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[oneluckygoose]

House of the Rising Suns

CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FOUR

Finally, I’ve been waiting so long for this. I’m so sorry it took over… four weeks I think?? But this one is awesome it sets a lot of the tone.

It’s set in Dorcas’ and James’ POV, and in total it’s about 13.3k words (whoops).

Summary: A night of shenanigans and revelations.

(Guys we’re still only on the first day of Hogwarts HOW)

First Chapter: Dear Minerva

Enjoy peeps!

[oneluckygoose]

House of the Rising Suns

Alright, let's do this.

This is for everyone who saw my poll a week or so back, and now chapter 1 of the fic is up and running!

The next one will hopefully be coming in the next week or so given my schedule, I don't want to keep you all long. So cheers! To the start of a journey!

This chapter is in Minerva McGonagall's POV, but the next one will be the true start of the fic (this is my pilot, don't tell anyone). 2k words.

Just all the people who left notes on the poll!!

@whyshouldihaveanam3 @mare-finis @sweetnnaivete @kaze-16 @quietlyhugo @lu-the-loser @loverofmusic18 @v4mvp1le @royallygray @st4rs78 @sspadfoot @jamespottersconverse @cass-black-barnes @amy-harper @wishiwereheather13 @m3ntal-hiatus @supernovasoup @emryyyyyss09 @skittle6 @the-stars-in-between @aletheraej @arggghhhsstuff @xcountingstars

And to the person who I binge read their fic and instantly felt the urge to write (the one who inspired me to start writing it for real): @shootingthe-stars

Thanks guys!

[oneluckygoose]

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Chapter 2 time, BABYYYY!

Jam packed with the chaos of the first train ride and the cannon events of it! Get ready for.... The Hogwarts express!

And here's the start: Dear Minerva

[oneluckygoose]

House of the Rising Suns

Chapter three is now out!!!

I think the word hat appears like 40 times in this, but we're doing great.

It's my favorite chapter yet and I almost cried while writing it! Remus is just a heartbreaking little boy.

This chapter is the sorting told through Sirius, Lily, Remus, and Peter(!!!)'s eyes. You're in for a ride.

OK anyway, enjoy!!!

First chapter: Dear Minerva

Lordie Jesus the restraint I have to have to keep from completely spoiling all of this is wild. I want to tell yall so many things and I just UGH.

[oneluckygoose]

To those here for the fic, I've got a little snippet, and a title for you!

Title: House of the Rising Suns

Snippet:

“Don’t do anything to give them a reason, alright Reg?” Sirius had whispered to him far into the night. The thought of leaving his brother all alone made bile creep up his throat. No one to take the blame, no one to face the consequences for him. Sirius felt something like fire burn in his chest at the thought of coming home over the holiday to a Regulus with streaks of gray in his hair. He had to qualm it quickly, for that fire wasn’t characteristic of a Slytherin. Sirius had to be a Slytherin, he had to.

[oneluckygoose]

House of the Rising Suns

Info post about my Marauders era fanfic! It will be edited and added to as things about it change, so if you plan to regularly read, I suggest checking in every once in a while to see if something's changed.

It will be posted on Ao3 exclusively, so if you see it anywhere else it means someone has stolen my work. Don't be afraid to report it.

Here's a link to the first chapter: Dear Minerva

It is a fic starting in 1971 and ending 1981 following the Marauders, the Slytherin Skittles, and the Valkyries through their journey through Hogwarts and the First Wizarding War. I don't yet know if it is cannon compliment or not, but I will figure it out with time. All posts I make about it will be tagged with "#house of the rising suns" and "#house of the rising suns oneluckygoose"

Here are the characters that will have POVs: Minerva McGonagall, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans, Marlene McKinnon, Dorcas Meadowes, Mary MacDonald, Regulus Black, Barty Crouch Jr., Evan Rosier, Pandora Lovegood (Rosier), Frank Longbottom, Alice Longbottom, and (ew) Severus Snape.

For the shippers out there --- Endgame ships: Wolfstar (Remus and Sirius), Jily (James and Lily), Dorlene (Dorcas and Marlene), Rosekiller (Evan and Barty), Fralice (Frank and Alice), the Lovegoods (I don't actually know their ship name, but it's Pandora and Xenophillious). --- Ships in the story: Jegulus (James and Regulus), Marylily (Mary and Lily), Pandalily (Pandora and Lily), Remus and Marlene, Sirius and Mary, and characters with OCs that I've added (none of them will be endgame or treated like well known and endgame ships, they're all destined to end eventually).

