Tropes: Black Sheep
“Everyone deserves a chance for equal representation.” That was Hermione Granger's platform, and she was going to stand by it. “If I would have known who you were, I would have prepared better documentation.”
The woman’s smile didn’t change. “If you knew who we were,” she said carefully, “you wouldn’t have come.”
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Dramione with vampires. Rebooted for more depth and despair.
Written for RonsGirlFriday's Noir Challenge.
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Consent Issues, Self-Harm, Sexual Content, Substance Abuse, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Addiction, Breakups, Discrimination, Dying/Grieving
Genre: Angst, Crime/Mystery, Dark, Horror
Tropes: Black Sheep, Careers, Questioning Identity, Sink Your Ship, Toxic Relationship, Vampirism
Incomplete ·
Published: 14 Sep 2020 ·
Updated: 14 Jun 2024 ·
Words: 65736 ·
Chapters: 33 ·
Reviews: 112 ·
Likes: 65 ·
Reads: 494
Series: None
Overcome by his lycanthropy, Remus slowly begins to lose control and is about to commit the worst. Sirius tries to hide his feelings for him while trying to escape his own family, and James, though in love with Lily, finds himself getting closer to a certain Slytherin.
As the Marauders' fifth year takes a dark turn, Voldemort grows in power.
All will soon be forced to make tough decisions.
Characters: James Potter I, Lily Evans Potter, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, Sirius Black
Pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black (HP), Unlisted Pairing
Representation: Anxiety, Bisexual/Biromantic, Gay, LGBTQIA+, PTSD
Story Type: Novel (50,000+ words)
FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Domestic Abuse, Sexual Content, Substance Abuse, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Addiction, Discrimination, Internalized Oppression, Panic Attacks, War
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, Crime/Mystery, Dark, Drama, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Tropes: Black Sheep, Enemies to Lovers, Forgiveness, Friends to Lovers, Friendship, Love Hurts, Love/Hate Relationships, Lovers to Friends, Lycanthropy, Opposites Attract, Questioning Identity, Secret Relationships, Slow Build/Slow Burn, Toxic Relationship
Incomplete ·
Published: 17 May 2020 ·
Updated: 12 Jun 2024 ·
Words: 50275 ·
Chapters: 9 ·
Reviews: 8 ·
Likes: 2 ·
Reads: 81
Series: None
Emma Rhodes has one rule for junior year at Arkadia College: do not, under any circumstances, get attached to her twin brother's best friend, John Murphy.
The only problem?
It's already too late.
2nd Place Favorite Lead Pairing (Emma Rhodes/John Murphy) Inkys 2024
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Sexual Content, Slurs, Substance Abuse)
Content Warnings (optional): None
Genre: Angst, AU, Drama, Fluff, Romance
Tropes: Belligerent Sexual Tension , Black Sheep, Brother's best friend, Dysfunctional Family, Found Family, Friends-with-Benefits, Friendship
Incomplete ·
Published: 01 Dec 2023 ·
Updated: 31 May 2024 ·
Words: 18152 ·
Chapters: 7 ·
Reviews: 32 ·
Likes: 11 ·
Reads: 249
Follow Sirius through the last decade of his life, while on the run, and where he got the tropical birds to send Harry his birthday present and more. Enjoy, With Sirius Black.
Characters: Arabella Figg, Bathilda Bagshot, Cornelius Fudge, Crookshanks, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Magical Creature, Neville Longbottom, Original Female Character, Peeves, Remus Lupin, Ron Weasley, Rosmerta, Sirius Black
Pairings: Sirius Black/OC (HP)
Representation: Person of Color
Story Type: Novellette (under 25,000 words)
FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (Sexual Content)
Content Warnings (optional): Dying/Grieving, Panic Attacks
Genre: Angst, Dark, Drama, Fluff, General, Romance
Tropes: Belligerent Sexual Tension , Black Sheep, Love Hurts, Magical Creature, Origin Story, Secret Relationships
Incomplete ·
Published: 05 Jul 2021 ·
Updated: 12 Apr 2024 ·
Words: 16580 ·
Chapters: 6 ·
Reviews: 32 ·
Likes: 15 ·
Reads: 419
Series: None
It isn't every day that Percy Weasley falls in love. But when he does, they always end in Y.
A collection of 30 drabbles/ flash fiction about Percy's loves (or some very close calls) -- from Penny to Audrey and everything in between.
