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Aground by @thisbloodycat

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Aground by @thisbloodycat Pairing: Robb Stark x Theon Greyjoy Rating: M Length: 14 minutes Summary:

Every ship sinks on the way down.

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[the-starryknight]

F, G, and I? 🤷🏻‍♀️

hello, and thank you very much for asking!!

F. canon fics or au?

ooh, everyone's curious about this one today! I've answered it here, and made a little AUs rec list here, so I suppose it's time for a canon-ish rec list. making this has made me realize that I tend towards EWE fics most. this list isn't only fully canon compliant fic, I'm including a few that take canon strongholds and expand them in really fantastic ways (but there are so, so many!):

Inevitable (From The Very Start) by onbeinganangel (55k, E) - canon compliant

Turn by saras_girl (307k, E) - canon compliant

The Ordeal of Being Known by louisfake (147k, E) - EWE

so lie to me tonight. by m0stlyvoid (5k, T) - Harry/Ginny breakup

Home Truths by skeptique (67k, E) - Quidditch

Nor All That Glisters by sweet_s0rr0w (110k, E) - Felix felicis

Two Starts, One Finish by lqtraintracks (5k, E) - Enemies to Lovers

Criminal by the-sinking-ship (83k, E) - Auror Harry

G. longfics or shortfics?

I also answered this one a bit here! SO here are the longest fics I've read:

longest fic - Baghdad Waltz by Dreadnought (680k+, E) - the only Stucky fic I've ever read, on @gryffindorhearts' recommendation

longest hp fic - All the Young Dudes by mskingbean89 (Wolfstar, 526k)

longest drarry fic - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by iero0 and ladderofyears (288k, E)

and for the shortest, well, I can only recommend drarrymicrofic, especially xanthippe, skeptique, onbeinganangel, ladderofyears, gryffindorhearts, shealwaysreads and many, many others for some tight 50-word micros!

I. porn with plot or porn without plot?

In all seriousness, though, I'm more likely to write porn with plot (though I'd love to try some porn without plot, just for fun) and I read both!

[snowgall]

Hello, snowgall!

Since you have tutorials on how to search Ao3 on your Tumblr, I thought you'd be the right person to ask this question to! LOL. See, do you think there is a way to search works for one side of a paring? Like, if I want to search Scorpius Malfoy paired with anyone, or Ginny Weasley paired with anyone... Well, can that actually be done? Is there any way to make that happen? 🤷

Anyway. Here's hoping you'll have the best of days! (And thank you, too. For answering this post.) ❤️

Oh wow, TBC, this is an excellent question!

Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, AO3 doesn't currently make this very easy to do.

I can suggest two not-very-satisfactory ways of approaching this. Neither will completely produce only the fics you want, but they can be somewhat helpful in getting you closer to what you want.

Option 1: Searching Relationship Tags

Use the "tag search" page to come up with a complete list of relationship tags for this character and then go through each tag one at a time looking for fics.

For the specific example of Scorpius Malfoy, it will look like this:

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query%5Bname%5D=Scorpius+Malfoy&query%5Btype%5D=Relationship&query%5Bcanonical%5D=true

That pulls up 207 (canonical) relationship tags which include Scorpius Malfoy at all. You'd have to click on each tag manually to see what's in them.

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Option 2: Filtering by the Character

Use the "work search" page to search for works tagged with the *character* of Scorpius Malfoy:

https://archiveofourown.org/works?utf8=%E2%9C%93&commit=Sort+and+Filter&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&tag_id=Scorpius+Malfoy

Which currently gives you 9691 works.

You can reduce that a little further by "searching within results" for fics which also have at least one relationship tag. That is, include a search for

relationship_ids:*

(this allows for relationships of any sort, with or without Scorpius Malfoy - I don't know how to make it more specific that that)

This looks like:

https://archiveofourown.org/works?utf8=%E2%9C%93&commit=Sort+and+Filter&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&work_search%5Bquery%5D=relationship_ids%3A*&tag_id=Scorpius+Malfoy

And produces 8806 fics.

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I'm sorry I don't know how to search any better than that. If anyone knows, please inform me!

Good luck!

[taketheplanspinitsideways]

ok but is drarry fic actually a thing ??? recommend me some i BEG

First of all, hi anon! Thanks for the ask! I don’t get many so it’s always appreciated when I do! 

Second, are we talking about the same drarry? As in Draco and Harry? If you haven’t stayed up half the night reading a 200,000 word drarry slow burn then you haven’t lived! There is a ton of fanfiction, literally tens of thousands of fics on Archive of Our Own. I’d recommend you go there and search the tag with whatever filters you want - it’s so hard to suggest some when it’s ALL sooooooo good! What sort of thing do you like? Let me know if you want specific recs, I’ll read anything and have over 1000 fics in my bookmarks!

I’m probably better off mentioning writers - they’re mostly all on tumblr if you want to look but their fics are AMAZING. I started reading loads by firethesound (although stop all the clocks KILLED me so I wouldn’t read if you get sad easily) and then moved on to sprout2012 and Saras_Girl. I also love lomonaaeren femmequixotic noeon dictacontrion shiftylinguini birdsofshore and more recently bixgirl and thisbloodycat. Most of them are basically the gods of the drarry universe.They have written so many fics though that it will probably take you months to read them so choose carefully! 

I’m probably missing loads but that’s a start for you. I started putting a list together and had about 3 people and now there’s a huge list lol. I’m crap with tumblr but think I’ve put links to something at least - let me know if it’s not working! 

[dictacontrion]

Is that a promise? Because I’ll hold you to it if it is.“ Harry rolled his eyes. "I’m a Gryffindor, Draco. We generally keep our promises.” Draco moved closer then, he moved until their lips were barely inches from each other. “So do Slytherins,” he whispered, “we just like to call them threats.

You’re All I Need (All I Can Taste) by @thisbloodycat

[dictacontrion]

Harry rents a small studio near the Collegiata, but visits Draco everyday. He brings him sweets and flowers and chocolates, and takes Draco out to dinner almost constantly. In some ways, it feels a bit like a dream. "So it was him," Draco's mother says one day, and Draco grins down into his teacup. It was him. It was always him.

And Hope Says, Perhaps Today by This_Bloody_Cat

[dictacontrion]

He’s so cross, so confused, so incongruously turned on, and the next thing he knows, he’s kissing Harry. It’s harsh and angry and demanding, and not even close to how it was in his dreams, but still sublime, Draco thinks. Sublime. Except Harry isn’t kissing him back. Harry is just standing there, unmoving, until Draco starts to pull back. Something wild flashes in his eyes then. He grabs Draco by the hair and drags him close. “Let go of my fucking—” Draco starts, but the rest of his sentence is obliterated by Harry’s mouth. “You bloody impossible ponce,” Harry says between hard kisses, “of course you’d be worried about your stupid hair.”

Between Dreams and Miracles by @thisbloodycat

[sitp-recs]

22 and 29? 😄

Thank you!!

22: A song that moves you forward:

Wake Up by Arcade Fire

29: A song that you remember from your childhood:

Wannabe by Spice Girls! Iconic🕺

Send me music asks