LumosLyra

Severus Snape x Hermione Granger Nowhere Else

YES, she asked me about it. I was delighted and amazed. :D :D :D

AO3 requires at least three uses of a specific tag before they can start making it official. *throws that hint to the universe*

Inappropriate Use of Malfoy Signet Ring

the origin of the letter 🇦

This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.

That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.

This is why we download. 

 Alternatives to buying overpriced textbooks

Textbooknova 

Reddit

Bookboon 

Textbookrevolution 

GaTech Math Textbooks

Ebookee 

Freebookspot 

Free-ebooks

Getfreeebooks 

BookFinder

Oerconsortium 

Draco and Lucius (and Narcissa behind the scene) 🌸

For Lucitober day 25 “Camera”

Reference: https://i.imgur.com/1HyUi1C.jpg

For those wondering “why don’t you just read the ingredients”: Even if you trust the ingredient list, you don’t know which “natural flavors” were used, and you may not know where the various chemicals came from. And a lot of people have a hard time reading tiny print, and don’t want to stand in the aisle for five minutes trying to work their way through 95 words of 4-point type.

There is this a peculiar set of reasons and biases when it comes to NOT commenting on AO3.

They are all false, but here they are:

Do not comment on old fics

Do not comment on each chapter of a multichapter

Do not comment if the author left the fandom

Do not comment if the author doesn’t respond to comments

It can be summoned up as DO NOT ACT LIKE YOU ENJOYED THE WORK AND YOU LIKE THE AUTHOR.

It comes from the idea, that if you leave a comment on my old work, or leave too many comments, I will think you are strange, clingy, and gross.

Readers are imagining it as commenting on an old Facebook photo — only your granny and creepy strangers do that.

That is not the case with AO3.

Writers put their works there for long-term storage, and we expect, wish, and hope that you will like our works and tell us about it.

This all very interesting, not, but why should I care?

This has awful consequences.  Fanfic authors feel constant pressure to create more and crippling fear of being forgotten, useless, and being literally kicked away from fandom.

I’m online friends with a few great fandom authors, who wrote storied with thousands of kudos, but ALL of them at some point expressed this fear. Very talented people told me, “I’m not sure if I should have ‘writer’ in my bio. I didn’t post anything new in the last half of a year.”

Some young or entitled readers might say, “Hm, well, they are right. They should create MORE to be relevant. Isn’t that a good thing to push authors to write more?”

For better or worse, life doesn’t work like that. We are talking about real people, who go to real schools, have real jobs, families, and all the other important things outside the fandom. Some of them might push to create more from that fear, but most would only get more frustrated and depressed about the whole fanfic writing.

So, please, if you like the work comment on it.

Even if it’s old, even if it’s a multichapter, even if the author doesn’t have time and energy to interact. Especially in all those cases.

So, if you didn't know, ao3 has lots of subscription options. As long as you have an account and your email address is up to date, you can get various levels of notifications. You need to be a logged in user in order to subscribe.

Please note: don't use a school email address because when you leave that school, that address dies and you might lose access to your account. Yahoo and AOL emails also don't seem to work well these days, so I'd suggest a different free option than those ones.

Now to continue about subscriptions. You can subscribe in 3 different ways, depending on what notifications you want to receive.

1. Subscribe to a fic. Go to the fic and hit the subscribe button at the top of the page. You will now receive an email each time a new chapter is posted.

2. Subscribe to a series. Go to the series page by clicking on the name of the series at the top of the fic (it's a link, just like the fic title is). At the top of the series page, hit the button to subscribe. This will notify you by email any time a new work is added to a series. You will also get emails about new chapters to any stories in that series.

3. Subscribe to an author. Click on the author's name to go to their profile page and click the subscribe button at the top. Now you will receive an email notification every time that author posts a new work or adds a chapter to an existing work.

These emails will all contain links to take you directly to the story/chapter.