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Featuring illustrations by andromachete, aka venompunk!
Her name was not always Andromache. Betrayed in battle and left to die, she rose again. For centuries after, she led her people, a warrior queen blessed by the gods - perhaps a god herself. She lived through so much: the domestication of horses, the development of written language, the collapse and emergence of countless cultures and civilizations.
Yet it was not just loneliness that compelled her to leave her people behind. It was something else.
This is a story of Andy's first three millennia of immortality: what she gained and lost, how she endured, and why Quỳnh changed everything.
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The mark is across the diner from Shaw when Root slides into the booth opposite from her.
“Hey, sweetie,” she says, beaming, all cat that got into the cream. Like usual.
“You shouldn’t be here,” Shaw mutters around her mouthful of eggs. "I'm working."or: Four times Root looks after Shaw’s food-based needs (directly or indirectly), and one time* Shaw reciprocates
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all in the fight for a future bright by LightDescending for justanexercise, starfoozle
Fandoms: Terminator (Movies), Terminator: Dark Fate, Pacific Rim (Movies)
30 Dec 2020
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It is 2025, and the Wall of Life project has failed. Dani Ramos is called back to pilot her recommissioned Jaeger at the behest of Sarah Connor, a tragic ex-pilot who's grudgingly returned for the Jaeger project's last stand... but first, Dani needs a new Drift partner.
Grace Harper, a quiet new recruit, initially seems the best candidate. But she's got something to hide, and her secret could change the course of the Kaiju war forever...
Or: a Pacific Rim AU for Terminator: Dark Fate
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The Old Guard Rarepair Guidebook: A quintet of Shipping Manifestos by LightDescending
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
04 Dec 2020
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In the months since the release of the Old Guard, a number of primary pairings have emerged as the most popular in fanworks, as evidenced through content produced and posted to AO3, Tumblr, and other locations. Major ships include the juggernaut of Joe/Nicky (Immortal Husbands, Kaysanova), as well as the Andy/Quynh (Andromaquynh, Immortal Wives) and Booker/Nile (Book of Nile) ships. However, these are far from the only pairings that can be explored for this particular piece of media.
Rarer, though not wholly absent pairings, include Andy/Nile, Andy/Celeste, and Booker/Copley. Canonical interactions, subtext present in the film, and fannish interpretations of these characters amount to an under-explored rich substrate of fannish material from which new works could be derived. Each of these alternative pairings, in short, have the potential to be Very Good Ships. In these shipping manifestos, I will…
(Or; by golly I actually wrote this thing)
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On Not Burying your Gays – a brief thought about Andy’s storyline in The Old Guard by LightDescending
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
07 Aug 2020
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I watched the Old Guard shortly after it was released, and was delighted utterly by the Immortal Husbands - the unkillable gays! Even more so that they were unkillable by design.
But they aren't the only queer characters; we come to the mid-point of the movie, and to Andy’s crisis moment in the cave and in the pharmacy. "Oh here we go," I thought in dismay -- and the rest of the film proceeded to subvert my expectations without sacrificing narrative tension, and did so by design.“I wasn’t gonna turn around and be like, ‘Well now I’m going to ruin my one happy couple,’” Rucka laughs.
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headlong might save a life by LightDescending
Fandom: Terminator (Movies), Terminator - All Media Types, Terminator: Dark Fate
31 Jan 2020
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There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled.
Like, telling someone you love them…
- Mary Oliver, “Moments”There are many ways to say "I love you". This series explores a few - and proposes an epilogue.
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two women together is a work by LightDescending
Fandom: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
31 Mar 2020
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An expanded character and relationship study for May Parker and Olivia Octavius from Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse. The heart (and origin) of this series is "forces we had ranged within us, within us and against us".
Only one fanfiction is rated Explicit; the others are rated M or lower and do not involve explicit sexual content. I mention this since the highest rating is applied to the entire series as a result.
Take the stories that speak to you, feel free to leave all the rest.
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tell me what i'm waiting for by redheartglow for thekatcameback
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
02 Mar 2021
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“But…I’ve never worked in a bookstore before?”
“Look, I know this is unorthodox,” Andy says. “But I’ll be straight with you, we need someone on staff and soon. And this isn’t rocket science or spinal surgery on infants. You’re here all the time, you have good taste in books, you seem to pick things up quickly. It’s a good group of people. Strange. But good.”
What Nile means to say, cautious all her life, is that she’ll need some time to think about it. What comes out of her mouth is: “I’m gonna need two weeks of notice at my current job.”
(in which, adrift, uncertain, and a little heartbroken, Nile Freeman accidentally gets a job at a bookstore. despite some strange interpersonal dynamics, terrible book jokes, and the ever-present threat of gentrification, Nile thinks that she may have found a place to belong.)
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[Podfic] The Library Divine by Shmaylor
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
28 Feb 2021
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The Library Divine! First and most many-faceted jewel of the Empire, Memory Infallible of the Prince Undying! Monument Eternal wherein dwelt the knowledge and the power of the necromantic kingdom, marvel upon glorious marvel of bone-like marble and marble-like bone, volumes beyond number on shelves themselves innumerable! Its walls were towering, its halls legion, its eight original libraries unique yet joined together in a single and sacred structure from which the Houses extended like holy radii.
Which was why it sucked absolute balls that Gideon Nav, bondservant to said Library since before she was old enough even to crawl away, had been assigned to the Ninth.
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[Podfic] I have read her with these eyes, I have held her in these hands by rhythmia
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
28 Feb 2021
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Podfic of moonflowery's fic from chapter 5 of her Andy and Quỳnh one shots
Prompt: Andy and Quynh realizing decades or centuries later that that person they met turned out to be an important historical figure.
Somehow, Sappho comes up in conversation...
Andy and Quynh have some really good memories of her.Bookmarked by LightDescending
01 Mar 2021
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[Audio Length: 3:01]
Andy doesn’t remember the last time she tended to her wounds.
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- Part 15 of Podfics for The Old Guard
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01 Mar 2021
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For I Am Bound and You Are Free by EnglishAsSheIsSpoke
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
26 Feb 2021
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After recovering from a physically and emotionally scarring battle injury, Nile Freeman undertakes employment at the Bressay Lighthouse on the far and fierce coast of the Shetland Islands. Drawn to the isolated lighthouse and its curious crew of keepers, Nile discovers the joys of the lonely island, the secrets of its inhabitants, and a curse that may doom them all.