#eiiri has thoughts

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So just tripped across this on Pinterest:

Immediately added it to my Angel's Closet board. Cuz I'm picturing Angel in that skirt and, like, a Jack Daniel's T-shirt with the sleeves cut to make it a halter, leaning in the doorway like "Look, Husk! I'm all your favorite things! ^_^"

(Best I can tell the original image is from a tweet that no longer exists.)

[eiirisworkshop]

Thinking about this because of a post going around, but just to be clear:

I welcome translations of my fic.

I welcome podfic of my fic.

I welcome translations and podfic of my fic, even if there’s already a podfic or translation into that language.

I welcome fic of fic.

I welcome questions from anyone working on translation, podfic, or fic of fic for my work.

All I ask is that you let me know you wanna do it

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my wolfstar fic recc

29 of my favs, plus 2 comics :)

sorted from shortest to longest, series at the bottom

i like long fics, i like raising Harry AUs, i like Lay Low at Lupin’s fics, i like marauder era “we’re 70′s trash fics”, i like angst, but i also love “everybody lives”, kind of a mix of everything but seriously a lot of raising Harry AUs because it fills a need i guess

some super popular, some relative unknowns i think

all fics that characterize wolfstar for me :) 

JKR has disappointed me supremely, but fan works will hold my love forever

 part 2 because i forgot some

STANDALONES

1. A Day Like Any Other by dustmouth

(a comic, not really a fic, just hosted on AO3)

The one where Sirius keeps receiving unwanted mail, Remus drinks a lot of tea, Peter's out on a hot date, and James is offering unwanted make overs.

(Or the answer to the question of exactly how many cursed letters can you flush down the loo).

2. To Keep a Star by dustmouth

(a comic, not really a fic, just hosted on AO3)

Daily life in the Intergalactic Postal Service. Or the one where Sirius is a postal star and Remus lives on a spaceship.

3. in your bedroom, during the war by lupinely

There’s the bed, there’s the room, and there’s Remus. This, at least, Sirius knows for sure. (4Kish)

4. Home We’ll Go by appalachian_fireflies

"I can't, I don't know how," Remus stuttered as Molly dropped the infant into his arms, who immediately ceased crying and stared up at him with wide eyes.

"Nonsense," Molly said. "Be a dear and keep him from falling while I feed Ginny."

"Ba!" Ron giggled, and slapped Remus in the face.

Molly is the emergency contact for the Order when those listed can no longer be reached. Remus' life finds a different path. (10K)

5. A Store of Happiness by coyotesuspect

Harry spends the summer after his third year living with Sirius and Professor Lupin. (10K)

6. In The Bed by bigblackdog

Left to his own devices the summer after the prank, Sirius crafts an unusual gift to mend his relationship with Remus. (11K)

7. Vigil Strange I Kept by whitmans_kiss

Remus' lycanthropy has caused his body to seriously deteriorate over the years due to the constant stress of the transformations, and by his fifty-sixth birthday, it's certain that he won't live to finish out the year. However, a cure has recently been discovered - but what if the cure is just as bad as the disease? (11K)

8. Elucidation Practice by montparnasse

Christmas, 1978. Remus, wrestling with the mighty problems of gift-giving on a budget, contemplates life, love, London in winter, and falling off the edge of the world with Sirius Black. (21K)

9. On a Windswept Cliff by starfishstar

On the cliff top where the fearsome Lord Black once stalked, an outcast man meets a big black dog, and things are not as they seem.

Or: The Remus/Sirius gothic romance AU. (21K)

10. Lethe and Mnemosyne by montparnasse

Winter '79. Looking to get out from under the black-hole overhang of wartime, Sirius and Remus take off to play house on the Cornish moors. It goes downhill from there.  (26K)

11. Purity by FelisA 

Sirius resurrection fic. (27K) 12. Common Woodbrown by imochan

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. In 1985, Remus Lupin realizes that Sirius Black is innocent. Now, he just has to prove it. (36K)

13. Wilde and Whimsy by chasing bluefish, obsob

In a world where Dumbledore defeated Voldemort during the first war, the wizarding community is picking up the pieces and getting back to their lives. Remus Lupin becomes a person of interest in a murder at the bookshop where he works and Sirius Black and James Potter, aurors, are sent to investigate. As they navigate the crime itself, Remus and Sirius realize that there is something to their instant chemistry. But they need to keep their newfound attraction under wraps while trying to find the killer and stop them from claiming more victims. (36K)

14. Paper Wings by Krislaughs

(not hosted on ao3)

What if Sirius Black sent a final message from Azkaban? Enter the home of the last Marauder in the days following Voldemort’s downfall. Lost and alone, Remus asks a question of the void, a question whose answer will send him around the world. Meeting puppies, Kneazles, dementors, and nomads, Remus learns more about himself and his friends than he ever thought possible. Learn the secrets of the Marauder’s map and the world’s best chocolate, how various Death Eaters occupied themselves after the fall of their lord, and why you should never leave Remembralls lying around.

