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Sketch for Either must die at the hand of the other by @metalomagnetic - one of the best fics I've read so far.

V is a bit younger here, so I decided to share this one too. I think I'll change his face a bit on a final artwork, I'm not pretty sure I like it.

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New chapter for "It runs in the blood".

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how do you a female voldemort/tom riddle would differ

Wildly. Dumbledore would have had more sympathy for her from the get go, at Hogwarts she wouldn’t have managed to make her pureblood Slytherin peers follow her, and later on in life she wouldn’t have managed to gain such a following.

She wouldn’t have picked Harry as the Chosen one, because he is not like her at all. Probably the prophecy wouldn’t have been made to begin with.

She’d be living her best, immortal life somewhere in some woods, trying and failing from time to time to start a war.

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Aside from Sirius, are all the Blacks dog people? Any cat lovers amongst them?

Melania, Arcturus and Cygnus were all cat people!

Sirius himself is mostly ‘all animals’ type of person. He loves cats, loved his grandma’s cat and often played with her (Athena).

Orion was a ‘no animal’ type of man, because when he was a child he had a dog he loved but that was taken away from him as a form of punishment, so after that he never wanted another pet, but when Sirius started bringing in strays, he couldn’t make himself say ‘no’, and like everyone else in the family he fell in love with Padfoot, too, even if he never admitted it.

Bella is a cat person, like daddy, but ofc, because of Sirius, she has a soft spot for a certain type of dog.

Cissa is a cat person, and there are several pamperer, royal looking cats all over Malfoy Manor. They sometimes drive Lucius mad, especially when he wants to get into Cissa’s bed but it’s already occupied by 5-7 cats that hiss at him.

Sirius’ kids are dog people; they’d love a cat, too, but Snuffles is very aggressive with cats so they can’t have one in Grimmauld.

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I have a long question, here haha, bear with me.

This is lowkey a tiny bit of a niche within your writing, but i’ve completely fallen for old Sirius. I adore your writing, pairings, everything, yet it’s old Sirius who has completely garnered my attention for some reason.

Canis Major, It runs, the crumbs in Metamorphosis, trust me, I’ve fixated on them all.

I came across your tumblr and saw your post with lore for ‘It runs’ in which you mentioned old Sirius and old Marvolo had knowledge no one else did, i.e. that’s now been lost to the world. What what whattt??? Not truly pure Blacks/truly pure Gaunts? As in their magic? Is Black magic impure somehow, maybe the stars have an influence?? I’m so intrigued. I know technically these aren’t going to make it into the story, buuut if there’s a chance you’d indulge us (me)…

Generally I’m just desperate for more old Sirius lore and just him in general. He’s just a big box of secrets and mystery. I’m curious how all these personalities came to you, considering old Sirius as far as I remember is barely mentioned in canon. All these dynamics for the family, I truly adore them.

I imagine Hesper must’ve been one hell of a crazy woman to match him so well, too, considering he seems to have been fond of her, based on the way he spoke of her to Orion when our Sirius was astral projecting. Unlike Sirius and Astrid (whom I utterly adore, btw), I personally see Sirius and Hesper as having a more passionate chemistry. Two hotheaded, crazy individuals who fought and bickered, but ultimately always believed they chose right with the other. If I remember correctly, Hesper would’ve been a half-Black as well, since Orion only had Macmillan as a non-Black grandparent, but I could be wrong. In that case, I wonder if unlike Astrid or Druella or the other non-Blacks who married into the family, Sirius had an easier time confiding in Hesper, or if he kept a distance from her as well, in the same way Sirius does with Astrid despite her being a source of comfort for him, (ex: after Arcturus’ death). Their relationship has a lot of potential and I truly don’t know why these are the characters of yours I’ve taken an interest to, but hey, to each their own. Either way, I’d be curious on whether you’ve given them any thought, since this is all just some very surface level thinking on my part.

Do you think a work with old Sirius is something you’d ever consider in the future. Truthfully, I myself am not sure in what sense, BUT, trust that I’ll be the first there if you do. >:)

also, i totally knew you were eastern european. i could sense it. (yours truly, a fellow eastern european girlie who loves your work) <33

I love it that so many people like Old Sirius haha. He's such a riot!

