#baby pre wolfstar anyway

[spindrifters]

I've been doing battle with my internet all day to get this up for Lynxmas. I would not be bested!! I refused and I persevered!! So a very happy birthday from me and the rowdy 11 year olds to our favorite barwench humble forest cat @lynxindisguise!!

There’s a peculiar shuffle to sharing one’s room, a frenzy of activity when it comes to four boys squashed into a rather small circular dorm that puts Remus—not only used to the solitude of his own little cottage bedroom, but raised without so much as a single other child his own age for at least ten miles in each direction—decidedly on edge.

It’s a continuation of the chaos from the welcoming feast, where the newly-sorted Gryffindor boys had quickly found their stride and accompanying role in the ecosystem. James and Sirius, no longer competing over who could eat more chicken thighs but still loudly trying to one-up each other’s boasts about feats of accidental magic. Peter, scrabbling to get a word in while his eyes gleamed with excitement each time one of them noticed. And Remus, the impulse to join in the fun warring with Dad’s gentle word of warning before he climbed on the train earlier in the day—can’t be too careful, lad.

He pushes that to the side, focusing instead on finding his plush grindylow Raccoon at the bottom of his trunk. It’s a poor replacement for Jeff, the very real grindylow who lives at the bottom of his garden pond and who he already misses something fierce—and he is not going to let the other boys see that he brought a stuffed animal with him to school, thank you very much—but still. It helps to know that Raccoon’s there. It helps to know he'll have at least one friend at school.

Because Peter’s nice, but he and James are already friends from growing up, and Sirius and James… Well, he supposes they mean well, but with their shining black shoes and posh accents and the way they barrel loud and bright through a conversation like nothing in the world could touch them, Remus can’t help but be intimidated. For Merlin’s sake, Sirius has silver monogrammed cufflinks on the sleeves of his school uniform. Even if Remus does manage the courage to ever string more than two words together in front of his new dormmates, he can’t imagine they’d ever want to be friends with someone like him.

There’s a flash then, followed by a bang, and Remus becomes briefly distracted by a whirling firework escaping from James’s trunk. There’s laughter at that, a slight salve to his fluttering, nervous gut when the other boy winks at him from behind square-frame glasses, but then James turns back to say something to Sirius instead and stops. He gapes.

“Why are you wearing a dress?”

“It’s not a dress,” Sirius sniffs, looking affronted at the very idea. “It’s a nightshirt.”

Well, whatever it is Sirius has changed into while the rest of them weren’t paying attention, it certainly looks like a dress. It’s white, and ankle-length, and buttoned all the way up to just beneath his chin. Also, it’s frilly. Very frilly. If anything, it looks like something out of Ma’s old and battered copy of A Christmas Carol, like he should really have a long nightcap and candleholder to go with it.

Remus can’t help it. He snorts.

Sirius snaps his gaze over, steel grey eyes boring holes into him, and Remus wants to melt into the floor beneath his feet. “Well, what do you wear to sleep, then, if it’s so funny?” he snaps.

“Not my gran’s nightie,” Remus replies, feeling he ought to be congratulated, actually, on such a witty remark. Only Sirius’s eyes flash at that, and immediately his jaw clamps jaw shut.

But then James is cackling, and Sirius seems to take in his new dormmates for the first time since they all began changing for bed. James, in a vest and Quidditch shorts. Peter, in a matching set of broomstick-patterned pyjamas. Remus, in a pair of joggers and the oversized green jumper that still smells like Dad. A red flush creeps up Sirius’s pale cheeks. “Oh.”

It occurs to Remus then, that this wasn’t at all what he wanted, either. He didn’t want to make Sirius feel bad about it. He hadn’t wanted to embarrass him.

So it’s a poor offering, maybe, but he finds himself digging out another jumper—orange, this time, but a nice soft one, and not too oversized or nubby—and says, “D’you want to borrow it?”

A moment passes, then two, and then Sirius is smiling wide. “Cheers, Lupin,” he says, a shine in his eyes of something Remus doesn’t quite know how to place.

In future days he’ll come to understand that that look is the surefire sign of Sirius about to do something that’s not the done thing—not by pureblood standards, anyway, whatever the hell those are. All he knows right now is that Sirius isn’t yelling at him—or worse, ignoring him—and then James is throwing an extra pair of Quidditch shorts at Sirius’s face and saying no one wants to see his skivvies, and then Peter is breaking out a massive bag of Bertie Bott’s to share, and maybe it turns out that Remus can have friends, actually, after all.

