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  1. bonebloom Sat 09 Aug 2025 03:26PM UTC

    First, as someone who is new to posting my writing, you have no idea how touching it was to see my words quoted back to me. This was a first! Thank you so much.

    And thank you for giving this story such kind attention. It was only possible to write something this fast because it’s all stuff I think about constantly. Now that the floodgates are open, a Sirius pov is brewing fast as well.

    In the end, I think it landed as vulnerable and personal because I’ve had the fortune to know some flawed people who dared to look at themselves when it was inconvenient, rejected the premise of fate or limiting choice and found courage in small things. Like I said in the fic, I wish for everyone to be able to get somewhere where they feel safe enough to derail themselves in a way…it’s bittersweet to be safe and then fuck it up, but that agency… the knowledge that you can make good things bloom from looking back into your own past where you once felt powerless… I think that can save a soul. Because I’ve found that even in the midst of the worst, when people failed me, there was a word, or a place, or an image that became a key to future courage. It’s so easy to feel powerless and so brave to play with the way you spend your limited time in the light. :) x

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    1. backup_loveinterest Sun 10 Aug 2025 09:02AM UTC

      I love your outlook on life and second (or third or fourth) chances we give ourselves. I feel like often we are more forgiving of other people's mistakes than our own. And it's such a refreshing departure from all this fatalism!

      I'm so excited there'll be a Sirius POV - I'm so curious what happened when Regulus visited and why he would have banker wanker as a boyfriend.

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      1. bonebloom Sun 10 Aug 2025 04:25PM UTC

        👀yes yes why Jude indeed👀. Excited for you to have your answers!
        And thank you! This outlook on life is definitely hard won and sometimes only theoretically applied. But I lifted some of it from Fleabag, when I first saw it: pencils have erasers so you can make mistakes. Phoebe Waller-Bridge reworked something in my brain about shame through that show and it changed my capacity for self-forgiveness.

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