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[hpwlwbigbang]

HP WLW BB Going On Hiatus for 2023

Hello all! Thank you so much for your support of the fest over the past four years. We love running this fest, but it takes a lot of time and energy, and both your mods are at busy moments in their non-fandom lives. Unfortunately, we don't have the time to devote to the fest this year, so we've made the difficult decision to go on hiatus for 2023. In the meantime, we encourage everyone to continue writing awesome WLW fic and making beautiful WLW art! 

your mods, 

frnkly & violet

[artymakeart]

If you wanted to see previous Remus/Sirius Big Bang stories you can check out over to @wolfstar-bigbang

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/WolfstarBigBang

There is also @hpwlwbigbang for wlw content with their own big bang.

AO3:

Definitely give them a read with fantastic authors and artists. A SUPER FUN EXPERIENCE THAT I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

hi there! i'm new to the fandom and i'd love to catch up with old R/S Big Bang editions. where can i find old entries? is there a collection on Ao3?

thanks!!

hi there! this is our first time running the r/s big bang, so you will not be able to find any previous r/s big bangs on our ao3. however! there are tons of wolfstar and remus/sirius fests already out there from over the years, so definitely peek through those :)

if you want to hear more about our experience running a big bang for the first time, you can listen to our Behind the Bang podcast here.

[hp-fanfic-archive]

@ink-bender1022 asked about

😂 (fic that made you laugh out loud): The Fifth Act by oliver.snape (Harry/severus) and No Dead Lesbians by hpwlwbb, Saulaie, & yrfrndfrnkly (Fleur/Tonks)

🔁 (fic that you’ve re-read several times): Creature Comforts by BunnyBopper (Remus/Severus) and the Leo Inter Serpentes series by Aeternum (severitus & Harry/draco)

[celilasart]

Image Description: A digital drawing of Fleur and Tonks sleeping peacefully in their bed. Fleur is wearing a lightblue sleeveless shirt, her long blond hair is fanned out on the pillow behind her. Tonks has a short pink buzzcut and is wearing a white tanktop. Fleur is spooning Tonks: her lips are pressed against Tonks's left shoulder and her left arm is wrapped securely around Tonks's middle. Their left hands are intertwined. Tonks's other hand is pushed under the pillow. They're covered by a darkblue bedspread that has a colourful pattern of icecream cones, fruits, chocolate and cake slices. A thick Sudoku book and a pencil lie at the head of the bed. The afternoon sun bathes the scene in warm light. A sliver of sunlight falls across the couple, illuminating their joined hands. Art by celilasart. End description.

HP WLW BigBang Art Claim: Fleur/Tonks

Illustration for the beautiful fic "The Octochamp" by @yrfrndfrnkly

This was a spur of the moment "what your fic doesn't have art?" creation, and I'm so happy I got the chance to create art for this beautiful fic (and to get to read it almost before everybody else ;D). I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! The story illustrates so wonderfully what it means to support your partner, not just in small things, but also in big life decisions.

Go check it out 💕😊 and please have a look at all the other amazing works of @hpwlwbigbang 🙌

[thistlecatfics]

Fic rec: Unwritten

postwar canon divergence Pansy Parkinson/Ginny Weasley (80k) by @inamamagic with stunning art from @fantalf

Seriously this fic is SO GOOD. The world building is impeccable, and the themes of healing from trauma and loving imperfect people imperfectly are so well-done. 

Come for the magical history and romance, stay for the thick and intricate friendships and complicated family dynamics and loving people who do bad things. 

And the art! Come for gorgeous butch/femme love <3 

Read it read it read it!

[broomsticks]

there's a lovely (60k! illustrated!) postwar narcissa/petunia written for @hpwlwbigbang! fyi

I’m obsessed with your unhinged ship opinions! They’ve really gotten me thinking about interesting combinations which is such a fun activity for the subway

My submissions:

- Narcissa Malfoy/Petunia Dursley

- Voldemort/Molly Weasley

- Nagini/Crookshanks

- Walburga Black/Barty Crouch Sr.

ahhh, thank you so much @epigaea-repens - light of my life and producer of the finest piece of fan art i've ever seen - i'm genuinely delighted to discover that somebody other than me gets something out of doing these.

narcissa malfoy/petunia dursley

i'm oddly partial to a bit of draco/dudley - entirely because the idea of vernon trying to out-pompous lucius is funny to me, as is the fact that they'd clearly both think harry would care and harry's actual response would be 'who's draco?' - and i have to confess myself partial to this too.

narcissa's narrative mirror is molly weasley - both of these women share a certain fierceness [and, especially, a fierceness and strength one might not expect of them at first glance], but they also share a certain disconnection from the rest of their family, and an undercurrent of loneliness can be detected in their characterisation.

this is present in the way petunia is written too - the implication of canon is both that she's married "up" in terms of social class and that vernon is quite a bit older than her.

