Fic Update Thread 57: Varieties of Fandom Experience

[Jinx999]

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/39408/...ees-part-3

Beware of Chicken

[Norgarth]

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/39408/...ees-part-3

Beware of Chicken

And the Spacebattles edition.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-109883276

EDIT:
2078 Highriders (CP2077 game continuation)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-109885967

[Jinx999]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-109892810

And the end of Felix Fortuna (Worm / HP)

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-109920677

And another chapter of Pokemon Trainer Vicky.

[Mamorien]

More Than Meets the Spy (SPY x FAMILY x TRANSFORMERS) Mission 17: Survive.

... okay, so remember when I said a couple chapter's back that this arc would only last three chapters?

Yeah, it's being extended like the last one.

With this chapter in particular, I originally wanted it to be split between Yor's POV and Anya's, going back and forth between the two and their current situations, but that ended up getting thrown out the window for one reason that can be summed up in two words.

Fight scene.

The fight scene between Yor and Barricade alone ended up being damn near 5K words, and if I did that, the chapter would be too bloated with things to keep track of. So, like last time, the arc's getting extended and we'll be checking back in on Anya next chapter.

Fair warning, it's gonna get a bit more graphic toward the end. I am trying to keep this story rated T by not describing too much, so hopefully it isn't an excessive amount.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/406965.../163902433

[Norgarth]

To Fuel the Guttering Flame (Transformers SI)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-109931543

[NifT]

Corisanna had risen from her hibernation with a new chapter!
As N Approaches Infinity (PMMM/Bleach) by Corisanna
https://archiveofourown.org/works/355372.../163918843

Homura decides to take a break and leaves on a random train, and ends up in Karakura where she meets Ichigo's sisters. Shenanigans ensue.

[Mamorien]

Corisanna had risen from her hibernation with a new chapter!
As N Approaches Infinity (PMMM/Bleach) by Corisanna
https://archiveofourown.org/works/355372.../163918843

Also available at the Pit of Voles: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11116656/85...s-Infinity

Isshin would not vibrate into another dimension with the force of his anxiety for Homura. Would not.

This was going to be round two of trying to nail down a model for how to present things next time, and it was a double-edged sword: If it went terribly, it would be painful now. If it went well, it would be painful to lose the success at the end of the timeline. And Homura could have to try to replicate a delicate conversation next time.

God. Next time.

Stop, Engetsu murmured, banking his fire. You cannot afford to go down that road right now. You may be needed.

Yes. He might. So he would stay calm.

Everyone sat at the table. No one would be throwing teacups this time as none were set out. That was probably wise of Tessai.

[Bob Schroeck]

Tonnage (Batman, Marvel powers slip into DC Universe), chapter 94

Scaling Up (Worm/D&D/Mangled Myth), new installment

Orb Weaver (Worm AU), Storm, Chapter 3

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34144-17...oses+4.htm
Cross Purposes 4 (A Brane of Extraordinary Women, Bionicverse).

[Jinx999]

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/71045/...-whalefall

Zenith of Sorcery

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102618...r-eighteen

Foxfire esq.

[Mamorien]

Tales of Destiny: Bearing Destiny 2.

For Rixiong, the journey south had seemed to pass in the flash. The strange death priest, the ‘Agent of Integrity’ he carefully reminded himself, as it was disrespectful to the spirits to misname their priests, was a funny little man. He was always squinting and hunching his shoulders, and scribbling in his little book. Rixiong wished he could read the scrawled text! He had many questions for Rixiong about his cultivation, which Rixiong had proudly answered. Like Mother, like her court he cultivated after the ways of the Great Zenith, the Noontide Sun, He Who Bears the Enemies of the World Upon His Back. Though he of course revered also the great Bountiful Earth, whose plenty provides for all.

