Blue Butter

Blue, she/her, 20s commissions closed Fuck TERFS and JKR

[bluebutter-art]

Hello! 💙

Welcome to my blog! I’m Blue, I do digital art and currently enjoy drawing Lamen from Captive Prince, Drarry and the occasional HP side characters/ships. Please minors DNI- I reblog and post 18+ stuff sometimes which I put under the #spicyyy tag so go ahead and block that (or unfollow me) if you prefer not to see such content.

You can find all my art here 💫

I am also on other socials;

AO3 (where I post my 18+ and fest related art)

Instagram

Ko-fi 

My commissions are currently closed.

Ask box is always open, but please be kind! Hate messages will be ignored and deleted. Thank you for visiting!

[bluebutter-art]

This is it. This is my magnum opus.

Nothing I’ll ever draw could possibly top this one.

Basically @l0vegl0wsinthedark​ held me at gun point and demanded I hop into this challenge so it’s only fair that I stole borrowed her meme

[hd-erised]

H/D Erised Fic: Nothing Gold Can Stay

Title: Nothing Gold Can Stay Author: Anonymous Recipient: @bluebutter-art Pairing(s): Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy, background Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, mention of past Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley Rating: Explicit Word Count: ~40,200 Tags:  Auror Draco Malfoy, Unspeakable Harry Potter, Auror Ron Weasley, Healer Hermione Granger, magical accident, parallel universe, mention of past mpreg, mention of potential future mpreg, mention of past canon torture, mention of past non-canon torture, mention of minor body image issues, pining, friendship, friends to lovers, established relationship, brief misunderstandings, angst with a happy ending, emotional support, vulnerability, getting together, casual affection, first time, Virgin Draco Malfoy, mutual masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, the London Aquarium, Magical Creatures that probably shouldn't be pets, cooking together, drinking, gratuitous descriptions of food and eating, best read after dinner or with a snack Summary: One summer evening, Harry Potter vanished in the middle of dinner with his friends. Four days later he came back. Sort of.  Draco Malfoy is on the case. Author's Notes: Blue, I was so honoured to write for you this year, I am an enormous fan of yours. There was so much wonderful content in your sign up and so many potential stories, but this one wanted to be yours the most. I tried to grab as many of your gems as possible. I hope you enjoy this and a very merry Erised to you! Massive thanks to c and h for the wonderful beta and wisdom, and to o and si for the top notch moral support. As always, thank you to the mods, and thank you from the heart of my bottom for your extra patience this year.  Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

[moonflower-rose]

This was meeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I cannot tell you how excited and nervous I was to see the name @bluebutter-art in my assignment, holy moly. I absolutely adore Blue Butter's art and have been a huge fan for years. I loved everything about their sign up and while I was thinking about what I could write I decided to have a peek at their AO3 bookmarks to see if I could get a sense of fics they'd liked in the past, and my brain spat out an idea I'd had a few years ago that I'd sort of dismissed. I remember very clearly rambling in the group chat a while back that I'd had this amazing idea for a sort of alternate universe story which, when I was finished describing it to my pals, sounded suspiciously like a mashup of Turn and Far From The Tree lol. So that went in a box and got kicked under the bed for a while because even I didn't want to read MY take on those two epics.

For some reason when I started working on this years Erised it seemed like that old dusty fragment of an idea might be the right place to start. At one point I had a massive panic about it and almost decided to chuck the whole thing and start over (VERY late in the game) but was talked from the ledge. A series of unfortunate life events began to plague me and the story wouldn't fucking finish, and I had to ask for endless extensions. The relief when it was done was incredible, lol, I was so bloody sick of looking at it.

Thank you @bluebutter-art for being so kind and lovely in your comments, and for being such an incredible artist, it was such an honour to have written for you.

Thanks as always to @shiftylinguini for cheering me on and helping keep my head on straight (or helping me put it back when it inevitably falls off).

A HUGE THANKS TO THE BETAS FROM HEAVEN @citrusses and @holygnocchi!!!! I cannot recommend this amazing people more, talk about patient, supportive, insightful, detailed, constructive, did I mention patient, and FAST work from both of them my GOD. That was an amazing experience and I've developed a deeply weird love for both of you (soz).

A million thanks as always to the mods who are always so patient in spite of all the chaos of such a complicated fest.

This is the part where the orchestra starts to play to get the blabbering knob off the stage, thank you and goodnight!

