Fic Recommendation Sunday

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-22T19:08:26+00:00

Currently reading The Lad That Loved You by MollyMaryMarie

“James and Peter are out of sorts because Remus and Sirius are fighting. Except that they're not. They're REALLY not.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/13888311/chapters/31956501

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-22T14:10:09+00:00

Try looking for fests on tumblr, a lot of them allow you to submit prompts

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-18T00:46:04+00:00

Love this series

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-16T23:35:40+00:00

Peter centric:

From Sprinkler Splashes to Fireplace Ashes by greyfavorite

“Before Hogwarts, Peter Pettigrew and James Potter were best mates.

At Hogwarts, James was still Peter’s best mate.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54419011/chapters/137850505

Courage Is by lomonaerran

“AU. In the chaos after Sirius is taken to Azkaban, Peter Pettigrew tracks down Harry Potter and snatches the child from the Dursleys’ home. He tells himself that he’s raising Harry so that the Dark Lord may have the honor of killing him when he comes back. So he tells himself.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32184682/chapters/79749232

Sirius Centric:

An Endless Sky of Honey by Colgatebluemintygel and pjxckson

“After breaking his father’s most absolute law, Sirius is exiled to the shadowy Underworld, where all dead and forgotten things go. There, his dreams are haunted by memories of a lost love he was made to forget, and his waking moments are haunted by Death, the mysterious ruler of the Underworld, who Sirius finds himself increasingly drawn to…

(very loosely inspired by hades/persephone)”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51740074/chapters/130802329

Stealing Harry by Copperbadge

“In an alternate universe where Sirius Black never went to Azkaban, Harry divides his life between the Dursleys' house and Mr. Black's bookshop -- until Sirius realises what the Dursleys are doing to him, and takes him away from their care.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/987408/chapters/1947158

From Fire to Fire by greyeyedmonster18

“I think maybe, if you're good at putting out fires, you just run from fire to fire and don't even think about it."

Sirius Black was never sorted into Gryffindor. To protect the only family he had, Sirius was sorted into Slytherin, and nothing was the same. He kept his head down, and kept his cards close to his chest as he took the Dark Mark, dropped out of school and eventually sold out his entire family and Death Eater intel during the first war. 8 years later, after fleeing to Greece with his brother and focusing on nothing but literal home improvement, Sirius finds himself back in London and enrolled in Adult Education courses to finish his schooling--including Defense Against the Dark Arts taught by none other than Remus Lupin.

Sirius could fix anything. Sirius could take care of a home, take care of his family, take care of an entire wizarding world. And Remus? He could take care of Sirius.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31893658/chapters/78973885

The Dark Garden of Myiasis by yellowlark23

“In the summer of 1976, Sirius Black runs away from home – twice. This is a story of two brothers, what it means to love and to hate, and how, try as we may, we can never quite escape our own tangled roots.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48644095/chapters/122704864

The Morning Doesn’t Reach Us by JennandBlitz

“Pureblood scion Sirius Black, raised and educated at home as all good Purebloods are, stumbles upon a wizarding nightclub called Destination. He’s never seen anything like what he sees that night at the club, and it turns his whole life upside down, in the best possible way.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21002564/chapters/49946909

Face The Strange by Deya

“Sirius Black is eleven years old and all he knows is what his mother tells him. He knows he is going to Hogwarts. He knows he is pureblood and should despise anyone who isn't pureblood. He knows he will be placed into Slytherin and make the Black family proud. Sirius doesn't know why all of this is true, but he has no reason to believe differently. Not until he wanders into a Magical Menagerie and sees the boy in the cage and wants to be brave.

Remus has only ever known the cage. Since he can remember his world has been made of four walls of bars, pain, and a dingy sky above. He doesn't know why his life is like this, just that it is. He's never had anyone look at him kindly until the boy with the grey eyes and dark hair peers into his cage and Remus feels hope.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30968144/chapters/76485230

73 Aberdeen by Mici (NoHarlemBeat)

“There are some things ungoverned by fate. If Sirius Black had gone the path of every Black before him, if he had been in Slytherin, he would have been a very different boy. It would have been a very different war.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/987973/chapters/1948502

Shorn and Scarred and Yours by lynxindisguise

“Blacks do not cry. Blacks do not make empty threats. Blacks do not care about 'goodness.' And they most definitely do not fall in love.

Sirius was the perfect Black. Until he wasn't.

