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White Flags and Patchwork Quilts by c_c_cherry for Thornback
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
27 Jul 2022
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Izzy battles with the biggest, most fearsome monster since The Kraken: acute insomnia.
Despite the name, it is not a very cute thing. Not at all.
(Featuring terrible coping mechanisms, every sleep remedy on the planet, and the crew of the Revenge being a nice, completely functional family.)
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28 Mar 2023
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He wants to vomit. He wants to scream. He wants to burn all of New Providence to the ground. He wants to destroy everything he can touch. He wants to jump into the sea with an anchor tied to his feet.
Instead, he speaks in a quiet, broken voice.
“Cut him down.”
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28 Jul 2022
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North Star by goldheartedsky
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
14 Nov 2021
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“I wanted a choice.” His hand lingers on her diaphragm, steadying her furious, heaving breaths, and there’s nothing but defeat left in him as he says, “I wanted a choice for you and me, Andy. For us to move past all this fucking violence if we wanted to.”
Andy scoffs, and winces as Booker moves lower, closer to her wound. “And do what?”
“You really don’t remember, do you?”
When Andy finds out the truth behind Booker’s betrayal, it makes her take stock of the past she’s left behind and the legacy ahead of her. She has a choice to make—one that becomes even more difficult when she comes face to face with Quynh again, and finds Booker tortured by her hand. A choice between living life between cycles of violence or carving out some semblance of normalcy.
Andy has left her mark on countless lives across the millennia, but the thought of leaving a bit of herself behind scares the shit out of her.
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13 Nov 2021
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Une Terreur Douce et Amère by Danae14
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
27 Nov 2020
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A Sweet and Bitter Terror
"Usually people start these sort of things with a name. A name humanizes something. We name pets to show our attachment. We exchange names to become familiar with one another. We name children to show possession and care. It grows our empathy for something. I neither want nor deserve your empathy but my name none the less is Sébastien Lelivre."Booker and Quynh trying to figure out each other, their trauma, and their new place in the world. You do not have to have read the first fic to read this one.
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- Part 2 of Any Fool Can Be Happy
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08 Feb 2021
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If anyone would ask Booker why he chases Death, he would tell them. It wouldn’t be an answer anyone would expect.
If they would ask Joe, he’d say it is because Booker is selfish. If Nicky, he’d say that Booker is naïve. If Andy is asked, she’d probably just laugh and say that Booker is bored.
But if anyone bothers to ask Booker? He would say that the others aren’t wrong, but they aren’t exactly right, either. Booker would give chase, over and over again, without fail. Because Death gives him the one thing he values above all others: quiet.
Booker is incredibly gifted and has an extreme case of hyperthymesia. He doesn’t remember everything. But what he does remember, he just doesn’t forget.
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- Part 1 of Beautiful Ghosts
Bookmarked by cat_of_amber
07 Feb 2021