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How To Lock All of Your Fics At Once On Ao3

Someone has probably already done this but

For anyone looking to lock their works for only registered users over on Ao3 in light of the sudowrites scraping thing here is how you can lock all of your fics at once.

Log into Ao3 and go to your Profile, Works or Dashboard

At the top under you’re user name there are four buttons pick Edit Works

Second row of buttons on the right chose All and then hit Edit

Scroll down past all of your works and then keeps scrolling until you find Visibility  change it to Only Show to Registered User

(If a fic is over the tag limit you have to edit those down to make edit to the work.)

Hit Update All Works at the very bottom and you are done all of you fics should now have a little blue lock next to your user name on each fic.

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it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

IT MAY TAKE ME A MONTH TO PUT OUT A CHAPTER BUT AT LEAST IM NOT USING AI TO WRITE IT

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Same goes for any images I use in my fics or in general as well.

NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

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Gotta Get Away - Chapter 2

Fandom: Harry Potter

Characters: James Potter, Regulus Black, Sirius Black, Marlene McKinnon

Plot: while at the club, a man comes over to dance with James before dragging him off

Notes: fuck JKR. Most of this cast is LGBTQ+ in some way - James is genderfluid, Regulus is trans.

This has two prompts used from my Jegulus Bingo 2024 card - drunk confessions and cuddling.

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This gif is supposed to represent the setting of the club.

Regulus’ POV:

I follow behind Jamie until she gets pulled into dancing. I sit with her and her friends things while watching her and keeping an eye on everything and everyone around her. It’s good to see her having fun and let loose.

I keep an eye on her even as she goes to get another drink. After watching her, I know she’s tipsy. I keep a close eye on her and notice a guy coming up to her. He walks up behind her and wraps his arm around her waist.

She turns and starts dancing with him. I keep an eye on her as I get up and walk over.

As I get closer, I notice she’s stopped dancing and he’s now trying to pull her away.

I move faster until I get to her, wrapping my arm around her, “Jamie,” I pull her close with one arm and cup her cheek with the other, looking at her, “Is this man bothering you, my darling?”

She yanks her arm free from him, and wraps her arms around me, “yes, I keep telling him I don’t want to go with him and to let me go and leave me alone.” She pulls back slightly, and looks up at me, “but he won’t take no for an answer.”

“Darling, go back and dance with your friends. I’ll deal with him.” I lean down and kiss her softly, so the guy behind her gets the message.

When I pull back, she looks kind of dazed, before I remind her to go straight to her friends. Thankfully, she does and I notice her touch her lips, smiling to herself.

I look back at the guy and growl, “just because you can touch someone, doesn’t mean they want your touch. My girl didn’t want you to touch her, which she told you, and you thought, what? That meant yes.”

“I’m sorry, man.” He looks frightened. “I didn’t know. She’s so gorgeous.”

“And that means you can touch her?” I pause for a second, before I step closer. “No, it doesn’t. Get out and I never want to see you near her again.” With that, I knee him in the groin and walk back to Jamie and her friends.

“Hey love,” I yell over the music when I get to her. “How about that dance now?”

She turns and wraps her arms around my neck, “I’d love that. Will it be for the rest of the night?”

“Is that what you want?”

“Yes.”

“Then that’s what I’ll do.”

As we’re dancing, I feel her get closer to me, until she whispers something I don’t think I’m meant to hear, but she may be too drunk to realise that she’s saying it to me, “gods, I love you, Regulus. I wish I could tell you, because that was so hot.”

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Jamie’s POV:

I don’t know how long we’ve been dancing or drinking for, but one moment, I’m dancing with my friends, next, someone wraps their arm around my waist, “hey gorgeous, want a night you’ll never forget?”

I chuckle and turn around, “dance with me and we’ll see.”

He smirks and joins me in dancing. However, it’s not long before he grabs my arm tightly, yanking me, making me scream, “LET ME GO! YOU SON OF A BITCH!”

He yanks me closer when we get to the door, saying as we get closer, “no, I’d rather play with you all night until you submit to me, Potter!”

I keep trying to get my arm free, until I felt someone else wrapping their arm around me.

“Jamie,” I hear Regulus in my ear as he pulls me away from the other man, cupping my cheek, coaxing me to look at him, “is this man bothering you, my darling?”

I smile, feeling calmer in his arms. He makes me feel safer than anyone has before and I yank my arm free from that asshole and wrap my arms around him, *thank you*. “yes, I keep telling him I don’t want to go with him and to let me go and leave me alone.” I pull back slightly so I can look up at him, “but he won’t take no for an answer.”

