lumosatnight

Hey, I'm Lani! They/she, late-20s, avid HP fanfic reader, writer, reccer, podficcer, fester, and modder. I'm usually chilling on the HP Rare Pairs or HP Saffics Discord server. I love Drarry, rare pairs, and anything femslash! My Info: About Me My Writing: Masterlist | AO3

[lumosatnight]

✨ Hey, I'm Lani! ✨

My writing on AO3: lumosatnight

My rec lists on Tumblr: #lumosinthelibrary

💫 ABOUT ME 💫

Hello and welcome to my blog! I mostly write in the HP fandom, but I also dabble in a few other fandoms and mediums. I am pro-SALS, YKINMKATO, and DLDR. Since many of my works contain explicit or dark content, minors DNI! I love Drarry, rare pairs, and anything femslash!

If you have questions, want to share a rec, or just want to chat, feel free to send an ask, DM me, or find me chilling on the HP Rare Pairs or HP Saffics Discord server.

Find out more About Me or see a Masterlist of my works.

🌟 MODDING 🌟

I tend to be a bit fest crazy. Here are some things I'm currently modding (or helping mod).

@hp-rarepairs : HP rare pairs Discord and events

@hssrarepairs : HP gift exchange for rare pairs (runs biyearly)

@hprarepairfest : HP fest for rare pairs (runs biyearly)

@hpsaffics : HP femslash Discord and events

@hpwlwrsb : HP reverse bang for femslash ART+FIC

@hpsnooze : HP prompt challenge for sleeping

@microficmay : HP May daily prompt challenge (hiatus)

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Unsure where to start? Try my Author's Favorites (aka the works I'm most proud of).

Thanks for checking out my blog! -Lani 💙🌈

Last updated: Oct 2025

[fahye]

extremely important PSA, unless I am the last person on the internet to hear about this which is also plausible: THE ENTIRETY OF YURI ON ICE IS UP FOR FREE WATCHING THIS MONTH FOR THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS RELEASE

I'm ready to have my heart exploded with gay skating feelings all over again. come join me.

[pasiphile]

Sex Writing 101

TL;DR: in which I pull apart a sex scene into nine different aspects, giving examples of each, and turn a boring unengaging scene into a hot steamy one, step by step.

DISCLAIMER: this is the way I do it. I sort of fell into prescriptive language pretty quickly, but that’s because I’m a bossy little bitch who likes telling people what to do. But, really, this is just one way of doing it, and it works for me, so I thought I’d share.

Keep reading

[thefriendlypigeon]

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

⭐[my social media links]

[brabriefs-remaking-deactivated2]

i am super duper appreciative of ao3 and the shit they have to put up with for us assholes

but i’d really like to request a function where you can say ‘ok i want this pairing at this rating with this tag bUT I DONT WANNA SEE THIS VERY PARTICULAR TAG AND THIS VERY PARTICULAR TAG MIGHT BE DESTIEL’

[wrangletangle]

This function exists! The links below all describe the same basic task (removing a tag from your search results), based on different goals or comfort levels with AO3. If you know AO3 really well, try the first 3 sets of links. If not so well, try the last 3. (Dizmo’s has pictures so is possibly easiest.)

Good luck, and drop me an ask if you get stuck!

The Search Within Results Field and You, Part 1 The Search Within Results Field and You, Part 2 The Search Within Results Field and You, Round Up

Jan’s 7-Step Tutorial on how to filter out Characters and/or Relationships on AO3

Dizmo’s simplified explanation (with pictures)

Toasty’s shipping helper

[ao3org]

Convenient round-up!

(Note that the first link contains some other nifty things you can do with the filters, like showing only one-shots, or works above a certain word count, or only your private bookmarks. \o/)

[garden-of-succulents]

I super recommend that once you find the perfect search string for you, you bookmark that search page. Then in the future you can go to that bookmark and re-run the search again, and see the new fics that have showed up without the stuff you don’t want.

