Author: @articcat621
Beta: @starrnobella
Artist: @quintalon
Main Pairing: Hermione Granger/Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
Any Side Pairings: Harry Potter/Luna Lovegood
Rating: Explicit
Summary: After the end of the war, Hermione and so many others try to pick up the pieces. Moving into Grimmauld Place with Harry and Remus, she is determined to find peace of mind but ends up finding so much more.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/BigBang2020/works/25477822
Title: More Than Friends
Author: articcat621
Fandoms: Harry Potter/True Blood
Pairing: Hermione Granger/Jason Stackhouse
Warnings: None
Summary: Jason and Hermione are tired of dancing the line between friends and lovers.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51455164
Title: Lighting the Spark
Author: articcat621
Fandom(s): Harry Potter and Marvel
Pairing (if applicable): Hermione Granger/Tony Stark/Steve Rogers
Rating: Teen
Summary: Hermione hopes to find something to help Steve remember.
Warnings: Memory Loss, Angst
Word count: 540
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43036974
We are excited to introduce HP Secret Santa Rare Pairs 2022!! In collaboration with @hpsaffics, the HP Rare Pairs Discord server will be running an anon, multi-ship, multimedia gift exchange focused on HP rare pairs! You do not need to be a member of the server to participate, although it is encouraged.
This fest is for you if...
You love rare pairs!
You're looking for a low-key winter time exchange
You love the format of @hdowlpost
You're not a writer or an artist but still would love to give and receive gifts!
🎁 Schedule 🎁
Sign-ups: Sep 10-Sep 30
Matching: by Oct 5
Work on Gifts: Oct 5-Nov 25
Gift Posting: Dec 1-Dec 25
Creator Reveals: Dec 30
🎁 General 🎁
This exchange is open to anyone aged 18+!
As this is a gift exchange, you will make a gift for someone and receive at least 2 gifts in return.
This exchange is focused on HP rare pairs. That means any HP ship that is not a common ship (common ships: Drarry, Wolfstar, Dramione, Jily, Snarry, Hinny).
We highly encourage being open to trying new ships for this exchange. It will make matching easier, and you never know what amazing ships you may discover!
We follow the Three Laws of Fandom: SALS, DLDR, and YKINMKATO. No ship-bashing, hate speech, or kink shaming will be tolerated. We are open to all types of ships, genres, and content (including dark and/or triggering content) as long as it is tagged accordingly.
🎁 Sign-Ups and Matching 🎁
Sign-ups are open Sep 10-Sep 30 through Google Forms (link will be provided)
The form will ask you to list: characters and rare pairs you love, what rating(s) you prefer, your favorite tropes/themes/kinks, what type of gift(s) you would like to make, some potential prompt ideas, squicks/triggers/DNWs.
The sign-up form will have separate sections for preferences on receiving and giving gifts. Both sections are required.
The mods will match you with another participant based on favorite ships and interests.
🎁 Gifts and Pinch-Hitters 🎁
You will have approximately 2 months to work on gifts starting Oct 5.
All HP rare pair-themed gifts are accepted! That includes: fics, ficlets, drabbles, craft gifts, art works, gif sets, story banners, moodboards, photo manips, vids, podfics, podfic cover art, meta, icons, poems, recipes, playlists, rec lists — basically, any type of fanwork you can think of!
Although only one gift is required, if at all possible, please we are begging you create more than one gift.
Gifts should be uploaded to the H.S.S. Rare Pairs 2022 AO3 Collection (link to come) or emailed directly to [email protected]. More info coming soon!
Gifts are due Nov 25! If you are unable to finish your gift in time, please let us know ASAP, so we can find a pinch-hitter.
Keep a lookout in late November when we will do a call for pinch-hitters!
🎁 Gift Delivery and Creator Reveals 🎁
Gifts will be delivered Dec 1-Dec 25 by Santa and his helpers (aka the very excited mods).
Creator Reveals will be on Dec 30. Until then, please refrain from discussing giftees, sharing prompts, or giving away details about your creation. We want gifts to remain a secret, hence the Secret Santa part.
After reveals, you are free to share, post, and squeal about your creation as much as you want!
