To all my lovely reviewers, thank you. Thank you all. You've given me so much joy. You're the reason I keep writing and keep posting.

I've gotten rather annoyed by rude, entitled reviewers on fanfiction.net hence am more active on ao3 now. I'll update things here as I have time, but will no longer reply to every review on this site, even though I read and treasure them.

A message to all the rude anonymous reviewers:

Thanks for reviewing.

Also, get over yourself. This is fanfiction. It's a thing we read and write for fun. If you're not having fun, you can leave.

But evidently, you have really strong feelings and way too much time on your hands, and now you've gotten on your soapbox and shared them. I'm flattered you felt the need to slog through the entirety of my awful fic, plus the effort of leaving me your "feedback".

Please grow up. Experience some real life. Get angry about some real things, and then either change the world—or make art like the rest of us.

Sincerely, your number most hated writer,
AverageFish

About me

I spend a third of my life working in construction. The rest is spent with activism, writing, learning, reading, growing, commuting, and normal household stuff.

I aim to update at least one story on ao3 every 14 days. On this site it varies.

My favourite fics are the what-ifs: changing a little thing, giving a character a single twist, then watching how the cards fall. Almost all my stories are someone-else-in-Harry-Potter's-place or Harry-Potter-travelling-through-time-or-universes, with a twist. There's often a trans aspect or at least an lgbtqia one.

I write to give voice to my truths, to the realities of the world we live in. Characters are often thoughtlessly cruel because art reflects life, but they will always be multifaceted, whole people rather than mindless villainous foils.
Every review makes me smile, and I cherish every favourite. Thank you all for being so supportive and kind.

Other/related works

I have been beta for Eider Down's The Second String since chapter 24, though he took his story down here you can find it on ao3. Eider Down also betas most of my work, for which I am eternally grateful.

I co-wrote the first eight chapters of EngelRune19's A Second Chance.

I betad some of Casscade's Anticlockwise, though none of the changes have been posted yet.

I betad a few chapters of Hweianime's Be the Death of Me.

I've saved them as my favourite authors if you want to take a look.

JW Goethe — Part of a monologue from Faust, my emphasis

Es möchte kein Hund so länger leben! Drum hab' ich mich der Magie ergeben,
Ob mir durch Geistes Kraft und Mund, Nicht manch Geheimnis würde kund;
Dass ich nicht mehr mit saurem Schweiß, Zu sagen brauche, was ich nicht weiß;
Dass ich erkenne, was die Welt, Im Innersten zusammenhält,
Schau' alle Wirkenskraft und Samen, Und tu' nicht mehr in Worten kramen.

Translation — by Bayard Taylor

No dog would endure such a cursed existence! Wherefore, from Magic I seek assistance,
That many a secret perchance I reach, Through spirit-power and spirit-speech,
And thus the bitter task forego, Of saying the things I do not know,
That I may detect the inmost force, Which binds the world, and guides its course;
Its germs, productive powers explore, And rummage in empty words no more!