He smiles softly, “darling, go back and dance with your friends. I’ll deal with him.”

He leans down and brushes his lips against mine, kissing me softly. My brain short circuits, and I lift my hand to touch his cheek, but before I can, he pulls back and I hear him whisper to me, “go to your friends, love. I’ve got him.”

I lightly touch my lips as I go to my friends, smiling to myself.

When I get to my friends, Marlene yells, “what was that?”

“Regulus kissed me. He saved me and kissed me, calling me his.”

“Don’t look now, but your boyfriend’s coming this way,” Marlene laughs.

He yells, “hey love,” I turn to him, “how about that dance now?”

I wrap my arms around his neck as I yell back over the loud music, “I’d love that. Will it be for the rest of the night?”

“Is that what you want?”

“Yes.”

“Then that’s what I’ll do.”

As we’re dancing, I move closer, and without thinking, I whisper, “gods, I love you, Regulus. I wish I could tell you, because that was so hot.”

It wasn’t long before he says, “I think it’s time for me to take you home.”

I hum against him as I nod. I cuddle into his side while he’s got his arm wrapped around me, holding me close as we walk out and he guides me into the car. I fall asleep on his shoulder as the driver drives us home.

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JKR is very transphobic but to be clear she is also very racist and antisemitic and ableist also

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Sorry but this idea that the marauders fandom is "responsible for keeping Harry Potter relevant" is so out of reality for me

the majority of the people that go to give more money to JKR have never read a fanfiction in their lives, and they probably don't even know about what she does on twitter or don't care about what the authors of the books they read do or are just indifferent or hate us trans people so they don't give a fuck and continue to engage with the official world of hp.

I understand wanting to personally step away from the fandom because she's such a piece of shit that you just don't want to engage with anything she started, but to try to guilt trip fanfic authors seems a bit much and also out of anything based in reality as I said... the cultural influence of Harry Potter is not based on the gay fanfictions online, that franchise has whole themes parks for it and a whole TV show that is gonna be promoted heavily, be serious! the problem is not the fanfictions online, she's extremely rich she's gonna keep promoting her works and lots of people aren't going to care about what she does or they may even start supporting the books only because she's transphobic

I feel like instead of trying to shame queer and trans people that write fanfictions and made up their own version of that world and made it the most queer version they could create, we should focus on shaming the politicians and judges that let themselves be bought by transphobic pieces of shit and also those politicians that are not speaking out about it??? while I do think we should absolutely also keep boycotting jkr by not giving her more money and I've been doing this for years since I learned what she really thought, at the end of the day the politicians that make the rules hold the real power and I feel like we get distracted by shaming each other instead of focusing on the main problem which is the governments in power... we should think more about going to protests and pestering THEM with our disappointment

Idk I find it ridiculous to be harassing other queer people because of this, it's just more pointless hate and infighting that doesn't bring anything positive! from what I've seen most of the marauders fans have been actively against her, have not interacted with stuff that gives her actual money and are trying to boycott her by not buying official merch etc etc they are way more aware of what she does than random normie fans that keep buying harry potter themed shit around the world... Exactly because the marauders fans are mostly queer people that honestly made up a whole other universe from what I consider just a smidge of her input at this point. I really don't think it's a fair assessment to say they're responsible or even "the main reason why Harry Potter is still alive"... That's just a lie

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Senara, as a resident serious adult with a good grasp on the UK political and cultural landscape, AND the Harry Potter fandom, may I ask:

What impact does the fandom actually have on policies that impact transgender people?

I want to be the best ally I can be to trans folk, and I have seen discussions advocating that the Harry Potter franchise falling into oblivion is the only real way to de-platform JK Rowling.

I don’t entirely disagree - but I also suspect that the fandom as we know on Tumblr and Discord could be a much less influential bubble than it thinks itself to be, and not the main target audience for new movies, shows, and merchandising.

Is simply not consuming products from the franchise enough, or is engaging in extremely niche discussions on a cloudless micro-blogging platform still fanning the fire of Harry Potter, and giving ammunition to JKR to continue on her rampage of infantilising those who challenge her and targeting trans rights?

I don’t want to be naive or wilfully ignorant about my participation in this culture. But I want to know if blogging about Snupin smut and reading fanfiction on free independent platforms still trickles down to making JKR’s voice louder.

