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The Debt of Time Audiobooks have made the move to ao3! Thank you for your support and patience as we go through this!

Love, Trish

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Prompt claiming now open!! 

I love how peoples brains work, I’m brain rotting already  lol

Wizarding World Kinktober Fest 2023

presented by

Wizarding World WIPs & Mab’s Server

Join the Wizarding World Kinktoberfest to share some terrifying tantalizing tales! These spooky salacious stories will be shared anonymously until the authors on unmasked on Halloween Wizarding World WIPs (find us here) and Mab's Server (and here) are collaborating for a Kinktoberfest, open to all ships/pairings! The only real requirement is spice (of course). Fic and art submissions will be posted once a day in October anonymously, culminating in an October 31 (Halloween) reveal. The fest is open to anyone (please note that that we will give priority in prompt claiming to our servers’ hosted authors if there is a conflict!).

RULES & GUIDELINES

Important Dates

Prompting opens August 21 at 9am EST – link for prompting here

Prompts revealed & claiming begins August 28 at 9am EST – links to prompt list and for claiming to be provided UPDATED: link for prompts here and link for claiming form here

Deadline for 1st group of submissions – September 17

Deadline for 2nd group of submissions – September 24

Posting begins – October 1

Author/artist reveals – October 31

What to Know

Wizarding World WIPs and Mab's Server are collaborating for a Kinktoberfest, open to all ships/pairings! Fic and art submissions will be posted once a day in October anonymously, culminating in an October 31 (Halloween) reveal. The fest is open to anyone (though we will give priority in prompt claiming to our servers’ hosted authors if there is a conflict!).

Anyone can submit a prompt! Please specify a particular kink you would like to see featured, as well as any other detail you care to provide (as well as triggers/squicks you'd prefer be avoided). Please note the author/artist are not obligated to follow but will be encouraged. Authors/artists may also choose to gift their creation to the person who submitted the prompt – prompters can provide usernames/info for AO3 and other socials when submitting a prompt if comfortable with that!

We will ask claimants to specify whether they can meet a September 17 or September 24 submission deadline so the mods can get everything ready for posting.

Contact the mods at wizworldwips@gmail.com with any questions!

Additional Rules

Participants must be 18+

Submissions may not feature incest, SA or underage relationships

Please include any and all trigger warnings (happy to help if you need it)

All fic submissions must be read by a beta in advance (if you need assistance finding a beta, please contact the mods!)

Fic submissions must be minimum 1000 words but all lengths above that accepted!

Prompts may be claimed by one author and one artist only

Any fic gifted to a prompter must comply with requests to avoid certain triggers/squicks

You may only claim one prompt at a time. However, if we do not receive 30 claims by September 3, we will allow second prompts to be claimed by anyone who submits their first submission no later than September 15

Fics should be complete when submitted (i.e., one shots or with all chapters posted for multi-chapters) but of course we would love to read any sequels, etc. later!

Claiming

Please provide up to 3 choices for prompts you would like to claim and indicate whether you would like to submit a fic or art. (We will do our best to connect you with anyone who has claimed the same prompt for art/fic respectively if you are interested!).

We will respond within 48 hours with your assigned prompt. We ask that you respond within 72 hours to confirm your participation in the fest and acceptance of your assigned prompt.

Submitting/Posting

We encourage early submissions! We will update this space with a link to an AO3 collection and instructions for posting ASAP.

Please email us at wizworldwips@gmail.com with the following information when you are ready to submit:

Title:

Author/Artist:

Rating:

Word count (if applicable):

Art medium (if applicable):

Warnings:

Additional Tags

Summary

Your tumblr/twitter/AO3/etc. if you would like us to tag you

Link to your work: - we will provide a collection link so we can control posting

Extensions

If you feel like you will not be able to meet your specified deadline, please let us know ASAP. We have a tight timeline so extensions may not be possible, but if you contact us at least 3 days before your deadline we will do our best to accommodate you within the planned posting schedule – please let us know.

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loved this SO SO SO much!!

Come Together

Prompt: “I want you” made me think perhaps H is a Beatles girlie cause her parents, and I’ve never seen Sirius as a Beatles Guy in fic before

Thank you to Beatificbean for this prompt, I really enjoyed piecing this together

“I want you.”