NO SMUT AT ALL! I'm asexual, I do not feel comfortable writing it. It'll happen eventually, but it won't be explicit. When it does, though, it will be fade to black or very very vague descriptions. They're teenagers, I get that, but I refuse to write it in detail. Sorry, but no.

There is a greater description of it all under the cut! (and in the reblogs, this got really long)

!!!!Disclaimer: The last one is extremely important, so if you don't want to read all of these, at least scroll down and read the last bullet point (which will be in the reblog)!!!!!

Scottish and Desi James; Welsh/Jewish Lily; Welsh Remus, and Severus; French/English Blacks; IRISH Peter; SCOTTISH Marlene; Dutch Dorcas; French Mary; British Rosiers; and British Barty, Italian/British Frank, Taiwanese/British Alice.

Jegulus, personally I think Jegulus is a very important thing for James’ growth and for Regulus to distance himself from his family’s ideals, but I also don’t think it could ever last. It will probably be a 5th-6th year arc and they break up after Regulus gets the Mark beginning of James' 7th.

Endgame Jily because their story is one of my favorites, and if I do make it a canon compliment ,then I would need to write it with natural progression. Also I just love Jily.

Get ready for a lot of 70's music. It becomes a big deal when Lily brings her record player in second year and then when Queen debuts in 1973 and Sirius falls in love.

I’m on the fence about making it a canon compliment because I choose to be HAPPY, but I don’t need to make that decision now and so I won’t (also I like the idea that Peter is good, screw me)

Aroace Peter, my little boy loves his friends and doesn’t understand why he doesn’t love like they do. A dating spree probably in 5th year but he just cannot figure out how to do the romance thing.

No sex, sorry guys we’re keeping this M rated. I’m asexual and do not feel comfortable writing that in the slightest, it would all be fade to black

Asexual Lily, to whoever HCed that, can I marry you? I love ace Lily and I think it just adds an arc to her story that is normally extremely sexualized. My girl will punch you in the face if you look even a tiny bit lower than her eyes.

*Side note* Lily's taste is also so funny. Like it goes: badass, rolemodel, stunning woman to badass, loving, protective, also stunning woman to badass, ethereal, insane, overwhelmingly beautiful woman to that one guy over there making love eyes and doing finger guns. God I love Jily so much. *End of side note*

Asexual Regulus. I am sick and tired of seeing Jegulus being completely sexualized in every single piece of content I encounter. I firmly believe their story can be extremely compelling and beautiful without falling into sexual stereotypes and just literally making everything about them sexual. All that aside, being asexual makes a lot of sense for Regulus' character, in my opinion. I want to make it clear I'm not doing this just to change Jegulus, I genuinely believe that Regulus' character is compelling with him being asexual, and I don't see a lot of asexual representation in the marauders fandom, so why not add in something good? (There'll be a lot more to Regulus' character though, trust me.)

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[oneluckygoose]

Whoopsie doopsie, accidentally pumpped out five thousand words for one pov when I told myself I would make this chapter short :/.

It’s fine I had to make NPCs for Dorcas’ dorm and ended up creating a whole arc around the four of them lol.

[oneluckygoose]

For those wondering what my James Potter is going to be like: his favorite song will be “Hooked on a Feeling” by Blue Swede

[oneluckygoose]

I feel like writing 5th year will be like taking a baseball bat and hitting Sirius in the head continuously

[oneluckygoose]

Look look, I’m at 20k now. I’m three chapters in. These are so long. Much too long. All the information is incredibly important though. You have to understand everything that happens is necessary. Should this chapter be 10k? Probably not, but It’s actually going to be longer because I’m not done yet. Help me. I want to post this by hopefully Wednesday. I just churned out like 6k. AHHHHH.

[haunting-hufflepuffs-basement]

YES YES YES YES YES

House of the Rising Suns

Alright, let's do this.

This is for everyone who saw my poll a week or so back, and now chapter 1 of the fic is up and running!

The next one will hopefully be coming in the next week or so given my schedule, I don't want to keep you all long. So cheers! To the start of a journey!

This chapter is in Minerva McGonagall's POV, but the next one will be the true start of the fic (this is my pilot, don't tell anyone). 2k words.

Just all the people who left notes on the poll!!

