Update Thread 37 vs. Freddy vs. Jason vs. Predator

[Ebony]

The Gods Are Bastards, Chapter 13-43:https://tiraas.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/13-43/

The Left Hand of the Emperor panics. The Battle at the Grim Visage continues, with added extra guest stars. And the Sleeper's victims make their move.

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12044591/64/Forged-Destiny
Forged Destiny (RWBY RPG world).

edit:
https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28404-19...Xendra.htm
Xendra (BuffyXena).

[Shepherd]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/43974971/
Peter Parker: Agent of Hydra

[SilverFang01]

Mystic Knight Online Chapter 9: Accords and Discord
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12651746/9/...de-Strange

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32071-61...x+Mack.htm
The Secret Collocation of Alex Mack.

[Norgarth]

Industrious has updated his Dresden Files/Craft crossover (Craft d'Etat, sequel to Which Craft) after a several month hiatus
https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/44025071/

[Mamorien]

I've known for a while that Travolore (head writer for Bare Squadron) and Pure Freedom (creator of Malya the Miraluka mopeygoth) were collaborating on a BS prequel, one that I'm assured will shock and amaze readers. Earlier today, Pure posted the prolegomenon to Her Perfect Existence, and it's like the opening scene of Up but with less crying and more swearing. I give you Interval 1, "In Search of Something Better":

https://purefreedom.deviantart.com/art/B...-730100566

[Norgarth]

Friday's Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...unt-31-06/

[Mamorien]

Mal continues to hold out on us. There's another Westerosi-verse omake up at SB, in which Al meets a Hasegawa relative in a place that's Not The Middle of Nowhere, But You Can See It From There:

https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/44097263/

[Norgarth]

Draconic nests in the wild are universally situated atop geothermal sources, as high levels of heat (minimum 40 C, and optimally 50-55 C) are required in order for the eggs to successfully gestate.  This is part of the reason why dragons are so often associated with high mountaintops, as they made use of the volcanic vents buried deep within.
Once dragons began their partnership with humans, however, they were freed from their dependence on these dangerous locales and their associated hazards of toxic gases, extreme heat, cave-ins, and the occasional decimation event of an ill-timed lava flow or eruption.  Humans in collaboration with their dragons, beginning with the Hooligan tribe of Berk, built artificial Brooderies in which the environment could be more strictly controlled, ensuring the successful hatching of a greater percentage of the dragon eggs. 
As a side benefit of these structures, the waste heat from their vents can be put to use for any number of productive ends, another concept that was pioneered by the Hooligans. 
In the modern context, Broodery management is a mature science…
—An Introduction To Dragon Biology, 17th Edition, Oxford University Press, 1693

A Thing of Vikings
 http://archiveofourown.org/works/1040897...s/31344000

[Mamorien]

Hey, kids! What time is it?

Draconic nests in the wild are universally situated atop geothermal sources, as high levels of heat (minimum 40 C, and optimally 50-55 C) are required in order for the eggs to successfully gestate.  This is part of the reason why dragons are so often associated with high mountaintops, as they made use of the volcanic vents buried deep within.
Once dragons began their partnership with humans, however, they were freed from their dependence on these dangerous locales and their associated hazards of toxic gases, extreme heat, cave-ins, and the occasional decimation event of an ill-timed lava flow or eruption.  Humans in collaboration with their dragons, beginning with the Hooligan tribe of Berk, built artificial Brooderies in which the environment could be more strictly controlled, ensuring the successful hatching of a greater percentage of the dragon eggs.
As a side benefit of these structures, the waste heat from their vents can be put to use for any number of productive ends, another concept that was pioneered by the Hooligans.
In the modern context, Broodery management is a mature science…

That's right, it's A Thing of Vikings time! That cliffhanger we left Snotlout Sigurd on last time is resolved, at least in the immediate sense, but then, it's back to Berk, where Home Is People..., and where Stoick makes a confession, Oof makes an apology, Hiccup makes some more attempts at glass (including several of what our timeline would call Prince Rupert's drops), and Wulfhild makes a two-pronged point, after which Heather makes her move.

CW: explicit act of assault, explicit attempted murder

http://archiveofourown.org/works/1040897...s/31344000
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/40...Of-Vikings

EDIT: That'll teach me to be summarizing when I should be posting.

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28404-19...Xendra.htm
Xendra (Buffy/Xena).

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12044591/65/Forged-Destiny
Forged Destiny (RWBY RPG world).

[Jinx999]

https://banter-latte.com/2018/02/12/just...ergence-2/

Justice Wing (same author as Interviewing Leather) has updated.

