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12-03-2020, 05:45 PM
“I really hope I’m behind this convoluted mess; at least that way I’ll be able to get revenge by doing this to myself. I won’t even have to feel bad because it’ll be all my fault.” - Harry Potter, The Master of Death by Ryuugi.
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RE: Updates 45 (couldn't think of anything witty)
12-04-2020, 06:27 PM
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/145900...s/68275552
https://archiveofourown.org/works/145900...3#workskin
Gone Fishing (Superman and Batman take a fishing trip and everything goes wrong, part of the "Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts" series by Unpretty).
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Less Than Zero (DC OC).
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RE: Updates 45 (couldn't think of anything witty)
12-05-2020, 10:00 AM
A Time Apart by Ozzallos has UPDATED!
Chapter 4 (Ranma/SM/others)
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RE: Updates 45 (couldn't think of anything witty)
12-05-2020, 11:56 AM
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Foxxo Orario ch 9 (Volume 3 of "I Am A Girl In The Dungeon")
Relic of the Future ch 134 (RWBY - Jaune peggy-sue by Couer al'Aran)
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12-05-2020, 05:15 PM
(12-05-2020, 10:00 AM)Cobalt Greywalker Wrote: A Time Apart by Ozzallos has UPDATED!
Chapter 4 (Ranma/SM/others)
Holy crap. I thought Ozz wasn't updating anything off the Fanfiction Federation board any more. I dearly hope Hell Is a Martial Artist is in the queue somewhere...
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12-06-2020, 08:34 AM
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My Hero School Adventure is Wrong, As Expected (My Hero Academia/OreGairu).
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12-06-2020, 12:14 PM
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12-06-2020, 05:28 PM
“I really hope I’m behind this convoluted mess; at least that way I’ll be able to get revenge by doing this to myself. I won’t even have to feel bad because it’ll be all my fault.” - Harry Potter, The Master of Death by Ryuugi.
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12-06-2020, 05:39 PM
Chapter Trigger Warnings Wrote:Explicit Discussion of Infectious Disease, Explicit Mention of Infant Illness
Time for A Thing of Vikings' winter cours!
An Introduction To Dragon Biology, 17th Edition, Oxford University Press, 1793 Wrote:Much like birds and bats, dragons have an aggressively active immune system in comparison to humans, and for much the same reasons. Simply put, for a flying animal, an inflammatory response in the face of an infection is often a death sentence, so there is significant selective pressure for immune systems which can deal with an infectious agent quickly. In the case of draconic immune systems, this goes one step further, as an unchecked infection of the dragon's hydrocarbon organ system can have literally explosive results.
As such, while there are diseases that can affect dragons—especially ones that target the dragon's symbiotic bacteria—on the whole, a typical dragon's immune system resembles a military base swarming with constant armed patrols and barriers of razor-tipped wire. A disease attempting to stage an infection of such a system needs to be extremely effective at intrusion, starting with thwarting the symbiotic bacteria in the salivary glands that are the immune system's first line of defense. These bacteria not only help dragons create the biofilm mucuses that aid with fire resistance in the otherwise vulnerable soft tissues of their mouths and throats, they are primed to help their host with fighting off any microscopic invaders who attempt to get a toehold in the tissues of the mouth and gut, as the bacteria secrete a variety of antibiotics, antivirals and antitoxins—this last being significantly important in breeds whose breath can have toxic byproducts—all of which are refined by selective pressures on the symbiotic bacteria for maximum efficaciousness.
That being said, there is still a range within the greater dragon species in terms of immunological effectiveness. If a typical dragon's immunological response is akin to a military base on high alert, then those dragons whose diets expose them to biological hazards up the ante, to being more akin to a forward artillery base with active minefields and with gunnery crews in possession of itchy trigger fingers. The saliva of many Boulder-class dragons are rich in antitoxins, including ones that can encapsulate elements such as arsenic, rendering them relatively harmless and ready for expulsion in the dragon's fecal waste (although this is not a universal defense, as the radiological poisonings from the ingestions of radioactive materials and the cancers caused by the ingestion of asbestos both demonstrate). Meanwhile, Buffalords, the premier example of a draconic immune system taken to extremes, consider botulism to be a spice in the vein of how humans consider mint or caffeine, raw pufferfish is seen as a tasty snack, and cyanide is a treat.
