In book 5, there's going to be a ship, possibly a sailboat, that's kinda inspired by pirates and the golden age of sail in general. But I need to figure out the sizes of these ships in comparison to things that I know the size of. What I mean is, while I have been finding plenty of videos and other resources that show various ships compared to each other, this information is largely useless to me because I don't have a point of reference that means anything to me. Like, one of Columbus's ships was 53 feet long. I don't know what that means in terms of imagining the size by comparing it to something that I know. Same for larger sizes. Without a useful point of reference, these size comparison videos are meaningless to me.

I'm also not sure how big to make the ship. I want it to be big enough that a crew and roughly 10 to 13 passengers at least won't feel crowded. No wait, double or triple that passenger count (at least) because I want the Ravenstones to be able to be oblivious to being followed and watched on the ship by a pair of other passengers.

I also want to have this ship have retractable, waterproof sails so it can go underwater, as it's manned by a crew of fish-people. (Well, actually octopus-headed people.) This might affect the size, I dunno. Remember magic is a thing here.

Any resources or insight that might help me sort these things out would be very helpful.

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I recently recorded a podfic that seems like it would be of interest to this community. It's about Beauty and the Beast:



Title: In a Dark Wood (text can be found on author's website here, or on Yuletide site here)
Author: tadorna/sheldrake
Reader: eccentric_hat
Fandom: Traditional fairy tales: Beauty and the Beast
Length: 44 minutes
Rating: PG
Music by Zoe Keating

Summary: On the nature of beasts. There is something about him of the dank marsh, or of the earth, or the creeping undergrowth. Of wild and lonely places coming alive at night, when there is nobody around to see.

Right-click to download from the audiofic archive:
mp3
m4b (audiobook file)

My sincere thanks to tadorna for permission to record this story, based on my all-time favorite fairy tale!

These were all written for a femslash100 drabble cycle challenge. The rest of the cycle (not all of it was mythology-based) are here.

Since this is a drabble dump, even the headers are under the cut!

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Hi! I joined and started watching this comm, and have a few Greek mythology ficlets; none of them are over PG-13 rating, most are under.

Cassandra-centric (some with Cassandra/Apollo or Aganemnon): Hear All The Sounds, Impenetrable, Thread, and Of Visions and Hope (also, if you read French, For your ears only, Comme du souvenir, and Prolongement (Cassandra/Clytemnestra) ).

Pâris: "... but optimists are happier"

Medea: Numb as Fury

Title: The Box
Character(s): Athena/Apollo/Artemis/Zeus/Thor
Special Guest Appearances By: Eros/Aphrodite/Hephaestus/Ares/Hera
Pantheon(s): Greek/Norse
Rating: PG
Summary: Athena receives a box from Thor, but doesn’t bother to open it to see what’s inside (despite the advice she is given by others). Then, later, she regrets it, when the Norse come to Olympus.

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Title: The King of Utgard
Character(s): Thor, Loki
Pantheon(s): Norse
Rating: G
Summary: Thor meets an aspect of Loki he hasn't seen before. A retelling of Thor's Journey to Utgard.

Note: It's contested whether Utgard-Loki was a Jotun aspect of Loki or an unrelated giant. Here I assume the first, and that Loki's addition to this myth as a travelling companion came later. Whether you agree or not I hope you can enjoy the story.

( The way to Utgard was among sharp peaks of rock rimed with ice )

Title: Tumnus
Character(s): Mr Tumnus/Peter/Edmund/Susan/Lucy
Fandom(s): Narnia
Rating: G
Summary: Mr Tumnus musing on the loss of Lucy after she returns to England.
Disclaimer: I wrote this after listening to the audiobooks for the Narnia series, and felt the need to write something around my favorite character since the series itself has always struck me as not living up to its potential.

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Title: Iron Queen
Character(s): Persephone, Demeter, Hades, Cerberus.
Pantheon: Greek
Rating: G
Summary: There are those who are dead, and then there are those who are not but sometimes wish to be. Persephone is both. Persephone is neither.

Cerberus says: Goodbye, Miss.

Title: Jack be Nimble.
Character(s): Jack/a Priest
Folklore Used: English/Christian/Jewish
Further Reference(s): Goliath/Og
Rating: G
Summary: Jack (of the beanstalk and giant killer fame) has concerns about his ability to actually kill giants, since the story of the beanstalk was greatly exaggerated.

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