I also sometimes think that Harry Potter achieved the status of undeniable cultural staple, and oblivion is simply not an option - much like Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. I can force myself to forget and never engage with it again, but is it at all realistic in a global scale?

Is there an erroneous assumption that most of us on tumblr and discord are on team “fuck JKR, read fanfcition and pirate the books”? Or are offline elder millennials buying HP merch and reading the books to their kids carrying the franchise on their backs?

Or none of this matters, because HP is already part of the popular imagination, and it’s the tragedy of our times that big corporations will inevitably milk it forever?

Hope this is not too much of an awkward question, I really appreciate your insights

the way that the fandom impacts trans rights is by earning jkr money.

jkr's public transphobia - her comments on twitter etc. - absolutely contributes to recruiting others to the anti-trans cause, and that shouldn't be downplayed.

but being loud and wrong on social media isn't the same as having political or legal authority - jkr doesn't have this, and she doesn't deserve people thinking she does.

how she causes material harm to trans people in the uk [which then hurts all trans people, because other places may choose to follow suit] is because she donates colossal sums of money to legal cases which challenge trans people's rights. it's not just yesterday's judgement from the uk supreme court - in which the plaintiff was an anti-trans group she's on the record as having donated £70,000 to - she does it all the time.

she can donate this money because it's loose change for her. she makes millions every year.

and it doesn't come from mid-tier detective fiction, does it?

so, yes, here is the first truth - if she doesn't earn any money from you, you're not contributing to the overarching way her anti-trans crusade has an impact, and that matters.

but there is also a second truth - that you need to go beyond that.

several things need to be borne in mind:

jkr is one of the most visible - if not the single most visible - transphobes in the world. but she's not the only one.

the tendency to make her the figurehead of a transphobic movement, and to assume that disengaging with harry potter without doing anything else is enough may be comforting. but it's also wrong.

indeed, a lot of the people who have the greatest power to harm trans rights are nowhere near as visible as jkr - politicians, lawyers, journalists, academics, doctors, and so on. the supreme court did not reach its judgement because of jkr. the assault on trans rights which will unfold from the judgement will not happen because of her.

i'm not saying this to deny jkr's influence or to imply that she's not dangerous.

i'm saying it because i think it's important to remember that she has a vested interest in you feeling tiny and hopeless in the face of her money - in you thinking that she's the head of a movement and that movement is winning.

instead, the uk terf movement is fragmented and riddled with internecine beef. plenty of its factions don't actually like jkr - and she doesn't like plenty of them.

it can be fought, and it can be fought at the grassroots while she's in her mouldy tower being a bigot on twitter.

it's worth being absolutely clear that yesterday's supreme court ruling was not - in and of itself - new legislation. the uk supreme court does not have the power to make new laws. only parliament can do that.

it was a "clarification" - which is to say that it was an interpretation - of existing legislation. it - by itself - doesn't compel an institution or organisation to change anything. and it is, therefore, an interpretation which can be pushed back against.

this has already started - there's an excellent summary of objections to the judgement, which also provides a rebuttal to the crowing many terfs are doing about how trans rights are being rolled back by pointing out all the ways in which they will not be surrendered:

sadly, this is behind a paywall. it's summarised here, in an article from the same writer, a practising barrister who is a specialist in employment and discrimination law:

and all of us can do things which enable that pushback to continue, above all, in making clear to our mps that they only have our votes if they - at a bare minimum - continue to defend trans rights.

find their contact details here:

if you have an mp who is clear that they support restrictions on trans rights, then actively oppose them - call for them to be reselected at the next election [sadly a while away...], canvas for an opponent etc.

support institutions which continue to defend trans rights. the supreme court judgement doesn't force places to, for example, ban trans women from entering women's toilets [parliament could pass legislation which does, but that doesn't exist yet, and that's why you need to contact your mp], but plenty will be frightened into doing so. be loud about how you value and will continue to use businesses and services which don't bend to transphobic pressure.

donate to trans charities. lots are circulating, but here are some specifically northern irish options, which tend to otherwise get overlooked:

boost stories about the impact of transphobic legislation. it's crucial that you don't underestimate how little the average person knows about this [and about jkr's role in it in particular] - and this is something which helps anti-trans messaging sound more reasonable. but we can reach them first.

what you do with harry potter as a thing beyond this is always going to be subjective. i've set out more on my personal approach before - here - and, of course, you may do what you want.

but - since you've asked - i think two things are true:

on the one hand, harry potter is a juggernaut. the tumblr subsection of the fandom could disappear tonight and the impact would be minimal - harry potter is probably one of the most mainstream cultural products in the world.

