Friday Fic Recs
It's time for Friday Fic Recs with the Ladies of HP Fest! This week we've got seven recs for you to dig into over the weekend!
Fic Recs for Friday the 10th of November, including part of the summary from the author. Come join us on Discord for more!
we were sisters once (we have another love now) by @star-named-riddle/Nefaria_Black. Leading ladies: Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa Black. T, 3.4k words. Summary: Dora is six and few things are more exciting than a day spent in Diagon Alley. Even if the street is packed with people. Even if she’s separated from her parents by the crowd. Because Mother is easy enough to find, isn’t she?
The Next Chapter by MiraMira. Leading ladies: Cho Chang and Pansy Parkinson. G, 1.7k words. Summary: The end of the war has left Pansy with more freedom than she ever dreamed possible, but she isn't quite sure how to use it. Her new interview subject may be able to help her with that.
sore subject by @incalculablepower. Leading ladies: Parvati Patil, Lavender Brown, Hermione Granger, Demelza Robins. T, 2.1k words. Summary: The High Priestess, reversed. Trust your intuition. Your true self is waiting; she refuses to be contained for much longer.
Always Here by kelly_chambliss. Leading ladies: Minerva McGonagall and Poppy Pomfrey. T, 5.5k words. Summary: When Minerva is in St Mungo's after being hit with four Stunners, she receives some visitors.
Complicated by @hinnyfied. Leading ladies: Hermione Granger and Lily Luna Potter. G, 2.8k words. Summary; Lily has a secret. At the annual Potter-Granger-Weasley Gingerbread Building Party, Hermione might just sort out what her niece is hiding.
Do Badgers Dream of Chocolate Hobnobs? by gingertart50. Leading lady: Pomona Sprout. G, 5.5k words. Summary: Pomona Sprout decided that Albus Dumbledore had his own agenda and there might be more to the Potions Master than met the eye; or, what happens when people underestimate a badger.
I Wish You Well (No More Bad Blood) by Lucy_Luna/@itslucyluna. Leading lady: Lily Evans Potter. T, 2.6k words. Summary: Yet no matter what Severus did, Lily was certain his name would end up in the history books.
We would love to receive recs in the ask box or in the rec channel on our Discord server. Almost any fic that is female-centric is welcome (exception: fics that feature explicit underage sexual content). We look forward to sharing more recs with you!
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It's crazy how much growth happens in just a couple of days.
May 23rd (left) and May 25th (right)
And we also have a new friend in the lavender! Just a small one, but that makes two sprouts!
I think today work with be q'd for tomrrow, since this posts already photo heavy. Plus, if my book arrives tomorrow as it should, I'll probably not be outside to garden lol.
Also got the wrong sized sanding disc's for the orbital sander, so that rocking chair task I planned on doing today kinda didn't happen. Will be exchanging the sanding disc's for the right sized ones tomorrow too! Busy busy.
Much love, stay zesty, all that good shit.
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Ladies of HP Fest Kickoff: Week 1
The first week of the Ladies of HP Fest is here! For our first week, we're celebrating all the single ladies of the HP series.
This can be any type of singlehood! Some ideas/prompts below, but feel free to take it your own way. Have fun creating :)
Characters like Minerva & Andromeda struggle with being single after their husbands die
Characters like Pomona & Poppy are happily single and devote their lives to the students of Hogwarts
Characters who don't want to be tied down & have ~fun~ with whoever they want
Characters who are aro, ace, & anything in between and perfectly happy about singlehood
Characters who struggle with being single, or don't want to be single
To participate in this week's theme, post your work (at least 100 words) to the AO3 Collection. Once approved it will be revealed and shared!
Happy creating!
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🪴Baby's First Garden🌻
I've got something going.
I'm scared I've planted them to close, and they're choking each other out. They have all gotten taller but have not developed more leaves or bigger leaves.
I've also been watching time lapse videos and those have not been helping my confidence that I haven't choked them out.
I've given up on the chives. I just don't think I'm meant to have them. The little pot is growing now. A few of the seeds I started in paper towel are also sprouting, so maybe.
