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My wife (ao3) has gone to war (is down) and I don't know if she'll ever return home again (the wonderful people at ao3 are working diligently to bring it back up ASAP). I don't know if I'll ever recover (I'll be fine) but I'm being very brave about it (I am NOT being brave).

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I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

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Draco: I really like this man but I don't know how to tell him.

Harry: Just ask him to the pub this weekend.

Draco: Do you want to go to the pub with me this weekend?

Harry: No, I meant ask them.

Draco: I just did.

Harry: What did he say?

Draco: I don't know. You tell me.

Harry: What do you mean?

Draco: I like you, you pillock.

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Guys you have it all wrong, it’s REGULUS that has the antler hip tattoos that frame JAMES’ head when he’s on his knees in front of him.

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Awww Poor Reg

"How did you get up there?"

Based on @pickinglilahs 's prompt

Regulus was mad. Furious, even.

Why?

Because stupid James Potter was growing on him.

He stalked into the courtyard, trying to stop himself from thinking about how yesterday, Potter had worn jeans that had looked just lovely on him, and last week, Potter had smiled at him in a way that made his stomach flop uncomfortable. He tried to stop remembering the way Potter, during the Quidditch Match two weeks ago, had stopped short in the middle of a play to make sure someone on the opposite team was okay when they'd fallen.

Because if he thought about those things, he might actually think about how he didn't hate Potter.

Of course, the world was cruel, and as soon as he exited the castle, a voice yelled out to him.

"Reg! Hey!"

"Wha- Potter! How did you get up there?" he asked desperately, shocked to see a slightly ruffled-looking James Potter on top of the roof of one of the outdoor paths, a grin on his face.

"Magic!" The other boy called, infuriatingly vague, still smiling. "A first year lost a frisbee up here, and it was stuck, couldn't summon it! Had to help!"

Regulus gaped at Potter, at the way he insisted in being so ridiculously kind and good-looking, and turned and stalked away without a response or a goodbye. Obviously, he had a lot more not-thinking to do.

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AWWWWWW. Wolfstar warms my heart

when you’re too tired to read after the full moon but you still want to know how your book ends (don’t tell him sirius bent the spine backwards)

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. So perfect

Until one day he'd been standing with James and Peter, in the hallway. James had said something, Sirius can't even remember what. But he'd laughed. One of those big laughs. The type that fills your belly. That makes you cry. And when he'd looked up, he'd found Remus's eyes on him.

*Oh.*

That was something.

That was world altering.

The atoms in his body rearranged themselves under Remus's eyes. They needed. Needed. Needed him.

He'd asked Remus, several years later, what had made him look, since it couldn't have been the noise. And he'd only shrugged and said:

"Your laugh is so bright. It's impossible not to notice it. Like not noticing the sun is in the sky."

Kill your darlings by @sophsicle

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Drarry all the way!!

2024.03.30

Complete fics posted on AO3 this day

1. burning city hearts by sectumsempra [T, 28k]

►harry has a soulmate and the person isn’t who he thought would be. it didn’t stop him from falling in love, though.

2. A Little Luck Never Hurt Anyone by DarknessAboundsHere [M, 3k] 💗

►He would pretend he had not seen the gold shimmers in the orange juice just as Kreacher had handed the juice to him, swirling and beautiful. After all if it was all what it took to make Potter love him, who was Draco to refuse? A little Felix Felicis never hurt anyone, right?

3. Stolen Virility by DarkQuartz [E, 18k]

►Prompt: Set post-war when Harry is married and has 2-3 kids. Draco and Astoria have been trying for children for years, to no avail. They find out Draco is responsible for the fertility issues because he’s shooting blanks. Astoria leaves him, snapping his last tenuous string of pride and he does what he considers the most reasonable thing at the time - that being constructing a dark ritual or potion that lets him steal Harry’s vitality.

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Fanfiction all the way

Fanfic tiktok is wild... I see so many people saying shit like "I could never read anything below 60k!!", or "What story can you even tell in under 5k words?" or "A oneshot below 10k isn't even a story!" or "I always filter completed fics by 100k< only!"

And I'm like...

A) which fandoms are you reading fics for where you have this kind of offerings on the regular?

B) have you heard of short stories? If you truly think every story NEEDS to be longform to connect with people, I sincerely feel sorry for you.

C) Average novel length is between 50k to 100k. I'm sorry, but CONSISTENTLY demanding fic writers to push out fics of that length is insane. Just think about it: YOU DEMAND AUTHORS TO PUT OUT FICS THAT COMPARE TO COMMERCIAL NOVELS IN LENGTH (AND QUALITY) AS A BASELINE.

Yall are wilding.