hobbies include: close reading the Redwall series to answer my most burning questions. such as:
- can I replicate any of these delicious-sounding foodstuffs and would they in fact be delicious if I was able to
- corollary to the above: are we just supposed to read āoat creamā and ānut cheeseā every time we see the words ācreamā and ācheeseā? I think so. bc if not, what tha hell are their livestock animals
- what is Society like? I donāt think we ever see a Mouse City or even Mouse Town though we do see castles and obviously an abbey. are we supposed to believe that most creatures are either in wandering bands or these societies based around a single structure (castle/abbey?)
- they appear to have an idea of what currency is (the bad guys always want treasure ā maybe just to have, not to sell? but less ambiguous is some dialogue I just read, āacorn for your thoughts?ā āyou can have them for freeā) but again, we never see anyone using money or making goods for the market. is this after the fall of Mouse Capitalism? are the bad guys (the idea of rat pirates gives me a headache, vis a vis the political/economic systems needed to power piracy) raiding preindustrial mouse societies for treasure/meat?
- corollary to the above: the abbey creatures have oats and wheat but we donāt see anybody farming or trading for farm goods on a large enough scale. is the abbey āorchardā really a like an indigenous forest farm of mixed foodstuffs? is that possible if you live in the same place the whole year or only if you travel each season? I have to do some googling
- both the lack of mixed-species families and the idea of mixed-species families give me a headache. has a squirrel never fallen for a handsome otter? what is the culture shock like if you marry into a subterranean mole family?
- this is the least āimportantā question but this read through Iāve been desperately trying to figure out What Size Everything Else Is. iāve come to the conclusion that everything other than animals are at mouse scale, given that they can make seaworthy vessels their own size (a mouse sized vessel with real-world-sized waves seems impossible) and pick and eat apples and plums. but so far it seems like theyāve avoided mentioning how tall trees are ā like a person compared to a tree or a mouse compared to a tree?
[standing outside of brian jacquesā grave with a megaphone] most societies that have had large scale ships and shipping have needed to develop a concept of insurance. is there Mouse Insurance
Last Song: "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright," Simon and Garfunkel
Favorite Color: will accept anything on the blue-green spectrum in most tones
Last Book: I have at least ten books half-read right now which is distressing, but pretty sure I will eventually finish Ninefox Gambit; Henry, Henry; Martyr; Ink Blood Sister Scribe; and Same Bed, Different Dreams. Really gotta work on my library queue management
Last Movie: Death Becomes Her (1992)
Last TV show: English Teacher (thx @boxboxlewis u do this now ok?)
Sweet/spicy/savory: yes but we forgot salty? and sour? i demand balance!!!!
Relationship status: pretty good actually
Last Thing I googled: "goodbye frank lloyd wright"
Current obsession: I am STUMPED by this question, my interests are opaque to me. Music Leagues, potluckable foods, the differential in craft pride in various disciplines over time, what's the chat up to, HEY I have a question for you,* how to create tension out of character, local politics?
Looking forward to: the curse/gift of New Draft Season, coming in TWO WEEKS
tagging @apricitydays-lazynights, @myrtlefics, @elskanellis, @melociraptor, @sleepstxtic, @goblinmatriarch, @greattemptation, @rainstormradish, @saintgarbanzo, @starquestingfordrarry, is vera on tumblr?? veraaaaa!, and thanks to the heroic @xalandrix for the tag, I love piles of details about friends
My own favorite paintings of centaurs in mundane situations include "The Centaur Playing with Her Child" by Otto Soltau and "A Centaur Playing with His Son" by Otto Bache
How do you preserve the food from your garden so it doesn't go bad before you can eat it?
You are wildly underestimating my ability to go fucking feral about fresh produce. I don't think I even brought snap peas into the house last year. Just ate them right off the vine.
Though I did end up freezing the strawberries/blue berries as they ripened, but even those were consumed within the week.
The only tough one was the potatoes, but that was resolved by just foisting potatoes on everyone I knew. Much more welcome than Zucchinis.
Every year people see this and say, āoh but I like spinach!ā And I must regretfully inform you all that perpetual spinach is another name for leaf beet, which could also be described as Worse Chard.
Leaf beet is a bit like spinach. It has many useful properties. Itās ācut and come again,ā meaning you can harvest a mealās worth of leaves from the plant - leaving the plant standing - and it will generate another portion before you come back. Thatās why itās perpetual: a few plants will give you perpetual leaves, from spring until autumn, until theyāre finally killed by heavy snow. It grows regardless of heat, cold, wet and dry. Unlike tender spinach, it doesnāt bolt (flower) and even if it does, it doesnāt make a difference. Unlike tender spinach - which is tender and delicious and therefore instantly devoured by all bugs and slugs and birds - perpetual spinach is extremely resistant to pests.
