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RULES: post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / other) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

tagged by @aluinwe

Been back on that Unsteady Ground grind today. Feat iconic and relatable Remus Lupin.

Apparently, what Remus now believed in was achieving the quickest and least painful way of dying.

tagging @thessynyx @flightlessfinch @arviyya

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Okay I lied, Unsteady Ground Chapter 63 is up and it's the start of part 3 babyyy

"Please state your core command,” Salazar asked flatly. "My core command is to make life better,” Tom stated. "And how would you do that?” Salazar pressed. "By fixing the root problem,” said Tom, a faint smile on his face. "What is the root problem, T.O.M?” "Too many people.”

So hyped to be back and I always have been and always will be terrible at sitting on chapters when they're done, so enjoy this a bit early!

Unsteady Ground is a Marauders/The 100 AU, which is ongoing and currently just shy of 300k words.

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Hello! I am back in existence outside of the realm of the Edinburgh Fringe festival! I had a lovely month and did exactly 0 writing, so I'll take this tag end of August to have a chapter sorted, and hopefully will post the first chapter of UG Part 3 on September 1st!

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Middle Lines!

Thanks for the tag @aluinwe

I'm tagging @flightlessfinch @arviyya

I certainly don't have 10 WIPs but let's pop a few on here!

Unsteady Ground Part 3 - coming soon I swear

Every morning, James Potter woke up in his hard bed with two choices. One; stay in bed and wallow in his misery, or two; get the fuck up and help people. He chose the second one every morning. It started to become second nature to plaster on a smile before facing the day.

Bury A Friend (Try To Wake Up) - the longfic version of Whatever I've Done that I promised ages ago. I'm working on it, I promise! Here's proof!

Sirius begins to notice a pattern. When he offers James a cigarette normally, he looks at Sirius strangely and says no, spouting off facts about how bad for you cigarettes are. But when he offers a morose and quiet James a cigarette, he says yes. Normally, James will still complain about Sirius smoking inside, as if he’s never participated in the act. James will stay on his high horse and swear up and down that he’s never smoked. Sirius knows that he has, because the times that James accepts a cigarette when he’s offered one stick in Sirius’ mind. So much so that he asks Remus about it. “What are you talking about?” Remus blinks at him. “James doesn’t smoke.” “James doesn’t always smoke,” Sirius agrees. “But sometimes he does. And then he’ll deny it up and down a few hours later. It’s weird, Moony.” Remus isn’t able to shed any light on the situation. So, Sirius starts watching James more carefully. 

Our Love Is God - The Heather's AU I also promised a while ago... sensing a theme

“It’s James, right?” Regulus asks. “James Potter?” “Stalking me?” “And if I am?” Regulus cocks an eyebrow and James thinks he might die. Regulus Black is hot. He’s hot, he’s beautiful. He’s sculpted by the fucking gods. “What are you doing here?” James asks, quite literally fighting for his life in an attempt to maintain his composure. His maybe-girlfriend is waiting in the car. He should ignore Regulus. He should ignore him and grab Lily her corn chips. But he can’t. Regulus Black’s presence isn’t something James is capable of ignoring. “What are you doing here?” Regulus counters. “Buying chips,” James says stupidly. “Now answer my question.” “I like it here,” Regulus replies. “They do good slushies.” “At 7/11?” “It’s the same all over the country,” Regulus shrugs. “I know where I stand.”

This one doesn't even have a title yet ngl, but it may one day be a marauders/the host longfic

He likes Earth. It would probably be the most enjoyable place he has ever lived if not for Sirius.  He had woken up to the memory of fear and running. It was overwhelming, all of the additional senses that he had never experienced before suddenly being thrust upon him in a moment of pure panic. Then he had fallen. Then he woke up to the Healer and the Seeker. Regulus doesn’t like the Seeker. Souls are a harmonious people. They are rarely antagonistic or aggravating. Overall, they're incredibly agreeable. Regulus has been known to be antisocial by Soul standards. The Seeker is worse.  They won’t find us here, stop fretting, Sirius chastises. And think about conserving your water, we don’t know how long we’ll be out here.  But I’m thirsty, Regulus says.  You’ll be thanking me for making you save it later. You can’t make me do anything, Reglus retorts. Urgh, don’t remind me, Sirius complains. Regulus takes another large glug of water in retaliation.