She shrieks, heart in her throat, not just because she’d been sure she was home alone, but because he’s uttering the words that haunt her nightly.

Hermione turns to the doorway and sees Sirius leaning oh-so-casually against the wooden frame, arms crossed as he looks at her. She’s in an ACDC t-shirt of his that she’d stolen from the washing basket and a pair of red jersey shorts. Perfectly acceptable loungewear for baking in the kitchen.

“That’s the song, you’re humming, right? I Want You, by The Beatles? Merlin, Hermione, you’re practically the perfect woman, knowing music like that.”

He laughs and she tries to copy him, but it’s hollow.

Of course he didn’t mean it.

She was more than 20 years his junior. She was the final stray haunting his home; Harry and Ron having moved out and moved on two years earlier. She rattled around the house like a ghost, hardly straying from her bedroom, the kitchen, or the small office they’d transformed into a potions lab for her to mess around in while she figured out what she did next with her life.

Funny how ambition quickly dries up when it’s a reality instead of a child’s dream to survive long enough to live.

“I didn’t know you knew The Beatles,” he continues on, unaware of her internal monologue, stepping towards the oven where she’s finished pouring batter into a loaf tin.

“Don’t you dare stick a finger in there, there’s raw egg! And yes, of course I know The Beatles. My father worshipped them,” she informs him with a wry smile. “Makes me think of home, of learning to bake breads and pastries on Sunday afternoons with him. Mum was useless at the sweet stuff, but Dad was a whizz at baking, you know. Ironic, given his professional quest to save every tooth he met. He’d stick a cassette in and-”

The tears overwhelm her and he pulls her in for a hug. It doesn’t soothe her like he intends, just twists the knife of loneliness harder, but she swallows it all down, pushes and pushes until she doesn’t feel it anymore.

“I have the vinyl in my room, if you want to listen over banana loaf and chai?” he offers.

The only way he knows how to offer comfort is through company and hot drinks. It’s kind of adorable, though she’d never tell him as much.

Forty minutes later, she’s at his bedroom door with chai and a plate with sliced banana loaf, hovering, knows crossing this threshold changes nothing - it’s Sirius, the man who sees her as his ward - but nonetheless the trepidation tangles in her tummy.

The door opens and he’s lounging on his bed, vinyl cover in hand, patting the mattress beside him.

The opening chords of Come Together fill the room. She perches on the edge, pushes a plate in his direction, and busies her hands with her own.

“Did you add cinnamon?”

She nods, not meeting his gaze.

He hums.

“My favourite.”

She knows.

They listen to the entire album in silence, only moving to turn the disk over in its player. She lets the songs surround her in a nostalgic blanket, wistful for the easy, breezy carelessness of childhood.

“Oh darling,” Sirius breaks the silence when the final song ends and the record player clicks off.

She peers up at him, questioning.

“My favourite song on the album is probably Oh! Darling.”

She smiles, it’s weak and thin but that’s as sincere as she can muster. Wishes those words meant something more.

“Because is mine. You know it’s inspired by Moonlight Sonata? The complexity of the harmonies is unbelievable, it’s so layered. And yet, the sound is almost deceptively simple. A real conundrum of a track.”

His mouth twists, not a smile or a grimace, but something pained nonetheless.

“I was sure you’d say Here Comes the Sun,” he murmurs. When she quirks a sardonic brow he grins fully. “Y’know, because you’re so hopeful and full of light. Always looking for the silver lining.”

She’s not sure she is, but she takes the mischaracterisation as a compliment with a snicker.

“Sure, Sirius, whatever you say.”

A beat.

“I best go clear up my mess,” she says, moving to stand.

“I Want You.”

“What about it?” she asks, stacking empty plates and mugs.

“I’m serious.”

She blinks, confused and feeling as though he’s making fun of her. The vulnerability rolls her shoulders in anticipatory defense.

“Hermione. I want you. It would be a literal crime to let you walk out of this room now I finally have you in it. Wearing my fucking clothes, no less.”

She must surely have entered an alternate dimension. Or she’s having a stroke. Because there’s no way in hell this is actually happening.