🎁 Contact Info and Fest Updates 🎁
Email: [email protected] (for specific questions, email works best)
Discord: HP Rare Pairs
Tumblr: @hp-rarepairs
Twitter: hprarepairs
Reddit: HPRarePairs
Still have questions? Check our FAQ (coming soon!)
This gift exchange is based on @hdowlpost. Thank you to the lovely Owlpost mods for the wonderful help and enthusiastic encouragement!! (And for letting us borrow some of your wording for the Rules)
It's a wrap, folks. The very first HP Bodice Ripper fest has come to a close. If your bodice is still intact, then we didn't do our job. Maybe we'll succeed next year. ;)
Thank you all! All you magnificent creators, wonderful prompters, thoughtful commenters, everyone who's been supportive and enthusiastic about this fest. Join us in celebrating our romantic, swoon worthy and steamy creations.
Check out the whole Bodice Ripper collection on AO3.
🎵 HP Bodice Ripper podfic
Still Warm, Still Warm by @ghaniblue / acari
(Harry/Draco, General Audiences, 30min, written by tsauergrass)
The oranges ripened and grew heavy; the branches dipped under their weight. They picked some for breakfast every morning: Harry twisting the fruit off with a snap, Draco carefully tugging each one off.
Harry peeled an orange and handed a wedge to Draco.
Their fingers grazed, and Draco took it. The tender flesh; if he pressed just a little harder with his fingers, it would burst into a juicy mess.
Harry is up to something. Why else would he keep giving Draco presents?
amid this warm and steady sweetness by @roseszain / roseszain
(Harry/Draco, Explicit, 2h, written by warmfoothills)
Harry is not living in a period drama, no matter what his friends or his new house or Malfoy’s sudden affinity for horse-riding might suggest, and if one more person uses the word courting, he’s going to start hexing people.
🎨 HP Bodice Ripper art
My Life as a Butterfly by @digthewriter / digthewriter
(Harry/Draco, General Audiences, Digital Art)
A second chance at first love.
the pirate and his gentleman by @babooshkart / babooshk_art
(Harry/Draco, General Audiences, Digital Art)
Life as the most feared pirate on the high seas has lost some of its luster for Harry Potter. He's done it all: found buried treasure, escaped the English navy, cut off toes. He's even added a couple of noses to Pansy's Nose Jar. But nonetheless Harry wants something more.
He just wasn't expecting to find it in the form of Draco Malfoy, Gentleman Pirate.
Lay Your Armour Down (The Seduction of a Pirate) by @getawayfox / getawayfox
(Pansy/Ginny, General Audiences, digital art)
Pansy will be the first to tell you that being an heiress is infinitely boring. She lives for thrill and intrigue, and right now her days lack both. So, when there’s whispers in town of a nearby pirate ship threatening their shores, Pansy’s interest piques. She bribes the mansion’s guards to let her slip out unnoticed, tricks the ship’s crew into thinking she was invited—and now she’s here, ready for adventure. She hoped to find new experiences, but did not expect a captain who would take her breath away.
Red Roses and Free Spirits by @upthehillart / upthehillart
(Ginny/Luna, General Audiences, digital art)
She's seen the Lady there before, an airy blur of elegant fabric and blond hair.
With roses in hand, maybe she'll see her again.
🖋 HP Bodice Ripper fic
Good Boy by @lqtraintracks / lq_traintracks
(Harry/Draco, Explicit, 15k)
This is a love story between a trans lad and his werewolf boyfriend. It’s about loving someone in their very furry entirety. It’s about being your true self and loving that self. It’s about getting absolutely railed.
Yours Truly by @skeptiquewrites / skeptique
(Harry/Draco, Mature, 15k)
Every single one of Harry’s exes has gone on to marry the next person they date, and with the upcoming nuptials of numbers six and seven to each other, Harry’s feeling exhausted by it all. It doesn’t really matter if he lets people assume Draco Malfoy is his boyfriend for a moment of peace. In any case, Draco’s been away for five years and there’s no way he would find out, right?