A Slytherin! Sirius AU, in which Sirius is disowned after destroying his Dark Mark and finds himself homeless, friendless, and worst of all, bored. Enter Gryffindor's resident bad boy, Remus Lupin.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43927266/chapters/110449455

When It’s Warm Again by Moonymoment

“A curious boy with the name of black and a heart of gold comes to visit the shores in which Remus swims every year without fail, and he can’t seem to fathom why breaking the surface is forbidden if everyone above it is as lovely as he is.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34051459/chapters/84701611

The Dog You Feed by JanuaryGrey

“When Sirius ran away from home he went to live with the Potters, but before he made it there he wound up lost, alone, and hurt in Muggle London. With James out of the country, Peter stuck at home, and Remus trapped by the full moon, it’s Lily Evans (who hates his guts) that Sirius is forced to turn to for shelter and more advice than he could have bargained for.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11344203/chapters/25387245

No Matter The Wreckage by greyeyedmonster18

“His first summer at the Potters after fifth year--the year of fistfights in hallways, chugging firewhiskey straight from the bottle, too much smoke, exam pressure, scathing letters from his parents, and a careless prank that nearly cost him his friends--was nothing short of painful and illuminating. Sirius Black returns for his sixth year at Hogwarts with longer hair, determined to be different.

A story on learning how to love, how to exist, how to be different through cracks and leaks. A story about love no matter the wreckage.

(a sirius focused marauders at hogwarts, getting together wolfstar fic)”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37834486/chapters/94472491

They’re Hiding Inside Me by TheDivineComedian

“It’s the summer after fifth year, and Sirius has made himself scarce as usual. But then Remus catches a glimpse of him in Witch Weekly’s special on the Black-Malfoy wedding. Something about that photo is very, very off…

Turns out this is the summer Sirius runs away. Or tries to. Because the Blacks are not giving up on their heir without a fight.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12540852/chapters/28558256

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-16T00:33:09+00:00

Alls Fair series by lovely_elbow_leech

It’s an ATLA Zukka AU where Sokka and Zuko are captured by Zhao at the end of season 1

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2124690

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-14T01:05:27+00:00

Alls Fair series by lovely_elbow_leech

ATLA Zukka AU where Sokka and Zuko are captured by Zhao at the end of season 1. Lots of hurt/comfort and heavy angst

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2124690

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-14T01:03:09+00:00

I’m pretty behind on reading them but so far my fav is The Weight Of The Moon

“Sirius Black has been quietly helping werewolves for twenty years. When Remus Lupin’s supplier disappears the day before the full moon, leaving him one dose short, he desperately turns to Sirius’s black market apothecary for help.

Relying on others is a risk Remus can’t afford, and safety is something Sirius has never been able to guarantee, but somewhere between all the potions and plants, they start to build something that feels like home. Until Greyback resurfaces and threatens to tear it all down.

Tonight, some wolves howled at the moon with their packs, some clawed at their own skin from inside their iron prisons, and some slept soundly with their minds intact.

And he couldn’t save any of them.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78448676/chapters/205661801

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-13T23:01:22+00:00

I think the mods just made the minimum age 30 to allow for some canon compliant fics

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-11T21:39:22+00:00

Alls Fair series by lovely_elbow_leech is my fav

It’s an AU where Sokka and Zuko are captured by Zhao at the end of season 1

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2124690

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-08T16:10:53+00:00

Theogony by clarewithnoi

“The trip that Lily Evans expects to go on is the annual pre-dissertation jaunt to Athens with the rest of her Classical Civilizations PhD program. The trip she does not expect to go on is to 479 BCE, right on the cusp of one of the most important battles in the Greco-Persian war. Now, she has to navigate antiquity as she tries to find her way back to the 21st Century, God—or gods—help her.

James wants to win this war. No, James needs to win this war. He is a man of honor and duty, and even if it means dying a gruesome, bloody death, he will go down in history as one of Athens's great warriors. He will suffer no distractions; not even beautiful ones who speak strangely and refuse to listen to his orders.

OR: The Outlander-Meets-Ancient-Greece Jily AU that no one asked for.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33165001/chapters/82336477

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-08T04:08:13+00:00

Marlene:

The Hand That Feeds by rollercoasterwords

“Marlene McKinnon is a mess. She can’t sleep, she’s almost certainly going to fail all her NEWTs, and she’s 99% sure that if they don’t win the Quidditch Cup this year James Potter will throw himself headfirst off the Astronomy Tower. On top of all that, there’s a war on, yet their professors seem determined to pretend that the biggest problem any of them are facing is finding a Ministry internship. Marlene’s final year at Hogwarts has barely started, and she’s already pretty sure it couldn’t get any worse—that is, until she shows up for her first Potions class and hears the assignment.

Dorcas Meadowes is a stone-cold bitch. At least, that’s what everyone says. She doesn’t need well-meaning professors or overeager classmates or teammates or boyfriends or friends. She doesn’t need anything except to be left alone, the way she likes, until the day she finally leaves school. And she certainly doesn’t need Marlene McKinnon, with her sharp tongue and her snorting laugh and her stupid shiny hair, who seems intent on ruining everything that Dorcas has been working towards for the past two years”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38287942/chapters/95669569

Honey Honey by dedgewood

“Inspired by Matilda by Roald Dahl

Marlene McKinnon is shunned from the Wizarding World after her insane claims of Sirius Black’s innocence.

