#wolfstarnetwork

At this point this fanfic has more words (though not more pages - there were a lot of data tables) than my completed PhD thesis. I'm not sure what that says about me.

“These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one” ― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

Guys, @letspadfootmoony translated one of my fics into Chinese and I'm just blown away. 

I finally finished the next chapter of my Sirius Lives Fic. Please do enjoy and as always thanks for reading.

The next chapter of Remain in Light is coming along nicely now :)

I'm finally free of onerous, non-fandom related tasks and have been looking forward to writing something fun for ages. Unfortunately I'm now on the Regulus chapter of Remain in Light, my huge SiriusLives! fic. And with current events going on right now it is a SLOG. I have always wanted to write this chapter because I find his story in canon to be barely sketched out, and I thrive on filling in the gaps in canon. I recently re-read everything in OotP, HBP, and DH relating to him and there is a fascinating story lurking underneath there that intellectually I can't wait to start writing. Unfortunately the actual writing is requiring me to grapple with Death Eater ideology, which is Pureblood supremacy, which is, I'll be honest, really fucking hard to talk about in any meaningful way right now. It is clearly intended by JKR to symbolize white supremacy, and so trying to portray Regulus as at all a sympathetic character when I have to write about him being active in a supremacist movement is a real struggle in light of the events (and leadership) in the USA. Yes, I know that he eventually turns against it, but that’s not all of the story...  And in addition to the whole Pureblood vs Muggleborn thing, there's house elf slavery and would-be fascist governments. There's genuinely very dark stuff in these books.  I feel like fandom, at least the part I interact with, hasn't really addressed Death Eater ideology. In HP fandom and other places, characters who are explicitly positioned as having a supremacist ideology in canon are often romanticised (Snape and Draco are fairly complex examples, but for example there's the huge love going on right now for Kylo Ren and General Hux in the Star Wars fandom). Is this wrong? Should fandom feel compelled to explore why some sections are attracted to dark characters? Should fandom whitewash dark characters (ie, depicting Kylo Ren and Hux in a cute relationship with no reference to their 'work')? Or is there some responsibility to acknowledge that these are people making evil choices? I've talked before, here and with others, about how many people, including myself, use fandom to wrestle with issues of sexuality. That's a real, and really serious, thing. So what about grappling with the very real issue of supremacist movements, or fascism?

I added a new chapter to my huge SiriusLives!fic, which has probably four more chapters to go after this one. At which point it will be roughly 150,000 words. That is a lot of words. The story is Remain in Light and the chapter is here. 

This chapter is about Peter. I really enjoyed writing from his point of view and it’s a long one.