@whyshouldihaveanam3 @mare-finis @sweetnnaivete @kaze-16 @quietlyhugo @lu-the-loser @loverofmusic18 @v4mvp1le @royallygray @st4rs78 @sspadfoot @jamespottersconverse @cass-black-barnes @amy-harper @wishiwereheather13 @m3ntal-hiatus @supernovasoup @emryyyyyss09 @skittle6 @the-stars-in-between @aletheraej @arggghhhsstuff @xcountingstars

And to the person who I binge read their fic and instantly felt the urge to write (the one who inspired me to start writing it for real): @shootingthe-stars

Thanks guys!

[oneluckygoose]

Continuation:

How much character growth can I fit into James Potter? ALL OF IT. He was a DICK, that is non negotiable. He was not a dick eventually (I believe he had to grow up a lot after The Prank).

The Prank will be essential to everyone’s character and will take place sometime in the second half of 5th year.

Sirius is at his lowest in 5th year because his parents are trying to hold an extremely tight grip over who he is and who they want him to become, and because he cannot and will not let them, they are punishing him extremely hard at every opportunity they can. He's a mess: he lashes out at everything, hurts the people he loves, gets stuck in his family's mindsets too often, and is overall just horrifyingly in a bad situation. He is rebelling against his family extremely hard, and at the start of summer between fifth and sixth year he runs away.

Remus’s arc will probably be very similar to what it normally is. I think he’ll have Hope and Lyall, at least for a while, and his home life won’t be the worst. If that’ll change I’m not quite sure.

Dorcas has a very long arc with a lot of OCs that I made, which I think adds a lot to her character that a lot of people gloss over a lot.

Marlene also has her arc with Dorcas and trying to grapple with being gay. It's not easy for a pure blood wizard in the slightest.

Marlene has an older brother who is named Gabriel. They love each other very much. Their relationship directly mimics me and my brother's when we were kids because it felt important for Marlene's character like it was for me.

I'm planning on making all my sibling relationships go hard. Like I said, I've had a very long and complicated relationship with my brother, and I believe that siblings shape who we are in more ways than we know, so this also applies to my characters as well.

Marlene is extremely important to me. She has the thickest Scottish accent and she thrives off of it. She does not take shit. She listens to rock exclusively once she figures out electric guitar makes brain go happy. She and Sirius have a very interesting relationship I am very excited to explore, no it's not romantic.

To elaborate on the relationships between Mary and Sirius and Remus and Marlene: Sirius never liked Mary: she was a way for him to convince himself he wasn't gay, but she did like him a lot. Some teenage romances will always end in heartbreak (sorry Mary). Marlene and Remus never liked each other, not really, at least. Remus was Marlene's cover for being head over heels for Dorcas and Marlene was the closest thing Remus could get to Sirius.

I refuse to gloss over Marlene and Dorcas' arc like a lot of other fics do. They deserve their story just as much as wolfstar does.

Marlene is probably the most Gryfindor person on the planet, and Dorcas is a Slytherin who does not enjoy her peers. By the time fourth year rolls around, most people don't know if Dorcas is a Gryffindor or a Slytherin, and most teachers take points off both whenever she gets in trouble.

Dorcas is a halfblood with a single Muggle father (her mother left when she was a baby). They both have the best dreads on the earth, and you can’t tell me otherwise.

Marylily is kinda a thing? In the early years it will be. I'm thinking a few chaste kisses and a way for them to figure out their sexuality but it fades and they agree they’re better friends.

Pandalily, on the other hand, is very prominent. It happens around the same time Jegulus does, but ends a bit earlier because Pandora meets Xenophillious and falls for him so much harder (again, a lot of teenage relationships end in heartbreak, sorry Lily). I do have a very clear vision of James and Lily leaning against the wall next to each other and staring lovingly at Regulus and Pandora while they do the most unhinged and dangerous things that makes Barty's eyebrows singe off for a week.

*Side note* James and Lily go through a lot of development, especially in fifth and sixth year. This happens because of the Prank leading to a lot of issues: with James and Lily respectively. Specifically James having a lot of mental health issues that stems from not being able to make his friend group happy and perfect, and Lily losing her best friend that she thought would be by her side no matter what because he turns out to be the same type of person that wants to hurt her. Also, this is around the time James stops liking Lily and starts liking Regulus. Once these things settle in sixth year, James and Lily become really good just normal friends that turns into something more much later in seventh year. I hate JKR, but she was right on the fact that something had to change with the two of them for them to be an actual couple. *Side note ended*

Pandora and Regulus are best friends who would destroy the world for one another. Think James and Sirius but just extremely destructive and unhinged. They love each other so much.

Pandora and Evan are twins. They have darker skin and hair that has been bleached blonde for.... reasons. Trust me it'll make sense eventually. The Rosier family is very similar to the Black family, just a little bit less... incesty.

