Fic: A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings - Chapt. 1

[sailorlum]

The skinny: This is a long Severus/Lily fic series, where Severus Snape has some character growth and he and Lily Evans get to stay together for good, and where their lives are explored in detail (with some exploration for their friends and enemies, too). There will be romance, comedy, drama, angst, smut, action, slice of life, shmoop, wizarding

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[sailorlum]

But as long as you warn for underage sex, I think you should be okay :) ETA: That is, warn for their being 16-years-old, even if 16 is the age of consent.

Thanks for reminding me! Eep! *stops to add that everywhere, real quick*

Ooh, I'm sorry you got so many comments about the age change! I do get why you did it, so I hope you're feeling comfortable with changing their ages back.

Thanks. :) I was mostly worried about the archive issue, anyway. I think the fact that I saw some archives that would allow all kinds of kinky stuff and horror but drew the line at 16 year olds having sex with each other, worried me that too many people would be squicked, and since I felt fine aging them up, I aged them up. As it turns out, more people are bothered by the big canon change that requires, so back to canon I go. I see upsides and downsides to leaving them at their canon ages and aging them up. I was not really ever squicked by writing them at their canon ages, but the closer they are to my own age, the more comfortable I feel (it's just been a couple decades since I was a teenager).

I can't speak for anyone else, but most AUs I see are canon twists--what if Peter hadn't betrayed the Potters, what if Snape hadn't become a Death Eater, what if Neville had been the Boy Who Lived. It's harder to reconcile changes that don't have much context--why does Hogwarts go from age 13-20?

Yeah, I can see why that would throw a lot of people. And it does simple my AU up quite a bit to change it back to canon ages, which I like.

[scrollgirl]

I don't really get the archive thing, to be honest. I used archives pre-LJ and I've got an AO3 account, but I much prefer posting fic on my own DW/LJ where I can control it. And HP fandom is a bit weird as fandoms go, because of the demographics--I can understand why they're so cautious, even though it annoys me to register just to read fic. (Often I just don't bother once I hit a "must be 18" warning page.)

[sailorlum]

Yeah, I don't blame them for being cautious.

I probably won't bother with archives, since I'd have to reformat and there is the control issue. Some OCD part of me just hated to not have the *possibility* of posting at an archive, LOL.