He’d asked the funny masked man about his own god, and though he’d seemed surprised, he was happy to explain. Inexorable Justice sounded like a good god indeed, ensuring that villains could never slink away from their rightful punishments. The priest had ceased to frown and mutter so much after the first few days of heavy questioning.

And Rixiong didn’t mind, because to him the world blurring outside of the carriage was fascinating. He had spent his entire life under the heavy canopy of the forest, at most finding time to sneak to its edge and peer at the little villages which bit into its edges and lived from the scraps of its bounty.

But he saw now things which dwarfed the little collections of human life, things which showed him how men could have built the fallen temples of stone and ancient bone and petrified wood which stood in the forest depths.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26470/...-destiny-2

And Hermione's New Job (HP/DC) continues with Lantern Granger: On Patrol.

After a solid year on the job, Hermione Granger’s no longer a rookie as she begins her second year as a Green Lantern and member of the Justice League. Also as a bridesmaid, mentor, ringbearer, detective, warrior, parent… Wait, what?
All these and more as a twenty-something English ex-witch continues adjusting to life with a power ring. And a steady boyfriend.

In this issue… What’s this?!? Our heroic couple taking a day off to enjoy a famous event, only to be interrupted by Britain’s most nefarious nobility? Who are accompanied by further infamous crowned cooks? By Jove, tune in for this week’s exciting episode as our heroes must stop the greatest robbery London’s ever faced in Holy Royal Ffogg, Green Lantern!
"Come out to the parade she said, we'll get together, have a few laughs…”
“Oh do shut up, Flash!”

Bill Dozier intensifies at https://archiveofourown.org/works/635421.../162834682

[Norgarth]

Foxfire, Esq has now been crossposted to Spacebattles as well
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...q.1221809/

and to Sufficient Velocity
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...sq.141071/

edit:
Dogbertcarroll's "Mirror, mirror" (YAHF, Xander dresses as the Flash villain Mirror Master)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10204239/1/Mirror-Mirror
several more chapters than I recall, so linking to pt1

[Norgarth]

Dial: Call Resumed (MCU SI/Ben 10)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-109974368

a new addition to Dogbertcarroll's current fragments thread "The Purple Stuff (My Hero Academia)"
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14360169/5/...-Fragments

[Cobalt Greywalker]

From Fake Dreams chapter 77 (Fate/Stay Night AU) FF.Net link

Mystic Knight Online: Worlds to Sow chapter 15 (HP/SAO) AO3 link

[Mamorien]

Threads of Destiny (the other OEX meat) 436-Green 5.

"We Liiiived long, so long Horizon Blade learned to wield a sword as a writing stick and elder’s cudgel, no matter how it made his hands bleed. Master learned denied acts, weaving, carving, smithing. Soothed, wrapped his wounds. Day by day. Good days. Cold and sick with biting wind and wan sun. But. Good. Good. Good enOugH."

The repetition was clearly as much for her as them by this point, Ling Qi realized. It was a balm and a talisman against the black rage and hopeless spite which welled up from the beast's verdant core like an ill suppressed blight surging through her veins.

"But war comes, conflict comes, ruin comes. Master put out their own eyes, and so did not see. Horizon Blade had grown dull and crusted with ink. He fought. So many children/students/disciples. So. So. So MAny. Should have left them to storm wind and bOLt, and gone back to sea and sUN."

"But Master, Atamai, would not think such ," Kohatu said lowly. "... No. Kohatu-who-was would not think this. Cloud men came, and war tribe gathered. Dream men ignored the cloud men, gathered no host. Disciples Argent did instead. Joined. Fought. With spear and claw and fire and blade. Fought Fought. When Horizon Blade's student stood, we fOUght. When his curseblooded bride dug the cruel ritual from her ruined mountain, mASter carved out half their heart with the others. Forged their geas in blood and soul, an oath unbreaking to the cause of one hundred and eight and the young storm. Broken bodies, broken souls, so no StrENGth would be lost while one yet fought. Companions, oathsworn."