Evan and Barty are meant for each other. They're best friends, through and through. They match each other's freak to a degree that scares everyone. Evan doesn't try and hide his bisexuality and he dates around a lot. One day a party gets out of hand and Evan and Barty turn into a friends with benefits situation. Neither of them realize their deep love for each other and they both want more than anything to be more than just a physical escape for the other. No I will not write the sex part, but the things centered around it will happen after or before the explicitness.

Barty to me has always been a kid with pitch black hair, deathly pale skin, and ribs that show through his chest. He has too many piercings he frantically rips out before he goes home for summer (all of which Evan did for him). He gets a lot of tattoos when he turns eighteen and gets away from his father. He's also in Slytherin despite being extremely smart: he's much too ambitious and cunning to just crave knowledge.

Remus is practically everyone's first kiss because I love the idea that loser Remus was also the Casanova of Gryffindor Tower. This includes: Lily, Marlene, James, Evan, Dorcas, Frank, and Regulus. This notably does not include Sirius or Peter. Peter because for all that he tried to be allo, he just couldn't bring himself to kiss anyone. Sirius because denial and running away from your feelings is a bitch and makes you kiss a lot of girls you cant remember the names of because all you were thinking of was the person you are trying so hard not to love.

See this post for more of my feelings about Remus, and this post for more of my feelings about Sirius. (not all of them obv but more of an insight on how I plan to portray them)

Remus is very small in the beginning and then he gets REALLY BIG. I’m talking 5’1- 5’10 over one summer (3rd year to 4th year) then he keeps growing. 6’3 by the end of it. Sirius is such a simp for it.

James isn’t short, he has a normal growth though, lands steady at 6’.

Sirius and Peter are short kings: Sirius-5’8, Peter-5’6

Remus starts to like Sirius in 3rd year, and when I say 'like' I mean fall headfirst into loving him. He dates Marlene because her and Sirius and just gender swapped copies of one another; however, they both hate it, and Marlene is the first person who knows about Remus’ crush. By extension, Remus is the first person to know about Marlene's on Dorcas.

Sirius starts to like Remus in 4th year, but he doesn’t realize it at first, and when he does, he dates/fucks around in complete denial until he runs tf away from his family. Peter, the king he is, is surprisingly the first one to figure it out in 5th year.

There are a lot of things that happen, especially in fifth year, that makes both Remus and Sirius freak out and fall more in love with each other, but they are still a complete and total mess.

James is the most hardcore Wolfstar shipper when he finds out about both of them, and he has to be painfully silent about it until they get their shit together.

They fully get together at the end of 6th year. How? I'll figure it out.

The Skittles are less present the first half, but they would probably be more and more there, especially as Regulus and Sirius' relationship strains. 

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House of the Rising Suns

Info post about my Marauders era fanfic! It will be edited and added to as things about it change, so if you plan to regularly read, I suggest checking in every once in a while to see if something's changed.

It will be posted on Ao3 exclusively, so if you see it anywhere else it means someone has stolen my work. Don't be afraid to report it.

Here's a link to the first chapter: Dear Minerva

It is a fic starting in 1971 and ending 1981 following the Marauders, the Slytherin Skittles, and the Valkyries through their journey through Hogwarts and the First Wizarding War. I don't yet know if it is cannon compliment or not, but I will figure it out with time. All posts I make about it will be tagged with "#house of the rising suns" and "#house of the rising suns oneluckygoose"

Here are the characters that will have POVs: Minerva McGonagall, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans, Marlene McKinnon, Dorcas Meadowes, Mary MacDonald, Regulus Black, Barty Crouch Jr., Evan Rosier, Pandora Lovegood (Rosier), Frank Longbottom, Alice Longbottom, and (ew) Severus Snape.

For the shippers out there --- Endgame ships: Wolfstar (Remus and Sirius), Jily (James and Lily), Dorlene (Dorcas and Marlene), Rosekiller (Evan and Barty), Fralice (Frank and Alice), the Lovegoods (I don't actually know their ship name, but it's Pandora and Xenophillious). --- Ships in the story: Jegulus (James and Regulus), Marylily (Mary and Lily), Pandalily (Pandora and Lily), Remus and Marlene, Sirius and Mary, and characters with OCs that I've added (none of them will be endgame or treated like well known and endgame ships, they're all destined to end eventually).