Baby, I've got sunflowers!!! They are growing. The ones in dirt and the paper towel sprouted ones. Problem is I have nowhere to put them once they get big.
My lavender, however, is not budding. It's pissing me off. I thought they would be the fastest. Not even in the paper towel are they budding.
I'll figure it out.
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Please support Yassin (@/yassindraws on twitter) if you have an account there. He's an Egyptian artist who is a victim of the regime's crackdown on protestors. He posts a lot of beautiful paintings.
Here's a some of them documenting his trauma from his time in prison.
[ID: Responding to a tweet by @/MustafaHosny that reads: "ايه الدعاء اللي نفسك يتحقق في ليلة القدر؟", a quote retweet by @/yassindraws that reads: "خروج كل المحبوسين ظلم و يعيشوا حياتهم و ينسوا كل الأيام الحزينة و يكون عندهم ذكريات سعيدة زي ما بقى عندي دلوقتي".
Attached is a traditional painting, depicting a man peering through a tiny window in his jail cell door. He is wearing a white T-shirt that says "تحقيق" and is turned away from the viewer. While his torso is distinct, his bottom half melds into the background, which is a vague pattern of teal and brown hues, meant to represent the wall, but also overcomes parts of the prisoners himself and the cell door, and bleeds into their outlines.]
[Translation: Responding a tweet that reads "What prayer do you wish will come true on the night of destiny?", he tweets "The emancipation of all the unjustly imprisoned, and that they will be able to live fulfilling lives and forget these miserable days, and be able to make beautiful memories like I have now."
The word on his shirt in the painting is an Arabic word that could be translated to either "interrogation" or "realisation".
The night of destiny is the night where the full moon appears during the month of Ramadan.]
[ID: A tweet by @/yassindraws captioned "Memory". Attached is a traditional painting, depicting a dozen prisoners dressed all in blue, facing against the wall with their heads bowed. All of their hands are cuffed together behind their backs, save for the prisoner nearest to the viewer, whose hands are in front of him, exposing his back to a warden who is drawing back a whip. Another warden is pointing to the prisoner. All figures are abstracted and vaguely outlined, but especially the prisoners', whose faces are not outlined at all, and instead blend with the sepia-toned walls they are facing.]
[ID: A tweet by @/yassindraws that reads: في سجن وادي النطرون صياد عجوز من سيناء مسجون من اربع سنوات كل يوم وقت التهوية "التريض" قاعد في الطرقة قدام الزنازين بيصنع شبكة علشان عنده أمل انه يخرج و يصطاد سمك بيها. لوحة رسمتها في سجن وادي النطرون ١ سنة ٢٠١٨ في شهر رمضان".
Attached is a traditional painting depicting a man in his jail cell wearing a white tank top weaving a net in red, green, and blue stripes. Where his neck and head would be, instead spouts a collection of lilac, lavender, and pink colored flowers from his tank top. At his side is a water bottle, and above it, pinned to the wall is a paper that says "هذا الوقت سيمر."]
[Translation: The tweet says "In Wadi-Al-Natroun prison, an elderly fisherman from Sinai, every day during "excercise" time he would weave a net because he has hope he will get out and catch fish with it. I painted this in Wadi-Al-Natroun prison in 2018 during the month of Ramadan."
The paper on the wall in the painting says "This time will pass.]
[ID: A tweet by @/yassindraws that reads: مسجون كان معايا في سجن استقبال طرة زنزانة 1-4 كان محبوس لمدة 4 سنين في سجن العقرب و كان بيقول دايما انه لما جالنا بقى حاسس انه خرج من السجن من شدة قسوة ظروف السجن الاول".
Attached is a traditional painting of a man slumped over a folding chair, his arms folded around his chest. Where his head would be, a single rose sprouts from the neck of his blue sweater. It appears to be wilting.]
[Translation: The tweet says "He was imprisoned with me in Tora prison cell 4-1. He spent 4 years in Al-Aqrab prison prior, and always used to say that when he transferred to join us, he felt like he was emancipated because of how brutal his previous prison experience was.]