[justanothermarauderr]

OKAY LOOK AT

when I first started WATCHING the Harry Potter movies ( my attention span flew out the window when I tried to read when I was younger) I was watching like any OTHER person

yk pre-wattpad, pre-ao3, pre marauders, jegulus, wolfstar , Slytherin skittles ect

yk the simple days

BUT NOWWWWWW

FAMMMMM

i have read every fanfic i could find and one of my favorite tags other then sassy ( character name) and it was

#dumbledorebashing

OR #manipulativedumbldore

I LOVE IT

bcs then yall writers start writing how smarter Harry is or how much of a better friend Ron is or making Hermione less studious

and when everything else that are basically cannon at this point to me are added all together and add in all the dumbledore bashing

✨immaculate writing✨

with that being said i went from

“ oh dumbledore is so smart” “ what a cool headmaster” freaking #dumbldore4evah 😗✌️

to like

“ fck you albus” “ you manipulative bastard” “Mr. Light Wizard who happened to fall in love with A DARK LORD HIMSELF and couldn’t even finish the job” like instead of killing grindlwald like he should have he literally just entrapped him in a fckn tower like goddamn rupunzel

it pisses me off more when it’s a harry/ tom fanfics bcs he had the audacity to be telling harry how “ tom is the dark lord” “ he’s a monster that doesn’t feel love”

mf you was lucky that tom riddle didn’t feel love or else your ass would have been swimming with fckn inferi rn for all the shit that you did to harry

anyways

yall get it, I’ve developed a … dislike towards albus however many names this faka have dumbledore

SO

after getting back and now stuck in this seemingly dark hole of Harry Potter fanfics i came to realization …

HARRY POTTER HAS THE AUDACITY TO NAME HIS MIDDLE CHILD ALBUS SEVERUS !!!

are you fckn kidding me…

AND HIS OTHER KIDS HAVE REGULAR UNDERSTANDABLE NAME

his oldest : james sirius

james for his father and sirius for his godfather see understandable

his youngest: lily luna

okay ofc his mother and luna bcs he always saw luna as such a cherished friend

and now his… middle… child: albus severus

… so let’s dissect this shall we

albus for Yk his headmaster, porfessor, mentor …

also the man who left him in a abusive and unloving household with an aunt who hated his mother ( her own sister) and magic and ofc him, the man who NOT ONLY didn’t tell him where or what the fck the other horcrux are BUT ALSO not telling harry that he was a horcrux himself and the in order for Voldemort to die HARRY HAS TO DIE TOO

oh and instead of being DIRECT about the mission he decided he wanted to be a story teller and freakn write poetry AND DECIDED TO LET 3 SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD go on a camping trip from hell while they were wanted criminals to bring down the once dead dark lord WHICH HE FCKN CREATED BY THE WAY

( honestly people it is not that hard to show a child some love and attention)

like he literally scared little tom riddle

tom: i can make things move and hurt others who have been bullying me, can you do it too?

albus: …

tom: …

albus: * sets a wardrobe on fire *

tom: 😧

albus: I’ll see you at Hogwarts, my boy 🤠* exits room*

* at hogwarts*

albus: …he’s a monster 🤡

now for the second name for this unfortunate child : Severus

okay, so… hogwarts professor/ headmaster, potions master , double spy…

the man who literally degraded you at your first day of a new school, bullied you over the littlest thing, the man who was unhealthily petty over his dead school rival which later on became extended to harry bcs … he’s James’ kid

the man who literally bullied you and your friend relentlessly and for no reason at all and the only reason he even helped harry the entire time was bcs he loved lily

like yall gotta keep in my mind, he went to the dark lord AND dumbledore to beg for LILY to live

he said fck James potter and the baby

snape didn’t give a fck about harry the he only gave a fck was if harry was in danger by freaking Voldemort

LILY was the reason why Snape didn’t deliver harry to Voldemort instead bcs think about

he HATED james potter, i mean james, sirius, remus and pettigrew, but mostly james ( and i will admit james was a toerag too) if james and harry lived Snape would have said to hell with yall i’m killing them

do you can see that i was angered and annoyed when I started to remember what harry named his children

like are you sirius…

albus Severus ?!?!?!

