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The Biography of Remus J. Lupin

All the Young Dudes by MsKingBean89

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All the Young Dudes is a work of Harry Potter inspired fanfic that focuses on the relationship between Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, making it what is known as a “Wolfstar” story. Apparently, it is the #1 download on Archive of Our Own (AO3). I first heard about it a couple of weeks ago in this Slate piece, which raved about it. At 188 chapters (and some half a million pages) it is, they say, half as long as all 7 HP novels, and readers, […]

The HP fandom has evolved in such lovely ways since I’ve been involved

Grounds for Divorce by Tepre

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I have been meaning to read this for ages. I actually told my friend over whatsapp that I was going to read this sometime late 2020, and then proceeded to…not. Pardon the digression, but: one of the biggest personal fallouts from the whole “JKR is an unrepentant transphobe” issue is that I’ve felt weird and icky reading fanfic. Which is sad, and doesn’t make sense! Sort of like transphobia! The vast, vast majority of fanfic writers, and certainly all the ones that I’ve avidly followed, […]

I’m sorry, I can review fanfiction? Sign me up for a triple cannonball…

Owl Was Well by fencer_x

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I have long been an avid fanfiction reader. I discovered it in 1999 when I was still in high school and for the past 20+ years I have gone through bouts of reading nothing but fanfiction for a single pairing for months/years on end. According to my iBooks stats (where I download most fics from AO3 in epub format), I have read 163 fics in 2020 and 146 in 2019. And to this day, no book I ever read has had the same immediately uplifting […]



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