[hogwartsfirebolt]

I read this today, when I really should not be reading any fic at all because I have intensely boring Real Life Obligations but listen - listen. At some point in the last couple of years Rosie became … sort of my favorite drarry author?? Seeing her name attached to one of my VERY favorite tropes had me saying to myself “I’ll just skim a few paragraphs today bc I have to focus on this other huge thing I gotta do” before opening it and of course devouring it whole. What can you do.

Not sure how to articulate everything I want to say about this fic, but god, it’s just so GOOD, the kind of good that makes you wonder how the hell someone was capable of thinking it up and then actually writing it. I’m always obsessed with Rosie’s sexy, quietly confident version of Harry, and in THIS Harry is at his sexiest, most quietly confident ever. I’m always obsessed with her noble, vulnerable Dracos and in THIS we get the noble, vulnerable Draco to end them all. And somehow, despite my soul honest-to-god melting from how good these characterizations hit me, there’s also the fantastic side characters, a plot so good it’s insane and the kind of beautiful writing that effortlessly pulls you along.

I want to live in this, I want it poured directly into my bloodstream. Read it NOW!!!

[moonflower-rose]

[getawayfox]

Draw Drarry Badly Challenge (pie edition)

My contribution to draw drarry badly challenge aka an excuse to play with my food! (In this case a blackberry pie with lemon zest and vanilla)

@julcheninred thank you so much for hosting the challenge again and @crazybutgood and @stavromulabetaaa for all your love and cheering! 🤍

Boys before baking:

[julcheninred]

It’s here! Welcome to Draw Drarry Badly Challenge 2024! The DDBC, established by @l0vegl0wsinthedark in 2018, is our fandom’s lighthearted declaration that the fun of making fanart is for absolutely everybody! The rules: Draw Drarry. Draw them badly. I mean really badly. Pick a cherished Drarry trope to illustrate, or a fic scene! Use your kids’ crayons or the nearest ballpoint pen! Draw anything, with anything! No apologizing for the badness of the art! The badness is the point! Post your marvelously terrible art, tag it ‘draw drarry badly challenge’ so we can all find it, and tag anyone you want to do it too! Officially, this year’s DDBC is from January 20 – 31, but really, the point is that it’s always a good day to make fanart, even if you think you’re “not actually an artist.” Fandom is simply a better place with more people making art, and there is no dour committee awarding art licenses. The joy of art is yours! Make something exuberantly silly today, and keep going! Absolutely everyone in the fandom is tagged in by this post: writers, readers, reccers, and people already known as skilled artists. Everybody in! I’ll tag some established folks, some newcomers, and some who were excited on the get-ready post to help get the party started! Do your worst! 🎉🎉🎉 @m4g0rtz, @phdmama, @lqtraintracks, @nv-md, @xanthippe74, @vmcgmidlifecrisis, @caroll-in, @babooshkart, @bluebutter-art, @getawayfox, @basicallyahedgehog, @kryptidfox, @shealwaysreads, @sitp-recs, @the-starryknight, @sugareey-makes-stuff, @phoebe-delia, @crazybutgood, @gnarf, @maesterchill, @basiatlu, @meemoop, @littlewinnow, @itsphantasmagoria, @longdaytogo, @lilbeanz, @lettersbyelise, @tackytigerfic, @scarlettbookworm, @andithiel

[lettersbyelise]

You reblog a lot of Drarry art, do you have favourite artists to rec? I'm new to Drarry and looking for Drarry art blogs to follow. Thank you 🧡🧡

aaah thanks anon! what an interesting question! sorry it took me a while to answer your ask - i got lost down the rabbit hole of amazing drarry artists i follow and i wanted to do this ART REC justice. I've listed just a few favorites who have been active in the past year, but I'm sure there are many more I forgot to add here (everyone feel free to add to my list tysm!)

El's Drarry Artist Rec List!

(in no particular order, I love them all)

@quail-in-red

How can anyone see one of Quail's drawings and comics and not fall head over heels in love with their humor and style? Their art is so sweet and soft and funny. Run to check out their tropes mashup comics (illustration above taken from the one they did for my prompt 'not a date'+'first kiss') if you haven't already!

