#@takearisk-ao3

[brightlybound]

on a scale from 1-10 how annoying is takearisk be honest

I mean, if 1 is the lowest, probably that.

But for this ask specifically, it's a 10.

[dobnny]

everyone!

Dobnny has gotten an ask/prompt from @takearisk-ao3 👀 stay tuned!

[displayheartcode]

42 & 68 kell/lila 😘

42. big damn kiss + 68. heroic sacrifice

spoilers for threads of power!

While sailing the seas, Kell struggles to learns the new limitations to his magic. Even though Lila teaches him how to take a punch and use the short swords, a part of him can't help but reach for that wound deep inside where his magic still bleeds.

On a mission for the crown, something goes wrong. Their crew is bleeding, wounded from the marauders - a splinter of some group who believes Rhy's lack of magical talent is an omen for a dark future. Lila might be excellent in a fight, always a whirlwind of fire and blades, but Kell has the experience. He remembers what it's like to hold his brother's injured body in his arms.

Smiling grimly, he reaches over and grabs Lila's face for a brisk kiss. He apologizes before the air around him grows thick with power.

send me two prompts and a ship for a mash-up!

[kay-elle-cee]

@hprecfest Day 9: A rare pair fic

what we had become (before we ever had begun) by @takearisk-ao3

Ship: Sirius/James/Lily Rating: Explicit Relevant Tags: First Wizarding War, Polyamory, Order!Jilypad, Angst, PWP, Lots of Feelings Warnings: N/A Word Count: 2,966

It didn’t happen all at once. That would be insane.  Though, Lily supposes, it did start to happen long before her. It all started with them, really. Sirius and James. James and Sirius. So much so that by the time James became James and Lily, Sirius was so much of a constant that more often than not they were Sirius, James, and Lily.  But that’s beside the point. 

[ginnyw-potter-archive]

i just realized love, i like a challenge abbreviates to LILAC and i think that’s cute

😁😁

I specifically renamed it for that! I already had ILAC as abbreviation so I knew I just add an L in front so it could spell Lilac because that's more fun. I even changed the line in the fic so it really matched

[ginwhisky]

already gone ~ a playlist inspired by @takearisk-ao3′s fic by the same name

because hannah gifted us with an extra surprise chapter this week, here’s a little gift back to her ♥

[thenicestthingiveseen]

for the ask game 3, 6, & 22!

3. What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

probably almost doesn’t count (I am always down for a 5+1 prompt) also check out this sick moodboard @displayheartcode made for it

6. Are there any fics from others you reread all the time?

confessions should be better planned

technicolour beat series

kindle series

and most recently, the baseball boyfriends series (more baseball fics please in any fandom please)

22. Do you know how your fic will end before you start writing?

Yes and no. For example, I have bits written for the end of chaos but it’s so open ended right now. I know big things (sort of) concerning Hallie and Gideon and little things about them too, but world building wise I need to make some decisions because I think I’m at the point where it’s going to start to matter and things to need to connect long term. I actually think that’s contributing to my writing/creativity paralysis for that AU.

I’m Bored and Anxious So I Slapped Together a List of Fan Fic Writer Asks

[clare-with-no-i]

i don’t care how effed the foreigners god law procedure and terminology is. you can pry it from my cold dead fingers (my bookmarks)

your words are a great comfort to me 😭 thank you friend 🫶

[dobnny]

Dobby remembers when Miss. Ginerva first hexed him

Nice story!

written for the @ladiesofhpfest Ginny Weasley Monthly Mini

Hexes took conviction. 

That wasn’t something taught in school. Flitwick hardly had a lecture series on how to bully classmates. No, this was something Ginny had to learn all on her own. It wasn’t like dark magic. She didn’t have to give a part of herself over to make it effective, but she definitely had to put belief behind it. That, she found, was when a hex turned from annoying to debilitating. When a mere nuisance could become a calamity. Putting every feeling of irritation, aversion, dislike, contempt, hatred, into the spell could---and would---manifest in her target ten-fold.

And Ginny didn’t have use for things that were only a minor inconvenience. She had no desire to throw hexes around without a purpose. If she was going to hex someone, they were going to deserve it. She wanted them running in the opposite direction. She wanted it to leave a mark. 

Only not enough of a mark to be sent to the infirmary. She had no desire to be in detention every other day. She wasn’t the twins. 

After a few trials and test runs, the Bat Bogey Hex became her retribution of choice. And soon, Ginny’s convictions went from calamitous to infamous. So much so, that she only had to glare at someone the exact right way before they backed down. 

It was a bit intoxicating, to be honest. To wield such a reputation. And Ginny liked to think she didn’t bestow her signature punishment on anyone who didn’t have it coming. 

(Like Zacharias Smith. The git.)

