HopefulPenguin
Fandoms
Recent works
-
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
Tags
Summary
"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.
Series
- Part 11 of Avatar Academia
-
A Terrible, Swift Sword: Wargaming the Defence of the Republic, 173 AG by HopefulPenguin for EmperorNorton150
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra
07 Apr 2024
Tags
Summary
"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.
Series
- Part 10 of Avatar Academia
-
Tags
Summary
"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.
-
Tags
Summary
"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.
-
Tags
Summary
"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
-
Avatar Academia by HopefulPenguin
Fandom: Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
27 Jan 2025
Summary
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.
- Words:
- 42,572
- Works:
- 11
- Bookmarks:
- 26
-
No Greater Love by HopefulPenguin
Fandom: Parahumans Series - Wildbow, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
12 Feb 2024
- Words:
- 43,612
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 18
-
- Words:
- 83,097
- Works:
- 6
- Bookmarks:
- 58
-
Summary
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.
- Words:
- 27,572
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 4
-
Cause and Comrades by HopefulPenguin
Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
25 Jun 2023
- Words:
- 29,462
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
- 32
Recent bookmarks
-
complex like cPTSD by Alex_The_Manliest
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
16 Mar 2024
Tags
Summary
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
-
Tags
Summary
“Seeing as though we both have something to gain from being off of the marriage market, why don't we make an agreement?” Mr. Bridgerton’s body had completely turned towards Cressida, knees slightly bumping against her own. “And before you say no, just hear me out–”
“What exactly do you have to gain from being wed?” Cressida asked before she could stop herself. She tensed when Mr. Bridgerton’s unbandaged hand gripped at her gloved wrist. She could feel her pulse quicken at the touch–
In which Elliot Bridgerton isn't actually Elliot Bridgerton and somehow that becomes Cressida Cowper's problem.
Series
- Part 1 of a degree to love
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 69,725
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Comments:
- 1,338
- Kudos:
- 3,536
- Bookmarks:
- 488
- Hits:
- 57,658
Bookmarked by HopefulPenguin
26 May 2024
-
Tags
Summary
Lord Debling represents a future for Cressida Cowper that she hadn't previously considered–a happy one.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 38,959
- Chapters:
- 9/10
- Comments:
- 153
- Kudos:
- 1,138
- Bookmarks:
- 179
- Hits:
- 17,824
Bookmarked by HopefulPenguin
26 May 2024
-
Complications of Interspecies Relations by AuroraCloud for paperclipbitch
Fandoms: Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers
16 Dec 2016
Tags
Summary
It's complicated enough for a Human to find himself having an affair with an Aeluon. It's even more complicated when he isn't sure how to tell his crew about it, in particular his best friend.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,655
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 17
- Kudos:
- 124
- Bookmarks:
- 16
- Hits:
- 1,059
Bookmarked by HopefulPenguin
19 Apr 2024
-
a red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground by piesofrage
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Oct 2021
Tags
Summary
The only thing that can take Hermione's mind off of how much she loathes her repugnant Potions partner are the notes from her mysterious pen pal.
And as for Pansy? She just wants to find a way to cast a permanent Silencio on Granger, and to reply to the charming stranger on the other end of her magical parchment.
(aka the Pansmione "You've Got Mail" AU)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 315,813
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 903
- Kudos:
- 4,902
- Bookmarks:
- 1,342
- Hits:
- 162,721
Bookmarked by HopefulPenguin
13 Apr 2024