I'm recently into sneville, snuna and the trio( I'll call it snuneville if it doesn't have a name yet)... have no idea what on earth I drew so please don't ask anything …🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️💦💦💦💦
neville and luna look after snape who survived the war while suffered brain injury↓
( just want to see him being disabled and fragile I'm so sorry 😇🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Luna would've gifted Severus those earrings because she supports his very own weird aestetics, and he'd adore them and wear them everywhere to unsettle people around him, btw
(those are all fake of course, Luna wouldn't hurt a fly)
This year has definitely been a year. I've devoured so many wonderful fics by so many amazing authors. Thank you @hprecfest for the super fun rec categories and for some fic inspiration! Here are 23 fics that I read and loved in 2023 (although some are quite a few years older) ordered by ship.
🌼 - fluff | 💔 - angst | 🔥 - smut
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💫 DRARRY 💫
1. A post-canon fic
The Discreet Gentleman's Connection by pluto (gayrights420) [Drarry, E, 80.4k] 🌼🔥 I had the absolute pleasure of beta-ing for this fic, so when I say it is amazing, it truly is just that. Fast burn on the smut via Floo sex, slow burn on the in-person falling in love. Satisfying in all the best possible ways.
2. A fic that made me laugh
AITA for being "obsessed" with my childhood nemesis? by @rainstormradish [Drarry, M, 4.3k] 🌼📲 Draco on a reddit forum is hilarious just on its own, but the banter and formatting really bring this fic to life. Amazingly creative, had me in stitches!
3. A comfort fic
The Eighth Tale by @letteredlettered [Drarry, E, 12.0k] 💔⏳ An oldie but a goodie. I constantly find myself coming back to this fic and having my mind blown every single time. Time travel timey-wimey angst.
4. A fic with art
Dating Draco - A Visual Game by @itsphantasmagoria [Drarry, M, Video Game] 🌼🎮 This is a fic in video game form!! Amazing art and lovely story where YOU get to make the choices for Drarry's happily ever after.
5. A favorite series
The Journal of Dreadful Things by @lilbeanz [Drarry, G, 112k, WIP] 🌼📖 Hilarious, witty, AND COMES WITH ART!! Lilbeanz draws and writes a wonderfully delightful series starting from Draco's First Year. His characterization had me in hysterics. Book 4 is starting soon!
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💫 COMMON SHIPS 💫
6. Fic with the hottest smut
Moonstruck by @prettyremus [Wolfstar, E, 3.8k] 🔥🐺 Found this gem while scrolling through the werewolf smut tag (don't judge me). I love the switch in dynamic with Sirius taming Remus's wolf through, ahem, rough sex.
7. An unreliable narrator fic
Sea of White by @dividawrites [Harrymort, E, 8.6k] 🔥🤍 Deliciously hot, creepy, and strangely sweet. Love their dynamic here, the unrestrained lust. Harrymort "die" and lose their memories, so, of course, then they bang.
8. A fic that made me cry
Far Apart, Far Away by @unmistakablyoatmeal [Hinny, minor Drarry, T, 1.6k] 💔💍 Infidelity angst has never been this good. I love the layers of emotion in this fic. Quick punchy sections that really pulled me in.
9. A Muggle(?) AU fic
Pleasant Hope by @ac1d6urn, @sinick [Snarry, E, 41.6k] 💔⛪️ Pastor Severus!! The angst, pining, and self-discovery in this fic is superb! I love the interwoven magic and detailed world-building of this little town.
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💫 RARE PAIRS 💫
10. A fav amongst faves
The Last Trial of Peter Pettigrew by @sleepstxtic [Prongstail, M, 20.8k] 💔 🐀 Holy moly, this fic!!!! Is this my new favorite fic?? Possibly. The concept is brilliant, so creative and nuanced. The Peter character study using outsider perspectives is genius. Seamlessly balances canon and new scenes.
11. A pre-canon fic
Careless by @tax-onomic [Luther, E, 1.5k] 🔥🪞 Lucius/Arthur my beloved rare pair!! I am captain of the Luther ship, and Tax's fic hits all the right spots. The pining, the sniping, the prickly personalities with emotional vulnerability underneath! And all in the middle of a hot smut scene. Perfect.
12. A canon-compliant fic
Scottish by thepadfoots [Chedric, G, 749] 💔🌟 Lovely Cho character study focused around her Asian identity and the boy she loved.