and that's how it makes jkr money - branded merchandise, the theme parks, the studio tour, royalties from streaming, and so on.

fandom doesn't require you to engage with any of these. and i do think it's acceptable to understand a commitment not to give jkr money as a viable and sincerely significant harm-reduction strategy.

however.

on the other hand, the vitality of the fandom plays a role in making harry potter marketable. this is undeniable.

and this is the case for all areas of the fandom - i see a lot of cope ["jkr would hate my queer otp!"], but people can get sucked into liking harry potter through anything. having a non-canon take on things, or writing dead dove, or whatever doesn't prevent that.

but it's especially the case for areas of the fandom which are prominent in pop-culture independently of jkr.

i don't just mean the marauders subfandom here - i think we can all stand to grapple with this implication, and i think there's a tendency from people in less prominent fandom subsections to think that they don't have to, which exists at the other end of a spectrum from the tendency from people in the marauders subfandom to assume that their lax approach to canon absolves them from any connection to jkr.

this is a difficult circle to square because it's something which gives jkr visibility indirectly. there's no way, for example, that she's in contact with e.g. artists whose songs go viral in marauders tiktoks, whose youtube comments are then flooded with "can't believe i'm thinking about harry potter's dead dad 😭". and she doesn't earn money from it.

fanfiction and fanart also lives in this indirect space.

jkr doesn't gain any money from it - and that is important. it's also a medium which may engage with the subject matter of the series critically - through taking issue with how she writes about gender, for example - and this is important as well.

but she doesn't gain nothing from it either.

my personal view is that the only way to remain in fandom is two-fold:

as discussed, make sure you're actually doing something in defence of trans people in your real life...

and make sure that your indirect contribution to jkr's nonsense never becomes a direct one.

that is to say, don't spend any money.

and - and this is the important thing - actually mean that.

i think that a very important thing to do if you want to stay in the fandom is to work on building yourself a mental defence against the fear of missing out.

by which i mean... in the circles in which i move, people seem - at the moment - to universally agree that they won't be watching the new television adaptation.

but i find it very striking - and very concerning - that lots of people seem to be taking the view that doing this will be easy, because the tv show won't be any good.

i strongly - strongly - advise you to prepare yourselves for the opposite. expect that the show will be absolutely outstanding. deal with your disappointment in missing out in advance. and do not engage with it, no matter what it tries to tempt you with.

we are about to see an unprecedented level of fan service. every single complaint people made about the film series will be addressed. it's going to make sure that ron is written book-accurately. it's going to give romione or hinny or whatever as it "should have been" in the films. it's going to whip out some really big name casting [cillian murphy has had months to shut down the rumour that he's voldemort... and if it comes to pass, his casting will bring a legion of peaky blinders fans on board. do not be one of them.]. i would bet my house that it's going to make wolfstar canon.

and it's going to do this because it knows that's how people who have committed to not watching it will waver - that, when faced with "i've got the chance to see x done properly" or "god, i love y in everything else they're in", people will go "lol, no ethical consumption under capitalism" and consume anyway.

but there is a more ethical strand of harry potter consumption, and that's consumption which does all it can to limit its impact to only benefitting jkr indirectly, and which takes that task seriously.

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Every artist is a person (even fanfic writers) and what we have written belongs to us. We should decide whether it goes into AI, not the readers or viewers. If you want to read something that is still a WIP and hasn’t been fully completed, then you chose that and you knew it was a work in progress when you started. If you can’t wait until the person is finished, go and find something that has been finished.

Seeing fanfic, fanart or any other type of creative form as content rather than something created by a person is a huge issue, and people seem to think that because it’s out there they can do whatever they want with it.

This is the worst timeline. (x)

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Same thing goes for writing. I’d rather read your stories that you don’t think anyone will like than the machine stealing real artists and authors works that have no feeling whatsoever. Let me feel what you capture in your writing or drawing.

Thank you for listening!

Ive been seeing more and more ai fan 'art' and I just want to say that I'd rather see your shitty photoshop skills and stick figure doodles than the lifeless dead eyed renderings of a forest killing machine that scalped millions of images from real artists. Ty.

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His Alien Mate - Chapter 2

Fandom: Harry Potter

Pairing: none yet - but eventual James Potter/Regulus Black and Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Characters: Regulus Black, Remus Lupin, Pandora Lovegood, Barty Crouch Jr

Plot: they’re led onto the spaceship that will take them to the alien colony and away from the dystopia that is Earth.

