#and i am perfectly okay with that

[youredyingthatsallthereis]

people who post selfies are so brave. i assume to you guys i am just gambit whos obsessed with video games and 40k

[notrobinsomethingworse]

Dick, holding Wally’s hand while they lie in bed: God I love this bed. God I love this house. And you. Especially you.

Voice: How domestic.

Wally: God?

Damian in his Robin suit, holding his bleeding side: No. It’s me. May one of you please direct me to the nearest medical kit.

[Frantic scrambling]

[trickstersaint]

i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism

(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

...Turns out gay sex actually was the solution.

(This is basically a redraw, come read the real deal over at Tiger Tiger)

[elodieunderglass]

Eggs for Killie is over!

I award myself the 150th egg for all of the little bits of art. Thank you so much for inspiring me to make them! It’s been really amazing to see all the hard work and to truly appreciate the wide range of crafts and activities everyone can do. Bobbin lace? Shoemaking? Knife forging? Translating Irish? It’s genuinely incredible.

I also really appreciated the people who were taking a rest, too. Thank you for that as well.

And I SUPER, SUPER appreciate everyone who was going through saying encouraging words, leaving replies/reblogging with comments, or liking all these posts. That was also a huge outpouring of kindness and time. I saw you doing it (and tried to make sure OPs did too) and any credit for people feeling empowered? That’s for YOU.

I know for a fact that people were following each other simply because they spotted one of their people through doing this. Thank you for being here - and being brave enough to find each other! 

If you have a project you were working on specifically for this, and missed the inbox, drop me a message - I don’t want to miss you.

150 eggs x 60g (weight of medium-large chicken egg) is 9000g of eggs.

That’s 16.8% of Killie’s body weight in eggs.

I am planning to write a book about Killie and I think it will be very VERY funny to acknowledge every single username who contributed in the acknowledgements…

…. Because I am planning to throw them back at you.

Now rest up, everyone. April Fools tomorrow, we gotta make the REST of the website unusable.

[bamsara]

Hey

is solar lunacy discontinued?

Nah I just stopped sharing the chapters publicly because people were being weirdly hostile about my update schedule, so rn the only people who's seen the updates is myself plus one other person. I'll prob continue to wait to share the writing tbh until I feel like its chilled out more

[erika111111]

[cronchy-cryptid]

Tma Headcanon and slight season 3 spoilers.

Ok, so you know how Martin has had a crush on Jon since season 1? And he has a tendency to daydream about Jon to the point of spacing out real bad? Ok put a pin in that.

You know how in season.. 3?? I think it was, Jon started showing his first prominent signs of developing his eye powers. Then later when they got really bad and Jon was trying really hard not to look into people's minds, he discribed it like a door in his mind with an ocean of knowledge behind it and, while he trys to keep it closed, sometimes information will seep through the cracks and he will just know something.

See where I'm going with this?

Ok so, Martin and Jon sitting in a quiet space for lunch because I said so, and they are both saying nothing. Jon is still wrapping his head around everything. He doesn't know the level of danger everyone is in, he's blaming Elias and himself, he's trying to piece together these mysteries without becoming one, and he's really just stuck in his own head.

Then there's Martin also in his own head, but more so worried about everything going on in the institute as well as how they're taking their toll on Jon. It feels like everyone is ganging up on him and he's already shouldering too much. Martin wants so badly to roll him up burrito style in a blanket, make some tea, kiss his head, and make sure he's safe. He sees the pressure he's under and just want's to take it off his shoulder's for a moment. Of course, it's his daydream, so he indulges on the idea of cuddling and light kisses and the soft sence of safety you feel around someone you trust.

At somepoint, Martin looks up to see Jon just kinda looking at him, a bit red. Jon clears his throat a bit awkwardly and thanks Martian for the tea and leaves. Before he fully heads out the door, Martin kinda half calls out like "Everything alright?" And Jon just kinda studder stops, thinks for a moment, then replies "No, but I appreciate the concern... Truly..." almost in a sigh, and leaves proper.

