The one good thing that could come out of this "faithful" HP reboot is if it gets to the fifth book (i hope it doesn't), people will finally get to see with their own eyes that the Marauders are actually responsible for some heinous shit which is actually important to their characters and Harry's.
Thank you so much for the ask! Those are not the easiest ones for me but I will try to do my best :)
Also I am putting this under a read more because it got long.
1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)
I don't know!! Something short since I tend to write oneshots? Something with River? Something with fluff?
Maybe actually A Bright Blue Box, which surprisingly does not even mention River (which doesn't happen very often. I am very good at making things that are not about her about her anyway.) But it has a family reunion, a lot of fluff, Sontarans, Jenny, the TARDIS and the fugitive Doctor and it is rather new. And it performs my favourite (and pretty regular) thing of throwing people I love together that have very little chance of ever meeting in canon. So, I think that would be a good place to start.
And then I would advise to read Fix you(r hair) afterwards because it has 12 and Missy and you will understand what I mean with including River where she has no reason to be. And it is fluffy, too and a little angsty, which seems to be my main mixture of emotions.
8. What song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?
I think I have already said in some other ask game that I rarely use songs to inspire fics - mostly I am dreaming about making dw music videos when listening to songs, actually (not that I know how to video edit). Or I am using songtitles for fic titles because I can't come up with anything myself.
That said, there is one highly specific song that I have been considering using for a fic: Frau Zielinski und der Finsterling
Which does not exist on youtube so sorry, you have to make do with the spotify link. It's in German, anyway.
The song describes the reaction of a primary school student to her class teacher taking a leave due to clinical depression. The student continues to describe a being, called the 'Finsterling' (finster=dark/gloomy and '-ling' is added to make a creature out of it) that used to be near the teacher all the time but - contrary to her - hasn't left the school and is still around. There are some really nice vague verses about it like
Nur einer lacht sich immer eins: der Finsterling
Stand gestern da und heute und ganz sicher während ich hier sing'
Durch ihn hindurch gehen Blicke und auch Stimmen
Er steht beim Rechnen da, beim Malen und beim Schwimmen
But someone is always laughing (up his sleeve): the Finsterling
Was standing here yesterday and today and definitely while I am singing
Gazes and voices pass through him
He is standing there for calculation, for painting and for swimming (lesson)
and
Durch ihn hindurch schwingen Fenster, Tafeln, Türen
Wer ihn nicht sieht, der kann ihn aber spüren
Windows, blackboards and doors travers him
Those who can't see him, can still feel him
I think the Finsterling would make for a good alien and the setting of the song could be explored similarly to 'School Reunion' or 'The Caretaker'. One would have to be a little careful with the execution, to make it more 'Can you hear me?' and less 'Forest of the night' but I feel like it would make a good fic.
17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?
So, we all know about the 'Mels was a Division agent, actually' AU by now and that will probably stay number one here for a while. But I have actually written a rather specific AU or started it that I am not planning on publishing, so let's talk about that:
It's a coffee shop AU, so far, so usual. Just that I was writing it during the beginning of covid so it's a covid coffee shop AU. And I wrote it a little for my sister who was obsessed with the 'Feel again/Live again/Breathe again/whatever again' ya novel series by Mona Kasten at that point.
So it follows Bill who is living together with Gian (from the book series) and works as a barista in the university coffeeshop TARDIS with her co-worker Nardole and her boss Peter (12), called 'The Doctor'. While simultaneously taking classes at uni because Peter's wife River is a professor who has become her mentor and smuggled her in.
Just that nothing of that is really happening right now because covid and there are only online classes. But at least the TARDIS (which btw has a telephone box in a corner and a terracotta Ood head for tips) is open again and Bill is crushing on a new regular (Jane - 13) who is sporting homemade rainbow and space related masks. And appears to have a gorgeous girlfriend called Yaz.
And then Bill is part of Gian's friend group consisting of Isaac (who is way too much like 11 in the books for that to be a coincidence, so I just wrote him as 11 basically) and Sawyer (and, you guessed it, she turned into Mels in my interpretation). And they keep teasing her about her crush and try to get them together - by suggesting Bill steal her phone number from the contact cards they use to trace covid outbreaks among other things.
And I think Martha and Missy were also professors at university and the Ponds provided pastries for the TARDIS. And Jane had a father named John (10) and a sister named Jenny and a dead mother named Rose, which we found out when someone made a joke whether everybody's name in the family started with 'J'.
So, yeah, it is ...interesting and unfinished and I doubt anyone would want to read it. Especially since Bill/13 is a rather weird pairing I would never get into in anything but an AU. I mean, that is practically her granddad in canon. But in a human AU, where 13 and 12 are very different people, I am okay with it and Moffat made that Bill/Nardole conversation during covid that implied something along those lines. And I wanted to write for Bill and I am not a big fan of Heather and the concept of the book series called for a love interest.
So there you go. I had a lot of fun with it but from the get-go decided it would only be for me and my sister.
I was tagged by @something-tofightfor to say 10 things about me... And it took me that long to find just ten things to say!
After a long time only thinking about it, I finally can take care of a few plants in my apartment, and grow my own avocado tree! I'm very proud of this big boy who regularly sheds its huge leaves on my kitchen floor! 🍂
I used to take part in my hometown's annual, city-wide pageant and those are some of my best memories. I also learned a ton of incredible things I would have never imagined the first time I joined in.
I'd rather not speak too much IRL because my throat tires easily. My doc once unironically asked me if I was a rock singer because of the sound of my voice that day. (I can't sing for shit.)
I don't know why but, as soon as I go shopping in a big supermarket, all the lost children have that uncanny ability to find me of all people in the store, grab my leg... and ask me to find their parents for them. (Why, children?! Why...?! Explain this too me! At this rate, can't you just find your own parents the same way instead?!)
I love goats with all my heart. I'd love to raise some (with chickens), to pet them and bleat with them... 💕 When I was very little, I wanted to grow a huge set of horns on my own head, like a ram's or ibex's, but my mother said humans couldn't do that. And I cried. I still do...
My favourite M&Ms are the blue and the green ones. I don’t turn up my nose to the yellow ones, though.
I compose my own herbal teas. I’m very happy with my shelf of pots full of dry herbs. I’d love it to be bigger and more organised, but my kitchen is getting in the way of my dreams...
I know how to shoot, sword fight, build a forest shelter, cook in an open fire, ride a horse, drive a one-horse cart and steer a boat... I should have lived in the 17th century. (... but I would miss computers too much)
I can make entire meals out of just bread and cheese for days on end. 🥖🧀 Yeah, that’s how French I am... (but I don’t drink wine. Unless it’s white with sage... Because I’m a medieval french person at heart, apparently.)
De toute évidence, le français est ma langue maternelle. pLzZ sEnd HeLp...
... 🙃
And now, I tag... whoever wants to play because I took my time to fill this one and it feels like I’m traveling in the future to tag people.
I can‘t get „Why the rainbow is ours“ by dodie out of my head for two days now and I was sitting at the table during dinner and was singing it the whole time and well........ me, not being out to my family yet (I mean I’m probably super obvious, you should see my room), singing „IT FEELS SO GOOD TO JUST COME OUT, I FEEL LIKE I FIT IN THE WORLD AND GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS“ the whole time 😂😂
@ all the lovely OUaT-people who have followed me recently: I would absolutely love to follow back, but your blogs are... uhm, how shall I put this... fountains of spoilers and I’m kind of enjoying the feeling of knowing next to nothing about the series. So it’s not disregard or anything, I’m just trying to do the impossible here, at least until I’m done with s1.