And finally... Venus my beloved and very self indulgent OC fic

”Um… Are you okay?” Neville asked. “I heard about what happened with Umbridge. I thought it was very brave.” ”Brave-shmave,” Venus waved him off, swaying where she sat dramatically. “It was fucking stupid is what it was. Only put me in more danger.” ”Danger?” Neville blinked. ”Yeah, you know. Because of the whole werewolf thing,” Venus slurred out. ”The what?” Neville continued to look at her with a confused expression on his face. ”The werewolf thing,” Venus said again. Her eyes were beginning to flutter shut. “You know, how I howl at the moon once a month.” ”You’re a werewolf?” Neville’s eyes were wide with confusion. He never got an answer as Venus had fallen asleep where she sat.

middle lines

thank you @bradleysass and @sorrowful-wallflower for the tags <3

Rules: Share random middle lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or up to you if you have less!) & tag 10 people.

gonna go for the last 10 docs ive worked on so some of these will be wips that are nowhere near seeing the light of day

also looking at this i need to learn to focus because this is WAY too many wips to have been editing in the last 3 days

@trees-have-roots, @meg---s, @lovely-lavender-sunshine, @ravencp86

Jeggy Bingo Prompt: Kindergarten Teacher James / Tinder Date (not posted yet)

He shook himself - he was overthinking this. The man was hot, single and at least moderately educated if he taught – even PE teachers needed a degree. There was nothing to lose, either he wasn't interested and the memory of this profile would fade away, or he'd get a match and could then start to worry about everything else. So, he swiped right, and… nothing. No matter, he'd move along. 

Microfic: Ghost

“That’s fair. I’d be such a good dog for him.” James shifted slightly, as if to roll over onto his side, but decided against it. “You’d make a good cat. I think that’s what you’d be if you were an animal. All regal and grumpy.”

absolution

James made his way up the path to the castle in a daze. It was barely noon but he’d felt like he’d lived several lifetimes in the last few hours alone. He was exhausted, wrung out, and crashing hard from the adrenaline that had spiked the moment he had got his mouth on Regulus.

Microfic: Worth

‘It’s not an engagement ring’ he’d said, even though he was down on one knee. ‘It’s a promise. That when all this is over, you’ll find me again’.

meet me at home (when the sirens go off)

What they don't tell you - what the movies and TV shows don't ever show - is that when a person who has been subsisting on forced oxygen and mechanical blood flow is suddenly and abruptly cut off from that support, they don't always fade away calmly. 

Another not posted Bingo prompt: Dream Sharing

“What we have, in here. Do you think it exists out there? Can it exist out there?” “Of course it can.” “Don’t you worry it might just all be happening in our heads?” “Of course it’s happening in our heads, Regulus. Why would that mean it’s not real?”

Microfic: City

But more than he hated the city, James loved Regulus. So when they’d graduated university together and they were looking for somewhere to live, of course he chose a flat that Regulus would like.

Yet another unposted Bingo wip: "What happens in Vegas..."

He'd been so glad to see that Sirius was happy. That for him, it had been worth leaving Regulus behind because he had built a life for himself. A life with a husband, and a dog, and a tattoo studio. A life that was located, conveniently, in Las Vegas.

Unposted WIP - Eurovision AU that I've been trying to write since May

The truth was somewhere in between, as is usually the case. Regulus did hate James for a while, for taking away his one pillar of support. But that hatred had very quickly waned once the shock of Sirius departure wore off and he realised that had he stayed, he would have been killed at their parents hand.

Microfic: Sheet

“Lupin.” Regulus’ tone was amused as he dropped to sit gracefully on the sofa next to Remus. “I’m not sure I actually want to know, but is there a reason our boyfriends are creeping around under a sheet?”

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Regulus ‘I would kill for you but I’m terrified of you dying’ Black and James ‘I would die for you but I’m terrified of what you’re becoming’ Potter

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knocking on heaven's door is really the vibe at the start of Unsteady Ground Part 3

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Ladies, Gentlemen, and everything between, I present, for your consideration, Regligious Guilt Barty Crouch Jr?????

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Barty: They are saying that our group is pushing an agenda Pandora: Bullshit, Xeno doesn't even have a gender

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Sirius: When I first came out to Marlene I thought she was super homophobic or something because when I told her I like guys, she was like, "Ew what?". Turns out she just hates men and doesn't understand how people can be attracted to them and is also very gay

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Prongsfoot 100%

OMG CAN THIS BE A WOLFSTAR FIC PLEASE I BEG.

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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

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Okay so my Unsteady Ground Playlist was getting a bit out of hand- also I feel like the vibes for each part are pretty different, so I've split them up into part playlists.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Obviously, Part 3 isn't out yet, but the playlist can give you an idea of the vibes!

I also have a playlist for my Fic Venus here

The playlist for Whatever I've Done is gone and has been replaced by a playlist for a longfic version of Whatever I've Done that I've been low key working on for a while. It's not ready yet and might be a while away, but the playlist for that is here

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sometimes i open my wip just to scroll. not to write. not to read. just to observe it like a cursed object that belongs in a museum under glass with a sign that says “do not touch. unstable.”

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Big hype guys, I just got my next work contract through and it turns out I’m going to have most of September off so I’ll lock the hell in on Part 3 and maybe some other projects then!!!

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I wasn’t gonna drink tonight but I just remembered Samuel Lieberman is dead

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Okay just stab me ig

au where voldemort gives regulus the task to kill james and if he fails to do it, voldemort will kill sirius

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Okay so I’m taking a break from posting chapters but a girl has to fill her spare time somehow so I’m still writing. Chapter 63 is whooping my ass. I think it might be one of the worst things I’ve ever written. I hate it. At least I have over a month to sort it out