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sometimes writing isn’t about talent. sometimes it’s about sitting in your chair and suffering for 45 minutes until a single sentence crawls out of your skull

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Springcest Fest Recap

Spring is officially over, which means Springcest Fest has come to a close. We had such a great time with these little bingo cards and we hope you did too!

We had 26 works in 22 fandoms added to our collection!! Please go check them out, maybe even get outside your fandom a bit to give these writers some love (it can be a bit lonely writing for a rare pair.) Often you don’t even need to know much about the original content to enjoy the fic.

Thank you all for writing some lovely shipcest for us! Happy summer and happy reading!

On my beloved’s arms by KittyLeFay97 A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms  | Jon Snow/Sansa Stark

Пролетен Грях by OrlanitaMariciaCanon The Jackal (1997), Дяволското Гърло | The Devil's Throat (TV), Пътят на Честта | Patyat Na Chestta (TV), Crocodile Alert (TV Movie 2006), Ягодова Луна  | The Jackal (The Jackal 1997)/Original Female Character(s), Асен Чанов/Гергана Тодорова, Mitch McDearie/Sara McDearie, Любомир Божинов/Рая Божинова

I can’t stop thinking about your body (how I want it on me) by cassetteinability Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  | Regulus Black/Sirius Black/James Potter

you could. you can. by diamondmeadows Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  | Regulus Black/Sirius Black

A Past Version by Cafae_planet Original Work  | Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s)

Making friendly by Emeka Summon Night U:X  | Kir Servolt/Sol Servolt

Possible Effects by Cafae_planet Original Work  | Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s)

GOOD LUCK BABE by KittyLeFay97 House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms  | Alicent Hightower/Rhaenyra Targaryen

brotherly love by Emeka Summon Night 5  | Folth/Kagerou (Summon Night)

soot staining marble by thistlecat Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  | Bellatrix Black Lestrange/Andromeda Black Tonks

The Damage Caused by Cafae_planet Inanimate Insanity (Web Series)  | Steve Cobs/MePhone4 (Inanimate Insanity)

Giving in to the Body by Cafae_planet Original Work  | Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s)

Crossed Signals by Cafae_planet Inanimate Insanity (Web Series)  | Steve Cobs/MePhone4 (Inanimate Insanity)

I am your light, I am your darkness by KittyLeFay97 Arthurian Mythology & Related Fandoms | Morgan le Fay/Arthur Pendragon

Finally Alone by Cafae_planet Inanimate Insanity (Web Series)  | Steve Cobs/MePhone4 (Inanimate Insanity)

Tears of a Jade Phoenix by Serpex 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon)  | Lan Huan | Lan Xichen/Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji

Magnetic Pull by Cafae_planet Inanimate Insanity (Web Series) | Bot/Test Tube (Inanimate Insanity)

distract me by theangelstrumpet Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  | Regulus Black/Sirius Black

With You Always by Herochick007 Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  | Padma Patil/Parvati Patil

Fragmented by Herochick007 Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  | Ginny Weasley/Rose Weasley

Namesake by Herochick007 Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  | Lily Evans Potter/Lily Luna Potter

In the eyes of the beholder by Pumpkin_Spicecream Naruto (Anime & Manga)  | Uchiha Itachi/Uchiha Sasuke

Only the Best by TheWaiWaiAfterparty (peachys_melty_wonderland) WACCA (Video Game)  | Elizabeth/Lily (WACCA)

Green over Green by KittyLeFay97 A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms | Jaime Lannister/Original Female Character(s)

Is our meeting serendipity (or just coincidence) by Pumpkin_Spicecream Naruto (Anime & Manga)  | Uchiha Itachi/Uchiha Obito

Empty Paradise by RevolutionaryGirlLexi Code Geass  | Nunnally vi Britannia/Lelouch Lamperouge | Lelouch vi Britannia

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“James is getting a bit frustrated shut up here, he tries not to show it but I can tell – also, Dumbledore’s still got his Invisibility Cloak, so no chance of little excursions. If you could visit, it would cheer him up so much.”  Lily’s letter to Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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Sirius: Potters, I’m home! Lily: Go. James: Did you tell him something? Lily: Like what? James: Sirius! Thank you for Harry’s birthday present! Lily: Now you… finish your meal first. Harry: ahh Lily: I know.

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*Puts brief case down on the table and takes off glasses very seriously* “So about that AU we discussed that one time.”

