PSA: HP ficsHello everyone! In March, I discovered to my dismay that skyehawke.com had closed...

PSA: HP fics

Hello everyone!

In March, I discovered to my dismay that skyehawke.com had closed without warning and that I had lost all of my Harry Potter fics. I was upset, obviously. I had left the HP fandom many years ago, and had zero interest in promoting or discussing anything I had written, but I had always promised that I would leave my stories online and available, ideally all in one place. That place was skyehawke.com. When I re-joined fandom life in general after a lengthy hiatus, ao3 had sprung up and that’s where I started posting my Sherlock fics. People have asked me repeatedly about the possibility of moving my HP fics over there and I always said, quite firmly, absolutely not.

(Putting in a cut to spare your dashboards!)

Why not? Because it’s a lot of f-ing fic, for starters. My HP catalogue caps out in the 1.8 million word range, at something like 104 or 105 fics, some of which are quite short, but some of which are also QUITE long. The longest of the multi-chaptered stories is 36 chapters, for instance. Plus, as I said, I didn’t want to be drawing attention to them, getting comments on them, having to re-read them just to understand what the comment was even referring to (I wrote the majority of these around 2004-7), etc.

However, in my gratitude to the people who stepped up and within days restored my entire HP collection to me, I promised both on my old livejournal account and here that I would, once my then-current project was complete, begin the long, laborious process of transferring my HP catalogue to ao3 after all. I’m not going to lie: it’s a TREMENDOUS amount of work. Originally I had thought that I would take the opportunity to re-read the stories and edit out typos, manually re-format them, manually redo the html coding, etc, etc. However, I just can’t. It’s time-consuming enough just to upload all of the raw text, along with the fandom, pairing, rating, summary, etc, so that’s my warning: they are what they are. The earliest of these was written 17 years ago. If you’re a writer, imagine your writing from that long ago. I cringe at some of the pairings. But a promise is a promise, and I’m not someone who breaks my word.

So, long disclaimer aside, I’m here to announce that I’ve created a whole separate ao3 page. I was originally going to wait until I’d uploaded the full catalogue, but people have already noticed these stories popping up, so I thought I’d go ahead and share now. I’m adamant about not having these stories take up space in the very limit amount of time I have for fandom in general, and which I prefer to dedicate to Sherlock, hence the separate page.

Here it is: SilentAuror_HPworks. I started working on this the very day after I posted Nocturne (aka my latest project), as promised, and so far I’ve only uploaded 16 stories (although if you count individual chapters, that adds up to 125 individual uploads already). Every story comes with a posted note that I will not be answering comments. I did leave the comment field open, though, because I know that sometimes people really just want to comment. I’ll read the comment and appreciate the kudos and bookmarks. I just don’ t have the time to respond to comments on 105 stories in a fandom I don’t want to discuss anymore. I hope that feels fair? Either way, this is what I’ll be working on as my muses ponder my next Sherlock project. :)