15. Uncreated Night by earlybloomingparentheses

Remus can drift through whole worlds in his own mind. Sirius lives in his body, electric, ablaze. In 1979 and 1996 and 1978 and 1981 and in many other years and many different places, they search for the bridges between them and the spaces they can share. Time after time, they fight their way back together, head and heart, mind and body.

And in 1998, Remus stands before the veil, wondering if he should finally stop thinking, and just act. (41.5K)

16. Lemon Chiffon Yellow by Spklvr

An unplanned night between Remus and Tonks ends up changing their lives forever. (42K)

17. The Weather Inside by earlybloomingparentheses

Sirius rides a flying motorbike, and snogs strangers in pubs, and strikes moody poses Remus finds irritatingly attractive. But for Remus, who drinks milky tea and wears flannel pyjamas, there's a chasm cracked right down the fault line between wanting and doing.

How he wants, though. How he wants. (43K)

18. the dogfather by hollimichele

“I’m not a reverse werewolf either,” says the man. “I’m your godfather.”  (47K)

19. Domestic Creatures by veeagainst

Growing up is hard to do -- but the journey is better if you take someone with you. (53K)

20. Leave the Children Behind by montparnasse

Bravery, sometimes, is the ending just as much as the beginning. Remus, Sirius, and a series of choices.

Or, a love story—backwards and forwards. (54K)

21. A Series of Sketches Done in Black Ink by  mustntgetmy

Non-magic AU. Sirius had always imagined the aftermath of falling in love would mean lightness, and an escape from all the horrors of his childhood. But the past never leaves, and even love can't stop bad memories from resurfacing.

An almost year in the life of Sirius and Remus's first year as a couple replete with art and tangled sheets, and containing the following: filled sketchbook pages from people lost and people found, terrible biscuits from an excellent therapist, mismatched music records, expensive hot chocolate, a lost brother, photographs (some invasive and some invoking terrible memories), a reckoning with the past, a promise of the future, and yet another ridiculously over the top Halloween party. (57K)

22. Alt Ed by NachoDiablo

“Remus? Who the bloody hell is Remus?” James is scrambling to straighten his chair as McGonagall glares at him from the head table.

Mary smiles innocently. “Oh, just a new friend that Lily met over the holidays. He’s homeschooled, just moved into her neighborhood it seems. She says he’s very clever. And I hear he’s quite fit, as well.”

AU where Remus and Lily become friends outside of Hogwarts, setting James and Sirius on a quest to learn more about this mysterious newcomer. (61K)

23. Indiana Lupin and the Search for the Conqueror by nekarose

Remus Lupin is an undercover archaeologist for the British Museum and is sent to Greenland to investigate a Roman shipwreck. In Greenland he meets Sirius Black, makes a real discovery and soon enough the two of them are racing through the world in search of the remains of the Library of Alexandria with Remus’ arch-enemy right at their heels. (66K)

24. Le Mot Vagabond by ironicallyinternational

(It all starts with Peter Pettigrew dying twice.

First, Peter kills Wormtail (discreetly), and then Sirius kills him (less discreetly).

Losing a friend is never easy, even amidst the ravages of war, but losing the last of your childhood alongside him is far worse.)

War is a complicated, messy thing. The Marauders have their fucked up shit to deal with, but they also have each other, and that counts for a lot. (151K)

SERIES:

25. The Hole in the Ground by sostrata

(5 works)  A series of fics about Sirius and Remus raising Harry in their home, The Hole in the Ground.  (18k)

26. Holding Out by bigblackbog

(works 2)

On Halloween, 1981 Sirius and Remus abscond with Harry despite their recently rocky relationship. (36K)

27. Maddest House by busaikko

(6 works)

old as hell. Another wolfstar raising Harry fic (55K)

28. Lycanthropic Studies by Eiiri

(3 works)

After the Battle of Hogwarts, Remus recognizes something familiar in Draco Malfoy and offers him sanctuary. With nowhere else to turn--his parents in prison, his home a crime scene--Draco reluctantly accepts and becomes a tolerated, if not welcome, member of his schoolyard rivals' and wartime adversaries' family of choice. As pages of the lunar calendar turn and the summer wears on,Draco and the others begin to see each other in a different light. (139K)

29. Stealing Harryverse by copperbadge

(works 12)  

On a dark night long ago, Sirius Black took a wrong turn and never found Peter Pettigrew. Instead of Azkaban, Sirius settled down in Little Whinging to keep an eye on his godson, and hired Remus Lupin to run his bookshop for him. Then one day when Harry was eight, Sirius found out how the Dursleys treated him, and stole him away.

Stealing Harry is an alternate universe version of Harry Potter's life before his time at Hogwarts. It is the story of Harry's family: Sirius and Remus, Ted and Andromeda, Nymphadora, Neville Longbottom, and even Severus Snape, all banded together against a newly powerful Peter Pettigrew who is still searching for a way to resurrect Voldemort.

