Remus/Sirius recs

[wildestranger]

Friends, I find myself with a great longing for Remus/Sirius fic.

This, I find, is a longing not easily satisfied - the heydays of the fandom were on livejournal, which means that a) many of the great fics are no longer available, and b) when I try to search AO3 by kudos or bookmarks, it gives me modern things. These are not, of course, necessarily bad, but many of them are written by very young people (which, good for them! But I am too much an Old to read things by very young people.), and also, actually, quite bad. So I need your help.

Please tell me about your favourite Remus/Sirius fics. The old ones that you loved 15 years ago. The new ones you discovered this year, or last year, or five years ago, even when the fandom was mostly quiet. The ones you remember and treasure.

Comments

[wildestranger]

Thank you! I will admit that I was hoping you would answer (hello, it's been a while! Although I haven't been active with blogging in...about ten years now, wow, I do still read my flist every day and I am glad you are doing well.), and this is exactly the levels of modernity I was looking for. I've seen a few recent fics that were very good, hence the longing. I am also thinking about what it would be to write about them now that I am much older than they ever got to be, rather than much younger, which was the case the first time around.

I see you don't have your HP fic on AO3 - I looked, in my search for the good stuff - would you ever put it up there or is it too much of a hassle?

[musesfool]

<3

I still occasionally come back to writing and reading about them and it's different with the extra years - possibly even sadder to think how young they were.

I did move almost all of my HP stuff to AO3 so I'm not sure why it's not showing up for you? But you can find it here. *g*

[wildestranger]

Ok, that does show up for me - but when I put your name on the search engine it came up with this? https://archiveofourown.org/users/musesfool/pseuds/musesfool

And yes, quite - so much more tragic. Certainly at this age I have much more of an understanding of how much you would not easily shrug off 12 years of imprisonment, even if JKR makes Sirius seem reasonably functional. Not to mention the trauma of impoverishment and living against society that Remus faced, which in the UK of the time would have been very different than it is now. The world is very different.

I am sort of now thinking about writing something (now that I am an Old, that is to say 40 - I was 25 when I first read HP, which seems so so far away), just to explore the dynamic from a different perspective.

[musesfool]

Everything I've got on AO3 comes up if you lop off the "pseuds" bit, because I post most things under "https://archiveofourown.org/users/musesfool/pseuds/victoria_p" - I'm not sure why it works that way but it does. *hands*

Certainly at this age I have much more of an understanding of how much you would not easily shrug off 12 years of imprisonment, even if JKR makes Sirius seem reasonably functional. Not to mention the trauma of impoverishment and living against society that Remus faced

*nod nod*

I am sort of now thinking about writing something

You should!