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I'm in the very slow process of editing my AP so you'll notice it's pretty bare. Sorry! I'm really interested in my original fiction right now so keep an eye out for snippets I post!
It was because of a broken clock that Harry found himself sent away by his boss to investigate a potential threat on a tiny island somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, a threat in the form of the captivating and consistently astonishing Theodore Nott.
a great start! I can't wait to see what happens in your story!
Kaz Brekker must learn what it means to touch
I NEVER KNEW I NEEDED KAZ AS A FATHER
this was so good so excellent thank you for treating us you are amazing
The Crows don't love the drama, it loves them.
{a college au chatfic}
everything you write is perfection
It is a truth University-acknowledged, that a muggle Healing course must be in want of a bit of magic...
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that you recognise
I'm sorry but I fell in love with Al the second he was like "hey you're panicking I've got your back." 10/10 would read again
Author's Response:Paula!!! Heyy! Thank you so much - I'm glad you liked this chapter
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It's the summer of 1976. Sirius Black is trying to carry on as normal against the increasing, creeping threat of war outside the castle walls by distracting himself with friends, girls and, thanks to his best friend, the Slug Club. However as the summer stretches on and the heat increases, Sirius may begin to realise that some differences just run too deep.
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oh no! :( clara and aubrey broke up! :) if only there was an eligible bachelor lurking around to sweep her off her feet. I really enjoyed this chapter and cant wait for the next!
Author's Response:I know right! Thank you so much for all the reviews, I'm glad you're enjoying it. More chapters will be on the way soon.
you are a master of adorable banter
Author's Response:Haha thank you!
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smoke as black as charcoal fills into my fragile lungs
kris you never miss. Everything you write is magnificent.
Time was cloudy, deceptive, and sporadic, a gift and a curse that James Potter and Regulus Black were too familiar with. They knew they were on borrowed time from the beginning— but both were determined to make every minute worth the inevitably crushing end.
Canon Compliant James/Regulus
I guess I've never read James/Regulus before but I really enjoyed it! This was such a great story!
It's the summer of 1976. Sirius Black is trying to carry on as normal against the increasing, creeping threat of war outside the castle walls by distracting himself with friends, girls and, thanks to his best friend, the Slug Club. However as the summer stretches on and the heat increases, Sirius may begin to realise that some differences just run too deep.
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ooooh interesting so far! great first chapter!
Author's Response:Thank you so much!
CUTE BARISTA LOVE PLEASE
im sorry but they are so cute I need to crawl inside this fic and daydream for weeks.
Author's Response:omg :'))) this fic is born from my own daydreams, so i get you
when will i get my own cute barista boyfriend, who knows TT
Hermione Granger has told herself two things going into the Ministry Winter Solstice holiday party: (1) she is not going to drink too much champagne and (2) she is definitely not going home with a certain glib blond .... for the ninth time. When she keeps neither of those promises to herself, she manages to gain a lot more out of this night than she ever could have imagined.
ahhhhh! 1) I love all smut but 2) THIS SMUT! The "will you let me take care of you" line at the end was pure gold. Magnificent!
In which Genya and David are hopelessly smitten with each other but too shy to admit it to each other's faces.
A university AU where Genya is a fashion major and David is an engineering student
a Grishaverse story
i am just here to scream how much i LOVE this omg they are the cutest how dare you write such wonderful words.
Author's Response:paula this left me shrieking in my kitchen i'm so glad you loved it thank you so much for your enthusiasm. i have yet to stop smiling.
Tiramisu is the name of an arctic fox who was brought to medieval England by an Italian trader and left at an abbey in Cambridgeshire to be the pet of two young boys who had been placed in the abbey by their families. Set in the disastrous Fourteenth Century, this is the story of one of those boys, Martin, who had to endure what no fifteen-year-old should have to face--calamity. loss, grief--but also a story of friendship, survival, spirituality, and ultimately a connection to canon.
Written for the Bookshelf Challenge of Bex (Beyond the Rain). The random quote prompt, "I started to step out of my clothes as Tom leaned against the doorframe," is from the book Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. My eternal thanks to Bex for giving me the impetus to write this one-shot that grew into a novel.
Winner of the 2020 Golden Ink Award for Most Creative Story.
I can’t imagine his dilemma. He’s been in the church so long and since he was so young that I feel like could make it really hard to go back to his previous life even with all the nostalgia associated. I love that they are just lowkey domesticating a fox. I’m glad that they had brief exposure to the outside world if nothing else to break up what’s bound to be monotony. Yay that we get to keep Tiramisu!
paula
Author's Response:Hi Paula. I'm sure having trouble with controlling the font size on these responses. :( Yes, for little kids the world is black and white, and the older they get, the more they realize that it's not that simple. In real life, people do keep foxes as pets, at least the more docile ones, but they're not really ideal pets because they like to dig like crazy and they want to scent-mark everything (but then, some dogs are like that also), so I have made Tiramisu to be the most docile of docile foxes. I was working in my garden during October, pulling down my dead pole-bean vines and trying at the same time to figure out how I was going to get the abbot to consent to keep the fox, and then I had the brainstorm that solved my problem. Gardening does that for me. Thank you so much for continuing to read and review! Vicki
Hey again!
