Harry left school at 16 and since then has been a bit of an autodidact. Going to Google Camp and listening to lectures by experts in the field is part of that. You seem to want him to remain ignorant like your beloved Louis who only ever hangs out at the pub getting drunk with his Day Ones.
Just to be clear - drinking in a pub with your long term friends is socially, morally, environmentally, educationally, politically, socially, ethically, philosophically, and in every other way a better use of time than going to Google camp.
✨We are super excited that Dronarry Fest 2024 will be kicking off this weekend! ✨
Here are the rules and guidelines and (hopefully!) everything you need to know about taking part in the fest.
Dronarry Fest is a fic and art fest specifically dedicated to the characters of Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, and Harry Potter, either as a triad (Dronarry) or as pairs (Drarry, Dron, Ronarry). All works must feature all three characters in significant capacity either as romantic interests or in a platonic dynamic of some description. This year, we are going non-anon!
Timeline
Prompting Opens October 7th
Prompting Closes November 3rd
Claiming Starts November 4th
Claiming Close: February 3rd
Submissions Due February 18th
Posting Begins March 9th
🐍 Prompting
Prompting Opens October 7th
Prompting Closes November 3rd
You may submit as many prompts as you like, either using your name or anonymously.
You do not have to be creating in the fest to send in a prompt.
Please include any extra prompt details you would love to see incorporated (e.g. a favourite trope).
If you wish to, please include a maximum rating (e.g. Explicit) and any squicks or triggers (e.g. MCD).
Please note that any prompt details, including wished-for tropes, ratings, and squicks, are for inspiration only, and creators are not obligated to fulfil all of your desired wishes.
Remember that this is a Dronarry fest, and all ship requests must include Dronarry, Dron, Drarry, and/or Ronarry. No other ships are permitted unless they are minor.
We allow self-prompting. You may submit your desired prompt and then take your chance claiming it (with the risk that someone else may snatch it up before you), or you can fill in the special box for self-prompts once claiming opens.
Prompts will be available for browsing once claiming opens.
👑 Claiming
Claiming Starts November 4th at 5pm GMT
Claiming Close: February 3rd at 5pm GMT
Link to claiming form once open
This is an 18+ fest. Please do not sign up if you are under the age of 18 at the time of submission (February 18th 2023).
You may only claim one prompt at a time. If you finish your prompt, you may claim an additional prompt, but you must submit your first prompt as per submission guidelines first.
Claims will be awarded on a first come, first served basis.
You may claim for different fanwork types at the same time, either as an individual or as a collaboration (e.g. art + fic).
Collaborations are welcome! Please only submit one form per collaboration work and include details of all participants. Collabs can be illustrated fics, multi-author fics, multi-artists artworks, etc.
If you wish to create based on an existing fanwork, please submit as a self-prompt. You must ask for the original creator’s permission before submitting. We will trust you to honour this and only ask for proof in case issues arise. As proof we would expect written consent, or a blanket permission statement from the original creator either as a link or screencap.
You can browse blanket permission statements of creators here: https://www.fpslist.org/
⚡️ Creating
All creations must feature either: Dronarry (Draco/Ron/Harry), Drarry (Draco/Harry), Dron (Draco/Ron), or Ronarry (Ron/Harry), or a mixture of the listed ships. Any other ships must be minor.
All creations must feature Draco, Ron, and Harry as main characters.
Minimum of 1k for fics, with no maximum wordcount. For podfics, the recorded story should be a minimum of 1k words, no maximum.
All fics must be proofread by a beta. Podfics must be proofed before submission. If you do not have a beta, please contact the mods ([email protected]) or send us an ask and we can put a call out for a beta for you.
Please tag your works appropriately and sensitively. We want this to be a fest for everyone to feel safe and included and that means being mindful with your warning tags. If you’re not sure about how to tag something, please let the mods know and we can help. Please also note that we reserve the right to review your tags and add any additional tags to your works. We will always let you know what these tags are.
This year we're going non-anonymous, so feel free to share snippets of your work in the run up to posting!
Submissions must be complete works created for Dronarry Fest. Please do not submit incomplete works or works that are part of a series or a prequel/sequel to an existing work, unless it is a remix.
We encourage you to be inspired by prompts’ additional details, but it is not a requirement to incorporate them into your creation. You are not required to abide by any mentioned dislikes. However, if you plan to gift a creation to the prompter, we may disallow this if you ignore stated dislikes. Please tag your work appropriately.
🐍 Submitting
Submissions Due February 18th
All works must be submitted to the AO3 collection: Dronarry Fest 2024. If you do not have an AO3 account, please contact the mods.
