44 Magnum, the most powerful updates on the web

[Ebony]

Heretical Edge, Patreon Snippets 17: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...ical-edge/

Kairos 9-01: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...al-edge-2/

Flick vs. Fossor, Round 2

Summus Proelium, Project Owl 14-01 and Patreon Snippet 17B: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...-proelium/

Paige's Party Starts

Project Owl 14-02: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...-proelium/

...and then the lights went out.

[ECSNorway]

Salvage, Sarcasm, and Submarines

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-71215974

[Bad Moon]

Cat Tales has been on a hiatus due to covid since at least may as the most recent chapters involved rioting she felt it was in poor taste to continue that plot line.

In the meantime, a side story involving early batman years has been released.

https://catwoman-cattales.com/special/mo...ley-01.htm

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12863738/12...the-Future
Relic of the Future (RWBY).

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33342-39...Family.htm
Adventures of a Super Family (DC AU).

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13243522/31...laythrough
My Hero Playthrough (My Hero Academia/The Gamer).

edit:
https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-1963-13/...uppies.htm
For the Defense of Puppies (Harry Potter/Buffy).

[Mamorien]

Explicit Mention of Non-Con, Explicit Depiction of Illness, Explicit Depicition of Murder

Yes, mothers, it's A Thing of Vikings time!

A 'Chain of Events.' Let us meditate on that image for a moment. A chain of events, where one event leads to the next, and that one leads to the next, on and on. But events do not work that way. One event, one action, one choice, can lead to many more events spiraling out from there, making the 'chain' appear more like a net, or a web.
Still, the image does hold for many uses, where we trace back one step at a time to an instigating cause. And the image of a chain, or a net, does function metaphorically in other ways. Like chains, or nets, events can lift us up. They can also restrain us, bind us, imprison us, hold us back, limit us to a specific area. They can help anchor us to safety. They can be fine and delicate, almost ornamental or even unobtrusive, or stout and strong, made of thick links that bear titanic forces. And, with the proper effort…
They can be broken.
Their effects can be halted, through recognition and choice. A blood feud can be stopped, with the chain of tit-for-tat injury and death ended. A system of injustice can be shattered and rebuilt with an eye for greater goodness. A legacy of brutality can be overcome.
A new chain can be forged, one attached to a hoist to raise, instead of a shackle to bind.

We pick up at Inbhir Aora, where Toiréasa and Rodhlaug have an exchange of views, less frank than the robber's daughter was trying for but still not quite through with this "niceness and negotiation" stuff. In the healer's hut on Berk, Heather listens to Fishlegs' diagnosis, elicits their dragons' assistance in his care, tends to those elements of it that require hands, then helps Atali with her own problems. The keeper of a Glas-gau tavern receives royal visitors on urgent business. In his office in Algeciras, Viggo talks affairs of state with William Iron-Arm. In the newly-conquered city of Turpan, Kurya (the Kagan's son) experiences the taste of şeftali in the market, explains why he didn't just take the fruit from the merchant, then dispenses some sweetness of his own. And we close at Inbhir Niss, where Mac Bethad contemplates Norsemen who might be of use to him and Norsemen he doesn't need...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/66118687

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33141-49...nament.htm
Hermione Granger and the Swiss Tournament (Potter spy fic).

[Ebony]

Heretical Edge, Commissioned Interlude 10, Section 4: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...al-edge-2/

Kairos 9-02: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...al-edge-2/

Flick vs. Fossor, Round 2 continues.

[Shepherd]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26982847
Between the Saltwater and the Sea-Strand (a one-shot from the 'The Way of the Apartment Manager' series, Naruto AU).

[Jinx999]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7406866/62/To-the-Stars

PMMA in the future

[Norgarth]

A new story from Dogbertcarroll, Harry Potter and the Egger Route
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13722721/1/...gger-Route

Summary: The Dursleys leave Harry in his cupboard, but will he be there when they get home? Well... no, otherwise we wouldn't have a story. Harry Potter changes genres from Juvenile Fantasy to Space Opera!

Edit: Also a new entry in his fragments thread:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13064230/62...-Fragments

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33342-40...Family.htm
Adventures of a Super Family (DC AU).

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32792-11...oses+2.htm
Cross Purposes 2 (A Brane of Extraordinary Women, Bionicverse/NCIS/Gomer Pyle/Knight Rider).

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13366586/14...ble-System
Incompatible System (Mass Effect AU, human-tech causes Eezo-tech to explode).

[ECSNorway]

Constellations (Worm/Okami)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-71441119

[Mamorien]

Explicit Mention of Non-Con, Explicit Description of Murder, Explicit Discussion of Abortion, Explicit Act of Murder, Explicit Depiction of Severe Illness

Last exit ATOV before Nanowrimo!

