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For a long time, I thought it was just because I was smarter by sheepknitssweater
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti)
15 Mar 2022
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When Eddie had gotten back to New York with three screws in her collarbone, a scar on her cheek, a week and a half of unread emails in her inbox, and two reports due to clients that her team had utterly failed to deliver on in her absence, her primary concern had been catching up. Eddie did not actually mind one bit that she cared more immediately about this than she did about life, death, and the sacred bonds of friendship. After all, anyone would rather choose to run a marathon than find themselves suddenly being chased 26.2 miles by a sabre-tooth tiger. Life would leap at any chance you gave it to take your options away, but you were always free to take on a set of worries of your own choosing.
Of course, sometimes those choices didn't feel like choices. Sometimes you found yourself surrounded by people running in the same direction as you, flanked on either side by spectators measuring your pace, and the fact that you'd chosen this particular finish line became irrelevant, because you didn't have any choice anymore over whether you were going to keep moving toward it. This was probably still better than nothing.
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28 Nov 2025
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“Well,” Remus says quietly, “you don’t let people know you."
“And you’re saying you know me?” Sirius drawls, leaning back in his chair. “You’re the only one?”
The half-arsed derision in his tone doesn’t seem to surprise or intimidate Remus. He only smiles, knowing.
It is one thing to love a person; it is quite another to see them as they truly are and to love them all the same. And sometimes, Sirius thinks, he’d rather die than let anybody see beneath the defensive facade of his brave face.
From 1971 to 1978, the Hogwarts years of obsession, betrayal, recklessness, lies, too much drink, insecurity, and all eclipsing sexual frustration. Seven years of Sirius Black’s insufferable god-complex, of Remus Lupin’s most private shames, of secret relationships, awkward hookups, James Potter’s blunt advice, and more yearning than sense. Seven years for Sirius to finally admit to himself that what he wants is not only to be loved, but to be known entirely. And therein lies the difficulty.
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- Part 1 of Brave Face
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07 Oct 2025
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It's been two days since they got a good night's sleep, much less a moment's rest, and now that they're finally safe and ready for a nap, Sirius Black starts a fucking fight. Remus can take care of himself dammit!
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"Sirius." There's this voice that Remus uses sometimes that makes Sirius feel like he's in trouble with the teacher that, most times, zips him up better than anything else. He purses his lips, irritated, and scowls at Remus from under his eyebrows. "You see with your own eyes that I'm in one piece," Remus continues, and waits until Sirius, reluctantly, minutely, nods before carrying on. "You did everything right, I promise. It would have been far worse without you there. Okay? And even worse than that if you'd had your head cracked in two."
Sirius sighs and nods again, but finds his eyes trailing down to the bruise on Remus's thigh, looking dark and painful in the dim light coming from the small overhead lamp above the stove. The fight gone out of him, his anger is impotent and grating, an itching agita at the back of his mind looking for somewhere else to go.
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08 Jul 2025
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can't stand what you do (in love with your eyes) by orphan_account for thebestofallmydays
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
03 May 2021
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Now is the point when Remus is not alone. He started alone. He started sitting on the hills out past Greenhouse Six, the dew-damp hills with all the half-crushed and deeply sodden dandelions, just him and a spliff and the layer of low-hanging, early morning fog turning the sun into an apricot (all fuzz), and now he is not alone because Sirius is standing before him, short and lithe and incandescent, jaw clenched, an earring in the shape of a dagger cutting through the soft meat of his lobe.
“Here,” he says. He is thrusting a bottle of muggle coke at Remus: red label, brown fizz sloshing against the curves.
“This moment is fake,” Remus says.
“Shove over, Descartes,” Sirius says.
or, the aftermath of armageddon
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03 Jun 2025
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Remus is in 5th year. Sirius is in 6th.
Last year, Remus was in 4th year and Sirius was in 5th. The year before that, Remus was... irrelevant. He's not sure Sirius knows he exists.
This year, with a shiny new badge on his chest, Remus Lupin is officially on Sirius' radar. Remus Lupin is officially a pain in Sirius' arse.
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- Part 1 of Of Prefects, Pretence, and Precedent
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02 May 2025