This is because itās not very nice.
Combining the properties that people cordially dislike in beetroot and spinach, itās muddy - not like fun mud, like wet clay mud, very specific geologically - and wet, with a distant cloudy aftertaste. It tastes like a horrible summer in England. āI want to go home,ā I say, despondently, eating perpetual spinach, but I canāt. Itās a horrible summer in England and perpetual spinach absorbs that and spits it back out at you.
But the thing is: itās so easy and thereās so MUCH of it. Itās fun to grow and harvest. So you grow it or let the kids grow it. Or maybe you fail to stop it from growing. And then you have it, perpetually.
One year I gave a lot to the vicarās wife and she called me and asked if she was doing it wrong, and I had to admit, no, thatās what leaf beet is like, and she was like: and knowing this? You gave it to me?? Which was an unexpectedly powerful argument because I had to admit that yeah, I was counting on her not being very perceptive.
She was like i tried elodie. I am a vicarās wife and we are so broke all the time and i would leap at any free food going. And the food miles and the organicness. It was like the most ethical food going. And it sucked, elodie. It sucked balls.
And I had to entrench myself in the yep. Sorry. I knew that and gave it to you. Throw it away. The only prize for suffering would have been more perpetual spinach.
This is not a skill issue. You can cook it in any manner you please with all the skills available to you. You can stir-fry it in minced garlic all you like. You can do anything! No one can stop you. But at the end of the day you are faced with the knowledge that you could have had actual spinach instead. There is a reason that leaf beet is not commonly sold in grocery stores and thatās because you can. Also. Just. Buy. Spinach.
And while you are resigning yourself to eating something you donāt really like, this whole time, the plant has made two more meals for you. Thatās the other thing about it. It keeps going, and you donāt.
Life is short and time is fleeting. If a neighbor leaves perpetual spinach on your doorstep put it RIGHT back on theirs!!!
what if magic was real but it was treated the way music is now with different genres and like āoh youre still into conjuring? thats cool I guess. recently ive been getting into third-wave post-necromancy, itās some pretty heavy stuffā
āwhat do you mean youāve never learned FIREBALL, itās a CLASSICā
āidk Iām not really into evocations.ā
āhow can you not be into ANY evocations?ā
āwell, itās kind of dad magic, isnāt it?ā
while I was sitting on my couch the other day, I got raptured up to heaven for a few minutes. God told me she wanted to show me something and took me to her room, and above her bed, there was a framed napkin sketch of a cat with a plaque like a museum. she told me humanity and existence was created for the purpose of sketching this image one day, that the universe was a code she ran which was exceptionally fast for her and only millennia long to the creatures it generated. it needed to be this way in order to generate the sketch, because for the sketch to exist, napkins needed to be invented, and cats needed to evolve, and pencils and humans and all of that needed to come first, culminating in the bored person who would one day sketch this piece, which was her favorite. the plaque said it was finished in 2014. I pointed out that this would mean the universe had been pointless for several years now. she said yes. we stared at each other for a few minutes. when I woke up I could taste cranberry on my lips
are you whiny bitches seriously acting like faster and more affordable and more accessible translation is bad? itās a bad thing? itās a thing we should be against now? is that seriously where weāve arrived? can you people think for ten fucking seconds just ONCE?
machine translation is really good for many languages - esp the romance ones - and while its not perfect or anything, like.. i donāt know how to tell you itās a good thing weāre able to instantly speak to people, 80% accurately, from anywhere in the world
I went through the notes on this post specifically to find this reply - or one like it. Because it has a point, and itās a decent point for you, the person. But itās also missing the info of the larger scale problem.
(Or it isnāt; as you rightly point out in the tags, itās a capitalism problem. But Iāll expand on this point of ācapitalismā. I need to rant. I need to scream.)
Iām a professional translator. I work in video games and software, with an occasional dash of literary translation. Iāve worked in translation proper, Iāve worked on editing other peopleās work, Iāve led a couple of translator teams. Iāve worked the occasional miracle, working around some Really Dumb Choices the developers made.
(Spoiler alert: other languages have different syntax and grammar, if you give me a list of nouns to translate, and then give me the plural āsā to translate separately, this is not good. Even in English, woman -> womans is dumb.)
I am a fan of making things affordable and accessible. I am really happy that Google Translate and similar things can tell me the gist of what people are saying in conversations I only half care about. As the poster above says, itās great! Not perfect, but ok!
Do you know whatās not great? Do you know what the OP in the original image means?
The client the original image is talking about isnāt you. Itās not some person on the internet trying to find out what someone said in a Post. The client theyāre talking about is, essentially, the corporation: the translation agency, the publishing house, the IT giant.
