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✨ Opening Line Tag Game ✨

Thank you for the tag @magicbeings !

I'm also working on a Christmas fic this time around. Who could have guessed? But here is the opening to mine:

The cottage is a structure of ochre-coloured brick, overgrown ivy and a slate roof marked by weather and age. A thin blanket of snow, glittering in the midday sun, stretches over the scenery, covering the unkempt front garden, the gravel path leading up to the front door, and – of course – the building itself. It’s a gentle picture; the perfect place to spend Christmas Eve far away from the busy buzz of London, the loud chatter of tourist groups stopping to admire the golden lights decorating England’s capital this time of year, and the stuffy air of the traffic-jammed streets. It’s the perfect place to be alone, the perfect place to think, and the perfect place to… grieve. Well, that would be the case if Andromeda hadn’t explicitly told them to make this trip to – oh, how did she put it? – heal. It’s the dumbest fucking thing Sirius has ever heard.

Oh, who only will drag Sirius out of his sullen mood? Take your guesses now :D

np: @del-stars @katakosmos @godsofwoes and whoever wants to.

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God, this is made so much better by the fact they are so similiar. Yes, they hate each other's guts, but it comes from a place of envy. Sirius wishes he could be free, just like Barty, who seemingly gets to follow his violent urges and his need for self-righteousness without repercussions. Sirius does not. Meanwhile, B doesn't have the safety net Sirius built for himself. He has friends - James, especially - who would forgive all his wrongdoings whereas B always has to watch from the sidelines, alienated by his peers, who don't understand or seem to care enough to look behind his vicious facade. Both of them have something the other wants, and the short time they spend together - be it fucking, fighting, or causing harm - they get to have a taste of what they so desperately crave: freedom on one hand, and a sense of likeness on the other. It's an addiction. And the fact they can never step above this jealousy makes it incredibly hard to decipher any other feeling from this hatred. It's impossible to see for them, that they aren't so different after all.

Okay, hot take, feel free to disagree, but Girl, so confusing featuring lorde gives bitchkiller.

wait YES

but, like. after they've already started seeing each other. they're both like 'i can't tell if this guy is in love with me or hates my fucking guts???' and then they BOTH look in the mirror and realise they can't answer that question themselves either

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thinking about post-prank bitchkiller again ugh. thinking about how barty would see it before sirius does: that this is just a phase for him, something he's going through - that once sirius' friends accept him back, he isn't going to talk to barty anymore, he isn't going to want to fuck in empty classrooms where they could get caught anymore, he isn't going to want to fly drunk on his broom or experiment with potions to see how fucked up they can get anymore. sirius' increasingly violent self-destructiveness is the product of a temporary circumstance, nothing more. but this is barty's life, this is the way he's always been, and he has been tricked into thinking he found someone who understood it. that is humiliating. he can see this even when sirius can't, and so he begins to resent sirius, all while clinging more and more desperately onto him because he knows it's fleeting. it's going to end - sirius is going to go back to a more normal and much healthier version of himself, and barty is going to be stuck like this, forever. the only thing he can do is try to yank sirius so far down that he doesn't remember how to climb back up.

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when you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish. then, send this to 10 of your favourite followers <3

Hi dairekt!

It seems I get another opportunity to yap, so here we go:

To Ashes and Blood - Woodkid: Yes, I've watched Arcane. And yes, I'm just as devasted as anyone else about Arc II. This song, however? God, it fuels me with so much creative juice. I'll abuse it for my rosekiller/wolfstar fic (It's coming. I know I say this a lot and nothing happens. But I won't find the time until January.)

Remember Me - d4vd: Again, Arcane is to blame for this one. But it also reminds me of an OC that Panchashire and I have created. So, this one is double the heartbreak, actually.

LET EM PRAY - NF: For anyone, who has read Forget Me Not, that is the song I had in mind when I wrote Barty and Remus almost going for each other's throat in chapter 3. Still see it, whenever I listen to it. Especially since it fits the soldiers' bad opinion on Remus and his determination to prove them wrong, or at least right his own mistakes.

Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade: Currently working on a Christmas fic, so I've started listening to Christmas music pretty early this year. Definitely hyped for the season now.

Sisters of the Moon - Fleetwood Mac: Even though the list doesn't seem like it, I kind of reverted back to 70s/80s music. And this one? Absolutely glorious. Reminds me of Walburga Black. I can't help it. I mean, 'Intense silence as she walked into the room, her black robes trailing, Sister of the Moon' and 'a black widow spider makes more sound than she, and black moons in those eyes of her made more sense to me'? Eeerily like her.

That's it. Toast over and out.

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The Moon’s Curse

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𝕭𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕮𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍 𝕵𝖓𝖗

𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔢𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫 | ℑ'𝔩𝔩 𝔟𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 | 𝔒𝔭𝔢𝔫 𝔲𝔭 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔰𝔨𝔲𝔩𝔩 | ℑ'𝔩𝔩 𝔟𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢

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🤍 • 🕯️ • 🎞️

If music be the food of love, play on.

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Hope Doe

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Send me ✒️ and I’ll write your URL in my handwriting along with a little note about what I think of you!

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supporter of the "Remus calls Sirius 'sweetheart'" agenda

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Frankly I'm running out of words to explain and reiterate the importance of fundraising for my friend's family and his brother's family.

If you can spare anything please do not hesitate to help them. Mohammed El-Shaer has been so dear to me, I've known him and feared for his life for nearly a year now.

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rosekiller —.•

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Forget Me Not - Épilogue

Bones cannot talk, but Sirius desperately wishes they could. Just this once.

It is done. This is the end. The link to the very last chapter can be found here. I am still in denial it is done.

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VETTED CAMPAIGNS LOW ON FUNDS

all of these campaigns have been vetted by mohammed ayesh, who helps run @gaza-evacuation-funds. all of these campaigns are in dire need of our support; please consider donating to even one of them!

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Forget Me Not - Épilogue

Bones cannot talk, but Sirius desperately wishes they could. Just this once.

It is done. This is the end. The link to the very last chapter can be found here. I am still in denial it is done.