[and her fandom reception is a victim, i think, of the aging up of the adult cast of the films - petunia is, at most, twenty-four when lily dies. like her sister, she marries and has children young, even by the social standards of 1970s/1980s britain, and having to take on harry changes the trajectory of her life when it's only just started - i am absolutely wedded to the idea, for example, that harry being placed in her care means that she gives up a plan to have a second biological child.]

she is, of course, also confined in a prison which is directly of her own making - the bland domesticity of her perfect little house, all of which is an artifice constructed so she doesn't have to admit how deeply she once longed to be magic. narcissa experiences the same - i always read her as someone who leans heavily on the gendered conventions of the wizarding world as a way of coping with how utterly both of her sisters defied them, and as being someone who is very concerned with keeping up appearances [hence why her wildness and desperation when she goes to see snape in half-blood prince is so shocking]. i think you can imagine that she runs malfoy manor to have the same nothing-wrong-here vibe as number four privet drive, and i think you can do something very interesting indeed with the idea of two women who live behind masks being forced to drop them when they find each other.

lord voldemort/molly weasley

does, in fact, exist, in the form of a story i will recommend to everyone - come slowly, eden by paimpont - which, like all the best rare-pair fics, takes two implausible characters and creates a genuinely meaningful love story between them, through a lovely character study of molly and her ability to notice when people [and, especially, when people who are very much in want of a mother] are hungry.

nagini/crookshanks

i had to look up crookshanks' gender for this - which is a wild thing to say on a weekday afternoon - so that I could confirm... flopping. nagini's a lesbian, crookshanks misunderstood when she said she liked pussy.

it's fine in the end, though. nagini's got something happening with one of the malfoys' peahens, and crookshanks can go back either to the enemies-to-lovers thing he's got going on with mrs norris or to the soulmates thing he's got going on with sirius.

walburga black/barty crouch sr.

i am completely obsessed with this concept, i don't even think it can be considered a crack ship, and i would like to see it written immediately.

debilitating grief at the son you thought you knew disappearing - whether literally or metaphorically? delicious.

[violetclarity]

I’m so excited for the HP WLW Big Bang! It’ll be my first fest ever and I finally have a solid idea now.

I’m so excited you’re excited!! I really am too :D and extra exciting that it’s your first fest! yay!! what is your idea?

[sapphicfanficrecs]

Pansmione: “Pansy, Rows, and Mutual Wanking” by hpwlwbb, kysprite, violetclarity (Complete)

Pansy, Rows, and Mutual Wanking by hpwlwbb, kysprite, violetclarity (Complete/ Explicit/ 27k words)

Author Summary: Eighth year. Hermione's ready. She's going to study, have fun with her friends, and ignore her new roommate's obnoxious wanking habits.

And alright, maybe she wouldn't be so annoyed with it if she'd had any good sex in the past. But that doesn't mean she wants Pansy Parkinson to teach her how to wank.

...does it?

[andi-is-bored]

Hello, i have some thoughts.

So i’ve been searching for new HP ships to obsessed over for the last like, thirty minutes i’d say. Well more like about two weeks, since i read Pansy, Rows, and Mutual Wanking by hpwlwbb, kysprite, violetclarity on Ao3 and have realized i need more sapphic HP pairings in my life.

Now let me be clear, i’m aware that a strangely large portion of the HP fandom has a fascination of pairing canonically underage characters with adult characters that are their parents ages or older. I’m aware that it’s now new, we all have seen some form of it, most likely involving Hermione with characters like Sirius Black or Lucius Malfoy, who in canon are at least two or so decades her senior.

I’m aware of it and i hate it, you all can say “Maybe it’s in the future when she’s of age!” or “Maybe it’s an AU! where they are both of age” and you know what, that’s fine if that’s what you’re into, i like a good AU! as much as the next person so i don’t see a big problem with it.

However.