For RogueSlytherin's I'll Read Fluff If I Want To Challenge
Characters: Audrey Weasley, Lucy Weasley, Molly Weasley II, Original Female Character, Original Male Character, Original Nonbinary Character, Penelope Clearwater, Percy Weasley
Pairings: Audrey/Percy Weasley (HP), Percy Weasley/Penelope Clearwater (HP), Unlisted Pairing
Representation: Anxiety, Bisexual/Biromantic, LGBTQIA+, Transgender
Story Type: Challenge Entry, Flash Fiction (under 1000 words), Story Collection
FFT Groups:
Completed ·
Published: 06 Apr 2022 ·
Updated: 18 Feb 2024 ·
Words: 21657 ·
Chapters: 30 ·
Reviews: 234 ·
Likes: 120 ·
Reads: 2046
Series: None
Loosely based on characters from The Umbrella Academy
For inmyownlittlecorner's Regency Rep Challenge
Five told himself that he was done being a hero. (In some strange twist of fate at the end of time, he had literally told himself to stop saving the world.) After stumbling into this time and place, he had finally managed some semblance of normalcy, or at least the world wasn’t trying to end itself every four days. Perhaps that was only because he wasn’t aware of it, but still. If he played his cards right, retirement would finally be within his reach, and the quiet of the universe had begun to suit him just fine.
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Sexual Content, Substance Abuse, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Addiction, Dying/Grieving
Genre: Action/Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Tropes: Black Sheep, Found Family, Friendship, Slow Build/Slow Burn, Soulmates, Time-Travel
Completed ·
Published: 29 Nov 2022 ·
Updated: 06 Jan 2024 ·
Words: 115462 ·
Chapters: 25 ·
Reviews: 138 ·
Likes: 75 ·
Reads: 4192
Series: None
All things considered, it is quite hard to run away properly, when your friends can, quite literally, follow you to the Ends Of The Universe And Back.
This is fairly annoying when your friends' primary motivations for hunting you down seems to be to pretend that Everything's Fine Without Him, Really, ruin your perfectly-sweet, perfectly-quiet happiness with a sudden onset of Relationship Crisis, and to sidle you into playing Therapist when your only qualifications for the role are that you were once (sort of; it's a long story) a God and/or have previously given some Exciting News to a random virgin woman and some shepherds, neither of which are particularly helpful.
Beelzebub is Mildly Furious, Gabriel is Quietly Amused: together they're, well, sort of just... Meh about it all?
Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (Substance Abuse, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): War
Genre: Angst, Drama, Fantasy, Fluff, Humor, Romance
Tropes: Belligerent Sexual Tension , Black Sheep, Destructive Romance, Dysfunctional Family, Fate/Prophecy, Forgiveness, Friendship, Idiots in love, Mutual Pining, Opposites Attract, Questioning Identity, Religion, Star-Crossed Romance, Troubled, but Cute, Vitriolic Best Friends
Completed ·
Published: 30 Nov 2023 ·
Updated: 01 Dec 2023 ·
Words: 18171 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 3 ·
Likes: 2 ·
Reads: 87
Series: None
and that's where the beginning of the end begun
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Domestic Abuse, Self-Harm, Sexual Content, Slurs, Substance Abuse, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Addiction, Dying/Grieving
Genre: Angst, Dark, Drama, Fairy Tale/Fable, Fantasy, Smut
Tropes: Belligerent Sexual Tension , Black Sheep, Love Hurts, Love/Hate Relationships, Magical Creature, Toxic Relationship
Incomplete ·
Published: 21 Feb 2023 ·
Updated: 31 Aug 2023 ·
Words: 1370 ·
Chapters: 4 ·
Reviews: 10 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 88
Series: None

banner credit to page thirteen. @ fanfictalk
Cedrella Black is expected to marry well and raise a line of perfect, pureblood children, who further the aims of the society she was born into. But as she navigates the politics surrounding Wizarding Society's London Social, Cedrella finds herself inconveniently bumping into Septimus Weasley, a flirtatious fortune hunter with a family secret. While her parents push her to marry another, she slowly discovers she has more in common with Septimus than she ever dreamed possible.
As the events of the summer unfold, alliances are forged, hearts are broken, and a newly printed publication threatens to tear apart Wizarding Society's Most Sacred Twenty-Eight.
