#theme: parenthood

[raayllum]

"you do anything for your children, never the other way around." "i understand how very much your father loved you, claudia, because i too had a daughter, and i loved her deeply, and infinitely." "she's only been here a few moments, how can i possibly love her more than i ever imagined i could love anything?"

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Sleeping Dogs Lie by Lomonaaeren Pairing: Harry & Sirius, Harry/Draco Rating: M Word Count: 29k Harry has received comment after comment on his mother’s eyes during his first year at Hogwarts, but almost no one tells him he looks like his dad. When he opens the photo album Hagrid gives him at the end of the year and sees a man who looks like him standing with his parents in one picture—a man named Sirius Black—he begins to understand why.

[flohrativity]

2017, july

ACT 1: EXPOSITION there are days, father is here to stay, and there is so much to do that mother can’t breathe. and there are days father is away and there is so little to do that mother. can’t breathe.

ACT 2:  RISING ACTION sometimes we have family discussions and as we talk, talk and talk; mother drowns, drowns and drowns; the pressure cooker screams, screams and screams; until the maid runs in, crying someone in her village is dead Amma nods her head in empathy.

ACT 3:  CLIMAX mother, her tongue, Slips, slides and stumbles over this foreign language her husband and children converse in so effortlessly - A world she is invited to, but not welcome in. Hovering on the threshold, never in, nor out we watch her performance with sympathy.

ACT 4: FALLING ACTION Mother should leave. But won't. Can't. The implicit permission to rebel not granted. Sometimes she looks at me the way I look at myself: abandoned. betrayed. lost. alone.

ACT 5: RESOLUTION I declare parenthood is not for me, & motherhood is prison. mother laughs. “why?” I demand, terrified of her answer. “silly girl” she chortles “you remind me so much of me!” “Do you think I was any different, when I was you?”

[whiskersmiles]

Papa Bang Chan

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you can tell he would be the type to treasure his children and hate saying no ;u;

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Innocent by MarauderLover7 Pairing: Gen, Harry & Sirius Rating: M Word Count: 494k Mr and Mrs Dursley of Number Four, Privet Drive, were happy to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. The same could not be said for their eight year old nephew, but his godfather wanted him anyway.

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hypocrites, the lot of you by soopsiedaisies (@soopsiedaisies) Pairing: James/Sirius, Raising Harry Rating: T Word Count: 4k Fifteen year old Harry gets home absolutely hammered after a little party in one of the fields behind the Burrow. James reminisces, and Sirius is not just disappointed, he's also mad.

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Seven Plus One by ABlackRaven Pairing: Harry & Sirius, Remus/Sirius Rating: T Word Count: 15k Seven Times Harry Called Sirius “Uncle” and One Time He Called Him Dad Pettigrew doesn't escape, Harry leaves an abusive Dursley family to live with Sirius and Remus, the three of them learn how to heal as the world falls apart.

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The Second Kingdom by bluewinged_songbird (@darling-deerest-dead) Pairing: James/Sirius, Raising Harry Rating: T Word Count: 10k In the aftermath of Lily's death, James and Sirius struggle to raise Harry together. As if being in your early 20s wasn't already hard enough. (sequel to The First Kingdom)