At Turpan, in the Taklamakan, Drago and the Kagan play hwigi and talk like friends, and we readers learn the Kagan's name at last. In the Healer's Hut of the Hooligans, Ruffnut hears allusion to a cure for the hundred days' cough and wonders why the others have preemptively given up on looking for it. After Mass in the chapel, Wulfhild opens talks with one of the other resident Christians. In Gobber's new smithy over on Eigg, Hiccup works on his latest invention, with a little help from his old mentor. Back in the Healer's Hut, Ruffnut finds no cure mentioned in the official records, but is reminded of something that might be effective. Crossing Normandy on dragon-back, Fishwings gets the full impact of the accusation Lopsides threw at her a chapter ago. And we close on Berk, in Gothi's hut, where Ruff finds what she's looking for and seeks a way to turn the information into something useful...
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RE: Updates 45 (couldn't think of anything witty)
12-06-2020, 07:15 PM
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Harry Potter and the Egger Route (Potter/Witches of Karres), chapter 4
Proud Parents (Potter), chapter 23
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12-06-2020, 07:54 PM
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Harry Potter and the Egger Route (Potter/Witches of Karres), [url=hhttps://www.fanfiction.net/s/13722721/4/Harry-Potter-and-the-Egger-Route]chapter 4[ /url]
This link thinks it has a an extra "h" at the start. please fix, for others to enjoy.
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12-06-2020, 09:25 PM
Whoops, I pasted in the wrong URL at first, guess i didn't delete it completely. Fixed.
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RE: Updates 45 (couldn't think of anything witty)
12-07-2020, 03:44 PM
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“I really hope I’m behind this convoluted mess; at least that way I’ll be able to get revenge by doing this to myself. I won’t even have to feel bad because it’ll be all my fault.” - Harry Potter, The Master of Death by Ryuugi.
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12-08-2020, 03:04 PM
“I really hope I’m behind this convoluted mess; at least that way I’ll be able to get revenge by doing this to myself. I won’t even have to feel bad because it’ll be all my fault.” - Harry Potter, The Master of Death by Ryuugi.
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RE: Updates 45 (couldn't think of anything witty)
12-09-2020, 12:15 AM
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12-09-2020, 06:59 PM
https://archiveofourown.org/works/852418...4#workskin
Gotham High (Teenage Bruce Wayne, part of the "Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts" series by Unpretty).
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/327551/...first-step
Changeling Space Program (My Little Pony/Kerbal Space Program, complete).
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12-10-2020, 12:35 AM
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12-10-2020, 09:13 AM
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12-10-2020, 05:49 PM
“I really hope I’m behind this convoluted mess; at least that way I’ll be able to get revenge by doing this to myself. I won’t even have to feel bad because it’ll be all my fault.” - Harry Potter, The Master of Death by Ryuugi.
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12-11-2020, 09:45 PM
Last time on Star Wars: Bare Squadron, Travolore Wrote:New chapter should be out December 1!
December 1, December 11, whomst amongst ust hastn't've had their keyboard get twitchy?
Today, he Wrote:The Academy meets its end in fire and blood as Phara, Cal, Malya and Kara finally escape the Empire. But at what cost?
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12-12-2020, 10:48 PM
Flowers by the Wayside (HP, Snape/PeggySue!Petunia).
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12-12-2020, 11:12 PM
Dogbertcarroll's The Plagiarist (Xander in DC-land, making clones)
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RE: Updates 45 (couldn't think of anything witty)
12-13-2020, 06:47 PM
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Chapter Trigger Warnings Wrote:Implied Threat Of Torture, Explicit Discussion of Abortion
If it's Sunday, it's A Thing of Vikings!
In his journal entry for October 12th, AD 1067, Dragonlord Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III Wrote:The idea of blood is ridiculous.
And while I have some complaints to Odin about the red stuff that runs in our bodies and leaks out when you poke too hard, that's not what I'm talking about here.