[criminallynerdy]

Props to AO3 for caring about the fans with abuse-related triggers that often get mocked and/or ignored because it gets in the way of a fanbase’s aesthetic.

[drst]

as someone who works with metadata and databases every day, I gotta say, AO3′s functionality is the shit. I wish my work databases were this easy to work with.

[lesbianalumni]

Way down the line, when they're leading Ottawa to another Stanley Cup, Ilya gets slammed too too hard by some eager new player. He's knocked unconscious and Shane practically flies from the box to the ice, watching as the EMTs intervene and carry him out on a stretcher.

Yuna goes in the ambulance with Ilya — Shane can't get out of his skates fast enough to run over in time, so he drives a few minutes behind them — and she calls Shane to keep him updated. It's fine, it's all fine, Ilya is already semi conscious and talking to them both. Shane's mind goes to all of the worst places anyway.

They lose service when they get in the elevator, but Yuna still sends out a text message with the room number. Shane speeds faster and then bolts through the hospital.

When he finally sees Ilya, minutes later, already in a blue hospital gown and connected to an IV but conscious and beaming up at him, Shane breaks into tears.

"Don't cry, solnyshko," Ilya says. "Come here," he holds out the hand that's free from the needles and Shane takes it.

"I have something important to ask you," Ilya tells him. It suddenly feels so serious. Shane's heart drops.

"Will you come to my cottage this summer?" Ilya says in a sing-songy voice, using his best Canadian accent. "Don't go to Russia. Come to my house, we'll have so much fun..."

Shane laughs. "You remember that?"

"Every fucking word."

[notahorseindisguise]

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

[mysticorset]

Peer reviewed tags from @somanyofthekids

[notahorseindisguise]

NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP

[hiveswap]

While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive

[midnight-revolucion]

alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife

[notahorseindisguise]

im going INSANE thats MY POST.

[marlinspirkhall]

It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.

[hpwlwbigbang]

Artist Sign Ups!

Sign up here to take part in the HP WLW Big Bang as an artist!

See our pinned post for more info

[sapphic-september]

Welcome to Sapphic September 2026!

These prompts are open to any fandom and any medium as long as the works center sapphic, WLW/NBLW, F/F+, or femslash ship(s). There are no other rules — you can use all, some, or only one of the prompts; do one or more a day or spread them out; begin late or post them after September; or mix ‘n’ match prompts; it’s up to you!

Make sure to tag your work(s) with #sapphicsept2026 or #Sapphic September 2026 so that others can find your contributions and to spread the word!

Prompts in text form for screen readers: - Day 1: at first sight - Day 2: sparks flying - Day 3: proposal - Day 4: secret crush - Day 5: unrequited - Day 6: butterflies - Day 7: sleeping over - Day 8: gone sour - Day 9: bouquet - Day 10: cupid’s bow - Day 11: pillows - Day 12: lost love - Day 13: candy/chocolate - Day 14: booty call - Day 15: heels - Day 16: breakup - Day 17: third date - Day 18: closet - Day 19: pining - Day 20: forget-me-not - Day 21: second chance - Day 22: loveseat - Day 23: single - Day 24: honeymoon - Day 25: lover’s spat - Day 26: kiss goodbye - Day 27: heart-shaped - Day 28: blind date - Day 29: it’s complicated - Day 30: last chance

[misc-marauders-fests]

Hello Age Gap Freaks! 😈

As a warm-up for the Wolfstar Mind The Age Gap Week we decided to share a few of our favourite Wolfstar Age Gap fics… here’s part 7: fics where Sirius is the older one.

Please enjoy our picks and leave us more recs and suggestions in the comments/reblogs, if you have them!

[anghraine]

so I’m looking at short story publishers (fantasy)

Tor, cream of the crop. 25 cents a word. Stories can be read for free (YES). Slowish response time at ~3 months. Prefer under 12k, absolute maximum is 17.5k. Don’t bother if it’s not highly professional quality. SFWA qualifying.

