[audrxyweasley]

30 minute klaxon for Chapter Six of Rebuilding Bridges: Ron

Edit: Chapter Six is now live! I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it, because it’s probably my favourite chapter so far!

Chapter Summary:

Percy waved down a waitress for a refill, tapping his fingers gently on the table in silence rather than reply to Ron. It was easier not to think about what possibilities his brother had lived in the war, in the very same way he presumed it was simpler for his family not to think about his experiences. The only real difference was one of them was a regular feature of the Prophet’s front page and the other…well, he was just Percy when it boiled down to it. No matter what he’d done, how awful and contemptible it may have been, he would always be Just Percy compared to his brother nowadays, and perhaps, Percy was realising in a way his younger self would never have been able to, there was some relief in that.

[audrxyweasley]

As is tradition, I love to indulge you all with teasers from what I’m currently writing in the fic, as opposed to where I’m up to in posting, so enjoy this section from the start of Chapter 8, which as a little contextual teaser title I’ll nickname: “letters to Oliver”*

*I’m aware the Perciver took its time but it felt more natural in the fic when I rejigged the plot around the time I wrote the Charlie’s BUT it is here and it is like the a huge part of the final third of the fic I promise (and these gonna are lengthier chapters!)

Anyway: Letters to Oliver, spoilered below given it’s a fair bit ahead in the fic but it doesn’t actually spoil anything in between where I’ve posted and this point

I’ve been ill, I’m sure you know that though by now. The grapevine talks, as we so often worried back then, and if the news hasn’t found its way to you yet, then I apologise for how out of the blue this must seem. I apologise for that, and a thousand other things, regardless of whether you’ve heard, I suppose, but the context would probably serve you well, Oliver.

But then again, I suppose you know enough, saw enough, to fill in the blanks of the circumstances that have followed since I…well, since I fucked up. Broke your heart as well as my own. Not that this is about me, but I suppose I’m in an introspective mood. Being locked in a psych ward tends to bring that out, I’ve found.

You warned me. You saw that I was in so far over my head that I couldn’t see the surface, and I hated you for that, in a way, almost as much as I loved you at times.

[persephone-the-shark]

Okay hear me out but Percy Weasley can bake at a god like level but has such shitty cooking (like this boy could set spaghetti on fire) and Oliver Wood could be on MasterChef or something but can't bake to save his life...

[doofranch]

Oliver Wood bakes a cake (colourised)

[satans-trek]

[audrxyweasley]

Not me being behind on my writing schedule whilst also getting the keys to my house in like 10 days folks, you might have to like,,,bear with me a little here unless I end up stress writing like 10k over two days exclusively between like 12-5am which honestly is a none zero possibility because it means I can avoid the crisis that comes with growing up in poverty to buying a house with my partner at like 22. Like I was homeless on my seventeenth birthday this is whack but yeah anyway updates may be hinky

I have like half of Keep Moving Forward written and I meant to post that like yesterday but everytime I try writing for that I just HATE it passionately write now maybe because it’s like an awkward length fic compared to what I normally write given in my head this was meant to be like 15k whack it out and boom then I’ve added like a b plot to it and like it was literally just something I posted cos I had a bit of a gap cos it was meant to be a one shot then it wasn’t by the time I had the first chap and honestly this is why I need to have fics written entirely before posting. like 100% once rebuilding bridges is done I’m writing the follow ups in whole and then starting to post. Speaking of RB I’ve got like 5k of Molly written, then like 2k of the chapter after that so there’s that at least, then the Ron conundrum I’ve got part two finished then maybe like 4K of part three and then there’ll defo be a break whilst I get like the next 30k minimum written and figure out the transition to a series of longer fics that I’ll maybe separate out by like year in canon just for ease, and likely shorten the chapters down to like Rebuilding Bridges length which compared to like part two and three (at least planned on the latter) of TRC would just mean like,,,chopping them in half potentially??

Like I love the loooong chapters as both a reader and a writer personally, but given the upcoming chapter of TRC is literally 13k there’s 100% a case for shorter chapters and if I stick to the same like fortnightly schedule it gives me the breathing room of not having the gaps between fics to bulk write that I’ve had so far?

Anyway this is literally just a stream of consciousness of decisions I’m not certain on like the niggling in the back of my mind to break even from canon on Percy’s career in a series of fiascos to the point I’m almost tempted to post the spare ideas so I don’t end up scrapping and replanning AGAIN but I mean if nothing else this is probably a great insight into the chaos that is my writing process lmao

[asallowgrave-deactivated2024110]

percy weasley deserved better send post

[dyingroses]

Harry Potter + text posts and tweets

[compasspyxis]

[audrxyweasley]

I know I shouldn’t care but I adore RB so much so ngl like this has actually gotten to me? Like I guess there’s something constructive in there but it just feels…rude?

