Dec. 24 - A fic that gives you the warm fuzzies
I love fluff! I could read fluff all day every day. So many good fics to choose from here ...
Garden War by cibee (podfic by JocundaSykes) Pairing: Draco x Harry Rating: T Word count: 4,884 Length: 32 minutes Summary:
Harry and Draco are quarantined in their houses, a lake across from one another. What better ways to spend this time than to annoy each other with letters and attempts to prove that their garden is better ?
An adorable quarantine-era epistolary fic that Joc reads perfectly.
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A Dress with Pockets by @pacific-rimbaud (podfic by @beatificbean, @etl-echo-audiobooks) Pairing: Neville x Pansy Rating: E Word count: 24,927 Length: 2 hours Summary:
Pansy Parkinson needed a drink. And a shag. She didn't care in which order. Enter: Neville fucking Longbottom and his rolled up sleeves.
All the fluff and smut with PacificRimbaud's gorgeous writing, and of course Trish's beautiful narration.
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From Sunset to Star Rise by @schmem14 (podfic by DontStopHerNow) Pairing: Harry x Ron Rating: M Word count: 7,618 Length: 50 minutes Summary:
Ron stops in his tracks, trembling from head to toe as he points his nose to the clear blue sky, feeling the autumn chill bite his fevered skin. He’s in love with Harry, and he only just realizes it. I have to conquer this is his first thought. I have to tell him is his second. But I’m afraid… lingers longest of all. ***** Ron and Harry move to New England to get away from the aftermath of war, buy a cozy cabin in the woods, and fall in love under the stars of an autumn sky.
Cottagecore Ronarry in New England! What more needs to be said? (Maybe New England is fluffier for me because it's where I'm from? Nah, it's just fluffy.)
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Apple Pies and Other Amends by @thudsonwrites (podfic version 1 by @beatificbean, @etl-echo-audiobooks, podfic version 2 by @ellamcsmellbella) Pairing: Draco x Hermione Rating: M Word count: 76,720 Length: 7 hours Summary:
It’s not until she’s brought a basil and strawberry sponge cake to Neville Longbottom and his new girlfriend, Hannah Abbott, a dozen rhubarb hand-pies to Luna and Xenophilius Lovegood, and another basket of ganache-covered muffins to Dean and Seamus, that Hermione admits to herself what she’s actually doing: she’s making a thing of this. It’s a veritable PTSD tour. With pastries. And hand-skimmed clotted cream. And she has no idea why she’s doing it, but it’s becoming very apparent that she is. Sometimes you're sad. Sometimes you need dessert. And sometimes, it's a little of both.
Baking as recovery. A small, quiet, sweet fic about post-war healing.
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Draco Malfoy and the Crupnapper by Oakstone730 (podfic by me) Pairing: Draco x Harry Rating: E Word count: 35,095 Length: 3.5 hours Summary:
Life as a night shift creature keeper is scarcely the life Draco once imagined for himself, but ten years after the death of Voldemort he’s accepted his fate. Until the day Harry Potter forces his way back into Draco’s world and everything turns upside down.
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Because Cats by @icmezzo (podfic by me) Pairing: Draco x Harry Rating: T Word count: 14,589 Length: 1.5 hours Summary:
Harry has a cat, and Draco doesn’t. Then Draco has a cat, and Harry doesn’t. Then Harry has a cat again, but Draco doesn’t. Then Draco has a cat, but Harry—OMG HOW WILL IT END.
These last two were both recorded for @unleashed-fest, and what could be more warm and fuzzy than dog and cat fics, respectively.