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    Even at an individual level, there are remarkably few of even the most openly gay people who are not deliberately in the closet with someone personally or economically or institutionally important to them. Furthermore, the deadly elasticity of heterosexist presumption means that... people find new walls springing up around them even as they drowse: every encounter with a new classful of students... erects new closets whose fraught and characteristic laws of optics and physics exact from at least gay people new surveys, new calculations, new draughts and requisitions of secrecy or disclosure. Even an out gay person deals daily with interlocutors about whom she doesn't know whether they know or not; it is equally difficult to guess for any given interlocutor whether, if they did know, the knowledge would seem very important.

    —Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet

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    one goth! one flaming queen! muggle britain in the 1980s! what could possibly go wrong?

    or: Sirius and Snape meet on a blind date, and must navigate Snape’s internalized and workplace homophobia, Sirius’s resolution to live loud and proud, and their mutual desire.

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    16 Jan 2025

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    Severus was once again stunned. It happened to be an actual child. "What in the bloody hell?"

    The dog let out a growl.

    Severus eyes were directed back over to the dog. "Can’t say bloody?" Severus asked. The dog once again let out a growl. Severus just stared at the dog. He truly was hallucinating. This occurrence did not happen. His brilliant mind turned to mush from a lack of sleep. He had truly lost what little grip on reality he held after the war.

    "I am hallucinating." Severus muttered to himself. His eyes turned toward the baby once again. The baby just stared at him with beady green eyes. The image of Lily flashes into his mind. Severus body froze before his fist clenched at his side and over his wand. He had the same eyes as Lily.

    He has his mother's eyes.

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    17 Jun 2024

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    Remus J Lupin had barely been able to hold back his fury, for months he watched his best friends' tiny boy be covered head to foot in bruises, dressed in clothes that were three times too big, his body so malnourished that when Remus had picked him up, he felt every single rib.

    For months he had watched in silence, biting back his temper, until it all became too much, and he had to act.

    Now he has his best friends' son in his care and full moon is three days away. There is only person in the entire world that he trusts to look after Harry AND not immediately run and report what he has done to Dumbledore.

    The problem is Remus hasn't spoken to Severus Snape in four years. He left him, abandoned him when Severus needed him most, and now he was just going to drop back into his life, with Lily Potter's son at his side? He'll be lucky if Severus only slams his door in their faces.

    But Remus is desperate, and selfish and a hopeless romantic. He hopes, just maybe, this is chance to make things right between them once more.

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    17 Jun 2024

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    For a brief moment, James thought he saw himself in the kid, as his features appeared on the little figure; brown shaggy hair, little nose, handsome face, except the ebony eyes that looked like a doe. Exactly matched with the pair he dreamed of every night and yearned to catch that sight once again.

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    James didn't know he had a child with Severus, but now he wanted to be a part of their lives.

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    17 Jun 2024

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