Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For

[drakensis]

I've just posted the final chapter of Book 2: Loyalist for my Battletech story, Davion & Davion (Deceased)

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11418526/61...our-Heroes
Kill Your Heroes (Naruto).

[Mamorien]

To modern eyes, the historical emphasis on the importance of hospitality between guests and hosts seems to be of exaggerated, even absurd levels of importance.  We forget, with our modern mass transportation systems, or even just the freedom of movement that dragon-riding grants, that prior to the domestication of dragons, a journey of twenty miles was a day’s trip by foot, with no guarantee of shelter or food at the end of it, except for hospitality.  Thus these rules resulted from tradition, practicality, and social necessity in order to keep peace between neighbors.
Further emphasizing hospitality’s importance, in nearly all pre-dragon societies and religions, hospitality was mandated by divine decree or example.
…the Norse religion’s canon offers up the Hávamál, with the oral antecedents of the text dating prior to the Reformation, which details significant instructions on the duties and responsibilities of hosts and guests, dictated by Odin as wisdom and instruction on proper behavior…
…the Abrahamic religions all have strong injunctions and passages about the importance of hospitality.  Beginning with Abraham himself, he offered bread and gave a feast to guests and was blessed—and the subsequent passages deal with Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities that routinely and violently breached hospitality and were destroyed in divine punishment…
…Hinduism tells of the god of death, Yama, in the story Nachiketā, who returned home after an absence to find that he had kept a guest waiting for three days.  Having violated hospitality by causing trouble for a guest, even unknowingly, Yama offered his guest three boons, and revealed secrets of the gods in the act of fulfilling them…

From Berk, to Nidaros, back to Berk, to the Vatican, to Berk again, to Snotlout Sigurd in Constantinople, and finally to a small holding in Alba, hospitality and other social interactions are a recurring theme in this week's A Thing of Vikings. Between dominance and inducement, which ...Is Mightier...?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/32675874
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/43...Of-Vikings

[Norgarth]

Monday's chapter of Heretical Edge has arrived early
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...rce-33-02/

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12044591/72/Forged-Destiny
Forged Destiny (RWBY RPG world).

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28404-20...Xendra.htm
Xendra (Buffy/Xena).

[Shepherd]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/115004...s/32706816
Midtown High PTSD (Marvel).

[Black Aeronaut]

So technically this isn't an update to Subprime Directives, but I think you might consider it interesting if you like worldbuilding. I have a huge timeline of major historical events in the Federal Worlds that I've been mucking about with sporadically, and it's available for public viewing right here. There's also some tidbits about this weird girl from Mars lurking about too, if you're into that sort of thing. Feel free to check it out!

Hmmm....  I would have thought that there would have been more about the 'First Federation' people that Sora interacted with initially to get her first message back to her family out.  From how they interacted, I was under the impression that there would be some very intense history with these guys.

Unless they were actually supposed to be one of those nerxie outfits that stirred up so much shit before?

[classicdrogn]

Hmmm....  I would have thought that there would have been more about the 'First Federation' people that Sora interacted with initially to get her first message back to her family out.  From how they interacted, I was under the impression that there would be some very intense history with these guys.

I got the impression it was supposed to be more of a mutual "Y'all crazy" kind of coexistence, because the First Feds oort clouds, rogue planets, and rocks around suns dim enough to have the same effect compared to what the Fed-Feds call habitable, meaning they have about an order of magnitude more real estate to use, while the Fed-Feds have things like liquid water and breathable oxy-nitro atmospheres. They look at each other like the zombie-prepper neighbor who builds his house so you have to walk across a second floor footbridge from the garage to get inside, but when the phone is out and you need to call in a chimney fire before it burns your place down good enough.


edit: And so this isn't a total shitpost, here's some stuff that's updated.... probably at least three times? Since I last remember seeing them mentioned:

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11577216/16/A...-the-Force - Ranma/SW prequel era
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11463030/71/Lady-Archimedes - pure HP, Hemermione centric
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/9834391/55/Legacy-Undone - Naruto Peggy-Sue Got AUed

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11910907/24...-My-Weight
Pulling My Weight (Naruto).

