The setting that prevents your work being used to train AI models is turned off by default! I had no idea about this until now! Artists, go to your settings, click “visibility”, and turn on this setting! Protect your work!
If you ever tagged me to do one of those tag game thingies and I never did it:
1) Thank you, seriously. Those are fun and being included shows that my followers care enough to want to learn more about me.
2) Very sorry about that, it’s extremely likely that I said to myself “Cool! But I’m busy at the moment, I’ll have to do this later today or tomorrow” before proceeding to just straight-up forget, now it’s too far back in my notifications and/or your blog to find again.
A bonus Tarot card design I did not technically for, but inspired by the @hd-tarot fest. I had so much fun designing the other cards, I couldn't help doing one more--especially since Luna seemed the perfect subject for this particular card.
Click the link below to view in higher quality on AO3.
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Thank you for joining us for HD Tarot Fest's inaugural year! We're incredibly grateful to our amazing creators for their stunning submissions and to all the readers who've supported the fest with their kudos, comments, and enthusiasm. We're SO thrilled by the overwhelmingly positive response to this fest!
HD Tarot will be back next year. We may adjust the timeline slightly (expect prompt claims to open earlier), but posting will still take place in November.
Thank you again for making this fest such a success. Until we draw the cards again, may fate deal you only the best hands!
Without further ado, we're proud to unveil the full creator masterlist under the cut:
· ⋆˖⁺‧₊☽ Fic ☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ ·
🔮 Because This River Is Wild (T, 14k words) by @tripably 🃏
Six of Pentacles, upright: generosity, community, help, support, sharing, gratitude Six of Pentacles, reversed: inequality, taking advantage, strings attached, extortion, unfair power dynamics Consider this, though: how do you know you’re looking at the card the intended way? Or, Harry and Draco struggle with the explosive nature of passion without trust.
Card(s): Six of Pentacles
🔮 Twilight Eternal (M, 23.9k words) by @hsvh-hp 🃏
Wherever Draco is, the sun sits eternally on the precipice of setting. His father feeds his peacocks on the manor grounds. Harry is the only one who can communicate with Draco. A malevolent force haunts the house, nipping at Draco’s heels.
Draco intended for himself to come to this place. He only wishes he could remember why.
Card(s): Five of Cups
🔮 all i need (G, 3.9k words) by enill 🃏
What would have happened if Draco Malfoy went down to the cellar again after Wormtail seemingly disappeared?
Card(s): Six of Swords
🔮 I Watch Your Light (E, 9k words) by @maraudersaffair 🃏
Harry spends his nights out pretending that he isn't sitting across from Draco Malfoy. This is rather difficult to do since Malfoy won't stop staring at him. Why, oh why, did his boyfriend have to be friends with the blond wanker?
Card(s): Six of Cups, King of Cups (reversed), Four of Cups (reversed)
🔮 Little Black Dress (E, 4.9k words) by @its-the-allure 🃏
Returning for a mandatory eighth year and secretly dating Harry Potter, Draco is a bit of a mess. Harry wants to go public with their relationship, but the last thing Draco needs is another reason for people to hate him. As they work on their Tarot assignment for Advanced Divination, could a change of heart be in the cards?
Card(s): Eight of Pentacles, Queen of Wands, Queen of Cups (reversed)
🔮Abstract From a Moment (E, 19.1k words) by @heyjude19-writing 🃏
What Draco thinks will be a promotion in the Department of Mysteries turns out to be a strange, morbid assignment. He can handle the macabre task and the slightly frightening interactions with his odd superior, especially if it means career success. Trust Harry Potter to ruin everything.
Card(s): Ten of Wands (reversed)
🔮 psychopomp (E, 15.3k words) by @hollyhawthorn 🃏
“Do you think I deserve to live?” The words spilt from his mouth, unbidden.
Potter fixed him with a penetrating look. Draco recalled the expression he’d worn when he wrenched the wands from Draco’s grip at the Manor; thought this could be the same one. You can’t hide from me, it said. I know everything about you.
“I think dying is the easy way out.”
Card(s): The High Priestess
🔮 A wolf at the door (T, 13.5k words) by Nirey_Harkness 🃏
When Harry decided to do his internship with an international Auror, he was seeking an escape from many things. He certainly hadn’t anticipated ending up questioning his sexuality, magically trapped in a Spanish house with Draco Malfoy.
Card(s): The World
🔮 hugged and tugged down through this tiger’s masque (M, 11k words) by @frank-lilac 🃏
A glimpse into a period of alteration, change, and transformation.
Card(s): Death
🔮 Rusty Cage (E, 20.5k words) by @jelliewrites 🃏
Harry Potter is not okay. Someone else who’s not okay? Draco Malfoy, but he's doing time in Azkaban for his heinous crimes.
But what if Draco isn't as guilty as he's been made out to be?
Everyone knows that Harry is a sucker for righting injustice, including Hermione, who is more than prepared to meddle in order to help her best friend.
Or, when Harry visits Draco in prison and things don't go quite as expected.
