Jasmine

Hi. I'm Jasmine. Call me Jaz. I am a boomer milenial who likes writing, tea and corporate finance. blueirony @ AO3.

[blueironywrites]

Hi. I'm Jasmine, but I go by Jaz. I'm a 30-something geriatric millennial, live in Australia, work in corporate finance, and drink a lot of tea.

My main (and pretty much only) fandom is Harry Potter. My current ship is Wolfstar, but I also do enjoy Jily, Hinny and a sprinkling of other pairings.

Under the cut is a masterlist of my fics on AO3. I also have some of my older fics listed on FFN, but I barely logon to my account there.

My writing in the last few years has primarily been Wolfstar, but I do have a lot of non-Wolfstar from my early years.

Enjoy, drop me a line if you want to say hi, and have a lovely day! (:

MASTERLIST - BLUEIRONY

My fics feel a bit disorganised so this post is as much for me as it is for everyone else.

All my fics are well tagged on AO3, so please read all those tags carefully. The list below is a summary and therefore doesn't include everything.

Happy reading!

-Jaz

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WOLFSTAR

MULTI-CHAPTER FICS:

Mahogany (M): Remus and Sirius are living their dreams. Remus is about to open his own photography studio. Sirius is a successful musician on tour. The two are going to learn that, sometimes, dreams fall apart. A story about love and longing.

Wolfstar are absolutely obsessed with each other. Lots of pining. The hardships of an established relationship. They both need hugs.

The Coffee Shop (PG): A story about love from the eyes of a barista, in six parts.

Meet-cute in a coffee shop. You'll grow to love the barista. Soft, hazy, loving.

Beauty in the Breakdown (M): As James’s best man, Sirius has one task and one task only: make sure the wedding goes ahead without a hitch. Everything is going well. He just has one problem: Remus Lupin, his best friend who he can’t stop thinking about.

Oblivious Sirius. Pining Remus. Himbo James. All-knowing Lily. Dorks in love who don't realise it.

One Hundred and Twenty Degres (M): Sirius Black has only one wish for Christmas. And everything is going to plan. That is, if only everything wouldn't be accidentally ruined not once, not twice, but three times. Who knew that hiding a surprise Christmas proposal could be so difficult? A Wolfstar Christmas proposal fic.

Wholesome and indulgent Christmas fluff. Remus knits. Lovesick Sirius. Soft and cosy.

SERIES:

Bite-sized fics that are a lot of head-canons and small slices of life into what Sirius and Remus's life could (and should) be. Some of it is hurt/comfort, but nothing is overly depressing.

With the exception of the last series which is a fixed number of microfics, all are continuously updated.

Wolfstar One-Shots (PG): Non-magic one-shots, mainly modern AU

Wolfstar at Hogwarts (M): Magical one-shots set at Hogwarts during the Marauders era

Wolfstar Microfics (M): General microfics, mainly head-canons from the Marauders era at Hogwarts

Wolfstar Olympics Microfics (M): 31 microfics specifically for a series of prompts in August 2024 relating to the Olympics, all fics are modern AU

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NON-WOLFSTAR

MULTI-CHAPTER FICS:

Iris (PG): Though their eyes spoke of their different experiences, thoughts and beliefs, the one thing the men in Ginny Weasley’s life could never escape from was their unwavering love for her.

Character study of Ginny who is middle-aged-ish. Each chapter is one significant man in her life. Mix of sad, happy, sweet and hopeful. One of my best works.

SERIES:

Conviction (M): Two important moments in Teddy and Victoire's relationship, where Teddy is terrified.

Soliloquy (PG): Two significant moments in Sirius and Dorcas's lives.

ONE-SHOTS:

Acceptance (G): Harry shares a sweet moment with Lily before she gets married.

Breaking Even (PG): Bill loves his siblings. Supposedly. (Bill/OC)

By the Firelight (G): James watches Lily one night in the common room. (James/Lily)

Equilibrium (PG): James and Albus take it upon themselves to make sure Santa knows what they really want for Christmas.

