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SOMEBODYY TOOO LOOOOOOVEEEEEE

obv a direct reference to THAT @motswolo chapter I will NEVER shut up about it … 😪🤙🏼 legit think she s a witch

Aw this is so cute.

I tell this story to everyone because it’s just so cinematic in my brain but when I was first writing Cadence I put all of my plot points on sticky notes and hung them up in my closet so they could easily be rearranged. Every time I wrote a part that was on a sticky note I got to take the note down like some pseudo-Christmas calendar.

Anyway so fast forward several months, we’re still in the throes of post-COVID, and I’ve been locked up in my room since lock-down — I was in university then and had recently moved back in with my parents — writing all the time — yes, my parents were concerned. They know about the fic now and my dad even found it online recently. It was mortifying. Thanks Goodreads — and my dad comes in while I’m writing on my bed. I’ve got the biggest closet in the house and he says he’s got to put something on the top shelf. I’m a moody gal in my early twenties with a record player and a crippling yaoi addiction so I ignore him in favour of writing whatever love confession Remus is giving Sirius in his inner monologue before I remember.

The sticky notes.

It’s crazy. I have written things like “insert funny one liner about dead mothers” and “look up how many miles from ? To ??” The bloody boner chapter is in there. My handwriting’s terrible because I wrote them in a hurry thanks to the divine inspiration that was bestowed upon me by whatever righteous force handles The Gays.

It was too late. My dad opened the closet doors and whoosh the little scraps of paper came fluttering down like feathers during duck season. (I like this line. I may use it in something in the future.)

For those who are wondering, yes I’m sure I handled it well. Like any good writer I leapt out of bed and scooped my magnum opus up off the floor along with a handful of cat hair. There may have been some hissing involved — not from the cat — but that was really the least of my father’s worries.

𓇼 ⋆.˚ 𓆉 𓆝 𓆡⋆.˚ 𓇼

"'Cause it's gonna be mine."

I’ve wanted to paint something with Marauders for ages, and I FINALLY did it! And not just any illustration, but one inspired by my absolute favourite fic, the one I reread every single year. It’s was pretty challenging ’cause there are so many interesting scenes! But in the end, how could I say no to rock ‘n’ roll?

The Cadence of Part-Time Poets by @motswolo

Have been working on this 10 volume set for the past few months now, and they are finally complete. My Magnum Opus. I have peaked and probably depleted all of my brain power.

Thank you to @motswolo for writing such a beautiful story. My brain chemistry has been favourably altered. Will forever flinch when I hear Queen, The Beatles or Bob Dylan. Love to you from western Canada (west coast best coast lets gooooo).

I also posted a TikTok Reel of these since posts here are limited and I love the insides as much as the covers, so if you wanna see between the pages, here’s that.

Also thank you @avisbindery for letting me scream and cry in your DMs while I read the fic. May you get some uninterrupted sleep now LOLLL.

Going to write a whole essay below about the ideas and details because uhhh I wanna yap bit!

So for starters, I wanted to make these binds look like magazines because of the epilogue where (spoiler) Tonya sees Remus in a copy of New Musical Express. But of course this fic is long, so I was like, what if I do multiple volumes? This very quickly spiralled into me painstakingly (finding publication-accurate fonts almost sent me to an early grave) recreating 10 different music-focused magazines from the 70s and 80s from scratch (thank you to Photoshop, Affinity, Procreate and Canva). Each volume features a unique cover, along with stylized typesets to match that display the songs for each chapter but in different designs. And then I went a little crazy and made a 45 sleeve and a cassette too, to really set the scene when I took the photos lol

While the covers display the dates pertaining to the contents of that particular volume (Sept 1975 for volume one, for example) I was thinking about what the magazines would say if they were really published when Marauders are traipsing about being spectacular and famous in the future. I sprinkled in details from the fic itself and fanon-ed it a bit, but that was the general inspiration :-) Tried to keep the photos used either faceless/obscured, or to use the fancasts on Mots’ Cadence master post. I also tried to use period-accurate photos but didn’t always succeed, so settled for photos of 4 member bands where I had to :”) But the general intent with the facelessness was that they could be implied to be Marauders. If you squint? lol. Just pretend. Pls.

Volume One: Based upon The Record Song Book. This magazine went on to inspire the typesets, since it publishes lyrics and such. The cover images are of Spacey Jane and David Thewlis.

Volume Two: Based on ZigZag, specifically the issue from July 1978 featuring Siouxie and the Banshees just because I thought it looked sick as fuck. I re-drew the abstract shapes and such in procreate. The cover images are The Clash and a young Gary Oldman. Lord he was foiiine.

Volume Three: Based on Trouser Press, November 1980. The cover images are a young Metallica, and my personal fav fan cast for James, Reiky De Valk. The film negatives are from a Bruce Springsteen tour, 1976.

Volume Four: Based on Gay Times (November 1984), a queer magazine from the UK because this volume contains Wolfstars first kiss hehe. Also hence Somebody To Love plastered all over the covers. The Front cover is Inhaler. The “4A” on this one is of course the boys’ dorm number, but I made the A the lambda symbol as this was a pride symbol in the 70s after Stonewall.

Volume Five: Based on Melody Maker. Front image is Alex Turner. All of the text on this one is pulled directly from the fic. The scene where they all drop acid and James jumps off the roof Almost Famous style had me hootin’ and hollerin’… until Tomny showed up hahaha :”)

Volume Six: Based on IT (International Times, Aug 1971). Front image for this one is Joy Division, and the back features Jane Asher for Lily

Volume Seven: Based on Record Mirror, June 1976. Front image is John Taylor of Duran Duran. Yum.

Volume Eight: Based on Rolling Stone. More vibes than anything for this one, but the quote still makes me laugh.  Front image is of Matt Hitt. Can you tell I photoshopped a cell phone out of this one? IDK. This photo just screamed ‘Remus’ to me so I had to use it. The back image is an old cigarette ad, but the photo is taken in Shepherd’s Bush.

Volume Nine: Based on Fusion magazine. Front image for this one is once again Inhaler. Oops. Back cover is our gals. Images are Jodie Foster as Cherry, Brenda Sykes as Mary, and Goldie Hawn as Lottie.

Volume Ten: Based on New Musical Express. You know why :”) These are all victims of fanon, but this one especially. I wanted it to be NME instead of the re-invented logos I’d been doing for all the rest, as I wanted it to look like the magazine the Sister gives to Tonya. I referred to an issue of NME from October 1979 for this and layered in fic references where it made sense to. The cover image for this one is (I think) Cigarettes After Sex. This issue also contains all of the B-Side chapters, and the Marauders song lyrics too just for fun :)

Slasher Chick: This is just my take on what Sybill’s zine could’ve looked like. Prob way off but I just wanted to have fun with this one since I had no cover to reference lol. The zine contains her little write-up and the interview, lifted straight from the fic :")