#queenofthyme

[queenofthyme]

sometimes being a fanfic writer is ignoring research

[lostdrarryfics]

Hi, I read this fic a few years ago on ao3, it was a one shot and not super long (probably less than 10k). It’s set a few years post Hogwarts. Draco’s sectumsempra scars never healed properly and the curse means they repeatedly reopen, so Draco has to run off and heal them again. Harry follows him one time and is horrified that the curse is still affecting him, he helps Draco heal them and I think he promises he’ll be the one to heal them every time it happens again? They may have been work colleagues but I’m not too sure.

Thank you in advance!

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[shannaraisles]

Worth Fighting For - for @queenofthyme

For the charming @queenofthyme, who requested something flirty and epistolary for a pre-relationship Fem!Shepard x Kelly Chambers, and gave me the opportunity to play in the Mass Effect sandbox for a little bit. Thank you, lovely!

Worth Fighting For

TO: ShepardCommander FROM: ChambersYeoman SUBJECT: Preferences

Commander,

Forgive the informality of the request, but I neglected to ask during our conversation what pronouns you prefer to use, and how you would prefer to be addressed. Your comfort in command is a high priority during these first days of our mission. How would you like to be referred to among the crew?

Kelly Chambers

TO: ChambersYeoman FROM: ShepardCommander SUBJECT: Re:Preferences

Kelly,

Call me nuts, but I prefer my subordinates to be the comfortable ones around me. Commander’s good, doesn’t need to be any more fancy. Shepard once you’ve earned it. She/they, doesn’t much bother me either way. 

Shepard

P.S. See? Doesn’t take much to earn it. And, by the way, you’re much more fun to look at than a janky V.I.

TO: ShepardCommander FROM: ChambersYeoman SUBJECT: Checking in

Commander,

Your visits to the lower decks have gone down very well. Most of the crew seems very reassured that you don’t consider us to be your enemy, despite your experiences with Cerberus. I would like to discuss those past experiences with you, if it would be at all possible. Your past trauma may be something we can soothe through information sharing exercises

Kelly Chambers

P.S. I hear you kicked ass at Skyllian poker last night. Shame the stakes were so tame.

TO: ChambersYeoman FROM: ShepardCommander SUBJECT: Re: Checking in

Tame? Would you have preferred to see him running for the dorms in nothing but his skivvies? It’s very doable, just say the word. 

I have it on good authority that dinner tonight is going to be not only edible but enjoyable. Come join me in the mess, you can finally get that in with Joker and the doctor you’ve been hinting at. Maybe even a conversation with Garrus if he’s done with his calibrations for the day.

Shepard

TO: ShepardCommander FROM: ChambersYeoman SUBJECT: Re: Checking in

That wasn’t an answer to the main question. I am here to facilitate your needs, not only when it comes to the administration of your work, but also to assist with your recovery following the traumas you have already experienced.

Don’t make me schedule an appointment in the diary.

Kelly Chambers

TO: ChambersYeoman FROM: ShepardCommander SUBJECT: Re: Checking in

Don’t threaten me with a good time. Because that will not be a good time. I can handle it, Kelly. I’d much rather enjoy the view from my terminal than avoid it because you’re openly psycho-analyzing me. Call me crazy, I prefer the stealth approach when it comes to me. Just don’t pop up unexpectedly in my shower.

Shepard

TO: ChambersYeoman FROM: ShepardCommander SUBJECT: Aliens vs. humans

Kelly,

You mentioned you don’t see race or gender, just character. Does that only apply to aliens, or can I stop pretending to be a supposedly normal, well-adjusted human being in your presence? I can definitely guarantee I have a whole lot of character.

Shepard

P.S. Grunt has promised not to crowd you in the elevator so long as you promise not to smell so good when you walk past him. That’s his compromise, so I’m going to find you a perfume that turns krogan stomachs. No offense.

TO: ShepardCommander FROM: ChambersYeoman SUBJECT: Re: Aliens vs. humans

Commander, that subject line is very misleading. But thank you for speaking with Grunt, it is very much appreciated. I believe the line of perfumes made by Goddess Essentials are particularly repugnant to krogan, though I would not like to cause him any actual harm. Perhaps I should just take the service ladders instead.