Laocoon's Children follows Harry through his time at Hogwarts as he develops a very different group of friends: Hufflepuff Draco Malfoy, Ravenclaw Padma Patil, and Gryffindor Neville Longbottom, strange companions for a Harry who was sorted into Slytherin -- the house of his beloved Professor Snape.

This universe ends in Harry's third year, and is partially incomplete. As it is not likely to be finished, the last story in the series is a group of notes I made on where the story would have gone and how it would have ended. (443.3K)

30. All the Young Dudes by MsKingBean89

(4 works)

LONG fic charting the marauders' time at Hogwarts (and beyond) from Remus' PoV - diversion from canon in that Remus's father died and he was raised in a children's home, and is a bit rough around the edges. Otherwise canon-compliant. 1971 - 1995 (557K)

31. Crow Rides A Pale Horse  by tb_ll57

(4 works)

The note pinned to his collar read 'Harry J Potter - please accept'. The Dursleys had left him with nothing else but a pillow sack with half a sleeve of McVities biscuits, a mealy apple, and ten pounds. (618K)

[fumpkins]

Electronics integrated to the muscle via 'Kirigami' [ad_1] A research study group in the Department of Electrical and EIIRIS at Toyohashi University of Technology has actually established a donut-shaped kirigami gadget for EMG recordings. The proposed gadget minimizes gadget displacement on a big deformable muscle surface area. Precise and robust EMG recordings use EMG signal-based human-machine user interfaces that enable prosthesis control for amputees. The outcomes of their research study were released in a problem of Advanced Healthcare Materials on December 5, 2019. The article likewise appeared on the inside back cover. A precise and robust EMG signal recording is essential in EMG signal-based human-machine user interfaces to enable prosthesis control for amputees utilizing their recurring muscle. In 2017, the exact same research study group formerly proposed an electrode gadget utilizing the kirigami structure for the intimate combination of the electronic gadget and biological tissues. (Y. Morikawa et al., 10.1002/adhm.201701100). The amazing capacity of the kirigami structure comes from its high stretchability, including its high stress ratio and little force essential to be used throughout gadget stretches. The kirigami structure can be extended with a low stress force and its mechanical qualities are comparable to soft biological tissues, such as in the brain and muscles. Nevertheless, it is challenging to get a precise and robust bio-signal recording without displacement of the electrode. Gadget displacement happens when the kirigami gadget is used to biological tissues, such as the heart and muscles, which go through big contortion. A research study group in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering and the EIIRIS at Toyohashi University of Technology has actually established donut-shaped kirigami gadget for EMG recording to fix the concern of gadget displacement throughout muscle contortion. The donut-shaped kirigami structure is able to change from a 2D donut shape to a 3D round shape. The round shape appropriates for various spherically or columnar-shaped deformable biological tissues (e.g. upper limb, lower limb, finger, abdominal area, and heart). The donut-shaped kirigami gadget performs the fixation system to the target tissues and minimizes the gadget displacement throughout tissue contortion with decreased tension to the biological tissue. The recording ability of the proposed gadget was validated through the EMG signal recording from the hind limb of a mouse, showing the possibility of utilizing the gadget for an EMG-based human-machine-interface. "The first demonstration using our conventional sheet-shaped kirigami device could not follow the deformation of a beating heart. We discussed the device structure, which enables the device to follow deformable tissues. In the preliminary experiment, we used a paper, which was patterned into the proposed donut-shape of the kirigami by the box cutter, and we demonstrated its stretchable and deformable capabilities for the muscle. However, it was uncertain whether the micro-scale donut-kirigami device shows these device properties or not. We explored them through fabricating the device by using the microfabrication process and the device characterizations, and we confirmed that the fabricated device exhibited the expected deformation against our thought," describes the very first author of the post, Ph.D. prospect Yusuke Morikawa. The donut-shaped kirigami gadget still requires additional enhancements in regards to toughness and the thick selection of the microelectrodes. Additionally, the impact of the gadget implantations to the biological tissues ought to be clarified if utilized for an extended period. Nevertheless, it is anticipated that the proposed gadget applies to an EMG based human-machine-interface and contributes to the enhancement of the lifestyle of amputees. ### Funding company This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (No. 17H03250, No. 16H05434), for Young Scientists (A) (No. 26709024), on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research study location) (15H05917), and Strategic Advancement of Multi-Purpose Ultra-Human Robot and Artificial Intelligence Technologies program from NEDO. Y.M. was supported by the Leading Graduate School Program R03 of MEXT. R.N. was supported by Takeda Science Foundation. K.K. was supported by Toyota Physical & Chemical Research Institute Scholars. Reference: Yusuke Morikawa, Shota Yamagiwa, Hirohito Sawahata, Rika Numano, Kowa Koida, and Takeshi Kawano. (2019). "Donut?Shaped Stretchable Kirigami: Enabling Electronics to Integrate with the Deformable Muscle." Advanced Healthcare Materials, 10.1002/adhm.201900939. Disclaimer: We can make errors too. Have a great day. [ad_2] Via: https://www.livescience.tech/2019/12/09/electronics-integrated-to-the-muscle-via-kirigami/?feed_id=216&_unique_id=5deecb0954370

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Wolfstar Fic Recs

Home We’ll Go by appalachian_fireflies

“I can’t, I don’t know how,” Remus stuttered as Molly dropped the infant into his arms, who immediately ceased crying and stared up at him with wide eyes.

