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HD Tarot Fic Claim!!
Prism, 1.6k, E
Summary: While conducting an experiment in The Department of Mysteries, an accident teaches Draco something about what it means to love.
Thank you to the amazing @hd-tarot fest for inspiring this fic, and thanks to my beloved @the-invisibility-bloke and @hoko-onchi-writes for the help. <3
Fits Like a Glove
By @greattemptation
Drarry▪️M▪️461
My own personal gift fic that started with 3 little prompts… and damn did GT serve and deliver 🫦
✔️ Crossing paths
✔️ Unresolved Sexual tension
✔️ Ex-Lovers
Please read and ENJOY 🖤🥀
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
[Podfic] The Noble and Most Ancient House of Noir
@rainstormradish, I am so, SO excited to share this with you.
Everyone else, I am so, SO excited to share this with you. This is a hysterically funny, technically flawless, endlessly loving drarry masterpiece. Bite-sized and perfect.
Summary: The Snakehole on Dism Alley had bad lighting and good firewhisky. I sat on a stool at the bar, watching in the mirror as a lady in pearls took drags of her cigarette, puffing out magical smoke rings that turned into swallows and flew away. A saxophone played itself in the corner. The Snakehole was just how I liked it. The perfect place to dwell on schemes and forget to live The parcel could have come from anyone. The question was, who?
Or, Harry overreacts to an unexpected Christmas gift.
Length: 27 minutes Rating: M Pairing: Drarry
One bazillion thanks to @jtimu and @citrusses for all the inspiration and hand holding, and one bazillion more thanks to @starquestingfordrarry and @hoko-onchi-writes for the listening and hand holding. And I know it seems like so many bazillions but here we are with yet one additional bazillion thanks to @sweatersinthesummer for providing such generous guidance for figuring out a few new technical skills!!
367 days later
After reading drarry fanfiction off and on since 2007, I posted my first fic, Baggage Claim, to AO3 on November 18, 2023. I was, to my amazement, immediately ushered into a stunning community of friends and creatives.
Having been privileged to enjoy this experience for (just) over a (leap) year now, I want to thank you all. Highs and lows, pride and frustration, fests and freestyling, I wouldn't change a thing.
Heartily looking forward to the next year with all of you. <3
Sunday Drarry Fic Rec:
If you suffer from a parched mouth and want to wet your tongue a bit may I suggest this little rush of water by @greattemptation 💧
Unprofessional
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I'm so sorry that Close Behind is getting hate. It's an unquestionably gorgeous fic. It came to me highly recommended, I LOVED reading it this summer, and it reintroduced me to the joys of longfic after getting a little lost in the weeds/distracted by all my cool fandom friends.
It is layered. It is chess not checkers. It is that good, real messy.
You (and the fic) deserve a million kudos and 5000 kind comments. <3
thank you so, so much for this, it made me so happy to hear. and i will say that the rude comments are far outweighed and outshined by the number of kind comments. i am incredibly appreciative of that and am usually better able to use those to drown out the rude ones.
i do understand why people take issue with the fic. what i don't understand is why those people are so insistent i hear about it. it just goes against my instinctive way of commenting, which i see as a way of building community; that's absolutely crucial for fanfic.
if something is not to my taste, even if i have very specific gripes with it (which happens all the time!), i keep that to myself or to my friends in private. i am not going to make that the author's problem; they posted that for free, not specifically for me. i can't imagine being so entitled as to think authors owe me my exact preferences in fanfic they're posting for free and to have fun.
again, thank you; i'm so grateful for these kinds of messages and i appreciate you taking the time! 💜
Fuck marry kill (you can double!): Paul, Feyd, Chani, Irulan
K MY BELOVED. THANK YOU FOR THIS EXCELLENT ASK ❤️❤️❤️
Fuck: Chani and Paul, if they ever need a third person - you will NOT be catching me saying no.
Marry: Who ELSE but the Empress of the Known Universe!!! Irulan the light of my life!!! I would lay down my life for her!!!
Kill: Unfortunately the psychopath must go :((( I am not adventurous enough to attempt sexy times with Feyd-Rautha sigh.
Hi! Asks for you!
How’d you get into fanfiction?
What’s your favorite part of writing?
What’s the most difficult part of fandom? How do you deal with it?
Hi lovely!! Thank you for the ask <3
How’d you get into fanfiction?
*old lady voice* I stumbled into the world of fanfic almost 20 years ago... it was back in the days of one-episode-a-week TV shows, so I was hanging out in forums that discussed the events of weekly episodes and what would come next... In one of the forum posts, someone mentioned an author who wrote weekly drabbles for one of the show's ships. I followed the link, and that's how I fell down the rabbit hole found Fanfiction.net.
I had been writing (unfinished) stories for years, but never shared them before. Until, six years ago, in the middle of my obsession with Drarry, I decided to give fanfic a 'serious' go. I wrote and posted my first finished fic on ao3. To make this long story even longer, I was inspired by sebastianL (author of one of my favorite fics ever), who'd explained on tumblr that he'd written the whole fic first before posting it chapter by chapter. Knowing that was an option was an eye-opener for me. I'm not sure I would have been brave enough to post something as I wrote it!
What’s your favorite part of writing?
I really love being fully immersed in a longer writing project. I love the sensation of living in the world of a story for the time it takes to write it! That's why I'm a 'one story at a time' writer and I don't handle multiple projects well. Coming up with worldbuilding elements, figuring out how every little detail clicks together, is such a satisfying sensation. Like how Healer!Harry thinks of emotions in medical terms (accelerated heartbeat, hormones, physical reactions) in Fire Meet Gasoline.
I also love using settings as a reflection on or metaphor for a character's mindset or their development arc. Draco's house in Burn The Witch that symbolizes Harry's desire for a home of his own. Grimmauld Place in Passing Stranger that is a metaphor for Harry's depression.
Dialogue is also a really fun part of writing, for me. I usually write the dialogue first to get the flow of it right, then add tags and descriptions.
I have mixed feelings about smut: I used to love writing it, but these days it can bore me a bit (as a reader and writer!), unless it's a central part of a character's arc or relationship development.
What’s the most difficult part of fandom? How do you deal with it?
Hands down, statistics and comparison. Everything else (fandom wank, drama, trends that I don't vibe with) I manage to block pretty effectively.
I found a solution for stats, which is an AO3 skin that hides all stats on my fics and other people's (also a great way to come to a fic without preconceived notions of its 'popularity', 100/10 recommend) -> see my tutorial here!
(Negative) comparison is much harder to escape. I still haven't found a way of avoiding comparing myself to writers I admire. I'm learning to accept that it's part of being a writer, and everyone gets those feelings of inadequacy from time to time. When that happens, I actively try to turn those unhelpful thoughts into something productive: I analyze what I love about someone's writing and try to see if I can apply those qualities to my own craft. Reading comments on old fics also helps when I need a boost! It always helps to remind myself that there's room for all kinds of writers in the fandom: the fact that other writers are talented doesn't make me a bad writer, just one with a different skillset and style.