You, the individual, do not have the power to demand how I do my job. If you come to me and say, āSarshi, I want you to take this 300-word post, run it through Google Translate, and then charge me half of what you usually do for translating itā, I can take it or leave it.
But I get contacted by agencies - half of them want this. āWe have a game, Sarshi! Just post-edit the results of a machine translation!ā āWe have support articles, Sarshi! Weāre paying you a lot less to post-edit the results of machine translation!ā
You say itās ok to have 80% accuracy, and I feel you! Yes, sometimes it is! But companies are like ālol, this worksā, too!
Itās happening over and over. And these arenātā¦ theyāre not people, you know? Theyāre not Auntie May trying to figure out what the dough recipe she got from her niece in Indonesia says. Theyāre agencies, trying to increase their earnings by promising top quality to companies, then going, āgosh, we said weād do it for cheap, how can we manage that?ā
Or they can even be large companies themselves. Oh, youāve spent a bajillion trillion dollars trying to create the CryptoNFTVirtualRealityAI hybrid that everybody knew wouldnāt work and now you panic because your earnings are lower than usual? Oh, and you want to ācut costsā by screwing over every contractor you have? Great. Just great.
This is going to screw you over - you, the individual. Not my client, not the translatorās client in general - the companyās client. The corporation is too big to really care about how you feel about their product - the employees individually might, but the companyās only metric is if you buy it or not. And the company makes decisions based on what brings the most money for the least cost.
So your hardware manuals might be crap and you might be in tears because you have no idea how to make your new appliance do the thing. Youāll go on YouTube and youāll find a solution, and youāll eventually figure it out. And maybe youāll forget about the crap manual in time. So next time, they still wonāt get a good translator, because they already have a cheaper solution that seems to work.
So your game looks like it was translated by a bunch of rats in a bunker and you can barely understand what anyoneās saying? Well, maybe they got a bottom-feeding agency overpromise that they totally have legit translators working for $1/hour. Pinky swear! Did you buy the game? You did. Soā¦ the system worked! Theyāll hire the same agency again!
Itās like the clothing industry all over again. We could have better clothes, but itās cheaper not to. Theyāre doing us a service by selling us shoes that wonāt last a season, and T-shirts that will look like crap after washing them twice - theyāre cheap, arenāt they? Theyāre affordable. Anyone can get clothes. (So you pay more in time are are more frustrated? Whoās counting!)
And meanwhile, itās easy to forget things might be different. That we have the ability to create good things, pleasant things. That manuals can be easily readable, that games can sound great, that books can be awesome to read. It becomes harder to trust the market, harder to believe in quality, easier to say that this is normal, this is how things just are.
And if you speak English natively, wellā¦ Youāre at a huge advantage. A lot of stuff is created by your people, for you. For countries like mine, that are small enough to import a lot, nearly everything is translated. I want you to imagine almost all movies subbed, every appliance made elsewhere (with menus needing translated and all), every app in a foreign language. And everybody who can cut costs will try to.
#excellent breakdown #i promise no translator worth anything is against individual people being able to use mt to understand texts and communicate #iām a translator and iām a big fan of machine translation in my everyday life but it should not be used commercially #machine translation in commercial products is at worst a health and safety risk #but NOBODY who actually understands the matter is saying that mt shouldnāt exist. for fuckās sake
@spanish-blog I have an even better illustration of why machine translation sucks:
Here I asked google to translate č·å, a Chinese verb meaning āto tumble or fall downā into French. The translation google provides is āautomne,ā a noun meaning āfall, the season of the year between spring and winter.ā
English is the only language where the word for āfallā (to tumble) is the same as the word āfallā (the season of the year). Neither Chinese nor French use the same word to express these very different concepts.
Google isnāt doing a bad Chinese-to-French translation here. In fact, itās not doing a Chinese-to-French translation at all. Whatās happening instead is google is doing a bad Chinese to English translation, followed by an even worse English to French translation. Itās playing a secret game of telephone, wherein requests to translate between two non-English languages are getting translated into English first, and then into the target language.
this energetic and diabolical boy was rescued from a goon hoarding situationā¦ he loves pulling levers, gloating, and turning cranks with great abandon. prefers to be the only goon. needs an active lair with plenty of enrichment.
now this fella comes with some baggage. his previous villain was going to have put down when he refused to perform unsedated human vivisection as a form of torture. one of our agents intercepted the execution and brought him to the goon shelter. would thrive in an environment of G or PG-rated villainry.
on the other hand, if youāre looking for something a little moreā¦ advancedā¦ then this fine lady over here would make a great challenge for an experienced villain able to set firm boundaries. she will NOT be released to first-time villains; proof of prior henchpeople must be demonstrated before adoption approval. high prey drive. under no circumstances should she be left alone with children or small animals. must sign waiver releasing the goon shelter from responsibility if her behavior is deemed excessively depraved.
