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https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33141-28...nament.htm
Hermione Granger and the Swiss Tournament (Potter spy fic).
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13426875/51...isted-Path

In which a toad returns to Hogwarts.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-67311235

Miraculous Escalation (Worm/Miraculous Ladybug)

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-67349350

Forgotten, Forsaken (Post GM Worm/Kancolle - Abyssal Taylor)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12594416/10...anna-Works
Unlimited Bandana Works (Ranma/FSN).
https://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=33296
Ellen Brand brings us a look at Sunnydale in the Steel-verse section of the certain multiversal branes.

I for one look forward to the teased story at the end.
https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32841-25...Prince.htm
Harry Potter and the Half-God Prince (Potter/DC).

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6557238/80/...eft-Unsaid
Better Left Unsaid (Naruto).
https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32251-11...inkles.htm
"With Sprinkles" by Dogbertcarrol (Buffy/MTG/SailorMoon/Naruto, so far....)
(Planeswalker Xander, still hanging around Konoha)
Sunday will never be the same.

An Introduction To Dragon Biology, 17th Edition, Oxford University Press, 1793 Wrote:One surprising aspect of draconic biology is that there is a limited degree of voluntary control by the female dragon over her reproductive cycle.  While the mating urge itself is hormonal in nature and nigh irresistible when the flock is of sufficient size to reach critical mass, the fact remains that every egg produced by the female is a significant expenditure of energy.  This is both in the immediate sense, in that each egg contains a yolk rich in hydrocarbons, carbohydrates and proteins sufficient to sustain the embryo for the next half year, and in the long term, as the resulting hatchlings will require parental care through to adolescence. 
So while they are hormonally compelled towards mating, female dragons have a crude degree of control over their own fertility, able to choose whether to have none, some, or many eggs in a given year, based on their number of extant pre-adolescent hatchlings, the availability of food, the perceived sense of safety and stability in a given nest, the availability of helpers (and conversely, whether they might be needed to help close kin with their own young) and other such factors. 
Current theories as to the origin of this ability simply point to the fact that pre-modern dragon clutches often had horrifying degrees of hatchling mortality, even with the value that draconic culture placed on parental care, so the ability to suppress the production of closely related competitors would be selected for…

This week's A Thing of Vikings begins at Inbhir Aora, the Clan Murchadh stronghold in the highlands of southern Alba, as Toiréasa compares Dagur's treatment of her with Eochaid's (which latter warrants one of this chapter's two trigger warnings, for implicit mention of non-consensual sex). At Vulcan's Forge on Constantinople, Sigurd promises to do what he can for Benjamin Axelsson, explaining why he can't do more faster... an explanation that doesn't make him feel any better than it does Ben. Back on Berk, Astrid and Fishlegs discussion of a surprising aspect of dragon biology is interrupted by the arrival of a mutual relative -- Thuggory, young chief of the allied Meathead tribe (imported, like Cami, from the original Cressida Cowell books) -- and the chance to introduce him to Dror's people. At Höfn, Eret participates in the week's other trigger warning, for explicit depiction of murder (arguably in self-defense, given the background of Mildew's usual cruelty), and sights that wild Night Fury that's been hitting the camp. At the smithy on Eigg, Hiccup and Gabriel put the finishing touches on what promises to be the Hero's fifth successful invention in a row (does it keep that promise? as the author likes to say, read and find out). The Night Fury (or, as she thinks of herself, the Nightscreamer) returns, with the flyers she's freed, to the Grímsvötn nest, her eggs, her mate (a Spiketail)... and her nest-lord, Screaming White, whose wrath on the walkers will probably not be stayed much longer. Back at Inbhir Aora, Toiréasa's efforts to get an in with the servants are interrupted by the arrival of someone frightfully important. And we conclude in the training arena on Berk, where Jonna sees someone who hasn't yet learned the same lessons as she...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/58722739 (members only, and one of these first days, I will do that P&OF post reminding everyone why)
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