YES! The camera work in the clip above made me wonder if it was from a professionally filmed performance and in fact there’s a Great Performances version up on archive.org:
For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Pa
BENEDICK If Signior Leonato be her father, she would
not have his head on her shoulders for all Messina,
as like him as she is.
BEATRICE I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior
BeneDICK, nobody marks you.
BENEDICK What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet
living?
BEATRICE Is it possible disdain should die while she
hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
Courtesy itself must convert to disdain if you come
in her presence.
BENEDICK Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain
I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted; and
I would I could find in my heart that I had not a
hard heart, for truly I love none.
BEATRICE A dear happiness to women. They would
else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I
thank God and my cold blood I am of your humor
for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow
than a man swear he loves me.
BENEDICK God keep your Ladyship still in that mind,
so some gentleman or other shall ’scape a predestinate
scratched face.
BEATRICE Scratching could not make it worse an
’twere such a face as yours were.
Act 1, Scene 1
Summary: Auror Harry has been known to blunder his way through life; and while physically it’s left him with his fair share of scrapes and bruises it’s also manifested in a lot of leaping before he looks when it comes to his love life…
When he needs Draco Malfoy’s help after a nasty curse leaves him vulnerable and out of a job, he can’t help more leaping. He finds himself instantly attracted to the man he meets and doesn’t really stop to consider that Draco’s charming little life might hide vulnerabilities of its own.
Set five years after the war and featuring: lots of art, temporary injury/disability, too much fluff and some deep-seated insecurities.
Or: my own treatise on justice
Chasing Selwyn (ao3) - Dracosgirl25
M, 37k
Summary: Harry and Ron recieve their first assignment as Auror partners. What was supposed to be a simple arrest quickly turned into a full investigation into pure-blood families. With the help of Ministry Liaison Draco Malfoy, the two Aurors are able to stop Cassian Selwyn's rise to power. The beginnings of a romance starts along the way as well.
Creating a Place To Call Home (ao3) - shadowofadream
G, 13k
Summary: The Dark Lord has been defeated, Hogwarts has been rebuilt, there are more ghosts and less carefree smiles on the castle’s grounds but things are looking up. People are moving on. Life continues.
Only Harry can’t seem to shake the past, the nightmares, the constant vigilance and distrust. Draco, it seems, fares much the same. People usually say one should not run from their problems and instead face them head on. But when the problem is standing still while all the world moves on around you, maybe running away is not that bad of an idea.
Deadly Desire (ao3) - Devious_Muffin
E, 10k
Summary: It began slowly. So slowly Harry didn’t even notice, didn’t realize what was happening around him as he bumbled through his years at Hogwarts. A missing Hufflepuff here, an odd stain on a certain step there, and Harry was none the wiser. He didn’t feel the unnerving focus, the almost unblinking stare that followed him. He didn’t listen to the whispers and rumors, having had his fill long ago. He paid no mind to the periodic postings on the house bulletin board, or the way groups of students would close ranks whenever he was near. He didn’t catch on for years, not until someone he knew, someone he’d spent more than a few passing conversations with, disappeared.
Draco watched and waited, creeping ever closer to his goal with each passing year. He wasn't patient, he wasn't gracious, but once he finally gained the attention he deserved, he used it to his full advantage.
Deluxe Hip Thrust 9000 (ao3) - Anonymous
E, 5k
Summary: Draco discovers a new kink.
Erised (ao3) - grumbleonimbus
M, 71k
Summary: Draco Malfoy is trying to make amends by doing fundraisers and events for a war orphan charity. He hasn’t seen Harry Potter - or thought about him… really! - in about five years. Until he sees him a lot, everywhere, dammit. While vehemently trying to deny his school crush has reignited, Draco cannot help but be charmed by a more mature, serene, confident Harry. And, well, the new looks, plural, are ever so appealing.
Excuse Me, He Asked For No Pickles (ao3) - cravingstatic
T, 10k
Summary: Harry Potter is perfectly okay
He’s just staring at Draco Malfoy. And sweating. And dropping plates. And asking him to the Yule Ball.
Ron thinks he's dying, too.
-Part 1 of the Silence Feels Kinder series, but can be read independently-
Good Work, Partner (ao3) - Anonymous
E, 25k
Summary: “Spare me,” Robards snapped. “It’s a fortnight. Ten silly little bonding assignments to make you better work partners. I don’t care if it’s asking you to braid each others’ hair. Is it going to prevent you from doing your job?”
“No, sir,” Draco muttered, when Harry didn’t reply.
“Is it asking you to do something illegal?”
“No, sir,” Harry said, rather wishing it was.
“Then I don’t want to hear about it. If you avoid it a second time, you’ll incur disciplinary action.”
Or, Harry and Draco's bonding exercise at work is getting weird, fast.
Hogwarts Colleagues (ao3) - Oreivals
Draco/Harry, Draco/Blaise
M, 40k
Summary: Fifteen years after the War, Harry Potter is burnt out and lonely, while Draco Malfoy is a pariah trying to redeem himself. When they meet again as colleagues at Hogwarts, the sparks are instant.