you could have named him after Neville or even Ron yk your best friend or hell even minnie ( magonnagall )

but not harry you just HAD to have a good ass heart and named your child after the man who manipulated you , raise you to only kill you, and a man who tormented your childhood

[limetimo]

RAB fics I read (4-10 March)

Sanctuary by sliebman10 Focused mostly on Sirius' efforts for the Werewolf community but Regulus is doing all the paperwork for the Werewolf and House Elf sanctuaries :D

The Marauders and the Philosopher's Stone by SilverShadow1 Regulus finds HP and the Philosopher's Stone in the Room of Requirements and reads it with his boyfriend James, the Marauders and Lily. Very good take on the trope of Marauders reading the HP series!

Perfect Places by wtfmylove Bellatrix did a murder and Regulus is on the verge of passing out because of how hard he works to save the family company from falling on its face. Accepting a contract from James Potter would be a saving grace - too bad Regulus would rather die than work with the brother-thief in any capacity.

Musical Theatre AU (working title) This is so good! Pianist Regulus is working on a musical and James Potter is one of the stars. Reg reconnects with Sirius and there's Jegulily endgame, feat very cute baby Harry!

rewrite my heart (let the future in) by secretpersona Regulus Black. Pandora Lovegood. Dark Lord, forbidden romance, fuck Dumbledore, great friends, SOUP! Go read it if you haven't yet.

Dripping With Sin by ScreamingFae Vampire Barty is obsessed with Regulus, looking GOOD

The Way I Do by rsbarelle sweet little uwu Regulus with massive issues and depression ending in Jegulus

I Didn't Catch Your Name by Kach_wow a comedy of errors and near misses, Regulus is so relatable to me lmao

this is me trying by witchhunts HE'S TRYING! Regulus gets yeeted to like fifth year (I'm reading too many Regulus time travels from cave to pre-Mark years I'm starting to mix them up :( )

Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Azkaban by Trex_patronus WE LOVE! Look at them Black Brother Azkaban escapees go :D

Best Friend's Brother by zeppazariel I CAN'T BELIEVE ITS FINISHED!!! It starts with like, fluff, then there's ANGST then there's fluff with background angst followed by ANgST ANGST ANGST and after everyone gets the therapy they need it's like. The FLUFFIEST domestic fluff, tooth-rotting, makes you scream fluff. Anyways Jegulus and Wolfstar, kinda like Identity Porn/Secret Identity because nobody knew Regulus was trans :D

our hearts beat as one by coincidences Ghost Regulus working with Dumbledore and Harry on destroying the Horcruxes! ♥♥♥

Star Stepper by Ourania95 15yo Regulus broke his wand and run off to Muggle London. I LOVE watching Orion lose his shit while Regulus is like "I found a library! I washed in a water fountain! I got a job! I'm so good at this runaway thing :)" He's a CUTIE I want to SQUISH him

lycoris radiata by nyxveuss time travel baby! yeeted from the cave to pre-Mark, Regulus has actual friends and I love it for him.

Open Season by avidita I didn't know Silver Fox!Severus was a thought I would ever entertain... but I'm intrigued. Thankfully 60yo Severus isn't into 20yo Regulus (who crawled out of the cave in like 2023s) sooo Regulus is gonna have to suck Teddy Lupin's dick I guess lmao. It's far more than what I just said but that's what the last published chapter was about basically and it's fresh on my mind xD BAMF Regulus! Give it a go!

A Matter of Convenience (Stores) by chillsoya Regulus is James' Secret Santa! Very sweet

Omnia vincit amor by aureusprongs Regulus is tired of being nice. He just wants to go... apeship :D

Living It All by orphan_account for AlmostARealHobbit 15yo Regulus lost his sight in a traffic accident and now lives with Sirius and also matchmakes Sirius with his music teacher Remus :D

Forever by orphan_account Wolfstar YouTubers AT! Very sweet! Regulus only has a little appearance but is very important for the plot :D Also he's deaf

Devil Town by GenderlessGeek75 Sirius and Regulus were removed form their abusive house hold and placed with the Potters! Muggle AU, mind the tags for past abuse and lasting psychological and emotional trauma

 Pandalily & Jegulus Muggle AU Pandora and Regulus have coffee shop, Lily and James have a bookshop, Pandalily and Jegulus ensue :D

Retribution by Kira_readsbooks James suffers a horrible Boulder injury during a game of Quidditch and accidentally takes Regulus to the ground with him. The two boys are trapped in the infirmary together for, well, weeks.