[ID: A tweet by @/yassindraws that reads: "رسمت اللوحة دي في زنزانة رقم ١٤ انفرادي في سجن استقبال طرة 2017 كنت عايش في زنزانة لوحدي طول الوقت مبتكلمش مع حد مفيش غير حيطان مبتشوفش شمس لان الزنزانة جوة عنبر معزول".
Attached is a monochromatic traditional painting depicting a prison cell from the point of view of its sole occupant. There is a pair of slippers on the floor, and a couple of bags hanging from the ceiling. The word "الله" is written on the cell door. The painting is done almost entirely in blue, except for small specks of magenta and yellow arranged close to the center.]
[Translation: The tweet says "I painted this in cell number 14 in solitary in Tora prison. I lived in this cell all by myself with nobody to speak to but walls that never see sunlight because the cell was inside an isolated ward."
Written on the door is the word "God".]
The 2011 Revolution:
[ID: A tweet by @/yassindraws posted on the 25th of January, 2024. It says: "لما كنا بنحب بعض"
Attached is a traditional painting depicting the events in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, during the protests of January 25th, 2011. The median of the square is occupied with white and cyan tents set up by the protestors. The surrounding streets are flooded with masses of people, holding up signs. Some signs are abstracted, but some of them are legible, and they read: "حرية"، "سلمية"، and "الشعب يريد اسقاط النظام".
The masses of people are depicted abstractly by alternating patterns of black and white, but some of the heads in the crowd are splotched with streaks of bright red. Some red appears to be bleeding through some of the tents as well.
In tbe very center, among the tents, is a single yellow flower, painted at a scale larger than that of any item in the painting.]
[Translation: The tweet reads "When we loved each other". The signs read "Freedom", "Nonviolence", and "The people want to dismantle the regime".]
Mosque in Alexandria:
[ID: A tweet by @/yassindraws that says "صلاة التهجد النهاردة من مسجد القائد إبراهيم- الاسكندرية".
Attached is a dichromatic traditional painting depicting a mosque in Alexandria, Egypt. The painting is done with distinct vertical strokes representing the walls of the mosque, and horizontal strokes to represent the stairs. The figures of people praying and a tree by the stairs stand out as the most cohesive elements, represented by dark silhouettes. The painting is done with cyan as a base color, dark teal for the shadows, and bright yellow for the highlights.]
[Translation: The tweet says "Tahajjud prayers today at Al-Qaaed Ibrahim Mosque- Alexandria].
[ID: A traditional painting of a man sitting down on a step in a dimly lit room, sketching on a paper on his lap.]
[ID: A tweet by @/yassindraws that reads "و انا صغير كنت بستنى اخر شهر رمضان محلات البقالة لما تبدء تبيع العاب و بلالين اللي ينحط فيها حبوب ارز و تشخلل و نعمل ازعاج للناس و كورة و مسدسات بلاستيك و كانت طموحاتنا نخرج في العيد بعيد عن اهالينا و الناس اللي تعرفنا و ننبسط".
Attached is a traditional painting of a typical Egyptian street. The road is unpaved and lined with trees. Children are marching along away from the viewer. Closest to the viewer is a figure sitting down on a stool next to a tree.]
[Translation: The tweet says "When I was a child, I would always wait for the end of the month of Ramadan so that the grocers start selling toys and balloons that we would fill up with grains of rice that we would rattle to make noise and annoy people and balls and plastic guns and our ambitions were to go out on Eid and go far away from our families and everybody who knew us and be happy".]
[ID: A tweet by @/yassindraws that reads "I'm an Egyptian artist and I made this 🌻" (It ends with a sunflower emoji.)
Attached is a video of a young man with short cropped black hair and brown skin, dressed in light beige shorts that reveal a flower tattoo on his calf, and a navy blue short-sleeved t-shirt with a pattern of green and rose leaves. He is turned away from the viewer, holding a canvas that is slightly taller than him and approximately twice as wide as him.
He slowly turns around, smiling, revealing the painting on the canvas: a realistic sunflower on a sky-blue background.]
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