Crossed Genres. 6 cents a word. Different theme each month (this month’s is “failure”). Submissions must combine either sci-fi or fantasy with the theme. Response time 1 month. 1k-6k, no exceptions. SFWA qualifying.

Long Hidden, anthology from CG. 6 cents a word. 2k-8k, no exceptions. Must take place before 1935. Protagonist(s) must be under 18 and marginalized in their time and place. Must be sci-fi/fantasy/horror. Deadline 30 April. Response by 1 October.

Queers Destroy Science Fiction. Sci-fi only right now, author must identify as queer (gay, lesbian, bi, ace, pan, trans, genderfluid, etc, just not cishet). 7.5k max. Deadline 15 February. Responses by 1 March. You can submit one flash fiction and one short story at the same time. (My network blocks the Lightspeed site for some reason, so I can’t get all the submission details. >_>) Probably SFWA qualifying?

Women in Practical Armor. 6 cents a word. 2k-5k. Must be about 1) a female warrior who 2) is already empowered and 3) wears sensible armour. Deadline 1 April. Response within three months.

Fiction Vortex. $10 per story, with $20 and $30 for editor’s and readers’ choice stories (hoping to improve). Speculative fiction only. Imaginative but non-florid stories. 7.5k maximum, preference for 5k and under. (I kind of want to support them on general principle.)

Urban Fantasy Magazine. 6 cents a word. 8k max, under 4k preferred. Must be urban fantasy (aka, the modern world, doesn’t need to be a literal city). 

Nightmare. 6 cents a word. 1.5-7.5k, preference for under 5k. Horror and dark fantasy. Response time up to two weeks. SFWA and HWA qualifying.

Apex Magazine. 6 cents a word. 7.5k max, no exceptions. Dark sci-fi/fantasy/horror. SFWA qualifying.

Asimov’s Science Fiction. 8-10 cents a word. 20k max, 1k minimum. Sci-fi; borderline fantasy is ok, but not S&S. Prefer character focused. Response time 5 weeks; query at 3 months. SFWA qualifying, ofc.

Buzzy Mag. 10 cents a word. 10k max. Should be acceptable for anyone 15+. Response time 6-8 weeks. SFWA qualifying.

Strange Horizons. 8 cents a word. Speculative fiction. 10k max, prefers under 5k. Response time 40 days. Particularly interested in diverse perspectives, nuanced approahces to political issues, and hypertexts. SFWA qualifying. 

Fantasy and Science Fiction. 7-12 cents a word. Speculative fiction, preference for character focus, would like more science-fiction or humour. 25k maximum. Prefers Courier. Response time 15 days.

Scigentasy. 3 cents a word. .5-5k. Science-fiction and fantasy, progressive/feminist emphasis. Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. 15 cents a word. 3k maximum. Any sci-fi/fantasy, they like a literary bent. (psst, steinbecks!) They also like to see both traditional and experimental approaches. Response time two weeks. 

Beneath Ceaseless Skies. 6 cents a word. 10k maximum. Fantasy in secondary worlds only (it can be Earth, but drastically different—alternate history or whatever). Character focus, prefer styles that are lush yet clear, limited first or third person narration. Response time usually 2-4 weeks, can be 5-7 weeks. SFWA qualifying.

Clarkesworld. 10 cents a word up to 4000, 7 afterwards. 1-8k, preferred is 4k. Science-fiction and fantasy. Needs to be well-written and convenient to read on-screen. Appreciates rigour. No talking cats. Response time 2 days. SFWA qualifying.

Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. 6 cents a word. Any length. Science-fiction and fantasy (along with fantastic horror). Good world-building and characterization. Clear straightforward prose. Response time three months. Yes, OSC is editor-in-chief. SFWA qualifying.