Notes: fuck JKR. Most of the characters are queer or trans in some way.

This chapter was inspired by the prompt from my Jegulus Bingo card - Travelling through Space

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Regulus’ POV:

It didn’t take long before a tall person who was completely covered comes in, and motions for all of us who chose mating to follow.

One of the guards growls, “go with him. It’s what you chose.”

We scurry after the person who turns and follow them onto the ship. They motion towards chairs where we are to sit as a man and a woman come out. The being who brought us onto the ship helps close the ships doors as we all sit down.

“Welcome,” the man tells us as I see the one who guided us in take off the coverings from his head, revealing blonde hair, red skin and two horns protruding from his head. “In a few minutes, this ship will be departing and we’ll begin our journey through space.”

The alien walked over to join the man and the woman. And he rumbles out in his deep voice, “we hope you enjoy your stay with us. At the end, you will be able to choose whether to stay with us on our planet or come back to Earth.” He looks at the other two. “We are the three representatives. I am Silas. My pronouns are he/him and these are Barty - his pronouns are he/they and Pandora - pronouns are she/they. We are here to help you on our way over.”

Upon seeing what must have been a whole lot of confused faces, Pandora in her lilting melodic voice tells us, “mating season for the aliens isn’t what we as humans would think it is. That is a part of it, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not just about sex.” She looks over at the two guys next to her. “Now, Silas, Barty, please make sure our guests are strapped in.”

The two males come over and make sure that we’re buckled in. Silas checks my straps and I see his green eyes properly as he asks, “are you alright? Is there something you want to ask?”

“I’m scared,” I respond and I watch as his face softens. “I’m trans, but they don’t respect my proper pronouns on Earth. Will it be the same on your planet?”

He crouches in front of me and asks, “what’s your name?”

“Regulus. My pronouns are he/him.”

He smiled before telling me, “well, Regulus, you have nothing to be scared of, we welcome and respect all pronouns and people. In fact,” he stands up and addresses all of us as he gestures to the man and the woman next to him, “this is my husband and wife. Both of them are my mates. Any and all relationships are respected as are all that join our colony, whether permanently or temporarily. You will be well looked after during your time with us.”

They all sit across from us, buckling themselves in. Pandora tells us, “once we’re in space, which shouldn’t take us long after we’ve taken off, you’ll be allowed to explore the spaceship and find your rooms. The journey will take a few days. And as we go, you will be taken to our medic. They only want to know how to help your health and what you may need. While you’re there, you will be injected with a serum which will help you understand their language a little quicker.”

I feel the engine begin to rumble beneath us. Within moments, we had blasted off and I felt a little more at ease. Hopefully this new planet will be better than where we left. I’d love to be myself without having to hide. Maybe, just maybe it won’t be illegal to be trans and I can live happily or just safely. In a perfect world, both.

Once we’re safely in the air, the straps unbuckle and we’re told we can explore if we want and to go find a room to call our own for the next few days. They give us the instructions for how to claim our rooms.

I wait for my cellmate to get up, realising now he has a walking stick with him. “Do you want to explore with me?”

“I’d like that, Regulus,” he chuckles as he holds out his free hand. “I’m Remus.”

I take it and shake it, before we walk off together. We find two rooms across from each other that haven’t been claimed and claim them as ours by following their instructions; place our thumbs on the waiting keypad and it will be claimed, without the need to use the keypad again. It’s something I like about the ship; anytime we stop in front of our room, the door will open and it will only open for us.

I walk in, seeing a bed, and another door. I go to the other door and open it, finding a bathroom with anything I could ever want.

I went back out to find Remus coming out of his room and together we explored at our own pace. Slowly, I found myself becoming friends with him.

At some point, we find ourselves in a room with our hosts.

Silas looks up, smiling at us, “welcome to the library. Come and join us. We have both Kirtzanian texts as well as human texts and others from a few other species as well. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.”

Pandora, upon seeing us, happily walks over and asks to hug us. With our consent, she hugs each of us, before saying, “we’re happy to answer any questions you may have.”

I quietly speak up as I follow her back to the table they’re sitting at, “do you have soulmate marks? Some people I’ve met don’t.”

“Oh, yes,” she lifts up her sleeve and shows us. “We’ve found out through the literature we have access to that if someone meets their soulmate and tries to force the bond gone, then it disappears. So everyone is born with them, but it seems some people force their bonds to disappear or their parents or guardians do, because of status or any number of other reasons.”