I really like that Martin has a little bit of a fiery spirit in the opening lines of the chapter. You’ve done a really great job of writing his anxiety and insecurity in the chapter without making it so expressly evident. I liked the part about how much he liked writing and the artistry associated with it. I also really like the budding dynamic between Martin and Tom and I’m excited to see how they grow and change.
Paula
Author's Response:Hi, Paula. Thank you for another review. :) It's to my daughter's credit that she advised me to beef up the opening part of this chapter because she thought I was skipping ahead too quickly, so kudos to her for that suggestion. It does look as if Martin is adapting to his new life and finding some pluses as well as minuses, but unbeknownst to everyone, they are living in a calamitous century, and my daughter calls it 'sad' and 'hard'. Thank you so much for reading.
Hi Vicki!
I’ve been reading your story in the queue and really enjoying it so far! I can’t imagine what it would be like for Gerard to grow up knowing that his time is limited in the world and that he’d soon be off to the church so I’m honestly a little relieved that he didn’t fully understand it and could have some semblance of a childhood. I wonder if Richard would feel any guilt or responsibility for it? I know that it wouldn’t be viewed as like a punishment or anything, but I think I’d have felt some guilt if it was my sibling. My heart broke a little for him when he got the new name and couldn’t keep the things that tethered him to his family. I can see how that would be really upsetting to a kid already going through so many big changes so rapidly.
Paula
Author's Response:Hi, Paula! Thank you so much for reading my story and leaving a review of your thoughts. It's sort of an oddball topic for a story, so I'm really glad that you like it. The practice of dedicating chidren to the church was dying out at the time of this story, though it had been more common in earlier centuries. I found examples of children from 5 to 10 years of age being placed in monasteries or convents and later growing up to become well-known religious figures, and descriptions of a ceremony in which the parents sign the document dedicating the child to the church, and then the child's hand (he can even be a baby) is placed on the document, and the hand and document are wrapped together in the altar cloth, and it counts as if the child(or baby) had signed the document himself.
The commonly accepted ways of thinking in the Middle Ages were rather different from how we see the world today. Much of the inexplicable ways in which the world worked were considered to be just the will of God. If you wanted something, you prayed for it, and if you got it, it meant than God had granted it to you. So it was assumed that Richard's successful birth in 1328 was the direct result of his father's prayer/promise, and the promise needed to be fulfilled. Woe to him who tries to cheat God! So Richard says, "It has to be this way." One might argue that Richard should have been the son sent, but no one would have expected that because, for one, Richard was the first-born, and secondly, he had successfully survived the perils of early childhood and had a good chance of growing to adulthood, so he was a "keeper", whereas Gerard, at age seven, was still at risk of dying from a childhood disease. One thing I leave to the imagination of the readers is how Gerard's parents felt about all this. Maybe it was for them similar to the common, frequent experience of losing a child to disease, so that they didn't reasonably expect to keep/raise all their children. My research indicated that when parents gave their children to religious houses, the parents did not see or communicate with their children after that. The child was just "gone" and no longer a part of their lives. *sigh*
Vicki
Rosalind Morana is now an officer with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, having previously been a cop—or something like it—in El Salvador. After starting a new life in London, she thinks she's changed and outran her past. But some things never truly leave us.
“They have been for quite some time” = me laughing because honestly of course it would be chaos in the usa. It’s the natural state of things here. I can't wait to see some sister dynamics. Rosalind isn't afraid to be a badass and take charge. I honestly love her.
Author's Response:Haha it's always some bit of chaos in the good ole usa. I'm so glad you love her!! She's a lot of fun to write, especially with her development with all the turmoil in her life. Eventually you will meet her sister and see their dynamic :) Thank you so much for your kind reviews! <3
I am having second hand interview anxiety for her. Terrifying to have so little feedback during one. THE SUSPENSE. George is a cutie. I love to see him. He seems very himself too which I love. Can’t wait to read the next! <3
Author's Response:Me too! I'm glad she got a response quickly because she's been trying to work with the Ministry for ages. I love George! He is so sweet. There will be a lot of him in the upcoming chapters :)
Rosalind is already such an interesting character here. I’m dying to know more about her background and what’s happening in magical El Salvador! Great start! <3
Author's Response:Thank you so much! There are El Salvador/backstory chapters interwoven which I hope you'll like :)
Hermione has spent the past six months perfecting her werewolf legislation and has finally been granted a hearing. The last face she wants to see in the Wizengamot chamber is that of a certain blond wizard. And the last place she expects to find herself afterwards... is stranded in a lift with him.