These two are pair-bonded and may only be adopted together. Up for anything, they are fiercely loyal to their employer provided their needs are met and they are permitted to hold hands. They look alarmingly similar to one another but it is undeterminable whether they are close blood relatives or lovers who choose to dress and style themselves in identical ways. Habit of finishing each otherās sentences with rhyming couplets; we have not attempted to train this out of them. Will answer to whatever names or titles you give them so long as they are complimentary and/or rhyme.
Will you help this goon find his forevil lair? Heās been returned to the goon shelter six times now but we refuse to give up on him. A vile little rat of a man, heād be the perfect accomplice to someone willing to overlook his unfortunate heterosexuality. If gay-coding is not your style and you donāt expect it from a henchman, please consider giving this little guy a good home in your dastardly schemes.
This guy is not your typical goon. He was rescued from a high-kill shelter after being deemed unfit for henching. His deep baritone voice, his darkly handsome good looks, and his flair for the dramatic have made prospective employers pass over him time and time again, making him the longest resident of the goon shelter. But donāt judge a book by its coverāwhile his appearance and demeanor suggest āvillainā, his real passion is taking orders and faithfully serving a master. If youāre secure in your villainry and not prone to jealousy, he may just be what it takes to turn your base into a lair.
At last, the day youāve been waiting for!Ā Itās the REVEALS!Ā
šµ Raise your glass if you are wrong
In all the right ways
All my Drarry fans
We will never be never be, anything but loud
And nitty gritty dirty little freaks (fond)
Won't you come on and come on and raise your glass!
Just come on and come on and raise your glass!! šµ
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Time to raise our glass and toast all of the talented people who created your favourite Wireless fics, artworks and podfics!
Massive thanks once again to all the creators of our works. And thanks also to all the readers, betas and supporters of H/D Wireless!
Before we reveal, let's put our hands together for the winners of the guessing game.
š„1st place: @tackytigerfic with 33 correct guesses!
šµ Song Prompt: Might as Well Be Gone by PixiesĀ
šµ Summary:Ā Draco Malfoy retired from the Auror force and left England a decade ago, but he still receives the Daily Prophet. Todayās issue provides closure on the one case he was never able to officially solve.
š» MY FRIENDS SAY I SHOULDN'T SEE YOU ANYMORE [T, Digital Art ]
āļø Artist: @bicholsdrarrysideblog (bichol)
šµ Song Prompt: bad idea right? by Olivia RodrigoĀ
šµ Summary: Both Draco's and Harry's friends don't approve of their little... dalliance. But it's so hard to stay away from each other! Could this be a bit more than just casual?
š» He Did IT! [Not Rated, Digital Art]
āļø Artist: @legendrarry (whileatwiltshire)
šµ Song Prompt: No Body, No Crime by Taylor SwiftĀ Ā
šµ Summary: Harry: I think he did it but I just can't prove it, 'Mione!!Ā
Hermione: And, what exactly did he do, Harry?Ā
Harry: I-, I don't know! Something! He has to! It feels weird every time I look at him!!Ā
Hermione: .....Ā
Ron: ......Ā
Ron: Mate...Ā
*****Ā
Or, it's sixth year and Malfoy is definitely up to something! Why else would Harry's heart beat so fast every time the stupid git so much as looks at him!?!
š» A Quiet Life [T, Digital art]
āļø Artist: @getawayfoxĀ
šµ Song Prompt: A Quiet Life by Teho Teardo & Blixa BargeldĀ
šµ Summary: After their relationship becomes public knowledge; after being hounded by the paparazzi; after Draco says enough is enough and leaves London; Harryās more than happy to follow.Ā
After all, a quiet life is all heās ever wanted.
š» The Shape I found you in [Not Rated, Digital art]
āļø Artist: @veneficusposts (innifinity)Ā
šµ Song Prompt: 'The Shape I found you in' by 'Girlyman'Ā
šµ Summary: But your heart was busy within,Ā
Building bomb shelters under your skin.Ā
That's the shape I found you in
š¶ H/D Wireless Fic and Art š¶
š» Trade My Heart For Honey [M, 64.170, Digital Watercolour]
āļø šļø Artist and Author: @thunderfiction (MyNameIsThunder)Ā
šµ Prompt: Water Under The Bridge by AdeleĀ
šµ Summary:Ā A Witch who thinks sheās a Seer, a Seer who thinks sheās a Witch, a former nemesis-turned-something-turned-acquaintance who thinks they could be friends, and a Scottish village full of Muggles who think this is as much their business as the fair folk in the woods. Draco is going to prove them all wrong.
