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(09-17-2022, 09:48 AM)classicdrogn Wrote: [ -> ]More Watch by Rorschach's blot (Hermione and Luna getting steampunky, Harry accidentally invents new spells, and now Neville is making amazing plant-only potions. Also the Grangers could buy and sell the Malfoys out of petty cash, and Bond's your uncle.)

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Travolore Wrote:The Bare Squadron leaves Dathomir to rendezvous with Vice Admiral Filma's personal flagship, the Kraken. Whole (sic) on board relationships bloom as the nudist rebels learn of their next assignment...

Quote:…and while the beginnings of their familial and romantic relationship was shadowed due to plots and machinations, there is no question that Wulfhild Haddock I was also an integral and beloved member of the Haddock family. The only legitimate child of King Olaf of Norway by his wife Astrid Olofsdotter of Sweden, she was maneuvered into marriage with then-Heir Hiccup through the plotting of the the Norwegian court chaplain, Father Henriksson, as part of a plan to ensure a Christian heir to the rising kingdom of Berk. This backfired on the Father, since Wulfhild, as a direct result, waited to baptize her children with Hiccup until they were of age to consent. While this led to other complications, including rumors that she was a secret Jew, which were used to discredit and demonize her…

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…soon, after her husband assumed the throne in AD 1044, Wulfhild gave up her position as Head Almoner and instead took over Hiccup’s role as Herald and chief diplomat. There, she was instrumental in forming the political bloc of allied nations that dominated the global political sphere for most of the next one hundred and fifty years…

—The Second Flowering Of Yggdrasil: An Analysis Of The Norse Resurgence, 1710

Quote: The social structure of Berk when Stoick assumed the title of chief in the 1020s AD was, by the standards of the era and region, extremely egalitarian, with wide-ranging universal rights. The few reserved legal rights were primarily assigned to social offices such as chief and clanhead, instead of social ranks as was the case elsewhere. As a result, a new arrival on Berk from a lower class origin elsewhere would find themselves having access to a wide variety of rights that had previously been denied to them. This was partly policy on the part of the Hooligans, as a way to incentivize personal investment into and identification with their society by the newcomers, as their efforts were needed in defending against and repairing the aftermath left by dragon raids. This social structure had been stable for generations by the time Stoick inherited leading it, and thus he sought to continue spreading it as Berk’s territory and population grew.

—The Dragon Millennium, Manna-hata University Press, Ltd.

(10-01-2022, 07:04 PM)Shepherd Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11874143/44...nary-Times
Extraordinary Times (X-Men OC).

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Obviously written before the announcement that Hugh Jackman has apparently been convinced to return to the role of Logan for Deadpool III. Or, at least, Wade hadn't gotten the memo yet when Kenchi wrote his scenes.