#to be clear: fuck jkr

[loz-tearsofahomo]

being hyperfixated on the marauders but not even remotely invested in taylor swift is a battle only given to god's strongest soldiers

[descendantofthesparrow]

The way this stupid mf has invaded my brain is unfair

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Full offense here: can some people stop trying to turn the Neil Gaiman situation into something about JK Rowling??? Seeing posts doing this in the tag has actually pissed me the fuck off beyond reason now oh my god, this situation isn't about the terf queen and the fact that some of you are trying it just to try and say she isn't as bad as Neil is holy shit in a bad way.

[drunktuesdays]

ok but can u plz link the 2 million word fic. for the community

Okay, i'm going to link it, anon, because i'm NOTHING but not community minded, but please understand that when i tell you I've been so bored this winter, I've been reading a 2 million word story (eta: i just did the math and it's THREE million) where Harry Potter is part phoenix, it's not a healthy place for me to be. It's not a proud moment for my spirit. Like, this story straight up belongs on SugarQuill. Sometimes in this story, Draco intones "Harry, I would like to have you," and I wince and have to tab away for a minute. Also it's one of those Slytherfen stories where everyone that's good in the books is actually bad, and everyone who's bad in the books is secretly good.

ALL THAT TO SAY.... it also has some of the very coolest and most fascinating worldbuilding i've ever read, and I genuinely never see some of the twists and turns coming, even though I think I've read the whole series like four times.

Also I think the author basically taught herself how to write as she was going, because the series picks up in quality SHARPLY as she goes on.

if you read it, you HAVE to talk to me about it.

The original isn't on AO3, it's on fanfiction dot net (because of course it is) but someone made a big ole mobi/pdf/epub, which is how i always read it....again, this isn't a straightforward rec!!!!!!

[fandumb-thoughts]

Harry Potter has something overarchingly horrible and bad happen to him every school year, yeah? Some things are caused by cascading plot decisions for the overall series, of course, but other things are less effected.

That is to say, it's awfully lucky that the events of, let's say Prisoner of Azkaban, don't happen at the same time as the events of Chamber of Secrets. All it would have taken is the Weasleys winning that prize money to visit Egypt a year earlier! The Triwizard Tournament could've happened just about any year!

It takes a bit of finagling, but I figured out that it's entirely possible to combine the events of the first five books into one horribly chaotic mess for just one (1) school year. And I wrote a fic about it, titled Harry Potter and the Speedrun From Hell. It only has 25 views right now??? Which is so beyond discouraging and annoying from a fandom so large. Cringey to advertise it, I know, but I really enjoy writing it and I want people to see it, so. Here I am.

[a-worthy-mystery]

[ina-worldofmyown]

Since I've had the time, I've been going through my own personal shit to do with mental health - the aftermath of my childhood SA, for a start, and what thought patterns and beliefs I could unlearn from them. Won't go too much into it, but damn there's been a lot to unravel recently...

In the meantime, I've been having several dreams involving a certain Mr. Neil Gaiman - a naïvely placed favourite of mine. And in short, I just want to say;

Everything about him makes me deeply uncomfortable now especially considering what I've pushed away and not dealt with for so long.

It might seem like I'm making it personal but there are thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of women and girls in the world who go through this awful fucking shit on a daily basis and I've just about had enough of it.

You might be pleased to know I screamed and yelled and fucking got every last little thing out that I had to. I'm proud dream me had the courage to stand up to such a disgusting man, even if it was in my head. Nobody, but nobody should be put through the shit he's pulled. And damn it was cathartic even in my subconscious to completely destroy him. It felt like a little bit of closure for me at least. Then the news that's come out about his NDAs??? Suing people?? Honestly just choke.

