I would just like to note that while some of the arguments I read over Beware of Cloud changing some aspects of various characters and the setting in the Beware of Chicken threads had made me a bit hesitant about it, reading it myself the characters feel like they progress logically from familiar origins to new paths, and the setting changes all fall into the realm of what's reasonable for fanfiction -- if you're not going to change anything, you might as well just reread canon, after all -- so taken as a whole I'll happily give it a recommendation too, for anyone who has had similar concerns.
A Thing of Vikings (HTTYD/11th century) Chapter 161:
Crowns (cw: "Explicit Dueling Sequence, Explicit Minor Character Death, Implied Minor Character Deaths, Discussion of Miscarriages").
The Second Flowering Of Yggdrasil: An Analysis Of The Norse Resurgence, 1710, Wrote:As the executive ruling body of the North Sea Empire, the Imperial Council was made a formal institution in 1064 after having spent the previous twenty years as a de facto but informal structure. The formalizing event used to mark the occasion was the marriage of Valka II and Olaf III, to formally unite the North Sea Empire with the Kingdom of Berk, and the appointment of the couple as the junior emperor and empress of the realm, as befitting their statuses as the elected heirs to their respective crowns.
In the ensuing decades and centuries, the Imperial Council remained mostly stable as a ruling body, consisting of five to seven members of the imperial family, with later reforms giving them ten year terms staggered at five year intervals. In line with the original makeup of the council, featuring Emperor Hiccup Haddock and his wives and King Magnus and his wife Ruffnut, and their heirs, the council generally (but not always) takes the structure of senior and junior members, with the bulk of the authority and responsibility in the hands of the senior members, while the junior members are given both training and delegated authority.
While there certainly has been strife on the council—thankfully only once rising to the level of assassinations and civil war—in general the structure of junior and senior members of the family serving on the council and sharing the stresses of leadership has allowed the Empire to weather malcontents and misfits and the occasional demagogue or Caligula who has managed to convince the electorate of the Empire to appoint them to the council.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089.../148389166
The Weaving Force (Worm/Star Wars)
Chapter 107
Letters to the Lantern (HP/DC):
The Merc with a Mouth sends a Letter to the Lantern!
DeadPool Wrote:Why does she always get these? And her quiet time was going so well… Now Hermione has to return a vulgar knockoff of one of her universe’s deadliest supervillains [Hey, he may have been first, but who just broke a billion at the BO? Not a ‘barely a walk-on in a stinker,’ albino-haired loser, ain’t that for sure!] back to his own… Wait, what? Stop that! Get back onto your side of the story, down into the Chapter Text! [Only for you, your Royal Bushiness. After all, sweetums, you did fall for someone who could have been me.]
Find Your Flame (Bayformers, side-story/prequel to
More Than Meets the Spy).
ssjSega Wrote:We're back with this story and now continuing Pyra's descent into slowly encroaching despair! What fun!
Anyway, chapter's gonna be a bit more gruesome given Tsiehshi's whole radiation deal, so small warning before we begin, though I don't think it's as bad as either the DJD's actions from Camien Odyssey's third chapter or what Barricade did in his More Than Meets the Spy debut.
Special thanks and shout out to SwapAUAnon, Matrix Dragon, and Quantum01 for Beta Reading this chapter.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/560350.../148668517
Brotherhood of Glass: Episode Four (OCs in the Crystal Gems' ficton) Chapter 6:
Midnight Rendezvous.
TheInkredibleKaptainKaiju Wrote:With a clear target now in sight, BAINE prepares an attack against their latest foes.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/564638.../148846960
While we weren't looking,
Beware of Cloud (A Beware of Chicken AU Timeline) updated to Chapter Fifty-One:
New Love and Ancient Beauty.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-104236618
And, after two skip weeks in a row,
A Thing of Vikings (HTTYD/the 11th century) is updating two weeks in a row, with Chapter 162:
Iterations.
Nationbuilding: How People Move, Talk, Think, Organize, & Structure Themselves, 1888, Amsterdam University Press,' Wrote:In broad terms, taxation is a required levy or other such contribution, in the form of goods, services, or currency, imposed by a government on those bound to pay the tax (which are often, but not always, citizens of that government). Taxation can range across a continuum from full-bore rent-seeking on one end, to merely extractive, to a tool for regulating and shaping behavior, to the far end with subsidies as a form of negative taxation. In general, the further towards rent-seeking the taxation is, the more resentful and resistant the taxpaying population will be, although there will always be outliers in both directions—even in the most subsidizing taxation environment, there will be those who claim noncompliance on the grounds that “taxation is theft” and other such beliefs, and even in the most most rent-seeking environment, there will be those who unquestioningly pay what is required. Those exceptions aside, in most populations of taxpayers, general attitudes track well with the size and quality of their perceived personal benefit from the taxes they pay. In pure rent-seeking, where the tax-payers gain minimal to no benefit from what they pay (common in feudal, dictatorial, kleptocratic, and extractivist polities), taxpayers, especially at the local level, see all of the prosperity of their home vanish into the pockets of the wealthy for their own personal enrichment, and thus question the benefits of taxation. Conversely, in environments where taxes directly fund social services and public goods, individual taxpayers can directly witness these benefits.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089.../148872229