From obsessive map-watching to secret encounters in the Astronomy Tower, Harry realizes that the line between hatred and love is dangerously thin. But can the Chosen One really love an ex-Death Eater without destroying them both in the process?
Home is where you are (ao3) - soft_exo
T, 67k
Summary: Harry Potter has never had a home before, but maybe that’s about to change.
Ignorance Was Bliss (ao3) - Wac67
E, 11k
Summary: Harry and Draco are trapped together, with plenty of time for Harry's fantasies to make themselves known.
I Won't Get There (On My Own) (ao3) - frenchpirate (Whiskey_n_speed)
E, 18k
Summary: Harry felt another twang in his stomach. "Wait, I have to like them too? But I don't even fancy blokes? How would I know which ones are fit, Gin? It's not like I walk around tallying which ones I would hypothetically jump, in case I ever needed a list!"
"Why does it matter if they're fit, if the whole ordeal is fake?" Dean spoke up from his seat next to Harry. "That guy looks like an actual ogre — you should like him!"
Harry thought about it. It didn't matter, of course, he wasn't gay. He could like an ogre or two on Grindr in the name of good fun.
🔥🔥🔥
Or: There's countless reasons for someone to be on a gay dating app, besides actually being gay. Everyone knows that.
just harry and just draco (ao3) - idaokiwatine
G, 16k
Summary: Draco has long ago left the wizarding world behind for a more forgiving muggle life. And so has Harry, it seems.
Or: Draco finds Harry working at a coffee shop after years and from then on their relationship changes. Featuring drives, mundane muggle life, uncomfortable conversations and smitten idiots.
Love's Imagination (ao3) - XxTheDarkLordxX
M, 13k
Summary: Soulmarks were supposed to be a blessing. They were supposed to be something worth celebrating. Soulmarks were cherished, loved, and proudly displayed.
Draco's soulmark was ugly, pulsing, and slowly killing him.
Maybe You Would Understand Me (ao3) - ElectricBlueLilies
G, 9k
Summary: After the war, Draco is put on trial with the rest of the Death Eaters. Harry Potter's surprise testimony saves him. Years later, they reunite and unpack a lifetime of questions.
Puzzle (ao3) - dmonoceris
M, 4k
Summary: After the war, Harry James Potter got married.
However, the young hero of the wizarding world’s wedding wasn’t a huge party with countless guests, with the media interviewing the lovebirds and taking photos, much less with a certain redhead whom everyone swore up and down they were madly in love with. No. The young hero’s wedding was discreet, extremely discreet — so discreet that no one even knew who he had married.
No one.
sea change (ao3) - eleadore
M, 40k
Summary: The only thing more surprising than finding Draco Malfoy here, on a forgotten stretch of coast northwest of nowhere, in a Muggle establishment that was barely an establishment at all, was that he didn’t seem at all surprised to find Harry.
Slytherin Habit (ao3) - asleepordead
T, 94k
Summary: Being friends with Draco Malfoy is not easy. But Harry Potter was never afraid of challenges, was he?
A new look at the events of third year and Harry’s relationship with the world around him: he continues to get into trouble with his best friends, but now there’s someone who cares about him more than it appears. A fragile bond develops between Harry and Draco, changing them both—even if neither of them is yet able to understand its nature.
sweating through the heat (ao3) - cloudings
E, 116k
Summary: Things used to happen to Harry all the time. Nothing seems to happen anymore.
Then Ginny leaves him, and Draco Malfoy tells him that they need to convince the entire Wizarding World that they’re madly in love with each other.
Being sensible is tempting, but really, there’s no choice in the matter. After all, he thinks that he’s rather overdue another adventure.
The Shattered Memory of your Affection (ao3) - 2lascivious
E, 28k
Summary: Harry woke up hung over and half naked in a random room. He can’t seem to remember what happened, only that he had gone to an end of the term party.
Sudden flashes of images from that night keeps him on his toes, as he goes on a hunt for the scattered pieces of his memory. But he didn’t expect himself to fall in love with the pieces that he found.
happy birthday to this gorgeous flag!! remember that bisexuality has never excluded trans and nonbinary people and has never had any restrictions on preferences to genders :))
A gift for Beanie, one of my incredible discord moderators! They requested something with critters and something spaced themed, so it naturally followed that I had to draw space raccoons.
When Auror Potter has to delve into the mind of one Draco Malfoy, his reluctant and often begrudging Curse-Breaker partner, he finds more than he bargained for in this heart-wrenching and beautifully savage fic!
Rating: M
Word count: ~24k
Summary:
Nearing the back wall of the vault, the relief of nearly being done is washing over him. Just a few more piles of haphazardly stacked treasure, and they will be free to leave the stuffy vault behind and continue on with their day. He'll take the cursed heirlooms back with him to work on breaking the curses, and return them to be auctioned off once they're safe.
His mind, already running through the items found and working on solutions, is distracted.
That one moment of distraction is enough to cost him.
His eyes land on a ring, lying atop a small pile of galleons. It looks completely innocuous, dark metal and a huge emerald inlaid at the crest. It reminds him of a hundred rings his father owned that looked exactly like it.