Card(s): Eight of Swords
🔮 Towers of glory and the hands that felled them (G, 15.8k words) by @mourningliliesmorningglories 🃏
It’s been 10 years since the war and Draco Malfoy is yet to leave his tower.
The Tower: a symbol for ambition that is constructed on faulty premises. The destruction of the tower must happen in order to clear out the old ways and welcome something new. Its revelations can come in a flash of truth or inspiration.
Card(s): The Tower
🔮 Mirror, Me (E, 18.3k words) by @kamaela 🃏
Harry’s current predicament is, he can admit, rather dire. Being caught stalking aside, he thinks his nose might be broken. Humiliation licks up his rigid spine, but along with it is a prickle of ill-advised anticipation, a foolish thrill at what Malfoy might do.
Harry is a little lost. His house is rejecting him and his friends and family are busy and moving on. To cope, he turns to what’s tried and true; following Draco Malfoy. The first time was an accident. Sort of.
Card(s): Four of Wands
🔮 Beyond the Veil (M, 9.9k words) by crimsonightingale 🃏
Embracing his new role as the Master of Death, Harry finds harmony in the natural order of things, but can he find a balance with the new Master of Life, Draco Malfoy?
Card(s): Temperance
🔮 Minor Fall, Major Lift (E, 10.9k words) by @tackytigerfic 🃏
Harry Potter is telling people’s fortunes in a tent in the Atrium at the Ministry Christmas party.
Draco thinks Divination is a load of rubbish.
But the cards never lie…
Card(s): Ten of Pentacles (reversed), The Moon, Three of Cups
🔮 The Superfluous Man (E, 24.1k words) by peu_a_peu 🃏
A child for Harry Potter is a miracle of magic. And it's the second act of Draco Malfoy's sorry little life.
Card(s): The Wheel of Fortune
🔮 Care for a Walk? (G, 2k words) by @speyriver 🃏
“Draco,” Harry beams confidently as the gates swing open, “Care for a walk?”
Card(s): Six of Cups
🔮 Skipping Stones (M, 34.7k words) by @whimsibeee 🃏
Draco receives his very own prophecy. If Harry Potter could leave him alone, he might be able to figure out what it means.
Card: Queen of Swords
· ⋆˖⁺‧₊☽ Art ☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ ·
🔮 Death (G) by @ree-dee-art 🃏
Card: Death
🔮 The Strength (G) by @pocketlessdruid 🃏
Card: Strength
🔮 A New Light. (G) by @littlewinnow 🃏
The choices that changed us.
Card: The Tower
🔮 The Moon (G) by @ree-dee-art 🃏
Card: The Moon
🔮 Surrender (M) by @itsphantasmagoria 🃏
Draco repents.
Card: The Hanged Man
🔮 nine of cups (G) by @frm9pm 🃏
Harry happy in the upright card position, Draco suffering in the reverse.
Card: Nine of Cups
🔮 The Sun (G) by @phoenixortheflame 🃏
In the cosmos of his heart, Harry blooms not but for one sun.
Card: The Sun
🔮 Crepusculum (G) by @raptorhonks 🃏
A guardian in his tower, whimsical and secretive. A corruptor in the marble manor, with mirrored flesh and soul. Two souls at the foot of a castle seeking the sky just out of reach. Held down by twisted word and lies.
Card: The Emperor
🔮 Ace of Cups (G) by @phantomgrimalkin 🃏
Sipping from the same cup.
Card: Ace of Cups
🔮 Ten of Cups (G) by @bahkeks 🃏
ten of cups
joy, gratitude, unconditional love, belonging, emotional fulfillment
Card: Ten of Cups
🔮 XXI. THE WORLD (G) by @faiell 🃏
XXI. The World, but make it drarry.
Card: The World
This was such a fun fest to participate in! Thanks again to the mods for pulling this together. 🙏✨️ I'm so behind on reading these fics and looking over this list, I'm so excited to have some time soon to catch up! 🤌🙌
Honestly, I must admit that I'm not too fond of fan artists changing/headcanoning Harry and James to be as desi/dark skinned. I personally think the Dursleys are far more despicable due to hating on someone not because of skin color/racial prejudice(because then they would've no doubt hated Kingsley), but because someone is not their definition of 'normal'/ looks & acts not to their standards. It's already stretching it with race changing Hermione and making her a big target of wizard prejudice on muggles. And it also kills the prejudice Lily faced, because she's still fair skinned.
Initially, I was just going to respond to this by encouraging anon to go touch some grass.
However, I feel somewhat compelled to respond, because there is just so much to unpack in this single nonsensical message.
Firstly, I honestly don't get a whole lot of asks or messages in general, so receiving this one out of the blue was a bit wild for me. The nature of fandom itself allows for and embraces a plethora of different interpretations and headcanons for any given character. In many ways, this is the beauty of fandom--to take a beloved character and ask "what if?" I have no problem with someone having a different interpretation of a character from my own. What confuses me is this person's method for expressing their opinion. Why are you anonymously sending this to a stranger? Why not make a text post on your own blog about it? Like...what is your goal here, anon? I'm an artist who draws what I enjoy, and sometimes I share these drawings in the hopes that someone else might enjoy them too. Not your vibe? Not my problem. Go find some white Harry artwork to appreciate, there's plenty out there. Were you hoping I would change my own interpretation and headcanon of Harry or Hermione to fit your own? Lol, tough luck. No one is stopping you from drawing your own pictures.