“Nonsense,” Molly said. “Be a dear and keep him from falling while I feed Ginny.”

“Ba!” Ron giggled, and slapped Remus in the face.

Molly is the emergency contact for the Order when those listed can no longer be reached. Remus’ life finds a different path.

annual honesty by hauntologies (tigermilk)

“It is hard to keep the truth from clever friends,” Dumbledore had said, first. “I had hoped –”

Remus had looked down at his hands. There were little, half-moon scars around his knuckles, too inconsequential to see unless light hit them at an angle and made them silvery with scar tissue. He wondered if other werewolves had these scars too, whether they were a telltale sign too mundane to have made it into the textbooks.

Remus had hoped, too.

(Series) A Conspiracy of Cartographers by picascribit

The story of a werewolf’s bite that sealed the fate of four boys and of the Wizarding world. Being a chronicle of the Hogwarts years of Mssrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, from their earliest origins, to the halcyon days of their friendship, to the passionate romance two of them shared.

the summer you let your hair grow out by ladymemebeth

an AU story in which sirius decides to go to remus’ house when he runs away, rather than james’. remus finds this situation to be trying in more ways than one. includes gratuitous references to twentieth-century cinema and music.

By Moonlight by Eiiri

After the Battle of Hogwarts, Remus recognizes something familiar in Draco Malfoy and offers him sanctuary. With nowhere else to turn–his parents in prison, his home a crime scene–Draco reluctantly accepts and becomes a tolerated, if not welcome, member of his schoolyard rivals’ and wartime adversaries’ family of choice. As pages of the lunar calendar turn and the summer wears on, Draco and the others begin to see each other in a different light.

we’ve been here before by sprexico

Dumbledore doesn’t look at him when he speaks, this time. He is looking past Remus, out the window towards the dark grounds. “It is an impossible thing, to love someone who has done something terrible,” he says, quietly. “I am sorry we have put you in this position, Remus. I am sorrier that there is nobody else we can ask. We will do whatever we can to make this easier for you.”

It’s been twelve years and I still can’t breathe, Remus thinks, what makes you think there’s an easier?

//

Remus Lupin is back at Hogwarts for the first time since everything happened, and everything is a memory.

Flashes From a Brighter Time by flowercrownremus

1986: After Harry’s power starts manifesting, the Dursleys want nothing more to do with him. Dumbledore decides to find someone better suited to raising him.

“I thought perhaps you might raise Harry.”

“Me?”

“Who better? I had my reasons for sending him to the home of his relatives, but I am not so hard-headed an old man that I can’t admit when a plan is not working.”

This Word Lies At The Bottom Of A Lake by berhanes (theyshotmyclown)

Briefly he’d considered going to visit Remus, but Sirius has too many stacked up feelings about him to add any more, and he doesn’t trust himself not to ruin their carefully patched situation in the wake of the incident – it’s only been a year, after all, and there’s no better way to shatter a barely recovered friendship than by doing something stupid like throwing out a declaration of love in the middle of explaining the myriad ways in which your family is deranged and terrible. So instead Sirius had hailed the Knight Bus and requested Bowness-on-Windermere.

When the Wolf Comes Home by earlybloomingparentheses

That afternoon, Remus has to explain to Harry what the Dementor’s Kiss is, and to tell him that Sirius Black will receive it if, when, he is caught. When Remus thinks of Sirius Black and kissing, in the infinitesimal moment before rotting skin and death-scabbed mouths bloom evilly before his eyes, he can still smell cigarettes, comfortably unpleasant, and feel warm close breath on his lips.

The Weather Inside by earlybloomingparentheses

Sirius rides a flying motorbike, and snogs strangers in pubs, and strikes moody poses Remus finds irritatingly attractive. But for Remus, who drinks milky tea and wears flannel pyjamas, there’s a chasm cracked right down the fault line between wanting and doing.

How he wants, though. How he wants.

To Fill A Gap by herbanes (theyshotmyclown)

Sirius’ face is caught in a rectangle of late afternoon sun and Remus wants suddenly to reach across the three feet and fourteen years between them and touch him where the light hits. He lets himself imagine that he could, that in a moment he’ll just lean forward and trace the curve between Sirius’ neck and his jaw with his fingertips without it feeling like penitence. A different version of himself would’ve already done it. But then, a different version of himself wouldn’t be here in the first place.

