we are all Stardust and Stories {e.m.}

| they/them | queer and stuff | probably procrastinating | sort-of grown-up | femme | 'queer is a rejection of the seduction of binaries.' {@decolonialqueer}

[mielnah-deactivated20220722]

we need more men in STEM (Stockings, Tight pants, Eyeliner, Mesh tops)

[ladyhistory]

Me entering any museum: man I’m so excited to learn all the things

Also me: GIFT SHOP GIFT SHOP GIFT SHOP

[wandering-elf]

There are two dragons inside of you. One hoards knowledge and the other hoards trinkets. They’re both very excited when you bring them to a museum

[singingwithoutwords]

Ship Sizes

Supercarrier: fandom flagship.  Everybody and their dog ships it.  The fandom is glutted with artwork and fic.  You cannot escape this ship.

Dreadnought: massively popular.  Nearly everybody ships it.  You can, with dedication, in theory, reach the end of the AO3 archive for the ship’s tag, but it’ll take a long time.

Cruiser: pretty popular ship.  Not everyone ships it, but everyone knows about it.  Has a good amount of fic/art, and probably multiple ask blogs.

Frigate: just plain popular.  Feels like it could use more fanworks.  New people to the fandom might not know about it, but they’ll stumble across it sooner rather than later.

Gunboat: bit of a rarepair.  It might have an ask blog or two.  A couple big name fans ship it.  Probably only takes a few weeks to get through the entire AO3 backlog, and one new fic gets added during that time.

Tugboat: rarepair.  Almost never seen except as a side pairing to a more popular ship.  You can usually get through everything on AO3 in a matter of days.  You’ve forgotten what it is to be picky about what you read.

Rowboat: less than a dozen people ship it.  You all know each other.  You exist in an endless cycle of the same five people desperately producing art and fic and one person who constantly contributes headcanons.

Canoe: you are one of maybe three people who ship it, and there’s a not-insignificant chance you’ve never encountered those other two hypothetical shippers.  You spend your days paddling furiously in hopes of keeping the ship afloat, dreaming of the day you upgrade to a rowboat so you can finally rest.

[samjohnssonvt]

Submarine: Quite a few people ship it, but nobody wants to admit to shipping it. Will randomly appear and throw the other ships into confusion.

[rainewynd]

Pontoon: that random crossover ship with that one black dress character/trope/fandom everyone will ship with everything else. Has the potential to turn into a massive party until someone gets sick and everyone goes home.

[prokopetz]

Pedalo: That iconic bizarre crackship whose proponents claim they’re only into it ironically, but secretly they’re all dead serious.

[justacookieofacumberbatch]

Paging @amythe3lder for the pool noodle definition.

[amythe3lder]

Barge: Not quite seaworthy, but buoyant in both the literal and figurative senses. Someone is always merrily drunktweeting about it at 11pm on Saturday night and then wistfully sobertweeting about it 4 hours later from their kitchen floor. The kind of ship that generates more playlists than fic. Artfully covered in trash and dirty laundry.

Raft: There’s two-to-four people who Ship It Hard and a few others who grab onto the side for safety when there’s drama on their usual flagship.

Barrel: There’s orphaned fic of it. There’s unsigned art of it. There’s headcanon asks on anon. Someone must ship it, but no one knows why or who they are. Your friend got a glimpse once before they ducked back down.

Pool Noodle: It’s just you, kicking your feet. You named the ship and wrote it on your noodle with a big sharpie. You tell people about it and are met with confused blinking. Most of the fics in the tag were either written by you or for you. You are caught between wanting to shout about how lovely life is on this floating scrap of whimsy and fearing that your noodle can’t bear much weight. Or worse, that someone will come over and dunk you, take your noodle and fwhap you on the head with it. 

[iffeelscouldkill]

This is a brilliant guide 😆

[solluxisms]

Ever Given: the fandom Supercarrier is, unfortunately, your NOTP, and it is impossible to find art/fic/meta of your preferred ship without being impeded by the Ever Given’s presence.

[softlystarchived]

grip

✩ drarry | E | 527 words | gags, deep-throating, trans man draco, magical sex toys | read on ao3✩

~ “Open up.”

He slips the ring gag between your teeth, careful not to let it clank. The metal is cold on the corners of your mouth, and you watch the concentrated line of his pink lips as he secures the leather straps over your curls. He slips a finger between your cheek and the strap, humming in approval. There's already a gentle ache in the hinge of your jaw, like your body remembers how this feels.

“What’s your safeword?” he asks. You hold three fingers up. “Good boy. Don’t touch me.”