[ECSNorway]

That We've Broken Their Statues faces the climax of year one. (Labyrinth / HP)

Mauling Snarks 82 (Worm)

Clover Spear: The War of '56 (Battletech)

An Essence of Silver and Steel (Worm/FSN)

Endless Pantheon: God's Blood (Dresden Files / Stargate SG-1)

Davion & Davion (Deceased): Volume 3, "Secessionist", Chapter 1 (Battletech)

And last but most certainly not least:
A Thousand Shattered Mirrors Chapter 1 (Sequel to 'In Memoriam') - (Raildex)

[Mamorien]

Blake Skies' rewrite of Star Wars: Bare Squadron continues at DeviantArt, as the AU versions of Cal and Kara officially have their First Encounter:

https://tu49.deviantart.com/art/Star-War...-738883893

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge mini-lude
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...8-abigail/

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32071-69...x+Mack.htm
The Secret Collocation of Alex Mack.

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...rce-33-03/

[Shepherd]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/115004...s/32839128
Midtown High PTSD (Marvel).

[Norgarth]

This week's installment of A Thing of Vikings'
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/32869104

Dragon eggs are laid in a single clutch of three to nine eggs between 24 and 32 days after fertilization. Counting from the time of fertilization, gestation for all breeds is approximately 220 days until hatching.

Laying eggs has numerous adaptational advantages for the mother, including allowing her to deal with the metabolic load during the time of year when food is the most plentiful, allowing her to fly without the additional weight of the eggs, and, perhaps most importantly, minimizing the risks associated with draconic embryonic development. From the evolutionary perspective of the mother, it is far better to lose some potential offspring to malformed hydrocarbon organ systems than to risk her own life by internally gestating the offspring. Indeed, while most eggs with malformed hydrocarbon systems are simply nonviable, a significant minority of the nonviable eggs will detonate in the course of the fourth and and fifth months of gestation. For obvious reasons, this would have negative effects on the health of the mother if gestated internally…

—An Introduction To Dragon Biology, 17th Edition, Oxford University Press, 1793

[Shepherd]

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/8...f-Learning
Mother of Learning (fantasy time loop).

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12763847/5/...Is-On-Time
Early Is On Time (Naruto, Dreaming of Sunshine AU).

[ECSNorway]

An Essence of Silver and Steel (Worm/FSN) continues with Sunder 5.6

Mauling Snarks (Worm) chapter 83

Starry Eyes (Worm/HPLovecraft) Spark 4.4

Recoil (Worm Time-travel) 6.3

Respun (Worm Peggy-Sue) 4.01

[Mamorien]

This week's installment of A Thing of Vikings'
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/32869104

Dragon eggs are laid in a single clutch of three to nine eggs between 24 and 32 days after fertilization.  Counting from the time of fertilization, gestation for all breeds is approximately 220 days until hatching.

Laying eggs has numerous adaptational advantages for the mother, including allowing her to deal with the metabolic load during the time of year when food is the most plentiful, allowing her to fly without the additional weight of the eggs, and, perhaps most importantly, minimizing the risks associated with draconic embryonic development.  From the evolutionary perspective of the mother, it is far better to lose some potential offspring to malformed hydrocarbon organ systems than to risk her own life by internally gestating the offspring.  Indeed, while most eggs with malformed hydrocarbon systems are simply nonviable, a significant minority of the nonviable eggs will detonate in the course of the fourth and and fifth months of gestation.  For obvious reasons, this would have negative effects on the health of the mother if gestated internally…

—An Introduction To Dragon Biology, 17th Edition, Oxford University Press, 1793

Also available at the Pit of Voles, if that's your speed:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/44...Of-Vikings

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28404-20...Xendra.htm
Xendra (Buffy/Xena).

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12044591/73/Forged-Destiny
Forged Destiny (RWBY RPG world).

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...rce-33-04/

[zojojojo]

Mauling Snarks 84

[batzulger]

Fortune Days--TTH (Buffy/ MCU Iron Man) has been completed after six years.

[SilverFang01]

What do you want? Chapter 17: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12327719/17...o-You-Want