Looking for a Wolfstar fic where Padfoot has to approve of the couple.
Hi. I’m looking for a Wolfstar fanfic on AO3.
I remember the plot involved Sirius mentioning he was going to look for a partner, but that the partner had to approve of Padfoot for the relationship to work—or something like that.
I also recall a moment where Remus and Sirius have a falling out; Remus stops speaking to Sirius but still spends time with Padfoot.
Another thing I remember is that there are some really funny parts where Sirius—I think—goes on a date with Marlene, and while in Padfoot form, he keeps pestering her because she called him a "fleabag."
I really hope someone finds it or knows which one it is; I’ve been looking for it for ages and checked my AO3 history, but I couldn't find it.

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Remus/Sirius Small Gifts
Sign ups for R/S Small Gifts are almost over! Head on over to https://small-gifts.dreamwidth.org/248395.html#comments for this year’s low stres R/S fest!

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R/S Games: Day 31 - Fic (mod exhibition pieces)
Team Mod
Fic:
Title/Link: Discards: Commencement
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2800
Summary: College graduation is a time for new beginnings. That's why they call it "commencement".
Prompt: #48 - song: "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles

Team Mod
Fic:
Title/Link: Welcome to Home
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2100
Summary: Years after the Second War concluded, Remus and Sirius found their way to a very unusual and unexpected home
Prompt: C - “...their relationship was a point of near-constant discussion in Night Vale, all of their imperfections and faults, which made them individuals worth loving. They had built those faults into the usual messy, comfortable, patched-up, beautiful structure that any functioning long-term relationship ended up being.” - excerpt from Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

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R/S Games: Day 30 - Fic & Art
Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Fairytales & Prayers
Rating: PG-13
Image Count: 11 Chapters, 19 drawings
Summary: Sirius and Remus' friendship through to the end, illustrated correspondence and events.
Prompt: #2 - "Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." - Unknown

Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: Between Towers
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 8800
Summary: Through the doorway at the end of the entrance hall, he could see a wide portion of the small quad ahead. Green and lush. It was early October, and the sun was shining, thank the lord. Or at least thank Merlin. It was Michaelmas. And Remus was taking up a place at Oxford to study English.
Prompt: #76 - picture: open case, painted blue, containing leather gloves, a leather billfold, and vintage photographs

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R/S Games: Day 29 - Fics
Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: EXILE / RETURN
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 5000
Summary: Sirius makes a road trip down to the Gower peninsula. Non-magic AU. 1980s-1990s.
Prompt: #13 - "A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image." - Joan Didion

Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: A House in Summer
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 6800
Summary: Sirius lies low at Lupin's, but he's afraid he's not as welcome as he'd like to be.
Prompt: #72 - painting: "Bedroom at Arles" by Vincent Van Gogh (c. 1888)

Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: The Day The World Went Away
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 6000
Summary: The death of a relationship, and how it came to be. A glimpse into the life of Remus Lupin from 1978-1984 and everything he lost.
Prompt: #5 - "I cannot fix the hour or the spot or the look or the words which laid the foundation. It was too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." - excerpt from the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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R/S Games: Day 28 - Fics
Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Eclipse Season
Rating: Teen (for language)
Word Count: 6500
Summary: Sirius was a disappointment, but he was other things, too. (Or: three snapshots.)
Prompt: #63 - song: "History" by One Direction

Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: Sushi for Beginners
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 4600
Summary: Remus and Sirius go out for sushi: then and now.
An AU where Voldemort doesn’t exist, Remus is a senior lecturer in archaeology and Sirius is a TV star.
Prompt: #63 - song: "History" by One Direction

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R/S Games: Day 27 - Fics
Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: A Fire Shared
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1600
Summary: The war is over, and Sirius has burnt down the life they had been building together in a single, terrible act of betrayal. As the smoke clears, Remus struggles to come to terms with this new loneliness.
Prompt: #39 - "We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
- from the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Let your heart go
Rating: T
Word Count: 9600
Summary: Sirius hadn’t gone in with stars in his eyes at the promise of a glamorous future as a fashion model. But in time, the stars had come. When he met Remus Lupin, it took everything in him not to let his heart go though, was there ever a choice?
Prompt: #68 - song: "Wind in the Wires" by Patrick Wolf

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R/S Games: Day 26 - Fics
Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: The Truth in Potions
Rating: R
Word Count: 43,000
Summary: Sirius Black was dosed with several truth potions over the course of his life. Each of them changed him, and one changed everything.
Prompt: #20 - "There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire." - opening line of the novel Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
Rating: E
Word Count: 7200
Summary: (July 1995) - Sirius Black is lying low at the home of his former lover, Remus Lupin and feeling restless. Remus decides to take a trip down memory lane to help him feel better.
Prompt: #58 - song: “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” by Elton John

