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Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody - formidable executive producer of British television's foremost motoring show, Full Throttle - has a problem. The broadcaster has his balls in a vice, and because of middling ratings for their second series, he must find a third presenter to join - and control - Potter and Black, the too-posh, too-chaotic presenters already in place. And he has to do it quick .
Remus "Moony" Lupin - shy researcher on said motoring show - has thousands of problems, including but in no way limited to: a catastrophic hangover; the dodgy leg from his failed karting career; and the extremely unwanted resurgence of his worst childhood crush.
Sirius "Padfoot" Black - charismatic presenter of said motoring show - has a motorbike, a sexy rockstar girlfriend, and absolutely no problems whatsoever. Until, one day, he does.
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A Top Gear AU in which Remus is a disaster from the off, Sirius unravels at the seams, James grows a frontal lobe, and Lily has a secret. Throughout, there will be cars, catastrophes, and caravan conkers. And in the end, maybe- just maybe- they'll find something worth all of this bollocks.- Language:
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13 Aug 2025
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Cornwall, 1995. Misery loves company; company just wants a drink.
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04 Apr 2025
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Empire Falling by zambla
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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27 Feb 2025
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"Nothing's gonna touch you in these golden years..."
Several short drabbles I wrote on Tumblr, pieces of the same overarching story, archived here.
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20 Feb 2025
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19 Feb 2025
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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.
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18 Feb 2025
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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.
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25 Dec 2024
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My Strange Harvest by luvvvcrafted for overthedeadsea
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Nov 2024
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Once upon a time, enfant terrible Sirius Black, trickster Sirius Black, lady-stardust-singing-of-darkness-and-disgrace Sirius Black, learned a secret: a fragile thing, a vulnerable thing, a treasure demanding a tenderness Sirius Black simply never thought he held within himself. Turns out he did. That was, and remains, part of the problem. But Sirius doesn’t like to go there.
“The beast,” the Auror tries again, clearly unaware of the enraged expression in Sirius’ face, “is mostly non-verbal. He is calling for you.”
Or: the war is over. Sirius Black is a Healer, Remus Lupin has been missing, everybody hates mondays, and where the hell is Harry Potter?
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- Part 1 of My Strange Harvest
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19 Nov 2024
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A collection of paper tumbled out of the record sleeve and onto the coffee table. Parchment of varying quality, scraps torn from lined notebooks; some folded into pocket-sized squares, others rolled into tight scrolls. Remus’s hands shook as he sifted through them.
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In 1987, Remus finds the letters Sirius never sent to him, and loses what little hope he had of moving on.
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30 Oct 2024
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08 Oct 2024
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In the blazing summer of 1976, Sirius Black escapes from his family with information about Voldemort's latest plot. But Dumbledore is missing from Hogwarts and it's up to the Marauders and Lily to find out what's happened.
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24 Jan 2024
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Let Slip the Dogs of War by itallstartedwithdefenestration for fluorescentgrey
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Jan 2019
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Remus can't seem to escape certain parts of his life. The worst is being a werewolf. The second worst is Sirius Black.
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16 Oct 2023
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We don’t know how to fight for what we want.
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21 Sep 2023
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Remus will do anything to see Sirius again.
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Night and day lie open the gates of death’s dark kingdom:
But to retrace your steps, to find the way back to daylight—
That is the task, the hard thing.—Virgil, Aeneid, VI. 128-130 (Oxford World Classics Ed.)
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20 Sep 2023
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04 Sep 2023
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“Cool water boils the fastest, Lan Zhan,” his brother adds, cryptic and abstruse, because he has always had a penchant for speaking in a way that is utterly confusing to Lan Zhan. He says it like a reminder, like Lan Zhan should already know that.
“I am not cool water, Lan Xichen.”
“No, you are not. You have been boiling for quite a while now,” his brother says, and what is Lan Zhan supposed to say to that? He has never been very skilled at following along his brother’s convoluted words and connotational analogies that never make any sense. Except when Wei Ying returns with some sweet dough on a stick, holding it to his mouth and grinning at him brightly, easily, unworriedly, he does feel like he’s boiling. From the inside, right beneath his sternum, like a wildfire pressing against his ribcage.
or: Lan Zhan does not have much of an opinion of Wei Wuxian when he is informed of the betrothal proposal. That changes rapidly. It goes a little like this:
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07 Aug 2023
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In 1967, Regulus Black loses a game of hide-and-seek.
In 1979, he is dragged, alive, from the underground lake.
In 1980, he turns reluctant spy for the Order.
These events are not connected.
But there’s a strange thread weaving through Regulus’s life, a splitting seam in the tapestry of his memories, a bogeyman that shadows his steps, and he can’t quite shake the feeling that he's missed something essential...
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- Part 1 of for now we see
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04 Aug 2023
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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03 Aug 2023
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Saturday 6th January, 1979: R. J. Lupin is left for dead outside Tottenham Court Road underground station.
An unknown wizard helps him on the bus.
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01 Aug 2023
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1979, year of war and obsession and sleep loss and sexual frustration. Sirius is hoping to go out with a bang and not a whimper; enter Remus, stage left.
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18 Jul 2023