the family evans [written by dirgewithoutmusic; read by Opalsong]

Title: the family evans
Author: dirgewithoutmusic
Readers: Opalsong
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings: gen
Rating: G
Length: 24:56
Size: 23.1MB
Music: Saving Buckbeak by John Williams
Cover: Opalsong
Summary: What if, when Petunia Dursley found a little boy on her front doorstep, she took him in? Not into the cupboard under the stairs, not into a twisted childhood of tarnished worth and neglect—what if she took him in?

Petunia was jealous, selfish and vicious. We will not pretend she wasn’t. She looked at that boy on her doorstep and thought about her Dudders, barely a month older than this boy. She looked at his eyes and her stomach turned over and over. (Severus Snape saved Harry’s life for his eyes. Let’s have Petunia save it despite them).

Let’s tell a story where Petunia Dursley found a baby boy on her doorstep and hated his eyes—she hated them. She took him in and fed him and changed him and got him his shots, and she hated his eyes up until the day she looked at the boy and saw her nephew, not her sister’s shadow. When Harry was two and Vernon Dursley bought Dudley a toy car and Harry a fast food meal with a toy with parts he could choke on Petunia packed her things and got a divorce.


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cross posted at amplificathon, my journal, and AO3

no place like home [written by dirgewithoutmusic; read by Opalsong]

Title: no place like home
Author: dirgewithoutmusic
Readers: Opalsong
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings: gen
Rating: Teen
Length: 1:29:16
Size: 82.0MB
Music: Secrets Of The Castle by John Williams
Cover: Opalsong
Summary:

When Petunia Dursley refused to take Harry in she forfeited his birthright protection, so Dumbledore took the baby to the safest place he knew: Hogwarts.

The applicable staff (mostly just… not Snape) took Harry in on a rotating schedule as he grew from baby to toddler to child. They traded extra credit for babysitting among the older students, and Harry grew up knowing a few dozen different laps that were safe and warm to nap in.

This was a Harry who grew up among books, among old transient walls and learned professors. They gave Binns night duty sometimes, and let him talk young Harry to sleep. This was a Harry whose world changed, on principle, daily. The stairs moved. The walls became doors. You had to keep your eyes open–you had to pay attention. So he did.

He grew up in a school. Knowledge was power, but knowledge was also joy. This was his sanctuary. There was magic in his world from birth.

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Naruto Rec List!

Turns out, I hate the actual writing part of writing rec lists. I tried to do this one verbally. It possibly took even more work but was over all less painful. Let me know if it worked for you!

Click on the links to play the sound.

NARUTO REC LIST

Intro

1) Avalance by Branch
my Podfic
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Naruto/Sakura/Sasuke, Hinata/Neji
Summary: An AU in which all the character development of part one gets its due: Kakashi finds another way, Sasuke does not leave the Leaf, Itachi remains a villain, no one is a carbon copy of a previous generation, Sakura grows up to be terrifying, Sasuke finds his way back to family, and Naruto wins all hearts. Featuring Team Seven fluff, filling in the time-skip, and a rather different second half. Drama, Angst, Romance, Fluff, Action, Occasional Porn.
Rec

2) backslide by blackkat
my Podfic
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Naruto/Sasuke, Canon!Naruto/???
Summary: Naruto’s friends are gone, his lover is dying, Konoha is destroyed, and Madara’s second return has pushed the entire world to the brink. Hunted and harried, Naruto is sent back in time to upend Madara’s plan before it even starts, and sets about changing everything. Butterfly effect nothing: the world is at stake, and Naruto is hardly about to let it fall to ruin once more. Not while he’s still breathing.
Rec

3) forever towards dawn we run by blackkat
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Kakashi/Obito, Naruto/Sasuke
Summary: After the loss of his wife and his predecessor, Minato throws himself into his work, leaving his son almost entirely alone. Naruto grows up shunned but never outright reviled, aware of his burden and achingly lonely. But it’s not his way to give up, and someday, with the help of Kakashi, Obito, and a few faithful friends, he’s going to show his father just what kind of shinobi he can be.
Rec

4) Diplomatic Relations [link is to a Livejournal] by maldoror_gw
Podfic Forthcoming
Rating: nc-17
Pairing: Gaara/Lee
Summary: Gaara requests Lee as the Konoha Military Liaison in Sunagakure.
Rec

5) The Way of the Apartment Manager by Elizabeth Culmer
Rating: G
Pairing: Gen
Summary: Ayakawa Yukiko retired from being a ninja, and she's come to terms with that. Then the Third Hokage summons her for an assignment that will change her life. AU story, set six years pre-manga.
Rec

6) Freedom in the Eyes of Another by Oroburos69
Podfic Forthcoming
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Gen
Summary: The Wave Mission is a failure. Team Seven is captured. Sasuke is gone. Kakashi is next.

Sakura has no choice but to be a hero.
Rec

7) Kiss Me Stupid by Asuka Kureru
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Naruto/Sakura/Sasuke
Summary: "You can't tell me you didn't pick up jack shit while you were living with the tongue freak and his harem of boytoys." It shouldn't be difficult for three teammates and friends to figure out how they fit, both figuratively, and... not. And yet.
Rec

8) Best Laid Plans [link to MediaMiner] by Asuka Kureru
my Podfic
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Naruto/Sasuke
Summary: Sasuke discovers something about the Uchiha clan.
Rec

9) Dead Garden by Aaron Nowack
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Gen
Summary: The Fourth Hokage left a behind a legacy, a cruel burden that would change the fate of a world. It should have gone to a hero, a champion who could mend the broken and save the hopeless. Instead it fell on Haruno Sakura. Good thing she'll have some help.
Rec

10) Howl by chuchisushi
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Kakashi/Iruka
Summary: A tale of two ANBU: otherwise known as the life and times of Hound, the Hokage's ever-loyal dog, aka Hatake Kakashi, and Owl, the hunter that flies on silent, deadly wings, aka Umino Iruka
Rec

11) A Political Perspective by MueraRashaye
Rating: G
Pairing: Gen
Summary: Hatake Kakashi was a shinobi, and as a shinobi, the only people who could give him orders were his military superiors. The idea that a Council made up of civilians and peers was under the impression they could give him orders...displeased him.

Or: He was ordered to pass Team 7. He was fine with that, until they actually passed.
Rec

12) Change Fills My Time by 100demons
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Gen
Summary: Thirty year old Kakashi was supposed to have been killed by Pein during the Invasion. Instead, he wakes up in the body of his twenty year old self.

(It gets a lot more complicated.)
Rec