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the absolute rage i felt at the teacher-behaviour of sirius an lily, the pain i felt for remus. how lily, sirius and james tried to excuse themselves the whole time
absolutely loved lyra, what an amazing character
and it's so nice to see your old fics in my bookmarks again<3
First of all, thank you so much! For the ask, for the feedback, for the kindness of enjoying seeing my old fics in your bookmarks! 💜
I knew this one would be an ouch, so thank you for sticking with it. I knew Remus, of course, would be distant and remain so: I used his canon loyalty to Dumbledore here, but also he’s beyond grateful for the Beauxbatons job and even though he’s more than earned it, that’s Remus for you. I also doubt he would have been enthusiastic about Lyra going to Hogwarts without him, but I think he would have if it had come to that.
Yeah, Sirius and Lily. Even James. 😕 They are far from their best selves. I think Lyra did veer into some spiky territory with Sirius in that first interaction, but he responded by digging his heels in, which was the opposite way to diffuse the situation. She’s 15! She knows her stuff, and she was right, in some ways. She dug in, too, but that is what she gets from him, right? Regardless, he was the adult!
Speaking of, Lily. When I first started imagining this fic it was a riff on Goblet of Fire. Harry would have been of age and the Hogwarts champion. Lyra would have been the Beauxbatons champion, and the one whose name has been covertly put in the Goblet, this time by Bellatrix, who wanted revenge on Sirius. Little did she know he was clueless, so joke is on her. But, to be honest, I didn’t want to go through rereading GOF enough to rehash it. 😂
Anyway, I knew the Lyra/Remus reveal had to happen, and it would be painful in more than one way, and Lily makes it both closer to home and absolutely awful. I toyed with her being fired outright and the only reason that doesn’t happen is exactly what it says in the fic: to keep the Ministry out of it. But! Thank you for listening to the ramblings of my process, lol! One of the biggest surprises to me is how much people love Lyra — almost everyone has mentioned that, and it’s so dear to me. I try to make all the kids different, so that she is and she stuck a chord with people is so special to me. (We may be seeing more of her. 😉 Harry definitely wants to, bless.)
Oh my heart, a new story AND the babies are back😭😭❤️
Awwww, thank you! 💜💜💜
Yes, the babies are back. All of them. There are a lot of them at this point. 😂 I’m still unsure, but putting it all back out there. Probably would have to before R/S Big Bang is revealed come November, but also, I got some advice to take up space, so I am going to take up some tiny corner of the internet space. 💜
And the new story features Lucy! Lucy, whom I adore as the girliest girl to have ever girled, even on a broom. 🥰
(I have another new one too, that is complete, but thought that was too much for one day. 🤣😘)
back in the day we didn't need tone indicators bc we had a little cat below each livejournal post that told you if the op was depressed, anxious, or horny (the only three emotions anyone felt)
Oh my god that’s so true.
"I know your school didn't teach you how to write fanfic-" I know this is something said in response to Americans whining about their education system in response to racism, but my school English class actually did have us write an epilogue to a book we were reading as an assignment, so in a way my school did teach me how to write fanfic. I have no point to make with this point and I don't care to i just wanted to share a tidbit about my life
We had to do this with Jane Eyre. For extra nerdiness I did mine as a CS Lewis fusion/crossover and produced “The Janetape Letters” written by a demon trying and failing to tempt Jane to betray herself and despair.
(I had already been writing and reading actual fanfic for a few years by then, so I felt like I was getting away with something rather than having my eyes opened to new possibilities.)
In grade 8, we had to rewrite the end of Lord of the Flies, and it was awesome. I can't remember the exact details, but I went with murder/suicide. One of the things the teacher talked about was trying to match the writing style, characters, and themes of the book. So yes, school did teach me to write fanfic!
I had a 400-level shakespeare professor give us an assignment to write a canon compliant missing soliloquy in Hamlet and then write a paper justifying why we thought it was possible for the speech to be an unspoken part of the story. My soliloquy was Hamlet explaining that he didn't kill Claudius while he was praying because he knew that if he waited any amount of time Claudius's pride would guide him to committing another mortal sin and he wanted Claudius damned, not dead. My justification for this was literally every scene including Claudius has him committing a sin within the logic of the fictional universe *if* you grant that it takes place in a catholic universe (and whether the story takes place in a catholic or protestant universe is pretty important to interpreting the play and is very much up for debate).
He gave extra points for accuracy in EME usage and appropriate switching between iambic pentameter and prose.
As it turns out "can you inhabit the perspective of the characters in a story" and "can you identify stylistic choices that are used to create emphasis and set a scene" are questions that are pertinent both for writing fanfic and for reading comprehension.
At the elementary school level I talk all the time about how reading and writing go hand in hand. (I talk about it a lot in IEP meetings to explain how difficulties in one area impact the other. But it’s generally now accepted as “the science of reading” that there is a clear “decoding” portion to reading — can the student phonetically read or decode a text — and an “encoding” portion which is can they hear sounds and then recreate them in writing. People used to just associate that with spelling but fluent readers can do both interchangeably because they understand the phonetic system. Which English has a TERRIBLE system, FYI.)
But last year after test prep season I let the kids free write and had at least one write and write and write her own ongoing Harry Potter story (I’d read them POA). Sirius lived. It was awesome.
The year before I had my kids pick a godly parent like in Percy Jackson and write their own hero journeys.
Both times they had a blast. And it was some of the best writing I got out of them on any assignments. It also fine tuned their comprehension of the source material. Win-win-win.

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So I posted to a fest today, and the fic disappeared on me. I panicked a bit and then someone helpfully said that it should appear on my A03 statistics page even before it was mod approved for the collection.