You drop your hand, then shift slightly. The carpet is soft enough to dull the ache on your knees, but only just. He’s already wearing the strap-on you gifted him for his birthday last year. His cock bobs near your face, between his bare legs, pretty and pale. Sensitive from the charms laced into it.

Long.

You’re already drooling, and he tuts gently, tilting your chin up until you meet his eyes, glinting gunmetal in the low light of the playroom. “Gagging for it, are you?” he murmurs. You know better than to nod– he can see right through you, anyways. He knows what you want.

He strokes his thumb across your wet bottom lip before pulling away entirely. In the next moment, the head of his cock slips into your mouth with a shallow thrust. You instinctively lick at the tip, but he grabs your hair and tugs hard enough to pull a whimper from the back of your throat.

“Don’t move,” he commands, his voice velvet-covered steel, and you let your eyes flutter closed as you soften your mouth. He thrusts in again, starting slow, and hums in approval when you stay pliant. His fingers are still curled in your hair, and he fucks deeper, until spit runs down your chin. Your top lip barely even grazes his cock with the gag in, but you know he doesn’t mind. He has a different goal.

His free hand wraps around your throat. No pressure, just his fingertips, light enough it could be imagined if you weren’t attuned to his touch.

“You are doing so well,” he says, and you open your eyes to catch the tender tilt of his mouth as he slowly pushes in further. You breathe hard through your nose, keeping yourself soft and willing, letting your thoughts finally, finally go fuzzy. All you know is the firm press of his cock, the grip of his fingers, his small, hitching breaths.

Eventually he comes, shivers traveling down through his cock as he pulls out slowly. Immediately, his hands are on your face, wiping at the wet corners of your eyes.

“Baby,” he murmurs. “Baby, can you look at me?”

You hum softly, still floating, still just something to be used. He makes a tender sound and fumbles at the gag, taking it out with as much care as used when he put it in. The ache in your jaw blooms all at once, and you slump against him.

“Baby,” he says again, petting your hair as you press your lips to his warm skin and murmur the only clear thought you have.

Draco.

my first work for @kinkuary 💕 kisses for @m0srael and @onbeinganangel!

[kryptidfox]

@kinkuary Day 1/28: Gagging

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[flightytemptress27]

I was just thinking of goals for the year today!

[the-starryknight]

This January is @lqtraintracks ' ten-year anniversary of writing HP fic, so I wanted to rec one of my favourites of their fics to help celebrate.

Lqt's catalogue -- over 250 HP fics with all kinds of pairings -- is in and of itself impressive. They've done dozens of fests from Cross Gen Fest to Erised to Big Bang and more, been in communities on LJ and Dreamwidth and Tumblr and more, written rarepairs and Draco/Harry alike.

But on top of all that brilliance (and they are an incredible writer) -- they're also a dear friend. They're always willing to lend a kind ear or to chat through writing troubles with excellent advice; and their book recommendations are out of this world. And they bring such love and care to fandom -- meeting even unkind anons with empathetic education.

A little less than a year ago, Lqt dropped this fic on one of my TLC Tuesday lists and the summary caught my eye.

like the lost lyrics of a song suddenly remembered E | 11k | 2018 | Bill/Teddy & James/Teddy by @lqtraintracks

Teddy Lupin, aging rockstar, is making a comeback after his life and career were nearly ruined by an illegal potions habit. Everyone's out to support him tonight. Including the man he's always tried so hard not to love -- as well as the man he's always turned to instead.

The music shines in this fic, vibrant even when I didn't know every song; the fic is full of a clear love for performance that should be indescribable, and yet, it's here on the page. I loved finding this Teddy, among Lqt's other brilliant Teddy-centric fics, where he's a little older, a little more tired, and somehow still so vibrant. The way that this fic talks about love (a love that simmers over time, and that is necessarily complicated) feels so genuine that reading this fic can feel like looking into a pensieve.

When I think of LQT's writing, I think of scorching hot smut, brilliant tension, beautiful characterizations, deep love, and little phrases that pop off the page and take up residence in my mind and heart -- and like the lost lyrics has everything on the list.

I've got many favourites of LQT's fic, but I'll leave it with just this one rec for now. Happy fic-iversary, @lqtraintracks -- I can't wait to see what you'll write next.

[written-in-ash]

Euphoria

Read on ao3!

For @phoebe-delia who gave me this idea <3

“Oi, Potter,” Harry sneered, imitating Draco’s younger self. His tone was teasing, but Draco couldn’t help the euphoric thrill that rushed through his veins wherever Harry addressed him like that. “When will you start putting your bloody socks in the laundry basket?”

Draco laughed and patted the cushion next to him. “Maybe when you learn how to make the bed, Potter,” Draco threw back playfully.

