@wolfstarmicrofic - March 8: Pool - Words: 188
“What should we do today?” Lily asked over her mountain of fruit from the breakfast buffet.
Remus was making his way down a third plate of pancakes and looked around to see what the others thought. They had been on a guided tour to the volcano and on a boat trip to see dolphins. They had been to the beach and explored the local markets yesterday. There was nothing more he felt he absolutely needed to do.
“How about a quit day by the pool?” Sirius asked.
“There will never be a quiet day while you are here”, Lily quipped.
But Remus nodded eagerly.
“What?” James turned to him, “you don’t even like swimming?”
Remus shrugged and tried his best not to look at a certain black-haired beauty eating his own stack of pancakes just beside him. “It can be nice to just… you know… sit by the pool and relax.”
Lily looked between Remus and Sirius and then smirked. “You’re right. And watch people in swimwear."
“No”, Remus coughed pointedly and let his hair fall in front of his face to hide his burning cheeks. “Just… relax.”
This month’s @wolfstarmicrofic prompts are exercise themed and sooo many of them scream chronic illness to me so here is the first of several chronic illness microfics! This one featuring dysautonomia (: CW for implied internalized ableism.
All Remus can think is that he needs water. He’s overheated, sweat leaking from every pore. He’s dizzy, lightheaded, can barely think straight. All he can think is he needs to sit. He needs to cool off, needs to breathe, he can’t breathe.
But he and Sirius need food. He convinces himself he can handle paying for the groceries. Remus slumps forward, forearms resting heavily on the handlebar of the cart, head ducked, steps slowing to a snail’s pace.
He’s fine. He can do this.
The fog is already permeating his brain, replacing healthy gray matter with empty gray mist. It’s hot in here. He needs to pay. He can’t think.
Remus is clumsy in his scanning and bagging. He’s dizzy. He places the bags into the cart, ignoring the way his heart and lungs and shoulders scream, and heads straight for the door.
The chilly air hits Remus’s skin. It makes him sweat more. He hasn’t put his coat back on, carrying it instead.
When he reaches his car, he tosses the groceries inside carelessly. Despite how unsteady he feels he forces himself to walk to the cart corral and put his cart away.
Finally Remus folds himself into the driver’s seat, head falling against the steering wheel as he tries to breathe.
Five minutes pass, then ten; Remus only feels worse.
He hates himself for even considering it–hates himself more for doing it–but there aren’t many other options.
He reaches for his phone with shaky hands.
“Hey baby, what’s up? On the way home yet?” Sirius’s voice is energetic, excited, loving.
All Remus can manage is a little whimper.
Sirius’s tone changes instantly to worry, concern, still love. “Baby? Are you alright?”
“Feel sick,” mutters Remus.
“Should I come get you?”
Remus hasn’t even begun to consider answering when he hears the jingle of keys through the phone.
He sighs, then whimpers again. Sirius takes it as the yes it (reluctantly) is.
“Be there in ten, Moons. Deep breaths, okay? Remember, you have water in the glovebox.”
Remus manages some pathetic sound and the line goes quiet.
He pulls out the water he had forgotten about.
Sirius is coming.
He’ll be okay.
a bit late to this as always but tysm to @madefortherain for the tag! here’s a short snippet from chapter 3 of love on the fly :)
Regardless, it delights Remus to see Sirius get a bit flustered, a bit less put together. He likes knowing he caused that. Him. Sirius seems so put together, with his full suit and starched shirt and graceful movements, and Remus is making him flustered.
no-pressure tagging @brandileigh2003 and open tag to anyone who hasn’t been tagged and wants to join!
Sirius waking Remus up with the sweetest birthday kiss to his forehead and Remus humming in acknowledgement and letting Sirius know he's awake so now Sirius is kissing all over his face telling him happy birthday and that he loves him between each kiss and Remus scrunching his face up and giggling.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY REMUS! ✨🎂🌙
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Happy birthday, Remus :3
artist: remusmkeko
Remus Birthday Remus Day
New fic alert! Silver fox
(Sirius made me do it)
Happy birthday loml. I usually project my confusion and anxiety and pain on you but me and sirius decided you needed to have a happy one and get to be an old man celebrating.
