#On Your Shore

[davidbowielovesyou]

A scene from chapter 5ive of On Your Shore (https://archiveofourown.org/works/43248123/chapters/111452371)

Arthur trolling trying to fluster Linus in the kitchen on Saturday morning 😊

#thitcs #the house in the cerulean sea #fanart #arthur parnassus #linus baker #tj klune #on your shore #stay #island dads #i've been practicing hands #arthur with stubble

[arthurparnassuslovesyou]

Part III of Stay is here! It's part II of the pre-epilogue which began with On Your Shore. I have no idea how long the pre-epilogue is going to be at this point!

Linus and Arthur are continuing to find their place together, learning what it means to them. Arthur continues his healing journey, which inspires Linus to begin his own.

Many thanks to all of you for supporting my writing with your kind words and reblogs and hearts and comments and kudos! Every one of those things is like a direct line to my heart and I don't mean to make you responsible for keeping it beating but it sure does feel nice! :D

#the house in the cerulean sea #thitcs #arthur parnassus #linus baker #fanfiction #the family of things #on your shore #stay #tj klune #wip #pre-epilogue

[dewitty1]

On Your Shore

xanthippe74 @xanthippe74

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley, Astoria Greengrass, Scorpius Malfoy, Ernie Macmillan, Original Characters Additional Tags: Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Post-Hogwarts, Mystery, Scotland, Dark Magic, Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, Pining, Sharing a Bed, First Time, Non-Explicit Sex, Demisexual Harry Potter, Bisexual Harry Potter, Gay Draco Malfoy, Closeted Draco Malfoy, Curse Breaker Harry Potter, Antiques Appraiser Draco Malfoy, Redeemed Draco Malfoy, Good Parent Draco Malfoy, Past Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Married Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy, H/D Sex Fair 2020

Summary:

Clearing out a remote house full of cursed collectibles in the Outer Hebrides? Not a problem for an experienced curse breaker like Harry Potter. Spending a week with the straight, happily-married man that he’s starting to have feelings for? And sharing a bed with him at night? Surely Harry can handle that, too. But both the house and Draco Malfoy have secrets to uncover, and Harry might be in deeper water than he thought.

Excerpt:

“Don’t you think it’s odd that so many of the pieces with curses on them were Muggle?” Harry asks. “From what you’ve told me, it’s almost three-to-one, Muggle to magical.”

“But not all of the pieces made by Muggles in the house are cursed. She seems to have spared the better ones that fate.” Draco sighs. “It’s all very confusing, but I suppose it really isn’t our problem to sort out Erwina’s reasoning, is it?”

“Well, I’m curious. I’ve never had access to so many things that might be cursed by a single person. It’s hard not to try to find a pattern. I wish I’d had Ron teach me how to match magical signatures. I know he learnt in Auror training.”

“Why is that?”

“Some of the curses are old. Maybe even more than twenty years old. Remember I told you? If I knew how to test if two magical signatures match, I could check the curses against something in the house. Something I was sure Erwina cast herself, like the locking spell on a drawer.”

“That’s rather clever,” Draco says, sounding impressed. “But what could you deduce if the signatures didn’t match? That Erwina had an accomplice in her madness?”

“Or maybe she inherited part of her collection. I’d say ninety percent of the items I remove curses from were handed down through multiple generations to my clients. Maybe Erwina happened to have a lot of curse-happy ancestors.”

Harry laughs again but manages to stay on course this time. Draco’s quiet for a few minutes. They’ve passed the last houses of the village and their lights now, so they both draw their wands to cast Lumos charms. Harry notices that Draco’s expression is furrowed in concentration.

“That wouldn’t explain all the Muggle-made objects. Not their presence in Erwina’s collection. I’m not surprised that she had an appreciation for anything with exquisite craftsmanship and beauty. I mean, it wouldn’t explain why she obtained or kept some clearly inferior pieces, only to curse them later.”

Harry shrugs. “Sometimes people just like the way things look, Draco. Even if they’re not stunning examples of exquisite craftsmanship.”

Draco comes to a halt and rounds on Harry with a suppressed smile. “Are you making fun of me? Do you think I’m that much of a snob?”

