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There are habits that we pick up over the years. They are hard to break and we often don't even realize it. What kind of habits do you pick up after 200 years? 1000 years? 6000 years? Sometimes it takes someone with a new perspective to notice.
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“Early tango was played by immigrants in Buenos Aires, then later in Montevideo. The first generation of tango players from Buenos Aires was called "Guardia Vieja" (the Old Guard). It took time to move into wider circles; in the early 20th century, it was the favorite music of thugs and gangsters who visited brothels, in a city with 100,000 more men than women (in 1914). The complex dances that arose from such rich music reflect how the men would practice the dance in groups, demonstrating male sexuality and causing a blending of emotion and aggressiveness.”
Wikipedia - “Tango music”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango_music
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Stop and Smell the Flours by ishandahalf
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
27 Aug 2023
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Nicky is a baker. And a witch. (A witch whose magic infuses into his baking, so really those identities are irrevocably intertwined.)
He is perfectly content baking bread and making pastries, feeding his customers with lightly charmed food, and acting as the unofficial welcome wagon for new entrepreneurs setting up shop on their street.
Then one day the storefront across the road – the one that just can’t seem to stay in business – is leased (again)...
Bookmarked by Krykl
30 Aug 2023
Bookmarker's Notes
The quintessential baker Nicky and florist Joe with a Hearty dash of magic and exasperated Nile!!
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if i could hold you for a minute by orangeslices4scott
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
31 May 2023
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Andy had been cautious initially, convinced the bullets would turn on them in due time, but by now they were coming to expect and even somewhat rely on the help. And despite increasing efforts, they’ve never been able to catch him and see for themselves who is looking out for them and, more importantly, why.
Centuries after Nicky is lost to the ocean, a mysterious sniper is protecting the team. When they find out who it is, the world as they know it falls apart.
Bookmarked by Krykl
01 Jun 2023
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Nicky was lost in the iron maiden but escapes and hides from his family.
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Fledglings by quincette for Wings_of_Indigo
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
13 Jan 2023
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“You’re in trouble, Candidate Thousand-Sixty-Nine.”He must be enjoying this, Nicolò thinks bitterly. “It’s obvious, isn’t it?” he replies, trying vainly to slow his descent by changing the trajectory of his fall – no point in landing in the designated spot in pieces.
“Not enough stones and a malfunctioning chute.”
Yusuf’s voice is muffled by static, but Nicolò could imagine the sneer.
“Are you going to tell me about my poor math skills next?” he manages. “Like how I chose brick instead of membrane structure?”
It is silent for a few seconds before he answers. “You should have chosen the membrane. Our dummies would have lived.”
Holy Mother take this man.“Yeah,” he says. “No shit.” It would be nice if he could live now; he’s not a screaming dummy in a simulation.
Then he feels a tug on his pack and looks up to see Yusuf cutting off his defective parachute.
“What are you doing?”
“I have no time to wait for you to get over your pride and ask me for help, Priest.”
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Or, Nicolò and Yusuf apply to be dragonriders. They don't like each other, at first. -
Exist by the sun and love by the moon by xJane for teodux
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
01 Dec 2022
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Joe's day job is running a sanctuary for rescued familiars and matching them to the perfect witch - though he hasn't found his own match yet, to his chagrin. After hours he pines over the sexy vet who helps him out.
And then a pair of familiars is brought in, more dead than alive, and Joe desperately needs Nicky to help him save them.
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- Part 1 of Advent Calendar 2022
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The resort stretches far down the coast in either direction. Little square cabins on raised foundations, all a merry brown with pine green roofs and shutters, screen doors and barbecues for warmer months, stone chimneys and stacked wood piles for cooler. On either side of the path, tall grasses sway, and there’s sand underfoot blown in from the beach. He has to be careful where he puts his boots, rounded stones here and there. In the distance, reaching into the ocean, huge rocky blocks of unforgiving granite, covered in lichen and dried seaweed and barnacles. The bare trees that dare grow close to the surf stand out like dark scratches against sheets of clouds overhead.
And so windy.
Nicky takes a vacation.
Bookmarked by Krykl
08 Nov 2022
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Nicky meets Joe on a windy beach. Quiet healing. Something cozy to savor later