💌 how do you feel about comments/ feedback? Or whats kind of comment would make you happy?
ooh this is a fun one. i LOVE getting comments and positive feedback!! ao3 comments truly make my day, whether they’re short or long, as do excited replies/reblogs on here.
constructive/negative feedback i don’t enjoy unsolicited, which i think is true for most people haha, but when it’s coming from beta readers, friends i’ve asked etc im usually alright with handling it. depends on how personal the writing is and stuff though! sometimes it’s hard!
probably the kinds of comments that mean the most to me are ones from people who are disabled, or trans, or asexual, and relate to the representation i write in my fics. the rep is authentic to my own experience but it’s really comforting to hear that other people from the community also feel that it’s authentic, plus it’s nice to know i’m not alone when sharing certain things. like with brtc, i was super nervous about the trans rep because that remus doesn’t really align with a more common or normalized trans experience. he does align with mine, though, so it’s really lovely to hear from other trans people who also relate to that. i also get super excited when people point out little details or specific lines they enjoyed and stuff like that, but truly i get unbelievably excited at every single comment
hii :) for the ask game 🥺 & 🛒 pls <3
hello! sorry it’s taken me so long to get to this <3
ask game here if you’d like to ask me something!
🥺 - Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?
yes, definitely, and i think it’s a lot of the same things that get me as a reader too. caretaking, especially when it’s remus’s chronic illness. accommodating each other’s needs like it’s second nature because they know each other so well, whether that’s something major like helping with mental illness or disability symptoms or something minor like grabbing their favorite snack at the grocery store. remus blushing and hiding and sirius trying to coax him out of hiding. all sappy things really lmao
🛒- What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.
ummm i will once again mention remus blushing HAHA and just getting flustered/being pathetic generally. not so much in brtc but in lotf and my other wips. obviously disabled/chronically ill remus. usually i write fluff so i will say it’s a common theme, but not always. hmm this is hard. i don’t think about this stuff much to be honest! i fear this may be a boring answer but hopefully you still enjoy it haha
thanks for the asks xx
ahhh thank you so much!!
Chapter 2 is actually up now in honor of Remus’s birthday 👀 so waiting worked in your favor, really.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63646900/chapters/163390432
First chapter of my new fic is up now!!
Featuring Remus who is…
Extremely pathetic
A university student
Asexual
Chronically ill
And Sirius who is…
Really quite gorgeous
A Businessman™️
An artist
Way too sweet and way too good at flirting (at least, if you ask Remus)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63646900
Happy birthday baby 🐺
(Artblocked so much I started like 3 other drawings I wanted to post today but couldn’t get anywhere with them, this one has to do cause it’s my boy’s birthday)
Me looking through AO3: ughhh I need to find a fic to read
My 62 open AO3 tabs: 👁️👄👁️
Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.
YOUR NAZI ASS SUPPORTING BULLSHIT IS NOT WELCOME IN QUEER TAGS. STOP POSTING YOUR NAZI FAVE IN QUEER TAGS. STOP SUPPORTING FUCKING NAZIS, YOU FUCKING ASS PERSONALITY-LESS DICKWAD.
i didn’t use a single generic queer tag. every single queer tag i used had a character name in it. so if you hate these characters and/or this author THIS much, why the fuck are you in the fandom tags…
this person won’t see this anyways because they sent this (as well as a very similar reply to my post) and then immediately blocked me, but i wanted to answer this publicly if only to expose this person’s bullshit/warn other HP fans about them…a quick search of their name reveals that they’ve done this to at least one other marauders fan.
and a quick reminder, because i’ve seen other people saying it a lot lately but it clearly bears repeating: if you don’t like a certain type of content mute the fucking tags/words!
First chapter of my new fic is up now!!
Featuring Remus who is…
Extremely pathetic
A university student
Asexual
Chronically ill
And Sirius who is…
Really quite gorgeous
A Businessman™️
An artist
Way too sweet and way too good at flirting (at least, if you ask Remus)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63646900
This is my first try at drawing wolfstar it isnt a very complex drawing but its charming 🧡 I am thinking about drawing jily.
every time someone says they don’t like fem sirius i will just put him in more little dresses and skirts and give him more leg hair and chest hair and big chunky jewelry and messy makeup and make their shoulders broader and the straps on their tank tops thinner and their heels higher and hair shorter and
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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol
that "OKAY SO" before someone u love starts infodumping........ most blessed feeling in the world