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Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody - formidable executive producer of British television's foremost motoring show, Full Throttle - has a problem. The broadcaster has his balls in a vice, and because of middling ratings for their second series, he must find a third presenter to join - and control - Potter and Black, the too-posh, too-chaotic presenters already in place. And he has to do it quick .
Remus "Moony" Lupin - shy researcher on said motoring show - has thousands of problems, including but in no way limited to: a catastrophic hangover; the dodgy leg from his failed karting career; and the extremely unwanted resurgence of his worst childhood crush.
Sirius "Padfoot" Black - charismatic presenter of said motoring show - has a motorbike, a sexy rockstar girlfriend, and absolutely no problems whatsoever. Until, one day, he does.
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A Top Gear AU in which Remus is a disaster from the off, Sirius unravels at the seams, James grows a frontal lobe, and Lily has a secret. Throughout, there will be cars, catastrophes, and caravan conkers. And in the end, maybe- just maybe- they'll find something worth all of this bollocks.Bookmarked by coquelicot
13 Aug 2025
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Cornwall, 1995. Misery loves company; company just wants a drink.
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04 Apr 2025
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Empire Falling by zambla
Fandom Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Nov 2017
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A series of R/S AUs set in the 20 century, during the successive fall of the British Empire. Each story stands alone, though there are threads of connective tissue which hold them together---queerness, art, symmetry, mathematics, tradition, radicalism---and certain locales and themes seem to recur, even without my knowing so, like echoes of leitmotifs woven through a century.
One lens to look through the series is the progressive spinning out of Remus's station away from the center of power, into increasingly marginalized places where perhaps the iron grip of the failing Empire is more keenly felt. (Like Black Adder, in a way, if you don't think too hard!)
Though these stories were written at different times, and span different stages of even my own personal life, I decided to collect them together in recognition of their common theme, and as homage and mirror to fluorescentgrey's Empire Building series.
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27 Feb 2025
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"Nothing's gonna touch you in these golden years..."
Several short drabbles I wrote on Tumblr, pieces of the same overarching story, archived here.
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20 Feb 2025
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