Kelly

TO: ChambersYeoman FROM: ShepardCommander SUBJECT: Re: Aliens vs. humans

Have to give Miranda something to get excited about before disappointing her with the actual subject matter. And yes, I know you’re reading my mail, Miranda. I will find a way to stump you.

As for you, Yeoman Kelly Chambers, was that a note of disapproval I detect in this highly unemotional, non-contextual manner of communication? Perhaps you should reprimand me in person if you don’t want to hurt my feelings.

Shepard

TO: KellyGrrl FROM: JShepReborn SUBJECT: Privacy at last

Well, hello there, KellyGrrl. At last I have tracked down your private comm. (I tracked it down, you did not give it to me. That’s the story and we’re sticking to it, no matter what Mr Illusive might say.)

That said, are you sure you’re doing okay? You seemed very rattled by what happened with the Collector ship trap. Not complaining about the hug - in fact, feel free to hug rather than salute - but you know you’re allowed to have an emotional response to a stressful situation too, right? Hugs go both ways. I have muscular arms that give safe harbour-type hugs, so I’m told. They’re open for you anytime.

Shepard

P.S. Miranda, if anything said in these private communications end up in your reports to The Illusive Man, you will learn exactly why a large number of people in this galaxy are personally afraid of me.

TO: JShepReborn FROM: KellyGrrl SUBJECT: Re: Privacy at last

I’m fine, Shepard. I was more worried for you than for myself. After all, you were the one trapped on a Collector ship we have no way of destroying if it came to it, and you would not have been there had our own organization manipulated the situation. The end does not always justify the means, especially where your life is concerned. A highlight of my day is watching you walk away ... that is quite the physique you have cultivated there.

Goodness, that was very flirty, wasn’t it?

Kelly

TO: KellyGrrl FROM: JShepReborn SUBJECT: Flirty McFlirtersson called ...

... she’d like you to know your butt flirts with me behind your back. Don’t sweat about doing it consciously, you have my attention, honey.

TO: JShepReborn FROM: KellyGrrl SUBJECT: Re: Flirty McFlirtersson called ...

Oh.

Oh, my.

In that case, we definitely need to swing by the Citadel some time soon. I have an order on hold at This One’s that will do wonders for my rear end’s escapades.

TO: KellyGrrl FROM: JShepReborn SUBJECT: Re: Flirty McFlirtersson called ...

Tease.

Citadel, here we come.

*********************************************************

“Commander, you have a new message at your private terminal.”

Commander Jane Shepard raised a brow at the very formal tone in her yeoman’s voice, glancing to where the other woman stood at her own terminal. Kelly was focused on her work, apparently utterly engrossed in what looked like a logistics report. Around them, the command center of the Normandy buzzed with industry, crew members going about their work with warm efficiency. If they were aware of the flirtation between their commander and the yeoman, they gave no sign of it.

The commander activated her terminal, absent-mindedly opening the first message without really registering who it was from.

And stared.

That was ... Yes, that was a very nice picture of Kelly. Possibly not command center appropriate, though.

Clearing her throat, Shepard quickly closed the message, encoding it and sending it through several rounds of encryption back to her own private comm channel before deleting it from this terminal as thoroughly as possible. Acutely aware of her dry throat, she coughed delicately before stepping away.

“I’ll be in my cabin,” she informed the yeoman, biting down on a laugh at the knowing smirk that flickered on Kelly’s face as she acknowledged the information. 

Wicked woman, that one, but so much fun. 

Definitely worth fighting for. 

[kythwena]

A potion or a spell can’t tell you what to feel, you have to actually feel it. You have to love without reason or hope or encouragement. When you love, you don’t expect anything in return, you love because you must, because you don’t know any other way.

See It My Way by QueenofThyme

[o0o-chibaken-o0o]

Birthday Birthday it’s @queenofthyme’s Birthday!!

