#house!fic

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Fic Rec: Bred in Captivity by Jadzialove.

Story: Bred in Captivity.

Author: Jadzialove.

Word Count: 14k+

Status: Complete. One-shot.

Summary: Being sentenced to serve his time in Potter's custody is not the ultimate price Severus expected to pay for his crimes. It's not Harry's idea of post-war bliss either. But in making the best of a bad situation, they just might find something neither could have anticipated: understanding. 

Warnings: None.

Themes: Healing. Understanding.

Genre: Romance.

Narrative: It’s a tad convoluted. I personally liked it, even if at times I had to read it over. It’s story you do have to pay attention to. Mostly because there are some time jumps that happen quickly, but I would like to think it’s deliberate. The author does not like overt detail, and it shows. It’s not austere but it’s fast-paced.

Brief Character Breakdown: There are some genuinely odd things happening here that I don’t know how to describe without Severus Snape sounding OOC. But when they are placed within the context of the story.... I don’t know I would like to think that a Severus Snape that survived the war can be anything and can act in a very varied number of ways. So long as the story develops organically and there is logic and an inherent humanity following their actions, I’m game for anything. Harry is pretty much standard Harry, so a lovely, nice but stubborn, adorable, boyish bon-bon. You can see I don’t steer away much from that.

Shout out for the Golden Trio. I love when authors give justice to Ron in particular. That’s how I know it’s a quality story.

My Opinion: This goes really quickly I wish I could have more things to read about it. But it’s nice once in a while; to read something brief but great. It’s one of the few shorter stories I’ve recommended here.

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ily🫶 haus.scrivex for the wip game? 👀

The house is a house. First impressions give this idea some strong merit and secondary observations support it. What is a house? It is not automatically a home. A house has foundations, walls, and a roof, preferably in that order. He stops his train of thought. This is untrue. A house is a concept. A house is protection from the elements. He stops himself again. This is also untrue. Ontologically speaking, any person who tries to define a house will likely try to explicate it via observable qualities, by what their expectation of a house might be. It is not automatically a home, but many may define it as such. A house is perhaps meant as a shelter, but when does a shelter move from tent to hovel to house? Where are the delineations? It is an impossible task. So, he decides, this house is a house. He looks at it and the cognitive centers of his brain provide the word "house". It does not fit better into any other category that he can recognize on sight. It does not escape him that there is a perceptual wrongness to this conclusion, though. Something which pings those same cognitive centers with the note that "house", while somewhat accurate in its assumption, may prove a biased or limiting lens through which to view this structure. Building. Thing. But he has been staring at the facade for more than what might be called an appropriate amount of time and he has to fix some manner of impression in his mind or he thinks he might go a little bit crazy. It is a house. From the front angle with the morning sun falling delicately upon it, it is a fairly typical English style country cottage. From an angle just left of center, it is not a fairly typical English style country cottage. From an angle just left of center, it looks more like a cardboard cutout of how a fairly typical English country cottage should appear, lacking the substantial dimension or coherency to truly be one. This is unhelpful.

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And there's also the plague. Being well outside of London is preferable, according to anyone who knows anything. In that way, he's fortunate to be in the middle of nowhere in a rather isolated place. House. The house. It's fine. The house is fine and they are here.

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Fuck It Up Friday - July 25, 2025

Some notes.

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"It is my belief that the World (or, if you will, the House, since the two are for all practical purposes identical) wishes an Inhabitant for Itself to be witness to its Beauty and the recipient of its Mercies."

--Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

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Fuck It Up Friday - July 4, 2025

Rejected first paragraph of house!fic.

They're here. They're here and it doesn't matter if there's a disagreement about why they're here or whether they should be here at all. Things—essentials—are already moved and other things—non-essentials—are on the way. The deed is sorted, the movers paid, utilities forwarded, and in the next week or so, all their documents and accounting will be updated for the address change. Logistics are handled with a deftness of efficiency that, to anyone paying attention from the outside, would reek of either experience or extreme neuroticism. It isn't the former and if it is the latter, it's a neuroticism born of frustration or passive aggressive compliance to the will of God.

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cm, it/they

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