oh! our bones have put on new flesh, for love.

28 | she/her | book nerd | arizayna on ao3

[benjamin-ovich]

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On Fire, But We Can’t Feel a Thing - Eighteen months after James and Sirius fall out with each other, Sirius gets a call telling him that James is in hospital after being attacked by Death Eaters. 

Secrecy - James stumbles onto Sirius’ secrets and has no idea how to help him.

Ruin Me, Beloved - Sirius is in love with James, and James is marrying Lily.

Ink My Skin with Your Name - James and Sirius get matching tattoos one summer. 

Too Close to the Stars - The phases of Sirius’ bipolar disorder. 

Rare as the Glimmer of a Comet in the Sky - James and Sirius are pining and oblivious idiots. Also McGonagall gives them a sex talk. 

You’re my Wasteland, Baby - A Beartown fic exploring Benji’s relationship with Aleksandr (Big City). 

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Prongsfoot Microfics: Rare, Private, Contradiction

James/Sirius drabble - Sirius’ wealth leaves him unimpressed by everything at Hogwarts, except James. 

Another James/Sirius drabble - James experiencing moments of love for Sirius. 

Yet another James/Sirius drabble - James won’t stop complaining about Lily turning him down, and Sirius has had enough of it. 

Meta about Sirius being touch-starved

James Potter as an Outgoing Himbo and Sirius Black as his Intimidating Goth BF

Tender Prongsoot meta 

Three Times James and Sirius Make Out with Each Other

James and Sirius Trying to Sneak into the Three Broomsticks

Prongsfoot meta

[alicewiththreefingers]

Inspired by one of the greatest tweets of all time.

[calisverse]

HBO's Game of Thrones (2011, USA) Season Two, Episode One

Richard Madden as King Robb Stark

and Grey Wind.

[bucketsofsomethingorother]

I love you characters so shaped by war that peace would itch under your skin. I love you characters so steeped in violence that the only mercy the narrative could find for you was to kill you before the happy ending.

[dcvina-claires]

everyone leave your favorite war criminal in the tags

[lncomfortable]

The Dragon Republic is a comedy actually

[yasmeensh]

Count of Monte Cristo #1

I started reading the Count of Monte Cristo last Tuesday and I'm already 200+ pages in. IT'S SO GOOD WHY DID I NOT READ IT EARLIER!???? I was intimidated by the fact that it's 1,200+ pages long but I am now dreading the day that I would be done reading it. I'm obsessed with this book.

I kept thinking about that one sentence telling us that Edmond was secretly happy about the abbe's failure because it meant he could talk to someone now after years of loneliness. I imagine he'd have a smug expression :P spoilers? Perhaps. I'll tag.

[benjamin-ovich]

Just finished reading this book and I love this sm

[ad-profundis]

Eyes full of determination, paws full of grass.

[jager-bruder]

[queen-scribbles]

[outromoonyy]

@dailyprongsfoot | March day 25: Gone

After James dies, Sirius keeps having the same dream:

They’re back on the Hogwarts Express. Fourteen years old, maybe fifteen. The war hasn’t started yet.

James is talking about something stupid (Quidditch tactics, probably) and Sirius is only half-listening because he’s watching the sunlight catch in James’s hair through the train window.

In the dream, Sirius suddenly understands something he hadn’t been able to name back then.

The warmth in his chest.

The strange gravity James always seemed to have over him.

Love.

Real, undeniable love.

And something in his gut, his mind, his chest tells him this will be the last chance he has to say it. Even if he doesn’t understand it completely, even when it terrifies him.

So he opens his mouth to say something.

But that’s always when the dream ends. And James is gone again. Forever.

And Sirius never gets to hear what James would have said back.

[theoncel]

[hacked-wtsdz]

Every time I read or watch Lord of the Rings I can’t help but think about how Tolkien had survived one of the bloodiest, most cruel, most dirtiest and darkest wars in human history, came back and wrote this:

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

And this:

"'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.

'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'"

And this:

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

And this:

“Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."

And this:

“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”

And clearly they were all written partly because he survived the war, because of what he’d seen and done and learned. But at the same time the unwillingness to lose faith, the courage and strength that this man had to believe in these things after going through hell! It makes the nihilists look so cheap, so uninteresting! People who’ve went through concentration camps and wars believe in humanity anyway, isn’t that proof that hope and love exist? And many, many, many of them did not return or returned broken and cruel and traumatised to the point when no faith in others was possible for them, and nobody can blame them. But there were many who refused to lose faith and hope. They have seen some of the worst that life has to offer and came back believing that we shouldn’t be eager to deal out death in judgement and should love only that which the sword defends.

No matter how many people say that humanity is horrible and undeserving of love, and life is dark and worthless, and love doesn’t exist I remember this and have hope anyway. Because there were people who have actually had all reason to believe in the worst and still believed in the good, so the good must be real. The good is real, even despite the evil, and we must trust in it.

[plecotusauritus]

This has to be one of my favourite images of Sirius.... not using a chair correctly in honorable age of 36

[benjamin-ovich]

I'd just like to take a moment to scream about the beautiful work I received in the mail from the talented @squintclover, who took a line from Ruin Me, Beloved and turned it into art ♥️

@narcissa-black-supermacy look!!! :D

[aridante]

the hungers of hadewijch and eckhart, donald f. duclow // stigmata: escaping texts, hélène cixous // you are in a hotel room, joan tierney // the notebooks of malte laurids brigge, rainer maria rilke // great expectations, kathy acker // hot-hand fallacy, jasmine gibson // erotism: death and sensuality, georges bataille // cain, josé saramago // love in the time of monsters, emily palermo // a curious night for a double eclipse, j. karl bogartte.

[wallopthewicked]

Moony: Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with you guys?

[reverie-quotes]

You don't fix hurts by pretending they never happened. You treat them like infected wounds. You dig deep with a burning knife and gouge out the rotten flesh and then, maybe, you have a chance to heal.

— R. F. Kuang, The Burning God