still alive.

[kaydeefalls]

The problem with being too stressed and depressed to write all year so far is that I also then have no reason to update here. There have been some good things - promotion at work that involves shifting out of my shitshow of a department, yay, though the transition will take a while longer than I'd like. My wife is still unemployed (96 job apps and counting!), but we're managing for now, and unemployment is still honestly a net benefit for her mental and physical health over the job that completely destroyed them both over the past few years. And our hamster continues to be a goddamn delight. So. Getting through it.

I am now committing the great error of judgement that is posting a WIP while it's still very much not finished yet, which has historically not been so great for me. But on the flip side, I did eventually FINISH both of those longfic WIPs eventually, which I definitely would not have if I hadn't started posting them in the first place. Fingers crossed this works out for me. (It's also genuinely more than halfway written, with a very solid outline for the remainder, and I've got momentum on my side.)

But yeah, being halfway through May with zero new fics posted yet this year was just depressing me further, so yay, now I can at least point to SOMETHING I've been working on.

And who doesn't love an obscure historical AU, amirite?


Carthaginians (3730 words) by kaydeefalls
Chapters: 1/9
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
Characters: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nicky | Nicolò di Genova, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, or more specifically one night stand to enemies to friends to lovers, Slow Burn, sex is easy but feelings are hard, Sexual Content, Angst with a Happy Ending, Romance, Punic Wars, Fall of Carthage, shockingly those are not common historical tags, author is a history geek, Ancient Rome
Summary:

Historical AU set during the Fall of Carthage (2nd century BCE). When Carthaginian merchant Yusuf first met Nicolò in Rome, he thought him simply a pleasant night's distraction from the looming threat of war between their respective homelands. He did not expect to meet him again in battle outside the walls of Carthage—or, well…anything else that followed, really.

(I won't spam DW with all the chapter updates - plan is to post a chapter per week until it's done, at which point I'll post again here.)

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Great to hear from you and so glad to know you are writing!!!

[kaydeefalls]

<3!