Golden Ink Awards 2022 Winner:
Best Worldbuilding
Best Slow Burn Romance
Golden Ink Awards 2021 Winner:
Best Description
Best Original Character (Cedrella Black)
January 2021 Sitewide Story of the Month
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Domestic Abuse, Slurs, Substance Abuse)
Content Warnings (optional): Addiction, Discrimination, Misogyny, War
Genre: Angst, Dark, Drama, Romance
Tropes: Black Sheep, Dysfunctional Family, Law/Politics, Marriage, Mutual Pining, Rare Pair, Secret Relationships
Incomplete ·
Published: 06 Oct 2020 ·
Updated: 14 Aug 2023 ·
Words: 148277 ·
Chapters: 25 ·
Reviews: 323 ·
Likes: 175 ·
Reads: 4184

(banner by me)
They can outlive war. They can outlive anything.
(A collage of moments. A relationship pieced together. The birth and death of a constellation.)
Inspired by Halsey's "Young God"
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Domestic Abuse, Sexual Content, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Internalized Oppression, Poverty, War
Genre: Angst, Romance
Tropes: Black Sheep, Friends to Lovers, Friendship, Love Hurts, Lycanthropy, School, Star-Crossed Romance
Completed ·
Published: 26 Feb 2017 ·
Updated: 31 Mar 2023 ·
Words: 3410 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 3 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 73
a collection of blackout poems
finding Percy hiding in the text
Rating and Advisories (required): All Audiences (None)
Content Warnings (optional): None
Genre: General
Tropes: Black Sheep
Incomplete ·
Published: 08 May 2021 ·
Updated: 20 Feb 2023 ·
Words: 544 ·
Chapters: 6 ·
Reviews: 26 ·
Likes: 16 ·
Reads: 11473
There are Jiangshi corpses on the streets, a statue dancing through the parks, and rumours of Yin Iron and corruption slipping in with the mists from the sea.
These things are normal.
There is a toddler found alone on a boat and burning, a strange man with a red ribbon sits in Lan Wangji's seat, and the Little Apple Twist mocktail now has vodka.
These things are not.
Or, Wei Wuxian returns to Hong Kong and really, everything spirals out of control from there.
Characters: Fourth Uncle, Granny Wen, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin, Jiang Yanli, Jin Zixuan, Lan Huan | Lan Xichen, Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Meng Yao | Jin Guangyao, Nie Huaisang, Other Character, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Wen Ning | Wen Qionglin, Wen Qing
Pairings: None
Representation: Ace/Aro, ADHD, Anxiety, Asian, Bisexual/Biromantic, Depression, Gay, Genderfluid/Genderqueer, Lesbian, Size Inclusivity
Story Type: Novel (50,000+ words)
FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Domestic Abuse, Incest, Substance Abuse, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Addiction, Breakups, Dying/Grieving, Panic Attacks
Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, AU, Crime/Mystery, Dark, Drama, Fantasy, Hurt/Comfort
Tropes: Belligerent Sexual Tension , Black Sheep, Destructive Romance, Dysfunctional Family, Enemies to Lovers, Family, Friendly Rivalry, Idiots in love, Love Hurts, Magical Creature, Modern AU, Mutual Pining, Opposites Attract, Sarcastic Devotee, Toxic Friend Influence, Toxic Relationship, Troubled, but Cute, Vitriolic Best Friends
Incomplete ·
Published: 15 Feb 2023 ·
Updated: 15 Feb 2023 ·
Words: 5104 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 0 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 3
Series: None

Beautiful Banner by down-in-flames @ Fanfictalk Forums
When Evanora Perrot accepted the position of Hogwarts Head Librarian she expected enchanted books, student study groups, manuscript refurbishment, late nights pouring over the catalog, and only leaving the library to watch quidditch games and filch food from the kitchens.
She did not bargin for Albus Potter and his many exploding cauldrons.
Characters: Albus Severus Potter, Fred Weasley II, Original Female Character, Original Male Character
Pairings: Albus Severus Potter/OC (Harry Potter), Fred Weasley II/OC (Harry Potter), Rose Granger-Weasley/Scorpius Malfoy (HP)
Representation: Asian, Autism Spectrum, Bisexual/Biromantic, Gay, LGBTQIA+, Mixed Race, Person of Color
Story Type: Novel (50,000+ words)
FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (None)
Content Warnings (optional): Bullying, Discrimination, Homophobia, Panic Attacks
Genre: Fluff, Romance
Tropes: Belligerent Sexual Tension , Black Sheep, Careers, Dysfunctional Family, Family, Friends to Lovers, Friendship, School
Incomplete ·
Published: 21 Jun 2021 ·
Updated: 05 Dec 2022 ·
Words: 8054 ·
Chapters: 2 ·
Reviews: 7 ·
Likes: 2 ·
Reads: 2547
Series: None

gorgeous banner by grumpy cat
Dorothea Prewett has lost all her children, except one. But she's a wild thing, and on the run. She will do what's in her power to bring her daughter home.