Under a Strange Red Moon by earlybloomingparentheses

A breathy, high-pitched moan, and what is happening, it’s 8 a.m. in their kitchen, Remus is making toast, this is only meant to happen when it’s the middle of the night and they’ve just got back from patching up Muggles or putting out magically-set house fires or battling with a Death Eater who failed to Disapparate quickly enough from the scene of the crime, they’re meant to be frantic and desperate and—Sirius shoves down his panic and surges up to bite Remus’ lips, suck his tongue down his throat, and when are they not desperate and frightened these days?

The war is shattering their world into a million pieces, and Sirius and Remus try to hold themselves together.

A History by SteRhubarb

“If I were a girl, ‘or something’?” James repeats, just to double check he has heard the question correctly. “Would I think that Remus was…?”

“Was sort of-” Sirius tries to shrug casually, but James sees right through it. “-handsome. Or something.”

Pot, Kettle, Black by TheDivineComedian

In 1978, Sirius Black almost becomes an Auror. Turns out even he can’t fake his way through the mental health assessment.

So what. He has better things to do: Remus Lupin is one. The war is another. He spends weeks at a time undercover for the Order while Polyjuiced to the gills. It’s probably his new favourite thing.

Little does Sirius know that running from himself will send him on a collision course with his ephemeral brother, but life is funny that way.

Care of Magical Creatures by aeli_kindara

Lily finds out about Remus, and everything else.

The Host and His Guest by Diane_C

Post “Goblet of Fire” - Remus and Sirius struggle through their first full moon together.

Remain in Light by veeagainst

What if Sirius Black didn’t die? It’s been done many times. Here’s my take on it.

Elucidation Practice by montparnasse

Christmas, 1978. Remus, wrestling with the mighty problems of gift-giving on a budget, contemplates life, love, London in winter, and falling off the edge of the world with Sirius Black.

Amateur Cartography by montparnasse

It’s the summer of 1981, and strange things are happening to Remus Lupin; now, he needs to figure out how to connect them all.

Stick Season by mombasas

“Moony,” James said after a moment, equally quiet. “There’s a difference between – what happens to you – and, y’know, crying a lot and shouting and eating weird food and everything.”

“I know,” Remus said, forcing lightness into his tone. He looked up. Peter was staring at him, James looking on with concern, but Sirius’ grey eyes were fixed firmly on the ground. He straightened up, suddenly regretting saying anything at all. “Anyway,” he said firmly, eager to move on. “The question is what to do about the girls.”

(In which James isn’t Florence Nightingale, Sirius isn’t avoiding Remus, and Remus is most certainly not Having Feelings about his best friend. He might, however, have accidentally become the de facto advisor for all things monthly in the castle.)

(Series) Listeneise by fluorescentgrey

It’s not yesterday anymore; or, a retrospective as told in punk records, 1965-1996. This series is complete; the stories are connected but can be read in any order.

Abacomancy by fluorescentgrey

Five records from Hogwarts, 1993-4, and one after.

The Survivor by apolesen

1985. Four years after the death of his friends, Remus decides to break out of the pattern of his post-war life and try living among Muggles. In a sleepy town in southern England and the bustling city of London, he tries to build a new life for himself, piece by piece. The more he sees of the Muggle world, the more Remus wonders if that structure is as stable as he would like to think it is.

“The Survivor” is set in Thatcherite Britain, in the wake of the Falklands War and the onset of the British AIDS epidemic. It explores themes of disease, stigma, war trauma and grief, reflecting both on the historical context of the 1980s and Rowling’s characterisation of Remus Lupin.

The Boys of Crowhill by tb_ll57 (Part 1 of the Crow Rides A Pale Horse series)

The note pinned to his collar read ‘Harry J Potter - please accept’. The Dursleys had left him with nothing else but a pillow sack with half a sleeve of McVities biscuits, a mealy apple, and ten pounds.

Leave the Children Behind by montparnasse

Bravery, sometimes, is the ending just as much as the beginning. Remus, Sirius, and a series of choices.

Or, a love story—backwards and forwards.

a few more sundays by nightswatch

When Sirius arrives at Remus’ cottage after Voldemort’s return, Remus isn’t really sure how to deal with living with Sirius again all of a sudden.

The Ungiven Gift by JanuaryGrey (Jan3693)

December, 1981 - After losing almost everything and almost everyone he loved on Halloween night, Remus is dreading the swift approach of Christmas. The only thread of hope he has left lies with a gift he doesn’t know if he can even deliver.

Light in August by orestesfasting

Summer, 1977. With the full moon approaching, Sirius heads up to the Lupins' countryside cottage to make himself useful. Or to make a complete and utter arse out of himself, because really, that’s all he can seem to do around Remus these days.

