I would burn the world to bring some heat to you

One-shots

Sirius during OoTP- A series of gen canon-compliant one shots exploring Sirius’s emotional state, how he got Crookshanks to order a boom and his reaction to having prison groupies. 

Women of the House of Black series - a collection of oneshots exploring the lives of the women of the house of Black.

When Harley met Sirius - The story of Sirius's motorcycle told in three scenes.

Fiat Justita - The 3rd November 1981, was Sirius's 22nd birthday and his second day in Azkaban.

The Seven Names of Mrs Zabini- Black-widow, whore, murderer are all words which are synonymous with the infamous Mrs Zabini.

But who is the woman behind the legend?

From her humble beginnings in Rimini, to her education at Beauxbatons and multiple marriages, this is her tale, in her own words.

Sirius Black and the Goblet of Freud -Set in the Dog and Deer AU where Voldemort is never born. Insert contrived situation where Dumbledore has forced Walburga and Sirius Black into therapy. And after three months it's not going well.

Drabbles

A Memorial service for Sirius and Regulus

Sirius and Remus talk after the Shrieking Shack

Sirius and Orion

Sirius enchanting his motorcycle

Sirius in Dumbledore's office at the end of GoF

Character study of Fleur during the Weighing of the wands

Sirius and James attack Bertram Aubrey

Tom Riddle's first day at Hogwarts

Regulus's final moments

A happy childhood memory for Regulus and Sirius

WIPS

Pietas

Sirius Black is the outsider of his family who chafes against the rigidity of pureblood society and the expectations of being the Black heir.

In a last ditch effort to bring him into line, Arcturus Black has negotiated a match with a pure-blood Italian girl.

Set against the lush backdrop of Wizarding Italy family tensions simmer and come to a boiling point.

This is the story of the week leading up to Sirius leaving his family, setting Regulus on the path of destruction.

The Dog and Deer Detective Agency

Set in an AU where Voldemort is never born.

James and Sirius are both the best of friends and brilliant wizards, and not wanting to be tied down to a 9-to-5, they founded a detective agency.

A year in, they have had a steady business from scorned spouses until one day a woman arrives and draws them into a sinister plot in the Scottish Highlands.

D+D cut scene

Musings on my writing 

Sirius's core traits in D&D

Catholic imagery in my fics

How I built Aeliana's character

General Metas

The dark mark: imposing stigma on a privileged class.

Institution or Prison: Mental health in Harry Potter

Nearly Headless Nick: An earthbound soul

Voldemort and Class

Voldemort and the riddle house

Nagini and Orientalism

The importance of the Soul in the HP universe (joint meta with @ashesandhackles)

Barty Crouch JNR and SNR Meta

Peter is emotionally intelligent

Peter is intelligent

Character analysis of Kingsley

Character analysis of Lily

CoS: Outward persona and internal Morality

Sirius Black, Mental Health and Masculinity

Part one

Part two

Part three

Part four

Sirius Black and Complex trauma

Feminism and Mental health

Walburga Black: the madwoman in the attic

Bellatrix: Mental health and the feminist lens

Bellatrix villain origin

Grief in PoA

The Dementors and Harry's Complex grief

Padfoot and the Liminal Space

Sirius Metas

Padfoot and Prongs: an analysis of the friendship

Sirius and Walburga's similarities

Sirius and Walburga: the passive-aggressive Sticking Charm

Regulus and Sirius's relationship

Sirius and Regulus similarities

Sirius and Orion Black

Sirius and Lily

Sirius and his cousins

Sirius's views on Death-Eaters: The world isn't split into good people and Death-eaters.

Grimmauld Place: Azkaban by a different name

Part one: Sirius and the shadow of being a Black

Part two: A Victim of the system he was born to rule

Sirius's sense of humour

HC about Sirus's reading habits

Misconceptions about Sirius's character

Part one-Sirius was not an immature man -child

Part two- Sirius is both emotionally and academically intelligent

Part three- Sirius is not a playboy/non committal fuckboi

Regulus metas

Regulus Black character analysis

Analysis of the Horcrux note

The Black Family

HC about Walburga's Portrait (I just wanted her to have some nuance lol)

Melania Black HC

Arcturus Black HC

Harry inheriting Grimmauld HC

Regulus Black the unrepentant bigot

Phineas Nigellus and Sirius's similarities

Sirius being funny

My Tudor/renaissance history book recs

The Black Family and Pureblood ideology

Wizard clothing and fashion

Intersectionality in blood status

There is a particular bored register both Sirius and Phineas Nigellus reach for when they want to signal that a situation is beneath them. In both men it is a performance, reached for precisely when they are most engaged. Watching them deploy it side by side reveals how much of Sirius's affect is inherited, and how differently the two men wield the same tool.

