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Pirates! With fire lizards! Lucky kids.

I understood a few of those! It's an improvement over my referemce getting skills a few months ago. The second paragraph paints a good picture even if I didn't catch a couple of words.

What are kattekri-tri and Los Taelis?

The first one makes me wonder what kind of school this person goes to. It is an oddly specific thing to assign, but I can come up several scenarios for it.

The second one definitely hits the weird note.

The third one, the character is kind of cute. In a good way.

It definitely went bad in the later seasons. I have never written anything set after mid-season 2, except maybe a few elements pulled in on character backstory from later seasons.

Good guess, I suppose. Though I also thought it might've been Nathan talking to Duke, so only half-right. {= )

I'm gonna have to check this out at some point. I stopped watching Haven (don't recall exactly when, but I think it exceeded its shelf life after a few seasons), but it was fun, and it would be interesting to see a different take on it.

I also noticed it seems to be set in the same universe as The X-Files, since Audrey's FBI mentor non-coincidentally shares a name with Fox Mulder's? There have to be some interesting crossovers out there.

~Neshomeh

The character being spoken about did survive.

That line was Nathan Wuornos speaking to the antagonist of the story.

It's from a Haven AU fanfic. The fourth in a series (pretty far down the rabbit hole now) that started off with a 'What if a certain character (The Rev) had been interrupted in his attempt to murder a teenage girl by a different character than in the episode?' If it had been anyone else The Rev would have survived the encounter and been free to wreak much more havoc than he did when he returned as a ghost.

The first story revolves around that. The second two much shorter ones are a continuation of the AU world, and the one I haven't finished brings in a new bad guy and group.

The new bad guy essentially started a cult made up mostly of people who are still angry over things that happened in the first one, but some from canon events. His cult has a goal of 'reconciling' various people and groups with the town in a misguided attempt to make everyone get along. Their idea of reconciliation tends toward eye for an eye and the leader doesn't have the level of control he thinks he does of some of his followers who are really just out for revenge.

I could totally go on and on, but maybe cutting it off here keeps it from being too much.

It just gets better.

The agent’s mild curiosity had turned into severe confusion. “You do realize no government has jurisdiction here, right? There’s no one who can tax goods.”

Bradbury took this curve-ball and, to mix a metaphor, ran with it. “Exactly. I can buy and sell anything here totally duty-free. Why do impede me in my quest? Do you hate the poor? Are you some kind of Communist? Are you some kind of Capitalist?! DO YOU WANT THE POOR TO HAVE MOLDY PLUMBING?!”

...the first passage picks up right after her wedding, so it kinda jars horribly when compared to the Not Okay relationships you find in ABO.

I haven’t found any all-female ABO before, but GMA might have? Bad smutfics are kind of his thing.

Jeez, we have too many projects going. And I still have a mission. Which... I will put a paragraph from up here when I'm not in the middle of touring a university.

Fun fact: The University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning is one of the inspirations for Hogwarts's architecture in the films. According to them, anyways, but I'd buy it.

Oh, and it's in Mr Rogers' Neighborhood. If I chose schools on pop culture references, I'd be sold.

That's an intense line. It makes me wonder who's speaking and who's on the receiving end. And of course, "attempted" murder means they didn't succeed, so what happened?

~Neshomeh

Didn't I say I was? I couldn't leave poor Ket hanging out there as a hypothetical figment. {= )

Too many projects indeed. I thought about dropping quotes from my Skyrim fic and my Badfic Games piece, too, but there's no good tenth paragraph in the former (which tells me I probably need to do a fair bit of rewriting) and I just don't want to spoil the latter. And you went with the cowrite, which happened to land in a cool place, so that's all good. ^_^

But here's another thing still technically sort of in progress with more than ten "paragraphs," and this one works pretty well!

’Neath pyroclastic clouds begrayed,
on volatile Nikaea bayed
the brutish Wolves, and Guards inveighed
against their brothers; thus waylaid
were Magnus’ Sons of Prospero,
who true to faithless summons came,
and bore the burden of the name
of “sorcerer” in wretched shame
home to the Spires of Prospero.

~Neshomeh

... That wasn't intended as a joke, but since my comment was going to be that it took me a second to get "Charlus," until I remembered that duh, everyone is male in ABO cuz girls have cooties or something... {= P

(Has anyone ever seen an all-female ABO fic? Disclaimer: I do not advocate going looking for or creating one.)

And the other one is even better by contrast with Ix being female and wearing a skirt at the time. ^_^

~Neshomeh

I was counting back from an unfinished paragraph, and didn't know if that counted as paragraph 1 or not. I could have gone back one more paragraph, but this one seemed better.

-Phobos

Being that this story takes place almost entirely during the Invasion, I wanted to make sure that it had appropriate levels of Pathos. One way to do that is to take a usually comedic character and cast them in a realistically serious light. Lux seemed a good choice in this case, and I like that she's a physical foil for Kur'nak.

-Phobos

"A Potterverse Suethor handed Dumbledore and Pomfrey the idiot ball, and Lupin ran loose on the grounds. Agent Fuji [Apple] was in human disguise and is now an eewolf."