His tattooed hand shoots out to grab her wrist, pulls on it, forcing her to look him in the eye.

What she sees knocks the wind out of her.

His expression is open, vulnerable, eyes gleaming. Hermione is baffled, completely unprepared.

“Unless, of course, you’re not interested. And- well, why would you be. Ignore me darli- Hermione. Just, forget it. Call it a senior moment, let me get the door for you.”

He leaps from the bed, jostling her as he passes, opens the door, head bowed.

“You- you want me? Seriously?”

“I’m always Sirius.”

“I will smack you, Sirius Black.”

He chuckles but it quickly morphs into a weary sigh.

“You don’t understand how incredible you look when you’re lost in the music, Hermione. Transcendental. You’re a vision. I mean, you always are. But you’re sitting there in my fucking t-shirt, listening to my favourite album, and you have this dreamy little grin. You’re hardly in the room, but it doesn’t matter. You’re comfortable enough to let yourself fully feel the music around me. And that’s no small thing. I know it isn’t. So, yes, I’m struck by an epiphany listening to my favourite band with my favourite witch who’s added my favourite spice to my favourite fruit loaf. Is it really so surprising?”

She laughs and it’s melodic. She’s euphoric.

“Yes, you dolt. It’s utterly baffling. Completely bewildering. Now kiss me.”

And he does.

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I’m new to discover your amazing work, so apologies if this is well established and I just haven’t figured it out yet. I see your one shot Google Form for shorts, do you take requests for longer fics? If so, is there any other qualities that it needs to meet to be considered (besides no WIPs)? Thanks so much!

Hello! We like one-shots for their ease!

Longer multi-chap stories take dozens of hours to record, edit, quality control, and then upload.

The team typically decides together, and our narrators read what they like. So there's no harm in adding the multi-chap to the request form, but it's not likely it will be done.

Most of our narrators prefer shorter stories as it's easier and less overwhelming. @beatificbean specifically does not want to record anything over 100K anymore.

We hope you understand!

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Hello hello!

I’ve been mulling over this for a while and have created a three tiered patreon where I’ll be sharing public domain work, guided mediations, asmr recordings, and anything else we decide (except fanfic, never fanfic).

The first tier, Baby Beans, gets twice a month content updates and access to an exclusive discord server.

Baby Demons get more frequent updates, potentially daily, and the discord server.

The Queen Beans get all of that plus, a recording of their choosing each month, and a personalized letter

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The three broomsticks scene in poa is so iconic just for the fact that mcgonagall, rosmerta, flitwick and Hagrid praise Sirius for being super smart and also James potters most trusted friend, and how they can't believe that peter was the one to hunt him down after the fact, and the entire time lupin is chilling in the castle and none of them even remember that he was part of the group too

Minerva is really sitting there like: James and Sirius, never saw one without the other, and then there was Peter who looked up to them and... Also the rest of their little group I guess, was there another one???

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I hope y'all like this as much as I love taking them. ❤️

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bro doesn’t even have a certain je ne sais quoi

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i think deciding to love someone continually is like reading the same book again, but each time finding a different line that hits deep and makes you think about something you didn't realize before. and you decide to read it again and again, knowing you'll never get enough of it, knowing you'll always find something new about them to love.

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Day 79

A quick sketch that inspired the sweetest twitter drabble from the talented @caitybellfics. Highly recommend giving it a read.

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A self-indulgent birthday contest *shrugs* 

Rules and information- 

 Never use our audio for profit. 

 Multiple entries allowed. 

 Winner will request preference of 3 narrators, will do our best to meet that. 

 We reserve the right to decline any fic and request the winner pick another at our discretion.

All audio available on AO3

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whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same (insult)

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Professor R. J. Lupin

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im not built for this 9-5 life, im built for living in a gothic castle as a vampire

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First of all much love, been sucked into listening to the podcast all week long.

Second, who narrates “All the Wrong Things”? I swear I’ve heard them in other audiobooks! Their reading is *chef’s kiss.* ugh, I wish I could just sit and listen all day!

The ATWT narrator is @beatificbean! But she doesn't do trad pubed work yet!

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