[faint-glimmers-of-hope]

If you don't think there's anything in store for Gemma and Mark in the aftermath of the finale I don't know what to tell you when it's clearly brimming with so much potential: the angst! the hurt and the comfort! the PTSD! the 'life stopped when I became a prisoner', the 'life stopped when they told me you were dead', the 'I ruined myself over you', the 'regaining your own personhood while being legally dead', the 'by finding you I am starting to find myself again', the 'we cannot go back to how we were before and that's alright', the 'we are broken in possibly irreparable ways', the 'I will pick up the pieces of you', the "I still choose you despite what we've been through", the 'relearning how to live', the 'I am still grieving even though you're right here', the 'finding new ways to be and allowing yourself to just be' and everything in between, the coming to terms with it all

[winterblues]

fool’s fate is such an immensely long and wild ride, it’s no wonder reviews are like “this is some of the most gutwrenching-doomed-by-the-narrative shit you’ll ever experience.” i feel like i’ve aged like five years since i first picked up fool’s errand. i mean so much happened, like, too much happened? how does one even go back to seeing fitz and the fool as friends? friends seems like a reductive word for the sheer intensity of what they’ve been through together, for one another. i won’t make assumptions about what i think hobb’s intent was (the intent of the creator of a piece of media is rarely as important as the audience’s interpretation of it). HAVING SAID THAT, i for one think it’s very telling (for a queer narrative) that fitz has always “compartmentalised” the fool as someone separate from everyone else that’s important to him. his dearest friend and yet the extent of his relationship with him is a secret kept close to his chest throughout the books, with chade probably being the only one with even half a true inkling about their connection, almost like he’s subconsciously protecting it. he leaves all the ‘intimate details’ out when reporting to the coterie, but this isn’t the first time he’s avoided speaking of things they have expressed to one another in confidence. he’s different around the fool, and holds little back from him save for his avoidance of the depth of his own feelings. i mean, you don’t risk your own death to breathe life back into someone’s broken & bleeding & decaying body because you’re okay with the idea of them no longer being a part of your life. this is doubly tragic because the fool loves and respects fitz’s boundaries so much that he would rather withdraw than risk ‘making a mistake’, (and it’s obvious he’s trying so hard not to be selfish, trying so hard not to be heartbroken that fitz didn’t come back, especially after fitz astounds him by asking to follow him) but i am truly convinced that if the fool had chosen differently, fitz would’ve slowly started to come to terms instead of reverting to dismissal and avoidance. but he more or less acknowledges it in the parting words of his epilogue, that he traded everything he had with the fool for the life he sought with molly as a boy because ‘a horse can’t wear two saddles.’ and the most important woman in his life will go years without knowing about the depth of fitz and the fool’s friendship, but her children will play with the toys he carved for them, and a prized horse named malta will graze in their stables, and her son will wear an earring the fool had in his safekeeping for years and only parted with in order to keep a promise to a boy they both loved from forever ago. and so fitz goes from being adamant that he’d find a way to change the fool’s mind to letting him go just like that, because he finally has his life back, after so many years of deprivation. it’s only it’s own kind of tragedy that while he is content and surrounded by the people he loves, he’s still avoiding the deeper issues at the core of his being; still in many ways a tool for the throne, and giving his daughter up to the same fate. meanwhile, the fool, who was instrumental in buckkeep achieving peace and the reversal of fitz’s partial forging, is just hanging on by the bare thread of knowing that fitz is finally ‘free’ of him, and living well

[cedric-k-rossignol]

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride

Undertaker + Cloudia P. Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

[mintypsii]

people don't even say i love you anymore they just

[invinciblerodent]

who wants a slightly larger, sharpened version of this shot that I have been staring at for the last 15-20 minutes with absolute hearts in my eyes

(it made the clothing a tiny bit janky but there's only so much photoshop can do for me at this point, i want to be staring into his pores)

[padrenicolo]

the old guard fic recs

a bunch of fics, organised into semi-coherent categories (Pre-Canon, Canonverse and Post-Canon, Canon Divergence AUs, Alternate Universe, and specifically TOG2 Fics). I haven't included any purely super explicit fics bc that's not usually my jam, although some might contain a few smutty scenes. this took so long bc i reread quite a few of these instead of making this post so oops

🔒 = need an ao3 account

Pre-Canon

deo volente (lux aeterna) 🔒 by qqueenofhades, 65.5k, complete, a kaysanova backstory fic

lessons exquisitely crafted by kaydeefalls, 42.9k, complete, After escaping the fall of Jerusalem together, Yusuf walks away from Nicolò in order to return home and move on with his life. Fifteen years later, Nicolò shows up in his dreams of the two immortal women.