šµ Song Prompt: "Dreams" by Fleetwood MacĀ
šµ Summary: Harry and Ginny are on a break. Harry and Ginny donāt want anyone to know. Harry assumes Ginny is fucking their way through their Quidditch team. Harry punches Draco Malfoy in the face in his free time. Harry considers this a perfectly reasonable coping mechanism. Harry figures that as long as he keeps everything the way that it is, that everything will stay the same, and nothing bad will happen, and Ginny will stay with him, and Malfoy will keep quietly visiting his dreams.
š¶ H/D Wireless Fic š¶
š» You're on Your Own, Kid [E, 44.274]Ā
šļø Author: @thesleepiesthufflepuff (bluefay)
šµ Song Prompt: You're on Your Own, Kid by Taylor SwiftĀ
šµ Summary: In August of 1998, Draco leaves behind everything heās ever known. With the help of two middle-aged lesbians, a Muggle bookshop, and a new best friend, Dracoās future is finally looking up. That is, until Harry Potter wanders back into his life a year later, undoing everything Draco has worked towards.Ā
Or, a tale about healing, forgiveness, and living for no one but yourself.
š» Heartbeat [E, 22,791]
šļø Author: @saxamophone (eight_of_wands)
šµ Prompt: Heartbeat by Childish GambinoĀ
šµ Summary:Ā Harry hates Draco, and Draco hates him in return. Only it's not hate, not even a little bit.
Featuring: a cooperative independent study, golden hour on wrecked sheets, strawberries in the summer at Grimmauld Place, water from fountains of (dubious) origin, purple Mardi Gras beads, and a bird with silly legs.Ā
Also featuring: heated arguments, infidelity, unquenchable desire, and heartbreak. Over and over again.
š» Long for Bliss! [E, 9,400]
šļø Author: @thusspoketrish (Trishjames)
šµ Song Prompt: This Must Be It by RƶyksoppĀ
šµ Summary: Harry has a tough decision to make: take the blue pill or the red pill. He chooses a pink one instead and throws caution to the wind. What blows back comes in the form of a blond fallen angel that talks like heās the Devil and, hopefully, fucks as deliciously as he moves.
Or: Harry tries MDMA for the first time and unexpectedly encounters a mysteriously captivating Draco at KOKO London.
āDragon caught your tongue?ā Malfoy asks around his candy.
Harryās voice is an awed whisper as he feasts upon the strangely delicate, alien splendour of Malfoy. āYes, you have.ā
š» Going Down Swinging [E, 4,661 ]
šļø Author: @sleepstxticĀ
šµ Song Prompt: Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! by Allan ShermanĀ
šµ Summary:Ā āWho are you?ā he asked, feeling around for a truly abominable pair of glasses he fixed firmly above his nose.Ā
āIām Draco,ā he answered. āDracoāā He paused. It wasnāt that he couldnāt remember; it was that the memory wasnāt there.
š» The Most Heās Ever Said [E,16,431]
šļø Author: @fastbrother
šµ Song Prompt: One of Your Girls by Troye SivanĀ
šµ Summary: It takes them twenty years.
š» Draco Malfoyās Guide to Seduction (DISCLAIMER: not guaranteed to work on one HJ Potter) [M, 11,107 ]
šļø Author: skotiniĀ
šµ Song Prompt: 'Push the button' by 'Sugababes'Ā
šµ Summary: Harry's gorgeous. Draco wants him.Ā
Draco's exasperatedly trying to get him to get. the. message.
š» karma is a (cat) [E, 8,714 ]
šļø Author: @ravenesse
šµ Song Prompt: Karma by Taylor SwiftĀ
šµ Summary: Draco knew that his karma would come one to him one day and make him pay for all the mistakes he made during the war.Ā
But he didnāt expect for it to have four legs, white whiskers, and a soft bushy tail.
š» Kiss and Tell [E, 27,786 ]
šļø Author: @drarrysworld (use_it_well)
šµ Song Prompt: Kiss and Tell by Bryan FerryĀ
šµ Summary: Sometimes, Harry really fucking hated being himself. All he wanted was to be left alone. That, and someone to share his life with. Was that too much to ask? Apparently so.Ā
When Harryās sex-life was plastered across the front page of the Daily fucking Prophet, he decided to get away until it all died down. Unfortunately, trouble had always known how to find him.Ā
Would it be possible to forgive the unforgivable?
š» When the Flood Comes [E, 10,340]
šļø Author: @academicdisasterficĀ
šµ Song Prompt: Eat Your Young by HozierĀ
šµ Summary: Nine years on from the war, Auror Potter is upholding the Ministry of Magic's rule of law.Ā
Senior legal counsel Draco Malfoy is challenging it.Ā
And absolutely nothing is as it seems.
