H/D Erised 2025: Coup de Cœur
Coup de Cœur for @katttastasis [E, 35k]
Potter was pure grace on a bike. The pedal seemed to flow effortlessly from his foot, the wheel spun with his leg as one. Draco fucking hated it.
Selected tags: Tour de France AU, Rivals-With-Benefits, Bildungsroman, the inherent homoeroticism of a sports rivalry, Harry Potter has a big cock
NOW WITH BEAUTIFUL ART FROM THE INIMITABLY TALENTED @slyssnakes (including some NSFW art.........) - truly the most incredible artist to have worked with. I am so honored!!!!
@katttastasis: I literally could not think of a better giftee to have. Your work looms so large in my head, and I truly do think of you as the queen of sports AUs in Drarry, with such range across so many sports - hopefully I have added cycling to your collection <3. I was so inspired by all of your fics while writing, but particularly by the transcendence that can come when Draco and Harry push one another to the perfect chess game, the tennis match where no one can believe what they're watching, flying in an F1 car—you've written their rivalry so beautifully and in a way that makes them both better, and I hope I've done your work justice.
Also your Erised sign-up was a joy beyond sports, so THANK YOU for being such an incredible & inspirational writer, and being such a fun person to write for.
To my incredible team of alphas & betas & DM cheerers, @citrusses, @powerful-owl, @thehoneybeet, @hoko-onchi-writes, @xalandrix, and vera: all your touches made this story so so so much better. Thank you everyone (especially Chase) for wrangling my unwieldy and overwrought sentences. Any unwieldy and overwrought sentences that remain are my own <3
Thank you to the other @hd-erised mods, @thehoneybeet, @nv-md, and vera, for being so gracious after my health took a terrible turn this fall and I ended up needing far longer than anticipated to finish this.
And THANK YOU to everyone who read this fic during its anon period: I am so grateful to you.
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