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friendly reminder that sirius black says "entertain me" and james potter says "yessir"

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the thing is right, i find it soooo hard writing sirius as interested in anyone but james because i think even in a world where james and sirius don't gave anything romantic going on, james is his standard for closeness and intimacy. i think a big difference between sirius and james is that james clearly does seek the ideal romantic model for a relationship where i think sirius just doesn't prioritise it, i think sirius would never be in a romantic relationship that didn't just happen naturally. i just can't see him ever seeking it and i don't think he'd ever settle or compromise for it (which is why wolfstar has always been a non-starter for me i guess)

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"even good boys leave" is Sirius to James but "bout to cause a scene" is such a James to Sirius threat

WHO is writing me both sides of prongsfoot how bad do u want me

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Come back, I have to tell you the plot of a fic I’ll never write and get you excited about it so we can all be disappointed with me later

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what are many or several of you on about.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANSWERING MY ASK ABOUT YOUR FICS!! omg im literally sooo excited to read everything you're going to post! i read screw loose recently. then i had to go back and re-read it. and then i think about it all the time. in my mind you got the james and sirius characterisation like. Perfectly. there are lines in that fic that i think about all the time and which have shifted MY perception about their characterisation i love that one scene where james and sirius just start ignoring a guy that was trying to chat up james and sirius says james could be both the sweetest and meanest person he knew THAT IS SOOOOO GOOD I LOVE THAT JAMES CHARACTERISATION OKAY!! i also love sirius being a MASSIVE ASSHOLE and telling that guy james slept with he had a girlfriend HSDKJFHAKJ and the subtle powerplay of him leaving the plate on the ground when that guy washes his plate off. also i just love the sirius characterisation in it bc hes sooo annoyed at that poor guy even though he hasnt done anything him saying he slathered his omelette in sauce like an idiot EVEN THOUGH THATS LITERALLY NORMAL IS SOOO PERFECT i just like. CANNOT WAIT for more of your stuff. like its really really hard to find well characterised mwpp era fics ESPECIALLY prongsfoot and theyre my otp so i really appreciate all the work you put in!! literally im like. so excited about your upcoming work sorry i already said that but yeah ksdhfkj ALSO ALSO I ALMOST FORGOT TO MENTION i read your regulus/lily fic about them being in hiding during the war and omg?? again the characterisation is PERFECT!! okay sorry for ranting but yes!!!!! thank you!!!!

thank you so much for this detailed message! <3

i actually find sirius somewhat hard to write so i'm glad he rang true. i think part of it is leaning into his abruptness and his quieter side so that i can contrast that more public side of him with the comfort around james. like the plate, i was trying to go for sirius' assurance in his friendship with james but the anxiety (for both of them) lying in the uncertainty of something beyond friendship, it's that small gap that works as the biggest chasm between them.

and thank you! living in the red was so hard to write, with regulily i kind of feel like it's a hard sell because of their ideological differences in canon but i think that's where the possibility and creativity lies. also they just go so well with j/s so i can always write j/s in the background which is fun in itself. the christmas scene in that is one of my fave j/s things i've written i think.

thank YOU <3

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also sorry im here again i just wanted to say that screw loose is one of my top 5 favourite prongsfoot fics! i just literally love the idea of mechanic!sirius its like. THE job i see for him and i also just loveee your descriptions of james' driving like him driving so bad bc at heart hes a spoilt rich boy is like <333 !!! OKAY SORRY FOR RANTING I JUST REALLY LOVE YOUR WRITING!!

hello sorry i'm almost a year late in responding to this but thank you soooooo much that's crazy!

mechanic sirius only came to me for screw loose, if you can believe that, because it just makes so much sense. just tinkering around but with precision and knowledge, hands and mind equally satisfied, etc etc. boy racer james is also incredibly important to me, he's a show off idiot and sirius is like "stop you're going to kill us" and james is like "yeah but you liked how my hair bounced when we came round that corner, right?"