Arthur Weasley is in his first job as an assistant to a grumpy old detective, yet their first case is anything but what he expected it to be.
And somewhere out there, a girl with a broken heart and an empty soul decides that hell take it all, she is going to become legend.
Incomplete ·
Published: 31 Oct 2020 ·
Updated: 15 Mar 2022 ·
Words: 21411 ·
Chapters: 8 ·
Reviews: 95 ·
Likes: 47 ·
Reads: 395
Series: None
draco's evening starts with goading his father into calling him an ungrateful fucking blood traitor and ends with him drinking on an empty stomach in a bar with harry and hermione. look, sometimes life is real weird, okay?
february 2002
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Domestic Abuse, Suicide, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Discrimination, War
Genre: Angst, Dark
Tropes: Black Sheep, Drunken Confessions, Dysfunctional Family, Family, Friendship, Sarcastic Devotee, Troubled, but Cute
Completed ·
Published: 13 Mar 2022 ·
Updated: 13 Mar 2022 ·
Words: 4350 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 1 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 30
draco meets hermione in a bar so she can tell him to start doing something productive if he's so sorry about the war.
april 1999
Completed ·
Published: 21 Feb 2022 ·
Updated: 11 Mar 2022 ·
Words: 1831 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 5 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 39
Was I gay? Was I bi? Was I no better than my siblings at lusting over my best friend's wife?
The three of us were close, that was true. Rose had always been my best friend growing up, but when I met Scorp we just connected on so many different levels, and in a lot of ways he knew me better than Rose ever could.
Characters: Albus Severus Potter, James Sirius Potter, Lily Luna Potter, Original Character, Original Female Character, Original Male Character, Scorpius Malfoy
Pairings: Albus Severus Potter/OC (Harry Potter), Albus Severus Potter/Scorpius Malfoy (HP), Scorpius Malfoy/OC (HP)
Representation: Ace/Aro, Bisexual/Biromantic, Demisexual, Gay, LGBTQIA+
Story Type: One-Shot
FFT Groups:
Completed ·
Published: 19 Feb 2022 ·
Updated: 19 Feb 2022 ·
Words: 2361 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 0 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 14
Series: None
Sebastian Pettigrew's funeral
For Bianca <3
(A Blishwick-verse/Jimmy-verse crossover)
Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Dying/Grieving
Genre: Angst, Crossover, Drama, Hurt/Comfort
Tropes: Black Sheep, Dysfunctional Family, Family, Forgiveness, Friendship, Marriage, Origin Story, Parenthood
Completed ·
Published: 01 Jan 2022 ·
Updated: 01 Jan 2022 ·
Words: 774 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 11 ·
Likes: 5 ·
Reads: 897
Series: None

Emotions were never Jin’s strong suit. At least, not when it was their emotions in question. Elza was the best out of the Roche triplets for that, but she wasn’t there to do it, and Jin didn’t plan to break the news to their brother while sober. Not when they were barely keeping it together themself.
Banner by me
Completed ·
Published: 23 Nov 2021 ·
Updated: 12 Dec 2021 ·
Words: 2792 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 7 ·
Likes: 3 ·
Reads: 56
Series: None
"In some ways she was already dead to you. If anything, this sentence should bring you relief. All you feel is the heavy cost that chains the living to the dead."
3rd place in grumpy cat's "fast and furious," challenge.
Completed ·
Published: 30 Nov 2021 ·
Updated: 30 Nov 2021 ·
Words: 499 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 7 ·
Likes: 2 ·
Reads: 1160
Dear esteemed applicant,
It is my greatest pleasure to inform you that you have been accepted to attend Hogwarts University.
As you are probably well aware, Hogwarts University has been offering higher education to adults since its establishment in 1918, and we are proud to offer the widest range of courses in the United Kingdom. We strive for excellence, and offer innovation and progression to our exceptionally talented students.
We received well over 10,000 applications this year for 400 places, so once again please accept my heartiest congratulations on your well earned achievement.
Sincerely,
Professor Albus Dumbledore
Chancellor of Hogwarts University
A modern Marauders AU which follows their second year at university!