13. A fic rated G (more like T though)
Lion-Hearted Girl by MinnieQuill (odainath) [Minmione, G, 4.5k] 💔🦁 I know the large age gap might scare some, but their relationship feels very organic in this fic. The setting is grim, but there is always hope in the darkness!
14. A fic rated T
You're So Vane by @patriceavril [Romelina, T, 6.8k] 🌼💄Romilda is so delightfully characterized, I was smiling through the entire fic. Angelina is the perfect foil (and love interest) to Romilda's attentions.
15. A rare pair fic (less than 2000 fics on AO3)
Snakeskin by @cntrl15 [Bellastoria, E, 3.7k] 🔥👠 Talk about a rare pair! Astoria/Bellatrix only has 2 tagged fics on AO3: this fic and the drabble I wrote based on it. But read this fic, and you'll see why I felt the need to write more in this universe.
16. A fest fic
Master of None by @nanneramma [Snormac, G, 5.5k] 🌼🧘 Severus is so wonderfully cranky, and Cormac is fine AF. The surprise pairing of 2023 that I never knew I needed and now I'm obsessed with!
17. An under-rated fic
Sun, Shadow, Shade by @naomijameston [Snuna, G, 700] 🌼☀️ Post-war fluff. Sunshine Luna is the perfect match for sullen Snape. A short and sweet fic for this underrated ship.
18. A canon-divergent fic
but somebody's gotta do it by nocturn [Pangulus, T, 920] 😄🧟♂️ This fic will make you say WTF but also huh, okay that totally works. The concept is WILD but Lyra executes it wonderfully. Pansy drags Regulus out of the inferi lake and they flirt a little while he gets de-corpsified lol.
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💫 POLY SHIPS 💫
19. A dark fic
In his embrace by @loneamaryllis [Snarrymort, het!Snarry, E, 48k] ⚡️👀 Dark and dirty but so so good. A Voldemort Wins AU where fem!Harry is taken as prisoner. Snape's mindset as he tries to save her (and is forced to rape her) is so twisted and mesmerizing. Mind the tags!
20. A thought-provoking fic
Icarus by @thistlecatfics [Millvansy, M, 20.0k] 💔🍾 War trauma, addiction, codependency! This fic is messy with emotions but has a strong, beating heart underneath. I am in love with Parvati as she deals with Pansy's addiction and Millicent's denial — three beautiful, imperfect girls.
21. A holiday fic
A Time, Dark and Divine by @moonflower-rose [Dronarry, E, 17.0k] 🔥⛱ HOLY FREAKING FUCK!! The sexual tension in this fic is off the freaking charts. Drarry seducing Ron while on vacation in Portugal. Sign me the fuck up!
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💫 GEN 💫
22. A favorite fic under 5k
The Scrunchie by @saintsenara [Lightning Era Girls, G, 4.5k] 💖👭 Such a lovely look into some of the female background characters, all following the path of a single scrunchie. Lisa, Padma, Parvati, Hannah, Sally-Anne.
23. A fic with an ending I can't stop thinking about
Through the Middlegame by @sandervansunshine [Astoria & Peter, T, 6.6k] 💔♜ Devastating, heart-wrenching, tragic. 10000% would recommend. Kylee has already heard me screaming in the servers about this fic. If I could get a fic tattooed straight onto my brain, this would be it.
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💫 BONUS RECS! 💫
A podfic
Plenitude by @wilfriede, written by eldritcher [Amelmione, M, 14 min] 💔🥀 Amazing voices, amazing music, amazing ambience. Wilfriede really brings one of my fav Hermione/Amelia Bones fics to life in this podfic!
A comic
War Prize by @mrviran [Snegulus, Reggiemort, M, Comic, WIP] ☠️🐍 The panels are awe-inspiring. I am HOOKED on this comic. The murder and the TENSION. Ughhhhh so good. I am so invested in Severus's arc!!
A self-rec (completely self-indulgent)
For I Have Found Salvation by @lumosatnight [Snarry, E, 7.1k] 🔥✝ My first time writing Snarry! Priest Kink, church sex, and blasphemous religious imagery. Priest Severus is oh-so-tempted by Teen Harry. So fun to write and even more fun to go back and read as a guilty pleasure.
So many to choose from!!!! I combined the definitions of creature here, both magical creatures and animals, and tried to provide a variety of pairings, so this one got a little out of control.