The Other Matter by Survivah, 15k, one shot, Falling in love with the only other immortal you know gets a bit complicated. AHHHHH

The Golden Horn by goldsaffron, 10.8k, one shot, About forty years into his relationship wit Nicky, Joe experiences jealousy.

Spring in Malta 🔒 by orphan_account, 7.2k, one shot, What happened in Malta.

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit by historynut101, 6.1k, one shot, Joe and Nicky getting together

these moving walls by GreyMichaela, 5.7k, one shot, “He looks at you like you belong to him,” Sarwa says. Nicolo keeps eating, oblivious to what they’re saying. “I think he belongs to me too,” Yusuf whispers."

an astonishment of form by raedear, 3.8k, one shot, Nicky and Quynh's friendship <3

Salt and Harvest by hollybennett123, 3.1k, one shot, Bread fic! Bread bread bread.

as an ancient city by stonecarved, 2.6k, one shot, Joe and Nicky through the ages. Beautiful and poetic.

Future Days by maroon, 2.1k, one shot, Andy POV of kaysanova.

and i'll never leave by strangehighs, 2k, one shot, Andy and Quynh finding each other.

Canonverse and Post-Canon

If Never Again, If Every Day by gallifreyburning and takiki16, 178.6k, complete, 1099 Nicky and 2021 Nicky swap places somehow. Old and new challenges arise.

Twenty-Five Love Letters for a Priest by fishie_scribbles, 22.2k, complete, Nile finds an academic essay discussing letters found in an abbey from the early 16th century.

i'll lay my roots in fertile ground by itsmylifekay, 13k, one shot, Snapshots of Nile's first few years with the team.

Something Rich and Strange by cecilyjones, 6.7k, one shot, Booker learns to scuba dive for a job

Stracciatella by ScribeofArda, 4.8k, one shot, Their bodies might show no sign of scars and injuries, but they still remember. A look at the pseudo phantom-limb syndrome the immortals might experience.

or, the modern prometheus by liraels, 3.6k, one shot, Quynh and Andy's first meeting after the first movie, (written long before the sequel with more of the comic characterisation.) Interesting.

The Fine Line Between Romance and Embarrassment 🔒 by twoseas, 3.3k, one shot, Nile asks Joe and Nicky how they got together. Storytelling and feelings. Love it.

the problem with having two, thousand year old brothers 🔒 by SuchASeeweedBrain, 3k, one shot, Nile learning about the historical figures that Joe and Nicky met over the years and freaking out. Silly and fun.

Family Dinner by dadvans, 2.4k, one shot, slice of life

what you're really in for by squireofgeekdom, 2.1k, one shot, Booker and Nile talk about their shared dreams of Quynh.

Victory Is Sweet by Arkada, 1.8k, one shot, Nile comes up with an idea to help Nicky win the baklava challenge.

The Greatest Fiction Podcast On Stitcher (and wherever you listen to podcasts on iPhone, Android, or other devices) by ContreParry, 1.7k, one shot, Silly humour fic where Joe, and the rest of the Old Guard, started a podcast. Hilarious.

Canon Divergence

Missed You By a Few Minutes, a Few Centuries by just_another_tinker, 115.9k, complete, Nicky and Joe's second meeting was over 900 years too late. Different first meeting.

What God Gave You, He Gave To Me by LittleRedCosette, 99.4k, complete, Nicky has also been missing for years when Nile meets the team.

Saltwater Sonata 🔒 by pinstripedJackalope, 68.4k, complete, Nicky was in the iron maiden instead of Quynh.

Travellers from an Antique Land by kaydeefalls, 45.7k, complete, Andy was in the iron maiden, not Quynh. One of my all time favourite 'someone else is under the sea' fics.

built a lot of castles by basketofnovas, 12k, one shot, Quynh is rescued by a marine archaeologist in the eighties.

Shattered Pieces 🔒 by AraSigyrn, 8.6k, one shot, Their escape from the lab in TOG1 went a little different. Booker does his best to make amends in the wake of it.

the goddess finally sleeps, in the lap of her lover 🔒 by wrennette, 2k, one shot, Andy doesn't stop searching fic.