Interzone. Sub-pro rates if anything (but highly respected). 10k max. Short cover letter. Science-fiction and fantasy.

[minutia-r]

Whenever I see a post like this, I feel like I have to tell people about the Submission Grinder.  I just did a search on it and it came up with 135 markets that pay for fantasy short stories. You can search by genre, pay rate, length of story they accept, etc, and it’s constantly being updated, which a post like this can’t be, and you can also use it to keep track of what you’ve sent where and when, and since a lot of people use it for this purpose it’s got a lot of good data about response times and so on. If you are trying to sell fiction or poetry on the regular, it is such a useful tool and I encourage everyone to use it.

[sparklespiff]

Fuck it I'm done with reading JJ slander.

You are JJ and you have two best friends. They room together all the time and that's fine-- they need it more than you do. You're a black guy from an immigrant family in a very white sport and you survive what is probably the second-most evil locker room in the entire league by being very very friendly. You can handle rooming with your teammates.

One of your best friends comes out and it's awkward as hell in the room but you do your best to help. Scott Hunter is getting married and he's doing just fine so maybe if you can find your friend a guy he'll be less stressed all the time. It doesn't work.

He starts a charity with Ilya Rozanov of all fucking people but whatever, you support it, you go coach at his camp and YOU USE YOUR CUP DAY FOR IT because he's your best friend and you are supporting him.

He has a crush on Ilya Rozanov and your heart is breaking for him so you try even harder to find him a guy. It doesn't work.

A video comes out and your two best friends have had this secret the entire time and they didn't tell you. You comforted Shane after the plane thing and asked him to tell you the truth and he didn't. He trusted Hayden and he didn't trust you.

You are JJ and you thought you had two best friends but it turns out they had each other and you were just some dude.

You go to your friend's house and you say some shit and he says some shit and he throws your less-than-perfect reaction in your face and you ask if Hayden took it well and he has nothing to say because Hayden has been talking serious shit about Rozanov the entire time, but sure, you're the guy Shane can't talk to.

And it turns out your friend has been hurting under this secret the entire time you've known him and you could have helped because you are a goddamn master of surviving a hostile situation through social grace and you thought there was trust between you but there wasn't.

You'll build that trust back in time, probably, but it hurts, and you're angry, and you have to put it away because you have a playoff to win. So you make a joke to make him feel better and you put your feelings away. And then it's game seven, and he trips, and for a second you wonder, and you ask him about it, and he says no, and you believe him.

But the rest of the room doesn't, and it seems the rest of the fucking city doesn't, so you apologize for even asking, because that sucks.

And you build back your friendship and he abandons you to that evil-ass locker room and you get why he does it but it still fucking sucks and you show up at his wedding because you're friends even if maybe your friendship never meant as much to him as it did to you and he's already replacing you, probably, with his non-evil team who is going to beat you every single time with like, the power of love and friendship and the two best players in the entire league because your team is evil and also stupid.

You are JJ and your next season is going to fucking suck.

[jellyfishforest135]

Activated them like sleeper agents

[twiststreet]

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

Edited down a long tweet. (x)

[hpsaffics]

🧹WLW Wed: Rivalry🧹

A monthly HP femslash rec list made by the lovely members of the HP SAFFICS (18+) discord server. See all previous rec lists in the WLW Library.

This month's theme is rivalry!

⭐Long (>10k)⭐

Clash by Xiphion [Marlene/Dorcas, E, 33.4k]

Marlene McKinnon worked her entire life to play professional quidditch. The day she was drafted onto the Holyhead Harpies should have been the greatest of her life, if only she hadn’t been a second draft pick to Dorcas Meadowes; the talented, cutthroat player from France, who looks just as good as she plays. Marlene hates her, but she’s also kind of obsessed with her. OR Dorlene Heated Rivalry AU but with quidditch!

