tealruby Wrote:Hermione’s not alone in being named after a fictional hero. Hers, at least, turned out to be real. This one? Hopefully not, as he’d come with galaxy-devastating levels of Boskonian baggage. As for questions concerning ideals, Hermione has thoughts. Long, digressing thoughts.

The Second Flowering Of Yggdrasil: An Analysis Of The Norse Resurgence, 1710, Wrote:Much ink has been spilled over the centuries debating and debunking the nature of Stoick the Wise’s visions. Skeptics and others more explicitly opposed to the Norse beliefs have repeatedly pointed at the hallucinogenic nature of the dragon venoms that were used to sedate and stabilize him after his injuries, claiming that what he saw was little more than a drug-fueled hallucination. Believers, in contrast, simply reiterate that there are many ways in which altered states of consciousness are used to touch and commune with the divine. The fact that Stoick’s case was unintentional is, from their perspective, little different from the ecstatic fasting and dances of some esoteric Christian practices, meditative practices of Buddhist groups, or even the explicit use of peyōtl by the Wixáritari people of the Vestrilands to commune with their gods and divine forces.

(07-01-2024, 08:43 AM)Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken (original flavour)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.910799/page-1934?post=102775857#post-102775857

Dr. Zyn ch'Mordan Wrote:In the months following the Babel and San Francisco conferences, Earth and Andorian engaged in a series of shared missions and new partnerships intended to expand and deepen their budding alliance. Unlike the relationship between Earth and Vulcan prior to the Kir’Shara Reformation, Earth-Andorian relations were to begin on a more equal footing. Though the powers had met in both antagonism and friendship, Andoria had never been Earth’s colonial master. This was to be an alliance of, if not equals, then something very like it. If some thought this alliance was, as Ambassador Soval once put it, “little more than an abiding but tempestuous quasi-romance between Captain Archer and Commander Shran,” it would soon grow far beyond that.
-- Soval, son of G’Rom, A Life of Service (Raal Press, May 2192).

Yrsillar Wrote:Bai Meizhen's gaze flicked over everyone as they rose to greet her. "It pleases me that our allies have extended this invitation to promptly put to rest the concerns of the Bai clan." Her voice was icy and formal. Ling Qi didn't blame her. She was not simply their friend now, but the representative of her clan.

"It pleases me that the Bai clan has accepted our Cai clan’s invitation to lay this matter to rest ere it becomes a grudge."

"For the rebellious fools which harmed your kinsman, I can only offer my deepest apologies and regrets." Meng Deming bowed low, his wide sleeves nearly sweeping the floor.

It hurt him to bow to a Bai, she could tell. But Meng Deming was not a man unwilling to swallow his pride for the sake of his clan.

Bai Meizhen regarded his back coldly, and she gestured for the others with her to sit. "I hear your words, and I acknowledge that these were the actions of rebels."

Ling Qi felt some relief at that statement given the famous intractability of the Bai clan. Meizhen must have worked hard to be able to make that acknowledgement.

"But a price must be paid all the same," Bai Meizhen continued, sitting down, allowing the rest of them to do so as well. "There are living prisoners. Once you have wrung the information from them, the Bai clan would like to receive no less than three to be made examples of in their punishment and execution. We will, of course, give a binding oath to seek no cultivation secrets and to destroy the bodies afterward."

tealruby Wrote:Hermione’s had a span of peculiar occurrences recently. Not her, to be honest; technically Green Lantern’s had them. An attack here, an enigma there, simply more unrelated items amidst a multitude in her new job. Except they’re not so unrelated. And now the separate pieces are all coming together, and they’re all aimed at her. Get ready, Green Lantern. Time for rogues, only this time they’re all yours. And they aren’t alone.
Some deep, organising power…

Quote: Certain lives and certain deaths, they are significant enough that when souls pass over before their time, they are reborn into new worlds. Sansa remembering is an anomaly, but The North Remembers and Sansa is of the North; She Remembers.

Sansa thinks very little of this new world, or this new village she is meant to call ‘home’, but she does love her new brother, who shines so brightly the gods must surely have breathed star-fire into his bones when they created him. The first time Naruto tells her he will be Hokage, she does not doubt him– he was born to rule, just as she was. But Konoha does not deserve him, and she will not let them take and take until there is nothing left of her bright brother. She is Sansa Stark, she knows how to rebuild a home from ruins, and the ruins of Uzushiogakure call.

(07-02-2024, 11:59 PM)Norgarth Wrote: EDIT:
Beware of Chicken (original flavour)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.910799/page-1938?post=102832665#post-102832665

(07-03-2024, 06:13 PM)Shepherd Wrote: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14075365/19/Delenda-Est-Rebooted
Delenda Est Rebooted (Potter time travel fic).

(07-05-2024, 01:07 AM)Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken (original flavour)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.910799/page-1944?post=102883935#post-102883935

Yrsillar Wrote:"All of this, what has been accomplished here, needed all of our efforts," Ling Qi said. "We have succeeded beyond anyone's expectations, beyond opposition, and beyond sabotage. That is worthwhile."

"It is," Meng Dan said. "I suppose I have received my wish to be a primary source for a momentous occasion. More than I would have liked."

"Our accomplishments are nothing to scoff at, Miss Ling's, perhaps most of all," Gan Guangli praised brightly.

"Stop," Ling Qi protested. "Meng Dan, I will see you soon. Let's keep making history together, hm?"

"Miss Ling, you really mustn't be so forward. The Meng cannot stay in our splendid stasis anymore. The stones will fall to one side or the other. I will have to roll up my sleeves and see the history I wish for written myself."

"As must we all," Gan Guangli boomed.