(in Australia)

so @queenofthyme is the best and it’s her birthday and everyone should be celebrating because honestly her birth was a gift to this world (and more specifically the Drarry fandom like holy shit she’s so great to us all)

I don’t have screenshots like she found for my birthday BUT I do remember very clearly her wishing for me to write about model Harry and Draco in a chat and me saying I would write it for her birthday and SURPRISE BITCH I ACTUALLY DID IT AND ON TIME!!! 

I hope you enjoy and I hope everyone else who likes the story goes over to @queenofthyme‘s ask box and messages her their fav thing about her!!! Mine is her respect for cats and also her face <3

Read Model Behavior on AO3

Summary: Harry hates being photographed more than just about anything. Turns out, he hates the idea of saying no to Luna just a little bit more. Featuring a very rude furry tuxedo, questionable poses, nude underwear, and multiple intentional nip slips.

[gingertodgers]

Fic recs for January

I read a lot of damp squib fics in 2018 and the experience almost put me off reading in the Harry Potter fandom. And then! I spent the last two days of the year binge-reading Drarry and the love was back!

It's such a relief to enjoy reading fic again that I almost cried (and I actually did cry while reading Antlers and Ivy). So in an attempt to keep and share the love I've decided to do another rec list. These are just some of the fics I've read and loved during Janurary, enjoy!

Albus/Scorpius

Guess I'll Die by @aibidil

Albus’s life is as it has always been; he’s trying not to let on that he’s in love with his best friend while also having to dodge tickling spells hurled at his groin during duelling practice. But then he and Scorpius are hit with an illegal hex—they have to have sex, or the curse will deplete their magical life-force. It’ll be fine, Albus thinks. They will have sex and then pretend it never happened. No big deal. Right?

Draco/Harry

1,000 Points From Gryffindor by blithleybonny

The story of how Harry Potter single-handedly lost Gryffindor the House Cup while attempting to have a “normal” year at Hogwarts.

Antlers and Ivy by @violetclarity

The thing is, Draco has always known he wouldn’t be able to marry his soulmate. Finding out his soulmate is Harry Potter shouldn’t change anything.

Eighteen Kisses by tigersilver

Harry is being targeted by a very determined and wily Malfoy, a Malfoy with sly hands and a sweet, sweet mouth.

Hung Like a Hippogriff by Magnolia822

After Dean Thomas catches Malfoy wanking and tells everyone about his giant cock, Harry can’t stop thinking about it. Not because he’s attracted to Malfoy, mind, but because he’s concerned Malfoy is up to something. Er . . .

It's Been Draco For Awhile by @oceaxereturns

What harm can a love potion do if you're already in love?

Orbit by @henrymercury

"The classical problem of celestial mechanics, perhaps of all Newtonian mechanics, involves the motion of one body about another under the influence of their mutual gravitation."

The Year of Non-Magical Thinking by @whiskyandwildflowers

"I don't know what I'm going to do, Potter. I'll think of something. So will you. But this is my journey to self-actualization," Draco managed to smirk. "You can fuck off and get your own."

Your Archrival, Draco Malfoy by @queenofthyme

Harry's stuck at the Dursley's again for the Summer Holidays and he's sure his birthday is going to be another write-off. That is, until he begins receiving surprising letters and gifts from his self-appointed 'archrival', Draco Malfoy.

Ginny/Luna

Home (it’s a feeling, not a place) by @evening12

The war has just ended, and Ginny is struggling to make sense of it all. She leaves the Burrow and finds herself at the Lovegood’s home.

Ginny/Pansy

Let them speak of the birds in their throats by @untilourapathy

The bird three words: I love you.

[drarry-to-read]

Title: How to apologise to Harry Potter in 10 days

Author: QueenofThyme

Summary: Draco Malfoy decides to apologise to Harry Potter, but finds himself falling into old familiar patterns instead. All he needs to do is say two little words. Why is it so hard?

Length: 4 chapters, 18,071 words

Rating: Teen and up

[tdcatsblog]

Harry was back to dreading consent training. Only this time it was worse. He was no longer dreading it because he hated his teacher, but because he had a thing for his teacher. A thing for Draco Malfoy!

Cold Like Fire by @queenofthyme