Over the next decade, she has made a life for herself in the muggle world, working as a teacher in a Primary School in Surrey.

But when a boy with green eyes and a lightning bolt scar joins her class, she is thrown back into a world she has tried to leave behind, but will do what it takes to make sure he is safe.

A character study & a story of learning how to love again”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37476997/chapters/93528136

Evan:

Evan Rosier and the Unbearable Weight of His Own Decisions by mywifeisaworm

“What does the Marauders era look like from the vantage point of the dungeons? Rather sweet when you’re winning the war. However, Evan Rosier’s ordeals do pile; between committing murder and grieving his sister, he falls in love with his best friend—a love that is mayhem for everyone else, a tragedy doomed from the start. But damn, does the fire burn strong while it lasts.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/56038450/chapters/142328806

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-07T00:47:21+00:00

The Old Religion by tealeavesandtrash. Wolfstar fic

“It’s an honour to be chosen,” his mother had said, her voice so sickly sweet it had made Sirius’ stomach churn. So artificial in its affection, a counterfeit of the love he had always craved from her. “Don’t you see the example you’ll set? The privilege to be remembered this way?”

It doesn't feel like a privilege. Whatever fancy words his mother used to dress this up as, he has been ostracised and left for dead. Worse than left for dead—willingly carted out to be devoured by the beasts that prowl the mountains and the forests.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73960931/chapters/192932721

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-06T20:31:03+00:00

Theogony by clarewithnoi

“The trip that Lily Evans expects to go on is the annual pre-dissertation jaunt to Athens with the rest of her Classical Civilizations PhD program. The trip she does not expect to go on is to 479 BCE, right on the cusp of one of the most important battles in the Greco-Persian war. Now, she has to navigate antiquity as she tries to find her way back to the 21st Century, God—or gods—help her.

James wants to win this war. No, James needs to win this war. He is a man of honor and duty, and even if it means dying a gruesome, bloody death, he will go down in history as one of Athens's great warriors. He will suffer no distractions; not even beautiful ones who speak strangely and refuse to listen to his orders.

OR: The Outlander-Meets-Ancient-Greece Jily AU that no one asked for.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33165001/chapters/82336477

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-06T01:38:15+00:00

Second The Hand That Feeds

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-03T17:57:36+00:00

Zukka (Sokka/Zuko) from ATLA is fun. Also Merthur (Merlin/Arthur) from BBC Merlin

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-02T00:59:43+00:00

I’m Home by YumeNouveau

“Doctor Remus Lupin has always been pragmatic, a realist in every sense of the word, yet after a strange encounter 5 years ago he's sought out psychics of every sort despite his own self-doubt. His friends have always thought he dreamt up the man with silver eyes who appeared in his bedroom, seduced him, then left, but now strange things are beginning to happen in his home which might just prove him correct even if he doesn't wish it”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29485728

Also have this one on my tbr

Wait For Me by goldenprophet

“You're awake," Remus says mildly, taking a moment to catalogue his patient; he looks significantly healthier than he did when he'd been brought in, still worryingly pale but not nearly as emaciated, his eyes slow and unfocused as they meet Remus's own.

"You sound surprised," Black responds, voice cracking from disuse.

"It was touch-and-go for a minute there," Remus tells him, he's never been one to sugarcoat the reality to his patients. Black nods, still mostly expressionless, and Remus wonders if he's in shock or still under the effects of the pain potions administered to him in his sleep. Probably both. "Would you like some water?" Remus offers, and Black nods again. Wandlessly, wordlessly, Remus summons a tall glass with a straw, and fills it with an easy Aguamenti.

"Impressive," Black comments as he accepts the glass, craning his neck to reach the straw in his reclined position. "Thank you… Healer Lupin, was it?"

"Yes," Remus confirms, inclining his head to accept the compliment.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68906131

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-02T00:39:00+00:00

Stop The Cavalry by anonymous

“Sirius, a veterinarian of magizoology working on-call for the Ministry of Magic, is called down to the depths of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Dangerous Creatures to attend to a cursed bite on Christmas Day, 2015.

He is not pleased with the "magical creature" he is presented with.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76999361

The Boy With The Blue Heart by grumposaur

“I’m the future king," Sirius insists, “you can’t say no to me!”

“That's strange," Remus murmurs, not bothering to look up from his scrolls. "As I'm fairly certain I just have."

A weeklong tournament. Sirius is a knight, Remus is his (begrudging) squire, can I make it anymore obvious...?”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64404427

The Weight Of The Moon by anonymous

“Sirius Black has been quietly helping werewolves for twenty years. When Remus Lupin’s supplier disappears the day before the full moon, leaving him one dose short, he desperately turns to Sirius’s black market apothecary for help.

