any recs??? plzzzzzzz-
I want a Sirius-raises-Harry-after-POA AU that’s past Sirius/James/Lily (past because they’re still dead whoops). Give me that good, good angst where Sirius suddenly is raising the child he barely knows, the child that he’d had with partners who are long dead that he hasn’t even had a chance to properly grieve yet 😭
when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳
A very specific Sirius Black rec post for @v-a-l 😘
Always - Sirius (and Lily) being badasses in an AU where James and Harry died that night.
Stealing Harry - A classic Wolfstar raising Harry fic. Might be a bit too shippy for your tastes but I do love Sirius in this.
Contrariwise - This fic has me howling every time I read it. Sirius is so good and so in-character.
Dead Men Don't Bleed - Sirius & Harry centric, and an absolutely excellent fic.
The Unforgivables - I hate Snape but this has excellent Sirius (and Harry) characterization that I have a feeling you would like.
A Life More Ordinary - Another classic Wolfstar raising Harry fic with excellent Sirius characterization.
before the door of hell lamps burned - a very long Sirius-centric AU. His characterization is excellent here.
The Many Lives of Sirius Black - Sirius is so good in this series, especially Stronger At The Broken Places. Highly competent, badass, and in-character.
the vocabulary of loss is the dictionary
omggggggg!!!!! i want thesee-
why would you need to prove it to someone? isnt it just common sense?!
There are dumb people in this world who need to know that crying doesn’t make guys look weak!
Listen, this is gonna get sappy but I don’t care.
I am so grateful to be a young person right now. I will never take it for granted that growing up, I am being raised at a point where loving who you want and being who you are is being normalized.
I will never take it for granted that on TV, I could watch two men kiss and not bat an eyelash. I will never take it for granted that I could see a cast with so many POC and it not even register with me that it was that diverse until someone pointed it out. It was just kind of, normal. (And so well done on the part of the makers of the show.) There are so. many. people. before me that did not get that kind of representation. Even people just a little bit older than myself were so excited after Stede and Ed kissed, because they finally hadn’t been let down or queer baited.
I will never take for granted the beautiful and rich representation that I and many others got from a show like Our Flag Means Death, (and the future shows that do it as well that will one day be made)
Ok everyone but imagine Todd and Neil do have to separate for college and for some reason have no other way to communicate with each other aside from ✨letters✨
Neil constantly writing letters to Todd between classes or filling his notebooks with doodles and thinks he wants to send and say, puts tiny cute little stickers in with the letters, is blunt but gushing and just a total sap and hates how long it takes to get a letter from Todd. He has a SPECIAL PEN for letters for Todd and ONLY letters for TODD and Todd ONLY. No one touch his pen for Todd he WILL yell at you and his insults are painfully accurate, creative and one might even say…. Shakespearean.
Todd on the other hand would always be overthinking what to say. After classes he would just sit there for hours into the night thinking, scrawling then crumpling up and throwing away. The poor kid could probably deforest the entire continent of North America with how many times he crumpled up drafts. Puts in pressed flowers with the letters, struggles with words and expressing things when not in poetry form but he’s trying his best.
Years later, when they’re old and grey and going through their things to find out what to keep and what to give away (as old people often do) they stumble across a pair of wooden boxes, each with each other’s names on them somewhere. They open them and unearth their letters from college, the paper beginning to yellow with age and antiquity, the ink having turned from black to brown and beginning to bleed around the edges. The look at each other, smile, and laugh.
“After all these years you still kept all of my horrendous excuses for love letters..?” Todd asks.
“They weren’t horrendous! Plus.. eh, I’ve always resorted to reading them when I’m down or needing some extra encouragement.” Neil answers, with a shrug, voice sounding similar to a winter fire as the snow drifts down outside, warm yet crackling every so often with age. “Plus, you kept mine too so you’re one to talk.”
i frikin know right?????!!!!!
its tOrTuRe.
my bi ass is not going to be able to handle both of them in one show