Moving On (G): Ginny makes a decision. (Ginny/Harry, Ginny/Michael)

Paper Cuts (M): Sometimes, the smallest of pains hurt the most. (Ron/Hermione)

Raindrops (M): Charlie says goodbye. (Charlie/OC)

Repentance (M): The final moments of a character in the Final Battle.

Rooftops (PG): George has a moment alone.

Shades of Grey (M): After a strange encounter, Hermione learns from the most unlikely source that, friend or foe, healing is never easy for anyone. (Ron/Hermione)

Such Sweet Sorrow (PG): He had always loved her. Even though she was never his. (Remus/Lily, James/Lily, Remus/Tonks)

The Black Dress (G): While packing to move to a new flat, Cho comes across a black dress that evokes memories she thought she had forgotten. (Cho/OC)

Last edited: 17/03/2025

[gremlininho]

no peeking at the answer below, did you get what the shirt said?

yes

no

Remaining time: 3 days 3 hours

[blueironywrites]

What do you MEAN it isn: Prepare egg four on fire evil chicken

[writingdose]

“I want to write a fic about this but I don’t think anybody will be interested in it” ummm hello excuse me ma’am what do you mean you don’t think anybody will be interested in it??? YOU. YOU ARE INTERESTED IN IT???? write it because YOU are interested in it and YOU want to write about it. fanfic writing should always be first and foremost about YOUR enjoyment, not other people’s.

[catchymemes]

[blueironywrites]

I'm desperately searching for a Wolfstar story that was told through a series of social media posts on Tumblr. Tweets. Texts. That kind of thing.

It had at least 20 parts. And it featured Remus pining openly for Sirius and Sirius asking who it was. The two were idiots but they got together in the end.

If anyone knows it, PLEASE send me the link!

[blueironywrites]

I am STILL pining so badly for this. Surely, surely I'm not the only person who had read this.

I swear there was a post by the same author on Tumblr for a different fic (or maybe just a one off post?) where it's a photo of either Sirius giving Remus a piggyback or vice versa and all their friends comment about how cute they are

I swear the fic I'm looking for had Remus posting about how he's in love with Sirius in twitter and Sirius is constantly asking: what's going on, who is this person

Genuinely am hoping this isn't lost to the internet 🥺🥺 The internet never forgets, right?

[blueironywrites]

Okayyyyy.

I'm going to be vague because I don't want to name fics as this is me being a whiny child, and me making it obvious about what I'm talking about is not okay.

What I will say is that it's not just the Harry Potter fandom (specifically Wolfstar) that I obsess over. I do read other fandoms. But the fic has to be damn good for me to do that.

So there's this fic, yeah. And it's in two parts. The first part was so good.

I.

Ate.

It.

Up.

There are passages in it that I still think about years later.

So. There's a second part. When I learnt that, I was ecstatic. I get a fic I adore extended? Are you KIDDING me? It's one huge UNF.

Now, I don't know how long the second part will be. And it was good at the start. All the parts I adored about the first part were there and I was there, lapping up every word.

But.

Like.

Lately? It's unrecognisable. Like, yeah, the main theme is kind of there. But what drew me into the first part, which was an absolutely beautifully written relationship, has all but disappeared. There are entire chapters without any mention of the main relationship. There are about fifty billion original characters that have completely taken over.

I tried so hard to stay engaged. But it felt like I was hate reading entire sections just to pause and get maybe one measley sentence about the pairing. It got to the point where I was skimming everything just for some small breadcrumbs.

I just don't CARE about the OCs. When written well, OCs can be SO good. I've read and adored OC fics a lot in my time.

But this fic is still very much marketed under the main pairing. And it's gotten to the point where I'm just pissed off. It feels like there's no fucking point to reading this fic anymore. And yes, I have unsubscribed and, yes, I don't follow it. But it's like I still want to know what happens to the pairing, you know? The small bits that ARE written about them are so fucking good.