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Pretty Wolfstar by @whoopsiesnodaisies

Can't Fight The Moonlight by @cosmiclove-jpg

With All Your Faults (I Love You Still) by sea_salt_air_92

Iced Americanos and Highway Blues by chasingthestar

how to gain a slytherin in 10 days by @digthewriter

Something safe by @crescentcitytorchwood

The Marauders [a.k.a. The Other Men] by @merulaswelt

Good Old A Capella by @sliebman10

no more queens by septemberbells

Anyone But Moony by @thethingwithfeathers8

Love, and Other Disasters by @spinderella-umbrella

Is He Walking Back To Me? by @marlenemckinn

Shooting for the Moon (and Other Missteps) by ghoskie

P.S I Love You by @b1ackcatchatsback

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remnants of sectumsempra

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there's this moment in prisoner of azkaban i always think about. it's before harry gets the full story on sirius in the shrieking shack, when he still thinks sirius betrayed his parents, and he's hovering over sirius, ready to kill him, and says, "you never heard her, did you? my mum… trying to stop voldemort killing me…and you did that…you did it…." and i'm just...GOD. imagining what must have been going through sirius's head in that moment. it certainly wasn't the first time he'd thought about it. i'm sure the image of james and lily's deaths was a constant companion with sirius in azkaban. christ, he saw their bodies, but—hearing it from harry!!!!! being forced, in the midst of the adrenaline of that scene in the shrieking shack, to once again think about lily potter's last-ditch bargaining, her screams as she died to protect harry. hearing it confirmed by harry who has now heard her!!!!!

jesus.

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more fictional characters should have bad awkward sex with each other

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I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but more people should read incomplete/unfinished/in-progress fanfics.

I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.

The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.

Anyways, support your favorite fanfic writers by engaging with their WIPs.

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just cause

for @drarrymicrofic prompt: ground(s) | 130 words | CW: Auror brutality, sex worker slur, morally grey Harry

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Malfoy’s eyes are wet, silver, furious. 

You are hereby sentenced to five years in Azkaban, on the following grounds:

He’s sprawled on the pavement outside The Leaky, robes hiked up. 

Dereliction of duty

Milk-pale calves, defiled with mud spatters. Jacobson’s sludgy bootprint sullying his cheek.

Aiding a known criminal

Jacobson laughs, "Filthy whore". Raises his boot again.

“P- Potter,” Malfoy begs, breath a smoky cloud in the freezing air. 

A flash—the night after Ginny filed for divorce. Ferocious silver eyes and a hot, hot mouth. Harry’d been the one begging.

Conduct unbecoming an Auror

Intent surges through Harry. Fierce. Vivid. More than he’s ever known. 

And, most egregiously, using an Unforgivable on a fellow Auror.

And he'd do it again.

For those silver eyes.

Guards, please escort Mr Potter out

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Young Sirius Black

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Hi, I noticed your story has conflict in it, and I was wondering why you didn't just write people who are right doing everything correctly with a note saying "I enthusiastically co-sign everything in this story"? Must be some kind of mistake haha

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Against all odds, it’s Potter who keeps bringing him something edible each day, slipping in under the cover of darkness and his cloak; it’s Potter, arguing his case—so loud it rings all the way down the long, echoing, empty halls to where the holding cells sit, tucked away in time and space, cold and lonely and endless; and it’s Potter, finally, and his magic, wrenching the door open wordlessly, wandlessly, saying we did it, you’re free—come on, come with me as he holds out his hand, palm open and warm.

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Harry faces death before he's old enough to properly remember it, and he faces it again

age 11, alone;

age 12, alone, venom seeping through his veins;

age 13, alone, cold, breathless, dementors closing in, his father's best friend

—Sirius—

unconscious on the ground;

age 14, in a graveyard, high, cold laughter ringing through the headstones, his classmate—dead—still warm in his arms;

age 15 on cold ministry tiles, grief

—Sirius—

ripping like gunfire through him;

age 16, again,

again, again, every second, for most of age 17—

and he's fucking tired;

so when the Department of Mysteries wants him to face it

again

(Harry, can I call you Harry, you could help us, together, imagine, Harry, we could access new facets and depths to life magic that have never before been studied, Harry)

he says no;

and keeps saying no;

until they offer him a chance he can't resist,

a choice that is not a choice:

Sirius.

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One moment it’s an average Tuesday morning in the office, and Ron is bounding in to gleefully tell him “hey, have you heard, Malfoy’s pregnant, can you IMAGINE”—and the next moment, Harry’s standing in the pouring rain on a doorstep in Islington, desperately needing to know: “Is it mine?”

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Inappropriate Use of Immobilization Spell