thank you lovely @kbrick for making this and for the tag! i've been loving seeing it cross my dash so many times now and getting to learn how we all ended up here on this wee corner of the internet 💕
When did you get into Drarry and why? i started reading drarry in late 2019, i think? i know i got to the pairing via wolfstar but unsure what exactly was that made me think "okay maybe i'll give these guys a go!" i'd had not actively read fic or interacted with any fandom in a long time. wolfstar was my main pairing for YEARS and, of course, drarry always existed in the periphery of that for me, but i never felt the pull before? then, the beginning of the pandemic coincided with a significantly traumatic experience for me and i was very very sad and needed distractions very very desperately, and i just couldn't help but let myself fall. especially with such a bounty of new (to me) stories, voices, writing styles, premises! it felt really good to still be in the same familiar universe as the pairing that had been my first love, but this time through a pairing that has a wildly different context and backstory!
Which Drarry fic hooked you? i have terrible memory and really can't be sure but i believe i read He Who Must Not Be Normal by @letteredlettered, Burn The Witch by @lettersbyelise and Yours to Keep by @dracoismytrashson fairly early on when dipping my toes into the fandom (i literally didn't even have an ao3 account at this point, i was trying so hard to be casual about drarry) and i feel like all three of them were fairly crucial in pulling me in.
Top three favorite Drarry fics: ugh i can't do this lol here are FIVE (sorry, i am terrible) fics that touched me so deeply i had to discuss them with my therapist: Running on Air by @tinyhistory, Modern Love by @tackytigerfic, Way Down We Go by @xiaq, Far From The Tree by aideomai, and Tit for Tat by @mintamintathings.
Why can’t you quit them? OBSESSION. like, why are they sooooooooo into each other? it's disgusting and i love it. they're just heart shaped eyes and pitterpattering hearts and boners all over, all the time. plus, those eyes, hearts and boners really do not care about war, situational angst and/or trauma! in fact, they're kind of into it? god, they are insane for each other, it makes me go feral.
Would you rather be friends with Harry or Draco? i would love to be pals with Draco but realistically i think our personalities would clash A LOT. we'd be good drinking/partying/casual social buddies, but i think it would be very hard for Draco and I to become actual friends instead of just acquaintances. one of my actual irl besties is basically Harry both life-story and personality wise (afaik they have not saved the wizarding world but i can't be sure tbh) so i'm pretty certain Harry and I would get on like an house on fire :)
Who breaks your heart more often? Harry, always.
Ideal career for Harry? For Draco? for Harry, teacher maybe? let the man have peace, anyway. Draco would need something with a little more panache. if he was a professor at hogwarts he'd want the head of house position, probably eventually headmaster. if he was a wand maker/potions master he'd want to be the best in business, if he was a quidditch player, he'd want his team to be not only the top of the league but he'd be constantly trying to break some kind of record — both because of a leftover Malfoys-must-be-better-than-everyone bullshit from his childhood that he is trying very hard to let go of, and because of a desperate need to prove himself to be good.
Harry and Draco are being sent to a desert island for a week with plenty of food and water. Each is allowed to bring three additional items (no wands). What do they bring? Harry would bring a pocket knife, a book and sunscreen (knowing Draco would forget). Draco would bring three books in a panic and cry about forgetting the sunscreen as soon as they get to the island.
Favorite non-Drarry HP character? SIRIUS BLACK always and 4ever. (actually probably closely followed by his little brother these days. no i do not have a Regulus Black shaped problem, i have this obsession completely and totally under control, thank u ever so much)
If you had to pick one, enemies to lovers or (enemies to) friends to lovers? first of all god made me a bisexual so i didn't have to pick so this is like... cruel. but? enemies to friends to lovers, i guess? best of both worlds? i am a big fan of a good awkward phase. "i wanna be his friend but he still hates me" (not true), "i wanna date him but he thinks we're just fucking" (extremely not true, just hold hands ffs), "did he just propose as a joke" (sir pls work on your insecurities)
Would you rather read a fic that made you laugh or one that made you cry? i was put on this earth to weep and look pretty.
Three songs that scream Drarry to you (feel free to include the Drarry-est lyrics!): hmmm, i am bad at music but there's the one I wrote my Wireless last year to, Jefferson's Torch by Johnny Flynn, with the phenomenal lyrics: We were measured in the dark by timetabled tragedy / There's a real turn of age in disaster
literally all of The Dear Hunter's King of Swords (Reversed) is very very drarry so i won't pick specific lyrics from that one but just go listen to it
anddddd Savior Complex by Phoebe Bridgers, which i sent in to drarrymicrofic once as a prompt because i needed everyone's drarry takes on it! i mean, I'm a bad liar / With a savior complex / All the skeletons you hide / Show me yours, and I'll show you mine? that's got Drarry all over
Favorite authors outside of fic? oh, this is tricky simply because i don't tend to read a lot by the same author unless it's a series, so there are a lot of authors i am happy to say i love based on only one book! variety is the spice of life and all LOL i'm just gonna pick some names at random out of the magician's hat that is my brain: Elena Ferrante, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Patrick Rothfuss, Madeline Miller, Fernando Pessoa, Paolo Giordano, Diana Wynne Jones
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