Updates 45 (couldn't think of anything witty)

[SilverFang01]

Chapter 9 of No Fate(HP) https://archiveofourown.org/works/264089...s/69752727

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13243522/39...laythrough
My Hero Playthrough (My Hero Academia/The Gamer).

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13243522/40...laythrough
My Hero Playthrough (My Hero Academia/The Gamer).

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12863738/13...the-Future
Relic of the Future (RWBY).

[Shepherd]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-73050887
Friendly Foreign Exchange Student Spiderman! (My Hero Academia x MCU).

[Mamorien]

Explicit Depiction of Illness, Explicit Threat of Torture, Explicit Threat of Mutilation

It's time for 2021's first A Thing of Vikings instalment!

Pre-modern dragon social structures and culture were based around the institution of the nest, a result of the necessity of these sites for breeding. Due to the hunter-gatherer lifestyles of the dragons, all pre-modern nests had a finite ceiling to the population they could support, which led to a lifestyle that was a hybrid of sedentary and nomadic elements, with many dragons moving from nest to nest over the course of their lives (especially in early adolescence), and yet still spending a large portion of their lifespans in one location.

At the center of each nest's social structure was the nest's lord, the Thengill, typically the oldest, largest, and most powerful dragon present. The Thengill would—ideally—protect the nest and the eggs and hatchlings inside, organize and direct the nest's members (including banishing excess members when the nest had exceeded the number the region could support) and act as a social and military leader for the members of the nest. Regardless, their word was law and their decisions final.

While abuses by Thengills were sadly common as a result of this unchecked power, the resource they commanded in the form of access to the nest and the breeding potential it represented was such that the vast majority of dragons would accept their terms without question. And due to their age and experience, few other dragons could challenge the Thengill—and often the second-strongest dragon in the nest was the Thengill's auxiliary, or even their chosen successor. Still, when a Thengill weakened from hunger, illness, or injury, challengers would appear.

Back in Constantinople after the honeymoon, Sigurd learns that the bureaucrats have made a stupid-ass decision. Up at Inbhir Niss, Mac Bethad takes warning from a passing flight. In a Vedrarfjord hospital, Fintan starts on the road to recovery, already well enough to give his lord a suggestion; Toothless watches as that suggestion, his walker into action puts. Above and within the remains of the Höfn nest, a certain Nadder Spiketail comes to certain understandable conclusions. On his farm outside Faaborg, Markus Ulversson receives the rarest of all treasures. At Talǵar shyńy, near Almatu, Drago lays some stones on his friends's grave and prepares for what being Kagan will entail. Somewhere at sea, a young Nightmare for his life flees, and at the end of his strength, help finds. At Inbhir Aora, Toiréasa has a confrontation with Savage and a more pleasant encounter with Dagur. Lastly, somewhere in the Arctic Ocean, the most unusual member of Good-Cold's nest is called in to help the injured Nightmare, as she brings something to his problems that no flyer can quite provide...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/69898095

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33342-54...Family.htm
Adventures of a Super Family (DC AU).

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33141-59...nament.htm
Hermione Granger and the Swiss Tournament (Teraverse).

[Bob Schroeck]

Realizations, Updated has reached chapter 36, roughly equivalent to where the original got to before it went on hiatus lo these many years ago.

[NifT]

The Dark Lords Ascendant by claymade (Ranma/Sailor Moon) has updated with its final* chapter.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8280285/19/...-Ascendant

*There's still an epilogue to come.

[Norgarth]

Ocean Stars Falling (Naruto/One Piece/SI)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12418477/24...rs-Falling

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13366586/15...ble-System
Incompatible System (Mass Effect AU, human tech makes eezo explode).

[Norgarth]

Sons and Daughters of Sineya (Buffy) by Dogbertcarroll
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13586946/16...-of-Sineya

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13366586/16...ble-System
Incompatible System, an interlude about the tech specs of the new Geth craft (Mass Effect AU, human tech makes eezo explode).

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32792-12...oses+2.htm
Cross Purposes 2: Stormburst! (A Brane of Extraordinary Women, DCverse).

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12863738/13...the-Future
Relic of the Future (RWBY).

[Mamorien]

It's been a while since the latest A Thing of Vikings chapter didn't lead with trigger warnings, hasn't it?

Prior to the Norse Reformation, the ethno-religion of the Norse people was technically a folk religion with mixed shamanistic practices and no centralized doctrines. Lacking a canonical unifying text and relying primarily on oral transmission, the particulars of practice and belief differed from region to region, with some particular beliefs and practices being idiosyncratic in comparison to the whole of the religion—which was itself an offshoot of the archaic Germanic religion that had existed in central and western Europa during the prior eras. While pre-Reformation texts which are not from Berk and related tribes are comparatively rare, idiosyncratic differences can still be seen between what examples we do have. It was only later, with Berk's doctrinal canonization which overwrote a great deal of the variation in regional belief, that the Norse religion adopted a set of canonical texts.