Characters: Dorcas Meadowes, James Potter I, Lily Evans Potter, Marlene McKinnon, Mary Macdonald, Nymphadora Tonks, Peter Pettigrew, Petunia Evans Dursley, Regulus Black, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, Sirius Black, Vernon Dursley
Pairings: James Potter I/Lily Evans (Harry Potter), Marlene McKinnon/Sirius Black (HP), Nymphadora Tonks/Remus Lupin (HP), Petunia Evans/Vernon Dursley (HP), Remus Lupin/Sirius Black (HP)
Representation: ADHD, Anxiety, Bisexual/Biromantic, Depression, Gay, Genderfluid/Genderqueer, LGBTQIA+, Mixed Race, Mood Disorder, Neurodiversity, Other Physical Disability, Person of Color, Transgender
Story Type: Novella (under 50,000 words)
FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Self-Harm, Sexual Content, Slurs, Substance Abuse)
Content Warnings (optional): Bullying, Discrimination, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Transphobia
Genre: Angst, AU, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Smut
Tropes: Black Sheep, Destructive Romance, Feminism, Found Family, Friends to Lovers, Friends-with-Benefits, Friendship, Healthy Exes, Love Triangle, Modern AU, Questioning Identity, Rare Pair, School, Troubled, but Cute
Incomplete ·
Published: 23 Apr 2021 ·
Updated: 19 May 2021 ·
Words: 4090 ·
Chapters: 2 ·
Reviews: 1 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 27
Series: None
banner made by me

if i could not be me
i would not
be me.
2021 golden ink awards best poem: two bad girls (winner), radiant nightmare (3rd place)
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Consent Issues, Domestic Abuse, Sexual Content, Substance Abuse, Suicide)
Content Warnings (optional): Addiction, Breakups, Cheating, Dying/Grieving, Homophobia, Misogyny
Genre: Angst, Dark, Drama, Microfiction, Romance
Tropes: Black Sheep, Destructive Romance, Dysfunctional Family, Feminism, Friends-with-Benefits, Friendship, Love Hurts, Love Triangle, Secret Relationships, Toxic Relationship, Troubled, but Cute
Completed ·
Published: 27 Aug 2020 ·
Updated: 08 May 2021 ·
Words: 6934 ·
Chapters: 50 ·
Reviews: 241 ·
Likes: 133 ·
Reads: 2042
Getting in is the easy part.
Getting out is the real test.
For toomanycurls's Story Dice Challenge
and RogueSlytherin's Open at the Close Challenge
Completed ·
Published: 30 Mar 2021 ·
Updated: 30 Mar 2021 ·
Words: 2959 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 3 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 967
Series: None
Cœur du lion - mon cœur - mon frère, je suis noyé.
The line between the living and the dead is stretched thin, fragile and breakable like glass; there are ghosts in the stars, ghosts in his head, and everything fades with the dawn.
They say Regulus is dead. They say Lord Voldemort is fled, a wraith wrapped in smoke.
They say, they say - but what do normal people know?
Characters: Bartemius Crouch Jr., Bartemius Crouch Sr., Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, Regulus Black, Rodolphus Lestrange, Voldemort/Tom Marvolo Riddle
Pairings: Bartemius Crouch Jr./Regulus Black (HP), Bellatrix Black/Rodolphus Lestrange (HP), Unlisted Pairing
Representation: ADHD, Bisexual/Biromantic, Depression, Gay, LGBTQIA+, Mood Disorder, Other Physical Disability, PTSD
Story Type: Challenge Entry, Novellette (under 25,000 words)
FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Sexual Content, Substance Abuse, Suicide, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Addiction, Breakups, Bullying, Dying/Grieving, War
Genre: Angst, Crime/Mystery, Dark
Tropes: Black Sheep, Destructive Romance, Dysfunctional Family, Established Relationship, Family, Found Family, Love Hurts, Rare Pair, Toxic Friend Influence, Tragic Evil, Troubled, but Cute
Completed ·
Published: 16 Jun 2019 ·
Updated: 12 Mar 2020 ·
Words: 14785 ·
Chapters: 4 ·
Reviews: 19 ·
Likes: 9 ·
Reads: 168
Series: None

When one door shuts - oh, but there is always another possibility, always another future; another hundred, another thousand, and it is maddening to know fragments of them all but never enough, never enough to be more than a sickly, sweaty, sleepless mess.
I blink, and -
(Gellert Grindelwald is expelled.)
Impossible banner by grumpy cat @HPFT
Completed ·
Published: 13 Oct 2019 ·
Updated: 13 Oct 2019 ·
Words: 545 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 12 ·
Likes: 6 ·
Reads: 1114