“I’ve been in your house, remember? I’ve never seen anything in it that isn’t nice. I mean, every single thing is fancy. And they match the other things.” Harry growls impatiently when Draco laughs at his fumbling words. “You know what I mean!”

“That’s all Astoria’s doing. I don’t know anything about decorating. If it were up to me, the house would be as full as Erwina’s with things from the Manor. She was remarkably patient about finding a way to incorporate some of my favourite pieces, such as that small tapestry in the dining room. She understood that it was important to me to have some things from my childhood home.”

“She’s a very nice lady,” Harry says graciously.

“She’s a complete and utter gem, and I still don’t know why she agreed to marry me. I’m not much of a catch,” Draco says, shaking his head. “I’m sure she could have done much better if she’d waited a few years.”

“That’s not true!” Harry cries, more loudly than he intends to.

“Other than financial stability, I’ve never thought I possessed the kind of personal qualities or charms that could explain her decision. I’m quite certain I’ve never done anything to deserve the happiness she’s given me.”

Harry is so dismayed by Draco’s pained expression that he steps forward and wraps his arms around him. Draco grunts in surprise, but carefully returns the embrace.

“You do deserve to be happy,” Harry says fiercely, holding him tightly. “You shouldn’t think that about yourself.”

Draco huffs a bitter laugh next to Harry’s ear. “I know that’s not what everyone else thinks.”

“Well, I think you’re pretty wonderful.”

Harry gives Draco a final squeeze and draws back just enough to see his face, wanting to make Draco understand. He keeps one arm around Draco’s waist and takes hold of his chin with the other, to make sure he’s listening.

“I mean it, Draco,” Harry says.

Draco closes his eyes, giving Harry the opportunity to take in, at a startlingly close range, the smooth planes of Draco’s cheeks, the way his eyebrows arch slightly, the tension in his mouth that’s pushing his lips together.

“Harry—”

As soon as he sees those lips part, Harry can’t stop himself. He tilts forward and presses his mouth to Draco’s, needing to release even a tiny portion of the longing he’s been carrying around for the past few weeks. It’s been building up, making him feel like he’s going to burst sometimes when he looks at Draco.

Harry barely has the chance to register the taste of Draco’s cool lips when he’s gripped by the shoulders and gently, but firmly, pushed back. He keeps his eyes shut, trying to hold onto the sensation of the kiss for as long as he can.

“Are you drunk?” Draco demands.

“No, just a little tipsy…” Harry opens his eyes in horror. “Oh, shit. Oh, fuck. I’m sorry!”

Draco releases his shoulders. He studies Harry for a moment, and Harry wishes he could sink into the ground rather than meet those penetrating grey eyes. Draco doesn’t seem angry, but his expression is rigid and closed off.

“You are definitely drunk. Let’s just get home. Someone’s bound to drive by and see our wandlight if we keep standing here,” Draco says.

Harry follows him, silent and mortified and cursing himself with every step. What the hell was he thinking? He knows the answer to that. All the times he allowed himself to indulge in those inappropriate thoughts about Draco in the past few days undoubtedly brought Harry to this point. He should have quashed them as soon as they arose, even if it never occurred to him that he might do something as rash as kiss Draco.

Oh Merlin, he really fucked up.

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#On Your Shore #xanthippe74 #Drarry #Drarry fic rec #fic rec #hp fic rec #Harry potter #draco maolfoy #hp #Drarry fanfiction #hp fanfiction #cursebreaker!Harry #Antiques Appraiser!draco #H/D Sex Fair 2020 #Demisexual Harry Potter #Carey's bookmark fic recs #Carey's Personal bookmarks #my recs #Draco Malfoy

[thepopaddict]

Jamie Benson - My Confession

My Confession is the debut and only album of British singer and former Hepburn front-woman, Jamie Benson. The album was released in 2002, spawning one commercially released single, and three unreleased singles. It is unknown how well the album did in the charts as it has no further information about it on the internet. However, in 2010 the album got a re-released in digital form with different cover artwork and the inclusion of two b-sides from her singles.