The Stars Themselves by earthwitch and mmolloy

After their too-brief reunion in the Shrieking Shack, Remus and Sirius cautiously resume the correspondence that they had maintained throughout their long friendship. But after thirteen years of a lonely life's cruelties, neither is the boy he was before Halloween of 1981. As the burgeoning threat of Voldemort grows ever closer, they must try to relearn each other, complete with the scars and fears and resentments of more than a decade apart, if they are ever to rediscover everything that they've lost.

A continuation of The Shoebox Project by Lady Jaida and Rave.

da mi basia mille by scioscribe

“There’s a Roman bloke, Catullus, who wrote about snogging a lesbian, or something like that, and anyway, he said da mi basia mille, give me a thousand kisses, and I spelled it. Ensorceled it. Made it into a thingy.” He pushed the envelope up towards Remus’s mouth. “Say the Latin part and kiss it.”

Just Smoke by lindsaylaurie

Two very different impromptu trips to Amsterdam. One before and one after.

Or: The boys do touristy things in Amsterdam while Sirius is mid-breakdown, Remus is very much Not in Love with Him, James is keen to get high, and Peter just wants to see some naked ladies.

say you will or won’t you will or you whatever by renaissance

In the summer sun and beneath the shadow of the war, not talking about the future, making plans for today.

In the Bed by bigblackdog

Left to his own devices the summer after the prank, Sirius crafts an unusual gift to mend his relationship with Remus.

Abner of Astlegate’s Most Splendid Pox by sheafrotherdon

Remus is sick, and Sirius is nursemaid. Imagine . . .

Sirius Black and the Unicorn by byebyebluejay

Sirius desperately wants to befriend the unicorn in Care of Magical Creatures. Remus is worried he's going to get himself trampled.

The Age of Lies by TheDivineComedian

January 1981. Sirius is a paranoiac, Peter is not a psychopath, James is a dad, Remus is super angry, and Regulus…

Regulus is alive.

No-one is more surprised than him.

Elegy by elle_stone

Remus wrote poetry. Sirius finds it. Dinner is burned, dishes are rattled, the ceiling has mysterious stains, and Remus quotes John Donne.

Hair of the Dog by Lacylu42

1985 -- Remus Lupin awakes with the first hangover of his life, and absolutely no idea how he got it, nor where he is, nor whom he's with. Then he remembers, and it all started with the best chile burger in the state, and the worst tequila money can buy.

Lullaby and Good Night by magnetic_pole

Sharing a bed, sharing a life.

A House in Summer by hydianway

Sirius lies low at Lupin's, but he's afraid he's not as welcome as he'd like to be.

All the young dudes by gamesformay

(1971-1978. A love story, a war story, a record collection.)

Never Have I Ever Written a Love Letter by wannnabesuper

During a drinking game, Remus lets slip that he's written a love letter. Sirius (and an increasingly large group of friends) won't rest until they get to the bottom of this!

Counting Stars by YumeNouveau

After over a year since their fateful reunion under the horrible full moon, Sirius was finally coming home to London, but Remus would soon discover that he wasn't the only one with new scars. Sirius may pretend he's the same after Azkaban, but his wounds go deep and it will take a lot of time, patience, and maybe even some words that Remus vowed he'd never confess to his best friend to heal them both.

Only Now by hpleems

When James organizes a Gryffindor summer outing, Remus and Sirius find themselves sharing a tent and are forced to face their fears and feelings. As Sirius and Remus navigate their changing relationship, the Marauders face seventh year, the First Wizarding War, & everything that lies beyond.

Living Any Other Way by waitforhightide

November, 1981: Remus Lupin gets a phone call from the animal shelter where he and Si—he and that man had put in interest for adopting a dog, and he can’t bear the thought of leaving it to be put down.

the lost generation by Jennbob

The Marauders era at Hogwarts, Voldemort's rise to power and the subsequent war, family loyalties and dishonour, and the struggles of friendship in a difficult time.

Night Dogs by grandilloquism

Sirius considers himself practically elderly at 35, Remus manages to scare up some adventure for his birthday, anyway.

Wish Fulfillment by swift_river_singing

Sirius let out a bark of surprised laughter and Remus watching his dark eyes and the shadows of his cheekbones felt the stupid fucking thing in his chest go taut, like his lungs were too big for his body. You see, he wanted to say, there you are, Sirius, it’s all right there still, can’t you just be? But instead he looked back down and fiddled with the parchment again, and Sirius scratched at his head absently and then Remus stood up to go find whatever sad dregs of whiskey were left in the cellar.

Summer 1995: Two emotionally stunted adults try to pick up the pieces.

What We Lost by toyhto

It had been too long since October 1981 when everything had stopped.

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Hazbin brainrot continues….

Kindly picture Alastor teasing Angel and Charlie and/or Vaggie. (For bonus points, picture him doing so whilst wearing the corset Angel gave him in the bonus chapter of Dress Up.)

