Leisha

This is a very cool suggestion! However...

I come from the generation of fic writers that is firmly in the camp of "NO MONEY FOR FANFIC EVER." I am old enough to remember fic authors getting cease and desist letters. It was and at times still is scary.

Basically, fanworks are still in a grey area, despite decades of fighting for them to be considered fair use. (This is why I support Ao3 wholeheartedly and why I am firmly against FFnet and Wattpad. They're making money off of it, which is a big no-no.)

Even though I wouldn't be personally benefitting from having a charity/non-profit-based paywall, I'm still apprehensive about someone needing to spend money to get to that fanwork content.

However, I'm not against heavily encouraging everyone who WANTS to pay or WANTS to send money to me to redirect to these organizations. It would be awesome if you could, because it's organizations like these that are trying to make life better for LGBTQ (especially the T), as well as trying to UNDO the damage people like JKR have done.

For your convenience, here are the donation pages:

Donate to The Trevor Project

Honestly, I know that I should have made this post months ago… but I wanted to make a decision first. Then I realized that making a decision was insanely difficult, and I also realized that I actually wasn’t making this post because I didn’t know how to word it.

I haven’t made a decision yet and I still don’t know how to word it, but I’ll try to find some words regardless.

There are a lot of people wondering what’s been going with Mutatum/Redivider.

What’s been going on boils down to my feelings about JKR. Even though I’m mostly happy with what I’ve done and I am excited about the story I wanted to tell, I am having a hard time wanting to continue this story because of JKR.

JKR is foul. I’d known she was for a while, but I think I hit a breaking point with her. In the past year, I’ve taken down some certain magnets at work and peeled the deathly hallows symbol off my car. She’s gross, she’s detrimental to society, and… fuck her. I’m not going to get into all the reasons why because many of you already know. If you don’t already know why - google it.

I am cis, but still in the LGBT community. I am bisexual. I have no gender dysphoria but I am also completely apathetic about my own gender identity. I was assigned female at birth, have been called a dude online and offline multiple times throughout my life, and I just don’t… care. I identify as she/they because it’s the easiest way to explain my pseudo-apathy about it.

However, I’m also very cognizant of this not being the case for everyone. Even though I don’t care, I realize that it’s insanely important to many people to be identified correctly. Some of my favorite people in entirely different circles of mine (online and off) are trans.

And I have been hearing cries from so many people I love that even mentioning your Hogwarts house is painful because of what JKR, and therefore Harry Potter, has come to represent to trans people.

So… the thought of writing this massive story that could just be a stab in the heart of people I care for has been really troubling.

As of right now, I still don’t know what to do.

I’ve tossed around ideas of using the fic to promote organizations such as Trevor Project or Trans Lifeline, but as 95% of people scroll past the author’s notes that doesn’t even remotely feel like it makes up for what JKR has done. I’ve thought about having a trans character as an extra ‘fuck you’ to JKR, but (a) I’m not trans and I tend to do my best writing while drawing from my own experiences, (b) it wasn’t in the original plans of the story, and it would feel tacked on. The easiest idea is to just put the fic to bed, but that also isn’t sitting right with me because so many LGBT people have said they really like the allegory that’s built into it.

So. Yeah. That’s where I’m at.

I did promise myself I would be transparent with readers and that if I ever decided to give up on this story I would let you all know. Since it’s been so long I at least wanted to let you all know that I haven’t made a decision, but the story not getting finished is a real possibility.

well, the thing about large predators is that they leave an impact on an ecosystem big enough that you can tell they’re there, even if you never observe one directly. in this case, we know they’re definitely extinct because of the behavior of whales! whales used to max out at about 50 ft long and were fast and agile, entirely because of predation by megalodon!

but about 2 million years ago, our whales began to rapidly increase in size until we ended up with real monsters like the blue whale. this pretty directly lines up with the extinction of megalodon, and the removal of the pressure they were putting on large whale populations.

basically, large whales can get away with being gigantic, slow tanks in the oceans today because there simply isn’t a predator big enough to take them on anymore. if megalodon still existed, we would be seeing its impact on whale populations! whales would be smaller, and a hell of a lot more skittish than they are.

We begin to find giant shark teeth washing up on shore. People freak out. “Scientists find evidence megalodons never went extinct!”

Then the lead scientist calms everyone down so they can explain. “No. It’s worse than that. If they never went extinct, we would’ve found evidence like this before now. This means… ” Dramatically takes off glasses. 

People keep saying this and it’s just plain false. Although FFNet is trash, that doesn’t mean it’s dead. It is still being widely used. I don’t use it and you might not use it, but it still gets a fuckton of traffic. 

And while I’m here, Wattpad is even trashier and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if some lawyers hit them at some point in the future because they completely piss all over the legal grey line that is fanfiction by making money off of it. 

i was just sketching harry and then starting thinking of evitative and turned up with this whole sketch!!

i absolutely adore your fic and have been meaning to make fanart of it for a while! hope you like it :D

Hello! No worries on your English. :) I think the word you’re looking for is ‘half-blood,’ based off of who you’re asking about. 

It's set in Hogwarts 5th year. Harry was accidentally expelled after the dementor attack and he had to be resorted. But this time, the hat put him in Slytherin. Everything changes in his life- losing old friends and gaining new ones, his Slytherin traits showing even more than before, but most importantly, he started dabbling in the Dark Arts.

And in this fic, Dark magic is stunning. It's absolutely beautiful. Any time any dark ritual is performed, I can't help but smile. The author also makes is abundantly clear that dark does not equal evil. It's a main theme. Dark. Is. Not. Evil.

I just started re-reading it purely for the ritual scenes. I cannot express just how incredible they are. It's a lot of purple, it's a lot of glow, and it's absolutely gorgeous.

It's listed as a harry/draco slowburn, but i'll be honest the plot of the story is so good that you don't even need the pairing. And besides, that doesn't even really come into play until the end. (It is a slow burn after all.)