#vmow

“Regulus.” He tries. No sign of life. “Regulus,” he tries again. Desperate times call for desperate measures he supposes, so he reaches out and swipes the book right out of Regulus’ hands.

“Hey!” He tries to grab it as Evan pulls it away.

“We got our assignment one hour ago. The smell of Mcgonagalls fucking chalk hasn’t even faded yet.”

“I want to be ready.”

“And you will be,” Evan promises, setting the book down on the table in front of him—and out of reach of Regulus, who just glares at him. Evan stares back, blank faced until Regulus finally folds.

“I didn’t feel like waiting with the others,” Sirius shrugs, reaching into Remus’ bag and pulling out the pack of gum he keeps in there and popping it in his mouth—which means he’s been drinking. Sirius hates the taste of alcohol on his own breath.

“So impatient,” Remus quips. Sirius scoffs, and Remus can almost see the pout on his face.

“Distract me?” Sirius asks in a low tone. The one Remus can never say no to.

Ghosts of a Shrew 

also! the bit you were saying about like changing who you want to be the one to kill will make it so interesting for us as readers too like you get to be spontaneous but we will also be able to see how a bunch of different people could end up doing it rather than just like zeroing in on one person as the like "oh they're obviously the one who does it" and i am vibrating with excitement over this

LINDS YOURE READING VOWS MADE OF WINE??? Dude I’m so not used to people actually reading my fics one time @berrylou told me she read My Jamie and it still makes me smile when I think about it. (I do know @otrtbs is reading vmow and this makes me feel Very Special)

Also YES. My main goal with this fic is entertainment, because even Shakespeares tragedies are meant to be pure, genuine, enthusiastic entertainment. Like that’s what Shakespeare is FOR. That’s why he’s SURVIVED so long. He entertained the rich and the common!! For a short while everyone existed in this theatre together and understood something. That’s so fucking special to me!!

I think you can read it, and seeing as I only post it once a month on the 15th you have plenty of time before there will be any spoilers for the book.

I would say don’t read the ending of vows made of wine until you read If We Were Villains.

“For starters I need to get a job.”

“Didn’t you work all summer?”