I love how in tamil, no one really says bye. Instead, we say 'poitu varen', which means I'll go now and come back later. Even other variations of goodbye all have the same meaning in tamil, which I'll go but come back. It makes me quite happy.
One-shots
Sirius during OoTP- A series of gen canon-compliant one shots exploring Sirius’s emotional state, how he got Crookshanks to order a boom and his reaction to having prison groupies.
Women of the House of Black series - a collection of oneshots exploring the lives of the women of the house of Black.
When Harley met Sirius - The story of Sirius's motorcycle told in three scenes.
Fiat Justita - The 3rd November 1981, was Sirius's 22nd birthday and his second day in Azkaban.
The Seven Names of Mrs Zabini- Black-widow, whore, murderer are all words which are synonymous with the infamous Mrs Zabini.
But who is the woman behind the legend?
From her humble beginnings in Rimini, to her education at Beauxbatons and multiple marriages, this is her tale, in her own words.
Sirius Black and the Goblet of Freud -Set in the Dog and Deer AU where Voldemort is never born. Insert contrived situation where Dumbledore has forced Walburga and Sirius Black into therapy. And after three months it's not going well.
Drabbles
WIPS
Sirius Black is the outsider of his family who chafes against the rigidity of pureblood society and the expectations of being the Black heir.
In a last ditch effort to bring him into line, Arcturus Black has negotiated a match with a pure-blood Italian girl.
Set against the lush backdrop of Wizarding Italy family tensions simmer and come to a boiling point.
This is the story of the week leading up to Sirius leaving his family, setting Regulus on the path of destruction.
Set in an AU where Voldemort is never born.
James and Sirius are both the best of friends and brilliant wizards, and not wanting to be tied down to a 9-to-5, they founded a detective agency.
A year in, they have had a steady business from scorned spouses until one day a woman arrives and draws them into a sinister plot in the Scottish Highlands.
Musings on my writing
General Metas
The importance of the Soul in the HP universe (joint meta with @ashesandhackles)
Sirius Black, Mental Health and Masculinity
Part three
Feminism and Mental health
Walburga Black: the madwoman in the attic
Grief in PoA
Sirius Metas
Misconceptions about Sirius's character
Regulus metas
The Black Family
Here are my additional metas as of Feb 2024 (Tumblr won't let me edit the main list for whatever reason).
Top five favorite fics + honorable mentions 
Top five?? How can one choose top five out of millions😭
But i'll certainly try. Here's my all time faves in the ✨HP fandom ✨
I'm sure it's not a surprise 😄 This fic has me hooked, i even wrote a fanfic for this fic. Basically, tomione has a magical child, and when i say magical, i don't mean he's just a wizard. Their child is so much more haha. The twist: Tom had never met hermione and Hermione doesn't even know that her child has a father. Motherhood suits hermione so well in this fic and we get the bonus of seeing Tom riddle got dragged into parenthood haha. BAMF Hermione
It's a series. Regulus survived the cave and went to Sirius then boom: BLACK FAMILY REUNION. It's Sirius-centric and Sirius's characterization in this fic is so good. This story delves deep into Black family drama and the war. SiriusxOC, and while i usually don't read many HP fics with OC as a prominent character, this fic is so worth it to read.
It's a light read and it has great theories! I like to read it from time to time. Kid Hermione summoned demons in attempt to make friends and becomes a dark witch so naturally. But even though she's a dark witch, she is still very hermione!
Tomione and world building! Smart people talking smart things. Tom is deep into politic. Very slow paced. Very sweet, not dark at all, unlike many tomione fics. Hermione is a bit ooc in this one, i think (not a hot headed gryffindor at all, but rather calm like luna). Still, it's an awesome read that i like to return to.
Again, Tomione. Hilarious and deep. Tom riddle is not some evil overlord in this fic. Still rather evil, but just a teenager. I read this one a long time ago, but i still love it to this day.
As you can see, I mostly read Tomione fics 😅 I know my fave list lacks any Regmione, but it is what it is :( I only got into regmione because i just think Regulus will suit Hermione well and deserves so much better. In any case, The Damned is one of the most memorable regmione fic for me - it's just so different and interesting.