We stay in there talking and I finally start feeling more at ease. When dinner time comes around, our new friends sit with us and we eat more food than I did when I was in the cell.

On the second day, I went to the medic, who happens to be Silas which I thought was good. He makes me feel calmer than any other medical practitioner I’d been to. He explains everything before going into it, making sure I was alright with each thing, including the needle.

However, when the needle is brought out, I start freaking out and backing away. It’s so big.

He asks without judgement - unlike the doctors on earth would do, “Regulus, would you like someone else here as I do this?”

“Yes, please,” I quietly respond. “Maybe Remus or one of your partners.”

“That’s alright,” Silas tells me. “There’s nothing to be ashamed of. Sometimes that can’t be helped.” He takes my hand. “Let me use the communicator to see who’s available.”

I nod, before he walked to the side of the room. I couldn’t understand him as he spoke, which indicated to me he was speaking his native language.

Within moments, he walked back and switched back to English, “what was it that got you arrested, if you don’t mind me asking?”

“I couldn’t get a job after my mother sold me and I ran. She wanted to run every part of my life.”

“That’s horrible,” he placed his hand on my shoulder. “I’m so sorry. That should never be allowed to happen. Thankfully things like that don’t happen on my planet.”

“No, it doesn’t,” Pandora says as she flits into the room on my other side, taking my hand. “Everyone is treated fairly and respected as part of our colony.”

“Thank you for coming, Pandora,” I say.

“You’re welcome, Regulus,” she says. “It’s okay to be scared, but you’ll get through this. Why don’t you tell me about things you like? Or things you can do?”

“I like writing,” I told her. “I was writing English workbooks for schools, but I’d love to try my hand at creative writing.”

“You could do that in our colony. We don’t need to work in their colony, but we find hobbies and can sell those things to other colonies or within our colony or we can just give them as gifts. Our King and Queen are really nice and care about those who live in their colony and that’s how they built and how the colony thrives.”

It sounded like a dream place, and maybe I’d get to try things I’d only ever heard of on Earth.

“That sounds like a great place to live,” I tell her.

“It is,” Silas says. “Also, the serum has been injected.”

With that, I thanked him before Pandora pulls me out and takes me to Remus and Barty who looked to be playing some sort of game.

Over the next few days, we were allowed access to any rooms that weren’t bedrooms. And I got to know our hosts really well. I’m shocked that anyone could live happily with the aliens who take so many for mating season and don’t return.

As we descend to the alien planet, I pray to whatever is out there that this planet is better and that Silas is a good representation of his species. If he is, I’d be willing to live the rest of my life here.

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I Can’t Find It

Fandom: Harry Potter - Marauders Era (fuck JKR)

Characters: James Potter (can be seen as a relationship or friendship)

Plot: James borrowed something from you and now he can’t find it.

Notes: fuck JKR and her beliefs and anyone else who believes the same thing.

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

This was based off day 26 prompt by @flufftober from 2024: “I can’t find it.”

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Sometimes you think your best friend is a bit scatterbrained, or maybe he just forgets things sometimes. However, watching him at the moment, you’re a bit worried. He seems to be frantically searching for something.m

“James,” you call out.

“Hmm?”

“Are you alright?”

He doesn’t answer, just keeps making more of a mess in his search. So you get up, putting your book down. You move closer to him, and you finally put your hand on his shoulder.

He jumps, startled, before turning to you, and letting out a sigh of frustration. “Hey. I can’t find it.”

“What?”

“The book I borrowed from you. I can’t find it.”

You hugged him. “Breathe. It’s fine.”

You pulled back and looked at him. “I swear it’s fine.” You let go of him and went to pick up the book you were reading, which you think was the one he was talking about. You show him the book, “was it this one?”

He chuckles, “yeah. I guess I already gave it back to you then.”

“Yeah, you did,” you walk over to him and kiss his cheek. “Thank you for being worried, but next time, ask me instead of worrying. Then if it is missing, I can help you search, yeah?”

He pulls you in for a hug. “That’s a good idea.”

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His Alien Mate - Chapter One

Fandom: Harry Potter (f*ck JKR)

Pairing: eventual James Potter/Regulus Black and Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Characters: Regulus Black, Remus Lupin

Plot: After Regulus and Remus get arrested, they’re given the option to go to the alien planet or go to Utopia.

Notes: f*ck JKR and her beliefs.

This story takes place on a dystopian Earth, but the planet they travel to is queernormative and definitely accepting of trans!Reg.