We will find out in It runs what Marvolo and old Sirius know that has been forgotten by most others!

Hesper was, indeed, quite crazy, to match her husband. They had a passionate marriage, and loved each other, but their fights were legendary.

I did write a one-shot about old Sirius, once! Here, have a lil' snippet:

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His father fled to Hogwarts, years ago, mostly to get away from Sirius. So he’s not too happy to have Sirius there. 

Of course, he’s as ineffectual as a Headmaster as he is as father, so they don’t cross paths very much. Both avoid it. His father because he’s scared of Sirius, and Sirius because he feels acute embarrassment, intense rage, whenever he’s faced with that clown that shames their linage. 

The students joke about him behind his back. Of course, they stop doing that soon after Sirius arrives. 

He hates that he has to defend his father, but the bug carries the Black name, and Sirius will do his best to remind people that is a name to fear, not mock. 

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“It’s that Dumbledore,” Horace whispers to some of his peers when Binns calls students forth to be sorted, and a lanky redhead walks to the stool. “Haven’t you heard? His father attacked some muggle boys during the summer! He received a life sentence in Azkaban!” 

What a failure, Sirius thinks. He was mad about it when it happened, too. To send wizards to prison for attacking muggles? What is their world coming to? 

Sirius knows many wizards that attack muggles, but no one dared arrest those so far. His grandfather, before he died, murdered that Bob Hatchings that Aunt Isla married a year prior. 

Sirius believes he should have killed Aunt Isla, too, erase the stain on their family tree, but even Grandfather had a weakness, it seems. 

It is no matter, Sirius will sort it when he’s done with school. 

The Dumbledores are not an old, rich family, however. There was nothing to protect the patriarch from the Ministry, and now he’s serving a life sentence for attacking inferior beings, and his son spends ages on that stool, all made of red hair and bright, intelligent blue eyes. 

There’s something about him, something powerful and steady, something only Sirius can see. 

When the hat finally yells out  ‘Gryffindor’ Sirius finds himself disappointed.

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I like how all of us eastern europeans can immediately clock each other on Ao3 hahah. There's some of that unique eastern angst that permeates our stories 😂

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this is more of a joke-y ask, because i know the answer is basically "a complete disaster", but can you tell me a little bit of what a marriage between IRITB Bellatrix and Lucius would have been like 🤣 Bella thinks Lucius is spineless, and I think Lucius is frankly a bit terrified of her, and that neither would have been thrilled about this marriage, but if their fathers had forced them into it, what would that have looked like?

Hope you're doing well! Loved the birthday snippet of Harry :)

She does think him spineless, and he thinks her deranged, and their marriage, at least for a while would be very uncomfortable (especially for Lucius), but I do think that once they have a child, they would unite behind that. There would be no romantic love, they'd each live their separate personal lives, but if they accepted the marriage for their families sake, then it stands to reason they would want to continue the legacy and would always keep an united front. Perhaps Bella might grow to respect Lucius' cunning, slippery ways when he protects their child the way he knows, and he would grow to appreciate Bella's deranged ruthlessness when she protects their child the way she knows.

So, I think they would actually be fine, but only once they have a kid, to give them something they both love and want to protect.

If Voldemort/the war happens, there would be tensions there, but I think Bella wouldn't end up in Azkaban with Lucius as her husband.

If there's no Voldemort/no war, they would have a perfectly successful marriage- not *romantic* success, but successful in the way marriages for wealth, legacy and politics matter in their circles.

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hiii this is rlly random BUT I need to know if you’re brazilian… your writing is sooooo good and when I was reading it I felt like idk it’s weird but it felt like your first language was portuguese idk how to explain it sorry

so yeah that’s my question lok! I hope you’re having a good day/night!

Haha, no, I am not Brazilian! I am Romanian. That's why you felt my first language was Portuguese, because what you felt was the latin, and indeed, I do structure my sentences in a very latin way our native tongues have in common. 😂

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Snippet for It Runs, for Harry's bday.

Happy Birthday, Harry! (his 8th bday)

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“Daddy! Daddy wake up!”

Sirius opens his eyes to see Orion’s face so close to his own, it takes him a second to identify him.

