Fic Update: The 59-Thread Rule

[Norgarth]

With Sprinkles (planeswalker Xander)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12446027/94/With-Sprinkles

The Weaver's Web (Worm AU) sidestory
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116447918

AshlingWalzes on SB has started a new thread, splitting off one of her series from her ideas/snippets thread.
This WILL Be Happily Ever After(A Disney Villains Victorious SI)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116422595

[Jinx999]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116466473

Ocean City Nights. She's a perfectly normal everyday vampire.

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34447-40...oses+5.htm
Cross Purposes 5 (A Brane of Extraordinary Women, Bionicverse).

[Mamorien]

It's time once again to let the soft animal of your body (Leverage/HDM) love what it loves, as it demonstrates several ways of looking at a daemon.

In a world where everyone is accompanied by an animal-shaped extension of their own soul, people develop a lot of different ways of interacting and thinking about each other. This is a bit of meta/background description of how the Leverage team thinks about and interacts with other people's daemons.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73377701

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BUT BEFORE THAT, there was a new Letters to the Lantern! (HP/DC/etc) with Questions on Lantern and Lanternette Disciplinary Actions.

Lanternette Ramona Quimby reaches out to Green Lantern about a difficult matter concerning the group’s membership and asks how the Corps handles similar situations. Hermione provides examples of Lantern infractions and punishments, though neither assume ‘banishment to the anti-matter universe’ is an option for the infringing Lanternette.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/539020.../191260841

[NifT]

The Weaving Force by LD1449 (Worm/SW) has returned from hiatus
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116477675

If the previous schedule holds, expect around one chapter per week until the fic concludes.

Edit: approximately 8 chapters left (5 on patreon, and an expected 3 remaining to be written).

[Mamorien]

Threads of Destiny (the other OEX meat).

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21188/...-xia-lin-1

[Mamorien]

SGC Interlude: Stars Collide (Steven Universe meets the Princesses of Power) Chapter Four: Perseverance.

“The Grayskull lineage has guided Eternia for countless years,” said D’vann. “For every He-Man that exists outside of our family, the stability we have spent so long working to create grows ever more fragile. If we do not put a stop to it soon, I fear our power over the planet will destabilize. The people will lose faith in our legacy, and the alliances I forged will fracture like rusty chains.”

The computer, represented only by a white, diamond-shaped emblem on one of the screens, pondered this claim. “The people of Eternia look up to He-Man,” she assured him. “So long as someone holds the Sword of Power, the planet will remain united, no matter who that is.”

But D’vann was not convinced. “In the short term, perhaps. But how long until the public begins to believe that the Grayskulls are not necessary? How long until they believe that just anyone can wield the Sword of Power?” He stood up, beginning to pace. “We need to find a way to regain the public’s loyalty, one that will ensure that the position of He-Man will not be taken by any…subversives.”

Understood, my king. What did you have in mind?

The Great Computer ran a few calculations. “Understood, my king. What did you have in mind?”

The king-who-wasn’t-king examined his body duplicates floating in their vats. “I am only one man. Although my power stretches across the world, my influence can only reach so many places at once. What I need is an army–one that is unquestioningly loyal, but who brings hope to the people of Eternia. And I have a theory of who the central controller for this army can be. White Diamond?”

“Yes, sire?”

D’vann brought up some files on the computer. “This is a project I commissioned some time ago. It is a collaboration between some of Eternia’s finest scientists and sorcerers, able to transform energy into physical matter–in other words, hard light. While it was originally intended for rapid construction projects, I feel that it would take little effort to alter the technologies to create an endless legion of peacekeeping robots, controlled by a central master. And that master, I believe, should be you.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/729685.../191520776

[Shepherd]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116514902
Beware of Chicken AU: Elder, but Junior Sister

[Cobalt Greywalker]

So, a few today.

Mystic Knight Online: Worlds to sow Chapter 16 (HP/SAO) (AO3 link)

Joytoy (Worm/Cyberpunk: Edgerunners&2077) And Taylor has thrown the CP plots a little out of track.  Two chapters starting here.

And apparently Kenko has updated Paragon (11 Oct 25) on FF.Net.  Chapter 6 draft here. (AO3 link)
(think I've read this before, but whatever...)