The moment he lays his eyes on it he knows something has gone wrong.
Curse Breaker Draco Malfoy finds himself in a spot of trouble after a job goes horribly awry.
Not to worry, though. Auror Potter is on the case.
Author's notes:
This fic has been an experiment and a challenge for me. I've never written much horror, and this falls outside of my usual comfort zone for writing, so it was a big leap of faith to commit to writing something like this! I am super happy with it though, and hope y'all like it! Thanks so much to my dear friend who gave it a quick beta read, and thank u so much to the mods who put this fest on!<3
A heads up for this fic - It contains child neglect, a lot of magical torture and abuse, and sex that is violent in nature. It has an open ending and is not very romantic, and does not focus much on the building of their relationship. Read at your own caution, and take care of yourself! If you do choose to give it a read, thanks so much for checking it out!
Title: Backshore
Take a bet and travel to Brittany in today’s intriguing fic. Grismage is the perfect coastal Wizarding village to get away from the world, but a dark cloud follows Harry from England in the form of mysterious missives.
Rating: E
Word count: ~11k
Summary:
The ocean was freedom.
It was why when Harry left it all behind, he ran to it.
Unfortunately, the letters had followed. And with them a storm that would push the ocean to reveal the secrets in the sand.
Author's notes:
For randomswedishigirl. I had so much fun with this prompt, it got away from me and ended up more emotional than anticipated!
I hope you enjoy!
How Harry Potter Ruined My Life: A Study of Death, Bureaucracy, and Other Administrative Artefacts.
A crack taken seriously (but not really) fic where Harry is Master of Death, Draco is his Lawyer and Sirius is not dead (mostly). Oh and there is a semi-sentient Sword of Gryffindor, a time meddling snake, and the ghost of Lucius Malfoy.
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The Survivors Club, M, 62k words. hurt/comfort, found family, karaoke.
Post-War Grimmauld Place becomes a refuge for the traumatized teenagers. Harry shows up at Draco's trial and says "come home with me."
Posting on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Completed
Hey, Boyfriend, E, 4.8k words, song inspired, fluff, smut.
Inspired by Shape of You.
It started as a hookup, it didn't stay that way.
The Common Room: Part 1, M, 4k words, karaoke, confessions, lawyer Draco
Draco loses a bet and has to confess his feelings for Harry, in song.
The Common Room: Part 2, M, 2.5k, pole dancing, feeling confession
Draco goes away for 6 weeks and Harry loses control.
Draco Malfoy Is Up To Something (It’s Karaoke), 1.2k, M, karaoke, 8th year, in denial
Harry is sure Draco is up to something. Draco is done waiting for Harry to figure it out.
Don't Swallow, E, smut, threesome
Draco gets all sweaty. Harry and Ginny help him out.
to me, there's an innate horror in tradwife content. it's always a pretty young girl in her late teens, early 20s. she's so young. she's basically a baby herself. maybe she's about your age. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.
either way, she always has at least three kids, sometimes more. you don't want to ask when she had them, but she had to have them young because her youngest had to have been born when she was at least seventeen based on how time works. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.
she's smiling but there's something missing in her eyes - a spark that should be there. there's no passion, there's just the movements of the day. sometimes she'll give an interview where she says she barely feels like getting out of bed, and other times she says nothing. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.
her world isn't real - it's neat kitchens and made from scratch cheese. she tells you how she doesn't need feminism because she likes this life, she likes wearing pretty dresses, don't you dare pity her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.
you scroll up to an ex tradewife in her forties talking about how her husband divorced her and left her for a younger girl, leaving her destitute and penniless and twenty years out of the workforce. you scroll again to a pretty young girl saying she doesn't need a job, her husband will take care of her. you scroll again. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.
another woman, this time in her early thirties, talking about how she just managed to leave her abusive husband and has nothing and he took the kids, warning and pleading young girls to not fall for tradwife lies. you scroll again to a young tradwife girl saying that would never happen to her, and you're just jealous of her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.
you scroll again. a teen girl tells you that she'll just track her period, she doesn't NEED a toxic chemical like birth control. you scroll again to an obgyn pleading with young girls to understand birth control is just hormonal, and that period tracking isn't effective. you just watch happen. you can't save her.
you scroll again, and it's jd vance saying how women belong in the homes and shouldn't be allowed to vote. that their husbands should decide how they should vote. you scroll again to a domestic abuse counselor telling women their vote is private and they can lie to their husbands. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.
she doesn't want you to save her. how dare you pity her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her. a horrible feeling washes over you. you just watch it happen.
love the phrase "perish the thought." so unnecessarily visceral. let the thought perish. let it curl up into the soil and decompose like a miserably rotten failed little seedling. return to nutrients beneath my heel
When Harry fills in as assistant to CEO of Malfoy Enterprises, Draco Malfoy, he learns to navigate the unfamiliar world of luxury while deciphering his new boss's challenging personality.
Fandoms stopped being a fun escape from reality when people started spreading the belief that you should prioritize purity over pleasure and the art you create must be a reflection of your moral standards at all times.