“What?”

“It’s Harry’s birthday!” Orion says, all excited. “I can finally give him the present!”

Sirius turns his head around, trying to look at the clock, but it’s so dark, he can’t tell the time.

He waves a hand, and the candles on the wall come to life.

Not even fucking five in the morning.

“You know what the best present would be? Letting him sleep! Me, too!”

“Come on!” Orion pulls at his hand. “Marvolo is getting Mama! I don’t want them to reach Harry before me! I want to be the first to wish him a happy birthday!”

“Why are you a morning person?” Sirius laments, forcing himself to get out of bed. “How can I have produced a morning person?”

“Grandpa says all men must wake before dawn! Otherwise we turn into lazy filth, not worth a galleon.”

“Merlin’s cock,” Sirius mutters.

“Heard that!” Orion giggles.

“Yeah, yeah,” Sirius waves him off, stumbles to his bathroom. He hardly got any sleep.

It’s getting better, his sleeping schedule, the nightmares. It’s been going better for a while, but this night wasn’t one of the good ones.

He has a headache, too, and the cold water doesn’t help with it, but at least helps him to full awakeness.

Orion drags the broom after him, refuses to let Sirius carry it for him.

“No, I bought it! I give it to him!”

“No, you little shit, I bought it,” Sirius hisses at him.

Orion looks up at him, perplexed. He’s so adorable, with his little confused frown. “But I chose it! I came up with the idea!”

“Yeah, and I paid for it. The most important part, you know?”

Orion shhurgs, starts walking again. “What’s yours is mine!” he informs Sirius.

That’s Sirius’ fault. In a fit on sentimentality, when Orion was grumpy and suffering with a molar coming in, extra upset that Marvolo recieved more attention than him that day from his visiting Russian grandmother, Sirius paced with him in his arms around Black Manor, gestured to the sprawling, gorgeous grounds and said ‘see all this? it’s all going to be yours one day’.

“But isn’t it yours, Daddy?”

“Everything I have, is yours, Orion. Everything I do, everying I own, all for you.”

It cheered Orion up, but Sirius is paying for it ever since.

Clealry, Astird woke up faster than him, because she’s waiting with Marvolo outside of Harry’s room. “See, I told you they’ll be right here,” she tells Marvolo, patient. She even found the time to brush and tie her hair, not a strand out of place. Sirius could never figure out how she does it, how she’s so flawless all the time.

“I don’t see why we had to wait!” Marvolo complains. He’s holding onto a box as big as he is- Sirius charmed it the other day to make it fearther-weight.”

“Come on, then.” Sirius opens the door, and the boys run in, yelling “HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY!”

A different child would startle awake, perhaps frightened, but Harry is used with one of the boys, if not both, jumping up and down his bed at the crack of dawn.

He wakes up with a grin already, blindly reaching for the nightstand to get his glasses, but he doesn’t get to before Orion and Marvolo thrown themsleves at him, fighting already about who gets to hug Harry first.

“Hmm,” Astrid whispers, with a smile. “Ten minutes ago I wanted to rip my hair out when he woke me, but now it’s not so bad, is it?”

“It isn’t,” Sirius admits, with a smile of his own.

They join the kids on the bed, and Sirius gently throws the others of Harry, so he can hug him himself.

“NOT FAIR!” Marvolo complains, landing on a pillow at the foot of the bed.

“Happy birthday, kiddo,” Sirius says, kissing Harry’s forhead.

Definitely easier this year. It takes Sirius minutes to think of James, of what James is missing, of what a wonderulf father Harry is missing.

Last year, the years before that, it was the first thing he thought of when he woke up on Harry’s birthday.

This year it only kicks in when Astrid manages to get the glasses on Harry’s face, and helps him open up his gifts.

Sirius breathes in, but it doesn’t hurt quite as much.

Suffering with the kids there is almost impossible.

Snuffles barges in, probably drawn by the commotion, and it was already loud, but now it’s ten times worse.

Ten times better, too.

Harry wants to ride his new Nimbus, right now, play with his new snitch, but Astrid manages to convince them all to wait until after breakfast.

“Grandma surely wants to eat with you, Harry. She got you a gift as well-”

“Grandma gives the best gifts!”