Harry merely grinned and picked up the tumbler of Firewhiskey that sat on the coffee table in front of him. The clink of a platinum ring that tied them together reverberated in the room as it collided with the glass from where it sat snug on his finger. Harry settled himself into Draco’s side, his unkempt hair tickling his husband’s ear. The scene was frighteningly domestic, yet Draco wouldn’t change a thing.

They were the Potters, and that’s all Draco could ever ask for.

Thank you to @purplehotmess for the beta and the wonderful suggestions!

Written for the @drarrymicrofic prompt: Euphoria

[zouisbreakup]

rb to give a flower to the person you rb this from

[sitp-recs]

i am unashamedly asking everyone for fics where draco is Very Hot and Harry is Very Distracted. thx ❤️

It’s what we all deserve 🙌 here are some of my favorites:

Like This and Like This (Dreams of Lace) by @primavera-cerezos (2020, E, 6.6k)

Harry gets an accidental peek. He can’t think of anything else.

Play Dates by @bixgirl1 (2017, E, 7.7k)

Harry never thought seeing Malfoy as a dad would affect him this way.

check this hand 'cause I'm marvelous by @lqtraintracks (2014, E, 8k)

Harry's had a crush on Malfoy for months now. But it will take a bar full of his friends, some Firewhisky, wagers made on his behalf, and Malfoy himself to get him to act on it.

Born Slippy by @dracoladon (2020, E, 8k)

Harry finds that it's less 'one tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor' and more 'one tequila, two tequila, three tequila, decide Malfoy's quite fit, actually, and decent company after your friends traitorous abandonment, floor.' With Malfoy lying next to you.

Ten Thousand Reasons Why Not by @lqtraintracks (2018, E, 8.4K)

Harry and Draco are stand-ins for the usual witch who gives the workplace harassment and sexual consent talk to the Auror trainees. Or, a little tale in which Harry consents to be sexually harassed by Draco Malfoy.

Playing Dirty by @sweet-s0rr0w (2021, E, 8.5k)

As punishment for screwing up yet another mission, and with their magic going haywire, new partners Potter and Malfoy are sent to clean the Auror locker room, the Muggle way. Will they make it out alive? Does Malfoy ever work out how to use a sponge? Do they actually even hate each other, or is it all just misconstrued sexual tension? How long until they accidentally end up naked?

Sex Ed for Aurors by curiouslyfic (2010, M, 8.7k) - lust potion

Some things, you need to learn on the job.

Sex on Legs in Six-Inch Heels by @tessacrowley (2017, E, 9.6k)

Draco Malfoy is a brilliant freelance cursebreaker and the only one who can help the Department of Magical Law Enforcement with a very dangerous case, but more importantly, he's wearing six-inch heels, and Harry cannot handle it, he really just can't.

Sleight of Hand by @the-starryknight (2021, E, 15k)

It’s another one of those horrid Ministry affairs, and the only interesting thing is twinkling from Draco Malfoy’s finger. Can you really blame Harry for being fascinated by the gorgeous emerald ring and those long, elegant hands, especially when he’s certain Malfoy is up to something?

Take These Lies by @pennygalleon (2021, E, 20k)

There’s a portrait of his godfather in Draco Malfoy’s potions shop and Harry needs to know why. But that’s not why he keeps coming back.

I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor by birdsofshore (2015, E, 28k)

Harry felt lit up from inside as soon as he entered the bar. There were blokes dancing together, their bodies close to one another, not keeping a wary distance as Harry was always careful to do when he was near another man. God, he wanted this – wanted it so much he could taste it, a metallic tang of heat and desire. He suspected nothing would ever be the same again – especially when he saw who else was in the room.

[transandrophobe]

i love genderless lesbians, unaligned nonbinary lesbians, nblw lesbians, lesbians who don’t like being called “women” or “wlw,” lesbians whose gender is just “lesbian” ❤🧡🤍💖💜

[onbeinganangel]

slytherin flirting style is 100% scheming because nothing can be straightforward 😌

for @drarrymicrofic's november 12th prompt, carte blanche

“I said I’ll make you one, but don’t push your luck,” Malfoy says, looking around the lab. “Stop touching the vials, I’ll kick you out.”

Harry smiles at the telling-off.

“Alright. One potion? And you’ll tell me all about it?”

“Sure.”

“Make me Amortentia. Tell me what it smells like.”

[funnytwittertweets]

[introvert-unicorn-deactivated20]

The Language Of Flowers

Acacia: Hidden love, beauty in withdrawal

Amaryllis: Pride, a hard won success

Anemone: Vanishing hopes

Bells of Ireland: Wish for good luck

Carnation: Fascination, love and distinction

Daffodil (Narcissus): Honesty and truth

Dahlia flower: Warnings and change

Daisy: Innocence, loyal love and purity

Delphinium: Open heart, ardent attachement

Gardenia: Symbol of secret love

Gladiolus: Remembrance, faithfulness and sincerity

Hyacinth: I'm sorry, please forgive me.