Y’all I have had an A03 account since The Year of Our Lord I Can’t Even Remember (definitely even before 2011 and I’m too lazy to look it up) and I have NEVER looked at my stats page. EVER.
I don’t touch that with a ten foot pole. I don’t want to know possibly depressing information! This is the same reason I don’t peruse bookmarks.
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As someone who forges work emails like they are weapons, lol.
Title: Comfort
Rating: PG
Prompt: Defeat from @wolfstarmicrofic
Word count: 299
Summary: Sirius loses a game. Teddy doesn’t take it well.
I am writing a fic for each of the prompts this month. You can read all of them here.
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As Sirius hurried his way through the maze of corridors, he barely noticed the contrast of the drafty hallways with the warmth of the locker room he had just come from. His mind was on one thing, and one thing only.
Turning a corner, he immediately relaxed at the sight of his husband’s smiling face. Remus straightened up from where he had been leaning against a wall, their small son balanced on his hip. As he walked the few remaining steps to Sirius, his familiar brown eyes warmed Sirius from the inside out.
Suddenly, the last few hours didn’t matter. Nothing mattered, other than drawing his husband and son into his arms and breathing in their familiar scents.
“Oh, you are a sight for sore eyes,” he said, with a small sigh, greeting Remus with a lingering kiss as he leaned over to take Teddy from Remus’s arms, smiling as Teddy immediately clung tightly to Sirius.
“Hey, buddy,” he said, softly, trying to get Teddy to look at him. Teddy was having none of it, and burrowed his face into Sirius’s shoulder. To Sirius’s shock, Teddy started crying softly and he shot a concerned look at Remus.
“He’s a bit upset you lost,” Remus said, softly, placing a hand on Teddy’s back.
Heart bursting with love for his son, Sirius chuckled slightly. “Oh, Teddy Bear,” said Sirius, “It was just one game,” he said.
Teddy turned his face up to Sirius, tears running down his small face. “Papa, you l… lost,” his voice breaking on the last word, and he began crying again. Sirius shared a grin with Remus over Teddy’s shaking body.
Bringing a hand up to meet Remus’s where it was placed on Teddy’s back, Sirius rocked back and forth. “It’s okay, buddy,” he crooned, “It’s okay.”
Teddy 🥺🥺🥺
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We talk about it all the time, but Sirius going out of his way to catch a glimpse of Harry once he’d broken out of Azkaban is the epitome of who he is and what he cares about most.
will always keep thinking about public enemy most wanted criminal sirius risking it all to watch his godson fly the broom...
And not just that he is public enemy. He knows what will happen if he is caught. He is hiding away and sees all the people who believed he could murder James and Lily (Remus, Dumbledore, McGonagal), all these poeple who he thought would know him better and he still risked theor wrath and the dementers sucking his soul out of his body to watch Harry fly, because Harry is more important to Sirius then even his own soul!!!
I adore good godfather Sirius Black and he’s all of that here, and I wanted to say he does all of this not just for Harry himself (he definitely does see Harry in his own right, and has loved him/loves him as his own person) but for James (and by extension, Lily.) He promised to James to take care of James’ son, and he’s going to see that through to his dying day (literally). Because of his love of James, his love of Harry, and his deep loyalty to each of them.
So of all the Wolfstar things in canon (which is an in this essay I will topic), it’s the joint Christmas gift that to this day just makes me have a record scratch sound play in my head.
What is that supposed to signify if they are not a couple? What is the reason? Are we supposed to assume Remus is so poor Sirius paid for it and Remus signed the card? Or that Remus picked it up because Sirius is trapped so Sirius signed the card? If they are just friends, respectfully, who does that? Moreover who does that for a child? With no other explanation? This is not, “Oh, yeah, Harry really wanted Z but it was too expensive for just one of us, so we went in together, hope you don’t mind.” (Which is usually said to the parent but it’s not like they dropped a line to anyone here.)
Like Harry woke up and had this cool set of books that were clearly chosen with care for his interests and thoughtfulness and expense — that he didn’t ask for — and it was “from Sirius and Lupin.”
I mean, really.
look at him right in the eye.
he is a bottom with a breeding kink who loves being pregnant
We talk about it all the time, but Sirius going out of his way to catch a glimpse of Harry once he’d broken out of Azkaban is the epitome of who he is and what he cares about most.
Them: we don’t know anything about Sirius Black!
Sirius Black: Has an entire book written about and named after him
And for 2/3 of that book the protagonist’s knowledge of him is based on lies and falsehoods!
It’s only in hindsight we realize that the dog outside Privet Drive was Padfoot, trying to get his first glimpse of Harry. It’s only later that we know he’s at the Quidditch match to watch Harry play because he is loyal to Harry; that it would be a joy to see him play.
Hell, at those points we don’t even know it’s SIRIUS. It’s a random dog and maybe a glimpse of a bad omen Trewlaney has been banging on about.
He deserves way more respect than he gets, in the book where he’s *in the title* and after.

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“You never pretended to be a bride when you were a little girl?” No???? Like literally never?
I made witch soups in my garden
No, but I did play school all the time, and look where that got me.
squinting at the 'fix it fic' tag on any given story on Ao3, trying to discern if it's intended in the sense of:
I genuinely think the story had bad writing and I am taking my toolbox and improving it [and i the reader agree]
I genuinely think the story had bad writing and I am taking my toolbox and improving it [and i the reader disagree]
The story's ending was Tragic and I Respect that but also i just want to read about my faves having some kind of joy and fulfilment okay?
The story's ending was Tragic and I do Not Respect That please God Damnit Let Them Be Happy
We Are Literally Fixing The Canon With The Application of Time Travel or Reality Warping or some other Wild Plot Device
I am going to fix one obscure detail or plot element that 95% of the fandom has never thought about in their life
(because these are all extremely different vibes)