š» Never Getting Over You [E, 4,396]
šļø Author: @arminaa8Ā
šµ Prompt: Attention by Charlie PuthĀ
šµ Summary:Ā Harry finally gets the push he needs to fight for what he's lost after a breakup that no one wanted.
š» Mermaid [E, 3,000]
šļø Author: @lettersbyelise
šµ Song Prompt: 'Mermaids' by Florence and The MachineĀ
šµ Summary: āYour magic,ā Harry says. āItās gone.āĀ
āItās a curse,ā Draco says, sounding wry. āCourtesy of Aunt Bellatrix. Disown a Black, and youāll take their magic away, too. Even if their family name is Malfoy.ā
āWhat could bring your magic back?ā
Draco laughs in his ear.
āTrue loveās kiss," he murmurs.
And then he turns in Harryās arms.
š» Us, infinite (unfortunately) [E, 77,287 ]
šļø Author: @thecouchsofa
šµ Song Prompt: All Things End by HozierĀ
šµ Summary:Ā Itās very fitting for how Harryās life has gone thus far that he gets trapped in a time loop without rhyme, reason, or warning.Ā
To make matters infinitely worse, the one other person stuck on the same hellish chronological ride is Draco Malfoy, git extraordinaire.
š» I made loving you a blood sport (so let's play) [E, 3,032]
šļø Author: @otpcutie
šµ Song Prompt: Blood Sport by Sleep TokenĀ
šµ Summary: They sat in an odd kind of silence, comfortable in its discomfort. In the predictability of its recklessness. The thing between them was as palpable as the thick smoke in the air, consumed with every breath, and likely just as bad for them.
š» Everything that can go wrong will go wrong [T, 5,178]
šļø Author: @etteishere (Etteee)Ā
šµ Song Prompt: If You Were Mine by Leon Bridges and Miranda LambertĀ
šµ Summary: āYou can move in with me!āĀ
Shit. Apparently there was still a possibility to make a fool out of himself to his crush despite his best efforts at minimizing contact. Draco and Andromeda looked at him in record speed, showing their own expressions of confusion. Maybe at his appearing out of nowhere, maybe at his panting that made it seem like he just ran a marathon for some reason, or maybe at his abrupt and impulsive suggestion. Shit. Teddy wasnāt even here to take off the edgeāHarry was completely alone in this one.Ā
After a pause, Draco fully turned to him with a manner that definitely showed his opinion of how stupid Harry was, and asked, āWhat?ā
š» Antelucan Ruins [E, 29,453]Ā
šļø Author: @rainjulyx
šµ Song Prompt: Ghost by Justin BieberĀ
šµ Summary: From the bloody Prophet, Draco discovers Harry Potterās death splashed in grey ink printed on the front page. Potter is dead before Draco gets to see him again to fulfil a half-spoken promise. And yet, these days Draco has the power to bend the world to his heartās desires, and that includes fucking Harry Potter even after he personally saw Potterās pale, lifeless body lying in a coffin before it got buried under the soil.
āĀ
"Do you realise that you're just as pathetic and insane? You're so hung up on the idea of me that you'd fuck a ghost, Malfoy. You risked your life for it."Ā
Draco puts an arm around Potter's body, "Whoever says I am sane? Certainly not me. It's calculated risk with more success rate than failure. And you are dead, Potter. You refuse to move on to the next realm because you crave for my cock."
š» I've Been There (sitting in that same chair) [Gen, 2,212]
šµ Song Prompt: The Village by WrabelĀ
šµ Summary: People keep knocking on Dracoās door. Draco just wants to read his book (he doesnāt mind, really).Ā
Or: Draco gets to be the supportive queer person heād wished for when he was younger.
š» Lonely Rivers [M, 7,370]
šļø Author: @enparallelĀ
šµ Song Prompt: 'Unchained Melody' by 'The Righteous Brothers'Ā
šµ Summary: Six years after the end of the war, Harry takes care of Teddy Lupin and has started to learn guitar. Hermione negotiates with foreign powers. Draco's a trainee Healer with a glam karaoke routine. And when Ron and Parvati decide to get married, they find a job for everyone...
š» How to Begin [E, 8,478]
šļø Author: @wolfpants
šµ Song Prompt: Blush by Orville PeckĀ
šµ Summary: Harry is completely, pathetically besotted with his flatmate, Draco. Fuelled by liquid courage, he finally makes his move when he's absolutely sozzled. What could possibly go wrong?
š» Oneiros [E, 13,125]
šļø Author: Mischievous (meandminniemcg)Ā
šµ Song Prompt: Enter Sandman by MetallicaĀ
šµ Summary: When contact with a weird vase traps Harry in his nightmares, it's Unspeakable Draco Malfoy's task to rescue him. In order to do so, he will have to face his past and his family history and win a duel of wits against a Morpheus and try to be better than his father each step of the way...