Iris: Eloquence

Lily (general) : Purity of the heart and refined beauty

Lily of the valley: Return of happiness

Marigold: Passion and creativity

Orchid: Beauty, refinement and love

Peony: Happy marriage

Lavender: Love at first sight

Red rose: Love, respect, courage and passion

White rose: Purity, secrecy, silence, innocence and charm

Sunflower: Good luck and ambition

Tulip: Irresistible love

Violet: Faithfulness, modesty and delicate love

Zinnia: Lasting affection, daily remembrance and good memories

[lou-isfake]

Read on ao3

Charlie/Draco/Harry | Rating: E

Summary: Charlie wanted Harry, but he’d never planned on having him. He’d never planned on Draco Malfoy, either. He hadn’t planned on anything but living out his days in Romania, with his friends and his dragons and his safe, peaceful distance.

Apparently, it wasn’t a very popular plan.

This is a story about crumbs and flickers and roots, running away and coming home; about falling in love without meaning to (twice), and having truly good friends, and the mutually revealing recognition between two people in love with the same man.

Excerpt:

Maybe Charlie was truly going round the twist, this time, because he swore this Malfoy boy recognized the same emotion in him, the same impossible, inevitable attachment to Harry—his Harry, and his Harry. And instead of anger or jealousy or bitterness, he saw something like respect in that recognition. Understanding, the same way Charlie could understand him; he knew the feeling of wanting Harry too much, and being completely vulnerable to it. He knew the ache and terror of watching Harry dangle on the precipice of life and death, and being powerless to stop it. And maybe that was what he saw in Malfoy, and what Malfoy saw in him, and maybe that was just what loving Harry felt like: Helpless.

It's happening!! Hold on to your hats, and read the tags! For once, I'm not dropping this whole thing like a fat cat on your stomach. (It'll be more like kittens keep showing up sleeping on you in weird places, until you're like, jfc how'd all these damn cats get in here, I can't move??)

Special shoutout to my truly amazing alpha reader @nv-md, and my lovely cheerreaders @academicdisaster24 and @softlystarstruck! <3<3<3

Here's a neat little schedule below the cut, including chapter word counts, that I'll update with links as they're posted:

Part One

Chapter 1: August 1994/July 1997/May 1998 (3.5k) - 12/6

Chapter 2: (5k) - 12/8

Chapter 3: (11.5k) - 12/10

Chapter 4: (7.8k) - 12/12

Chapter 5: (1.1k) - 12/16

Part Two

Chapter 6: (6.2k) - 12/20

Chapter 7: (3.9k) - 12/22

Chapter 8: (4k) - 12/24

Chapter 9: (11.1k) - 12/26

Chapter 10: (<1k) - 12/30

Part Three

Chapter 11: (7.3k) - 1/3

Chapter 12: (8.7k) - 1/5

Chapter 13: (9k) - 1/7

Chapter 14: (9.9k) - 1/9

Chapter 15: (<1k) - 1/13

Part Four

Chapter 16: (6.6k) - 1/17

Chapter 17: (11k) - 1/19

Chapter 18: - 1/21

Chapter 19: - 1/23

Chapter 20: - 1/25

Chapter 21: - 1/27

[queenangst]

fanfic end of the year asks

since it’s december, i thought i’d make a little end of the year ask meme for fanfic writers and readers! reblog and ask away

favorite fic you wrote this year

least favorite fic you wrote this year

favorite line/scene you wrote this year

total number of words you wrote this year

most popular fic this year

least popular fic this year

longest completed fic you wrote this year

shortest completed fic you wrote this year

longest wip of the year

shortest wip of the year

fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year

favorite character to write about this year

favorite writing song/artist/album of this year

a fic you didn’t expect to write

something you learned this year

fic(s) you completed this year

fics you’ll continue next year

current number of wips

any new fics to start next year

number of comments you haven’t read

most memorable comment/review

events you participated in this year

fics you wanted to write but didn’t

favorite fic you read this year

a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read

number of favorites/bookmarks you made this year

favorite fanfic author of the year

longest fic you read this year

shortest fic you read this year

favorite fandom to read fic from this year

*feel free to specify fandoms or a fic depending on the question.

[flightytemptress27]

Oh fun! I’ve had zero fic spoons for a while 😭😭 but I’m hoping to find them again when I get a little break over the holidays. 2021 was my first year writing! So literally all of my work is on the table for this ask game 😂

[intj-confessions]