#always already

[aibidil]

Always Already readers, look! SlackBot is trying to mimic the DOM's gendered language spell! 🤣

[cavendishbutterfly]

FIC REC: Always Already | Rated E | 170k | by @aibidil​

"Alright," Nettles said, slapping his hands on the desk and pushing himself to a stand. "I need to go fire up the Chronology Oscillation Conveyance Kiosk. You two will wait in the break room. Follow me."

As they stepped into the corridor, Malfoy ducked his head towards Harry and breathed, "He needs to go fire up the C.O.C.K."

Things to love about this fic:

Deep time travel theory

Dick jokes

Harry and Draco Cannot Drive A Fucking Car

Short shorts

Deeply intimate war trauma hurt/comfort

Harry and Draco falling in love with a cowboy soap opera you have possibly never heard of

Sirius Black cock block extravaganza

A deep sense of the way that war and queerness has inescapably affected the characters in this story and the ways in which they engage with their past, present, and future

Basically: you will fucking laugh. you will fucking cry. your mind will turn inside out from the time travel theory and you’ll like it. aibidil truly just hits every note in this fic, and it is so damn fun to read.

I’ve had the privilege of reading this fic over the course of about a year and a half---most of the time that I’ve been in fandom. I’m not usually too emotive of a reader, but this fic truly had me wheeze-laughing on my couch at all times of night, trying not to wake anyone up. It hit emotional notes and dug into tough places. It made me cackle. It took my breath away. I learned so much about the tv show Dallas, a show I willfully misconstrue as being about disco cowboys.

I’m so lucky that @aibidil​ trusted me with the early versions of this fic. I’m so glad I got the chance to fall in love with this story, and shout about it in gdocs comments and dms. And now it’s here! With a podfic featuring the sweet sweet sounds of Dallas! You’re welcome!!

Click here to read this fic that I have adored from the first day I read it.

[heteroglossia]

In the beginning was translation. Translation, not language per se, forms the basis of cultures--meaning, among other things, that translation is always also (already) political.

Leevi Lehto, “In the Beginning was Translation,” The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound

[eternalgirlscout]

doing research for the purpose of writing about moments of tenderness and physical intimacy between fictional characters

[eternalgirlscout]

pretty sure always already is going to wrap up at chapter 17 and I'm honestly mad about the number. look at that shit. it's prime. if I jam an unnecessary digression in there to bump it to 18 you'll all know why

[eternalgirlscout]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Title: always already

Rating: Explicit

Chapter: 14/?

Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series)

Relationships: Maxwell Gotch/Torse, Sylvio Dufresne/Wealwell Gotch

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Chapter Summary:

In which we disagree.

the boys are back!

[aibidil]

Always Already (Harry/Draco, E, 170k) - fic and podfic

Title: Always Already Pairing: Harry/Draco Length: 170k / 19h45 Rating: E Tags: time travel, getting together, saving the world, plotty, angst with a happy ending, identity issues, forced proximity, sectumsempra scars, time turner, wibbly wobbly timey wimey, theoretical physics, unspeakables, department of mysteries, teacher Harry, healer Draco, marauders, the philosopher's stone, the resurrection stone, the deathly hallows, the master of death, Draco Malfoy in the Muggle world, Legilimency, Legilimency sex, fathers and sons, young severus snape, Dallas (TV series), spoilers for Dallas (1980), moustaches, 1979 Ford Cortina Warnings: See author's note for details Summary:

Harry and Draco are perfectly fine, separately minding their business in 2004, when the Unspeakables conscript them into service… in the First War against Voldemort.

Come for mutual pining and forced proximity in a 1980 hotel room, stay for young Sirius and philosophising about immortality and wormholes. And an eighties cowboy soap opera.

Fic | Podfic