When i think about the canon, and i know in fandom, canon doesn’t really matter but in this context i think it does, it just makes me very uncomfortable thinking about Hermione Granger, a character who at the end of the series (if you ignore the epilogue) is about 18, getting it on with Lucius Malfoy, who according to the wiki, would be around 44 by the end of Deathly Hollows, and not to mention that Lucius’s son is the same age as Hermione.

Look i don’t care what people are into really, as long as you’re not bothering or harassing other people you can do whatever you want i guess, but shipping minors, even fictional ones, with adults, even if in your fic or fanart or whatever they are of age, is still weird and gross, and i’m not changing my mind on that.

Anyways! This all was a long version of me saying that there’s a weird amount of fics and fanart of Hermione with characters like Bella Lestrange (not even gonna try and spell her name) or Narcissa Malfoy under the femslash tag and it’s not my cup of tea thank you very much.

Hermione is the usual victim of all those pairings which is weird in general and also in canon cause most of the older characters i named are blood-purists and hate her for the basic reason that she’s alive.

So yeah, that’s kind of it. If anyone wanted to know my opinions on this, well here it is i guess. I wanna find some fic rec blogs with wlw pairings so if anyone knows of any please send them my way if you could. If you need a new fic rec blog id recommend @potter-loves-malfoy they have a very organized master list with some really good fics in there so check them out! I’m gonna go sleep now please don’t yell at me for my opinions i’m fragile /hj

[sitp-recs]

hey! I know you're a drarry rec blog but I'm looking for good wlw fics, particularly linny. I would also love some nonbinary or genderqueer rep. any suggestions? :) thanks for being awesome!

Hi anon, thanks for the ask! I actually do read other pairings and occasionally rec them, but I’m no expert in Linny so I’m linking two fics below and I’ll let my followers rec their faves for this one. If you feel like exploring other pairings, let me take this opportunity to celebrate these amazing wlw works:

Independent Love Song by Writcraft (Ginny/Millicent, Explicit, 6k) - Millie is genderfluid

Millicent Bulstrode is a tailor and Ginny is losing her mind over a woman in a tweed blazer and burgundy brogues.

my heart beat a tattoo on my ribs by icarusinflight (Ginny/Luna, Explicit, 7k)

Ginny can't understand why anyone would want to mark themselves by choice but she still agrees to go with Harry when he says he wants a tattoo.

Single and Snacking in Phoenix, AZ by hpwlwbb, keyflight790, @violetclarity (Ginny/Pansy, Harry/Luna, Explicit, 25k)

When she told her friends she was bringing a date to Harry and Luna’s wedding, Ginny had only wanted them to stop bothering her about her love life. Now she’s facing an entire weekend of pretending that Pansy Parkinson, her casual hook-up, is actually her girlfriend. What could possibly go wrong?

Pansy, Rows, and Mutual Wanking by hpwlwbb, kysprite, violetclarity (Pansy/Hermione, Explicit, 27k) - Linny is a minor relationship

Eighth year. Hermione's ready. She's going to study, have fun with her friends, and ignore her new roommate's obnoxious wanking habits. And alright, maybe she wouldn't be so annoyed with it if she'd had any good sex in the past. But that doesn't mean she wants Pansy Parkinson to teach her how to wank... does it?

Maybe It's You by hpwlwbb, likehandlingroses, Showknight, WhyTFNot (Ginny/Luna, Mature, 30k)

Ginny and Luna haven’t spoken much since Ginny abruptly left Harry and separated herself from most of her old life. Luna is busy working in Diagon Alley, eager to earn enough money to move out of her father’s house and see the world. Ginny--fresh off a suspension from the Holyhead Harpies--has returned home and is dissatisfied with having to take two steps back in her life. She asks Percy if she can stay in the spare room in his and Oliver’s flat. The trouble is, he’s already offered it to Luna…

Play Me Like A Love Song by bergatroll, hpwlwbb, Owlpostart (Owlpostings), Writcraft (Minerva/Wilhelmina, Explicit, 67k)

Minerva McGonagall doesn’t believe in love at first sight, which is why her instant attraction to drag king Wilhelmina ("Will") Grubbly-Plank is so unexpected. War tears apart the wizarding world and as one battle ends Minerva and Will must fight once more, this time for the lives of their friends on Little Compton Street. A love story spanning five decades defined by music, laughter and tears, in which love is not always easy, but it’s always worth fighting for.