NO SMUT AT ALL! I'm asexual, I do not feel comfortable writing it. It'll happen eventually, but it won't be explicit. When it does, though, it will be fade to black or very very vague descriptions. They're teenagers, I get that, but I refuse to write it in detail. Sorry, but no.

There is a greater description of it all under the cut! (and in the reblog, this got really long)

!!!!Disclaimer: The last one is extremely important, so if you don't want to read all of these, at least scroll down and read the last bullet point (which will be in the reblog)!!!!!

Scottish and Desi James; Welsh/Jewish Lily, Remus, and Severus; French/English Blacks; IRISH Peter; SCOTTISH Marlene; Dutch Dorcas; French Mary; British Rosiers; and British Barty, Italian/British Frank, Taiwanese/British Alice.

Jegulus, personally I think Jegulus is a very important thing for James’ growth and for Regulus to distance himself from his family’s ideals, but I also don’t think it could ever last. It will probably be a 5th-6th would be a 6th year arc and they break up after Regulus gets the Mark beginning of James' 7th.

Endgame Jily because their story is one of my favorites, and if I do make it a canon compliment ,then I would need to write it with natural progression. Also I just love Jily.

Get ready for a lot of 70's music. It becomes a big deal when Lily brings her record player in second year and then when Queen debuts in 1973 and Sirius falls in love.

I’m on the fence about making it a canon compliment because I choose to be HAPPY, but I don’t need to make that decision now and so I won’t (also I like the idea that Peter is good, screw me)

Aroace Peter, my little boy loves his friends and doesn’t understand why he doesn’t love like they do. A dating spree probably in 5th year but he just cannot figure out how to do the romance thing.

No sex, sorry guys we’re keeping this M rated. I’m asexual and do not feel comfortable writing that in the slightest, it would all be fade to black

Asexual Lily, to whoever HCed that, can I marry you? I love ace Lily and I think it just adds an arc to her story that is normally extremely sexualized. My girl will punch you in the face if you look even a tiny bit lower than her eyes.

*Side note* Lily's taste is also so funny. Like it goes: badass, rolemodel, stunning woman to badass, loving, protective, also stunning woman to badass, ethereal, insane, overwhelmingly beautiful woman to that one guy over there making love eyes and doing finger guns. God I love Jily so much. *End of side note*

Asexual Regulus. I am sick and tired of seeing Jegulus being completely sexualized in every single piece of content I encounter. I firmly believe their story can be extremely compelling and beautiful without falling into sexual stereotypes and just literally making everything about them sexual. All that aside, being asexual makes a lot of sense for Regulus' character, in my opinion. I want to make it clear I'm not doing this just to change Jegulus, I genuinely believe that Regulus' character is compelling with him being asexual, and I don't see a lot of asexual representation in the marauders fandom, so why not add in something good? (There'll be a lot more to Regulus' character though, trust me.)

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[haunting-hufflepuffs-basement]

OKAY SO!

My AO3 account doesn't like my phone. This is not new. Many things do not like my phone. But I know amazing fic writers like you appreciate comments so I give you comments on here instead! I will likely copy paste these into ao3 once I get it working again to signal boost over there (and out my ao3 username to you ohmygod. Like I haven't written anything there, but I'm shy and scared and usually comment as a guest). Gush warning, this is just me gushing, oh my land.

First, foremost, and most prominently, I LOVE EVERYBODY'S ACCENTS OH MY GOD!

Especially Marlene being the most aggressive Scottish girl ever, YES! I was reading her very similar to the fanon version of Gloria/Sword from Pokémon. Like, this is exactly the kind of girl who would say the "why are people always tellin babies stupid shit" thing. I can tell I'm going to fucking RELISH every second in Marlene's company. Her just immediately exploding at everyone for anything is so wonderful. My girl is LOUD and PROUD and MESSY and PUNK and I love her.

I love that Peter is a precious chipper little Irish lad. Peter is my baby boy and this has been incorporated into all my headcanons.

Welsh Lily comforting herself in Welsh is so amazing, I adore it. I'm loving the early schisms between her and Snape, whether it be in big ways like the whole blood purity nonsense or in little ways about hiding her accent. It's not a good relationship, and I love that there are really early signs of that even as she's in "he's my best friend in the whole world and would never hurt me mode."

I am loving the dichotomy between characters who like their accent and characters who don't. So informative to how they see the world.

Secondly, OH MY GOSH SIRIUS I AM GOING TO CRY! This poor baby! Like, obviously there's the cruciartus curse issue, but also the amount of emotional abuse this kid has already survived!? The way his first thought about leaving for Hogwarts is "Is Regulus going to be okay?" The way he automatically wants to protect everyone even when he doesn't know them? AUGH MY HEART! I feel like having him be this nervous and unsure of himself is important to making his later dickishness feel a little cathartic and a little earned. He's going to be FANTASTIC to read about.

