The Gods Are Bastards, Chapter 13-43:https://tiraas.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/13-43/
The Left Hand of the Emperor panics. The Battle at the Grim Visage continues, with added extra guest stars. And the Sleeper's victims make their move.
I've known for a while that Travolore (head writer for
Bare Squadron) and Pure Freedom (creator of Malya the Miraluka mopeygoth) were collaborating on a BS prequel, one that I'm assured will shock and amaze readers. Earlier today, Pure posted the prolegomenon to
Her Perfect Existence, and it's like the opening scene of
Up but with less crying and more swearing. I give you Interval 1, "In Search of Something Better":
https://purefreedom.deviantart.com/art/B...-730100566
Mal continues to hold out on us. There's another
Westerosi-verse omake up at SB, in which Al meets a Hasegawa relative in a place that's
Not The Middle of Nowhere, But You Can See It From There:
https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/44097263/
Hey, kids! What time is it?
An Introduction To Dragon Biology, 17th Edition, Oxford University Press, 1693 Wrote:Draconic nests in the wild are universally situated atop geothermal sources, as high levels of heat (minimum 40 C, and optimally 50-55 C) are required in order for the eggs to successfully gestate. This is part of the reason why dragons are so often associated with high mountaintops, as they made use of the volcanic vents buried deep within.
Once dragons began their partnership with humans, however, they were freed from their dependence on these dangerous locales and their associated hazards of toxic gases, extreme heat, cave-ins, and the occasional decimation event of an ill-timed lava flow or eruption. Humans in collaboration with their dragons, beginning with the Hooligan tribe of Berk, built artificial Brooderies in which the environment could be more strictly controlled, ensuring the successful hatching of a greater percentage of the dragon eggs.
As a side benefit of these structures, the waste heat from their vents can be put to use for any number of productive ends, another concept that was pioneered by the Hooligans.
In the modern context, Broodery management is a mature science…
That's right, it's
A Thing of Vikings time! That cliffhanger we left
Snotlout Sigurd on last time is resolved, at least in the
immediate sense, but then, it's back to Berk, where
Home Is People..., and where Stoick makes a confession, Oof makes an apology, Hiccup makes some more attempts at glass (including several of what our timeline would call Prince Rupert's drops), and Wulfhild makes a two-pronged point, after which Heather makes her move.
CW: explicit act of assault, explicit attempted murder
http://archiveofourown.org/works/1040897...s/31344000
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/40...Of-Vikings
EDIT: That'll teach me to be summarizing when I should be posting.
So for those who haven't been following the Westerosi threads over on SB/SV I'm in the process of archiving the various omakes, worldbuilding and Jade's shitposting to Archive of Our Own for posterity. It's not everything, but it's what I consider the best of this stuff. I'll be trying to get this up to date while working on the next chapter. Just thought y'all would like to know.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/13697712
xoxo,
Za Fun Tyranto
For those who are following it,
The Seventh Shipgirl has been updated with a few omake while I'm trying to find out where the muses for the story went AWOL to. I'm hoping Luisa von Bismarck is willing to help track them down like she does delinquent shipgirls all the time on Danbooru (as Ido-sensei always shows in his 4-koma).
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12549222/29...h-Shipgirl
And if anyone's interested, I did a little alt-history verse of
7SG which speculates what if Yonaga (Itô Yoiko) was persuaded to come home immediately after the end of the events in the movie
Only You, with a pesky temporal displacement issue governing her junior NAVO's grandnephnew's life finally resolved.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12831346/1/...Home-Early
The Byzantine Emperors, Athens University Press, 1812 Wrote:Having succeeded to the imperial throne on December 10, AD 1041 after the death of his biological uncle and predecessor, Michael IV, Michael V Kalaphates (the Caulker, after the original occupation of Stephen, his biological father) was determined to rule on his own. Immediately, he began to reverse his uncle’s decisions, recalling courtiers, nobles and soldiers that Michael IV had banished, and banishing, framing, or otherwise removing Michael IV’s own appointments. This immediately brought him into conflict with John the Orphanotrophos, senior court eunuch, his biological uncle, the effective prime minister of the Byzantine Empire, and the man directly responsible for his family’s elevation from Paphlagonian peasantry to the imperial throne. Michael V promptly banished John to the monastery of Monobatae, and had the majority of the male members of his family castrated as well, to keep them from being threats to his rule…
…mostly due to happenstance in timing, Michael V is given perhaps undue credit as being the founder of the Byzantine Empire’s corps of dragon riders. As Sigurd Trondsson had arrived a short period before Michael IV’s death, and the program was formally begun under Michael V, with Michael V being recorded as the first dragon-riding Byzantine Emperor, it can be stated with some certainty that Michael V benefited from Sigurd’s timing more than from significant insight.
Yeah,
Snotlout Sigurd is all right, or at least he's going to be. On Berk, Heather and Fishlegs are learning each other, and theirs is not the only love in the air. And, in Rome, a tall man with a dapper beard, while waiting to hear what task the Church has assigned him, works it out from first principles while looking at the art on the walls.
No content warnings on this week's
A Thing of Vikings, just a Yuletide reminder that home is people
...Not Places:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/31537488
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/41...Of-Vikings