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...unt-31-07/

[Ebony]

The Gods Are Bastards, Chapter 13-44: https://tiraas.wordpress.com/2018/02/10/13-44/

The Sleeper's victims encounter the Rogue Hand, who learns the hazards of fighting a tanuki and a lunch lady.

Chapter 13-45: https://tiraas.wordpress.com/2018/02/12/13-45/

Things come to a head in the Crawl.

[Mamorien]

I've known for a while that Travolore (head writer for Bare Squadron) and Pure Freedom (creator of Malya the Miraluka mopeygoth) were collaborating on a BS prequel, one that I'm assured will shock and amaze readers. Earlier today, Pure posted the prolegomenon to Her Perfect Existence, and it's like the opening scene of Up but with less crying and more swearing. I give you Interval 1, "In Search of Something Better":

https://purefreedom.deviantart.com/art/B...-730100566

ADDENDUM: It turns out the chapter is available at the Pit of Voles.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12831421/1/...-Existence

And so is the latest chapter of the main story:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12599939/17...e-Squadron

[Norgarth]

Bonus chapter of Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...unt-31-08/

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32071-62...x+Mack.htm
The Secret Collocation of Alex Mack.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12763847/4/...Is-On-Time
Early Is On Time (Naruto, Dreaming of Sunshine-verse story).

[M Fnord]

So for those who haven't been following the Westerosi threads over on SB/SV I'm in the process of archiving the various omakes, worldbuilding and Jade's shitposting to Archive of Our Own for posterity. It's not everything, but it's what I consider the best of this stuff. I'll be trying to get this up to date while working on the next chapter. Just thought y'all would like to know.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/13697712

xoxo,
Za Fun Tyranto

[Ebony]

The Gods Are Bastards, Chapter 13-46: https://tiraas.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/13-46/

The confrontation with the Rust comes to a climax.

[Pyeknu]

For those who are following it, The Seventh Shipgirl has been updated with a few omake while I'm trying to find out where the muses for the story went AWOL to.  I'm hoping Luisa von Bismarck is willing to help track them down like she does delinquent shipgirls all the time on Danbooru (as Ido-sensei always shows in his 4-koma). 

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12549222/29...h-Shipgirl

And if anyone's interested, I did a little alt-history verse of 7SG which speculates what if Yonaga (Itô Yoiko) was persuaded to come home immediately after the end of the events in the movie Only You, with a pesky temporal displacement issue governing her junior NAVO's grandnephnew's life finally resolved.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12831346/1/...Home-Early

[Norgarth]

Friday's installment of Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...-31a-lies/

[Shepherd]

The Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts series (Batman) has updated:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13706367
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13706265
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13706178
http://archiveofourown.org/works/8614663...s/31483938
http://archiveofourown.org/works/8614663...s/31483986

[Mamorien]

Having succeeded to the imperial throne on December 10, AD 1041 after the death of his biological uncle and predecessor, Michael IV, Michael V Kalaphates (the Caulker, after the original occupation of Stephen, his biological father) was determined to rule on his own.  Immediately, he began to reverse his uncle’s decisions, recalling courtiers, nobles and soldiers that Michael IV had banished, and banishing, framing, or otherwise removing Michael IV’s own appointments.  This immediately brought him into conflict with John the Orphanotrophos, senior court eunuch, his biological uncle, the effective prime minister of the Byzantine Empire, and the man directly responsible for his family’s elevation from Paphlagonian peasantry to the imperial throne.  Michael V promptly banished John to the monastery of Monobatae, and had the majority of the male members of his family castrated as well, to keep them from being threats to his rule…

…mostly due to happenstance in timing, Michael V is given perhaps undue credit as being the founder of the Byzantine Empire’s corps of dragon riders.  As Sigurd Trondsson had arrived a short period before Michael IV’s death, and the program was formally begun under Michael V, with Michael V being recorded as the first dragon-riding Byzantine Emperor, it can be stated with some certainty that Michael V benefited from Sigurd’s timing more than from significant insight.

Yeah, Snotlout Sigurd is all right, or at least he's going to be. On Berk, Heather and Fishlegs are learning each other, and theirs is not the only love in the air. And, in Rome, a tall man with a dapper beard, while waiting to hear what task the Church has assigned him, works it out from first principles while looking at the art on the walls.

No content warnings on this week's A Thing of Vikings, just a Yuletide reminder that home is people ...Not Places:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/31537488
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/41...Of-Vikings

[Jinx999]

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/8...f-Learning

Mother of Learning has updated.