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I'm not doing this in a reblog because it's not worth starting a fight, but I just saw a post that was saying that if your characters are under 18, they should never be naked on screen, no matter how old the actors playing them are.

And it went on for a bit about unreasonable and exploitative on-screen nudity is, and that there's no good reason to ever have young characters naked.

And it never outright said that all nudity is inherently sexual, but it was so obviously coming from a place of seeing all nudity as inherently sexual, to an extent that I find mindboggling and frankly sad.

One of my all time favorite movies is My Neighbor Totoro--which is animated, so there's no actors on screen, but our main characters are little girls. The younger sister is about 3, and the older sister is only a few years older. There's a very sweet scene of the two of them (and their father) taking a bath and laughing loudly to scare of spirits. This is a cultural in which communal bathing is normal. Nothing at all untoward about it, it's a family bonding moment, and of course they're naked, they're taking a bath.

Pan's Labyrinth also has a couple bath scenes--del Toro has a bit of a thing for using baths as places of sanctuary and introspection in his films. Our protagonist Ofelia is 10, the actress who plays her was 11 during filming. And guess what, she was never naked on set. I have seen the costume department notes for that film with my own eyes, she was wearing a skintone bathing suit and I promise you there was somebody standing by with a robe to bundle her up in as soon as cut was called; del Toro has a rep for being very conscientious about making sure his actors are comfortable on set. Point is thought, character nudity =/= actor nudity, not necessarily.

In fact, because of the laws and regulations around working with under-age actors, a lot of the time you can't have the actor nude. If it's a case of Dawson casting with a 30 year old playing a 17 year old? That 30 year old can make their own decisions about their willingness to do the scene and the character isn't real, the character is fine.

And if you're watching a scene like that and are really that fixated on the young characters' nudity, I think there's something wrong with you, not with the movie.

Are there issues with the ways in which actors--especially young women actors--are often pressured into on screen nudity? Yes. Absolutely. And it's worth it to step back and think about what role nudity is serving in a film or TV show--and, if you're on the creative end, to consider ahead of time if you need to put your cast in that vulnerable position and how you're going to protect their comfort and dignity if the answer is yes.

But nudity is not inherently sexual. On-screen nudity does not inherently require on-set nudity. On-set nudity (and partial nudity) can be done in ways that are respectful and comfortable for the actor. Children have bodies and sometimes those bodies don't have clothes; this is an entirely nuetral fact of life and there is absolutely nothing wrong with film and television reflecting that reality.

This is not the most coherent or in-depth write up I could do on this subject, but I just needed to spit these thoughts somewhere.

Somethingsomething Americans don't see their grandma's tits and it makes them weird.

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Y’know what I want?

Primer pamphlets for fandoms

Thinking about getting into a fandom but you’re not sure you wanna commit to going through the source material yet? Wanna know a little more about your blorbo-in-law? Your favorite fic author just posted a fic with tags that look right up your alley for a fandom you don’t know shit about and you don’t want to go in totally cold?

Read the pamphlet!

Pamphlets should contain a basic plot summary/explanation of setting, a list of characters (with pictures if it’s visual media) and basic descriptions of character dynamics, and probably a list of common ships with ship names if they have them.

This would be good.

I am not volunteering to make any.

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One thing I love about learning foreign languages is having particular words or phrases that are completely ordinary and unremarkable but you know exactly where you learned it from because you didn’t just learn it out of a book or something, there’s context that the word or phrase will always remind you of.

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So the live action ATLA show is really good.

It's not perfect—no piece of media ever is—but it's very good.

There are a few characterization changes and exact ways they recontextualize story beats I don't agree with, but for the most part the changes between the cartoon and the new show are either just necessary due to the change in medium (including the new show being condensed), or are perfectly reasonable creative decisions.

When a piece of media gets adapted or remade, the people making the new version make creative decisions about how they're going to retell the story, and that means changing parts of it. If you're just remaking the whole thing exactly the same, there's no reason to remake it.

Of the creative choices made in this live action remake, there are many that are very much not the choices I would've made, but only maybe two or three that I actually think were mistakes, and many that are wonderful

The cast is good—Sokka is goddamn perfect—and the production design is beautiful. The costume department in particular is reveling in the inspiration of the source material and opportunity live action gives to work with much greater detail than animation can typically afford. Some of the wigs could have been better, and I am perpetually frustrated with production designers and cosplayers alike when it comes to not committing to Zuko's burn, but the overall look of the show is very rich and coherent.

The fight choreography is great fun, very Hong Kong kung fu flavored in places.

The rendering of bending is excellent, it really looks like what that kind of elemental manipulation would, the immersion only broken at times by some actors struggling to believably move or hold themselves as though hefting weight or exerting force. Especially among background cast, though, I can't find it in myself to fault them too hard for that. Miming force where there's nothing—naught but CG—is extremely difficult.

The vast majority of complaints I'm seeing about this new show boil down to "it's not exactly like the cartoon or exactly the adaptation I, the complainer, would have made, therefore it's irredeemably bad."