Which was why Ginny, in all her renown, felt completely equipped to stand in her Defense Against the Dark Arts class, look at her new professor---a Death Eater that had turned a school hallway into a battleground less than three months prior---and say “No. I won’t.”

Because a Bat Bogey Hex wasn’t just a Bat Bogey Hex, was it?

It was conviction.

[thegirlwhowrites642]

Could you recommend us some of your favorite hinny fics? Love your work btw!

Thank you <3

I would tell you to look at my bookmarks on Ao3 but I'll give you some highlights (I'll keep wips out of this because I never know how to feel about recommending unfinished work):

Gone was any trace of you -- I'm pretty sure I've read this something like a billion times, I can quote it word by word

Come stay for the summer -- this is always such a light fun work to re-read, I'm a big fan of muggle hinny, I really have a soft spot for it

Altered -- the obsession I have for this one-shot, this to me is hinny in its purest form

A Weasley reunion -- some hardcore pining from Harry, and fake dating, what do you want more from life?

Time -- Harry realising he wants children, with Ginny. The specific way in which the realisation is written is something I adore

Summer rain -- this is great, what else there is to say really, it's just great

Sacred new beginnings -- I love how this somehow manages to be a retelling of sixth year despite being a muggle AU with young adults hinny

Orchards -- the author definitely has a higher opinion of the "golden trio" than I have but the way she writes dialogues between Harry and Ginny is perfect, she also does a thing I love which is to make Ginny actually funny. It's one of her main personality traits and yet it's forgotten so often, I think it happens due to some sort of unconscious bias about women not being funny (not native English speakers writers are forgiven though because being funny in a foreign language can be quite hard)

After the leaves have fallen -- this talks about what I call Harry and Ginny's never-ending argument and it's written so beautifully

Everything I am is yours -- I just noticed that on ao3 it's signed as the first chapter of two but it definitely can stand on its own and is a very well done muggle retelling of Harry and Ginny's story

take what I took and give it back to you -- a beautifully written soulmates marks au that doesn't really change Harry and Ginny's story but, as one of the comments says, seems to bring up an existing implied element of the canon one

Already here -- because Hannah's stories that I love the most (they are all great though) are wips, I'll put this one in the hopes that one day she'll decide to turn it into a multi-chapter story (@takearisk-ao3 think about it 👀)

The brilliant dance -- this is so fucking funny and entertaining while also being heartwarming. Fucked up but inevitable/obsessed with each other hinny spending their early 20s being a hot mess is my AU drug

Someone else's life -- finished reading this a few days ago, a very well developed brilliant idea

[I already know the second I post this I'll realise I've forgotten some brilliant work]

[brightlybound]

What was your reaction when you found out the Hannahs had a crack ship account together called Dobnny?

1. Surprised

2. Not really surprised

3. Sounds like the type of shit they would do

Loooool. I promise you, it's not them that have created Dobnny.

What if I told you it was me?

(It's not, but that'd be pretty funny.)

[corneliaavenue-ao3]

Thank you to everyone who wrote a fic for Several Sunlit Daylights: The Tortured Potters Department. Here are all of the fics written for this celebration of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley. Go read them all, leave a comment, and share the love!

I can fix him (no really I can) by @ginnyw-potter

Fresh Out the Slammer by @merlinsbudgiesmugglers

Two Hearts one Soul (based on Down Bad) by @tomjamesavery

loml by @starlingflight

Guilty as Sin? by @starlingflight

But Daddy, I Love Him by @albaskies

I Can Do It With a Broken Heart by @thenicestthingiveseen

can't have a conversation if it's not all about you (Down Bad) by @thenicestthingiveseen

But Daddy I Love Him by @takearisk-ao3

But Daddy, I Love Him by @briarpotter

She Can't Do It, Without Him by @nena-96

Clara Bow by @nena-96

Sping Again, Somehow (based on I Can Do It With a Broken Heart) by @pocket-lilacs

loml by @corneliaavenue-ao3

fresh out the slammer by @corneliaavenue-ao3

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just for that i’m never finishing it so you can’t ever leave

This seems fair 😂

[kay-elle-cee]

'Tis the Season for fic recs! I know I posted a bunch this month for the @hprecfest (which you can find here!) but in keeping with tradition (aka I did this last year), I wanted to share 23 fics I loved this year. (This is in no way a comprehensive list, and I'm not reccing fics I rec'd last year—see the end of this post for more details.)

I would love to see YOUR year-end fic recs, so consider yourselves tagged if you see this!