The problem I have is NONE of the other scenes do anything to actually advance the plot? I'd be okay if, like in the first part, they actually helped the plot. But I legit reckon you could delete the entirety of the other scenes and it would make no difference to the fic.

What also gets me is that it feels like I'm the only one who feels this way. I don't know. Maybe I'm not. But it feels like everything has been so positively received and I'm the only going, waaaaaait what?

Uggghhhh.

It's disappointing.

I know fanfic is free. I know I have no business being entitled and demanding anything. I know it's entirely the author's choice to do whatever the hell they want.

Anyway.

As you were.

[blueironywrites]

Honestly fucking LOVE when you get random youtube recommendations about 13 years after the original video was posted

A few mil views

A few k comments

It's one the last vestiges of a yesteryear internet that had everything that the today internet is lacking: authenticity

[garpen]

"you already left kudos here"

And??? Let me like it again??? Clearly it deserves more??

[blueironywrites]

I will not tag the AO3 Tumblr account and emotionally manipulate them into making this a thing by telling them that since this was posted on my late brother's birthday I will not tag the AO3 Tumblr account and emotionally manipulate them into making this a thing by telling them that since this was posted on my late brother's birthday I will not tag the AO3 Tumblr account and emotionally manipulate them into making this a thing by telling them that since this was posted on my late brother's birthday I will not tag the AO3 Tumblr account and emotionally manipulate them into making this a thing by telling them that since this was posted on my late brother's birthday I will not

[garpen]

"you already left kudos here"

And??? Let me like it again??? Clearly it deserves more??

[writingdose]

insane to me how, to some people, this is not a common sense

[blueironywrites]

Discourse about anything is insane. Particularly when it's free and a bunch of people who just want their blorbos to kith

[aphel1on]

Affirmations before posting:

The freaks who follow me understand my vision

The freaks who follow me understand my vision

The freaks who follow me understand my vision

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

be kind and respectful to fanfic writers

be kind and respectful to fan artists

be kind and respectful to people in your fandom

be kind and respectful to people

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

we went from “just google it” to “just ask chatgpt” too fast.

people in my life, my friends, family, colleagues, they don’t say “google it” anymore. they just say “ask chat”, “just ask chat”, “let me ask chatgpt real quick”. like only a few years ago we were googling shit man

[justalurkr]

Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.

But... Stochastic Parrots.

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.

Her name is Timnit Gebru.

She co-led the Ethical AI team at Google. She co-wrote a paper called "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" with Emily Bender at the University of Washington and two other researchers. The paper was 14 pages long. It was submitted to a top AI ethics conference. And it was the reason Google decided that one of the most senior Black women in AI research could no longer work there.

The story Google told publicly was that she resigned. The story she told, confirmed by 2,695 of her colleagues in an open letter, was that she was fired by email while on vacation because she refused to either retract the paper or remove her name from it.

The paper had not even been published yet.

Here is what she actually wrote, and why every prediction inside it has now come true.

The first warning was about scale itself. Bender and Gebru argued that training ever-larger models on ever-larger scrapes of the internet would produce systems that appeared fluent but had no actual understanding of language. They called these systems stochastic parrots because they would repeat patterns from training data with statistical confidence and zero comprehension. The paper predicted that this apparent intelligence would fool both users and developers into trusting outputs that were structurally incapable of being reliable.

This was 2020. GPT-3 had just come out. The paper predicted the hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.

The second warning was about bias amplification. The paper documented in detail that internet-scale training data contains systematic overrepresentation of dominant viewpoints and underrepresentation of marginalized ones. The models would not just absorb this bias. They would amplify it, because the optimization process rewards confident outputs, and confidence in language patterns tracks frequency in the training set.

The prediction was that hiring tools built on these models would discriminate against women. That healthcare triage tools would underperform on Black patients. That loan approval systems would entrench inequality while presenting their decisions as neutral algorithmic judgment.

