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𝕕𝕣𝕒𝕓𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝟝:
Miranda throws Nigel a triumphant look that screams ‘I told you there’s something odd going on!’.
“No, Serena, I have not seen Emily, I would have expected her to be with Paul in Design, you know, where she works??”
“She had something for you, I guess that’s how she ran into Andy... still can’t believe Andy managed to talk her into doing anything for her, Emily’s so proud not to be an assistant anymore. Um, not that there’s anything wrong with being an –”
“No, indeed...” Miranda murmurs, deeply in thought, not specifying what part she meant to reply to.
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More Mirandy • prompt me! • all November fics
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Quynh | Noriko, Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova, Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani & Quynh | Noriko, Nicky | Nicolo di Genova & Quynh | Noriko, Andy | Andromache of Scythia & Quynh | Noriko
Characters: Quynh | Noriko, Andy | Andromache of Scythia, Nicky | Nicolo di Genova, Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Booker | Sebastien le Livre (mentioned)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Immortal Wives Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Quynh | Noriko, Pre-Canon, Fluff, Sleepy Quynh, Grumpy Quynh, She loves her wife though, Ficlet, Gift Exchange, not That Time in Malta
Summary:
"In one world, they were separated. She can almost taste the potential of it.
In this world, though, they are together, and Andromache is a warm weight against her side."
I wrote this fic for @kayivy for the 2020 Gift Exchange and I had so much fun! Happy holidays!
Uh, so hi. Here I am, back with fic. It’s been a bajillion years since I posted anything, but I guess we’re doing a thing.
Carve Your Name Into My Bones
Jaskier is a traveling bard, but he also fancies himself a bit of an artist. As he travels, he dreams of a witcher whose name he doesn't know yet, one with long white hair and beautiful golden eyes. The seasons change and he sketches and sculpts a companion for himself based on the stranger in his dreams, modeling him after the tales and legends he's heard of witchers. He doesn't have an explanation as to why he feels compelled to sing to his creation, or tell him stories, breathing life into him bit by bit. A good bard just knows to follow his heart, that's all.
Tags: Slow Burn, Strangers to Lovers, Geralt/Jaskier, mention of Geralt/Yennefer, mentions of Jaskier/others, Original Female Character
Rating: E
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A fic based on this incredible fanart by @kayivy. I saw it once and fell in love, and then I wrote a fic.
Guess who reached post limit on her fandom main again! Sorry @kayivy, I'll just answer here on my personal :)
Which of your fics was most different from what you usually write?
Well, In Your Stead as a multichapter with a continuous and well-planned storyline was definitely different than the oneshot chaos I usually write...
But also the Photo Stories!!! I saw @justqueeerious and @charlize-andy do those and jumped right on, I had never done photo stories before the Andromaquynh fandom :D
What’s your favourite piece of dialogue you wrote this year?
Oh gee I think if there's anything I learned from this ask meme it's that I have 0 memory and should maybe note down my favorite fic pieces somewhere separately bc I just end up giving my fav scenes from what I've last written or re-read again xD
I do really like the wedding vows from Ceremonial!
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This was getting a bit long, so I added the readmore! Anyways, here goes:
"Quynh," Andromache takes a deep breath once they reach the top of the hill, taking Quynh's hands in her own. She has rehearsed this. She can do this.
"I love you. I know you know this, but I still want to say it again. I love you more than I have ever loved- anything before, I want to be bound to you forever. Maybe I was not often truly alone before in my life, but I had been lonely before I met you, and there is no one I would rather share infinity with than with you, as long as you will have me."
Quynh has tears in her eyes at that, but her voice is steady as she starts to speak. Andromache is glad that she went first- she isn't all-that certain she would manage to speak without a rasp in her voice after this. She can feel her own eyes getting wet as well.
"Anh, my love," Quynh says, never looking anywhere but Andromache's eyes, "I had been lost before you found me, and when we did meet you saved me in more ways than one. Your kindness not only brought me back to life, it brought back my will to live, too- you reminded me that there is good in this world, and you still remind me of this every day we are together. I wish to be with you for as long as you will have me."
