Fic Update Thread 57: Varieties of Fandom Experience

[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