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This week in Amazing Friends:

@julcheninred sent me this stunningly beautiful snowflake card!! And @evaeleanor sent me this adorable and perfect Christmas stocking card! I love them so much and I’m so grateful to know such generous and talented friends! 😭❤️. Thank you both!!! (I cannot get the lighting right, I’m so sorry!)

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🍆 Draw Drarry Badly Challenge 🍆 For Luckiest Fucking Size Queen Alive by @l0vegl0wsinthedark. "So there I was, minding my own business, standing in front of my locker (not posing in a way to make my arse look inviting), digging around for my belt (while not quietly gulping lungfuls of Potter’s scent), when Potter, humming to himself, humming, casual as fuck, pulls his fucking towel off and starts drying his hair with it. He just. Fucking. Stood there, towelling his hair dry, naked as the goddamned fucking day he was born. And so I stood there, drinking in the sight of his rock hard bare arse, and Merlin, that bloody giant cock, because, well, it was right there! What was I supposed to do, not stare?! You don’t work really hard to pay for a trip to India, travel through all the noise and heat, and then not drink in the sight of the truly lovely Taj Mahal, do you?! Except Potter’s cock could probably knock down the lovely Taj Mahal, holy fuck." This is not a new artwork but a very old one, made right after the first DDBC in June 2018, and my first artwork made just because I had a goofy idea. If you came to Drarry fandom after 2018, you've never seen this. Believe it or not, Tumblr deleted it in the Great Porn Purge of 2018. I'm dragging it out of the vault in honor of Loveglows's DDBC submission. 💖 🖍️ If you're seeing this, you're tagged! Draw Drarry Badly!

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The Draw Drarry Badly Challenge returns on January 10! The DDBC is the Drarry fandom’s uniquely goofy, chaotically inclusive art fest inviting every fandom member to draw our boys badly. Authors, readers, reccers, and artists are all warmly bidden to make imperfect art, because the fun of making fanart is for everyone! Fandom is better with more people making art of the characters we love, so grab the nearest pen and draw something gloriously jank. Make it fluffy, make it smutty, but above all make it fast and silly! The DDBC was established by @l0vegl0wsinthedark in 2018. With her blessing, I’ve hosted it since. For y’all new to the fandom, hi, I’m Jules! I have MS and my hands don’t work very well. I make fanart by cutting paper blocks with a straightedge paper cutter. The first DDBC was my gateway to becoming a fandom artist, and I’m here to hold the banner for everyone’s right to make art, no matter what. No experience? No fancy art supplies? No dexterity? Excellent. Make it cheap, make it unpolished, make it shaky, but make that art. The Rules: — Draw a piece of Drarry art. — Draw it as badly as possible. — Post your terrible art and tag anyone you want to do it too! — Tag it "draw drarry badly challenge" so it can be found with the rest of the fest. — Please tag me, @julcheninred, directly in the post so I don’t miss it! It’s my joy to reblog everyone’s wonderful bad art! If you’re already known as a skilled artist here, draw with your non-dominant hand, or in the dark, or with your foot! If this is your first DDBC, please do jump in! Many of the pillars of the fandom have made something exuberantly inelegant for DDBC. Have a look through past years’ submissions under the Draw Drarry Badly Challenge tag. Pick a scene from a fic, or a favorite trope. Break open a box of crayons and have at it! 2025’s DDBC will be from January 10 - 31. There will be another post to officially begin the party. Meanwhile, who are the newcomers you most want to see tagged? Who’s been around for a while but has never drawn Drarry badly in a previous year? Let me know and I’ll tag them in on the post that opens the fest! I look forward to seeing everyone’s Bad Drarry Art! 🙌

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✨The Draw Drarry Badly Challenge✨ In every bond!fic, there's an early scene where someone says, "It's bad enough that we have to live together, but surely we can be apart long enough to bathe!" ...They cannot be apart long enough to bathe. Here are our boys, wilting on opposite sides of the bathroom wall. 🖍️ If you're seeing this, you're tagged to Draw Drarry Badly!

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🧦 Draw Drarry Badly Challenge 🧦 RHCP for DDBC! Last night, I remembered the band's antics in tube socks and I knew I had to pay homage. Here's Ron, Draco, Harry, and Blaise, ready for funky crime. My reference was an official promotional photo from 1987. PLEASE DO NOT TAG THE BAND! I want to be polite and keep DDBC silliness out of their tag! 🖍️ If you're seeing this, you're tagged to Draw Drarry Badly!

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🌱 Draw Drarry Badly Challenge 🌱 In the greenhouse: "Look, Harry, a blossom! Oh, this is wonderful! I'll be able to make that potion after all! And just look at that exquisite petal corolla! It’s so unusual to see this plant bloom, they're terribly unpredictable in their growth—" "You don’t say. Little help here??" 🖍️ If you're seeing this, you're tagged to Draw Drarry Badly!

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Draw Drarry Badly Challenge An illustration of the opening scene of birdsofshore's In the Company of a Rubber Duck, in which Harry's luxurious bath is interrupted by Rubber Duck Draco. ✨ If you're seeing this, you're tagged! Draw Drarry Badly! ✨

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Draw Drarry Badly Challenge While beta-reading for @phdmama some time ago, I had the joy of finding a glorious typo that the spell-checker didn’t flag because it was a perfectly good word, just not the intended word. I give you: “Harry’s tantalizing pants bugle”.

✨ If you're seeing this, you're tagged! Draw Drarry Badly! ✨