[audrxyweasley]

Like…the more I think about this the more I’m like annoyed than upset I guess cos I just cannot imagine ever leaving a comment like this, and like most folk in fandom, I’ve read a lot of bad fics. Hell, I’ve got fics from over 6 years ago that I know aren’t great but I’ve never had the urge to go out and comment like this? Constructively yeah I’ll occasionally offer my two cents if an author is asking for them but even then I’d never phrase it like this?

Like…fundamentally this is nearly 45k into a fic, that’s a LOT of work that fanfic writers are out here doing for free! Like I’m sorry if you didn’t like it but I’ve spent like god knows how many hours and as someone who read fanfic for years before ever writing I just can’t imagine slating someone’s effort like that I guess?

Idk am I being oversensitive about this (because I have got a lot on my plate so you know it could just be a straw breaking the camels back)

Am I being oversensitive

Yes

No

Voting ended onOct 15, 2024

[audrxyweasley]

Actually I’ve just realised this is on the fourth chapter of seven and four and five are a two parter so like 😭😭 genuinely I think some of these issues are addressed going forward cos the chapters get long and we begin to unpeel things through other characters perspectives so you know what I’m not being dramatic about this, now I’m just not certain if it’s worth replying

[audrxyweasley]

I know I shouldn’t care but I adore RB so much so ngl like this has actually gotten to me? Like I guess there’s something constructive in there but it just feels…rude?

[audrxyweasley]

Like…the more I think about this the more I’m like annoyed than upset I guess cos I just cannot imagine ever leaving a comment like this, and like most folk in fandom, I’ve read a lot of bad fics. Hell, I’ve got fics from over 6 years ago that I know aren’t great but I’ve never had the urge to go out and comment like this? Constructively yeah I’ll occasionally offer my two cents if an author is asking for them but even then I’d never phrase it like this?

Like…fundamentally this is nearly 45k into a fic, that’s a LOT of work that fanfic writers are out here doing for free! Like I’m sorry if you didn’t like it but I’ve spent like god knows how many hours and as someone who read fanfic for years before ever writing I just can’t imagine slating someone’s effort like that I guess?

Idk am I being oversensitive about this (because I have got a lot on my plate so you know it could just be a straw breaking the camels back)

Am I being oversensitive

Yes

No

Voting ended onOct 15, 2024

[audrxyweasley]

I know I shouldn’t care but I adore RB so much so ngl like this has actually gotten to me? Like I guess there’s something constructive in there but it just feels…rude?

[audrxyweasley]

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The Ron Conundrum Teaser will be posted 03/10 00:01 GMT

[audrxyweasley]

Part One of The Ron Conundrum is now live!!!

[leaky-port-nacelle]

Comparing Star Trek captains as if they all have the same mission and aren’t each uniquely fitted to progress their own story line is ridiculous. “Who’s better between Sisko and Janeway?” Please. If Sisko were on Voyager he would have been home and under court martial a week after launch and if Janeway were on DS9 that wormhole would be closed faster than you can say “self sealing stem bolt”

[trek-tracks]

Like Dolly Parton before her, Lwaxana Troi enters a drag "Lwaxana Troi lookalike" competition and loses

[trek-tracks]

You! Keep talking

[bisexual-biohazard5]

I have this headcannon bout Percy Weasley that henever he walks, its silent. Like REALLY silently and that's one of the reasons McGonagall made him prefect. Also whenever students sneak around, I hink they relay on their hearing sense so when they hear someone's footsteps, they go the other way and escape being caught past curfew. Except when it comes to Percy when he's on his prefect patrols, I imagine the interaction like this.

Random Student: (Sneaking around Hogwarts) "I'm lucky I managed to escape Snape-"

Percy: (Right behind them) "It's past your curfew."

Random student: (Absolutely fucking terrified because they didn't hear Percy approach them.) "WHAT THE FUCK!?"

Oh and Peeves definitely love watching it happen.

[audrxyweasley]

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The Ron Conundrum Teaser will be posted 03/10 00:01 GMT

[audrxyweasley]

Wrote like 3k of The Ron Conundrum today only to realise I actually made a massive error with canon that I’m gonna have to go about and subtly fix all over the place whoooooos (so grateful I managed to get like way ahead of schedule on Rebuilding Bridges yesterday so I don’t have to worry about sorting out the next chapter of that as well)

[audrxyweasley]

Sat here today proper like :( cos I feel like I’ve got NOTHING done on TRC in like a month bear in mind the first part is getting posted this week only to realise I STARTED it entirely like exactly two weeks ago and it’s already over 20k like I only need to write part three and I’ve got a full month to do that!

Anyway the lesson is much like stats I tend to feel like I’m not actually doing anything/making progress which is why I’m so glad I track how much I’ve written/stats just so I can look back and tell my brain to shut up

[mothercain]