Alternate Universe

Technical Support 🔒 by linascribbles, F1 AU, 96.5k, Driver!Joe and Race Engineer!Nicky. Some found family vibes but mostly focused on the developing relationship between Joe and Nicky. Background Book of Nile if that's your jam (it is very much not mine), but it's easy to ignore if it’s not.

let not time deceive you (you cannot conquer time) by Draco_sollicitus, Academia AU, 85.7k, complete, Nicky is a PhD candidate, looking for someone to translate a famed love poem by a little known poet in an extinct dialect. See: Joe. Different meeting, academia, angst with a happy ending, a wild ride.

Iris by pinesboi, Wild West AU, 62.1k, complete, Yusuf leaves New York to put down roots as a blacksmith in the Idaho Territory. Nicky works on Andy's ranch just outside of town.

a love even time will lie down and be still for by gallifreyburning, Practical Magic AU, 57k, complete, Joe and Nile were raised by witches, namely Andy and Quynh. Nicky is a police officer looking for answers. If you know the movie you know how this goes, if you don't, still read this! Very sweet.

If You Abide With Me by alby_mangroves and ZairaA, Historical different first meeting, 33.7k, complete, Nicolò is a monk dedicated in service to God, when he is put in charge of the care of a stranger who washed up on the shores of his monastery.

To Make Him Glorious by pixie_rings, Pygmalion AU, 23.5k, complete, Joe has been commissioned for a statue by Steven Merrick, but another figure haunts his dreams. YES YES YES.

From Italy, with Love 🔒 by Watthefuckidk, Street Racing AU, 22.3k, complete with an incomplete additon to the series, Andy owns a specialty car shop, along with Joe, Nile, and Booker, and compete in illegal street racing on the side. A new racer on the scene challenges everything.

Peer Reviewed by ishandahalf, Academia AU, 20k, complete, Epistolatory fic in that its told in emails, as Joe and Nicky are each other's blind peer reviewers. I loved this so much.

In a kingdom by the sea 🔒 by Morvith, Royalty AU, 10.9k, complete, Nicky's sister searches for her long-lost brother across the Mediterranean.

what you seek is seeking you 🔒 by bankrobbery, Cafe AU, 9.5k, one shot, Nicky is a baker, Joe is a regular. Yup, yup, yup

you know my name by kaydeefalls, James Bond AU, 4.6k, one shot part of a series in this universe, Andy is 007, Quynh is Q. Its fun.

TOG 2 Fics and Fix-Its

this living starts to burn by biblionerd07, 20.3k, complete, Post-TOG2, Discord underestimates the team and their love for each other as she tries to torture and manipulate them.

I Cannot Change as Others Do by sheafrotherdon, 8.3k, one shot, Nicky POV, kinda a fix-it set after TOG2

By Alphabet's End 🔒 by Siria, 6k, one shot, Andy and Quynh finding their footing again after the events of TOG2.

Talk to Me by PunsAndRoses, 4.8k, Conversations from Trieste to Paris while Nile and Nicky follow Joe.

Four (missing) waypoints by Srin, 2.5k, one shot, Missing scene, Nicky and Nile following Joe.

the thread that untangled by captain_adolphus, 2.4k, one shot, Nile, Nicky, and Joe, and the fight from TOG2.

Shadow on the Backcloth by pixie_rings, 2.3k, one shot, Nicky has thoughts about who Joe is texting.

unburned, yours, snowfallen by moonfreeze, 1.1k, one shot, Quynh musings in the scene with her and Andy in the library.

safe and warm by taq, 1k, one shot, In the library, Andy and Quynh.

[halfbaked00q]

I think we should put Bond in more "normal people" situations where like sure his spy-training social mimicry can get him by, but there's still a limit to what that can do and he will have to defer to Q to actually successfully navigate the situation due to his own lack of real-world experience and like, context with said situation.

[hellomagicalsouls]

✨he looks heavenly✨

i am so excited to see this man in action for season 4. it's going to be full one tarot card, séance readings, all round witch shit. which is what i've wanted since day one.

the fashion, the vibe, the pose. beautiful. its giving klaus season one or the closest we'll get to season one.

and klaus season one will always be famous. the jewellery. the background, yes it dingy and grimy but im obsessed. i have way too many feelings on how good he looks.

i would prefer he had his curls but im willing to overlook it for this absolutely impeccable picture.

i am so excited to see him hopefully use his powers and maybe even enjoy using them. still worried about the damn tower tarot card but this. this is everything ive wanted in klaus.

when i think about klaus, this is damn near perfect to what i think. add curls and it is perfect.