You are required to add dronarryfest_mod as a co-creator when uploading your creation. This is so that we can change the posting date, check the submission, and add a tag for Dronarry Fest 2023. We will not make any other changes to your work, and we will remove the mod account immediately after the fest has ended.
Please contact the mods if you have any issues submitting your work to AO3.
Following submission, please email [email protected] to confirm you have submitted your work with the completed submission header form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us.
Submission header:
Title:
Creator(s):
Type: (art, fic, podfic, craft)
Wordcount/length:
Art/Craft medium:
Warnings:
Prompt no. or self prompt:
Pairing:
Summary:
Link to work:
Link to original work (if applicable):
👑 Extensions/Dropping Out/Adjustments
Real life happens! If you need to drop out of the fest for any reason at all, please let the mods know ASAP via email. There will be no repercussions for future fests if you let us know before the submission date.
If you need an extension, please contact the mods ASAP with the estimated additional time you need. Please don’t hesitate to reach out as soon as you find yourself struggling with a due date.
If you signed up for a collaboration but things don’t work out for one or more participants, please let us know. We will confirm to all collab partners and treat the remaining participant/s as a single claim pending confirmation.
⚡️ Posting
Posting Begins March 9th
The mods will post your creation on the scheduled day. We do not release the posting schedule as this is subject to change.
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From your Dronarry Fest '24 mods, @wolfpants @getawayfox @oknowkiss @sweet-s0rr0w
[ID: a graphic with a British seaside background, featuring Draco, Harry, and Ron on the promenade by @bluebutter-art]
Glorious art supplied, with thanks, by @bluebutter-art!
I am very much on the outskirts of the DWD discourse which is where I want to be. I have seen some stuff floating around recently and I have read a few articles and want to remind everyone that Shia Labeouf is an abuser. He is manipulating this situation to help his comeback to Hollywood and it's working- which is terrifying. Think critically and don't trust what he is saying because you have a vendetta against Olivia Wilde. And for those of you who don't know, Shia Labeouf also has a new movie coming out. Quite convenient all this is coming out now, no?
Since pride month is literally right around the corner, DO NOT be fooled by companies that change their logos to rainbow when their money speaks for themselves. Image ID below “keep reading” line. Source of said financial information is “florida campaign finance”
Happy Birthday my love! 🥳🥳 Hope your day is filled with all the nicest things <3 Thank you for being such an amazing friend and for sharing your wonderful art with us. Truly blessed to get to know you this past year. Love you lots beb <333
Happy Birthday @lqtraintracks !!! It’s truly been such a delight getting to know you and seeing how generous and supportive and lovely you are. Hope this little thing from HLN can bring a smile to your face 🥂
Tumblr quality sucks so be sure to zoom in on Draco’s freckles! :3
I started this art last year as a gift for @sitp-recs’s birthday but unfortunately irl stuff happened and I wasn’t able to finish it on time. But since it’s Liv’s 2 year anniversary this month I reckoned it’s the perfect time to finally finish and post this.
Liv, I’m going to sound like a broken record here, but I’m so glad for your friendship and to know someone as generous and kind as you. I’m sorry this was months late 🙈 but please know that this was created with all my love 💗
I haven’t seen it mentioned on here yet, so I’ll do it: the met gala is organized by vogue, which is owned by condé nast. Workers at CN announced a union in march, which management has refused to recognize. they’re saying a lot of underpaid labor goes into tonight’s event. you can learn more and find a petition link to support the union here.
Happy holidays, @glittering-git! <3 Again, so glad you had "gothic horror" in your wishlist so I could be enabled to make you a moody, victorian Draco 💕 Thank you for being a wonderful person and take care ❤
Hi Ralph--Do you have any advice for dealing with all of the sexism and misogyny in the fandom? I feel like almost every day I run into a sexist post. I try to curate my dash, but it's just really fucking annoying when you see horribly sexist things said by young women who claim to be feminists, you know? Even more annoying is that these posts are then read and internalized by other women. It's all just very frustrating and upsetting, and I'm finding it hard to celebrate the joys of fandom :(
So I don't have any answers for this. There are two basic answers - the first is the obvious: postblock, unfollow and block. It's shitty, but you have to be very selective for your dash not to be a sea of misogyny. (Also occasionally choosing a particularly shitty post and blocking everyone who reblogged or liked it is quite a satisfying htings to do).
My other advice is to name what you see, at least sometimes. Don't let views that are hateful and uphold existing structures of power just fester inside you. Sometimes rage against how terrible what people are saying is. Lots of truly terrible opinions sit in fandom as if they're a perfectly reasonable thing to think and it's often really good to disrupt that illusion.
And if you don't mind, I'm going to take advantage of this anon to do just that. Because I am so tired of the misogynist dynamic around the way so many fans talk about Harry and Olivia and I want to name it.