@littlewinnow

Another 2023 (and 2024!) favorite, Winnow draws the absolute cutest dad!Draco and Scorpius. Both are completely infatuated with Harry, of course, which makes for sweet and hilarious mini-comics. Their art never fails to put a huge, sappy smile on my face <3 (I also recommend their nsfw art blog, too. for... reasons 🥵)

@basiatlu

"Are you trying to murder me with this," I whisper as I look for the nearest fainting couch every time Basia posts a new art. I could write entire paragraphs about it. I love everything about their style, their ability to render yearning/fondness/lust, and their sense of anatomy (their Explicit art is mf fire). Basia's art is also very special to me: their Draco and Harry look like Basia reached into my brain and drew them exactly as I imagine them, pointy and messy and expressive and so, so into each other. WHere's that fainting couch when you need it??

@getawayfox

I've been following El's art since they posted their first nsfw art on AO3, and I've adored everything they made since then. Just look at their Draco. Look at him. El draws the most exquisite details, with a use of color to die for. I'm always looking forward to what they'll post next!

@longdaytogo

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'm just gonna leave this art here to save everyone from an embarrassingly long, gushing paragraph about why longdaytogo's art is so amazing. They just draw the sexiest, most beautiful Draco and Harry, they don't even need to show much (just look at Draco's gaze!! and Harry's hand!!) for me to go weak in the knees.

@itsphantasmagoria

I love Phantasmagoria's art (the one I choose here made me gasp when I saw it). Their sense of color, light, movement, and drama is unparalleled. Their art feels like looking at a movie still, if that makes sense? So much storytelling packed in each beautiful image.

@bluebutter-art

I'm a long-standing fan of Blue's art, and seeing their art on my dash (be it HP, Capri, or other fandoms) is always a joy. They have such a gentle touch with lines and colors, their art gives me the same warm, happy, content feeling that I get reading the best of Saras Girl's fics.

@maesterchill

Who's a brilliant writer in addition to being an incredible artist? Maesterchill, that's who. Another artist and friend who I've followed for many years, Maesterchill never ceazes to take my breath away with the heights of their talent. Their latest nsfw Drarry art was absolute fire, as are their fics and poems.

@cheriecherishchen

Let's take a moment to celebrate a quiet artist who creates incredible cover art for their favorite fics. I discovered Cherie's covers when they made a cover for one of my fics (see excerpt above). They make cover art for a lot of Drarry fanfics using stock photos and a talent for visual design. I love how creativity in this fandom takes so many forms!

@fantalfart

Fantalf's art is so soft and gorgeous. I love seeing it on my dash (just look at the example above!) and when they participate in fests. Their most recent comic was simply stunning, with a masterful use of black-and-white and color panels to support their storytelling.

@drarrydoodles

A unique, gorgeous style, a use of color and shadow that reminds me of oil paintings and makes me want to stare at each of their arts for long, awestruck minutes. They don't post a ton of art but when they do, holy fuck I need to lie down. They also reblog a lot of other artists, which is really cool if you're looking for more artists to follow.

Here were a few of my favorite 2023 artists!! Go give them lots of love (and feel free to add you own faves to my (incomplete) list!

[quail-in-red]

Your trope mashup art is giving me life! so brilliant!!! May I request 75. and 85? <3

Heya! Thanks <3 hehe… here’s 75. Bed Sharing + 85. Innocent Physical Contact!

I am still slowly trying to get through these haha

[bluebutter-art]

Some of the pieces I've made for the @hdwickedwixen ! ❤️🥂

It was so much fun being part of an amazing team of writers and artist to create this zine together! Seeing it come together piece by piece was an exciting thing and I have to thank the mods @okay-sky @anzukero @acedthis for making this happen!! Thank you!!!! ❤️❤️

[drarry-mini-bang]

Fest rules

What is this fest about?

Drarry Mini Bang is a collaborative fest in which writers and artists come together to create fanwork. The writers will submit their detailed concept for a fic, and artists will claim one or several (up to you!) to create an art piece.

Who can participate?

You must be at least 18 years old at time of signing up.

We also expect you to treat everyone taking part, including the mods, with respect. 

All work must be your own, and we do not allow any kind of fic or art produced with AI.

You may register as both a writer and an artist, but due to the collaborative nature of this event, you cannot make art for your own fic. All the matching will be done through the claiming process, therefore we will not allow pre-made collabs between artists and writers.

What are the requirements for writers? 

Writers will need to write an original fic of at least 10k.