Ling Qi swallowed. These were dangerous secrets. It was known that under the decadent rule of the Hui, it was Yuan He and his companions who had rallied the broken lands of the south against Ogodei and who had taken in the remnants of the cities hurled into the sky, scoured from the earth or dashed against the uncaring mountainsides.

She had seen the memory of a vast funnel of wind ripping a city full of people out of the earth. Against that backdrop, she understood why the elders of the Argent Peak Sect had no patience for mercy. When that terror had still been hanging overhead, she could see how one might turn to even more forbidden means. And what was being alluded to here, rambled on in Kohatu's broken tones, was certainly that.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21188/...36-green-5

And, talking of beasts, a reminder from a world borne On The Shoulders Of Titans: Don't... Offend the Locals.

Ramarak's kin come to regret trespassing the Moth Queen's realm.

And the uncanny three are recruited to, of all things, slay a dragon.

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Notes:
This week's chapter much more evenly split between its main character and the very weird guy gunning to meet our main character :3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/276557.../163927084

[Norgarth]

Beware of Chicken
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-110001857

[robkelk]

Beware of Chicken
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-110001857

Not an Animainacs 'fic.

[Mamorien]

Beware of Chicken
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-110001857

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/39408/...lcons-eyes

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34144-17...oses+4.htm
Cross Purposes 4 (A Brane of Extraordinary Women, Stormburst!).

[Jinx999]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-110040305

The Weaving Force and the game's afoot.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-110065334

Beware of Chicken.

Some people play poker and some people chew bees.

[Cobalt Greywalker]

To The Stars chapter 73 (PMMM Future AU)

Are You Afraid Of The Dark? chapter 13 (Worm AU)

[Mamorien]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-110065334

Beware of Chicken.

Also at Royal Road, where the alert reader will moreover find Threads of Destiny 437-Green 6.

Ling Qi kicked her feet idly as she leaned over the rail of the balcony. The sun shone brightly over Shenglu today. Snowblossom lake was like a vast, deep blue mirror splitting the earth, visible clearly even through the churning mist of the waterfall. It was a wonderful view, but to Ling Qi even that was peripheral.

It was amazing, sitting here without a single flicker of the chronic pain she had suffered for months. Every breath came naturally and without effort, her meridians flowing smooth with her cycling qi without any of burn or ache. Her respect for her friend Xiulan had deepened, knowing the girl had been dealing with such pain for two years now.

"I had wondered if you would not come back with some new and exotic injury when you stated your intentions." Cai Renxiang stood at the rail near her, arms folded behind her back. Her eyes were fixed on the slowly growing township below, the docks spreading on the shores, and the motion of people through streets and buildings.

"An arm melted off, the stump bleeding rainbow mist?"

"If not your feet having permanently caught fire, or you having become a wisp of smoke with pretensions," Cai Renxiang said dryly.

"Oh, either of those would be bad," Ling Qi agreed sagely. "People would be uncomfortable if I was floating all the time. Not to mention the smell! It would also make hugging my little sister very hard."

"Let us avoid finding out," Cai Renxiang said with finality, turning her head to look up at Ling Qi perched on the railing.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21188/...37-green-6

[Norgarth]

Weaver's Web (Worm AU)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-110090165

[Mamorien]

Letters to the Lantern! (HP/DC/FNSM): Sartorial Suggestions for Superman!

A friendly neighbourhood arachnid has thoughts for the Man of Steel concerning greater protection from that unpleasant green mineral. It might be remnants of Krypton but it can be a killer for him and his cousin, after all. And so Spider-Man is going to the Moon!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/539020.../164386423

Brotherhood of Glass: Episode Four (SU OC sidestory EDF).

https://archiveofourown.org/works/564638.../164387230

[Norgarth]

Scaling Up (Worm/D&D/misc)
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...t-34669721

My Life as a Teenage Juggernaut (Worm/a bit of Marvel)
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...t-34669679