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The courage to leave the place whose language you learned
as early as your own, whose customs however dan-
gerous or demeaning, bind you like a halter
you have learned to pull inside...
The courage to walk out of the pain that is known
into the pain that cannot be imagined...
So they walked out of Egypt. So they bribed their way...
out of pain into death or freedom or a different
painful dignity, into squalor and politics.
We honor those who let go of every-
thing but freedom, who ran, who revolted, who fought,
who became other by saving themselves.
—Marge Piercy, MaggidSeverus Snape, hurled out of the unkind nineties and back into the Age of Aquarius, looks back to the future and can't be having with this BS.
Chapter 3: Into dragons' mouths
Evan and Eileen agree on exactly one thing. Severus multiclasses as a bard. Tobias gets a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, but does not appreciate it.Series
- Part 4 of Ouroboros: The Cobra Coils
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Albus already knew the problem with yes-men, but he gently reigns a people who bow.
As a professor, Severus watched Albus learn to indulgently ignore him.
As a student, he calculates he has one chance to make an impression.Series
- Part 3 of Ouroboros: The Cobra Coils
- Part 19 of Chew on this
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A prologue. An epilogue? Time travel, man, idk.
Giving death the side-eye on the same ley line at both ends of his life, Severus finds himself reaching for magic instead of an insult. He gains a brand-new future, questionably bright, and a concussion. A victory this stupidly undignified can only mean this is undoubtedly his life.
First, darkest, and purplest by far in a series of short fics.
This post and this series, like all works in the last idk 15 years or so, only have my permission to be on AO3. Which means if you're seeing it elsewhere you can give feedback till the cows come home and I'll never know, guys, come on; 'ask permission before doing ANYTHING to someone else's work' should go without saying, yeah?
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- Part 1 of Ouroboros: The Cobra Coils
- Part 32 of It's a standalone (too)
- Part 18 of Chew on this
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Severus changes history beyond repair by skipping breakfast.
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- Part 2 of Ouroboros: The Cobra Coils
- Part 17 of Chew on this
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You know how stories often have a narrator? It's like that, except for art.
And you know that thing where it says 'dead dove, do not eat' and it means you should believe the tags and be warned? It's like that, except if the bag said 'jellybeans.'
This post: Le béret (1983) andTime izzit (1985)
Both crossposts from The Dark RiverSeries
- Part 17 of Subjectiverse (the truth is what i see it is)
- Part 31 of It's a standalone (too)
- Part 7 of Pastillage
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Chew on this by nightfall rising (potionpen), potionpen
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Hetalia: Axis Powers, Saiyuki, Saiyuki Gaiden, Slayers (anime)
21 Dec 2024
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A collection, not a series: standalone think pieces in no particular order.
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It's a standalone (too) by nightfall rising (potionpen), potionpen
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Hetalia: Axis Powers, Saiyuki, Saiyuki Gaiden, Slayers (anime), Slayers - Fandom
04 Nov 2024
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What it says on the label: this 'series' is just a way to identify stories that can be read as individual standalone works, whether or not they're also associated with a larger arc. Because if it were a tag it would be swallowed up whole.
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Pastillage by nightfall rising (potionpen), potionpen
Fandom: Fandom - Fandom, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Meta - Fandom
31 Jul 2023
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A curated collection of small-batch confections from in and around the Subjectiverse.
Ingredients: SEvan, aestheticism, hedonism, pragmatism, idealism, sapiophilia, label-free identity exploration, domesticity, relationship negotiation, crack, tooth-rotting swottery, and traces of AU.
Assembled in a facility that also processes plots.
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Subjectiverse (the truth is what i see it is) by nightfall rising (potionpen), potionpen
Fandom: Fandom - Fandom, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Meta - Fandom
31 Jul 2023
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Britain, 1980. Gryffindor isn't what Slytherin sees in it, and the reverse is way more true than that. Lily Evans doesn't know she looks different depending where you're standing, the Blacks know exactly how they come across and like it that way, and Severus Snape isn't exactly who anyone thinks he is—least of all himself.
A series about (mostly) smart, (reasonably) creative, (variably) passionate people whose country has snarled up around them into a wicked problem despite (nearly) everyone's good intentions.
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The Importance of Being Mostly Human by gogollescent for elementalv
Fandoms: Discworld - Terry Pratchett
20 Dec 2012
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In which Susan identifies "Where's My Cow" as a proto-talismanic anchor for Young Sam's continued health and existence, and tries very hard not to wonder what the Vimes' butler does on his day off. There may also be a lesson about the meaning of Hogswatch, but no one wants to talk about that.
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Bookmarked by potionpen
16 Jul 2025
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There's few things commander Vimes enjoys less than attending yet another weirdly specific diplomatic symposium, blindly searching for missing tyrants might be one of them.
Bookmarked by potionpen
13 Jul 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Excellent, although one is distracted from the excellence by the punctuation (not Carrot’s) and the synonym for ‘japes’ unaccountably uttered by his Lordship.
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James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, (pause for breath) and the Prisoner of Azkaban by gonzoclock
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 Dec 2022
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At the end of first year, Harry pocketed the Philosopher's Stone- in a secret pocket that everyone else missed.
Now, two years later, Harry is in his third year, his friends are having the time of their lives in Hogsmeade, there's an escaped mass murderer running around, and Harry is going stir-crazy. Fortunately, the twins have a solution! Although- they're going to need something in return, and it needs to be good.
Good thing Harry kept that Stone, huh?
And then things go completely bat-shit crazy.
(featuring the Marauders vs 1993, an exhausted Professor Lupin, a bewildered Harry Potter, and an opportunistic Hermione Granger)
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30 Jun 2025
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Peter Pettigrew and the Ghost of Christmas James by gonzoclock
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Dec 2023
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Peter loves his friends. Which is why he had to kill them. And now, he's doing- well. Alright. Things didn't turn out exactly as he'd anticipated, but he's making it work. Living his life. As a rat. Mostly trying not to think about things.
Fine. Things could be better.
But he hadn't thought they'd get worse- which is exactly what happens when, three years after James died, he's come back. And for some godforsaken reason, he's decided to make that Peter's problem. (Okay, okay- Peter gets it. He did kill him.) Peter is sure that James is going to turn him in, ruin his life the same as Peter had ruined the Marauders.
But this is James. And he doesn't do any of that.
What was Peter expecting, really?
(Features: A lot of fighting, a lot of forgiveness, and a splash of necromancy. Alright, you got me- rather a lot of necromancy. But come on- we can't just have the ghost of Christmas James show up. Haven't you seen 'A Muppet's Christmas Carol'? There needs to be at least two more ghosts.)
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Bookmarked by potionpen
29 Jun 2025
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In which Albus Dumbledore is not a manipulative bastard but rather an overworked headmaster whose deepest desire is to hire a DADA professor who will stick around for longer than a year…and if he has to kill Voldemort to do it, then so be it.
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Bookmarked by potionpen
02 May 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
In which Albus has been replaced with a human person who is just as good at adulting as other human people