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    The Cadence of Part-time Poets by

    Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

    24 Feb 2023

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    “They’re… chaos,” Remus said firmly. “And chaos is—”
    “Rock and roll.”
    He looked at Sirius sharply, and for once, matched his grin. “Yeah.”
    “Maybe that’s my excuse then,” Sirius said. “I cause a bit of chaos now, and maybe one day, it’ll turn into rock and roll.”

    After losing his mother at age eleven, Remus has spent the better part of the last four years bouncing from school to school or else running around London and pretending as though he wasn't the kind of well-bred boy his father brought him up to be. Now, with his chances all run out, Remus is sent to Hawkings Independent School as a last-ditch effort to clean up his act. There he meets the very people who will set up the rest of his life, and is forced to confront the pieces of himself he'd long thought had been lost.

    (genuinely not apologising for the slow-burn in this fic anymore. You've been warned <3)

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    02 Jul 2025

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    Empire Building by

    Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

    12 Jun 2020

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    Empire Building is a series of Sirius/Remus historical AUs taking place at defining moments in the canon of American history, culture, and mythology. The stories are not necessarily connected and can be read in any order. To that end, they are all fully complete in themselves, though the series is ongoing indefinitely.

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    26 Dec 2024

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    Empire Falling by

    Fandom Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

    17 Nov 2017

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    A series of R/S AUs set in the 20 century, during the successive fall of the British Empire. Each story stands alone, though there are threads of connective tissue which hold them together---queerness, art, symmetry, mathematics, tradition, radicalism---and certain locales and themes seem to recur, even without my knowing so, like echoes of leitmotifs woven through a century.

    One lens to look through the series is the progressive spinning out of Remus's station away from the center of power, into increasingly marginalized places where perhaps the iron grip of the failing Empire is more keenly felt. (Like Black Adder, in a way, if you don't think too hard!)

    Though these stories were written at different times, and span different stages of even my own personal life, I decided to collect them together in recognition of their common theme, and as homage and mirror to fluorescentgrey's Empire Building series.

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    13 Sep 2024

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    To Stand Before the Storm by

    Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms  

    18 Jul 2021

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    Somebody has been killing sheep on an uninhabited island just off the western coast of Ireland, and Sherlock—of course—can’t resist the call to investigate. As a soon-to-be-divorced John and a recently-not-dead Sherlock unravel the mystery of the murdered sheep, they find that they may be forced to confront unspoken sentiments that have lingered between the two them for some time—that is, if they don’t fall victim to the dangers of the island first.

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    21 Jun 2024

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    The Great Sex Olympics of 221B by

    Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), johnlock - Fandom  

    10 Sep 2012

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    John Watson thinks Sherlock Holmes should admit that he, Watson, is more of an expert on sex than Sherlock is. But Sherlock refuses to concede the point. He comes up with an experiment plan that will resolve the issue. The results will determine who wins the prize. But sometimes even the best thought-out scientific study has unexpected consequences.

     

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    24 Feb 2024