One such example of a divergence in belief is that of Sif, Thor's wife. In eastern Norse beliefs, she was primarily an Earth fertility and farming goddess, with her golden hair being an allusion to fields of grain and her marriage to Thor being a symbolic bond between the earth and sky—especially that of life-giving rain on farmers' fields.

In contrast, Sif's depictions are expanded in the beliefs of the Eirish Sea Norse which were eventually canonized by the Norse Reformation. Textual analysis and primary sources show the primary movers of the divergence being the Bog Burglar tribe, which began as a breakaway Sif and Freyja cult sometime in the 800s AD. Here, Sif is still a goddess of the fertility of the earth—a fertility which is enhanced by the blood spilled on the ground by killing attackers attempting to destroy her home, hearth and family. In these depictions, Sif's role is expanded to be similar to that of Freyja, as a deadly warrior woman. However, in contrast to Freyja's focus on the offensive aspects of warfare, Sif's focus is decidedly defensive, that of a mother protecting her children and standing her ground with a refusal to retreat, and a fertility goddess who is completely willing to use the blood and bones of the fallen to enrich her fields.

We open in Inbhir Aora, where Dagur's reaction to Heather being alive surprises Toiréasa on more and higher levels than she thought possible. Eret arrives at the London skyport and bonds with dragons and kings. In Cors Fochno, Cami presents her arguments for why the Bog Burglars should fully ally themselves with the Hooligans, after hearing out the alternative proposals. In the Imperial Palace in Constantinople, Sigurd hears rumors of dragons on the steppe, and more solid news from Rome. In the chief's hut on Berk, Heather updates Hiccup on what she's learned about Mildew, and tries again to convince him that the old crab bears most if not all the blame for what happened. In Dagur's chambers, Toiréasa keeps trying to warn him about Heather, and he keeps trying to convince her that Heather's not turned into Alvin. In Inbhir Niss, an innkeeper named Fraser rediscovers a letter he was asked to keep. At Good-Cold's nest on its tiny Arctic island, Valka considers what she knows, or thinks she knows, about the new situation between walkers and flyers. And we close in Bianjing, where Fa Mulan does what she can to raise spirits, receives an explanation of why the council isn't doing more to help, and learns that a family friend's family has friends of its own...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/70251264

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Also, new Flowers by the Wayside (HP, SnapexPeggySue!Petunia, although the focus this time is on RABxBCJ).

https://archiveofourown.org/works/230900...s/70303575

[Mamorien]

But wait, there's less! Clothes, that is -- it's a late-breaking Star Wars: Bare Squadron!

Phara contemplates the choices that led to her imprisonment aboard Home One. Meanwhile, the Alliance decides what to do with this rogue inquisitor...

https://www.deviantart.com/travolore/art...-866711451

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13243522/41...laythrough
My Hero Playthrough (My Hero Academia/The Gamer).

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33342-55...Family.htm
Adventures of a Super Family (DC AU).

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-73258262
Friendly Foreign Exchange Student Spiderman! (My Hero Academia x MCU).

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33141-60...nament.htm
Hermione Granger and the Swiss Tournament (Teraverse).

[Ebony]

Heretical Edge

Triumph 10-07: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...al-edge-2/

Interlude 10a (Avalon): https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...al-edge-2/

Interlude 10b (Committee Meeting): https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...al-edge-2/

Commissioned Interlude 11 (Lincoln): https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...al-edge-2/

Promise 11-01: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...al-edge-2/

Non-Canon 4: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45734946 


Summus Proelium

Trust 15-06: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...-proelium/

Trust 15-07: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...roelium-2/

Trust 15-08: https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...-proelium/

Non-Canon 4: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45714072

[Mamorien]

Our own STMPD posted Divine Patronage (that R½ vs A!MS thing) Chapter 4: In which the Goddess makes a decision about what sort of people the hero needs in his life.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/286853...s/70481553

I'll let the author update with the link when the chapter goes up on SV.

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32792-12...oses+2.htm
Cross Purposes 2: Stormburst! (A Brane of Extraordinary Women, DCverse).

[Mamorien]

Our own STMPD posted Divine Patronage (that R½ vs A!MS thing) Chapter 4: In which the Goddess makes a decision about what sort of people the hero needs in his life.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/286853...s/70481553

I'll let the author update with the link when the chapter goes up on SV.

If he doesn't, I'll post it myself:

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...t-18774863

...when Chapter 5, In which Antagonistic Forces conspire against the Goddess and her Hero, goes live. And whaddya know, Joe!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/286853...s/70507023
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...t-18779474

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33037-22...t+Work.htm
Wood it Work (Buffy, young Willow and Xander discover magic).