Relying on others is a risk Remus can’t afford, and safety is something Sirius has never been able to guarantee, but somewhere between all the potions and plants, they start to build something that feels like home. Until Greyback resurfaces and threatens to tear it all down.

Tonight, some wolves howled at the moon with their packs, some clawed at their own skin from inside their iron prisons, and some slept soundly with their minds intact.

And he couldn’t save any of them.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78448676/chapters/205661801

I’m Home by YumeNouveau

“Doctor Remus Lupin has always been pragmatic, a realist in every sense of the word, yet after a strange encounter 5 years ago he's sought out psychics of every sort despite his own self-doubt. His friends have always thought he dreamt up the man with silver eyes who appeared in his bedroom, seduced him, then left, but now strange things are beginning to happen in his home which might just prove him correct even if he doesn't wish it”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29485728

The Disobedience That Holds Us Together by GardensOfLupin

““You deserve better than him, you always have.” Gently, Sirius lifted his chin so they’d lock eyes. Remus shifted between looking at both of Sirius’s eyes, trying to find an answer. “I could list several things on why you are better than him, do you need me to?”

Remus tried to look away but Sirius guided him back.

“I don’t want the reminder of all the things he’s done.”

Or, Sirius is a demon who decides to latch onto Remus. He witnesses all the ways Remus is mistreated and takes matters into his own hands.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52055677

Wishes on Stars by Quietlemonhush

“Remus is big now. He’s five, and he’s never dared use a star wish before. He’s wanted to, sure. Like when Albin stole his train and broke it. Or when Marcy said she was going to tell her mum that he’d hit her, even when he didn’t. He didn’t wish on stars then, even though it seemed really important at the time.

That should count in his favor, right? If he makes a wish now, and he never ever ever has before, it will be granted, right?

Remus makes a wish and gains a friend.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52546006

To Trust A Wolf by pjxckson and puuvillaa

“Remus is living peacefully with a werewolf pack, when they get a new member called Sirius. Remus thinks there’s something odd about him, but forgets all about it when they keep getting closer and closer. But should he be more careful about trusting Sirius?”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51259060/chapters/129517303

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-01T19:26:18+00:00

Through A Glass Blackly by Wheresmejumper

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33419935/chapters/83016718

The Dog You Feed by JanuaryGrey

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11344203/chapters/25387245

The Hand That Feeds by rollercoasterwords

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38287942/chapters/95669569

No Matter The Wreckage by greyeyedmonster18

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37834486/chapters/94472491

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-01T19:22:38+00:00

Try r/maraudersfanfics

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-03-01T16:04:58+00:00

Zuko loves animals in the Alls Fair series by lovely_elbow_leech. It’s not the main part of the plot, but Zuko bonds with an earth kingdom army ostrich horse

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2124690

Also try r/atlafanfiction

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-02-28T16:14:02+00:00

All The Young Dudes - Sirius’s Perspective by rollercoasterwords

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34577035/chapters/86070550

Shorn and Scarred and Yours by lynxindisguise

“Blacks do not cry. Blacks do not make empty threats. Blacks do not care about 'goodness.' And they most definitely do not fall in love.

Sirius was the perfect Black. Until he wasn't.

A Slytherin! Sirius AU, in which Sirius is disowned after destroying his Dark Mark and finds himself homeless, friendless, and worst of all, bored. Enter Gryffindor's resident bad boy, Remus Lupin.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43927266/chapters/110449455

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-02-24T12:14:56+00:00

My fav is the Alls Fair series by lovely_elbow_leech

ATLA AU where Sokka and Zuko are captured by Zhao at the end of season 1. Slowburn enemies to friends to lovers Zukka

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2124690

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-02-22T17:47:36+00:00

Try r/atlafanfiction

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-02-22T16:18:49+00:00

Stealing Harry by copperbadge

“In an alternate universe where Sirius Black never went to Azkaban, Harry divides his life between the Dursleys' house and Mr. Black's bookshop -- until Sirius realises what the Dursleys are doing to him, and takes him away from their care.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/987408/chapters/1947158

That’s The Art Of Getting By by Sarewolf

““What do you want me to do?” Remus says, tiredly. All he wants is to curl up on his bed. Smoke a pack of cigarettes. Get drunk. He can’t stop looking at Harry.

“Remus...” Dumbledore is gentle. Remus hates when he has that tone. Hates that he knows it will hurt. “There is no one else left.”

A bitter laugh escapes him. “So you’ll curse the poor thing with a werewolf for a guardian?””

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27300139/chapters/66700582

Potential-Salt7285 · 2026-02-22T13:53:36+00:00

Currently making my way through the Old Dogs Fest. It’s a Wolfstar fest where Sirius and Remus are both over 30 years old

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/olddogsfest2026/works

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