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[staranise]

Hi everybody! This movie has eaten my brain, and what better way to celebrate a new source of gay smut than... do a week and a half of historical research.

Meta: Historical research on the Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (2232 words) by staranise
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova
Characters: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani
Additional Tags: Historical Research, Meta, Islamic Perspectives of the Crusades
Summary:

Posting my research notes on Islamic history and politics leading up the First Crusade, to answer the question, "Why the hell was Joe there?"

Reader, I am left with as many questions as I have answers, and if you want to email me PDFs with greater historical detail PLEASE DO.

My PDF Wishlist:

• Muslim, Jewish, or Eastern Christian narratives of the Siege of Jerusalem and surrounding events
• Information on Eastern Christian monasteries and religious orders in 11th century Jerusalem
• Islamic military history, especially about the composition of the Fatimid army in the 11th century
• Tunisian history about the cultural and religious makeup of 11th century Ifriqya
• Information about Islamic trade and culture in the 11th and 12th century Mediterranean

If you can provide resources for any of these, please drop a comment or email me at staranise [at] cherisaan [dot] net

Assorted Fic Recs

[saiditallbefore]

Between the Hour and the Age
Andy & Nile & Joe & Nicky, rated T, 2.5k words
“My oath,” Andy says, uncapping the bottle.

Nile sits up straighter, hands on her knees. Whatever this is, much like the mine, it goes back a long way.

“Upon my final death, I bequeath Andronika to Nile Freeman, to donate to whichsoever institution--”

“The Art Institute of Chicago.”

“To the Art Institute of Chicago,” Andy echoes, “so that my breasts may be culturally appreciated in perpetuity.”

She tips the bottle and lets out three drops. As they fall to the stone floor, Joe and Nicky rap their knuckles on the nearest pieces of metal: the other lantern for Nicky, the oxidized helmet for Joe. One rap for each drop. In another time, they might have struck their swords on shields.

Luce e ombre
Andy & Nicky, rated G, 1.2k words
The discomfort is so new that it startles her, and she searches her memory to remember a time before she was immortal: a time when a cut, a scrape, a bruise hurt for longer than a moment, long enough to interrupt sleep. The memories don’t come.

Safe House
Andy & Nile, Booker & Nile, rated G, 2.6k words
It's Andy who remembers the safe house in New York City, though to be perfectly honest, she should have known better than to expect it to still be there.

you help someone up when they fall
Andy/Celeste, rated T, 2.2k words
Andromache the Scythian has seen the rise and fall of countless empires, been worshipped and feared and spoken of in hushed whispers and called upon for aid and succor. She is the oldest of them. The first. And she has never needed medical attention before today.

(Or: an exploration of Andy's thoughts during the pharmacy sequence mid-film, and a tender encounter with Celeste the clerk)

the guard place
NR, 528 words
When Jason is twenty-two, he crashes a jet ski into a manatee while visiting Pillboi’s cousin’s nephew in Fort Myers. He hits his head on the handlebars and wakes up in an emergency room, the attending staring at him quizzically. He will never know it, but this is his first death. It is not the last.
A crossover with The Good Place in which Jason Mendoza is the new immortal.

I've also posted a list of all the fic I've written for this fandom so far here at my dreamwidth.