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this has happened to me a bunch of times over the past few years it's actually become something of a problem but i don't know where im mindlessly scrolling before i end up reading tell me where your secrets lie?? honestly, really, the MOOD of that gorgeous, gorgeous thing <3

😭😭😭 you’re too kind ahhhhh

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currently rereading TMWYSL and holy first of all mystified is one of my fav fleetwood mac songs how did I never catch that!! also ahhhh its so cute that she recognizes the way james writes his y's

also ugh this line “It’s come — on,” she snaps, “only babies need to make their words smaller.” it just hits so hard that sisters share so much of themselves with each other even if they'd never want to and this line just cuts me to my core

THANK YOUUUUU hehehe

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7, 15, 28, 30?

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

haha. well i'm so glad you asked :~)

because i was rereading it yesterday, i'll say the quirks of hogwarts in tell me where your secrets lie were really fun. at first i just wanted to give lily a cool head girl dorm because i have stubbornly held on to solo dorm rooms for heads for a long time (malory towers taught me a lot guys), but i was also like, why not actually get some cool perks with it? the common rooms are all distinct according to location, why wouldn't the head dorms be? i loved the idea that the castle has a sort of mind/will of its own and i really wish i'd put similar quirks in come together, ha. all lily and james get there is a fkn window seat :/

15. What’s your favorite AU that you’ve written?

ok i would probably say any of my regency AUs here, because they are so utterly indulgent, but i will instead say unbelievers. i've wanted to write a real curse breakers AU since even just to reach is a triumph, where they are training to be curse breakers but uh . don't do a lot of that in the fic. i liked how it lined up with my conception of james and lily enough to want to explore it further, and i'm really proud of how it turned out!

28. Does anyone read your fics before you post them? If so, who?

nope! i sometimes send bits to friends but i don't use a beta (though in principle i approve of the concept and i think it makes your writing a lot stronger — i used to have a few!) mostly because i hardly have enough time to be writing as it is, it would just be worse if i had to add another step to the process.

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

at risk of giving the same answer to every question, ha, tell me where your secrets lie was definitely a challenge because of the subject matter — i'd never written a house AU before and i had very strong feelings on how i wanted it to go (and even stronger feelings on how i didn't want it to go). i think being so immersed in the pov was definitely what the story demanded and what makes me so happy with it, but also it's been hard to go back to a plottier style of writing that i need/prefer for longer, multi-POV fics! on the positive side, though, i think i've let myself be more lyrical and slip deeper into emotions when the scene demands it since then.

ask me these!

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tag line game

thanks @wearingaberetinparis and @possessingtheproperspirit!

the game is to choose five of your fics and write them tag lines, then tag five people. truthfully i feel like i’ve already written tag lines for my fics in the summary or on my masterlist LOL but i had other people pick five so that i couldn’t make it too easy....... sort of

i am beginning to realise i’m easier at doing this when Not on my own, ah well 

tagging @sunshinemarauder @theesteemedladydebourgh @emeralddoeadeer @clare-with-no-i @oyprongs! 

put a bow on it — “Fucking interdepartmental memos.” because it always makes me laugh and why not go for something less obvious

if we never meet again — “By the time this ends, they’ll have to be at least a little in love" is my pick tbh but what if... “Can they wake up without falling in love?” bcs whms is “can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?”

what we do in secret — “No one else knows, but no one else matters.”

tell me where your secrets lie — not going to lie i like “You already know this story” too much to pick anything else im sorry im sorry

walking with you in the sunshine — “SIKE JP” “Good thing they’re pretty good at waiting.”

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She thinks of Potter’s arm across her shoulders; for someone made of sunlight, flimsy and golden and always out of reach, he is surprisingly solid. Surprisingly comforting. The sweep of his thumb over her cheekbone. The way he said it’s okay, and also I’m here, and also shh, like she’s not an uncontrollable spill but something that can be soothed. Like he can hold her like a handful of water, and she won’t slip through his fingers. Lily cries thinking of his cupped palm.

The pearl in her mouth hardens. She will need to cough it out soon, or choke.

dawg remember when you put your foot on my neck and refused to take it off for 40k words

fact check it’s 26k words where is your god now!

what line or passage from my fic do you remember me by?

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Ahh I just read Tell Me Where Your Secrets Lie and it was so good! Slytherin Lily is not really something I’m drawn to and was uncomfortable with another one I came across, but yours was so interesting and very well done 💚

aw thank you! in fairness me neither haha but it was an interesting departure from my comfort zone and was very…cathartic to write!!

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for the wips game, save me a place and the 50 first breakups sound very interesting! i'm so hoping the latter will be angst of some kind

thank you!! save me a place is a slytherin!lily AU sequel, which unfortunately i have very little about which to share. except that it'll feature james's pov, which i'm excited to get into in this universe !!

as for 50 first breakups, LOL, it is mostly a joke — i said once that i wanted to write fake exes and then had too many ideas so it'll probably be a drabble collection. most of the ideas i've had so far are funny, but maybe if inspiration strikes i will add angst to the pile...

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would like to know more about save me a place!

it's a follow-up to my slytherin lily au oneshot! more here. i would offer you another snippet but i don't have much written, ha — just a lot of quote inspiration and a playlist