The fic needs to be a stand-alone, unpublished fic. You will be asked to submit your fic concept with an estimated word count, a list of tags and possible warnings/triggers and the rating of your fic. If any of these details change after you’ve submitted your concept and before preview day, you need to let the mods know asap. If something changes after the teams have been announced, please talk to your partner and let the mods know if there are any issues.

Please do not share details of your fic before you are matched with an artist. You can share small snippets and talk about your story after the teams have been formed.

Your fic must be complete and has to be beta read before the submission deadline. Should you need an extension, please let us know as soon as you can.

When you fill in your sign up form, you will be given a chance to decide what type of art you would like to receive for your story.

We will cap writers at 25 participants, but we will open sign ups for pinch hitters. We will try our best to find everyone an artist to work with, but due to the collaborative nature of this event, should we not have enough artists, the people whose fics have not been picked might have to be dropped.

What are the requirements for artists?

You can create a variety of original fan work based on the story your writer is working on:

- illustrations, both digital and traditional (they don’t need to be in colour) 

- moodboards (at least 6 elements)

- plastic arts (including embroidery and origami)

- playlists (a minimum of 10 songs)

- fic binding

- podfic

We will ask you to create a minimum of one art piece based on the story your writer is working on. If you would like to work with more than one writer (which would make us extremely happy), please let us know in your sign-up form.

There is no cap for artists.

What kind of rating is allowed?

Any rating is allowed for both art and fics, but please tag your work appropriately. 

We support SALS (ship and let ship) YKINMKBYKIO (your kink is not my kink, but your kink is okay) and DLDR (don’t like – don’t read), so we will not tolerate any shaming. 

For this fest, we will not accept any works that contain Dead Dove content. If your work is rated Mature or Explicit, the characters involved must be at least 18 years old.

What is the schedule for posting?

Sign ups open for writers and artists: 20th January

Sign ups close: 18th February

Deadline for fic concepts and details to be submitted by writers: 18th February

Fic concepts sent to artists: 24th February

Artists claim: 27th February

Teams announced: 2nd-6th March 

First check-in: 6th April

Second check-in: 11th May

Last check-in: 8th June 

Submissions due: 2nd July 

Posting begins: August 

Do I need to keep my creation secret?

You can share your WIPs only after the teams have been announced.

This fest is not anonymous.

What if my partner ghosts me or is being rude?

Please let us know and we’ll speak to them. This is a collaborative event - ignoring your partner causes unnecessary stress and anxiety, and we will not tolerate any rudeness or abuse.

We also ask that you stick to deadlines, because we don’t want anyone to be let down and end up without a partner. If you think at any point during the fest that you need to drop out, please please please let us know as soon as you can, so that we can find someone to replace you.

I still have a lot of questions about this, how can I contact you?

Send us an ask, a DM or contact us at  and we will gladly answer.

Your mods @orange-peony, @pato-roldnart, @bubble-gumhead, @sleepstxtic

[quail-in-red]

hi quail! i love your art so much! 41 and 47 if you wanna? ☺️💚

Thank you!!! 💕 *rubs hands together* Aahh this one is a challenge!

First Kiss + Not a Date

[itsphantasmagoria]

A commission I just finished for @apricitydays-lazynights, a scene from their fic Expiration of a Summer's Rose. I really enjoyed this one!

[quail-in-red]

oooh i love the tropes mashup idea! it was fun to think of these visually. what about 39 and 60 for drarry? (sub either of those if it just Does Not Work btw, zero pressure!!)

Haha ok this got way more elaborate than I was planning

39. Survival/Wilderness Fic + 60. Poorly Timed Confession

Trope Mashup Prompts!

[dranka]

The Betrayer ✨

[bluebutter-art]

In His Nature 🌿🥀🕯

My work for @hd-erised fest 2023

View the full work on AO3 here!

[squintclover]

I have had this idea, and I feel a little nervous asking, but I have loved reading fics and seeing tumblr posts where recipes are shared.

Would people be interested in a fic fest where you also share a favourite recipe?

The fic could be about anything but must mention somehow the recipe, and then the recipe is also included in the fic (could be in the narrative, or just shared at the beginning or end). I just think it would be cute and then all the recipes could be collected like a little fandom recipe book.

