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How Alex Found His Third Family by glorafin
Fandoms: Alex Rider - Anthony Horowitz, Alex Rider (TV 2020)
27 Feb 2026
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At the beginning of this story, Alex and Tom are 24. Alex still works for MI6 while Tom teaches English at their old school. Whenever Alex comes back from mission, he crashes on Tom's couch.
(Formerly titled I’m Not Sure)
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In 2012, the powers that be at Modest arrange a meeting between the guys and a new PR called Mike.
How should they deal with their public image at this point of their career? Should they still interact with their fans in the same way? Should the distant future of the band be discussed early? Or do they have the luxury to let things be as they are for the time being? What rumours should be allowed to float around? Which ones should be quelled at all cost? Difficult questions sometimes mean difficult answers.
EDIT : This is now one of the 1D fics with the greatest hits-over-kudos ratio ever (700+ at the last count). You may want to read it just for that. :p Weirdly (or maybe not that weirdly, I don't want to think too much about my feelings on this), I'm becoming increasingly proud of that achievement. It really must have struck a chord with One Direction fans, albeit not always in a pleasant way. It was never my intention to upset readers and/or fans....and if I did, I'm sorry. But I'll say it again : whatever you may think after reading this story, it stems from my love for the band and its members, and my worries about their future.
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Almost twenty-five years after the end of the War, the sons of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy are attending Hogwarts, eager to get out of their fathers' shadows.
Just to be clear : the Scorpius Malfoy/Albus Severus Potter relationship mentioned in the header is romantic in nature. The Harry/Draco one probably won't be.
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A birthday drabble for a friend who asked for Ron/Hermione. It ended up being mostly gen, although there is also a blink-and-you'll-miss-it bit of Harry/Draco in there. Feedback and constructive criticism are more than welcome.
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What if all characters of the Harry Potter fandom were made to live together in one big facility? They would be hoarded there by Livejournal in order to boost inspiration for writers. They would have to enact, day after day after day, all the fics being written. Wouldn't there be jealousy between characters, between pairings?
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- Part 2 of Muse Centre Universe
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Communication is hard, ten years after tragedy. Tom grew up, and Alex got older. The trouble is in the difference between those things.
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Bookmarked by glorafin
17 Oct 2022
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For a long time I thought it was impossible to write good Alex Rider fics. The original material did not really allow for romance (I refuse to even think about Yassen in that context) and I didn’t really see how to do Gen fics well either. I feel like we don’t know anything about who Alex is, which is kind of ironic after 10+ novels, a movie and a TV show. AH does not in my view tell us enough about Alex’s character to allow writers to extrapolate. His writing is more plot-driven than character-driven.
So this is the first time I actually read an AR fic in its entirety and, to me, it’s just perfect. The jump in the future works perfectly and the relationship between Alex and Tom felt utterly real. I’d love to read more about a jaded mid-20s Alex clumsily trying to connect with his best friend.
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It’s almost funny. All he ever wanted was to play hockey, to play in the NHL, to win the Cup. This—Samwell, the team, the Haus—was supposed to be just a detour, but now it feels more like a destination he failed to realize he’s already reached.
(Or: Jack signs with the Falconers, graduates, and leaves. It's the hardest thing he's ever done. What comes after is even harder.)
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Bookmarked by glorafin
04 Feb 2018
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This is one of the first fics I read in this fandom, and it was I think a pretty good introduction to these characters. Both sets of parents play a significant role while both Georgia and Canada are the locations of key scenes. The relationship between Jack and his parents, especially Bad Bob, is thoughtfully described as well as the that of Kent with all Zimmermanns. Eric's teenage years in Georgia are also touched upon, most notably with one memorable scene with Simon, described as his teenage crush, that would in itself call for a whole other story.
Most SMH players from the first two generations appear heavily (Ransom, Holster, Shitty, Lardo, but also Dex, Nurse and Chowder). It looks like the fic was finished before later characters were introduced by Ngozi (no mention of Tater for instance)
It is also notable by its use of LJ and Tumblr posts, tweets and instant messages as ways of telling the story. The comments written to these posts show the author has more than a passing familiarity with fandom workings. You also have within the fic recommendations to what is, from that perspective, RPF works, which are so well-done that the fact that they don't exist is a bit crushing.
In that same universe, the author wrote nine other stories (one of which is likely never to be finished) that flesh out even further the universe, most notably by telling the story from Kent's perspective (Nate plays the Swoops-like role here since Ngozi had yet to introduce him) or imagining Jack's later life as captain of the Falconers.
The writing is mostly very good, despite a few jarring POV changes that could possibly have been made clearer (but I only write this as to appear somewhat objective).
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Bookmarked by glorafin
07 Jun 2018
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Great story about Kent Parson's semi-forced coming out. Other characters from OMGCP make only somewhat brief appearances but there is in the middle of the story a discussion between Jack and Kent about their respective situations that rang very true to me.
To be fair, the story would benefit tremendously from a good beta reading. There is a number of spelling mistakes that muddle the meaning of some sentences but the story in itself is strong enough to get the reader to disregard it.
It obviously calls for sequels too.