As for genderqueer fics, this lovely Drarry one comes to mind:

Pretty in Pink by Writcraft (2014, Explicit, 3.7k)

What happens when the only person who accepts your secrets is the one person you can’t stand?

As you can see I worship the ground @writcraft walks on lol oh, and I’ve also found these posts that might be helpful:

Reclists by @ani-mage

Reclist by @drarryruinedme7

[lilyevansgf]

i saw u were looking for wlw fics, so here are some of my favourites:

Skirt Full of Thorns by montparnasse (linny), No Dead Lesbians by hpwlwbb (flonks), Buzzcut Season (this one has multiple couples and some of them are genderbent, so that might not be your thing, but it's really good), All The Good That Won't Come Out by LowerEastSide (Daphne/Pansy. does include Drastoria). wish i had some dorlene to rec.

ahhh thank you!!! i really like genderbends actually, i think they’re fun :) and dw about the dorlene ive got a bunch of them, these recs look great <3

[hpwlwbigbang]

That’s a Wrap!

Hard to believe that after months and months of the authors’ and artists’ hard work, we’ve now posted all the fics and art for the 2022 HP WLW Big Bang! A massive thank you to all creators for making this fest happen <3  

Below is the list of all this year’s works (see AO3 for summaries and tags!), and you can keep an eye on this space for a final fest stats post in the next couple days :)

Title: Nicotine/Linger

Pairing: Hermione Granger/Pansy Parkinson

Author: @teacup-tai

Artists: @carlav-blogs & @digthewriter

Rating: E

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Title: (Self)Deception

Pairing: Petunia Evans Dursley/Narcissa Black Malfoy

Author: space_mermaid

Artists: @digthewriter & @anaxandria-writes

Rating: E

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Title: Passion, Patents, and Pen Pals at the Ministry

Pairing: Hermione Granger/Pansy Parkinson

Authors: @yrfrndfrnkly & @violetclarity

Artists: @anaxandria-writes & @veelawings

Rating: T

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Title: Silhouette

Pairing: Narcissa Black Malfoy/Hermione Granger

Author: @maraudersaffair

Artists: @sunflower-swan & @SecondSilk

Rating: E

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Title: The Handle Toward My Hand

Pairing: Narcissa Malfoy/Lily Potter

Author: @yletylyf

Artists: @sunflower-swan & @carlav-blogs

Rating: E

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Title: you will burn right now but then you won't regret it

Pairing: Fleur/Tonks

Author: @thistlecatfics

Artists: @SecondSilk and @veelawings

Rating: M

[elizabethgoudge]

Saorsa - A story in twelve Quidditch bets - hippocrates460, hpwlwbb - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

The older femslash fic you didn't know you needed. McGonagall and Hooch, resistance vibes, love story and growing intimacy.

[hp-fanfic-archive]

@a-wandering-raccoon asked for the whole rec list from this uquiz so uh ask and ye shall receive I guess? (Also excuse the janky formatting. I am doing this in bed on mobile. It is what it is).

Distractions by morningsound15 (Hermione/Ginny): Ginny sighed and slumped back in her seat. “You’re letting him win. He’s winning the breakup!”

“Everything you’re saying is ridiculous! You can’t win a breakup.”

“Obviously you can, and Ron is doing it!”

“You’re being childish. Not everything is about winning and losing.”

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Ron and Hermione have recently broken up, and Ginny — concerned for her best friend — has decided that the only thing for Hermione to do now is to date someone new to make Ron jealous. And who better than Hermione’s best friend (and coincidentally Ron’s younger sister) to drive him absolutely mental?

Fake Dating AU

Solid Ground by NachoDiablo (Marlene/Lily): Lily and Marlene are casual, until Lily decides she wants more. And if she has to find it with someone else, then so be it.

No Dead Lesbians by hpwlwbb, Saulaie, & yrfrndfrnkly (Fleur/Tonks): That one where Fleur joins in the Order, falls arse over teakettle in love with Tonks, becomes bffs with Sirius Black, and accidentally gets Tonks pregnant, all while banterously fighting the good fight against Big V.

My Best Friend’s Sister by hazellepotter (Astoria/Ginny): That afternoon as Ginny was leaving Daphne's, she ran into Daphne's sister, the very sister that in fact confirmed that Ginny was as far from straight as possible. She was the only person that had ever managed to make her nervous. She could already feel the sweat bubbling up underneath her skin.