**EDIT** I should’ve also said that this could also be art of any kind! As many types of fan stuff as possible!!

…

Yes, this sounds cute

Yes, let me help you (DM me😘)

No, not my jam

Voting ended onJan 14, 2024

[moonflower-rose]

Omg this is so my jam

[bluebutter-art]

Lovebug 🐞🐕💗

My work for @hd-erised fest 2023!

View on AO3 here!

[hd-erised]

H/D Erised Fic: Nothing Gold Can Stay

Title: Nothing Gold Can Stay Author: Anonymous Recipient: @bluebutter-art Pairing(s): Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy, background Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, mention of past Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley Rating: Explicit Word Count: ~40,200 Tags:  Auror Draco Malfoy, Unspeakable Harry Potter, Auror Ron Weasley, Healer Hermione Granger, magical accident, parallel universe, mention of past mpreg, mention of potential future mpreg, mention of past canon torture, mention of past non-canon torture, mention of minor body image issues, pining, friendship, friends to lovers, established relationship, brief misunderstandings, angst with a happy ending, emotional support, vulnerability, getting together, casual affection, first time, Virgin Draco Malfoy, mutual masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, the London Aquarium, Magical Creatures that probably shouldn't be pets, cooking together, drinking, gratuitous descriptions of food and eating, best read after dinner or with a snack Summary: One summer evening, Harry Potter vanished in the middle of dinner with his friends. Four days later he came back. Sort of.  Draco Malfoy is on the case. Author's Notes: Blue, I was so honoured to write for you this year, I am an enormous fan of yours. There was so much wonderful content in your sign up and so many potential stories, but this one wanted to be yours the most. I tried to grab as many of your gems as possible. I hope you enjoy this and a very merry Erised to you! Massive thanks to c and h for the wonderful beta and wisdom, and to o and si for the top notch moral support. As always, thank you to the mods, and thank you from the heart of my bottom for your extra patience this year.  Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

[moonflower-rose]

This was meeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I cannot tell you how excited and nervous I was to see the name @bluebutter-art in my assignment, holy moly. I absolutely adore Blue Butter's art and have been a huge fan for years. I loved everything about their sign up and while I was thinking about what I could write I decided to have a peek at their AO3 bookmarks to see if I could get a sense of fics they'd liked in the past, and my brain spat out an idea I'd had a few years ago that I'd sort of dismissed. I remember very clearly rambling in the group chat a while back that I'd had this amazing idea for a sort of alternate universe story which, when I was finished describing it to my pals, sounded suspiciously like a mashup of Turn and Far From The Tree lol. So that went in a box and got kicked under the bed for a while because even I didn't want to read MY take on those two epics.

For some reason when I started working on this years Erised it seemed like that old dusty fragment of an idea might be the right place to start. At one point I had a massive panic about it and almost decided to chuck the whole thing and start over (VERY late in the game) but was talked from the ledge. A series of unfortunate life events began to plague me and the story wouldn't fucking finish, and I had to ask for endless extensions. The relief when it was done was incredible, lol, I was so bloody sick of looking at it.

Thank you @bluebutter-art for being so kind and lovely in your comments, and for being such an incredible artist, it was such an honour to have written for you.

Thanks as always to @shiftylinguini for cheering me on and helping keep my head on straight (or helping me put it back when it inevitably falls off).

A HUGE THANKS TO THE BETAS FROM HEAVEN @citrusses and @holygnocchi!!!! I cannot recommend this amazing people more, talk about patient, supportive, insightful, detailed, constructive, did I mention patient, and FAST work from both of them my GOD. That was an amazing experience and I've developed a deeply weird love for both of you (soz).

A million thanks as always to the mods who are always so patient in spite of all the chaos of such a complicated fest.

This is the part where the orchestra starts to play to get the blabbering knob off the stage, thank you and goodnight!

[bluebutter-art]

OMG ITS YOUUUUUUU 🤩🤩🤩🤩

It’s so so brilliant and wonderful 😭😭 one of the funniest silliest loveliest draco i’ve ever read in a fic, and the most charming sweet and funniest harry too!! such a charming storytelling, i had a huge smile reading this from beggining to end because it WAS THAT GOOD.

Thank you for sharing the little backstory of how this fic came to be! it’s so interesting, and while i agree that it’s sort of a mashup between Turn and Far From The Tree (two of my faves!!), i think this fic still has its own unique charm and personality!! Such great family feels and Rosie writes banter and humor like nobody else!

srsly just go check this fic out!!