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Anthony/Neville Rec: bring your curses home by facingthenorthwind, let_it_be_extraordinary

title: bring your curses home

author: facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf), let_it_be_extraordinary

rating: M

tags/content: Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, the war on drugs, Neo-Death Eaters, Judaism, jewish law, LGBTQ Jewish Character(s), Non-Binary Neville, Multimedia, Genderqueer Character, Canon Jewish Character, The Ministry of Magic (Harry Potter) is Terrible

summary: Anthony Goldstein, Ministry Prosecutor, has to prosecute a case involving neo-Death Eaters and the Imperius Curse ten years after the war ends. There's something more to it, though, and he can't get the Auror division to investigate -- so he's going to have to take it into his own hands.

wordcount: 14k (WIP)

rec notes: Okay, this is filed as a shippy rec because there's a prominent ship, but I'll be honest: I'm here for the gen just as much as the ship. What I love about this fic is that no stone is left unturned on the authors' quest to pick apart various details of the Potterverse and in taking JKR's half-baked analogies to their natural conclusions. The thoroughness and depth of the worldbuilding is staggering, and it's told not only through fic but through newspaper articles, memos, letters, and the like. Anthony is a compelling protagonist and his Jewishness is prominent and written with love. Though this is ongoing, I know roughly where it's going (full disclosure, this is an "I'm friends with the authors" rec) and let me tell you: it's going to be good.

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AS/S Rec: Hold the Phone by NurseDarry

title: Hold the Phone

author: NurseDarry

rating: M

tags/content: Chatting/messaging, phone sex, Ravenclaw Albus, Slytherin Scorpius, written pre-CC

summary: A very drunk Scorpius dials Al and tells him dirty/lame jokes and it leads to something more.

wordcount: 7k

rec notes: this is the most charming thing and it stuck with me since the first time I read it. it has the delightful "liked from afar but didn't really talk much" as precedent; Scorpius's jokes are delightful; and the minor details especially wrt the Potter family are wonderful. also, Al not knowing what to say and just replying LOL is so much (also relatable.) love this one

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Percy/Oliver Rec: Plein Air for Two by eloiselovelace

title: Plein Air for Two

author: eloiselovelace

rating: M

tags/content: Humour, Fluff, Portrait Sex

summary: Percy just wants to do his job, not another guy... at least until the portraits of Messrs. Padfoot and Moony take over his office. A tale of one man's badly faltering denial, set twenty years post-war.

wordcount: 16k

rec notes: This is a weird way to start a Percy/Oliver rec, but this is the fic that made me ship Remus/Sirius, when I first read it in about 2008. (Yes, I'm ancient.) It's a sequel to Trompe L'Oeil for Two, which is an R/S but I wasn't interested in them at the time so I went straight for the Percy/Oliver fic. (But you should read them in order!) It's a great premise - portrait!Remus and portrait!Sirius keep boning in a painting that hangs in Percy's office, which makes him super duper horny - and it's carried out with good humour, and just a little bit of angst. Well, this was written in 2006, so a lot of the angst is with the benefit of hindsight. On that note, this is a fantastic snapshot of fandom as it used to be. The fic is linked on LJ, and posted on an external archive called Skyhawke. These are the kind of places we had to look on the regular, in the days before Ao3! Even if you aren't interested in the fic, I would advise clicking through and around anyway, either to give yourself a nostalgia trip or to learn a bit of fandom history :P

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Sirius/Remus Rec: A Duet by mustntgetmy

title: A Duet

author: mustntgetmy

rating: M

tags/content: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Angst, Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Violence, First War with Voldemort, Music, Musicians

summary: AU where Sirius was Sorted into Slytherin and also happens to be a gifted pianist and composer. Remus answers an ad for a music accompanist in a Muggle paper, is shocked to find out Sirius placed the ad, has a moral dilemma about working for a potential Death Eater, ignores said moral dilemma, then falls swiftly in love with the moral dilemma in question. But this is wartime, and even if love survives often people don’t. Expect tragedy, tenderness, complications, but above all, expect music.

wordcount: 24k

rec notes: Heed the archive warnings - this is one of those fics that reaches into your chest and pulls out your beating heart. But is done so lovingly that I can only recommend you put yourself through it too; I read this all in one feverish sitting and I think it speaks to the startling quality of the fic that I remember the exact conditions of this reading, and how emotional I was at the time. The prose is elegant and the characterisation impeccable. I would easily call this one of my favourite fics ever. Also, on a personal level, this fic inspired me to write a gift for the author, which turned out to be for a prompt inspired by a fic I'd written, so this fic will always have a really special place in my heart (which is back in my chest now but it's a tenuous thing.)

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Sirius/Remus Rec: Seven Simple Machines by fluorescentgrey

title: Seven Simple Machines

author: fluorescentgrey

rating: M

tags/content: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Alternate Universe, Angst, Adventure, Violence, Drug Use, Unhealthy Relationships, Apocalypse, Azkaban

summary: From Azkaban, seven machines for remembering the who, the why, and the what now.

wordcount: 60k

rec notes: I can't say too much about this fic without giving a lot away. Essentially, this is a collection of seven different AUs, which tie together in an overarching story. The writing is engrossing, and each AU setting is brilliantly detailed and compelling.