[arcanobabble]

nobody would know or care that you own Harry Potter merch/books if you didn't proclaim how much you treasure it under every post that rightfully points out that buying or promoting JK's products is funding transphobia campaigns

you can simply be quiet about it. nobody needs to know that you're still holding onto them. and nobody is going to say "Oh, I never considered that you might really care about those books, I guess you're off the hook"

it's really that easy. if you don't want a load of people telling you to get rid of your merch and books, don't make a point of telling people you're still holding onto the merch and books sold by someone who's actively campaigning against trans rights.

[hyperfixation-fix]

Can someone with a copy of the Prisoner of Azkaban do me a favour and check exactly what Prof Lupin says to Harry when he offers him the chocolate that first time they meet? It's for a fic ✌️

[kittywaffles97]

the urge to write a modern wizarding au with jegulus (jeguly???) in the center... a reg who sings some Indochine when he thinks nobody's listening... sirius who loves metal covers of pop song he can shred his voice on.... remus who lives on energy drinks and cigarettes and somehow still manages to charm everyone around him... James who drinks green smoothies because they're good for you, pads, and pretends he can't terminate a bag of crisps in under five minutes... lily who gets a new piercing every other day with her girlfriends and always has paint in her hair... Marlene who plays rugby and wears high heels as well as she does combat boots... dorcas who smokes with Evan and Barty at their parents' parties, making skulls and dragons and flowers with the smoke... Mary who laughs loud enough to enchant a whole room, pulling Peter after herself so he'll socialize more because his cookies are divine and there's never too little weed in them... Pandora who shares stories with Alice and Frank about their high school days while pulling cards for her friends...

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Is JK Rowling involved with the new Harry Potter land that is going to be at Epic Universe (Universal Orlando’s upcoming new park) in any way aside from owning the franchise?

....I don't think she's involved in the theme parks area of Harry Potter, but like, I'd consider it on the boycott list anyway with the rest of Harry Potter stuff because JK Rowling still profits from it which she proceeds to use to be transphobic and such.

[ebp-brain]

After the war with Voldemort is narrowly averted, Remus and the Marauders are getting along fine: steady jobs, decent flats, occasional evenings together to catch up. Then, their second holiday season after leaving Hogwarts, James and Lily make a proposal--about a big house in Hogsmeade, with a lot of empty bedrooms and plenty of space for a giant Christmas tree.

chapter 1 is up now!

The house is about a ten minutes’ walk from the Three Broomsticks. It’s on one of the quieter streets of Hogsmeade, in the opposite direction from the Shrieking Shack—a distance which Remus appreciates. While most of the houses towards the center of town are thatched cottages, there are some larger, more recently constructed buildings on its outskirts; this street has mostly Victorians. The front gates are decked with boughs of pine or holly, and the eaves and gables of the roofs are strung with twinkling lights. Candles glow in tall, narrow windows.

Many of the houses on the cobbled street are doubles, two doors side by side opening onto perfectly symmetrical rooms, but the one Lily and James lead them to is set slightly apart, with a low wall around a small front garden and a single weathered door. It’s three stories, if you count the attic that must reside under the peaked roof and the single turret. The walls are red brick, the wooden trim around the windows a faded white. The small tower sports big bow windows.

They stop in the cobbled street, just outside the low wrought-iron gate. In the soft glow of the streetlights and the neighbors’ luminous decorations, the house looks—well, magical. Almost like something out of a fairy tale.

[finnslay]

11 year old me: do we still like harry potter?? it's so cool and i wanna be just like jk rowling- we're just like her, right???

me now: ...holy shit you're gonna have a huge wake up call soon...

[atlasblue85]

writer questions

thank you for the tag @soliadiaz!