The ancient Hooligan tradition of absurdist or otherwise unconventional personal names that was in place during the time of Hiccup Haddock III (himself a prime example of the tradition) originated, according to tribal legend, with Hiccup III's ancestor, Hiccup I. According to the sagas, his parents named him when the baby had nonstop hiccups prior to his formal naming—and then a plague broke out which decimated the other infants of his cohort, and young Hiccup I not only survived, he never contracted the disease at all, a pattern which persisted through the next two years of plague outbreaks. Then, according to the saga, another toddler who had contracted the plague and was in danger of dying from it had his name changed from Varg to Catbrains in desperation by his parents, and was healthy within a week.
This resulted in absurdist names for nearly all of the tribe's children over the next generations, a situation apparently enhanced as a result of the difficulty which the tribe had in bringing pregnancies to term due to Nadder venom-induced miscarriages. With the birthing of children being so hard to achieve during this period, children were prized and even coddled as much as the harsh environment allowed them to be. The prizing of any child, no matter how sickly or bastard-born, reached the point where the tradition of exposing sickly infants which was the norm in other Norse cultures was rejected emphatically by the Hooligans.
Further reinforcement of the naming tradition came from the extinction of several other clans during this time, as well as Clan Hofferson's near extinction in the late-900s AD all of which were seen as being the natural consequence of failing to heed the tribal wisdoms of unconventional names. Over time, this tradition eventually grew to encompass a protective aura against other childhood threats to life and limb, both real and mythical.

In the chief's hut on Berk, Hiccup talks with Astrid and Wulfhild about a problem one of his solutions has created, in the process working his way to the solution. Near Inbhir Aora, Toiréasa and Dagur talk about his problems and secrets (including those first two content warnings). Back on Berk, Fishwings talks with Lopsides about the other girl's future, in the process learning why she's lately been shut out (it has to do with the third warning). On Sigurd's estate, as his and Inga's baby is being born, Dogsbreath participates in the fourth warning, balancing a life for a life. In Vedrarfjord, Hákon gets new shoes and bad news. Back in the chief's hut, Astrid makes a verbal apology to Wulfhild (realizing in the afterglow that she's kind of let that slide), and they speculate on what their lives might've been like if the Dragon War were still going. Finally, at the summit of Mount Hasan, Sigurd and his loves visit an old signal-fire station and receive a message from the past that points him toward the future...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/66411299

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13243522/32...laythrough
My Hero Playthrough (My Hero Academia/The Gamer).

[Ebony]

Heretical Edge, Kairos 9-03: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...al-edge-2/

The Fight against Fossor builds.

Summus Proelium, Project Owl 14-03: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...-proelium/

Paige explains things to Cassidy

Summus Proelium, Project Owl 14-04: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...-proelium/

Cassidy reacts.

[Norgarth]

Hermione Granger and the Swiss Tournament
https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33141-50...nament.htm

Dogbertcarroll's Sons and Daughters of Sineya
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13586946/14...-of-Sineya

[Shepherd]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/251330...3#workskin
Crimson Cloak Versus The Red Falcon! (Girl Genius AU).

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33342-41...Family.htm
Adventures of a Super Family (DC AU).

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32792-11...oses+2.htm
Cross Purposes 2 (A Brane of Extraordinary Women, Bionicverse/NCIS/Gomer Pyle/Knight Rider).

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12863738/12...the-Future
Relic of the Future (RWBY).

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-71586751
What's Her Name in Hufflepuff (Potter SI).

[classicdrogn]

Has anyone else been having trouble with Calibre/FanFicFare not seeing SB fic recently? Maybe a week or two ago, it started reporting everything as only having one or two chapters on the site. Sometimes odd things like this have cropped up before and get fixed in a following update so I figured I'd wait and see, but now I have waited and not seen.

edit: SV too, and investigation of the few (old) threads not reporting this way reveal that it's probably a matter of having stopped recognizing threadmarks for some reason, as only links in the first post get followed. Very odd. Now to see if I can find a bug tracker for FFF and if it's already been reported, though I do expect it to have been.

e2: Apparently I just haven't waited long enough; the issue has been solved for the test branch of FFF but hasn't yet propagated to whatever location Calibre checks for updated plugins. Eh, I have far more to read than I would get through before that happens anyway, as long as the fix is in.

[Norgarth]

If We Turn to Dust (Battletech SI) (finale)
SB) https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-71593660
SV) https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...t-17847328

Dig Two Graves (an AU/divergence of the Naruto SI 'Catch your Breath' turned fusion fic)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13724438/1/Dig-Two-Graves

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33342-42...Family.htm
Adventures of a Super Family (DC AU).