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  1. arcticwolves on Chapter 1 Wed 19 Feb 2025 12:49PM UTC

    Care to share? Hahaha. I have some I'm subscribed to but they all seem abandoned honestly. Or it's a very short one shot, I love it though. Hopefully more people will write about it (also not make Harry a James carbon copy like in canon). Oh I'll be sure to follow yours to the very end. I already LOVE your writing

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    1. SnarkyMagpie on Chapter 1 Wed 19 Feb 2025 12:56PM UTC

      Happy to share! My favorite is definitely this one: https://ao3-rd-3.onrender.com/works/50039206/chapters/126348565

      This one is good but ends before things get really interesting:
      https://ao3-rd-3.onrender.com/works/44709889/chapters/112490713

      I agree with you that a lot of those stories are woefully short. This one is going to be roughly between 70-80K words, so hopefully a decent length.
      And I actually have a lot of ideas for mpreg stories (like the sequel) so I might write some more if people are into it. Thanks so much for your support!

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      1. arcticwolves on Chapter 1 Wed 19 Feb 2025 03:22PM UTC

        Thanks I'll check those out. Also I think it's the perfect length. And I'm excited to check out your other works and if you choose to keep this one going I'll definitely be following.

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        1. arcticwolves on Chapter 1 Fri 21 Feb 2025 03:08AM UTC

          By the way I know how annoying it is when readers give their two cents sometimes but I do hope baby Harry or older Harry has some of Regulus physical traits and personality because the whole canon "carbon copy of James Potter" is kinda weird also poor Regulus deserves to have something of him on the damn kid (also poor Lily on the canon verse because JK acts like James made the boy all by himself and the woman was a human shield made of love or whatever. Even in canon it annoys me that the kid has nothing both physical and personality wise that is his mother's)

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          1. SnarkyMagpie on Chapter 1 Fri 21 Feb 2025 08:24AM UTC

            It's okay, I love readers' input! Much prefer it to the sound of crickets after posting a chapter. That doesn't mean I always agree or end up using their suggestions (sometimes I do, sometimes I don't), but I love reading them either way.
            My plan is for to Harry inherit some pretty distinct traits from Regulus (hint, Reg has a white streak in his hair and green eyes in this fic :D) but as a baby, he'll be similar to James. I mean, it's actually what happens irl, most babies resemble their fathers to make them more likely to accept them and take care of them.
            As he'll grow older, it'll become more apparent that while he has James' hair and dark skin, his facial structure is more Regulus' - but like I said, that's gonna be only in the epilogue. And maybe maybe in the sequel, if I end up writing it.

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