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RE: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-09-2018, 02:38 PM
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
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RE: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-10-2018, 12:00 PM
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The Dragon Millennium, Manna-hata University Press, Ltd. Wrote:Starting from the 1040s AD, the economic effects of dragons upon human society can only be described as transformative, to the point where the time period between 1040 and 1400 is described as the Dragon Era, in line with the Stone, Agricultural, Bronze, Iron, Steam, Industrial, Fission, Information, Space, Genetic, Nanotech, and Fusion Eras. While most popular depictions of history focus more on the visually impressive aspects of aerial combat and the uses of dragons in warfare, such fixation overlooks the majority of the actual effects of dragons on human society. Dragons revolutionized transport and communications within a decade, and the adoption of a dragon-scale currency neatly toppled the feudal systems of Europa that had dominated the region for centuries within sixty years. Even in modern times, each class and breed of dragon is economically useful in some manner: Boulder-classes carve out both the terraurban spaces of modern cities and the subterranean arteries that tie the cities together, and smelt the steel that form the bones of the arcologies and skyscrapers. Stoker-classes produce hydrocarbons in a variety of useful forms. Many dragon venoms, especially those of Sharp-class breeds, can be processed into pharmaceuticals…
In Rome, Viggo Grimborn helps the Church interrogate Harthacnut's senior surviving Thingman, and learns enough about Hiccup to start making his own plans. In Brittany, Dogsbreath and Inga try to get their bearings. In Nidaros, Ruffnut has a consultation that sits at the heart of this week's content warning ("Medically sensitive subjects, discussion of abortion, abortion practices, pregnancy death risk"). On Berk, Hiccup gets into disputes and difficulties. And near Melfi, Snotlout Sigurd prepares for another dragon-back battle, and opens up a little about home, as A Thing of Vikings continues:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/34496540
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/53...Of-Vikings
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RE: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-10-2018, 02:06 PM
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RE: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-11-2018, 02:55 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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RE: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-11-2018, 06:42 PM
https://archiveofourown.org/works/14900457
Meanwhile (Girl Genius, part of the Smells Like Hope series, Agatha dates Jorgi the Jäger).
“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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06-12-2018, 08:13 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: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-13-2018, 12:50 PM
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06-13-2018, 04:38 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: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-13-2018, 05:50 PM
(06-13-2018, 04:38 PM)Shepherd Wrote: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11910907/26...-My-Weight
Pulling My Weight (Naruto).
I am really enjoying this story. 
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
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RE: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-14-2018, 08:35 AM
The Gods Are Bastards:
Chapter 14-14: https://tiraas.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/14-14/
Trissiny and Gabriel do something that they don't want to do.
Chapter 14-15: https://tiraas.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/14-15/
Toby and Schwartz do something they don't want to do.
Chapter 14-16: https://tiraas.wordpress.com/2018/06/13/14-16/
The Goddess Salyrene does something that she doesn't want to do, and the paladins (and Schwartz) meet someone less than pleased with them.l
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RE: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-14-2018, 01:57 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: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-14-2018, 02:58 PM
From Fake Dreams chapter 51 (F/SN)
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06-15-2018, 10:52 AM
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06-15-2018, 02:30 PM
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8525251/34/...o-Secundus
Effloresco Secundus (Naruto, Hermione Granger as Sakura).
“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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06-16-2018, 11:17 AM
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RE: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-17-2018, 11:21 AM
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The Genius Has No Clothes: An Alternate View Of Innovation, 1818 Wrote:Many modern students of the history of science and engineering have bemoaned Hiccup Haddock's apparent "near miss" of the development of the steam engine. As the argument typically goes, he had all of the necessary components with which to construct such a device—boilers, pipes and tight-fitting valves with which to make pistons, and mechanical apparatuses with which to harness the power—and with his experimentalist and pragmatic predilections, he would have surely seen the potential of the device, especially as he had access to books describing Hero of Alexandria's Aeolipile, the first primitive steam-powered device, which predated Haddock by a millennium. Such speculators often envision what route history might have instead taken if Haddock had access to railroads and steamships in addition to dragons.
What such individuals forget is that it still took centuries of progress to develop steam power into the sort of practical forms of energy production they envision. From Brendan Mac Brian's first introduction of a primitive steam-powered mining pump in AD 1381, it took over two hundred and fifty years until the first triple-expansion steam engine and steam turbines were developed (by Mishra in AD 1633 and Cohen in AD 1642, respectively). Not only was Haddock missing many essential parts for the construction of steam engines—precision-bored piston-cylinders, for one example—he had no economic reason to invest the time and effort into developing steam power. He had already made significant strides in developing wind and water power in his teen years, which amply served his industrial power supply needs. Also his early boiler designs, while far superior to earlier approaches, were still extremely primitive and wasteful of heat, fuel and water (some of which were recaptured by other processes, including the famous Berk Baths). Finally, what many people overlook is that Haddock had recently acquired the aid of dragons. The early steam engines were only economically viable as they filled a small niche in a developed and mature dragon-based economy, allowing for more efficient pumping of water from terraurban environments. In Haddock's era, only the earliest potentials of dragon labor and construction had begun to be explored…
In Norway, Ruffnut navigates the maternal and executive aspects of queendom with aplomb. In Melfi, Sigurd and company descend on the Lombards like the burning fist of an angry god. In Brittany, Dogsbreath and Inga find the local hospitality a little extreme. In Genoa, Viggo Grimborn hears about the events in Melfi and reaches entirely reasonable conclusions. In the above-mentioned brand new Berk Baths, Astrid, Wulfhild, Heather and Cami cazi talk about their love lives, their dragons' love lives, and the prospects for future generations. And, on Oile áin na gCaorach, 15 miles east of Vedrarfjord, a pack of young Eirishmen who thought they could sack the city all by themselves have had a chance to cool their heads and heels overnight. All this and pick-locks too, as A Thing of Vikings continues!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/34656885
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/54...Of-Vikings
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RE: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-17-2018, 04:06 PM
Oh yes, I forgot to tell you. Star Wars: Bare Squadron - Ravager's Harvest has had a new chapter up for literally days, one focusing on the Imperial side of things and introducing the Inquisitor who will apparently take Phara's narrative place in a ficton where Cal seems to be an only child:
https://tu49.deviantart.com/art/Star-War...-749271355
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06-17-2018, 06:34 PM
While none of us were looking a certain catburglar seems to have snuck 2 chapters of a new story by us
Cat-Tails
https://catwoman-cattales.com/ct/master....fts-01.htm
https://catwoman-cattales.com/ct/master....fts-02.htm
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RE: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-17-2018, 10:25 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: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-18-2018, 08:04 AM
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12692133/1/...he-dungeon
I Am A Girl In The Dungeon? ch 54
In which I AM GANESHA!
Did someone order a LARGE HAM?
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
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06-18-2018, 01:04 PM
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06-18-2018, 02:02 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: Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For
06-19-2018, 08:51 AM
(06-18-2018, 01:04 PM)Norgarth Wrote: Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...ing-35-04/
Oh, the feels!
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06-19-2018, 05:33 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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