What has seemed to me deeply cynical, without any interest in political principles, is the way fans have criticised Olivia and only Olivia's feminism. And then responded to anyone pointing out their misogyny, by saying 'it's not misogyny to hate on women if they're doing something wrong.'
I disagree with Olivia's politics a lot. If I talked about her often, then I would include those disagreements. But that's very different, from people who don't talk much about politics, very closely examining a woman's politics and criticising her, and not doing the same to men around her.
And what makes the misogynist double standards very obvious is that there's a very easy test for this. If the criticisms of Olivia's feminism aren't based on misogynist double-standards, then those making them would be able to point to the posts where they criticise Harry in the same way as they criticise Olivia.
Because that's what is absolutely mindblowing hypocritical to me about the response. In fandom discussion of Olivia that mentions 'white feminism', they're not discussing her in context of PoC, or any other form of feminism. They're talking about her in the context of a white man, who occasionally makes references to girl power, but has never even explicitly talked about feminism. Who systematically discriminates against women and PoC in his employment. Who wanted MARGARET FUCKING THATCHER to rest in peace! It's ridiculous for people who are fans of Harry to criticise anyone else for white feminism. Because Harry isn't even at white feminism - he's white watered down girl power.
There are two reasonably serious political points I want to make here. The first is that using feminism as a stick to beat other women with, and only other women and not hold men to the same standards, is fucked up. It shouldn't be endorsed or normalised. This sort of piss-taking approach to politics undermines any fight for liberation.
And the other is someone took the meme of Eric Andre talking to Mel B and made it about Olivia Wilde. In it they suggested, without any evidence, that Olivia Wilde had forced Harry to pretend to date them. And that's not even the worse thing about the meme.
Because those of you who know the meme, know the original question was 'does Margaret Thatcher have girl power?' I think it would be bad enough to use a meme about the horrific politics of Margaret Thatcher to portray a rich white man that they've decided is a victim. But it's not just any rich white man, it's specificially Harry 'RIP Baroness Thatcher .x' Styles.
That use of the meme is incredibly cavailer to the millions of lives in the UK and around the world ended and forever harmed by Thatcher and her policies. I can't imagine clearer indication how much fandom discourse around Olivia and her politics doesn't care about politics, and instead just see it as a game that allows them to pretend there's some righteousness to hating someone they've decided to blame for a situation their fave has decided to be part of.
I will never get over the rank hypocrisy and contempt for milliions of people's oppression that is required to present Harry Styles as the victim in an Eric Andre Thatcher meme.
Harry came home at 2am on day three of the binge. Draco was in nothing but his pants, a fluffy blanket around his shoulders and a joint in hand.
Harry glanced at the telly. ‘Still Discovery then?’
‘A snail can sleep for three years,’ Draco said in response.
Harry groaned at the thought of that bliss as he got a beer and slumped down beside Draco on the couch, stretching his legs out in front of him, feet on the coffee table. For once Draco didn’t whinge at him to move them. They watched penguins together in silence, broken only by Draco’s random facts. Harry had counted fifteen.
'Did you know a shrimp’s heart is in its head?’ Draco said, not looking at him.
Harry stared, nonplussed. Sixteen.
'I wonder if shrimps are Slytherins,’ Draco mused, taking another pull from the joint and blowing smoke into the air. 'Sometimes I feel like my heart and my head are in one place.’
'Do you?’ Harry asked, amused. He was rarely home for this fuzzy, soft version of Draco.
Draco scowled across at him. 'Be serious, Potter.’
Harry held up his hands, trying unsuccessfully to keep the smile off his face.
Draco huffed and pulled the blanket up around his neck, turning his eyes to the newest penguin exploits.
'Albatrosses mate for life,’ he said, after a long pause.
Harry turned, slowly, to look at Draco again. His cheeks were pink and he was staring determinedly at the screen.
'Do they?’ Harry said, softly. The thoughts he’d wanted to say for months gathered in his throat.
'I wonder if Albatrosses are Gryffindors, then?’
Draco turned to him. He rolled his eyes, but there was something soft about his face. Fond.
'Yes,’ he said into the dimness. 'I rather think they are.’
While Harry’s friends are all getting engaged or married, he’s nowhere near walking down the aisle to his own happily ever after.
The night before his best friend’s wedding, Harry falls into bed with a silver haired stranger who makes him wonder what his own forever might look like.
May 13, 2021 - Immigration cops tried to arrest two men in Glasgow, Scotland, on the day of Eid. A huge crowd of locals in the area of Pollokshields, chanting “these are our neighbours, let them go!”, turned up and boxed the police van in for seven hours, withstanding attempts by police to break through the crowd, until the cops were forced to let the two men go. [video]/[article]