This was inspired by my Jegulus Bingo 2024 card from @into-the-jeggyverse prompt: travelling through space

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Reg’s POV:

I can’t believe I let it get this bad. I thought I had it all under control, but, of course, my mother had to go and ruin it. She “had” to sell me, without even bothering to ask me what I wanted.

I didn’t want it, so I ran. I haven’t been able to find work, because I didn’t fulfill her bargain.

Now I’m sitting here in the prison next to another guy who was arrested because he couldn’t pay for his medicine.

He turned to me and whispered, “what do you think you’ll choose?”

“I don’t know,” I whispered back. “I think mating. I don’t have anything I want to come back for though. There’s only my mother and she sold me off to someone else for more wealth which she doesn’t need.”

“I’m choosing mating,” he whispered. “If the rumours are true, and you choose utopia, you never come back and it’s basically like a concentration camp. They tell you in the ads that you’ll never have to work again if you go there, but you’ll be forced to do volunteer work with no time off for yourself.”

“I’ve heard that too.” I stopped and looked over at the guards who were walking back and forth in front of a line drawn on the ground.

That was the cell, it was big enough so we could sit on the benches provided or stand in front of them, but nothing else. If we were to step on or over the line, the chips inside would kill us.

“I’m choosing mating,” I told him quietly. “I remember another rumour that after a few months of transmissions to family, they’re either switched by a doppelgänger and only reading from a script or it’s the same person forced to read from a script.”

That's when one of the guards came over. “Time to make your decision. What’s your choice? Utopia or mating?”

“Mating,” the guy next to me said.

I could see the guard get angry and made a move to slap him, before the other one grabbed his wrist, “you’re not allowed to hit them where it’s visible. Even if he’s choosing to be a slut. We won’t get anything if they see bruising or cuts.”

He let the guys hand go and turned to me, giving me a creepy smile and caressing my cheek, “what’s your choice, darling girl? Utopia or mating?”

With everything I’ve now seen, I knew I was making a better choice for myself, even if it wouldn’t be a good one straight away, “I choose mating.”

Hopefully the aliens used my proper pronouns and actually treated me with some form of respect. If I chose Utopia, I’d never get that, since this part of Earth doesn’t respect pronouns, gender or sexuality.

Next thing I knew, I was punched in the gut, “stupid sluts. Costing us our bonuses.”

“You whores can wait here,” the other one said. “The captain of the ship will be here soon enough.”

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Gotta Get Away - Chapter 1

Fandom: Harry Potter (f*ck JKR)

Characters: James Potter, Sirius Black, Regulus Black

Plot: Sirius invites James out to a club for a night out. James comes out to Regulus, who in turn comes out to him.

Notes: fuck JKR and her beliefs. Most of the characters in this are LGBTQ+, Regulus is trans and James is genderfluid.

Using the prompt from my Jegulus Bingo 2024 card - Bodyguard Regulus.

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Regulus’ POV:

Sirius: We’re going to a club tonight. You in?

James looks up at me and says, “my friends are going to a club tonight, and I’m going with them.”

James: yeah, I’m in. I’ll see you there.

“I’ll drive you,” I tell him. I was hired by Euphemia and Fleamont Potter (heads of the Potter Mafia family) to be their son, James’ personal bodyguard and I never let him go anywhere alone. They were huge names in the mafia and the three of us knew that would likely make James a target. Anyone who wanted to get to them just needed him.

I’ve been his bodyguard for a little over three months and he loved it. He loved knowing he could protect his clients and keep them safe in a world that could be harsh. It also didn’t hurt that James is one of the most beautiful people he’s ever laid his eyes on.

I heard James’ voice, “ugh, do you have to?”

“Yes, James, I do. Your parents tasked me with keeping you safe and that’s what I will do.” I pause before moving slightly closer as James looks down, and speaking quieter, “It also means if you need help at any point, you can signal me.”

He nods, before biting his lip, which I had to admit was adorable, even though he seemed concerned. “Reg.”

“What is it?”

“If you have to come with me, can you call me Jamie tonight?”

“Yes, Jamie, of course. Anything else?”

“Could you please refer to me as she/her or they/them or a mix of both?”

“Yes, I definitely can, Jamie,” I say as she looks up at me, beaming from ear to ear. Her smile is gorgeous and so bright that it lights up the room. “You don’t have to be afraid or scared to tell me these things. I can understand using different pronouns than the ones you were assigned at birth.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, I’m transgender,” I tell her and she nods.

