QNNNA's Den of Depravity

Pairings: Regulus Black/Sirius Black
Fandom: Harry Potter open_in_new

Summary:

The street which your flat's on has only four streetlamps...The world has an edge of unreality, surreality: you feel like there ought to be a saxophone playing. You think you're a bit tipsy.

Bookmarker's Notes:

The imagery in this one was incredible. Finishing this fic made me feel delightfully hollow and lonely.The sheer amount of characterization conveyed in >2000 words with no dialogue. The beautifully elaborate sentences reeking of paradoxical ennui and desperation that go nowhere at all in the end. A keeper for making a rainy day rainier.

Words: 1,982   Bookmarked Date: 16 Apr 2024

Pairings: Remus Lupin/James Potter, Lily Evans/James Potter
Fandom: Harry Potter open_in_new

Summary:

For James, it's always been Lily. With one exception. You think you'll tell him about it one day, maybe when you're in your twenties and a bit drunk, how for one spring you sort-of fancied him, and you'll laugh and then he'll laugh and it won't be awkward at all.

Bookmarker's Notes:

This author captured exactly what it feels like to have a crush at fourteen, an experience that I hope to never repeat, but it's somewhat cathartic to read this style of bittersweet longing from someone else's head.

Words: 1,263   Bookmarked Date: 02 Nov 2023