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R/S Games: Day 25 - Fics
Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: Life In The Grey
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 6800
Summary: Remus shares his diary with Sirius, hoping to finally put the past to rest.
Prompt: #25 - "I want you to know / one thing. / You know how this is: / if I look / at the crystal moon, at the red branch / of the slow autumn at my window, / if I touch / near the fire / the impalpable ash / or the wrinkled body of the log, / everything carries me to you, / as if everything that exists, / aromas, light, metals, / were little boats / that sail / toward those isles of yours that wait for me." - excerpt from the poem "If You Forget Me" by Pablo Neruda

Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: This Word Lies At The Bottom Of A Lake
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 7900
Summary: Briefly he'd considered going to visit Remus, but Sirius has too many stacked up feelings about him to add any more, and he doesn't trust himself not to ruin their carefully patched situation in the wake of the incident – it's only been a year, after all, and there's no better way to shatter a barely recovered friendship than by doing something stupid like throwing out a declaration of love in the middle of explaining the myriad ways in which your family is deranged and terrible. So instead Sirius had hailed the Knight Bus and requested Bowness-on-Windermere.
Prompt: #39 - "We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” - from the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

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Fic: Northern Sky
A fic inspired by an additional RS Games prompt, in addition to my official Games fic... This one's not part of the Games, it's just something I did for fun and extra. And because I'd just been in Iceland, and I thought about watching the northern lights, and how romantic it would be to share that beauty for the first time with someone you loved, and it made me want to write this:

Title: Northern Sky
Author: starfishstar
Rating: PG-13
Summary: On a cold night on a mountain in Iceland, Remus takes Sirius to a place neither of them has been before.
Prompt: “Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
~ Walt Whitman
Words: 6,600
Link: Northern Sky

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R/S Games: Day 24 - Fic
Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Devil’s Bridge
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 30,000
Summary: A non-magical AU set in a dystopian world not at all inspired by current events where Voldemort is the UK’s fascist dictator. Sirius is sent to prison as an innocent man and escapes to avenge James and Lily - only to discover that the man he loved knows he is innocent.
Prompt: F - picture: four teenage boys sitting on a bench under a sign for Devil's Bridge, Wales

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Ode to a Big Bang...

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R/S Games: Day 23 - Fics
Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Ghost Notes
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 12,000
Summary: AU where Remus didn’t attend Hogwarts. Sirius is smitten with the cute boy he meets at a punk show, and is determined to win him over.
Prompt: #23 - “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” - Bob Marley

Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: Hogwarts Express
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2600
Summary: September 1st, 1993: “‘It’s on his case,’ she replied, pointing at the luggage rack over the man’s head, where there was a small battered case held together with a large quantity of neatly knotted strong. The name Professor R. J. Lupin was stamped across one corner in peeling letters.” - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, page 74
Prompt: #16 - "Lying in bed with the radio on
Moonlight falls like rain
Soft summer nights spent thinking of you
When will I see you again

Soft and low the music moans
I can't stop thinking about you
Thinking about you"
- from the song "Nights Are Forever Without You" by England Dan & John Ford Coley

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R/S Games: Day 22 - Fics and Art
Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Obelus
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 14,000
Summary: The lines dividing Sirius's life have always been clear—Gryffindors vs Slytherins, Death Eaters vs the Order, Sirius vs Blacks, Marauders vs Everyone Else. When Regulus comes to Sirius, the lines begin to blur, and even as his relationship with Remus deepens, he's never felt more alone.
Prompt: #5 - "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." - from the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Team Remus
Art:
Title/Link: Flesh Memories
Rating: Mature
Summary: The imprints of their bodies and fingerprints are left forever on one another like flesh memory.
Prompt: #41 - “Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
- Walt Whitman, excerpt from the poetry collection Leaves of Grass

Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Moonrise
Rating: G
Word Count: 2500
Summary: There's something very bad in Sirius' back yard. Possibly. Sirius is going to charge out there unprepared anyway!
Prompt: #52 - song: "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival

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R/S Games: Day 21 - Fics
Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: One + One = Four
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3700
Summary: The journey of how Remus and Sirius got puppies a family of their own.
Prompt: #90 - picture: two wolf cubs

Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: The Fall of the House of Black
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 16,000
Summary: Remus Lupin has heard not a single word from his old friend Sirius Black since Sirius retreated to his family’s ancestral home, abruptly and without explanation, twelve years ago. Now Remus receives an urgent letter from Sirius, begging him to visit the House of Black.
Prompt: #95 - picture: stack of old books with a glass jar on top

Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: Triptych
Rating: G
Word Count: 1800
Summary: Three quick looks at Remus finding comfort.
Prompt: #59 - song: "Ready For The Storm" by Dougie MacLean

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R/S Games: Day 20 - Fics
Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Happens All The Time
Rating: T
Word Count: 11,000
Summary: Sirius and Remus experiment with Time magic, but things go awry when it falls into the wrong hands.
Prompt: #24 - “When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.
- But there’s no place like that in this world.
- Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.”
- excerpt from the novel Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: love please don’t leave me evermore
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 5000
Summary: Sirius comes home after Halloween 1981; he’s only three months late.
Prompt: #6 - "The flocks head north and the lilacs bloom
At night they scent my moonlit room
You were my spring, my summer too
I'm going north to look for you"
- from the song "North" by Joan Baez

Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Caught
Rating: PG
Word Count: 4200
Summary: Sirius Black was the thief no one could catch – at least, not until he met his match in Detective Inspector Remus Lupin.
Prompt: #42 - "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde

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RS_Games: Day 19 - Fics
Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: Let Me Save You
Rating: Teen
Warnings: drug use, mentions of sex, eating disorder mention, self-harm mention, suicide mention
Word Count: 5700
Summary: Remus, James, and Sirius go to Oxford.
Prompt: #14 - "It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter." - Marlene Dietrich


Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Heart and Soul
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: reference to recreational drug use, friends with benefits (becoming more), set during first war, jealousy, possessiveness, werewolf tendencies, emotional intimacy, sex potions, sex compulsion, dirty talk, kink negotiation, sexual negotiation, scenting, scent marking, come marking, come play, masturbation, reference to watersports (but no actual watersports), anal fingering, anal sex, post sex fingering, consensual rough sex, enthusiastic consent, biting.
Word Count: 13,000
Summary: The dumbest thing Remus ever did was ask Sirius what he wanted to do for his 21st birthday.
The smartest thing he ever did was agree to do it.
Prompt: #20 - "There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire." - opening line of the novel Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Title/Link: The Importance of Being Sirius
Rating: PG
Warnings: Cursing. That's about it!
Word Count: 8400
Summary: Remus Lupin, a simple Literature teacher has to deal with Sirius Black, a History teacher with an unorthodox (and noisy) teaching style.
Prompt: #42 - "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde

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R/S Games: Day 18 - Fic
Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Seven Simple Machines
Rating: M
Word Count: 60,000
Summary: From Azkaban, seven machines for remembering the who, the why, and the what now.
Prompt: #38 - "And the wheel that broke as the cart went by.
It is not a voice that is under the eaves.
It is not speech, the sound we hear
In this conversation, but the sound
Of things and their motion: the other man,
A turquoise monster moving round."
- excerpt from the poem “Continual Conversations with a Silent Man” by Wallace Stevens

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RS Small Gifts claiming starts tomorrow!
Here's a reminder that sign ups for this year's R/S Small Gifts fest are open over at DW (https://small-gifts.dreamwidth.org/227080.html) until tomorrow morning 10:59 Eastern time. Claiming then begins at 11:00 am Eastern sharp. If you have signed up, make sure to come by and claim your gift at or right after 11:00 Eastern, as they tend to get snapped up pretty quickly! If you have any questions, drop us an email at rs.small.gifts@gmail.com.

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R/S Games: Day 17 - Fics and Art
Team Sirius
Fic:
Title/Link: Saving Me
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 5600
Summary: "I don’t have much to do here other than think about things; what I think about the most is you. It’s always been you, Moony. What a twist on those stories, huh? I fell in love with the big, bad wolf. No princes here, just two bloody fools who couldn’t save each other.”
Prompt: #2 - "Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." - Unknown

Team Remus
Fic:
Title/Link: The Magical Tale of One Man and His Dog
Rating: G
Word Count: 3700
Summary: Once upon a time a wizard fell through a veil and was reunited with his love. This is the tale of what happened after. A sort of bedtime story about stories, a second chance at life and happy endings.
Prompt: #92 - photo of an elderly man walking a large black dog.

Team Sirius
Art:
Title/Link: Stargazing
Rating: G
Summary: Sirius stargazing with Remus in the Gryffindor room window seat.
Prompt: #19 - “A philosopher once asked, 'Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?' Pointless, really.... 'Do the stars gaze back?' Now, that's a question.” - from the movie Stardust

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