Heaven is a Pirate Ship by @vitaminpops / vitaminpops (Bellatrix/Hermione, Explicit, 34k)
Hermione's being shipped off into an unhappy marriage when the most incompetent pirate crew captures her. Featuring: one trigger-happy but sexy pirate, a dysfunctional father-son relationship, a general absence of morals, and the many uses of knives.
wasps and honey by @vocative / vocatives
(Hermione/Narcissa, Mature, 10k)
After ten years on parole in the Muggle world, newly widowed Narcissa Black is finally allowed to do magic again — as long as she can complete all the spells on the Ministry course list.
Her Ministry of Magic representative? Hermione Granger.
Your Majesty by @cluelesspigeons / Clueless_Pigeons (Harry/Draco, Explicit, 17k)
Draco's bored. Ever since he's become King, he hasn't done anything apart from being stuck in assemblies and meetings. He yearns for a life with adventure and excitement. So, when a group of pirates start raiding the villages of his Kingdom, Draco sees the perfect opportunity to escape his duties as a King for a little while. After all, there isn't much that could go wrong. Right?
The Sun in Summer (Presto Pizzicato) by @cannibalschism / Cannibalschism
(Harry/Draco, Explicit, 90k)
Harry Potter is an orphan. Everyone knows this, him most of all. Taken in by the agoraphobic and ancient Dowager Viscountess Cassiopeia Black, Harry's musical aptitude was evident even from a young age. He has trained all his life to perform in front of a noble audience and step upon the shoulders of giants. To be known for his accomplishment and skill. To be great. And he will do anything to achieve that goal.
Draco Malfoy is an orphan. He hasn't been as such for very long, however. Known as the Instrumenteur, Draco runs a modest shoppe in lower Diagon Alley where he creates and repairs musical instruments. The Viscountess Cassiopeia Black stole everything from him the night of his parents' fatal accident. When Harry Potter, the orphan that wretched woman took in even as she cast out her own blood, proposes the most ludicrous of schemes that might just get Draco his stolen title and life back, who is he to decline?
In a time of galas, secrets, corsets, and symphonies, can love prevail over all else?
A Studious Romp by @articcat621 / articcat621
(Pansy/Hermione, Explicit, 1k)
Hermione and Pansy get assigned to work together on their next Chemistry project.
Romp and Circumstance by @wolfpants / wolfpants
(Harry/Draco, Explicit, 35k)
Since the war, Harry Potter has gone from Saviour to Scoundrel—not that he’s complaining.
With a schedule full of gorgeous men, alcohol, and late nights, why would he want to change? Enter Draco Malfoy: beautiful, sharp, and completely untouchable. When Draco comes to Harry with a proposition to help him attract an engagement, Harry’s up for it—after all, how hard can it be not falling for his former nemesis?
Very hard, apparently.
coffee & communication: a (slow) romance by @softlystarstruck / softlystarstruck
(Harry/Draco, Explicit, 10k)
Nearly a decade after the war, Draco has made a life for himself in Muggle London, writing romance novels and hanging out with his cat. But when he spills iced coffee all over a gorgeous man who turns out to be Harry Potter, has he tumbled into the start of his own romance without realizing it? And how difficult can it be to talk about desire, anyways? He writes smut for a living.
Surely it can't be that difficult.
dalliances past curfew by @fantasyborn / fantasyborn
(Irma Pince/Septima Vector, Explicit, 1,5k)
Irma is always the buttoned up, strict, rule follower. Only Septima gets to cut through those barriers.
The (Third) Worst Year by @the-francakes / thefrancakes
(Harry/Draco, Explicit, 19k)
Draco Malfoy has one year to fall in True Love with Harry Potter or be turned into a Dragon. And he knows that is never gunna happen. This is going to be the worst year of his life.
Well, minus that whole having to kill Dumbledore or be killed by Voldemort thing.
Second worst year.
Oh, but there was his whole 7th year while Voldemort was using his house as a home base for Death Eaters and making him torture his fellow students. That one was pretty bad too.
Fine, this is the third worst year of his life.
The Greatest Game by @sleepstxtic / sleepstxtic
(Harry/Draco, Explicit, 45k)
So what then makes The Greatest Game?
The Greatest Game is something more. The drama, the tension, the narrative that the other games lack. There is a story here. Two rivals with a history spanning years; the oldest, most illustrious prize to be won. Prime pickings for a plotline.