Quidditch and the Art of Friendship Refusals by ParksandFiction [Pansy/Ginny, M, 10.2k]

Weeks away from finally completing her healing apprenticeship, Pansy Parkinson is forced to spend a mandatory six weeks shadowing a quidditch team. To make matters worse, she is assigned to the Holyhead Harpies. After butting heads with their star chaser on more than one occasion, Ginny Weasley suddenly makes the decision to become her friend. But as she grows to know the other witch, Pansy becomes more and more certain that she absolutely does not want to be friends with Ginevra Weasley.

wishing on broken stars by evawrites [Narcissa/Dorcas, T, 20k]

❝ And maybe, if Narcissa was brave like Andromeda or fearless like Bella, something would have happened sooner; maybe, Dorcas would have made her burn brighter in all the years before instead of burning her out on their last night. The world was full of maybes, and Dorcas Meadowes was Narcissa’s biggest one. ❞

⭐Medium (3k-10k)⭐

Yeah, no thank you by Yukizbean38 [Alice/Narcissa, G, 3.7k]

Narcissa Black is working with a Gryffindor in charms. Quite the bad luck if you ask her. Although Alice Prewett has different plans.

Quick Quotes and Quibbles by RainstormRadish [Luna/Rita, T, 3.1k]

Luna and Rita are both Daily Prophet journalists, forced to work together to cover the Parkinson-Longbottom wedding. They have so little in common — will they ever get on the same page? Told through a series of Prophet memos, owls and notes. Written for the 2023 Rare Pairs Fest.

i could see you (up against a wall with me) by thekaelishprince [Dorcas/Lily, T, 9.4k]

“That wasn’t… bad,” Lily said as they stumbled out of the library. Dorcas hummed. “Keep this up and I might start to tolerate you, Meadowes.” Dorcas snorted, rolling her eyes, “Wouldn’t that be a wonder, Evans?” It would, of course it would. or the working title of this was 'library lesbians' and i wrote this whilst being possessed by something otherworldly. (academic rivals to lovers and this is so unserious but cute and gay)

⭐Short (<3k)⭐

heavy is the… by VerseandVictoire [Cho/Ginny, E, 1.9k]

Cho and Ginny learned how to beat each other on the pitch, but never quite learned how to let go. Six years later, the anniversary feels heavy enough to test their grip.

A Fowl End for the Devil’s Advocate by SiobhanHazel [Augusta/Muriel, T, 1k]

Why does Augusta Longbottom wear a dead vulture on her hat? Because lesbians.

Injured Dignity by Hawksquill [Lavender/Millicent, T, 200}

Millicent confronts Lavender during the war, and a stalemate crackles between them.

Understanding You by LSBinding [Lavender/Hermione, M, 2.5k]

Prompt: Character A helps Character B through a panic attack Update: Thank you so much for the authors who gave me the “most satisfying use of a 2500 word limit” and “best characterization” awards! I am so honoured 😭♥️

touch me, baby (put your lips on mine) by shimmeringlesbian [Marlene/Dorcas, T, 1.5k]

Marlene hates detention. She hates missing Quidditch games. And she hates, hates, hates Dorcas. It's the perfect storm.

stuck by you from the glue by echoesofelysium [Not Rated, Dorcas/Lily, 1.5k]

Dorcas and Lily always seem to be competing each other. Dorcas and Lily also seem to be in love. Oh, and it's Valentine's day.

I wanna melt like a snowflake (on your tongue) by MeliMess [Pandora/Lily, T, 1.6k]

Is mouthing the grade one got on the latest Transfiguration essay across the Great Hall considered flirting? Pandora has a hard time recognizing flirting most of the time. But this has to count, right? Pandora and Lily might have a little academic rivalry going on.

Want more femslash?

WLW library: tumblr | tag | AO3

[aru]

Tumblr Code.

[geekishchic]

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[gendercensus]

The 2026 Gender Census is now open!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

PPS: Image credits, bark and grass.