To anyone who's on the fence about watching because of seeing those kinds of complaints, I encourage you to give the new show a try, and approach it with the understanding that this is a different show telling the same story but in a different way.

It's not perfect, but it sure is fun, and it's worth letting yourself enjoy it for what it is.

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Using pliers to yoink your needle through thick or particularly resistant fabric is such a thing among folks who sew—and i feel like it’s even more so among folks who do historical costuming type stuff because you’re more likely to be trying to sew through, like, 6 layers of heavy wool doing historical work than modern everyday sewing.

It makes me wonder how long has that been A Thing?

Were Victorian housewives and medieval seamstresses reaching for the pliers? And if not, what were they doing when faced with the Needle Doesn’t Wanna Go Through issue?

I don’t even know how to begin to look this up

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I have an observation.

There's a handful of fandoms where I've seen a pattern of there being a canon established wlw relationship, and a non-canon (or at least not-yet-canon) mlm ship that's the most popular ship among the fans. And people—mostly a smaller subset of fans, but in at least one case this includes a show creator—bemoan the fact that the mlm ship is so much more popular than the wlw ship, often citing misogyny and fetishization to explain the state of affairs. Which certainly may be contributing factors in some cases.

But here's the thing.

In the cases I'm thinking of, the wlw relationship is pre-established, sometimes already married, at the start of the show and generally pretty stable. Even when they have relationship issues, those tend to be resolves within a couple episodes.

Meanwhile, the mlm couple at least starts out non-canon and we either get seasons worth of (potentially bait-y) ship-tease or a courtship arc.

Fandom fucking loves couples getting together.

A frustrating-ship tease or will-they/wont-they is almost always gonna compel fandom more than an established and stable relationship.

So, I guess, moral of the story is if you're a writer/creator and you want the fandom to latch onto your wlw ship, save them being badass loving wives who can count on each other for later. Give the fans a chance to want it first, so it feels like a win to have it.

If you start with the winstate, it doesn't feel like a win, it doesn't hit like a reward and most fans aren't gonna get as invested in something they don't feel like they're fighting for.

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I have had a realization

There have been quite a few shows in recent years where a lot of the enjoyment of watching is, apparently, supposed to come from watching horrible people self destruct. The clearest and possibly most popular example—and the one for which people keep directly telling me the point is reveling in the implosion—is Succession. There are others, though.

And I cannot stand any of them.

I have realized part of why I hate these shows while also loving, for instance, Knives Out where the point is also to revel in horrible people self destructing.

They’re actually about the horrible people. They make the horrible people the main characters.

In Knives Out, our protagonists are Marta and Blanc, who are reasonable people adjacent to the self-destructing horrible people. We, the audience, can stand next to them as they and we look at the implosion and think "wow what the fuck these people suck."

Shows like Succession and others in this mold do have characters who are at least more reasonable, but they get left on the periphery. If the characters I could actually align with and want to follow through the mess ever get brought to center, it’s well after I’ve already stopped watching in disgust.

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Me: -watching a Bernadette Banner video-

The devil: You can totally sew that too.

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Fannish Fest February day 7: Patching a Plot Hole

Prompt from @thepromptfoundry

Okay, so it's not exactly a plot hole, but one of my favorite ever fan-explanations for something is the one concocted by Howl's Moving Castle fans to reconcile the differences between the original novel by Diana Wynne Jones and the movie adaptation directed by Hayao Miyazaki:

The book is how Sophie remembers things, the movie is how Howl tells the story.

What I love about this is that it makes totally sense, and addresses literally every difference between the book and film (except for maybe one, the name change from Michael to Markle, but I think real world linguistic differences cover that one). Sophie has two sisters in the book, but one in the film? That's not important to Howl's narrative here, and frankly he might not be sure which sister is which anyway. Michael is a young adult in the book, but Markle is a child in the film? Well, if he's a teenager, to Sophie who's from a culture where people regularly enter the workforce and begin courting in their teens, of course he's an adult. But to Howl—who we know from the book is a 27 year old from our reality—yeah, no, that's a kid. Howl generally seeming like more of a jackass in the book? Of course he depicts himself in a better light. Omission of Howl being a random rugby playing Welshman from our world? Of course he leaves that out, it's not cool and it's a secret. The thing in the movie where Sophie kinda shifts back and forth in age while under the old-age curse? Howl's POV and awareness of Sophie's true age (and his affection for her) shining through. Every other omitted element, plot thread, and character from the book? Not important to Howl's narrative here. Every added element and difference in aesthetic? Howl believes in rule of cool; let the man embellish.

I love it. And I know I first saw this put forward in a tumblr post but I can't find it—if anyone has that post on hand or knows OP, please @ them with my appreciation for their briliance.

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Thinkin about how different of a thing it is to be someone who gets weather headaches if you live in Night Vale