Every one of those things has now been documented in deployment.

Amazon's hiring algorithm penalized resumes that contained the word "women" in any context. Healthcare risk scoring algorithms used by major US hospitals were found to systematically underestimate the medical needs of Black patients. Apple Card's credit algorithm gave wives credit lines 10x lower than their husbands for the same financial profile.

The third warning was about environmental cost. The paper calculated that training a single large language model produced emissions equivalent to the lifetime output of 5 cars. The prediction was that the race to scale would create an environmental footprint that would eventually rival entire industries.

In 2024, Google's emissions were up 48% from 2019, and the company explicitly blamed AI infrastructure. Microsoft's were up 29%, same reason. Both companies have now quietly abandoned the climate commitments they were publicly celebrating the year Gebru was fired.

The fourth warning was about documentation. The paper argued that the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit. Nobody at Google, OpenAI, Meta, or any other lab could tell you with confidence what was in the data their models were trained on. This was not a temporary problem to be solved later. It was a permanent feature of the approach.

In 2023, researchers discovered that the LAION-5B dataset, used to train Stable Diffusion and other major image models, contained thousands of images of child sexual abuse material. The companies that had trained on the dataset had no way of knowing. The paper predicted that category of failure 3 years before it was found.

The fifth warning was the one Google cared about most.

Bender and Gebru argued that the deployment of these systems would centralize linguistic and cultural power in the hands of the small number of companies that could afford to train them. The internet would become a place where the dominant voice was a statistical average of dominant voices, presented as a neutral assistant. Languages underrepresented in the training data would degrade over time as more web content was generated by these systems and fed back into the next training run.

This is now happening in real time. A 2024 study found that 57% of new web content in English is AI-generated or AI-assisted. Researchers studying low-resource languages have documented active degradation in translation quality, because the synthetic content fed back into training is itself worse in those languages.

The paper Google fired her for predicted the model collapse problem before model collapse had a name.

The mechanism behind why this all happened is the part of her work that nobody quotes.

Gebru's argument was not that AI is dangerous in some abstract sci-fi sense. Her argument was that AI is dangerous in a very specific structural sense. The technology was being built by a small group of researchers who shared similar backgrounds, worked at similar companies, and were rewarded for shipping products faster than competitors. The incentive structure made it impossible for safety, ethics, and bias concerns to slow anything down. Anyone inside the system who raised those concerns was either ignored, sidelined, or removed.

She was making that argument from inside Google.

Then Google proved her right by removing her.

The team Google had built to make sure their AI was safe was dismantled in 90 days because they did the job they had been hired to do. Margaret Mitchell, the other co-lead of the Ethical AI team, was fired two months after Gebru for searching through her own emails for evidence of how Gebru had been treated.

Gebru did not stop. She founded DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute, in 2021. The mission is to do AI research outside the control of the companies that have a financial interest in not hearing the answers.

Every prediction in the Stochastic Parrots paper has now been validated by deployment. Hallucinations are an industry-wide problem the largest labs cannot solve. Bias amplification has been documented in hiring, healthcare, lending, and criminal justice. Environmental costs are larger than entire small countries. Training data audits remain impossible. Model collapse is an active research crisis at every major lab.

The question worth sitting with is the one almost no one in the industry will say out loud.

Every researcher with the technical credibility to call out these problems watched what happened to her in December 2020 and made a calculation about their own career. The number of people willing to speak publicly about safety and ethics issues inside the major AI labs collapsed after that firing and has not recovered.

The researcher Google fired for warning about exactly what is now happening was right.

The company that fired her is now the second-largest deployer of the technology she warned about.

And the people inside that company who agree with her are not allowed to say so.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[ccelestialdreamss]

James Potter was NEVER nervous about icebreakers. That man had 3 fun facts about himself ready to go, along with his full name, AND pronouns (and the biggest brightest james potter smile)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]