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Official "This blog has been dead for months" Post

Alright, so I've been putting this off for months because I didn't really want to face up to the fact that I really, really fucked up at running this blog, but I guess I owe it to you guys to do this (at least, to those of you who've still stuck around).

Skaian Library is dead. It was a combination of poor management, low morale, and a lack of submissions. I had high hopes for this blog, but it just...didn't pan out. It took a long time to get a decent amount of followers, and only a few people (and I really appreciated those people) actually contributed by sending in asks and submissions. It was too much work to keep the blog going for what seemed like no real reason. Nobody seemed to care. The effort felt wasted. Aside from throwing fics out into the blogosphere -- many of which I didn't ever have time to read, except for a quick skim -- I wasn't accomplishing any of my original goals.

I am very thankful to see that a new blog, The Atheneum, has sprung up, and it seems to be much more popular and well-run than this one. I encourage you all to follow it, if you haven't already. They're doing the job much, much better than I ever did.

I'm sorry for disappointing everyone. Hopefully the new blog serves you well.

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AUTHOR: saccharineSylph

CHARACTERS: Dolorosa, Signless

RATING: General audiences

DESCRIPTION: A Lady and a Child seek shelter in a cavern from a raging storm. Based on the piece of the same name from the album coloUrs and mayhem.

CONTENT: Motherhood

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AUTHOR: intaglionyx

CHARACTERS: Davesprite, John, Jade, Bro, Terezi, Hephaestus, Skaia

RATING: Teen

DESCRIPTION: Your name is DAVE STRIDER, and this is your first day, the day of your rebirth in monochrome.

CONTENT: Character study, graphic depictions of violence, major character death

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AUTHOR: scuttlebuggy

PAIRINGS: Aradia/Eridan

CHARACTERS: Aradia, Eridan, assorted other trolls

RATING: General audiences

DESCRIPTION: Aradia is sent to deal with a volume problem. Bonding and music ensue.

CONTENT: Music

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AUTHOR: carcinomas

PAIRINGS: Aradia/Equius, Aradia/Sollux

CHARACTERS: Aradia, Equius, Sollux, assorted others

RATING: Mature

DESCRIPTION: Spoiler alert: You're having a baby. And your feet hurt really bad.

CONTENT: Humanstuck AU, pregnancy, discussed abortion

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AUTHOR: jesus

PAIRINGS: John/Dave, John/Karkat, Nepeta/Equius, Rose/Kanaya, Snoop Dogg/Jesus, Snoop Dogg/Geromy, Hella Jeff/Geromy

CHARACTERS: John, Dave, Karkat, Rose, Kanaya, Nepeta, Equius, Eridan, Snoop Dogg, Jesus, Sweet Bro, Hella Jeff, Geromy

RATING: Teen

DESCRIPTION: dAVE AND JOHN MAKE OUT

KARKAT YAOI DREAMS OVER JOHN TOO NO HOMO THOUGH. HOMOS ARE GROSS

CONTENT: Yaoi, Christianity, Bill Gates - Freeform, Con Air

COMMENTS: The best fic I've ever read. It brought tears to my eyes.

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AUTHOR: textualErudite

PAIRINGS: Terezi/Gamzee

CHARACTERS: Terezi, Gamzee

RATING: Explicit

DESCRIPTION: Though her carefully rehearsed ‘>:O’ face may have suggested otherwise, it came as no surprise to Terezi when she awoke to the shaving-cream scent of Gamzee’s facepaint, the clown leaning over her with a hand at her throat and another pinning her cane arm down.

CONTENT: Blackrom, noncon, blood, mild violence, oral sex, synesthesia, xenobiology

COMMENTS: This is the grand prize fic for the Skaian Library contest that I ran waaaay back in December. This was long overdue, but it is finally finished and approved by the recipient, so here it is featured on the blog!

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AUTHOR: thalassicPark

PAIRINGS: Dirk/Equius

CHARACTERS: Dirk, Equius, Nepeta, Roxy

RATING: Mature

DESCRIPTION: Dirk Strider meets the pony of his dreams at a con.