All of that aside, your reasoning for your preference of having characters like James, Harry, and Hermione not be POC is incredibly confusing to me. You said you believe the Dursleys are "far more despicable" for hating Harry not because of skin color but because he didn't match their "definition of normal." I have a few follow-up questions regarding this (wildly inane imo) take:
1. Does this mean you believe the Dursleys hypothetically also hating Harry because of the color of his skin is in some way less despicable than them hating him because he can do magic?
2. What exactly do you think racism is, if not "hating someone because they don't match your definition of 'normal?'"
3. How does Hermione being black and muggleborn erase the discrimination Lily faced for also being muggleborn? Do you know that intersectionaily exists?
Some of the most interesting creations I've encountered in the HP fandom (fics and art) explore the complexities in the intersections between racial discrimination, white supremacy, and pureblood fanaticism. And there truly is so much to explore in these themes (for example: ways in which Harry could have been separated not only from his loving family, but also a part of his culture. It also allows for interesting and more complex ways for Harry and Hermione to bond and relate to each other in their friendship, etc).
For me, more diversity within these characters (whether it be race, queerness, or anything else) allows for much richer storytelling and much more interesting characters. If that's not your jam, then perhaps my work isn't for you.
However, I will say--this message is very much giving "only white characters and muggle discrimination allowed!!!" and I encourage you to ask yourself why that is the only context for these characters you feel comfortable with.
Our first week (plus two days) has unveiled an incredible array of fic and art. Here's what the cards revealed...
· ⋆˖⁺‧₊☽ Fic ☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ ·
🔮 Because This River Is Wild (T, 14k words) 🃏
Six of Pentacles, upright: generosity, community, help, support, sharing, gratitude
Six of Pentacles, reversed: inequality, taking advantage, strings attached, extortion, unfair power dynamics
Consider this, though: how do you know you’re looking at the card the intended way?
Or, Harry and Draco struggle with the explosive nature of passion without trust
Card(s): Six of Pentacles
🔮 Twilight Eternal (M, 23.9k words) 🃏
Wherever Draco is, the sun sits eternally on the precipice of setting. His father feeds his peacocks on the manor grounds. Harry is the only one who can communicate with Draco. A malevolent force haunts the house, nipping at Draco’s heels.Draco intended for himself to come to this place. He only wishes he could remember why.
Card(s): Five of Cups
🔮 all i need (G, 3.9k words) 🃏
What would have happened if Draco Malfoy went down to the cellar again after Wormtail seemingly disappeared?
Card(s): Six of Swords
🔮 I Watch Your Light (E, 9k words) 🃏
Harry spends his nights out pretending that he isn't sitting across from Draco Malfoy. This is rather difficult to do since Malfoy won't stop staring at him. Why, oh why, did his boyfriend have to be friends with the blond wanker?
Card(s): Six of Cups, King of Cups (reversed), Four of Cups (reversed)
🔮 Little Black Dress (E, 4.9k words) 🃏
Returning for a mandatory eighth year and secretly dating Harry Potter, Draco is a bit of a mess. Harry wants to go public with their relationship, but the last thing Draco needs is another reason for people to hate him. As they work on their Tarot assignment for Advanced Divination, could a change of heart be in the cards?
Card(s): Eight of Pentacles, Queen of Wands, Queen of Cups (reversed)
🔮 Abstract From a Moment (E, 19.1k words) 🃏
What Draco thinks will be a promotion in the Department of Mysteries turns out to be a strange, morbid assignment. He can handle the macabre task and the slightly frightening interactions with his odd superior, especially if it means career success. Trust Harry Potter to ruin everything.
Card(s): Ten of Wands (reversed)
· ⋆˖⁺‧₊☽ Art ☾₊‧⁺˖⋆ ·
🔮Death (G) 🃏
Card: Death
🔮The Strength (G) 🃏
Card: Strength
🔮A New Light. (G) 🃏
The choices that changed us.Card: The Tower
🔮The Moon (G) 🃏
Card: The Moon
🔮Surrender (M) 🃏
Draco Repents.
Card: The Hanged Man
HD Tarot is a new Harry/Draco fest that uses the Major and Minor Arcana cards of the Tarot as prompts for fanart and fanfic.
The art challenge is to recreate Tarot cards with the aim of one day forming a full Drarry Tarot Deck. The fic goal is to inspire Drarry stories based on the cards’ meanings.
No prior knowledge of the Tarot is necessary to participate.
For more info on claiming and fest rules, watch this space! ✨
Coming soon to a circle of light near you,
⋆˖⁺‧₊ HD Tarot Mods (@itsphantasmagoria, @pl0tty, @fanarthasmyheart, @phoenixortheflame)