If you have any fic recommendation for me, feel free to share! I mostly read HP and Naruto, sometimes BNHA, so if you want to share some fics from those fandoms, feel free to do so!
If anyone of the writers for whatever reason wants me to remove their meta from this list just tell me and it will be done!
Some of these may be contradictory to each other but that is because I like to hear other interpretations. These may not line up exactly with your view of the characters (not all of them line up with mine) but please try to be respectful.
*Almost all of these are from Tumblr except one from reddit and one from a outside blog.
Enjoy!
i love when words fit right. seize was always supposed to be that word, and so was jester. tuesday isn't quite right but thursday should be thursday, that's a good word for it. daisy has the perfect shape to it, almost like you're laughing when you say it; and tulip is correct most of the time. while keynote is fun to say, it's super wrong - i think they have to change the label for that one. but fox is spot-on.
most words are just, like, good enough, even if what they are describing is lovely. the night sky is a fine term for it but it isn't perfect the way november is the correct term for that month.
it's not just in english because in spanish the phrase eso si que es is correct, it should be that. sometimes other languages are also better than the english words, like how blue is sloped too far downwards but azul is perfect and hangs in the air like glitter. while butterfly is sweet, i think probably papillion is more correct, although for some butterflies féileacán is much better. year is fine but bliain is better. sometimes multiple languages got it right though, like how jueves and Πέμπτη are also the right names for thursday. maybe we as a species are just really good at naming thursdays.
and if we were really bored and had a moment and a picnic to split we could all sit down for a moment and sort out all the words that exist and find all the perfect words in every language. i would show you that while i like the word tree (it makes you smile to say it), i think arbor is correct. you could teach me from your language what words fit the right way, and that would be very exciting (exciting is not correct, it's just fine).
i think probably this is what was happening at the tower of babel, before the languages all got shifted across the world and smudged by the hand of god. by the way, hand isn't quite right, but i do like that the word god is only 3 letters, and that it is shaped like it is reflecting into itself, and that it kind of makes your mouth move into an echoing chapel when you cluck it. but the word god could also fit really well with a coathanger, and i can't explain that. i think donut has (weirdly) the same shape as a toothbrush, but we really got bagel right and i am really grateful for that.
grateful is close, but not like thunder. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to shape the way i love my friends into a little ceramic (ceramic is very good, almost perfect) pot and when they hold it they can feel the weight of my care for them. they can put a plant in there. maybe a daisy.
why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?
— @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry
treacherous : a crush culture spin-off
synopsis : after a couple of instances of accidental matching clothing, yangyang finds himself in a dating rumor with possibly the most famous person on campus : yn, the bassist of an up and coming band. yangyang doesn’t seem to have a problem with it. unfortunately yn, who has also built up a reputation for being cold as winter, does.
pairing : liu yangyang x gn!reader
also featuring ! nct 00z + mark, xiaojun, hendery, and cc!yn
genre/s : smau, university au, student council + band au, fluff, angst, humor
contains : food mentions, swearing, suggestive content / humor
taglist : open ! just send me an ask or reply to this post :)
[ parts + note under the cut ]
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis // @i-wrotethisforme // Jorge Louis Berges // @smokeinsilence //@viridianmasquerade //Jorge Louis Berges // @honeytuesday // Kaveh Akbar // F. Scott Fitzgerald // AKR //Olivie Blake, from “Alone With You in the Ether” // Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrimage
Dupattas have to much power….hiding from the sun under the it, childhood friends using dupattas to catch and carry oranges from the tree, mothers useing it as a blanket for her child, using it as a makeshift bag to carry all the library books you borrowed, stolen kisses under them…I want to scream.
These tags are making me loose it
I really had to.