for la_topolina's Fluff Challenge
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This fic has been living rent free in my mind since I first encountered it in the queue. Absolutely magnificent use of rivals to ?? to lovers. Draco and Hermione are both perfect as far as characterization goes and the spicy scene is very spicy. Thank you for this treat. <3
Someone in Hermione Granger's division of the Department of Mysteries has a sweet tooth, because there's no other reason for 22 people to eat 60 cupcakes in less than 8 hours. She just doesn't anticipate the surprise waiting for her after making 192 cupcakes.
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Adorable. Tooth rotting fluff. Too sweet. I loved every minute of this story. You kept the essence of both Hermione and Draco, but made them so much better. I would read a follow up story in a heartbeat. Thank you for this...treat! ;)
paula
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Astoria passes away, and Draco tries to process it all.
Dear Ineke,
I'm just as emotional rereading this to leave you a surprise review as I was the day I narrated it for a podfic. You have such a unique blend of agony and love and pain and comfort here that I just can’t cope. The beautiful portrayal of Draco struggling through his own grief to try to find ways to comfort his grieving child. The paralysis and helplessness that overtakes him as he’s trying to reach out. I just can’t imagine going through that, but at the same time you’ve painted it so vividly that I feel it deep in my bones. I love that despite this crushing grief he’s able to encourage his son to reach out to someone who can help even if it’s not necessarily the person he wants. Parents can’t be all things to our children even if we want to. I’d like to think that Astoria would be proud of him despite the guilt that he’s feeling that he’s trying. I love the way we revisit the way he’s clutching her hand through all of this and he just can’t let go. God, I’m heartbroken all over again. You’re such a good writer and the imagery you’ve selected in this piece is just so perfect for the story.
<3 Paula
Harry comes out as a trans man at Hogwarts to little fanfare or dramatics, because Wizarding society is like that. The Dursleys are another story.
I really, really enjoyed how you handled Harry's character. I feel like he's such a resilient person despite the heaps of trauma that has been inflicted on him and you've really captured that. The concept of magic being able to help his transition is such an interesting one! I love that Madam Pomfrey offers it. It feels right, feels natural. Yesss! Molly! Send a howler anyway!
Thanks for sharing your work with us! It was a very good read!
Author's Response:YES, MOLLY! I really do think she'd be just boiling in rage.
I agree that Harry is a really resilient character--moreso than really gets addressed explicitly in canon--and I think it's one of his core character traits.
I didn't come up with the concept of a transition spell: I definitely read it in some other fic first, though I'm stumped as to which one as there are a bunch of fics that have it as an idea. I really liked the idea though, especially for this fic because it helped me to make the story about how while transition isn't necessarily a problem, society's response to transition can be.
I'm glad you liked it!
FP
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Adulting by any other name would still be a proper bish. Rose is struggling to keep up at St Mungo's, Al is mending a broken heart and Malfoy... well. Malfoy's a prat. A good looking prat, but a prat nonetheless.
They're all doing their best and failing miserably.
HPFT SoTM - July 2020
MFWHAT 2020 - Fluffiest Snake Tale (Runner Up)
FROGS 2020 - Best Humor 2nd Place
Hi there!
I really enjoy the way you’ve written Rose as a healer-in-training. She’s neurotic in a way that feels a lot like her mother, but reckless in a way that reminds me (lovingly) of her father. I taught anatomy & physiology so seeing the bit about the terrifying oral exams made me laugh. I’m glad she’s studying holed up in that library.
Al is very annoying but in a way that reminds me a bit of baby Ginny. I can’t wait to see how his character evolves and if he has more of his father in him than previously expected.
Scorpius is very much like his father. But better. Playfully arrogant rather than full blow arrogant. I really enjoy this particular version of him. A lot of times he becomes too cinnamon roll for my tastes.
Albus being so sweet and thoughtful is IMMEDIATELY suspicious. I love that she didn’t even have to look up to know. It speaks to both their closeness and their characters so wonderfully. Honestly, I adore all the dialogue that you write. It flows so smoothly and realistically. The jab+niceness+jap pattern you seem to have adapted sounds exactly like my own friend group. Then the Al and Rose bickering is almost sibling like. Perfection.
Poor Rose being badgered so much by Al about moving in with them. Scorpius puttering in and making the case even harder for Al. It’s a miracle she doesn’t kill him tbh. I guess victory for Al though! I can’t wait to see the living dynamics!