š» Say When [E, 24,545]
šļø Author: @lqtraintracks
šµ Song Prompt: Undisclosed Desires by Muse
šµ Summary: When Auror Harry Potter is sent in undercover to determine if Draco Malfoy is laundering money through his BDSM club, will he be able to keep up the ruse and close the case? Or, more to the point, will he keep from falling in love?
š» crawlin' helpless on the floor [M, 1,525]
šļø Author: @stationintern
šµ Song Prompt: Cure For Pain by MorphineĀ
šµ Summary: It doesn't take much to torment a man when he's three broken contracts away from being out of a job and down a newspaper.
š» Hell is the talkin' type [E, 7,309]
šļø Author: @avigethblogs (avigethwrites)
šµ Song Prompt: Dinner and Diatribes by HozierĀ
šµ Summary: āMorgana, I need a drink,ā Draco sighs. āWhy did I let you convince me to participate in this torture again?āĀ
Harry chuckles. āBecause Iām your husband, and you love me?ā he offers.Ā
āBah. Remind me not to let myself be so sentimental next time.ā
šµ Song Prompt: āMr. Blue Skyā by āElectric Light OrchestraāĀ
šµ Summary: Mr Blue Sky, please tell us why, you had to hide away for so long...Ā Ā
After five years, Malfoy had finally escaped house arrest, and he moved in just a few streets down from Grimmauld Place. Overnight, the Daily Prophet seemed to fall in love with him. For his charity work, and his charming smile, andāHarry was sureāhis prattish fucking personality. No matter how hard Harry tried, he couldn't stop running into him.Ā
He had bigger problems, though. His best friends in the world were having a baby together, which was fantastic, except that they weren't sure he could hold it together well enough to be Godfather.Ā
But despite being flat broke, with a dead dad, and no one willing to risk hiring him, Malfoy appeared to be completely in control of the narrative surrounding his newfound freedom. Maybe Harry could learn a thing or two from the best of the best.Ā
After all, he had the entire pregnancy to convince Ron and Hermione he was perfectly, entirely, 100% fine. If sometimes he had to fistfight Malfoy about it, well, that was nothing new.
š» 'tis the damn season [M, 2,892]
šļø Author: @phoebe-delia
šµ Song Prompt: 'tis the damn season by Taylor SwiftĀ
šµ Summary: He doesnāt know why the universe seems to keep placing him in Potterās proximity every time he returns to London. He doesnāt know how they keep falling into bed, every year, like clockwork.Ā
Draco has tried not to question it.
šµ Song Prompt: Levitating by Dua LipaĀ
šµ Summary: It's Friday night and Harry Potter is relaxing with a good book in front of a crackling fire.Ā
But he should be at the club.
š» Music to my ears [E, 13,190]
šļø Author: MissQuigley
šµ Song Prompt: River flows in You, YirumaĀ
šµ Summary: Harry is completely captivated by the beautiful music played on a street piano at a park in Cambridge. He is, however, unprepared for whom the pianist turns out to be.
š» Pancakes for Dinner [T, 2,176]
šļø Author: @kittycargo
šµ Song Prompt: Pancakes for Dinner by Lizzie McAlpineĀ
šµ Summary: Dracoās on a trip to visit Harry in his new city at his new job. Heās not brave enough to say how he really feels.
š» Seasons [E, 9,314]
šļø Author: @greattemptation
šµ Song Prompt: Ćguas de MarƧo (Waters of March) by AntĆ“nio Carlos JobimĀ
šµ Summary: Seconds pass, and itās like he can see Draco worrying the sliver of glass in his heart, looking for a way to press it out, to expose the wound to the sun. Itās life; Harry can be patient.
š» Two Houses [E, 11,498]
šļø Author: @tackytigerfic
šµ Song Prompt: Social Cues by Cage the ElephantĀ
šµ Summary: Two households, both alike in... meddling Floo connections, apparently?Ā
Draco Malfoy is a highly professional and well-respected Ministry official, with a demanding schedule, a loving son, andāthrough no fault of his ownāa faulty Floo connection that keeps regurgitating the Minister for Magic through his fireplace.
šµ Song Prompt: Perpetual Motion, Perpetual Sound by LoversĀ
šµ Summary: Harry Potter canāt sleep.
