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FIC: Nose to the Wind ~ Harry Potter ~ Harry/Voldemort ~ Omake

A/N: A bonus scene for Nose to the Wind, which I wrote around the time I was working on chapter 18 or 19, as an attempt to break past some writer’s block. Nothing like this ever happens in the actual fic, but it was a lot of fun to write, and to reread a couple of years later. ^^;

-~OMAKE~-

“My Lord.”

Voldemort turned to stare down at where Lucius Malfoy had stopped to bow next to him. He had a sinking suspicion he knew what his Death Eater wanted, and he wasn’t looking forward to it, but… Needs must. “What is it, Lucius?” he requested, forcing his tone to remain uninterested.

“My Lord, I have some…concerns about rumours regarding you…liaising with the eldest Potter boy. A squib.”

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Tanith Lee Recs

Since Tanith Lee deserves to be known for much more than having been plagiarized, I thought I'd share some recommendations. She had a HUGE body of work, and I've seen it suggested that the reason she never became a household name in fantasy and science fiction is that she wrote so many things that were different from each other, rather than staying in one easily labeled niche. I've only begun to make a dent in her catalogue, but here's the stuff I liked the best.

Note: A lot of her stuff can be disturbing, and I can't remember everything well enough to give perfect trigger warnings.

Red as Blood and Redder Than Blood: These fairy tale collections are being talked about now for the title story, but my favorite is The Golden Ladder, an incredibly creepy and hot version of Rapunzel, or perhaps When the Clock Strikes, a horrifying beautiful take on Cinderella.

The Weird Tales of Tanith Lee: As you can see, I love her short stories. These are all the ones published in Weird Tales, which includes some of the above fairy tales (including When the Clock Strikes) but also Arthurian, steampunk and science fiction stories. It's a great sampler of all the things she could do.

Blood 20: One more short story collection! This one is (most of) her vampire stories, so I know you goths will like it! There are things erotic, fantastical and grotesque in here, but to me the most haunting is the tragically mundane The Vampire Lover.

The Secret Books of Paradys: In this series, an alternate history of Paris, bad things happen. Supernatural things, sexual things, horrifying things. And sometimes good things happen, such as a man saved by a Jewish sage an his beautiful daughter who then actually converts to Judaism.

The Secret Books of Venus: I've only read the first entry in this similar series about an alternate world version of Venice, but once again it leaves the reader feeling totally transported to this sometimes sinister, sometimes lovely place where romance and cruelty live next door to each other.

Vivia: This tragic medieval plague-influenced vampire story is maybe the darkest thing of hers I've read, but dear god can she paint a picture with words. Along with The Birthgrave (which I didn't like as much), George RR Martin definitely pulled a lot of Danaerys's story from the title character here.

Islands in the Sky: And now for something completely different- a children's book. I remember finding this at the library as a kid and wanting to cry when it was over, because it gave me an equal sense of wonder and happiness as The Lion the Witch and the Wardobe, which I hadn't known was possible and worried would never happen again.

...but if you're like me, you'll just see which of her books you find at the library and used bookstores. You may not love every single thing, but it will always be interesting!

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I have spent the last week-ish updating the small handful of line breaks I'd already made for FMA fics and adding more, and then updating all of my FMA fics on AO3 to have screenreader-friendly line breaks. (Also did a couple of HP ones, but I'll save sharing those for after I've finished the lot. Eventually.) I've been mentioning them, a bit, on twitter, but I haven't shared any.

SO

I decided to share here, since I'm relatively proud of most of them. (& because the coding I use for line breaks on AO3 doesn't really allow readers to do anything with the images, and I invariably get questions about them.) They should all have image descriptions through tumblr's coding, but let me know if it eats any. Alternate versions are added, for those that went through a couple of iterations, and I don't expect to use those alternates anywhere else, so this is PROBABLY the only place you'll see them.

So, first up, the general, all-purpose line break I've decided to use for most of the one-shots and non-series fics, with the alternate being the original FMA line break I did, back when I really didn't know what I was doing:

And then, the one I used for Reverti Ad Praeteritum (with the alternate version that I decided I didn't like as much) :

The version I decided to use for the Our Sinner's Redemption series:

And this one was made for Dreaming in Red and Gold, with the alternate original version, because I do like how the speckling turned out, and I might, eventually, go back in and change it back to that style, but I also just in general like the gold glow effect I settled on:

And then, finally changing things up a bit—by which I mean moving away from the daggers, lol—this one was created for Colours in Your Eyes, and then I used it for...at least one other? With the alternate I originally created with daggers, before I decided it needed a more Asian style:

And then a special one just for the trans!Ed fic:

And then something for the Come Hell or High Water series (aka, Team Mustang!Pirates), with the alternate version I originally made, before deciding I hated the way it looked and trying something different:

The line break I decided to use for The Blood Toll Saga is actually a gif that I found online at one point when looking for line breaks to use for this, but I did create a line break for the Al & Truth one-shot in that series (which I, now I'm thinking about it, feel like I should have used any time someone travels to the Gate) :

And then, changing things up a bit, lol, the Book of Jealousy series is from Envy's PoV, and therefore required not using the flamel, I felt:

And I have a single one-shot that's from Greed's perspective, so I made him his own line break:

That's the FMA set I've made.

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leave me to my melodrama

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i am fucking WHEEZING  (x)

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Twitter isn't appreciating my anecdotal wit, this is so funny to me

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Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, I make memes on company time.

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Boomer: If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you??

Gen X: Of course not!

Millenials: yeah, there would be a whole pile of bodies to break my fall

Gen Z: ME N THE GANG YEETING INTO THE VOID BECAUSE WE CRAVE DEATH

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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20% ‘no’ on the “does gale dekarios eat pussy” poll is crazy—opinions on his character aside—solely because his voice actor stood in that recording booth multiple times to deliver at minimum three separate lines of dialogue reiterating that the man eats pussy. the writers said “let’s not leave this up to guesswork” and mr. downie collected his paycheck

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so !!! this is kind of a tribute to law and to a lesser extent corazon :0 

tbh it was kind of a spur of the moment thing i have no idea how i drew 30+ panels in a week,,also its 4am and im very tired

altho this is incomplete ive put in a lot of energy into it and, i think im pretty proud of the end product :D

(also itd be great if this could get a reblog since this particular project has arguably, the most amount of effort ive ever put into any of my art)

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How Shang qinghua looks to me

mbj agrees :)

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This was an interesting read. Surprisingly nonpreachy given the subject; and well worth the time.

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