“That’s awesome.”

I smile brightly at her and ask, “do you want to go get ready?”

“Yes, please.”

I nod and she gets up. She’s almost out of the room when she turns to me, “will you wait?”

“Yes, just outside the door,” I tell her. “If you need me, come get me or call for me.”

She nods and I wait outside the door, closing it behind me.

James’ POV:

I’ve only had Regulus as my bodyguard for a couple of months, and during the first two weeks, I tried to pretend he didn’t exist or run from him (he caught me every time). Why? I didn’t know him and while he is drop dead gorgeous, I was hesitant around him and I didn’t trust him. I never did with new people.

However, a few weeks in, he saved me from an attacker. I didn’t even see the guy coming. In fact, it was almost like he appeared out of thin air. When everything was over, I asked him to take me home. Even though Regulus was in a rage at the guy for trying to attack me, he made me feel safe and he got us ice creams because he thought it might help me calm my nerves.

Today, however, we sit in the car with both of us in the back as my driver took us to the club. I felt incredible and the way Regulus was looking at me made me feel incredible. I loved what I was wearing - a gorgeous blood red dress with a slit up to my thigh, black sandal heels and a few bracelets that jangled as I moved with a few rings adorning my fingers.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen all my friends together,” I said excitedly. “It’s going to be so much fun. I’ll be able to let loose and have fun.”

He chuckled, and I found that I really liked the sound. “As long as I can see you and you don’t go off with any strangers.”

“I wouldn’t do that,” I said solemnly, knowing that there are people after me because of who my parents are. I perked up. “It’s still going to be fun and, maybe…” I looked over at him slyly, “you’ll dance with me?”

“I’d like that,” he smiled at me. “I’d be able to keep a closer eye on you then, but only after you’ve had some fun with your friends.”

I chattered excitedly to Regulus about different things that I thought of, and he let me go on, even though I didn’t stop.

I did stop talking when the car pulled up outside the club. Regulus got out first and held his hand out to me. I took it as I stood up from the car.

He let go of my hand and followed me inside, getting in easily because the bouncers know my family.

Once inside, the music was loud and definitely dance worthy. I looked around the floor as I walked around. Within a few minutes, I saw Sirius and I confidently walked over.

“Sirius,” I yelled once I was close enough.

He turned around immediately and screamed, “Jamie, you look gorgeous.”

He hugged me tight. That’s one thing I’ve loved about my friendship with Sirius, he’s always been so accepting of me. That was especially true after I came out as genderfluid. It was a difficult thing to tell people, especially with the way the world is.

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Gotta Get Away Masterlist

Fandom: Harry Potter (fuck JKR)

Pairings: genderfluid!mafia heir!James Potter/bodyguard!trans masc!Regulus

Characters: James Potter, Regulus Black, Sirius Black

Plot: James is a mafia heir and has a difficult choice to make after he finds out he and Lily are going to be forced to married the same person, who wants more power and is determined to take it by taking them. However, their bodyguards who know some people are going to help them.

Notes: fuck JKR and her beliefs! A lot of the characters in this are queer in some way - James is genderfluid, Reg is trans, most of them aren’t straight.

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans women are women! Trans men are men! Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️‍⚧️

This was inspired by one of the prompts from @into-the-jeggyverse for Jegulus Bingo 2024: bodyguard Regulus.

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Chapter list:

Chapter 1 - Going clubbing

Chapter 2 - Dancing With My Friends

Chapter 3 (coming soon)

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His Alien Mate Masterlist

Fandom: Harry Potter (fuck JKR)

Pairings: Alien!James Potter/trans masc!human!Regulus Black

Alien!Sirius Black/human!demiboy!Remus Lupin

Characters in order of appearance: Regulus Black, Remus Lupin

Plot: on a dystopian Earth where we’d been invaded, we were saved by aliens who made a trade. During their mating season, Earth sends them non-violent prisoners as a thank you for saving them. However, some people don’t come back.

Notes: fuck JKR and her beliefs.

🏳️‍⚧️Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans rights are human rights.

You are safe here. In fact most of the characters will be LGBTQ+ and a few will fall under the trans umbrella. 🏳️‍⚧️

This was written for Jegulus Bingo 2024 for the prompt Traveling through Space (maybe others will appear but this is the first one).

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Chapter list

Chapter 1 - Which Will You Choose?

Chapter 2 - Journey to the New Planet

Chapter 3 - Can It Really Be You? (Coming soon)

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