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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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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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02 May 2025
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In which Albus has been replaced with a human person who is just as good at adulting as other human people
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When Voldemort learns of a misleading prophecy, he devises increasingly desperate schemes in order to 'conquer love' and defeat Harry Potter. Featuring a strategic Dumbledore, a confused Voldemort, an obsessive Bellatrix, an embarrassed Lucius, and an extremely frustrated Severus.
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10 Apr 2025
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Fortunately, Severus is used to coworkers who seem to be on drugs
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Harry finds a better life with the basilisk, but that doesn't mean it's easy. From inter-being feuds, to bloody prophecies, to elven unrest, Harry is in the eye of a hurricane that will change the wizarding world forever.
Involving thestrals, merfolk, house elves, centaurs, acromantulae, and various other friends, denizens, and allies.
This series is: Queer in a multitude of ways. Morally complex. A massively canon-divergent AU. Filled with oc's and non-oc's. A story about relationships, love, trust, friendship, healing ... and revolution.
There are seven novel-length fics, plus a prologue (to leap and love the fall) and two longer stories (with courage unyielding and the gentle sunlight). The short story collection to journey on contains shorter stories set within the main timeline. All are posted in the correct reading order.
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23 Mar 2025
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Possibly the nice kid jk thought she was writing?
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During their summer at Order HQ, the suspicious Marauders clash with the secrets of Severus Snape: his unforgiving father, Albus' loyalty, a past that haunts his nightmares... But no one expected friendship, nor the consequences thereof. Plus cute!Tonks.
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Bookmarked by potionpen
29 Dec 2023
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Crowley gets reinstated as an angel.
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- 60/60
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13 Nov 2023