But wait, there’s more. Two lovers with a secret spanning seasons, a secret that is about to be discovered.
What I am trying to say is, The Greatest Game is greatest because it has the greatest story.
Nine dates and a wedding by @deliciousblizzardshark / deliciousblizzardshark
(Harry/Draco, Explicit, 11k)
“You need to get married,” Potter says. “I need someone to help me navigate all of this. It’s an insane idea…” He peeks out from behind his glasses. "...or is it?" "It is," Draco says.
Submit your prompts in our google form! We're accepting any type of prompt–quotes, pictures, songs, whatever you can come up with, but please remember that this is both a multifandom fest and a summer themed fest. Don't make your prompts fandom specific–any that are won't be used–and try to make the prompts either summer themed or not specific to any time of year.
This form will be open until March 1, so you have plenty of time to send in as many prompts as you like! After the form is closed, we will choose the top 12 prompts to be our weekly prompts for posting. That will be decided through voting, so join our discord server if you'd like to be able to vote on prompts!
Guidelines cover general information, such as how Wood You Rather works, the challenge timeline and information for creating and submitting works.
FAQ covers everything else, and will be updated accordingly.
If you have a question that isn’t covered by either of those pages, feel free to ask us, and we’ll be glad to help!
All prompt cards will be released within the next few weeks so you can start planning ahead for the challenge.
And of course, don’t forget to follow @wood-you-rather-challenge and #woodyourather2022 to get the latest updates!
i kind of can't believe that we're staring down the barrel of february 2022 in much the same shape as we did february 2021...the more things change, the more they stay the same, eh? i think we could all use a little kink in our lives again :)
just like last year, kinkuary is a very casual event, and both fic and art are welcome. there are no wordcount minimums, all ships are welcome, and there’s no participation requirement—you can create for one, some, or all of the prompts. fics do not need to be beta-read if you don’t want, but i do encourage comprehensive tagging for any potential triggers.
**i've made one major change—this event is now open to all fandoms. your mod is primarily involved in two fandoms, with two main ships, but if you feel like sharing this with people in other fandoms, please feel free to reblog with fest/event tags! the same general rules, outlined in the collection link below, apply—basically, be kind, tag thoughtfully, and enjoy yourself!
you can find the collection and the (very few) rules for this event on Ao3 here! happy creating!
**just like last year, this event is 18+ only. please respect that.
So I still owe three people fics for their birthday, and I will write them I promise! But I want to bring this back as it was fun to do when I was successful this past writing year!
2020 & 2021 have been hellacious years so I want to bring a little joy to people in 2022, may it be better than the previous two.
Birthdays can be a stressful thing depending on your personal situation. So as a way to show my appreciation to those who follow my writing - and possibly my friends' writings - I thought it would be fun to build a calendar of birthdays and collect some pairings and tropes to write the birthday person a fic for their special day.
So I am reshaping starrnobella’s Birthday Bonanza! I plan on writing fics for peoples’ birthdays and I’d love to see some new ones in the mix and anyone is welcome to join me in writing! So I’d love to see your birthday on my form!
If you filled this out last year, you don’t have to fill it out again. I’ve still got you in my spreadsheet!
Author: starrnobella
Rated: General Audiences
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Daphne Greengrass
Fandom(s): Harry Potter, Marvel
Word Count: 1,346
Prompt: Time-Turner - Snowman
Summary: Tony Stark ruined their Christmas together, so to make it up to them, he paid for Daphne and Steve to have a romantic weekend away in a cabin in the woods - the only problem: the impending snowstorm following them to their destination.
View the entire 2021 Enchanted Wonders Collection here!
Happy New Year’s Eve, Den members! Over the past month, 2 authors have come together to write just over 4000 words in stories about celebrating New Year’s Eve with some of our favorite Slytherins! Be sure to check out these stories and leave our authors their first comments and kudos of 2022! 🎊🎊🎊
Let the New Year Slither In Collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/NewYearSlitherIn
*Authors: Feel free to cross-post on January 2nd, and make sure to share any art you have below with your story title and summary! 📷
We've got lots of great events planned for the new year and we hope to see you all there!