It Is Sweet and Fitting How He Died for His Country by rsbarelle Regulus can swing. Haunting, exquisite

stargazing Regulus Lives and is a Care Of Magical Creatures Professor!

Rest In Peace? No, Live In Peace by A2idB1u3 shit happened and Barty Crouch is raising Harry Ogni Parte È Viva (Every Part Is Alive) by euphorial_docx Italian Regulus has a crush on his older brother's friend from uni. They shouldn't. but they do. Jegulus

forbidden fruit Jegulus porn with plot, Regulus is tutoring James in Potions but... not much studying is done lol

Freedom Tastes Like Spit by CalypsoTempete Disinherited Regulus is crashing on his brother's couch... making out with his brother's best friend... such is the taste of freedom

The Horcrux Hunt by Keysie AAAAAAAAA yes, Remus and Regulus enemies to besties through the hardships of a Horcrux hunt! BRILLIANT! read it if you haven't yet

With You I’d Dance in a Storm by fuckboyregulus James is trying to reconcile the Black Brothers. It's not a smooth sailing

[onbeinganangel]

top five of 2020

Rules: It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 (ish) favourite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. Tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

thank you sweet @the-starryknight for tagging me! i dunno who to tag because it feels like everyone has done this but in case they haven’t yet and fancy jumping on this i’m tagging @davonysus @bisexualronaldweasley @skeptiquewrites and @julcheninred (also if i haven’t tagged you and you wanna do this, please do it and tag me)

i’m going for a mix of embroidery and fic because i’ve not written that much and i love all my babies

everyone knows i always have a lot to say about everything so i’m just gonna do a little break here because this is about to get long!

2020 was a bit of a shitshow. it’s christmas and i’m in pre food and booze coma mode so i’m about to get real emo here. i have interacted with lots of different fandoms in the past but the drarry fandom? genuinely i’ve not encountered a group of people this nice and welcoming in a really, really long time. 2020 would have been a horrible year for me even without the plague and i’m so glad i had the privilege of finding solace in the safe place that is this fandom when things took a turn.

anyway enough of my sob fest here are my fav 5 things i made this year from hell:

embroidered fic rec for @tinyhistory ’s Running on Air - these took 80 hours of labour! they were my first of the series too and when i look at them i feel so much pride. they ignited a passion back in me for doing creative work and making things that make you happy without worrying too much about the rules! they were a lot of work but every stitch was a joy and they are the one thing i created this year i enjoy looking at the most

inevitable (from the very start), E, 54k - oooof okay here goes mari again talking about her monster fic. creating this was an experience. i think writing (especially fic) should be done for fun, something that you enjoy doing. but sometimes you write something that you put so much of yourself into that it can’t help but feel heavy. don’t get me wrong - it’s, imho, a quite happy story! there’s minimal angst. i think it’s only that heavy to me because i know how much i put into it. writing these words felt like pulling teeth out at times. i go back sometimes and i see clearly how i shaped my own loss into this Astoria and how i moulded this Draco around my feelings and it’s a bit shit lol but it makes me really proud

embroidered fic rec for @quicksilvermaid ’s Who We Are in the Shadows - this one is an interesting one to include in this list because it’s quite simple. the actual stitching on it isn’t massively groundbreaking or anything but i love that i took the risk and finally embroidered on sheer fabric which i’ve wanted to do for years! in the new year i’d like to experiment more with different fabrics and materials and using the cotton wool for this feels like the first step towards that

aeternus solem, E, 36k - any other day but today this spot would probably be for my wolfstar little fic Forever Yours/Yours Forever. however, it is christmas and i have just finished posting this one. this is a funny one to include here because the whole reason why i am including it in this list is because i know i could have done better. i will put my neck on line and say loud and proud that it isn’t my best writing and it could have been better developed. but the whole point of the thing is that it’s a writing challenge! and for averaging 1k words per day for 30 days, i’m fucking pleased with it. i love it mostly because i see so many of its flaws clearly and i still posted it. i wouldn’t dream of doing something like that six months ago, and for that, depression christmas fic is going on the list (also, harry pov??? never again, not for a long time)

and finally my latest embroidery fic rec for @primavera-cerezos ’s apple juice and peach - this one is going on the list because i wasn’t sure about the results until i was nearly done! i’m not sure if it was the stitching itself or the colours but i couldn’t tell if they looked like peaches at all until it was basically finished. it was frustrating in that sense but still enjoyable to stitch and it was a lovely come back to embroidery after a long month and a half of intensive writing. plus, now i know that even embroidery suffers from the wlw/rare pair low engagement curse lmao

i’m also gonna add in a wee honourable mention to my yet to be posted last embroidered fic of the year because it’s really fucking good 😉