"Forever, then," Andromache whispers, and Quynh chuckles wetly.
"Forever. Just you and me-"
"until the end." Andromache finishes for her.
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Oh! But also from my Vampire!AU that's surprisingly canon-compliant:
"If we go, we go together," Quỳnh whispers one evening at the campfire, staring into the flames as she first notices the possibility of them both losing their immortality at the same time. Somehow, it is a reassuring thought, not a frightening one.
"Yes," Andromache nods, contently, and lies down with her head in Quỳnh's lap, basking in the heat of the flames. "Just you and me."
"Until the end." Quỳnh replies and bends down to press a fleeting kiss to Andromache's forehead.
It means more to them than 'I love you' ever could.
I rly do like the Just You And Me Until The End line from the film xD but also that last line I wrote here? I gotta call my own writing A++ sometimes xD
Which fic this year was most fun to write?
So many, I tend to only write what I want to write! My latest fic, 'Love Language: Gift-Giving' was definitely fun to write, apart from what I already had from the photostory I didn't need any draft, just wrote it in one go :D
61. favorite line you heard from a book/movie/tv show/etc.?
I had to wait to do this one because I wanted to format it correctly because I Cannot Choose and Must Share
Book:
“Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?” Peter S. Beagle in The Last Unicorn
Movie:
“I know. It’s all wrong. By rights, we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something.”
“What are we holding on to, Sam?”
“That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.”
Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
TV Show:
“What was it that he said that got everyone so upset?”
“Be kind to each other.”
“Oh, yeah. That’ll do it.”
Crowley and Aziraphale in Good Omens
Song:
I could just quote the entirety of Bless This Hell by Mary Lambert and Julien Baker, but I suppose my favorite lines probably rest in this:
“Oh, how this anguish - It's an anchor of love. A reminder I'm living at the end of the day...”
Spoken Word Poetry:
”When I go, bury me with nothing but my own skin. I spent far too many days trying to outrun this thing called mine, so if I set myself into your arms would you hold me like the earth, quietly? I am yours.” Cradle by Anis Mojgani
Poem:
“Believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.”
Invitation by Mary Oliver
Quote:
“As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has- or ever will have- something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.” Fred Rogers
I tag @bettylove @cryhardanddanceharder, @bookerandy @thegalaxyonherlips @pers-books @taiahmaire @kayivy @nomi--sunrider @betweencrossedblades & everyone else who sees this and want to do it!
Oh geesh I don't want to self promote too hard but like I wrote a lot this year and there were many great lines in my humble opinion xD let's see whether I can quickly find a few faves (I have 0 memory so I'll have to look through my fics lmfao)
Andromaquynh:
Quynh kisses her like her life depends on it, like it is all she ever wants to do and more.
"Please don't hurt yourself" Quynh says, sounding alarmed. 'Why? Is that your privilege, now, too?'
Quynh can barely hear her over the ringing in her ears. "You want to die." she repeats in a choked whisper, her palm pressing against the skin of Andromache's stomach onto the angry wound as if she could close it, disappear it that way.
Motioning for Quynh to keep going, to keep swimming, to get out of here as quickly as possible, she tries to memorise every millimeter of the other’s face. If this is to be her last moment on earth, she will die happily.
Others:
“Are you well, my old friend?” Melodenia asks. I wonder if she can see that I am older than I look through the soul-magic, and she laughs.
Crowley is sitting on top of a skyscraper in Manhatten, happily dangling her legs over the edge as she listens to the chaos below, where the wife of a rich landlord just found out about his affairs- he won't be able to throw around lawsuits when he has his own divorce to deal with!
& actually from my current Milippa WIP, part of this series, (yeah I still haven't finished the smut -_-):
Having Michael Burnham, this Michael Burnham in her arms again feels like a gift she had never expected to be worthy of getting.
Thanks so much for the ask, this was fun!
Edit: that's^ all just fav lines, I just realised it also said fav scenes, and that's probably the getting back together in In Your Stead :D