[ECSNorway]

To Dance on Thin Ice (HI3rd SI) https://archiveofourown.org/works/593533...1#workskin

[Norgarth]

Monsters of My Own (Pokemon SI dumped into Young Justice)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116525216

Scaling Up (Worm/D&D/various)
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...t-36709211
nearing the end. T-4

[Jinx999]

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...t-36698843

Cerulean Stars: An Asari Security Officer in Commander Sisko's Court

And

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...t-36708968

Dragon Caught in Amber (Warhammer Fantasy). Update after more than a year. And the standard Old World reward for heroism.

[Mamorien]

money or music shows us the soft animal of your body (Leverage/HDM) from an outside perspective.

Tara Cole owes Sophie too much to give anything other than her absolute best to filling Sophie's spot on the team. But how can a fox ever work with a bloodhound?

Or, The Runway Job, with daemons.

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Notes:
According to my documents history, I have had the first two scenes of this written since May 2022. I hadn't realized people were still so invested in this AU, but since you seem to be... you've all inspired me to finish this up and get it posted. If you're not familiar with the episode, I recommend reading a brief plot summary before reading this since I don't explain much. I hope you enjoy.

Title is from "Tasting the Wild Grapes" by Mary Oliver:

The red beast
who lives in the side of these hills
won’t come out for anything you have:
money or music. Still, there are moments
heavy with light and good luck. Walk
quietly under these tangled vines
and pay attention, and one morning
something will explode underfoot
like a branch of fire; one afternoon
something will flow down the hill
in plain view, a muscled sleeve the color
of all October! And forgetting
everything you will leap to name it
as though for the first time, your lit blood
rushing not to a word but a sound
small-boned, thin-faced, in a hurry,
lively as the dark thorns of the wild grapes
on the unsuspecting tongue!
The fox! The fox!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73561176

[Shepherd]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116552072
Ocean City Nights (Vampire the Masquerade).

[Jinx999]

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...t-36723869

BattleTech: Threefold Curse

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/71045/...-crossfire

Zenith of Sorcery

[Norgarth]

Scattered Seeds - Explorer (Battletech) by Primemountain 2 chapters
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116561681
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116563421

[Shepherd]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116574620
A Young Devil's Consultancy (Youjo Senki/DC).

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32251-95...inkles.htm
With Spinkles (Planeswalker Xander).

Also, for Beware of Chicken fans, the limited edition book 5 hardcover is on sale through 11/19:
https://store.podiumaudio.com/products/b...-hardcover

[classicdrogn]

Scattered Seeds - Explorer (Battletech) by Primemountain 2 chapters
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116561681
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116563421

Don't recall seeing this one before - can you give a quick summary?

[Ebony]

Garden of Silk, Chapter 13

Slate (Silk?) demonstrates their cultivation to their family.

[Norgarth]

Scattered Seeds - Explorer (Battletech) by Primemountain 2 chapters
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116561681
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116563421

Don't recall seeing this one before - can you give a quick summary?

Actually that's not surprising you missed it since it seems that the author wrote the story completely and then started posting it.  Started the thread on SB Oct 26, and posted the Epilogue last night. dunno if he has sequels planned.

As for the story itself, it takes place in the late 2900s, ending in 3001, over half the story takes place in the Periphery.  

While a decent Mechwarrior the MC, a female scion of a cadet branch of the Liaos, is more interested in science and technology.  Several indications that she is an Isekai/SI but the story is told from the perspectives of people around her, we never actually see inside her thoughts.  she seems to be trying to balance keeping the Capellan government happy with her while also looking for ways to improve things in general.

Here's the start of the thread, he story consists of a prologue, 11 chapters, and an epilogue. 52k words total.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...h.1265368/

[Norgarth]

Cross Purposes 5 (A Brane of Extraordinary Women, Bionicverse)
https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34447-41...oses+5.htm

EDIT:
Phantom Star (original space opera)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116582663

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34447-41...oses+5.htm
Cross Purposes 5 (A Brane of Extraordinary Women, Bionicverse).

[Jinx999]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-116585069

Dysfunctional (Youjo Senki/Worm). A more realistic than usual PHO thread, resulting in liberal use of the banhammer.

[robkelk]

... A more realistic than usual PHO thread,...

I assume from context that you aren't talking about the Vietnamese soup, or the airport in northwest Alaska. "PHO"?

[ECSNorway]

... A more realistic than usual PHO thread,...

I assume from context that you aren't talking about the Vietnamese soup, or the airport in northwest Alaska. "PHO"?

PHO is "ParaHumans Online", the Worm-verse's apparent largest internet forum, commonly depicted as similar to SpaceBattles/SufficientVelocity in format and character.