Title: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Summary: This is no way to start a family, with a lie.
Characters: Lily Evans
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1600
Warnings: Dark themes, discussion of abortion, implied infidelity

Aconite, asphodel, belladona, hellebore, wormwood, they’re just ingredients. What the girls do with them is none of my business, or ( Read more... )

Folks, I still owe some comments on last week's poll, so rather than posting a new poll this evening I wanted to follow up on last week's:

* First off, your comments to last week's poll were wonderfully diverse and perceptive and worth scrolling through if you're still interested in the topic. Thanks for such a great response ( Read more... )

( SPOILERS: Meta/quiz on the themes of gender, power, and social justice in Deathly Hallows. )

( SPOILERS: Initial Deathly Hallows reactions... )

Forgive the introspection, but I saw shaggydogstail's list of five fics she'd written about women, and I got to thinking about the women I've included in my stories and the issues I'd had writing about them. (There's a whole separate discussion we could have about why I'm writing mostly m/m slash or m-centic gen and why women don't figure as strongly in my fic ( Read more... )

Title: The Universe is a Procession, With Measured and Beautiful Motion (Remix)
Original author: busaikko
Remix author: magnetic_pole
Characters: Snape/Lupin (don't be scared off, flist); past RL/SB, RL/NT
Rating and warnings: PG. This is a story about identity and self-presentation and fitting into the procession of the universe.
Word count: 3500
Summary: Remus runs ( Read more... )