Talking of
A Thing of Vikings, what (as a great American poet once asked) is a legacy?
It's Planting Seeds in a Garden... kind of like this:
In the Parable of Honi and the Carob Tree (The Talmud, Taanit 23a), Rabbi Yohanan (Wikipedia indicates this is probably the bar-Nafkha) Wrote:He said to himself: Is there really a person who can sleep and dream for seventy years? How is it possible to compare the seventy-year exile in Babylonia to a dream? One day, he was walking along the road when he saw a certain man planting a carob tree. Honi said to him: This tree, after how many years will it bear fruit? The man said to him: It will not produce fruit until seventy years have passed. Honi said to him: Is it apparent to you that you will live seventy years, that you expect to benefit from this tree? He said to him: I found a world full of carob trees. Just as my ancestors planted for me, I too am planting for my descendants. Honi sat and ate bread. Sleep overcame him and he slept. A cliff formed around him, and he disappeared from sight and slept for seventy years. When he awoke, he saw a certain man gathering carobs from that tree. Honi said to him: Are you the one who planted this tree? The man said to him: I am his son's son.
In Vedrarfjord, Astrid leads her loves away from the devastation to whose wreaking they contributed so much more than she. Helping Fishlegs produce a proper record of the captives, Heather has two unwelcome encounters in much-too-rapid succession. In his cabin on the
Ashkelon, moored at Thames-mouth, Viggo's note-taking on the battle of London is disrupted by late news from Eire. Back in Vedrarfjord, Hiccup wakes up, still wishing nobody'd had to die, and puts forward a bold proposal for how maybe nobody will have to die next time. After the meeting, Fishlegs makes plans to help implement that proposal, and finds those plans made personal by an aftershock from one of Heather's earlier confrontations. Finally, south of the city, Rabbi Dovid and those who came with him meet the Hooligans...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/40758494
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/74...Of-Vikings
Annals of Arithmancy (Potter),
chapter 13
Benefits of Old Laws (Potter, sane!Voldemort adopts Harry),
chapter 89
The Grum has updated several of his stories for the first time in well over two years.
Harry Potter and the Circle of Light (Potter/OMG),
chapter 7
The House of Potter Rebuilt (Potter), also
chapter 7
The Reclamation of Black Magic (Potter), two new chapters starting with
chapter 33
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...ks.709543/
That What Walks (Worm, Nasuverse (FGO flavor))
Meet Taylor Hebert. Or, more properly, Taylor Matou.
Basic setup: The Heberts are a collateral line of the Matou/Makiri, and Taylor's trigger not only gives her the canonical insect-control power, but also activates her magic circuits and awakens the genetic memory of Zouken Matou. This being FGO-flavor Nasuverse, the Matou genetic legacy comes with a free posession by Barbatos, Demon Pillar of Goetia. Things proceed to become complicated, and the author takes some time to delve into the place of the Entities and Shards in the Nasuverse.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...by.592094/
Unsung Battles: Closing the Book (Worm, RWBY)
Immediately following her end-of-canon 9mm lobotomy, Taylor is dumped on Remnant.
Miraculously healed of her wounds, she sets about gathering companions. The Semblance of Khepri makes this ... interesting.
Bare Squadron: Ravager's Harvest is
Preparing for War, now only one chapter behind the prime universe! (Yer man Trav had better step up his game...)
Blake Skies Wrote:Now we begin to get to the fun part. A little Calm before the storm as it were. Let us hope that when the waves do come, we are not crushed underneath them.
https://www.deviantart.com/tu49/art/Star...-780508295
I'm pretty sure ch7 of Foxy Lady was new as well, though I may have just missed it before.
I've read chapter 7 before, but I may have forgotten to link it.
In the song The World Was Wide Enough, Lin-Manuel Miranda Wrote:Legacy. What is a legacy?
It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see
I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me
America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me
You let me make a difference
A place where even orphan immigrants
Can leave their fingerprints and rise up...
And on that note,
A Thing of Vikings continues!
Origins of the Grand Thing, Edinburgh Press, 1631 Wrote:The roots of the foundational Imperial welfare institutions that provide food, shelter, education and medical care to all Imperial citizens predate the beginnings of the Dragon Era by nearly eighty years, dating back to the middle reign of Stoick's grandfather, Chief Hiccup II. Despite a tumultuous early reign, Hiccup II's grip on power stabilized during the AD 960s, and with the aid of his friend and confidant, the scribe Dror ben Ezra, he began a period of systematic cultural change; the ad hoc literacy classes that Dror had been holding were formalized and made mandatory for all children, a yearly census was instituted that also functioned as a minor form of taxation, and the formerly orally transmitted laws were scribed and codified. As part of that codification, the Hooligans took the earlier basic necessities that they had provided to temporarily homeless or destitute members of the tribe and made them universal, with Dror drawing on his Judaic background and training for direction in how to implement them...
[…] These educational and welfare systems became one of the core pillars of the Imperial social contract between the State and its citizens; there is no question that, without the economic pump-priming and social cohesion that they created, the young North Sea Empire would have never survived its initial challenges…
In Vedrarfjord, Hiccup III brings Bladewit to meet the new arrivals from Rouen. On Berk, Toiréasa has a meeting she's been dreading. In Constantinople, Sigurd witnesses some demotions and some promotions, mostly welcome. In
Roskilde, Markus Ulversson meets his new king. On the
Ashkelon as it traverses the English Channel waveskimmer-style, Viggo updates and organizes his notes on the Hooligans. Back on Berk, Wulfhild worries about the expansion the Eirish annexation will mean to her duties as almoner. At a party in Constantinople, Sigurd finds himself at the center of some unscheduled entertainment. Returning to Berk, Jonna stands in the
godswood sacred grove to take the Joms' alliance with the Hooligans to a level she never expected. And finally, in the Alban village of
Bun Ilidh, Mildew has a side-job to perform for Mac Bethad's spymaster...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/40974968
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/75...Of-Vikings