[blitheringmcgonagall]

Thanks @stonecoldhedwig @curlyremus @ashes-and-ashes-dust-and-dust and @of-stars-and-moon for tagging me! 

ao3 name: YouBlitheringIdiot (aptly enough)

fandoms: HP marauders era which I I agree counts as a fandom all on its own :) (I’ve only written Wolfstar and Jily so far but I love Dorlene and I’ll read Blackinnon and Jegulus, not looking at you lot!)

tropes: Friends to Lovers, Enemies to lovers, Angst and Fluff (is that a trope? no...), Idiots to Lovers (that one!), BROTP, Idiots to Idiots (and that one!)

number of fics: 14 on ao3

fic I spent the most time on:  We Can Be Heroes because it’s a canon(ish) marauders fic with Jily & Wolfstar that’s still a WIP and we’re at baby Harry’s birth next chapter. I think about 6-8 chapters left in total...

fic I spent the least time on:  Gently Play on Your Heart Strings (the moment Remus fell in love with Sirius)

longest Fic:  We Can Be Heroes which is currently 251,874 (WTF)

shortest Fic:  Minding Harry (teeny one shot of baby Harry)

most hits/kudos/comments threads/bookmarks:  We Can Be Heroes (again) - I really adore the fact that on ao3 people leave comments way more than ff.net. It has 1955 comments on ao3. Despite that, it has way more hits on the other site, and overall 83,818 hits (which I can’t get over)

total word count: 324,649 (I ramble)

fic you want to rewrite/expand on:  Maybe I Waited Too Long - A Marauders Medical AU - it’s finished, it’s Wolfstar and Jily as doctors, Very Extremely Anti-Snape and the jily pre-relationship part may be quite a bit based on real life. Anyway, I said I’d do an epilogue at the time, and I might or else I might do a sequel... will see when I have some time if anyone would read it?

share a bit of a WIP or story idea you’re planning on: I have two ideas of marauders AU once wcbh is finished : one is a marauders SS-GB (the Nazis take over Britain in WW2, seriously we need more fics that are very anti-Nazis atm) and one is a marauders AU set in Northern Ireland with Catholic!Lily and Remus and Protestant!James and Sirius.

In the meantime, here is a bit of the next chapter of WCBH:

He had moved closer to Remus as he spoke, his hands clenched tightly by his side, straight backed and dangerous looking.

“You know I’m telling the truth, Moony, don’t lie,” Sirius said, breathing deeply and trying to calm himself.

“That’s not-” said Remus.

“Come on, Moony, who’s the real fucking monster here? Ask any of our friends and they’ll tell you,” Sirius’ voice dropped.

“Sirius, this is ridiculous, you can’t compare yourself-” said Remus.

“Oh yes I fucking can!” said Sirius, eyes flashing with anger.

Tagging @magic-girl-in-a-muggle-world @letsdothepanic @abby10fanfic @elanev91 @unfortunatelyimaginary @i-heal-miraculously @mollymarymarie @jencala @littlejeanniebean (only if you wan to!)

[jzixuans]

does anyone want to give me their cat i’m severely lacking rn

good happy things:

had some good noodles

and a pork bun!!!

my friend and i don’t have classes together anymore so we’ve started counting all the different times we see each other in one day and today we broke our record!

oh so many pre performance shenanigans

anyways played a whole symphony tonight

my wife has a name!!! tiandrin, isn’t she so lovely

i’m living in a world where all of rayla’s family are Not currency and they live happy as the jily and wolfstar raising baby harry that i always dreamed they would be

i miss my wives i wish i could hold them here rn

wish i could hold a CAT rn

i spent an entire class playing duck life 2 with my friend raising our little racer duck napoleon

dani n lia always being there for me

i love u two