Paula
Author's Response:Paulaaaaa,
Thanks so much for validating all of WS (you and just.a.willow.tree). You guys are all sorts of lovely!
I was also super happy when I saw this review, thanks for taking the time to review WS!
Any exams are terrifying but I think oral exams are a particular breed of hellish and Rose definitely needs to study. I have nothing but respect for y'all medical types, I see what my friends go through - like 10 years to become a doctor? What is UP with that? I like Rose, she's very human. And yes she's neurotic and also reckless and all of those lovely things. Hopefully I haven't made her too much like either of her parents and that she's a character in her own right.
Al is very much a little git and I hope he grows up for his sake and mine. He has a lot of qualities, but he's also a damned baby.
I love my Scorpius, ngl. He's got a lot of his mother in him, which helps, but I'm glad you can still glimpse the Draco in him. I'd like to think his entire personality was a bit molded after his parents' relationship, much like Draco's was molded by Lucius and Narcissa. He's softer than Draco, but not a softie - which honestly, I would hate. I like to think the natural Malfoy arrogance translated into him being self-assured rather than an all out prat.
Jab+niceness+jab is a very accurate way of describing it!
And yes, Rose often wishes she could Avada Scorp but a) you can't go about Avadaing people, that's very 1995 and b) Al wouldn't like it so oh well.
Thanks so much for reviewing!
Love,
Maria
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what you gon' do when there's blood in the water?
It was business as usual for James Potter until suddenly, it wasn't.
Hi Sarah! :)
One thing that really sticks out to me even in the first chapter, but especially in the subsequent chapters is how well you write such a large cast of characters. Each of them have such distinct voices and personalities. I’m very curious to know how you keep each OC so distinct from one another without any bleed through?
Teamwork makes the dream work! ;)
I'm really impressed when James is looking for the traces of magic and realizes their protective spells were broken. Is that something he picked up from the many aurors in his life? Or maybe something he picked up on his own. It has the trappings of advanced magic to me.
I’d die for a spin-off of Avi and Julian doing the clean ups for these messes. I’m just picturing Avi standing in the goriest bloodbath of a scene with zero reaction.
I can't imagine how terrifying it would be to come home to a ransacked house and children taken. I’m hoping the squad goes full Liam Neeson. Liam and Olivia seem like complete sweethearts so they better make it out of this okay.
Reading the ship scene makes me wonder about their cardio routines. It has to be mandatory in this business, right?
Poor Juliette finding herself mixed up in all this by accident. Will they keep her? Wipe her memory? Interrogate her? I’m excited to find out!
This chapter was very well written! The pacing was perfect for the suspense of the action scenes with enough breaks to keep me on the edge of my seat! The dialogue all felt very organic!
Paula
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A story about a teenage inferius. Stranger things have happened.
Hi there! Long time reader, first time reviewer.
I’m really curious what inspired the concept of a half inferius-half human character. Charlotte and her entire story is such a novel idea and I wish I had thought of it. :p
I really enjoy the introductory paragraph and the imagery associated with the three scenarios. It reminds me a bit of the sorting ceremony on pottermore/the three brothers story. I honestly think I'd choose the second scenario. Not because I'm afraid of most everything (although hello anxiety my old friend), but because it seems like the smartest choice. Would you make the third choice? Or Charlotte’s fourth? I’m invested in finding out which she chooses in the end.
It sounds like she has a pretty supportive father for her situation. I’m curious to find out if he knows her condition. Like...is her mom an inferius? Her dad? Some weird necromancer situation? A curse? I can’t stop speculating!
I really like the descriptor of James’s voice. I know booming voices like that startle you when you aren’t expecting it. James is one of my top 5 favorite characters so I feel like I’ve seen every iteration of him so far, but I haven’t seen the descriptors you use (booming voice, bouncing knee kind of high energy, etc). It’s fun to read a fresh take on him!
Charlotte forgetting she’s quidditch captain is very funny to me. It’s such a huge honor and she’s just like ugh tryouts. Charlotte is a terrible wingman. Poor Mary. At least Charlotte seems to try to relate to her friends to the best of her abilities. If they all knew I don’t think anyone would blame her for not being the most sociable all things considered.
WHAT A BOMBSHELL OF A LAST LINE.
Paula
Author's Response:Hi Paula,
I'm glad you like the introduction! It was a little difficult to formulate, and I'm glad it retained its message. I haven't considered which I would chose, but probably also the second scenario. I think the descriptions are kind of telling of the speaker...which is revealed at a later chapter. All I can say about the father is that you will learn more, but not for quite a bit into the text. I'm glad my James is different than other James you have read! I imagine him as, although pompous, also a mix of goofy and proper. Yes, Charlotte and her Quidditch and her Mary. I can't wait for you to read more into these introduced relationships!
Thanks for your great review,
Catherine
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