Track Listing:

Invincible

Heroin

Shut Up & Kiss Me (Or Just Shut Up)

Dumb (Slip & Slide)

No Other Day

Over My Dead Body

Stay

Wonder Woman

When The Sun Hits The Sky

On Your Shore

My Confession

My Top Five Picks:

5th Place - Dumb (Slip & Slide)

This is one of the three unreleased singles along with Stay (a Lisa Loeb cover), and When The Sun Hits The Sky

4th Place - Shut Up & Kiss Me (Or Just Shut Up)

3rd Place - Over My Dead Body

2nd Place - Wonder Woman

1st Place - My Confession

Picture Gallery:

#Jamie Benson #Jamie Benson Music #Hepburn #Hepburn Band #Invincible #Dumb (Slip & Slide) #Shut Up & Kiss Me (Or Just Shut Up) #Shut Up & Kiss Me #My Confession #My Confession Album #Over My Dead Body #Wonder Woman #On Your Shore #No Other Day #Music #Pop Addict #Pop Music #Pop Rock Music #2000s Music #YouTube #British Music #UK Music #Music Blogger #Music Blog #Britpop #Brit Pop Music #Brit Pop #Britpop Music

[lucabyte]

I don't know how everyone isn't also always constantly thinking about how burial rites seem to be potentially one of the few things Siffrin instinctively remembers about their culture. But rest assured. I am in fact always thinking about it.

Textless version where they're just hanging out. It's fine!

#love how i said id slow down on fanart. and then didnt. anyway. the bg is supposed to be a ocean shore but its vague intentionally. #ALSO SORRY FOR DRAWING EVERYONE FACING AWAY FROM THE CAMERA ALL THE TIME? WHY DO I KEEP DOING THAT IN MY ISAT STUFF. HELLO? HELLO??? WHY??? #in stars and time #isat fanart #isat #isat spoilers #isat siffrin #isat loop #siffrin #sifloop #lucabyteart #hi again sifloop tag. read this as you will. go nuts. i know you people are here for the crumbs. #if you want other thoughts re: what they do/do not remember on instinct. i wonder what their culture's bonding ceremony equiv is. #since they dont seem to have any answers to that. perhaps since not directly asked during that conversation. hm. feels like a cute fic idea #not that ill be executing on that. #ill be damned if i bare my ass on ao3. i can barely write about my ocs without feeling like im naked on stage. i salute your kind's bravery #also sorry if the dialogue here is hard to parse what order its in. its a zigzag of some kind im not fighting my absolutely ass typesetting #samdontlook

[montereybayaquarium]

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#monterey bay aquarium #sea otter awareness week 2023 lets GO #bringing you your daily dose of otter #we shore hope you join us #cant wait to make your musteliday

[critter-of-habit]

Oh, she did.

#Seyloy #Aloy #Sekya #Burning Shores #Horizon Forbidden West #Beyond the Horizon #Mine #art #HZD art #I love them your honor

[awesomecooperlove]

🇺🇸💵🤔

#america #taxes #taxpayers #warning #know where you money are spent by your government would be a great place to start eliminating corruption bad actors scammers criminals #deep state’s oligarchs are making shore your money go in their pockets and for their crippled needs #wake up america #crimes against humanity #these people are evil #speaktruth #fight for justice #standup #corruption #speak up #truth #please share #wwg1wga

[earl-grey-sky]

An incomplete list of movies where the composers did NOT have to go that hard

How To Train Your Dragon (2010) - I put Test Drive on my study playlist but I can never focus to it bc I'm too busy ascending. what is that motif and why does it do that to me. I've never even seen the movie.

Tarzan (1999) - nothing has ever affected me more than 80s pop star Phil Collins singing about a boy raised by gorillas

Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) - no explanation needed.

let me know which ones I missed lol

#music #film scores #how to train your dragon #tarzan #phil collins #lord of the rings #lotr #howard shore

[go-ninja-go]

them: your standards are so high, what raised them?

me thinking of the animes I've watched that helped raise those standards: um. yea. y'know *gestures vaguely*

#so many #some but not limited to #sasaki to miyano #yuri on ice #yoi #howl's moving castle #your name #weathering with you #studio ghibli #given #given anime #stranger by the shore #anime #my post #these are the ones i can think of at the top of my head #(keep in mind the relationships that are canon) #(plenty of anime with non-canon ones but we'll stick with these for now)

[davidbowielovesyou]

I just realized yesterday was the one year anniversary of posting the first chapter of Stay! I can’t believe I’ve basically been writing non stop for a whole year! Like... no thoughts only Arthur and Linus constantly trying to figure each other out in my head. Also making out a lot in my head. Soooo much kissing. I love them so much!