“HEY!” Orion, Marvolo and Sirius say at the same time, offended.

“So we’ll have breakfast with her, and then we can go to the Manor and test the broom, yes?”

“Fine,” Harry agrees.

It might not have a good night, but Sirius knows it will be a good day. They’ll meet with the Malfoys at the Manor, Evy and her twins are coming, too, and they’ll have a great day.

Sirius won’t let his mind ruin it, he promises himself.

As everyone heads to the kitchen, Sirius orders Krecher to transfer the mountains of gifts he bought for Harry to the Manor.

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lil drawing of Astrid and Helix for the fic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32223811/chapters/79858369

by @metalomagnetic

(rlly love Astrid btw hope she doesn't go bald)

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Time traveling Sirius to grindeldore era for @metalomagnetic or an excuse to draw her fav character with mines xD Gellert is so pretty and possessive and Albus so naive and excited ahaha Sirius … well he’s suppose to be the grown up there but is he? XD

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Handsomest, most stylish man! ❤️

Some happy Sirius to cheer up @metalomagnetic ❤️

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You have to let go

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I'm really curious- how do you imagine Grimmauld Place? Or Black Manor, for that matter? I know you've written some descriptions and lore about them in your fanfics, but it was a little vague.

For example, how big are they really? How many floors, how many rooms? Do you imagine them as dark, cramped, and oppressive, or more grand and decayed in a haunted house sort of way? How ostentatious are they? Can they do anything more than what you have written about?

I actually saw a video on TikTok the other day that really made me think about this- it’s probably the closest I’ve seen to how I picture it myself (tho perhaps a little less gaudy and gold). I'd love to hear what you think, and whether your vision lines up with that or is completely different.

TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdmMu8Pv/

Also, I hope you’re doing well, Metalo! Sending you good thoughts.✨

Grimmauld is big, magically modified to look like the townhouses that surround it, with five storeys and lots of rooms. It is dark, cramped, decayed in that haunted house sort of way, with mismatched furniture the Blacks gathered along the many centuries. The furniture was/is of high quality, of course, but they're ancient by this point, marks left by time on almost everything in the house.

Many of the rooms remain unused, sealed off, with terrible, dangerous artefacts inside, put away safely, also gathered through the centuries. Half of the house is sealed off, filled with deadly, dusty things that can kill one in a second.

The carpets are glorious, and you can tell that once they were the newest, bestest, most fashionable carpets in UK, but that was centuries ago; despite Kreacher's efforts, there are small holes in them, small stains that can never go away. The wallpaper with the family tree, that goes all over the house, is cracked and stained, too. Everything is.

Grimmauld is almost sentient, made entirely by magic, and it is a representation of the Black family: ancient, unmoving, not willing to adapt to the world around it. It was raised in that place before London even had a name, and it refused to move, it merely puts on a disguise for outsiders, but inside, it will always be what it is: a relic of the past, one that refuses to modernise. Sirius at one point in the fic thinks: "do we own Grimmauld, or does it own us?".

All Blacks are born there, and many die there, too. All Blacks resent it a little, its suffocating presence, but they all find safety and comfort in it as well; it can be a prison to them, but it is also the only safe place for a Black to *be* a Black. Their little slice of the world, completely sealed off from outsiders.

Black Manor is different; newer. Grander. It's basically a castle. It's not cramped, and it is modern (every generations keeps it modern for their time, because that's where Blacks receive guests, that's the house the rest of the world is allowed to see). Now, it depends on the lady of the house: before Astrid, the last to decorate the manor was old Sirius' wife, and her taste ran more dark, very in line to the video you shared! But now Astrid is there, and she keeps renovating it often, in a competition with Narcissa on who has the prettiest manor, the most beautiful gardens.

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verso is genuinely one of the most well-written male characters while also being one of the most tragic characters i’ve ever seen in any media in a while thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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i can’t engage with sirius black being high maintenance posts because he lived in a cave. and ate rats.

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Heart breaking, just the way I love it!

I wrote a Lies of P oneshot for @metalomagnetic because the game didn’t make us suffer enough!!

the life cycle of a moth

(This is really sad but if you played Lies of P you’re already used to that!)