The idea of good blood or bad blood or bloodlines or 'they take after their father or mother,' or, going bigger, that's just how they are because of who they are, what they are, that's absurd.
I'm proof of that. I grew up as my father's runt of a child, someone who was strange and who didn't fit in, despite all of my efforts to be just like them. How can I say to other people that that's what I would expect of them because of who their parents were, who their family is, when I remember so strongly that I wasn't like my own father?
'That's just how they are'. Oh really? That's just how 'they' are? Why? It didn't matter to me how much 'Vikings' were like that, even as I tried to be one with all of my (rather sad) might. I wasn't an ax-wielding warrior.
Yes, there are tendencies across groups of people. But those come from how the child is taught, from what the people around them say is acceptable on how to behave, and also from their own personal gifts and temperaments. Everyone likes to say now that my eldest kids are 'geniuses, just like their father' since they started reaching adulthood and I'm finding out exactly what my father and Gobber meant by "the Grandparents' Curse". And yes, part of me would like to think that it's all my 'blood'. But it isn't. It's because when they were little, I helped them ask questions and grow. I encouraged the parts of them that wanted to know, wanted to understand the world and how it is put together. And not all of my kids are that kind of 'genius'. Oh, Asta and Magni definitely are, and it's been a joy to watch them scare and upset the old scholars as they've finish their schooling—or in Valka's case, scare the lords now that she's starting to take some responsibility in leading. But Hamish, ahem, 'takes after his mother,' and while he's certainly smart enough, he's not interested in being a philosopher or a lord or an artist or a priest like his brothers and sisters are. He's growing up to be a warrior, a soldier, an officer and general like his mother is, and I'm just doing my best to help him be a man of honor and not a bully. And I'm not going to force him to be like me if he doesn't want to be. I know how much that hurts.
But that's just my own family. I wasn't a model Hooligan growing up, no matter how many tales people tell now to the contrary. Fishlegs grew up around books and cultivated that in him, but he wasn't a perfect warrior as our people pictured it either. Hel, Mildew, may Nidhogg gnaw on his bones, was one of us, and look at how he acted! It was as if every law and rule we had was something he viewed as a challenge to break!
So when I hear people say in the Thing that that's 'just how the Turks are', or 'everyone knows that's how the Han people are', or any of that…
I always end up asking sarcastically about what 'everyone knows'. After all, 'everyone knows' that Jews are weak scholars—and some of our most highly honored soldiers come from their people. I've had my own people comment to me in private that 'everyone knows' how Franks are untrustworthy fanatics who will betray oaths to outsiders if they can find an excuse. And, sure, there have been examples of that… and there have been many more examples of good and kind members of their people, who repay decency with decency and honor with honor.
No. Blood is ridiculous. I grew up with a smith for a guardian and became a craftsman. My wives grew up in the homes of warriors and leaders, and that's what they were taught to become.
And that is why I do my best to help my people, regardless of their 'blood', to grow and fly on their own.
Because I know what it's like to be a square peg in a round hole, even if people now are saying that the hole was always square.
It wasn't.
We begin in Berk's sacred grove, where Stoick prays for a Buffalord-shaped miracle and gets a hint of one. In Algeciras, Viggo hears Fishwings' confession. Back on Berk, Hiccup wishes he could take flight for Iceland, but the storm is giving Rikard time to round up more security for the expedition. In Höfn, Eret is despairing, like so many of his fellow captives of both species. Back on Berk, Hiccup is ready to launch. At the Grímsvötn nest, the Nightscreamer returns from her visit to the walker camp, and we learn for what she was searching. Near Yan'an, Drago and the Kagan are encamped for their assault on the Han. En route from the Faroes to Iceland, Hiccup shares his worries with Toothless and exchanges hopes and fears with Magnus. From an imperial rooftop in the Song Dynasty capitol of Bianjing, Drago prepares to make his move. And we close on the approach to Iceland, as Hiccup learns of another draconic power rising...
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12-13-2020, 11:59 PM
“I really hope I’m behind this convoluted mess; at least that way I’ll be able to get revenge by doing this to myself. I won’t even have to feel bad because it’ll be all my fault.” - Harry Potter, The Master of Death by Ryuugi.
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