✨dupattas✨
Pov: you are spending your summer in India
//she was a curious girl, a wanderer, who spent her summers chasing fluttering pieces of prose and eating mangoes.// - Michael Faudet
{pov's pt[1/¿]}
my friends are going out abroad for college, to live their lives the european/american way and sometimes i want to go too, but, no. i want to live my life like my grandmother did, i want to wear suits and saarees and jhumkas and bindis only to go out on a crowded street to have samosas. i want to go to gurudwaras, mandirs, masjids, churches. i want to be able to speak my first language without hesitation and i want to be able to listen to baaraats on roads and jagratas at 4 am. i want to be woken up by the cry of the kabaadi wala in the morning. i dont want to go to the grocery store, instead want the sabji vala to come with his thela. i want to be able to go to purani dilli just so i can admire the old houses and jama masjid and laal qila. i want to visit monuments so that i can marvel at the architecture which was made so long ago but feels so familiar. i want to have chai at the tapri. i want to travel in rickshaws and dance at bollywood bangers playing on loudspeakers. i want to fall in love with a boy in a kurta. i want him to fall in love with me while i sway my georgette dupatta. i want to talk to all the dada jis reading newspapers in the morning. i want to spread achaar on my terrace. i want to do all of that. i want to live life the indian way. because that's where home is.
making playlists has been my favourite hobby recently and here are some of them
edit: the link were broken so I have updated them. hopefully they are accessible now.
tender hindi - soft, gossamery songs
indian miniature painting - oh to be dancing on the banks of yamuna, bacchanal in the forest, holding lilypads, with the deer and peacocks as the moon rises on the horizon
hitchhiking a truck / charpai in courtyard - folk vibes
a civilization beyond indus - ancient and medieval kingdom vibes
desi academia - chai aur kavitaen
with her past midnight in the delhi city-lights - "i fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.“ but it’s in the amber streetlights of the back alleys/balcony of a big city. [hindi+english]
tender hindi songs of night - in memory of those summer twilights when there’d be a powercut and the whole family would sit on the porch with handfans, telling each other stories
dil me jhula sa laga hai - songs about self-love and life
existential hindi - songs with existentialist lyrics
Can you give sone Desi Dark Academia Movie recommendations?
student of the year by karan johar
I hope you find something to your liking from here. Also I believe @gaaaandaaaalf made a rec list, you might want to check that out. And btw: taare zameen par IS NOT dark academia.
my friends are going out abroad for college, to live their lives the european/american way and sometimes i want to go too, but, no. i want to live my life like my grandmother did, i want to wear suits and saarees and jhumkas and bindis only to go out on a crowded street to have samosas. i want to go to gurudwaras, mandirs, masjids, churches. i want to be able to speak my first language without hesitation and i want to be able to listen to baaraats on roads and jagratas at 4 am. i want to be woken up by the cry of the kabaadi wala in the morning. i dont want to go to the grocery store, instead want the sabji vala to come with his thela. i want to be able to go to purani dilli just so i can admire the old houses and jama masjid and laal qila. i want to visit monuments so that i can marvel at the architecture which was made so long ago but feels so familiar. i want to have chai at the tapri. i want to travel in rickshaws and dance at bollywood bangers playing on loudspeakers. i want to fall in love with a boy in a kurta. i want him to fall in love with me while i sway my georgette dupatta. i want to talk to all the dada jis reading newspapers in the morning. i want to spread achaar on my terrace. i want to do all of that. i want to live life the indian way. because that's where home is.
This is a hyper specific request, I'm sorry, but I'm working on a project. Could you please suggest any books on Mughal history, specifically Nur Jahan? My project is on the cultural legacy of Nur Jahan in literature and media.
hi! that sounds like a really interesting project. these are a few things on nur jahan —
Thank you, these are very interesting!
Recently I have seen a lot of excellent posts in the dark academia tags which call out the euro-centrism of this subculture and also give great recommendations for non-white cultural academia. So I decided to put together works of Indian authors that I read growing up in India as a literature student. Please note this list leans heavily towards works centred on Bengal due to my own heritage, and is by no means comprehensive or meant to represent the entire, varied diaspora of India.
Historical/political fiction:
Societal stories
Retellings/Biographies
Poetry!
Pure self indulgent recs
Like I said this list is not comprehensive!!! But I tried my best!!! I think we should really try to decolonize our reading tastes. And yes I purposely left out Arundhati Roy (because she is literally the only Indian author ever recommended in lists) Vikram Seth (because I do not like him) and Roshani Chokshi (because any one of the above)
I hope you guys get some good picks from this list :)
[** has heavy trigger warnings]
