Update Thread 40: I'm Running Out of Clever Names

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28404-24...Xendra.htm
Xendra (Buffy/Xena).

[Shepherd]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/53500306/
Endless Pantheon: God's Blood (Dresden Files/Stargate).

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...dge-42-06/

Cat Tales has a Christmas omake/outtakes
https://catwoman-cattales.com/ct/75-ever-fixed-02x.htm

[Mamorien]

A special Christmas chapter of The Shattered Skies!

An unlikely interloper accidentally finds clues to the Lighthouse's greatest mystery: who is Fantine?

The author is asking people who think they've figured it out to not make their guesses in public, so I'm not putting it here, not even behind a spoiler tag. If you want to know my guess, PM me please.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/244909...s/40319894
https://www.deviantart.com/bhsdesk/art/S...-778098039
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10756548/42...ing-Lights

And Wattpad, but again, I'm not making an account just to be able to provide a link.

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge bonus
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...nippets-5/

[Norgarth]

Cerulean has updated his Worm fic Intrepid for the fiirst time since July

https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/53568355/
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/11831399/

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32792-21...oses+2.htm
Cross Purposes 2 (Terawatt Multiverse, Buffy/Dresden Files).

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...dge-42-07/

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12302907/15...ara-Bellum
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (Potter).

[Mamorien]

Ladies and gentlemen, the last A Thing of Vikings chapter for 2018, a tale that could only have been called "Harthacnut Is Better Than None"!

Harthacnut (Danish: Hardeknud), occasionally named as Canute III, was King of Denmark from AD 1035 to AD 1042, and King of England from AD 1040 to AD 1042.  The son of King Canute the Great and Emma of Normandy, he was born, in July 1017, in England, shortly after their marriage.  As part of the negotiations of surrender in the aftermath of King Canute's conquest of England, Harthacnut took precedence in inheritance over his older half-brothers from his parents' first marriages.  When their father died in AD 1035, Harthacnut was left ruling Denmark, while his half-brother Svein (son of Ælfgifu of Northampton) was faced with a revolt in Norway, and Harold Harefoot (also son of Ælfgifu) took control in England. 
[...]popularly seen as little more than a brutal tyrant without virtue or redeeming value, Harthacnut has usually been presented in a highly moralistic fashion in most popular media over the centuries.  In these stories, he is used as an archetypal figure of the corrupt and brutal nobleman whose own evils bring about his downfall, an almost idealized villainous figure from whose tyranny and grotesque abuses the populace are freed from. 
As such, in contemporary media, there is little interest in conflicting perspectives on his family background and upbringing that produced him.  This is not helped by the recorded accounts of his actions, including massacres, repressive taxation, executions, feasts in the midst of bad harvests, oathbreaking, violations of hospitality, loyalty purges, and even the posthumous beheading and disposal of Harold Harefoot, his paternal half-brother, in retribution for the death of Ælfred Æþeling, Harthacnut's maternal half-brother.  His death on 11 June, AD 1042 is seen as appropriately fated, but even then, he is typically overshadowed by the other events of the day...

Chapter Trigger Warnings: Explicit Acts of Violence (Warfare), Explicit Character Deaths (Warfare), Implied Attempts of Non-Con (Battlefield)

In London, Harthacnut is awakened by Stoick and Thornado sending a message that lets him know this will be his last day on Earth. In Vedrarfjord, Astrid and her loves are awakened by the news that the Eirish army planned at the end of last chapter has come to their doorstep. Near Aros, Denmark, Dogsbreath lands Redsnout at the rebel encampment to find out how he can help next. In the Rookery on Berk, the flyers debate how, and possibly even whether, to come to the aid of the walkers who've stayed behind. Back in Vedrarfjord, Hákon greets the van of the Eirish army, dodges their initial reply, and spots an unwelcome face among their ranks. In London again, Stoick has time to wax philosophical as he watches the battle unfold, then puts philosophy into practice as he works to keep the war just. Returning to Berk, Spitelout asks how they're going to defend the island, just in time for a surprising answer to arrive. In Vedrarfjord once more, Hiccup gets a better sense of what he's up against, and of what he's got on his side, and starts planning his next move. Back in London, Harthacnut puts his life on the line. Over at Aros, Dogsbreath reaches (what he thinks is) his last hope. On the Moorfields, outwith the walls of London, Harthacnut proves himself a sore loser at the end, but Stoick gives him the respect due a fallen foe just the same. In Berkian waters, Spitelout puts Hiccup's surprise gift to very good use. In Vedrarfjord, Hiccup shows us why angels run when a good man goes to war. Near Aros again, Dogsbreath and Inga make their farewells to the Danes. In Bari, Sigurd wraps up a smaller, but not really lesser, curb-stomping. And finally, back in Vedrarfjord, Hiccup unleashes the full fruits of his genius on the Eirish, and forces himself to watch the results...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/40507910
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/73...Of-Vikings

[Bob Schroeck]

Annals of Arithmancy (sequel to The Arithmancer) has three new chapters starting here.

Royal Ward (Potter), chapter 54

[Norgarth]

A Thing of Viking's Appendix has also had a recent addition, a FAQ.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/112618...9#workskin

[Shepherd]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/53650570/
Endless Pantheon: God's Blood (Dresden Files/Stargate).

[classicdrogn]

tetsurashian has updated Full Circle again!

My summary: HP and Tom have been reincarnating at various points in time for longer than they can subjectively count, this time they're back in their original lives and decided to take all the amusement they can from it, full crack-ship with vague traces of plot mixing in lately but written to a far better standard than that normally implies. Recommended as long as you're not going to get worried about them both happening to be male in this lifetime, not explicit IIRC despite the M, though there is salty language and a pantsless older Tom fleeing out of teen girl Harry's window in one of the previous-life flashback omake. (Best not to read at work just to be safe, especially since I only reread the immediately previous chapter and have a high tolerance for that sort of thing so it pretty much has to be straight up porn before it really stands out as notable.)

Official summary: Harry and Tom's souls are tied together. Which is why they're in this endless loop of rebirth. At some point, they stopped caring and just started fucking with people. (slightly crack AU w/ some seriousness) MoD!Harry, kinda soulmates!TMRHP SLASH M/M
Harry Potter, M, English, Humor, chapters: 26, words: 69k+, favs: 5k+, follows: 6k+, updated: 3h published: 4/21/2016, [Harry P., Tom R. Jr.]

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11907443/26/Full-Circle

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28404-24...Xendra.htm
Xendra (Buffy/Xena).

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12044591/10...ed-Destiny
Forged Destiny (RWBY RPG world).

[Shepherd]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/53671132/
https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/53676157/
Endless Pantheon: God's Blood (Dresden Files/Stargate).

[Shepherd]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/53678860/
https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/53680630/
Endless Pantheon: God's Blood (Dresden Files/Stargate).

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...dge-42-08/

[Mamorien]

New year, nude gear, new Bare Squadron is here!

Kara, Cal and Keyla turn the tables on the Empire with the help of camp's prisoners but the reckoning between Phara and Cal is inevitable...

https://www.deviantart.com/travolore/art...-776457564

[Shepherd]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-53698561
Endless Pantheon: God's Blood (Dresden Files/Stargate).

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11910907/32...-My-Weight
Pulling My Weight (Naruto).

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...dge-42-09/

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32792-22...oses+2.htm
Cross Purposes 2 (Terawatt Multiverse, Buffy/Dresden Files).

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...dge-42-10/

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32841-12...Prince.htm
Harry Potter and the Half-God Prince (Potter/DC).