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Happy New Year! May 2017 bring good things.

I celebrated today by finishing up a Remus/Tonks ficlet for this year's Twelfth Night Tales at rt_morelove: just a fluffy short piece, but it was fun to get back into the swing of fic-writing, even if just a little bit. (And in case anyone out there still wants to join the event, it's open until Jan 6; info is here and sign-ups are here.)

Only a Heartbeat Away (2010 words | PG | DH)
It’s the night before the second full moon after Remus married Tonks, and they are still navigating uncertain terrain.

Finally, here's a New Year's "card" I made for an event at the good old pulped_fictions comm back in 2010, because it popped into my head today and I wanted to be sure I could find it again. ;)

( Happy New Year! )
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Happy holidays to anyone who is celebrating anything! :)

The "Twelfth Night Tales" event at rt_morelove is open for posting until January 6 -- it's not too late to sign up (here!) if anyone else wants to join, and there have already been a good dozen fic posts, if anyone is looking for some new R/T to read over the holidays. (It would be lovely to have some art, too -- hint, hint to any artists? ;) )

I took advantage of the opportunity to pull together a new chapter for the HBP part of Kaleidoscope. As always, this is intended as a stand-alone story, but for people keeping track at home, it takes place right after If Battle Lines are Drawn and a couple of weeks before Out of Sight, and there’s a minor reference to the events of Colours Under the Moon. (One more chapter is planned between this one and Out of Sight -- I've started it, but I'm not sure if I'll manage to finish it for Twelfth Night Tales or not.)

• A Moth to a Flame (3950 words | PG/mild profanity | July of HBP)
  
  In the weeks between losing Sirius and leaving for his mission with Greyback’s pack, Remus fights to hold on to his friendship with Tonks. But the hardest part of all is trying not to want more.
  
  ( Tonks Apparated straight into the Burrow’s back garden. )

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It's summer! Which means that work has subsided to a dull roar, and I plan to be posting a little more regularly.

Starting with this: We had SpringFest at rt_morelove (here's the masterlist -- look, new Remus/Tonks fic and art!), and I managed to squeeze out a postwar denial!fic in the Warp and Weft series that tackles some plotbunnies I'd been wanting to write for a while. (Matthias has a cameo!) Set between A Matter of Opportunity and Support, though it should stand alone.

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Happily Ever After (4690 words | PG/mild profanity | late May, 1998)


• Tonks wonders whether she can trust this new happily-ever-after, or whether back-to-normal means that Remus will start to doubt his worth again.

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Last holiday season, and then again last summer, some of us got together and posted a little collection of Remus/Tonks drabbles and fics. This year, I thought we might do something similar. But gilpin25, huldrejenta, and I got to talking, and this happened!



Want to join in the fun? Join the new community, rt_morelove. We don't have cookies, but we do have icons!

The Stocking Filler Exchange is a simple, low-key, exchange-style event. Anyone who likes can sign up and leave up to three prompts. If you've signed up, then you can claim a prompt for fic or art -- anything from drabbles and drawbles to multi-panel artworks and big-bang-sized fics are welcome. :D

Wotcher! (welcome and rules post) | Sign-up and prompts | Icons

Prompts and prompt claiming are open now! Fic/art posting starts 24 December and runs through 20 January. If you even think you might be interested in writing or drawing something, or if you've got prompts to share, join the community and help spread a little more R/T love. :)

(I didn't have time tonight to figure out how to make code that makes a graphic easy to share, but if anyone would like to use the link to the graphic, which is here, and repost it on your LJ to help spread the word, do feel free!)
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