1. How many works on AO3?

currently at 28, which is crazy because like 9 months ago that total was 5

2. Total AO3 word count?

172,924 which is, again, crazy to me (even tho i'm the one who wrote them all)

3. Top 5 fics by kudos?

-there's another day to come -i need the truth otherwise i'm gonna panic -we're gonna paint the road -wanna make this the start of something -there's one thing (it's the weight of our wish)

4. What fandoms do you write for?

currently only 911 tho i have had a devil's minion fic like 3/4 finished since july that may or may not ever see the light of day

5. Do you respond to comments?

yes, i try my best to as much as possible

6. Angstiest ending?

hard to say. i think all my s8 codas so far are kind of angsty because they're all ambiguous/open endings, so maybe could you trust love or what's left if i let you go

7. Fic with the happiest ending?

i think pretty much any of the getting together fics are happy endings, but probably for pay off alone it's there's another day or paint the road or maybe burning through the days

8. Do you get hate?

i do not, thankfully

9. Do you write smut?

i respect all the smut writers out there with all my heart but i will probably never be one of you

10. Do you write crossovers?

not currently. way way back in the day when i was writing marvel fics i had the beginnings of something written that was a vague supernatural crossover in that it involved a crossroads demon, but it never got far (that will be a theme here)

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

not to my knowledge

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

again, not that i know of

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

back in 2018 when Louis was a judge on one season of the X-Factor a friend and I started writing a Lilo TXF AU where one of them was a contestant and one was a judge but again, it never got very far

14. All time favourite ship?

ooof very hard to say but probably e/R? in the years when i wasn't really actively in fandom at all those were the fics I always went back to read again and again and I'm sure one of theirs is at the top of my most re-read fics list

15. WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

paint the road originally had a completely different ending before I decided to have Chris call and ask to come back and put the getting together there, so there was an entire conversation I wrote between Buck and Eddie while stuck in traffic at the very end of the road trip and I really really loved a lot of what was in there and was really sad to have to cut it when it no longer worked. So at one point I was toying with reworking it into it's own fic but I never quite figured out a good way to do it and so I'm not sure it'll ever get anywhere, sadly.

there's also an Adam/Ronan raven cycle one I started years ago that I have thought about returning to recently but not sure if I ever will. I think there's some good stuff in there and maybe if I were less ambitious about it I could turn it into something but idk. I haven't dipped my toe in that fandom in quite a while now so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

16. Writing strengths?

I think one of the most frequent comments I get is that my dialogue feels very in character, which I love to hear because I love writing dialogue and really work hard to make it sound believable, so it's nice to know my work there is paying off and that people enjoy it

17. Writing weaknesses?

just generally physical actions. I think it's something a lot of people struggle with, but every time I'm writing action I'm Marshall HIMYM "what do i normally do with my hands"

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

if it feels natural and correct for the character then it's fine but like don't do it if you're not fluent or consulting someone who is, you know?

19. First fandom you wrote for?

obviously i deeply no longer fuck with the fandom or anything to do with the creator but it was HP back when i was in high school. there was this girl on the CoS forums who wrote these really long, epic saga fics, one was a marauders era and one was next gen era and I was SO obsessed with them and looked up to her so much even though she was like maybe 2 years older than me at most. so I attempted to write a marauders era fic and it was, i am sure, not good, and I only ever made it like two chapters in before abandoning it.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

there's another day to come will always always hold a special place in my heart. As evidenced in my other answers, there have been so many times in other fandoms where I've had big dreams of writing something long that I just never had the follow through for, so the fact that I saw that one through and stuck with it even when the writing was hard (and when i had bronchitis and couldn't write for like 2 weeks) is something I will always be immensely proud of.

I will tag @redrosydiaz @xjustlikeyou @batpupboy @smilingbuckley @unlifeira @donationwayne and anyone else who wants to talk about themselves for a minute

[legendoftherisingtide]

me: “yeah i learned a lot of coping skills and techniques in the mental hospital”

the go to coping mechanism: sorting characters into hogwarts houses and pjo cabins and dnd classes

[rosieshipper]

do you support the creator of Harry Potter?

Oh absolutely not. JK Rowling can taste my boot in her mouth. She can get bent a fuck off the face of the earth for all I care