Also, I love that he keeps falling on his face. Never stop. Never change. Just let him be a clumsy disaster.

I think my absolute favorite thing about the fic so far is Lily and Mary realizing that pureblood wizards are just SO FAR removed from muggles and . . . Reality in general, that they don't even know what racism is. The muggleborns constantly having to explain to these fuckers how the real world works and the wizards being fascinated by and fixated on muggle culture is going to be amazing! I predict that the mesh of these two cultures is going to be something the 70s Hogwarts generation readily embraces and endorses. Blending fashion, music, hobbies, slang, media, teaching each other history, sharing each other's worlds. . .I feel like it's all going to be a big deal, especially with how close this group will get with the looming threat of war and all.

Dear Minerva is a WONDERFUL chapter. 10/10 no notes. Every letter almost perfectly expresses the living situation each of these kids are coming from. Like, I'm actually mindblown by how clever this setup is. You've effectively given us an entire backstory for everyone, given us their mindsets, the environment they were raised in, the things they're going to struggle with most 1st year---all of that very complicated exposition---in a very succinct and entertaining chapter that also gives us McGonagall's perspective on it all. And then sprinkling in that Big Plot Hook early and not telling us who it's from (I'm pretty sure it's Dumbledore) is also so smart. You've literally put all the seeds of everything important right there in the first chapter, and it doesn't even feel like exposition, how did you pull this off?!?!?

I also love that each letter-writer has such a unique voice. That variety is just like sugar for my brain. And McGonogall's reaction being so different for all of them. Just fucking burning the Black's letter without finishing it because it disgusts her so viscerally is a mood and a half and one of the best fic starts I've read to date.

My heart is breaking for Remus too McGonogall, don't worry.

Also, Effie's letter effectively being "Good fucking luck, you're gonna need it" is hilarious. I am so excited for James just being an absolute menace and a total dick.

Speaking of McGonagall's perspective, the perspective switches are GOLDEN! Everything feels natural and coherent, but you still get inside the heads of SO MANY people and I love it. It's so important to because these guys are all fundamentally different from each other and see the world that you basically have to be inside everyone's head to understand their behaviors and interactions.

I'm especially enjoying the cuts back to Lily being something of a stabilizing presence, similar to the way Harry's was in canon. She doesn't know much either, and we get to learn this social climate right along with her.

I love that the Blacks are on just another level of weird, even for weirdo pureblood families, and that everyone talks about it. There's a reason they're called "The noble and most ancient house of black." They're one of the worst pureblood families out there, and it SHOWS. You can feel it in the way everyone watches them, the same way you might watch a trainwreck. And that they're the go-to examples for "Yeah wizards are real dicks sometimes."

I adore that the train is so chaotic. This is what happens when you put a bunch of 11 year old Gryffindors in the same compartments for hours with NO ADULT SUPERVISION (seriously, wtf is up with the wizarding world, there are no adults). It gets messy and passionate and loud and a bit violent. Too many gryffindors, too small space, not enough time, and it turns into a hurricane that is an absolute delight to witness.

The sorting, oh my god the sorting! I find it so fascinating to read this from the different perspectives, because if you grew up in a house like Sirius', then YEAH, the sorting is fucking stressful and the literal worst outcome just happened. My man is a ball of trauma just waiting to start leaking it everywhere, and it is NOT going to be pretty. Contrary, if you're Lily, it's an intense experience, but more exciting than anything else. And then you're Peter and it's super fucking stressful again, but for totally different reasons because most of that pressure is stuff he puts on himself. And Remus thinking he has literally no good options. My god these poor kids.

I really like your characterization of the hat. It's a mentor to these kids. It's impossible not to be when it's going to affect their lives that much and can reach into their heads and see all their thoughts and hopes and dreams and doubts and insecurities and memories. It wants to help. But it's also really prideful and a bit sassy. It's a hat with attitude, and I love that for it.

James just being so obviously and immediately a Gryffindor is hilarious. James is going to be the comic relief and somehow still have the most main character energy of any of these dramatic bitches, I can tell. He's magnetic and it's already sucking me in.

Uhhhh. Last thought, I'm excited for your OCs and exploring the sibling relationships especially. I have 3 older brothers and an older pseudo-sister, and I have a vastly different relationship with all of them. They've shaped me so extremely in ways I can't even articulate, and sibling relationships in media are really important to me too.