High Alert by hazellepotter (Lily/Narcissa): Lily pretended to be asleep in her own bed when Narcissa came out of the shower, but her senses were on high alert. The worst part about it was, she realized she had wanted to know who Narcissa was deep down for a long time. She just didn't want to admit it to herself.

Let The Dream Be True by pommedeplume (Lavender/Parvati):

(July 1998)

Two months after the Battle of Hogwarts, Lavender Brown invites her best friend Parvati Patil (who she is secretly in love with) to give her some news.

*Now they say I’ve got to hide it by fmslash (Lily/Narcissa): "I mean, yeah it’s risky,” Lily said. “I don’t even know what your favorite color is. How am I supposed to risk house points for a girl who hasn’t even told me her favorite color?”

Two Left Feet by SiriuslySapphic (Lily/Narcissa): That drew a laugh from the red-haired girl. Narcissa had trouble tearing her eyes away from her lips. “You’re a terrible flirt, you know that?”

“You’re still here, aren’t you?” Narcissa challenged her with a smirk, raising a single eyebrow. “Let me show you.”

*that is genuinely my favorite fic of all time. Thank u goodnight.

fanfic recommendation uquiz: 4/7

[celilasart]

Image Description: A digital drawing of a polaroid photo in sepia colours with the words "The Gateways 1960" scribbled underneath the picture. The polaroid shows Minnie and Poppy on their first date slow-dancing at the Gateways Club. Minnie is wearing a sleeveless jumpsuit with white polka dots and a deep V neckline, Poppy is wearing a white blouse with short sleeves and a high collar as well as a dark maxi skirt. Minnie and Poppy have their hair in artfully arranged updos, they are smiling widely and only have eyes for each other. They don't even notice the women dancing in the background or sitting at the small tables next to them. Art by celilasart. End description.

HP WLW BigBang Art Claim: Minerva/Poppy

Illustration for the amazing fic "When the world is on fire, I want you with me to watch it burn" by @lalalaartje with lovely art by @agentmoppet

The fic, this fic, I was allowed to create art for, is absolutely phenomenal. Whether Minnie & Poppy are your OTP or you've never read a single fic for this pairing, this fic is for you! It's just beautiful how we follow these two through the decades :))

Go check it out 💕😊 and please have a look at all the other amazing works of @hpwlwbigbang 🙌

[hpwlwbigbang]

FIC & ART: Passion, Patents, and Pen Pals at the Ministry

Title: Passion, Patents, and Pen Pals at the Ministry

Pairing: Hermione Granger/Pansy Parkinson

Authors: @yrfrndfrnkly & @violetclarity

Artists: @anaxandria-writes & @veelawings

Rating: T

Warning/Content Notes: rivals (to coworkers) to lovers, getting together, first kiss, screen reader friendly, semi-epistolary, misogyny in the press, misogyny at the Ministry, invasive press coverage, insecurity, career frustrations, unprofessional behaviour, Ministry of Magic employees, at-work hexing, gossip, flirty letters, friends being secretive, group chats, humor, comedic situations, meddling friends, underground zines, loving insults/friends gently dragging each other, Blaise’s inability to have only one beverage, Hermione’s inability to let anything go, the WLW urge to question if the woman obviously flirting with you is indeed flirting with you, apology meals, reading and watching each other's faves as a love language

Summary: After an extremely ill-timed lovers'-tiff-turned-food-fight at the Ministry leaves her less one boyfriend and suspended without pay for six months, Hermione pleads for some position–anything–to fill her days until her suspension is up. The good news is, her temporary position in the Magical Games & Sports's Ludicrous Patents office is just down the corridor from Harry's office in General Inquiries. The bad news is Harry's officemate is Pansy Parkinson, the Ministry's operations are shockingly outdated, and every altercation between Hermione and Pansy winds up a headline in MoM's internal rogue gossip zine, Hot Goss. Pansy, who's already chagrined about having been glass-ceilinged in the same position for six years, is no happier with this turn of events. Unbeknownst to each other, Pansy and Hermione each take to The Daily Prophet's Opinions column to air their grievances. When their Op-Eds morph into (increasingly flirty) private correspondence, Hermione and Pansy seem to be the only people they know who haven't figured out one anothers' true identities. Is it a recipe for disaster—or romance??

Word Count: ~34k

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