucky number: None that I can think of.

Instruments: None. I did try to learn the piano as kid but...love music tho.

What I am wearing:  sweater and jeans

Dream job: I love my current job as a translator, soldier or a police officer would be other options (and well I am a reservist, so there is the soldier aspect, kind of).

Dream trip: Hmm, currently on my bucket list would be Australia since a couple of friends have lived there and have sung its praises. And Asia. Never been in that part of the world. Europe and North America, yes, bun never in Asia

Fav food: Chicken, a good, nice steak. And I have a really bad sweet tooth, so chocolate (dark and milk chocolate, but not white chocolate)

Nationality: Finnish

Fav song: Hmm, a few, but I'd say Late Goodbye by Poets of the Fall, Bad touch by Bloodhound Gang (classic!) and Short Change Hero by the Heavy (thank you Strike Back for introducing this band :D)

Last book I read: A book about Russian special forces

Top 3 fictional universes i wanna join:   Does the Strike Back universe with Scott & Stonebridge count as fictional? Being a member of S20 would be awesome, although hazardous....Either that or Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe/Saxon stories universes (yes, I am a history buff who loves historical fiction).

I'm tagging: @the-wandering-whumper @inmyblindspot @takethisnight-wrapitaroundme