I'm loving Raz and Fabian, they're going to be an excellent backdrop of "comic & straight man" for as long as they're around.

Anyway, keep working the absolute dark alchemy you must be practicing to make this so compelling! You're doing great, excellent job, hope I didn't overwhelm you, I do that sometimes, and good luck with the rest of this! Back to my basement now, byyyeeeee!

House of the Rising Suns

Alright, let's do this.

This is for everyone who saw my poll a week or so back, and now chapter 1 of the fic is up and running!

The next one will hopefully be coming in the next week or so given my schedule, I don't want to keep you all long. So cheers! To the start of a journey!

This chapter is in Minerva McGonagall's POV, but the next one will be the true start of the fic (this is my pilot, don't tell anyone). 2k words.

Just all the people who left notes on the poll!!

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And to the person who I binge read their fic and instantly felt the urge to write (the one who inspired me to start writing it for real): @shootingthe-stars

Thanks guys!

[oneluckygoose]

Continuation:

Walburga and Orion are horrible: controlling and abusive and manipulative. They destroy their children. Unfortunately for them, James Potter exists.

Sirius starts off wanting to please his parents and be everything they want him to be; it's how they raised. That changes. Sirius always had a fire inside him that his parents could only push down for so long. Once he gets into Gryffindor, everything changes. And, fair warning, it doesn't end pretty.

Regulus' relationship with Orion and Walburga is that of a child who has watched their older sibling be abused for rebellion and is fucking terrified of that happening to him. He hates them, but he has to please them to save his own skin.

!!!Neither of the Black children are bad for their respective reactions to abuse. That is not something they can control, but is only something they have to work to heal, and they do.!!!!

Also, all the Skittles are in Slytherin for being ambitious, cunning, and calculating. Not because they are evil.

Not all Slytherins are pure blood fucks who toss around slurs and unforgivable curses while chanting "praise the dark lord". Some of them are good/some of them don't deserve treatment as if they were. Understanding this is essential to James' character development.

Not Snape though, he is exactly what it says on the surface. Sure, he loves a muggle born, but he also is obsessed with her, manipulated her, called her slurs, and hurt the people she loved. He has no such qualms with being as horrible as possible to anyone else. Not saying James and Sirius were good, but Snape wasn't a fuckin' hero either. "Always." BITCH THAT"S CREEPY NOT ROMANTIC.

How long does it take Lily to realize Snape is the worst person on the planet earth? Much, much too long. He calls her mudblood and that is the last straw.

Also fuck JKR's timeline (also just fuck JKR), I don't even understand how the prank could happen before Snape's Worst Memory or after 5th year so the cannon fuckery is going to happen mainly in 5th year and around the prank. I have a plan laid out, and it shouldn't change its cannon compliment status too heavily.

I've put in a lot of OCs and worldbuilding elements in the story. It's still the Marauder's story, I just filled out the world in a lot of places I see it lacking a lot. Also, whose to say that the Marauders' days at Hogwarts weren't just as dangerous and insane as Harry's? Hogwarts is a strange place where a lot of strange things happen, I plan on using that.

For this final one, I just want to emphasise it by saying: The thing under this is very important.

Nothing will be glossed over. I see a lot of vagueness about the Cruciatus curse, and just, no. People need to see in detail what shapes the characters and why they are the way they are, especially Regulus and Sirius. I'll do CWs before every chapter, but I'm not holding back. It'll be graphic, it'll be skin crawling, but maybe that's the point. Remus goes through torture every month, that needs to be known. Sirius and Regulus are broken by their parents, that needs to be known. Mary was raped and assaulted by blood purists, that needs to be known. Things won't be pretty, they never have been with the Marauders. But maybe that's the most beautiful thing about them. Things aren't pretty, but they find a way to love despite that. (James Potter tends to have a large hand in that, too)

There is and will be a lot more to this story than mentioned, and even still I feel like I've given away too much. I guess this is just for those reading to know what they'd be getting into. I heed and hawed over writing this for a very long time, but now I'm actually doing it! Currently upload schedule is fairly inconsistent because I am in school, and I don't think that'll change for a long while. Unfortunately I plan on putting a lot of things in here, so it's going to be a long fic. As of writing this, I already have 31k for just four chapters, one of which isn't even done. But, I'm trying to do the best that I can writing this, so I really really hope you enjoy!

Also, I know I'm writing very seriously in these descriptions, but my normal writing style isn't like this. I just didn't want to put an absurd amount of gags in my information post(s whoops), lol.