ONESHOTS When The Skies Are Grey by @athenasparrow To Always Be Kind and True by @clare-with-no-i thorns, in amber by decemberista (not Jily) I'll Be There For You by @midnightstargazer what we had become (before we ever had begun) by @takearisk-ao3

MULTICHAPTER Found Tonight by @alittlebitofeverything23 Nom De Plume by @annabtg The Changeling by annerb (not Jily) made weak by time and fate, but strong in will by Dialux Choose Your Own (sexy) Adventure* by @ghostofbambifanfiction In Love and War* by Icepen love, james* by @isahorcrux Dead To Me* by @jamesunderwater Unlike a Sister by Madharmony (not Jily) Don't Look Back In Anger by @mppmaraudergirl and @possessingtheproperspirit Kindly Stopped for Me* by @nodirectionhome-ao3 The song remains the same* by @startanewdream Never Quite Awake by @sunshinemarauder Who Knows Who Cares by @the-dream-team Between the Desire and the Spasm* by @uncertainwallflower

SERIES Harry Potter Everyone Lives AU by @aidanchaser Call Me By Name Universe by @charmsandtealeaves Seasons by @suzyq31 (not Jily)

*Notes a WIP

I think this was harder than last year. I've read so many incredible fics this year (over 230 fics from 77 different authors, according to my tracker), but I've cursed myself to sticking with 23 for the ~vibes~. If you want more, just drop a 📖 in my ask box and I'll reply with another title! Happy New Year to you all!

[pitchblackveins]

easy

(wrote this drabble a month ago for @takearisk-ao3 but forgot about it til right now when i found it in my drafts whoops here you go hannah happy extremely belated birthday!)

read on ao3

some things were still easy, harry mused, running his finger idly up ginny’s calf. they were lying in the field behind the burrow, he and ginny and ron and hermione (he thought it like that in his head, meandginnyandronandhermione, each a singular unit, part of two separate units, one total unit) and he had lain back to look at the stars, ginny’s laughter dancing above him, their voices a murmur, and he was just drunk enough to drift out of the conversation and let it float around him without having to process a word, feeling contemplative but not yet maudlin (at the edge of his thoughts flickered the tint of depression–he purposefully avoided it, knowing that once he slipped in that direction he would keep sliding that way until he couldn’t breathe, and tonight wasn’t the night for that)

he stared up at the stars and thought about things that were still easy. feeling ginny's smooth skin under his fingertips. taking another sip of his drink (another one of ron’s concoctions, cheap firewhiskey mixed with gillywater and a cloying homemade juice luna had brought over last week, ingredients to be kept a secret, which none of them had been drinking, but ron claimed he had perfected a use for it–– the gillywater dilutes it and the firewhiskey cuts the sweetness, i’ve made the perfect drink this time––it was definitively not good, but in the realm of drinkable)

he trailed his fingers further up ginny’s leg, dipping into the hollow under her knee––sex was easy, so easy for them, the way they fit together, the way he could tune into the tiniest hitches in her breath––harry shifted slightly at that thought, and made an effort to refocus on the conversation–– “to be fair,” hermione was saying, through a slight hiccup, “to be fair, it did look like a kneazle! i saw the split tail!”

“no,” ginny was shaking her head, breathless with laughter, “for the tenth time, a fox with a stick stuck in its tail does not look anything like a kneazle! ron, back me up here, you saw the fox––”

ron grinned at hermione from the other side of the blanket, lounging back on his elbows, “i dunno, could’ve been a kneazle from where i stood. i’ve seen crookshanks give me a similar sly glance, and he’s part kneazle, isn’t he––”

“oh, you’re no help––” ginny looked down at harry, who was surprised to realize that it seemed this was a story being retold for his benefit–– “i swear, harry, she was out here this morning trying to catch a normal fox for two hours, ron and i came out and she was telling us off for tripping her sensory spell, and then this fox with a stupid messed-up tail came sprinting through the orchard, and she actually shot an impedimenta at it––”

“it’s late. i’m going to bed” hermione announced imperiously, cutting ginny off. she got up with an impressive steadiness, given she was still hiccuping, and set off towards the house.

ron pushed himself up and stood to his full height, stretching his arms above him and letting out a groan. he looked down at ginny and harry, neither of whom had budged, and shrugged. “where hermione goes, so goes my nation," he said, and strode off, with a "g’night, you two,” tossed over his shoulder, quickly catching up to his girlfriend and grabbing her around the middle, eliciting a squeak.

harry looked away from his two best friends and back to ginny, who was smirking down at him. “i thought they’d never leave” she whispered, and she kissed him, soft and sweet. he lost himself in the kiss, the darkness in the corners of his mind ebbing away, pushed away by a cloud of ginnyginnyginnyginny, and he took firmer hold of her leg where his hand still rested and tugged her down on top of him (and she came easily, the most natural movement in the world, and some things––very few things––some things were easy).

[ginwhisky]

@takearisk-ao3 is going to destroy us all