#ink-splotch

BUT because most of my many rereads of this series have been me reading aloud to people I love and because I would have made this for those people to have forever anyway, I figured I'd share it with the community at large:

(a very unofficial) beanstalk audiobook!

[ID: A digital drawing in color of Tam from More a Haunting than a History by E. Jade Lomax. They are tall and thin with dark skin and buzzed hair and wear a long blue coat, orange flannel shirt, off-white slacks, and brown dress shoes. They are looking backwards and reaching back with one hand while the other holds onto their messenger bag.]

i actually really like @ink-splotch‘s interpretation, where she just keeps using the same name because it helps her feel closer to her parents --

Harry had thought about changing her name-- to Lily, maybe. But she liked the way Harry sounded-- shouted across Quidditch pitches; hissed by Ron outside her barred window in a flying car, freckled and grinning-wide; the name her parents had given her. It was hers. Very little was hers-- Hedwig, a locked bank vault she'd happily trade for two living parents-- but this was.

especially because “Harry” is a fitting name for a ratty little jock with messy hair and the sharpest quidditch moves you’ve ever seen, regardless of gender. it’s also obviously got the benefit of being pretty gender neutral (people may consider Harry to be a boy’s name, but nobody bats an eye when a woman introduces herself as Harry)

i do quite like “Lily” for her middle name, because i think it’s one that she’d choose herself, which is the point important part. most people, when trying to come up with a name for transfem!Harry, will try and find a name that sounds similar (like Harriet, or Hannah), or one that means the same thing, but honestly i’d focus more on what you think she’d name herself, because that’s what a lot of cis authors lose from understanding trans characters; when you’re trans, a name is a Choice (even if that choice is to not change your name) not just a limited reimagining of oneself

i personally really genuinely believe that were Harry a trans girl, she would probably think for a long time over what to change her name to, and eventually decide that she actually liked it better the way it was.

the girl who lived (again) by dirgewithoutmusic / ink-splotch

summary:

Molly tried her best. When Harry had told them, Arthur had asked excitedly, "is this a Muggle thing?" Hermione had hurried out a "no!" and a frantic history of gender diversity in the wizarding world.  

"It's just that I'm a girl," Harry had said, and Arthur had nodded and asked her about how telephone booths worked. He would call her by the right pronouns until the day he died at the respectable old age of one hundred and thirty three, and he would make it seem easy.

But Molly had to try. Hermione explained things faster and higher-pitched every time Molly messed up a pronoun. Molly frowned and muttered and put extra potatoes on Harry's plate at breakfast. Harry slept in Ron's room, which didn't bother either of them but which made Hermione scowl.

Harry got boxes of sweets and warm hugs, as Molly chewed things over. For her fifteenth Christmas, the Weasley sweater she would receive would be a bright, friendly, terrible pink.

The next time Harry visited, Molly put her on Ginny's floor to sleep-- for some definition of sleep that involved Hermione hissing threats at three in the morning if Harry and Ginny didn't "shut up about Wronski feints, do you know what time it is."

“Comes the Dawn” / Veronica Shoffstall

“Hearts Like Wildflowers” / Nikita Gill

“you are not fragile, still handle with care” / @lostcap

“Bouquets” / Ethan Jewell  

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Fleur Delacour/Bill Weasley Characters: Ron Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley, The Weasleys, Lily Evans Potter Additional Tags: Chosen One Ron Weasley, Seven little Weasley orphans, Lily Lives, Sirius and Remus live, James doesn't, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Series: Part 9 of boy with a scar Summary:

On the train platform, Harry suffered a hug from Remus, a hair ruffle from Sirius, and a "don't do anything I wouldn't do" from his mother, and then he ran for the brick wall, cart rattling before him. The snowy owl they'd gotten him hooted softly in protest. Harry had named her Ororo after the Muggle comic books his mother had introduced him to. Lily took Harry to the comic store every time he sat through a whole visit with his aunt, uncle, and cousin and didn't kick anybody unless they kicked him first.

Bill tried to wipe some dirt off a dodging Ron's nose. Ginny complained loudly about being left behind. Fred and George ran off to see Lee Jordan's spider. People watched the Weasleys from all directions--they were hard to miss--and Ron's shoulders slowly rose up and up to his reddening ears. He missed the big empty orchards behind the Burrow already.

Ron was one of the last people on the train. He slid past staring eyes and finally stepped himself into an almost unoccupied compartment-- there was just one small boy tucked in there. He had messy dark hair, slightly askew round glasses, and a comic book held up in front of his nose.

The whole series was free on Tor this week

yeah, i grabbed the downloads! but i tend to be easily distracted when i don’t have a deadline keeping me on track, so i’m at least going to read the first one through the library - once i’m invested in the series, i’m more likely to actually finish the next few instead of getting distracted by a new shiny thing halfway through :D

@ink-splotch replied to your post “Have you ever read All Systems Red? I just started the Murderbot...”

Murderbot is so good!!!!