#stay #fanfiction #thitcs #the house in the cerulean sea #on your shore #the family of things #arthur parnassus #linus baker #writing

[arthurparnassuslovesyou]

Sending out an apology to my readers for taking so long to update The Family of Things! All sorts of things are going on... 1. I'm working on chapter 4our but it's so long and it's not ending 2. That is the smut chapter and after I wrote it I was unhappy with it and I went back through and have been polishing it

3. And yet it's still not finished. Are these guys ever going to fall asleep? No? Just talk all night? Sheesh

4. Chapter 3hree has still not been edited. My wonderful beta reader @lucky-numberme has given me feedback on it weeks ago and I think it needs a little work still.

5. Grad school has been overwhelming, in a really good way; I love my existential theory class and my client. But last week I had three big assignments all due on the same day including a case presentation and that was a lot D:

6. My birthday is this friday! Last weekend my friend visited me and I had a little bonfire with friends and that was beautiful and lovely and also draining. My friend's gone home and now I'm super behind on school work

7. I have been writing daily but I have only had the spoons to write a few paragraphs at a time.

8. I'm pretty sure chapter 4 is neverending.

9. I just finished watching the final episode of Good Omens 2 and I'm broken 🙃

10. I love you.

11. Thank you so much for being readers and being commenters and kudosers. Thank you for your patience and I just want you to know that I am still working on it. Also my existential professor reminds me of Arthur so much it's uncanny. Also 11 is my favorite number so I can't add another list item after this one

#thitcs #the house in the cerulean sea #fanfiction #the family of things #on your shore #stay #wip #arthur parnassus #linus baker #author angst

[igotublue]

So I finished Burning Shores and had a thought:

If, when they met, Aloy represents the sky (aka crashing from her sunwing)

And Seyka represents the sea…

They are the Horizon.

#these thoughts brought to you by: being gay #im sure someone else has already thought it maybe but anyway #thats enough sap for one day lol #horizon fobidden west #hfw #burning shores #aloy x seyka #seyloy #i love them your honor #loved it btw #bless u guerilla

[pixxyofice]

(me, who Knows Things) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#isat #isat spoilers #in stars and time #in stars and time spoilers #if you know. you know. #pix plays isat #more spoilers in following tags. #and then they CAN'T recognize home DON'T remember it and that memory hole blasts into their brain #and. and they wash up on a shore #not remembering. with a memory so leaky because what happens #when you erase what became a foundational part of you. no wonder you think you don't have an identity of your own #no wonder you have nothing better to do! because you don't remember home at all!!!!! AAAAA

[blood-orange-juice]

@chickenparm mentioned it and now I have to write about it (I had the same impression too but wasn't sure I wasn't imagining things. I guess at least I'm not the only one).

In that Arle conversation Childe seems to have picked up that we were trying to stall her, and that's why he launched into all that monologuing about his siblings.

He helped us. He didn't know why we needed to distract Arle but he helped us anyway.

At least that's how I want to interpret it. So he does care, huh.

(or maybe he cares about the HoH kids and Lyney asked him to distract Arle as well)

Arle seems to have noticed that too, she later jokes "how are you going to distract me now that Childe isn't here".

#childe #tartaglia #also the way arlecchino politely stayed on the lake shore after that #'ok. sure. if you need time for your little games I'll give you time'

[montereybayaquarium]

Imagine diving in the chilly waters of Monterey Bay to experience the textures of underwater plants and animals.

What do you think touching smooth, wavy grooves (new band name?) of a blade of kelp feels like?

Or the rough and tough exterior of an abalone shell?

How about the teeny pointed toes of a hermit crab as they tickle the palm of your hand?

Anyone can have these magical experiences at the Aquarium's touch pools, no diving experience necessary! What would you explore at our touch pools?

#monterey bay aquarium #this kelp feels very kelpy #the textures shore are fa sea nating #a trip to the touchpool is like a petite polar plunge for your fingies