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The Consortium of Genoa - aka History's Worst Closet by MyTenderMadness
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025), The Old Guard (Comics)
24 Jun 2026
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Right. We’re back!
After several months of behaving, briefly, like a respectable public historian — a phrase which still feels illegal in my mouth — I am returning to the subject that started this entire nonsense project: the medieval Consortium of Genoa, also known as the world’s oldest glass closet, also known as that time a warrior-king and a merchant prince accidentally built a Mediterranean superpower while everyone pretended they were just very committed to maritime reform.
For the next eight weeks, we are talking about King Nicolò II of Genoa and Prince Yusuf ibn Ibrahim Al-Kaysani, because apparently I enjoy pain, footnotes, and watching historians perform interpretive gymnastics around the word “husband.”
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Modern Historians talk about Pseudo-History of Nicky being Nicolo II, King of Genoa, and Joe being Yusuf ibn Ibrahim Al-Kaysani, a Merchant (Pirate) Prince who enters a political arrangement that they refuse to call "marriage." and become "History's worst Closet!" -
Diary of a clueless security guard & His "Big Deal" by MyTenderMadness
Fandoms: YiZhan, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) RPF
23 Mar 2022
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Diary of Wang Yibo as a security guard working in a big office building and met the "Big Deal" designer upstairs.
"Lunch was okay, but stores around are super expensive. 5 Dollar for a sandwich. Will need to make my own sandwich in the future. But today, I rode a couple blocks to get cheaper sandwiches. And some idiot scratched my bike on my way back.
He said, he just learned to ride the bicycle, and didn't get the handle on how to brake yet. Wanted to tell him he's a road hazard, but, he has kind eyes. So I let him go." -
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!!! THIS FIC IS ENTIRELY IN SCREENSHOTS. IGNORE WORD COUNT !!!
If this bunch were together in a discord server, and Zhanzhan has a crush on Yibo.
Daytoy-Zan🐰:HELP! Yibo is lying on my bed, not wearing anything but a towel! 😱😱😱 HELP!!! #IWantToTouchHim #ItSoHardNotTo #SendHelp
Zoey姐姐:I swear to god, if you don't tell him you want to suck his cock, I'm gonna tell him! 🙄😂
The Real Zan 赞赞:Do you want to suck his cock? 🤔
大哥-kuankuan:Why's Yibo naked in your bed? 😲
!!! THIS FIC IS ENTIRELY IN SCREENSHOTS. IGNORE WORD COUNT !!!
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This is a translated work from 灰云触手reborn
The story is simple. The 85-years-old Xiao Zhan writes a letter to his 29-years-old self.
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- Part 2 of Translations of The C-Turtles
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This is a translated work from 灰云触手reborn
The story is simple. The 81-years-old Yibo writes a letter to his 23-years-old self.
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- Part 1 of Translations of The C-Turtles
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kneeled in shaking thrill by paigian for Syysmyrsky (Arktikko)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
27 Apr 2021
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He takes Yusuf’s chin between his thumb and forefinger and lifts it up so their eyes meet. It speaks to the trust that they’ve gathered like frayed thread over the last month that Yusuf doesn’t try to slit his throat for it. He does tense, but it’s anticipation trembling in the hard lines of his body, not fear.
The thumb of Nicolo’s other hand swipes the side of Yusuf’s mouth, where his beard gives way to bare skin. He brings it away, and dripping down the pad of his thumb is a fig seed, glistening in the orange firelight.
“Oh,” Yusuf exhales, cheeks warm.
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Yusuf and Nicolo, language barriers, and being bound together. A slightly post-crusades era fic with pining and resolved sexual tension.
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26 Feb 2026
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“You cannot keep them, Sebastien.”
“Keep them?!” Sebastien hissed, glancing at the boys, “You talk like they would be pets, Quynh.”
“And you talk like they would be sons,” Quynh countered harshly, and Sebastien tried to remember that she was only being cruel to be kind, even as his heart instantly recoiled at her suggestion that he was trying to replace his dead sons with Joe and Nicolò.
AU: The team raises Joe and Nicky from childhood.Series
- Part 1 of Immortal Hearts
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08 Feb 2026
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Yusuf and Nicolò as kids, and Quynh the best auntie!
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in spite (of) by ishandahalf
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
28 Apr 2022
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Nicky is sick and tired of his friends saying that this new guy they’ve met and adopted into their group, Joe, is supposedly perfect for him. Nobody can quite explain why they think he’s perfect - they just say that he’s nice, and handsome, and that’s all well and good but it really doesn’t sound like a particularly convincing argument.
At a certain point, Nicky gets so annoyed at hearing “You need to meet Joe!” over and over that his stubborn self decides he’s going to prove to everybody that they are wrong.
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Contractually Speaking by ishandahalf
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
07 Jun 2021
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New homeowner Joe has hired contractor Nicky for his planned renovations. He very quickly begins to regret that decision - not because of Nicky’s quality of work, but… just how is Joe supposed to react when the most gorgeous man he has ever seen is giving him pointers on how hard to squeeze his caulk?
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Peer Reviewed by ishandahalf
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
28 Jan 2021
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[From:] Journal of Medieval Studies ([email protected])
[Subject:] Ad-hoc note from the editorI have noticed an uncommon level of animosity in your responses to your reviewers (or rather, one reviewer in particular). I am writing to ask if you would please do your best to keep your interactions civil. In fairness, I have also sent a similar request to the reviewer you seem to have this friction with. I trust you will both try and remain more professional in the future.
Again, thank you for submitting your work to this journal.
Sincerely,
James Copley, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Medieval StudiesAn (accidental) academic epistolary romance as (inadvertently) documented via a (theoretically) rigorously blinded peer review process.[citation needed]
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22 Dec 2025