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hey!! my friend recommended your blog to me and i just wanted to say i think it’s so cool how you advocate for people to not completely demolish one character (like james vs snape) because i really think it’s cool to exist with liking them both and each of their flaws and it’s really difficult to find that in this fandom nowadays!! we should be friends i really love your blog🥰🩷

thank you to you and your friend! sorry this is months late (: but nuance is what it's all about!!! give me the grey area anyday, real life is never as black and white as fandom can make out

also james AND snape are deliberately written as grey characters, harry goes through lowkey parallel moments of realisation with them both, so reading them as black and white isn't so much just a boring, limited take but literally a wrong one lmao

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hey!!!! i was re-reading some of your fics since youre one of my favourite prongsfoot writers EVER and i was suddenly reminded of when you mentioned you were working on a couple of fics! in particular i was intrigued by your cabin fic where lily's dream house is kind of interrupted by prongsfoot happening and your hogs head fic where a 36 year old sirius meets a 21 year old james!!!! i just wanted to tell you i absolutely ADORE your writing and look forward to anything youre going to post!!!!! your take on prongsfoot is just!!! AGH!!! AMAZING!!

ah thank you so much for sending this! that's so nice of you to say, and amazing that you've reread some of my fics. <33

i haven't spent much time writing at aaaall this year because i was finishing studying and then i've just had various life things that took up a lot of time and mental space since then (not bad, just busy) but hog's head fic is at the top of the list and i've been thinking about it a lot lately. last time i read through it i don't think it's actually that far off, it will need a few more scenes and some editing but nothing very complex? lily godric's hollow fic is also one i like thinking about but haven't got into gear with yet, like at all, and that one i think is a bit more complex in the way i'd like to write it and requires a bit more attention to canon and logistics which are on my weaker side of writing. i'm hoping to finally finish a new year's eve fic as well that i started in 2022, which really doesn't need that much work at all, so that's likely to be the next thing i post (she says)

i finally cleaned my desk and found the usb drive with all my fic on though so i can feasibly and actively work on it now

but thank you so so so so so much, this means a lot especially when i've been so mia <3

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i saw you and your male friend across the bar and noticed you're extremely weird about each other in various platonic and/or romantic ways Mind if i obsereve

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media literacy would automatically go up 100% if people knew how to consume stories without self-inserting themselves into the characters' shoes. "if i were him..." you're NOT. you may relate to his story, his past, his traits, his quirks, his identity but the moment you start treating the story accepting what you feel/think as what the character feels/thinks, you're misunderstanding the story.

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padfoot & prongs

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james "i would search for you in every universe and find you in every lifetime," potter and sirius "read: 3:37pm" black

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August 15, 2023 I'll try to get back to tumblr

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"Sirius didn’t hate Peter, they were best friend besties as close as Sirius and James or otherwise his betrayal wouldn't hurt!" holding you by shoulders listen to me. There are middle ground. There are nuances. There are friendships born out of forced proximity and ones where you love the person but also they get on your nerves and maybe secretly you kinda dislike them sometimes. We are dealing with teenagers in boarding school here. Things are complicated. It can be all true at the same time. Can you imagine Sirius saying "put that thing away before James pisses himself"? Yeah.

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having prongsfoot thoughts but specifically how james skews his moral compass wrong for sirius and sirius tries to fix his for james. thinking about how sirius is the 'cruel' one and james is the 'kind' one but sirius tells the marauders about his mother and remus and peter see pure hatred in james' eyes when sirius is bids farewell to them on the train, months later. thinking about how lily makes a remark about sirius' family and james snaps at her, which he's never done before. thinking about sirius sitting idly and chainsmoking as he tells sirius that regulus is dead and james comforts him while he thinks good riddance. thinking about sirius trying to make conversation with peter because james likes him, so sirius has to too. thinking about sirius slipping chocolate and a sorry note to remus because james said sirius made an insensitive joke. thinking about sirius trying to be nicer and accepting and holding his tongue near certain people because james doesn't like it when he's mean to them. thinking about sirius never not being proud because james never tells him not to be, but only because james had grown to adore it. thinking them both knowing each other's flaws and feeling their depressions and thinking the other is the pinnacle of perfection despite it, that unless he says it's wrong, i'm right.

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A couple of absolute Elvendorks.