Decline and Fall by orphan_account
Pairing: Draco x Harry
Rating: E
Word count: 30,380
Summary:
Harry has come back to teach at Hogwarts, which is coming apart at the seams.
This fic was written pre-Deathly Hallows (CHECK OUT THE NUMBER ON THE URL. IT'S SEVEN-fucking-TEEN!!!!) and like I said yesterday, there's something about it that's so different than what comes in the two decades after. The creatures here are dragons and zombies, and the magic world-building is very cool. Wish I knew, who you were, mystery author.
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Flutter by SquibNation10
Pairing: Harry x Severus
Rating: E
Word count: 30,286
Summary:
He said uselessly, "Sev, don't go."
"I'm s-sorry-" Harry cupped Severus' face and gazed into his eyes. His eyes were dark brown, almost black, sad, raven, mine.
"These stay the same," Severus said. "Remember that when you look at me. Remember, it's me.”
Flutter does my heart,
When you ask me to stay.
I want to live in the moment
But the past keeps me a prey.
Prompt # 2024-76
Prompt: AU - Apartment Life Harry's been warned to steer clear of the 24th floor. Curiosity got the better of him and Harry checks it out. Its deserted except for apartment 2444. Harry notices signs of life—a faint light under the door, soft sounds of movement.
This fic is dark, so mind the trigger warnings. It's also Muggle AU but sort of still has magic with the ravens. It's beautiful and the character dynamics are so different than you usually see. This fic just stuck with me for a long time.
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The Dog's Dilemma by @dragongoddess13 (podfic by @ellamcsmellbella)
Pairing: Hermione x Sirius
Rating: T
Word count: 5,873
Length: 33 minutes
Summary:
After fighting his way back through the veil only to be ambushed by an undercover Death Eater, Sirius finds him self in a bit of a furry situation.
I just love Sirius. I want to give him head scritches. This fic is mostly sweet with cute dog Sirius. But also it has Remus/Tonks!lives, if that interests you.
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Love of the Sea by @jenjentheboscostick
Pairing: James x Sirius
Rating: E
Word count: 7,734
Summary:
When Sirius Black was fifteen, he was cursed to be a merman until he kisses his one true love. He never imagined meeting that one true love while he was captive at the DOM.
I'm a sucker for mermaids and mermen and I will never get Of Barnacles and Mermen and sexy merman!Sirius out of my head (but that's a rec for another day). So I was an easy sell on this one and James is so sweet and righteous in a very Harry way.
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Intrinsic Charm by @arsenicjade (podfic by me)
Pairing: Luna x Severus
Rating: T
Word count: 14,088
Length: 1.5 hours
Summary:
As much to his disbelief as anyone else's, Severus Snape is the headmaster of Hogwarts. Luna's joined on as his Charms professor.
Something about this fic is so dreamy, like Luna herself. And thanks to Luna, it's full of magical creatures. This is an old fic, so like Decline and Fall above, you won't find all the tried and true fanon made canon from most fics post series end, which is refreshing.
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Penguins, Pebbles, and Other Reasons to Pursue Unemployment by @mightbewriting (podfic by me)
Pairing: Draco x Hermione
Rating: T
Word count: 5,000 (oooo impressive!)
Length: 34 minutes
Summary:
“Is that…shit? On my desk?”
Granger doesn’t so much as look up from her mountain of teetering parchments at Draco’s question. Her hair: frazzled. Her frown: ominous.
The energy in their shared office: frantic.
“Penguin shit,” she says. “Specifically, it’s penguin shit.”
[In which a penguin-themed mishap at the Ministry nearly costs Draco his sanity.]
Penguins and time shenanigans? MWB must have written this specifically for me! It's Christmas crack and so so cute.
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A Gift of True Esteem by @beloved-child-of-the-house (podfic by me)
Pairing: Draco x Harry
Rating: E
Word count: 53,965
Length: 5.5 hours
Summary:
Professor Draco Malfoy believes he has something unique to bring to Hogwarts' History of Magic course. Professor Harry Potter is willing to be convinced.
I will never stop reccing this fic. It's like a cosy, warm blanket but also an academic treatise (which is a cosy, warm blanket for my brain). It's also got some holiday vibes, because 'tis the season. There's a cat and also a magical creature that I won't spoil. Just go listen!!!
I have far too many and my memory is rubbish with titles, plots and authors. I will open this question to all of you. Drop your reccomendations in the replies!