In the Beginning, there was an Armourer and a Living Weapon is an Of Gods and Monsters prequel novel derived from The Armourer and the Living Weapon, which itself originally spawned Of Gods and Monsters. The snake eats its own tail.

Basically, it was kind of dumb to tell readers, "well, if you want the full story, you have to go read this other, ( Read more... )

This is the eighth story of the It's Not Easy To Explain, She Said collection of short stories. It starts immediately after the the third story (It's really not easy to explain, said Emily Oxton).

I'm surprised too. I've had the first chunk of this for a while, but I'd kind of given up on it going anywhere, but... well... here we are!

Also, once ( Read more... )

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Of Gods and Monsters
Of Gods and Monsters, Fragment s4,1: late November, 2077
solarbird and bzarcher

Lena's all excited, because it's a holiday, and time to make a cake!

Of Gods and Monsters is a side-step/alternate-ending sequel to The Armourer and the Living Weapon, told in a series of eddas, sagas, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve ( Read more... )

As with all the final four chapters, this one is below a cut for spoilers avoidance.

This chapter is not necessarily worksafe. cw:violence. [AO3 link]
( chapter 24: that which no one will forgive )

I remind everyone - for the final time - that the AO3 archive warnings and tags are there for a reason. Please consider them appropriately before continuing. [View warnings and tags]

As these final chapters form the climax of the story, they will all be placed below cuts. This does not indicate anything about whether they are worksafe, though some ( Read more... )

Chapters 2 ("the far too many we have lost) and 3 ("that which may yet be found") of Requiem have been posted; the story is now complete.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/13801161/chapters/31730745

Also posted to ソ-ラ-バ-ド-のおん;
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Hover over French text for English translations. They are a little awkward because span titles apparently disallow apostrophes in some browsers, so I couldn't use contractions.

This chapter contains a scene some readers may find disturbing. I have accordingly put it behind a cut.

[AO3 link]
( cw: violence )

For the last little while, bzarcher and I have been quietly working on a three-chapter novelette set in his The Wizard Triumphant series - an Overwatch AU in which both Lena "Tracer" Oxton and Amélie "Widowmaker" Lacroix were reacquired by Talon, and rebuilt to their... preferred... specifications.

There are three chapters; the first is up now, the ( Read more... )

Shit is getting real.

This chapter is worksafe. [AO3 link]

Winston sat, quiet and unhappy, as the transport piloted itself back into the Watchpoint. That... could not have gone worse, he thought, as the vehicle rumbled quickly down the Gibraltar city streets. Lena had emerged from the washroom, given them the news, warned them about the Reaper ( Read more... )