š» Closing Time [E, 18,406]
šļø Author: @sweet-s0rr0w
šµ Song Prompt: 'Closing Time' by 'Semisonic'Ā
šµ Summary: Dracoās been invited to Nevilleās stag party in Bristol, and he's confident he knows what to expect. Thereāll be too many Gryffindors, for starters, plus a few humiliating team-building activities, some dodgy clubs, and a truly preposterous level of alcohol consumption.Ā
Butā¦ a drunken Harry Potter climbing into Draco's bed when heās having a wank?Ā
No, he definitely didn't see that coming...
š» every scrap of you (you left them all to me) [E, 54,191]
šļø Author: @peachydreamxx
šµ Song Prompt: marjorie by taylor swiftĀ
šµ Summary: Twelve years on from the war, Harry finds himself in an endless cycle of bedding Draco Malfoy, and waking up alone. Desperate to understand why Draco won't give him a chance to be something more, he commits to courting the slippery blond git.Ā
But there's a reason Draco can't fall for him, and Harry will go to the darkest depths to change that.
š» What are you doing Sunday, baby? [M, 12,034]
šļø Author: @badwolfblues
šµ Song Prompt: Disco 2000 by PulpĀ
šµ Summary: Draco needs a respectable husband to strengthen his reputation before his in-laws try to take Scorpius from him. Who better than his ex, the independently wealthy, out and proud single father, Harry Potter?
š» Too Good At Raising Hell [E, 87,462]
šļø Author: @the-sinking-ship
šµ Song Prompt: 'Too Good At Raising Hell' by 'The Struts'Ā
šµ Summary: When Harry Potter walks into Dracoās nightclub looking like trouble, Draco canāt stop staring. He really ought to train his dick not to react so enthusiastically to red flags, but where would be the fun in that?
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š» [Podfic] Move, move [T, 54:30 ]
š¤ Podficcer: @sweatersinthesummer
šµ Song Prompt: Bar Italia by Pulp
šµ Summary: She grabbed Harryās hand, slipping something small into it and pressing his fingers around it.Ā
āDilectio. Itāll cheer you up. Make you feel like dancing.āĀ
Harry gaped at her. Drugs. Ginnyās fucking giving me drugs?Ā
At Stasis nightclub Ginny does indeed give Harry drugs. But it's all good: Malfoy looks after Harry, and Harry grapples with newfound enlightenments, not to mention a newfound fascination with all things Malfoyāone which persists even when he finds out what Malfoy's up to.
š» [Podfic] A Different Kind of Meaning by p1013 [E, 01:42:57]
š¤ Podficcer: @reveriepi
šµ Song Prompt: 'Outnumbered' by Dermot KennedyĀ
šµ Summary:Ā The ceiling doesn't hold any answers, but there are cobwebs scattered across the corners with shadows tangled in their threads. The rug against his back is rough and scratchy, threadbare and devoid of colours other than various shades of brown. Harry takes it all in, absorbs the dingy and depressed state of his home. There's a pointed moment of decision, a note about to be played, a silence about to end, and then he rolls to his feet and sets to cleaning.Ā
It's the first constructive thing he's done in years.
š» [Podfic] Case of You [Et, 11:48:56]
š¤ Podficcer: @cailynwrites
šµ Song Prompt: Case of You by Joni MitchellĀ
šµ Summary: Draco was doing just fine working as an Unspeakable in Paris, hanging out with his living and ghostly pals, inventing new spells, and definitely not thinking about Potter. Then, Lucius just had to break out of prison and turn his world upside down.Ā
Now, Draco has to return to England, where he is forced to confront how family ties bind usāand one infuriatingly fit Harry Potter.
You canāt really know someone from consuming their fiction and never meet your heroes and blah blah blah. But like.
When you read the work of someone you know personally and itās just bursting with their beautiful soul and their words are enhanced by their spirit. Itās like. A sublime experience.
We gonna talk about Crater Lake, and Wizard Island and not mention the Old Man of the Lake?
The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It's roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first 'offically' recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.
The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.
So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange'? Let's get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that's strange.
So now let's get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it'd be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes...again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.
As a kid, I spent my summers with my family who lives like... 40 some odd miles from Crater Lake National Park so I had this knowledge just kinda buried in my head somewhere.
Thanks for the tag @annanother-thing. I've missed these games during my tumblr break.
Put your Spotify library (or app of choice) on shuffle and put the first 5 songs in a poll so people can vote on which one they like the most:
Which song form my chaotic favorites playlist do you like the most?
Woman In Red - San Fermin
Criminal - Fiona Apple
Touch-Tone Telephone - Lemon Demon
The Cult of Dionysus - The Orion Experience
More Than a Friend - girli
Voting ended onJul 15, 2024
Tagging @enparallel @moonmanateee @pixiedunhoff @romaine2424 @rainstormradish @girlcave @nanneramma @shealynn88 @elisedonut @basicallyahedgehog and anyone else who would like to play! Tag me, I love finding or rediscovering songs.
