HopefulPenguin
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For Fire Lord & Fatherland: Memorials of the Hundred Year War in the Historical Perspective by HopefulPenguin for EmperorNorton150
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jan 2025
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"The Hundred Year War was a horror. A conflict which began with genocide, continued with atrocity, and ended in ruin. And yet." // Join Princess Ursa as she attempts to untangle the complex histories of Fire Nation war remembrance, one memorial at a time.
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- Part 11 of Avatar Academia
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A Terrible, Swift Sword: Wargaming the Defence of the Republic, 173 AG by HopefulPenguin for EmperorNorton150
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra
07 Apr 2024
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"There is little the Forces as presently constituted can do to prevent a Kuviran invasion of the Republic." // To better understand the strategic dilemmas faced by the United Republic facing the rise of Kuvira, I designed and played a wargame about it - here are the results.
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- Part 10 of Avatar Academia
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"Guidon is a portal-focused Tinker in the 23rd Wards Response Group, presently seconded to MARFORCOM." // My entry for the OC Zine, profiling Safiya Najjar AKA Guidon.
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"Taylor liked words. They were like her friends only they knew more things and told her stuff. And were less boisterous." // A time-displaced Rachel Lindt adopts some children.
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"Skyking, Skyking. Do not answer. Lima Alpha Charlie Zulu One Niner. Time: 1649. Authentication: Romeo Golf Bravo. Skyking, Skyking. Do not answer." // Seven cities are gone. Legend is dead. The Second American Civil War is just getting started.
Recent series
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Avatar Academia by HopefulPenguin
Fandom Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jan 2025
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Hey! Do you want lots of worldbuilding details about the universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: Legend of Korra? Do you like reading academic book reviews, annotated bibliographies, homework entries, and such like? Then this is the series for you! Join Princess Ursa II, daughter of Fire Lord Izumi, and a motley crew of academics as they work to assemble a history of their world. It's more enjoyable than it sounds. Honest.
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No Greater Love by HopefulPenguin
Fandom Parahumans Series - Wildbow, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
12 Feb 2024
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The Glory and the Pity is an effort to write through the timeskip following Kuvira's campaigns, providing character studies and worldbuilding for the various campaigns she engaged in over the course of her three year slide into totalitarianism.
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Cause and Comrades by HopefulPenguin
Fandom The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
25 Jun 2023
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Scarlet Woman by ilikeexploding
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
10 Oct 2026
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These violent delights have violent ends, and all that glitters is not gold. Lysa is a terrible person doing terrible things, and deserves every terrible consequence that she will bring upon others and possibly herself as a result. Given that she's been reborn as a woman in Westeros, however, that's a price she's willing to pay. It's only gunpowder; what's the worst that can happen?
Or, a villain protagonist makes trainwreck life choices, therefore fitting in with everyone in this god awful world. Readers may rubberneck in hatred or fascination, at your own choosing.
- Language:
- English
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- 247,381
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- 53/?
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- 9,134
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Bookmarked by HopefulPenguin
28 Sep 2026
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Unauthorised Access by ghostlied, ua_editor (etherealDesign)
Fandoms: Parahumans Series - Wildbow
14 Oct 2026
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Lisa slips through Coil's grasp when he gives his aggressive recruitment pitch. She takes refuge with the PRT in the aftermath and proceeds to make herself everyone's problem. Now all she has to do is pretend to be a good hero for long enough to take him out of the equation. What could go wrong?
A Lisa in the Wards AU, because Taylor shouldn't be the only one who gets to have fun.
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- Part 1 of Unauthorised Access
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- English
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- 288,342
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- 58/?
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Bookmarked by HopefulPenguin
06 Sep 2026
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Who Said a Human Hive World was Impossible to Fix? by hypotheticalprose
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Elemental Council (novel) Noah Van Nguyen
25 Sep 2026
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Brighteyes is a maverick Water Caste liaison for the Department of Harmony, responsible for helping to integrate newly conquered worlds into the Tau Empire. His latest challenge: figure out how to fix the administrative, logistical, and political nightmare that is a former Imperial Hive City.
Bookmarked by HopefulPenguin
17 Jul 2026
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Zoey doesn’t know how long she stands there in the middle of her room, gawking at the notification flashing at her screen.
Well, notifications, plural. They’re back to back on her home screen, right under all her social media notifications of people showering her with likes for today’s breakfast.
Ryu Rumi sent you $250.00
“For lunch! Let me know if you need more xo”Kang Mira sent you $501.00
“lmk if she sent more than 500, I can double it lol”Zoey loudly declares, “What the HELL?”
Or, broke college student Zoey goes viral for her revolting college meals—and rich girls Rumi and Mira find a little pity (among other things) in their hearts for her.
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- Part 1 of candyfloss
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 734,315
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- 31/?
- Comments:
- 7,767
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Bookmarked by HopefulPenguin
18 Nov 2025
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complex like cPTSD by Alex_The_Manliest
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
16 Mar 2024
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Fact 1: Dating apps are weird and uncomfortable and are undoubtedly the worst way to get to know someone.
Fact 2: Adora is desperate to find anyone so she isn’t fifth-wheeling all of the time.
Fact 3: Adora has downloaded a dating app for the first time in her life.
Fact 4: It’s weird, uncomfortable, and she’s having no luck.
Bookmarked by HopefulPenguin
07 Aug 2024