1.0 Phineas: boredom as aristocratic contempt

Phineas uses yawns to display aristocratic disdain. But in every instance, there is a tell that he is keenly engaged. The boredom is a mask worn over contempt, and it never substitutes for genuine interest.

"Visit my other portrait?" said Phineas in a reedy voice, giving a long, fake yawn (his eyes travelling around the room and focusing upon Harry). "Oh no, Dumbledore, I am too tired tonight..." OoTP

And:

"Phineas Nigellus gave a long yawn, stretching his arms as he watched Harry with shrewd, narrow eyes." OoTP

In both cases, the yawn is juxtaposed against sharp, focused eyes. The languid body performs indifference while the watchful gaze betrays it. The yawn is theatre, undercut by the attention behind it.

That mismatch sharpens when Phineas reads Harry with uncomfortable accuracy. It is the precision of someone who has clearly been watching closely ( an acuity he shares with Sirius).

"You know," said Phineas Nigellus, even more loudly than Harry, "this is precisely why I loathed being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything." OoTP

He lands the read, then retreats into examining his silk gloves while Harry begs him for information. That retreat is the weapon. It recasts the boy's suffering as a social imposition rather than a real emergency. For Phineas, ennui is a wall he raises between himself and anything that might obligate him.

2.0 Sirius: boredom as armour

Sirius reaches for the same register, but with him, it develops over time.

As a teenager in Snape's Worst Memory, he stares around at the students milling over the grass, looking rather haughty and bored and here, the boredom is an inherited default. It is the Black-family posture he wears without thinking, the studied disaffection of a boy raised to hold himself above the room. The narrative even frames it as attractive, "very handsomely so," which is how the pose is meant to land, and on the surface, it is indistinguishable from Phineas's yawns (perhaps the only difference is how deliberate it seems). 

But by Azkaban, this has changed. The same posture has become something he actively wields, and he wields it under real duress. Fudge's account of his prison visit shows this clearly.

"You'd have thought he was merely bored — asked if I'd finished with my newspaper, cool as you please, said he missed doing the crossword. Yes, I was astounded at how little effect the dementors seemed to be having on him..." PoA

And the performance is effective. The boredom does more than unnerve Fudge; it frightens him. A prisoner sitting rationally in his cell, asking after the crossword, untouched by the dementors that reduce every other inmate to a muttering wreck, reads to Fudge as far more dangerous than a broken man. The composure itself is what alarms him, because it looks like proof that Azkaban has failed to touch Sirius at all, and this is precisely the effect the mask is engineered to produce.

But Sirius is deeply affected by Azkaban; while the performance holds up in front of Fudge, the damage shows elsewhere. As even in ordinary, unguarded moments, the harm sits visibly in his face (particularly his eyes) with Harry frequently describing the: 

“ the deadened look in Sirius’s eyes,”  GoF

And observing in GoF that: 

“Sirius looked at him, eyes full of concern, eyes that had not yet lost the look that Azkaban had given them — that deadened, haunted look.” GoF

Therefore, beneath the composure is a man permanently marked by the horrors of Azkaban and when in PoA he is cornered by the lake and facing the kiss, the performance collapses entirely. 

"Sirius had turned back into a man. He was crouched on all fours, his hands over his head. 'Noo,' he moaned. 'Noooo ... please. ...'" PoA

The man who "missed doing the crossword" is the same man reduced to begging on the lakeshore. The boredom in Azkaban was the last piece of dignity he had left, performed hard enough to convince the Minister for Magic that Azkaban had not won.

3.0 Conclusion 

Nope. Not really (Promise I won't become too annoying).

I can talk about all the shitty things that the government is doing. And about all the crappy things that I see trying to stay informed but, instead I'm asking if you can to donate, and if you can not donate to spread the world.

Caracas Chronicles has news in English in case you want more information and their first page is about donations to the organisations that are helping.

Even the smallest contribution can help, even if it's just letting other people know about the links to donate in the far chance that they can.

"It’s life’s greatest treasure to love and to be loved in return."

“Thanks, Lee,” said Harry, grinning, as Sirius wagged his tail frantically.

I'm kind of sick of the whole Black Madness, torturing the kids with the Cruciatus type of portrayal. I don't mind them being evil bigots, but I wish it would be written in a less one-dimensional way.

Thank goodness there seems to be so many more people these days who don't subscribe to the idea the Blacks being insane caricature villains :') They're definitely not good people in many ways and no one can deny that Sirius's relationship with his family had many problems, but boiling it down to them just torturing the crap out of him has always felt lazy and just downright inaccurate to me.

In terms of fics to recommend, the works of @izzythehutt (AO3) and @artemisia-black (AO3) are always a very solid go-to for well-rounded portrayals of the Blacks. Particularly the Black Sheep Dog series (honestly my stories are very heavily inspired by this series) and Pietas. @iamfitzwilliamdarcy (AO3) also has some great Black family stories as well.