(06-16-2025, 08:05 PM)Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.910799/page-2341#post-112619843

(06-19-2025, 01:33 AM)Jinx999 Wrote: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.910799/page-2343#post-112682414

Beware of Chicken

tealruby Wrote:“Tell me more about these creatures called dinosaurs…”
Hermione’s recently taken her parents out to space. Now it’s time to take the newest members of her family to Earth. Join Captain Lissam of Caudatia Prima as they venture onto a world with gigantic ponds of poorly salted water, a single oversized moon, and far too many mammals. Oh, and also a unique person dwelling in the Louisiana swamps.

(06-21-2025, 08:10 AM)Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken (original)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.910799/page-2348#post-112736840

tealruby Wrote:A missive from one Mr H.J. Potter of Number 12, Grimmauld Place, Islington, N1, who is perturbed that a childhood friend appears to have slighted the constabulary of Wizarding Britain. Gads! Fortunately, there’s always Quidditch to ease such affronts.

Aubrey B. Marincola Wrote:“If you can’t win with the cards on the table; change the deck.”

Ambassador Kenzu dh’Frang “Zu-zu”, 2167
“Why will we be voting?”(fn1) When the question was put to Prime Minister Nathan Samuels it was a fair if controversial one, and offered in good faith by both the Foreign Ministers Gora bim Gral and Anlenthois ch’Vendreni “Thoris”. At the time Gral, who during the war had professed his interest in the common Human behavior of idiom, was quoted to say, “Is this another of your ‘elephants in the room’? How amusing.”(fn2) Convinced of the diplomatic negotiations by their respective subordinates in the “Little 6”, both Ministers had initially failed to persuade their heads of state to agree to the voting protocols. To both of their governments, the idea that any “Coalition Plus” organizational articles might be voted into text by anything other than unanimous consent of the “Big 4” was well beyond the bounds of their understanding of the conference.(fn3)

Footnotes.

1. Gora bim Gral cc: Anlenthois ch’Vendreni, to the Prime Minister of United Earth Nathan Samuels. “Conference Voting, RE: Why?.” United Planets of Tellar, Foreign Ministry. Sent, 9 March, 2161. Accessed June 2191.
2. A.N.: The understanding of Tellarite languages has increased since the 2160s. The idea that someone might say something they don’t mean, or elide their meaning in idiom, was once common on the planet but no longer functionally exists. Ambassador Gral often made use of Human idiom, especially in his time on the Federation Council. For more informaiton, I would suggest “The Voice Wars: Vol. 1-7” by Lothu Thehranch
3. Thavof, C. “GRAL FAVORS HUMAN CONFERENCE: Interview with Minister Gral.” Phinda News, March 13, 2161

Grande_Crosse Wrote:What do you think of when you think about super heroes? Do you think of gods among men, standing tall against unfathomable threats? Do you think of rich orphans using their considerable wealth, power, and no small amount of grit, determination and preparation to protect people against the insanity of the world? Do you perhaps think of a man at the right place at the right time to receive power from a dying alien? Or maybe you think of a man struck by lightning to receive unparalleled speed? Or maybe you’d imagine a young witch that sacrificed her childhood to march headlong into war to make the world a better place?

You probably wouldn’t expect someone like me, Penelope "Penny" Parker, a fourteen-year-old orphan living with her widowed uncle in a modest apartment, to become a superhero. I doubt anyone would consider a girl with chronic asthma and severe astigmatism, almost making her blind, as a candidate for such a role.

Before the spider bite and all the changes it brought, I wouldn’t have picked myself for this either. But here I am, world—like it or not, I'm the one you've got.

Mr_Crocodile Wrote:When grand monsters are released -by mistake, with malice, or both- from the yawning depths of Goryeo, they do so with a hunger that only the wonders of human ingenuity can satiate.

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Notes:
Hello dear readers! I once more bring you a story that is, in truth, a long awaited rewrite of one of my earliest OtSoT installments. I think that of the rewrites I have done, this is the most through and improved one so far. Enjoy!

See the end of the chapter for more notes.

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It's crazy to think that I wrote and posted the original version of 38th Parallel North during the first trimester of 2021. I objectively know that it wasn't that long ago. But at the same time my brain can only think of this story as "realy old" lol. In any case, rereading the old version made me quite happy, while my actual skills as a writer have improved massively, it was nice to see that the emotional core of the story was already quite good, and that I'd only need to apply what I have learned since in weaving vivid descriptions and compelling prose to really enhance it.

Hope reading this story brings fond memories to my oldest readers, and is a nice surprise to the newer ones!

P.D. The annex's section on Korea has been heavily altered and improved to fit the updated lore of this story