House of the Rising Suns

Info post about my Marauders era fanfic! It will be edited and added to as things about it change, so if you plan to regularly read, I suggest checking in every once in a while to see if something's changed.

It will be posted on Ao3 exclusively, so if you see it anywhere else it means someone has stolen my work. Don't be afraid to report it.

Here's a link to the first chapter: Dear Minerva

It is a fic starting in 1971 and ending 1981 following the Marauders, the Slytherin Skittles, and the Valkyries through their journey through Hogwarts and the First Wizarding War. I don't yet know if it is cannon compliment or not, but I will figure it out with time. All posts I make about it will be tagged with "#house of the rising suns" and "#house of the rising suns oneluckygoose"

Here are the characters that will have POVs: Minerva McGonagall, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans, Marlene McKinnon, Dorcas Meadowes, Mary MacDonald, Regulus Black, Barty Crouch Jr., Evan Rosier, Pandora Lovegood (Rosier), Frank Longbottom, Alice Longbottom, and (ew) Severus Snape.

For the shippers out there --- Endgame ships: Wolfstar (Remus and Sirius), Jily (James and Lily), Dorlene (Dorcas and Marlene), Rosekiller (Evan and Barty), Fralice (Frank and Alice), the Lovegoods (I don't actually know their ship name, but it's Pandora and Xenophillious). --- Ships in the story: Jegulus (James and Regulus), Marylily (Mary and Lily), Pandalily (Pandora and Lily), Remus and Marlene, Sirius and Mary, and characters with OCs that I've added (none of them will be endgame or treated like well known and endgame ships, they're all destined to end eventually).

NO SMUT AT ALL! I'm asexual, I do not feel comfortable writing it. It'll happen eventually, but it won't be explicit. When it does, though, it will be fade to black or very very vague descriptions. They're teenagers, I get that, but I refuse to write it in detail. Sorry, but no.

There is a greater description of it all under the cut! (and in the reblog, this got really long)

!!!!Disclaimer: The last one is extremely important, so if you don't want to read all of these, at least scroll down and read the last bullet point (which will be in the reblog)!!!!!

Scottish and Desi James; Welsh/Jewish Lily, Remus, and Severus; French/English Blacks; IRISH Peter; SCOTTISH Marlene; Dutch Dorcas; French Mary; British Rosiers; and British Barty, Italian/British Frank, Taiwanese/British Alice.

Jegulus, personally I think Jegulus is a very important thing for James’ growth and for Regulus to distance himself from his family’s ideals, but I also don’t think it could ever last. It will probably be a 5th-6th would be a 6th year arc and they break up after Regulus gets the Mark beginning of James' 7th.

Endgame Jily because their story is one of my favorites, and if I do make it a canon compliment ,then I would need to write it with natural progression. Also I just love Jily.

Get ready for a lot of 70's music. It becomes a big deal when Lily brings her record player in second year and then when Queen debuts in 1973 and Sirius falls in love.

I’m on the fence about making it a canon compliment because I choose to be HAPPY, but I don’t need to make that decision now and so I won’t (also I like the idea that Peter is good, screw me)

Aroace Peter, my little boy loves his friends and doesn’t understand why he doesn’t love like they do. A dating spree probably in 5th year but he just cannot figure out how to do the romance thing.

No sex, sorry guys we’re keeping this M rated. I’m asexual and do not feel comfortable writing that in the slightest, it would all be fade to black

Asexual Lily, to whoever HCed that, can I marry you? I love ace Lily and I think it just adds an arc to her story that is normally extremely sexualized. My girl will punch you in the face if you look even a tiny bit lower than her eyes.

*Side note* Lily's taste is also so funny. Like it goes: badass, rolemodel, stunning woman to badass, loving, protective, also stunning woman to badass, ethereal, insane, overwhelmingly beautiful woman to that one guy over there making love eyes and doing finger guns. God I love Jily so much. *End of side note*

Asexual Regulus. I am sick and tired of seeing Jegulus being completely sexualized in every single piece of content I encounter. I firmly believe their story can be extremely compelling and beautiful without falling into sexual stereotypes and just literally making everything about them sexual. All that aside, being asexual makes a lot of sense for Regulus' character, in my opinion. I want to make it clear I'm not doing this just to change Jegulus, I genuinely believe that Regulus' character is compelling with him being asexual, and I don't see a lot of asexual representation in the marauders fandom, so why not add in something good? (There'll be a lot more to Regulus' character though, trust me.)

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