CONTENT: Humanstuck AU

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AUTHOR: roachpatrol

PAIRINGS: Dave/Terezi/Karkat

CHARACTERS: Dave, Terezi, Karkat

RATING: Explicit

DESCRIPTION: "Terezi, my horny wondergirl, I have come to take you to a land of dreams and rainbow magic, a land undreamt of by any amount of freaky alien babes, and that land--"

"DAVE," Karkat shouts.

"That land is school," he whispers as huskily as he can, and brings his lips to hers.

CONTENT: Underage, xenobiology, threesome, bloodplay

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AUTHOR: activistConjugation

CHARACTERS: Roxy

RATING: Teen

DESCRIPTION: Roxy has a lot of feels about plants, copyright, and language.

CONTENT: Freeform poetry, stream of consciousness

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AUTHOR: absinthe-and-turtles

PAIRINGS: Rose/Roxy/Kanaya

CHARACTERS: Rose, Roxy, Kanaya

RATING: Explicit

DESCRIPTION: “Mmm, yes.” Rose curled a hand around Kanaya’s wrist, lightly scraping her nails across the faintly glowing skin. She locked eyes with Roxy and they exchanged smirks at Kanaya’s sharp inhalation. “Mediate us, Kanaya. Mediate us hard.”

CONTENT: Xenobiology, threesome, incest

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AUTHOR: saturnineIlluminatus

CHARACTERS: All kids, all trolls, assorted others

RATING: Mature

DESCRIPTION: SCP. "Secure, Contain, Protect". A secret agency devoted to cataloguing and controlling everything, learning what makes it tick. Safe, Euclid, Keter, it doesn't matter to them. And now, they've found Sburb.

CONTENT: Research log style, crossover

COMMENTS: A fun read if you're into the SCP foundation -- that is, a site dedicated to fictional articles about the containment and research of incredibly powerful artifacts, creatures, or people.

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AUTHOR: Diablo

PAIRINGS: Dave/John

CHARACTERS: Dave, Rose, John, Jade, Doc Scratch

RATING: Teen

DESCRIPTION: After so many years and so many different lives, Dave is almost giving up trying to find John again. But somehow, this life seems made for them -- all of them. Perhaps it's inevitable that he finds him after all this time.

CONTENT: Post-SBURB AU, reincarnation, sadstuck

COMMENTS: Seems to be set after SBURB because visions from the game are featured. The quality of writing is excellent.

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FOTW: Winners for Weeks Fifteen and Sixteen!

The voting period for Weeks Fifteen and Sixteen has come to a close! The fics eligible for nomination were posted between  03/04/12 - 03/17/12, and there were three nominations allowed. As such, there are three winners.

In order of nominations received, they are:

Flushed, by Stripe

Destroy, She Said, by lantadyme

Strip Pokerstuck, God Tier Style  [Alternate AO3 link], by undeadclown413

Congratulations to the three winners, and thank you to everyone who voted during the past week!

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AUTHOR: lantadyme

PAIRINGS: Aradia/Terezi

CHARACTERS: Aradia, Terezi

RATING: General audiences

DESCRIPTION: There's more to FLARP than game day. Aradia and Terezi RP on the side.

CONTENT: FLARP, roleplay, fluff

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AUTHORS: biichama, inverts, renachan, roachpatrol

PAIRINGS: John/Karkat, Jade/Karkat, Gamzee/Karkat, Gamzee/Tavros, Jade/Nepeta, Rose/Everyone, assorted others

CHARACTERS: Karkat, all kids, all other trolls, assorted ancestors, assorted others

RATING: Mature

DESCRIPTION: In which something goes wrong and the kids and trolls swap species, and then try to play a new game of SBURB. Sequel to Topsy Turvy Back To Front The Right Way Round.

CONTENT: Species swap AU, Post-SBURB AU, Post-Scratch AU, ongoing (5/8), a whole bunch of other things seriously just go check the page on AO3

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AUTHORS: biichama, inverts, renachan, roachpatrol

PAIRINGS: John/Rose/Dave/Jade, Rose/Mom

CHARACTERS: John, Rose, Dave, Jade, Mom

RATING: Mature

DESCRIPTION: Shit, let's be trolls now.

CONTENT: Species swap AU, Post-Scratch AU, pseudo-incest, graphic depictions of violence, illustrated fic