#wheel of drarry mini exchange | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

m0srael · 2 years

Text

Nick of Time [1.1k | M]

Summary: Draco Malfoy is ready to sacrifice everything for the man he loves. Will he find what he's looking for in the nick of time? A gift for @maesterchill, who asked for 'angsty accidental bonding stuff', as a part of the recent round of @drarrymicrofic's Wheel of Drarry exchange. Thank you for the idea and the opportunity to gift something to you, you incredible, talented person!! Thanks, @softlystarstruck for making this 100% better! This fic is inspired by this special version of Bon Iver's cover of I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt. Listen before, or listen along as you read 😊. Read on Ao3

It must be the alcohol.

He’s exceptionally… aggressive tonight. He didn’t even wait for the loo door to close before he shoved me into a wall and started working on my trousers. It’s not really a secret what we do when we slink off together anymore, though.

It’s not like I have any dignity left to lose.

I still remember the first time we did this after that stupid fucking sting operation went sideways and we got in this mess. He was so hesitant like he was afraid to touch me. I guess the worst pain imaginable will compel a man to finally put his hands on the last person on earth he wants to touch.

The last person he wants to fuck.

A quick and dirty shag in a disgusting pub bathroom isn’t exactly what I imagined as a young boy reading stories with Mother about soulmates and magical bonds. Though, I suppose the protagonists of those stories were gallant knights and beautiful princesses, pure of heart and noble of deed.

Merlin knows that isn’t me.

God, I’d be happy for him just to breathe on me willingly. His eyes are so beautiful when they’re all glassy like this, and his mouth tastes sweet, like…

Like pumpkin juice…

It’s a dangerous game that I play with myself.

If I close my eyes and push away all of my intrusive thoughts I can pretend, just for a moment, that he’s holding me close like this because he actually wants me.

I can locate the feeling in the very center of my body, the power that keeps us hurtling back toward one another like heavenly bodies trapped on a collision course, caught in one another’s gravitational pull. I can pretend that the feeling is love, and not crude obligation.

The tightening in my belly every time he trails a finger down my spine, the goosebumps parading down my left forearm when he places a gentle kiss there. It’s real, in moments like this, when the air is still and the room is quiet and it’s like we’re the only two people in the universe.

He asks me to stay every time, because he’s good like that, but then he rolls away from me and the void between us feels like it might swallow me whole. So I leave.

Because the reality is he’s holding me like this because he has to, because if he didn’t the pain would devour us both alive.

Sometimes…

Sometimes.

We have time. There’s no urgent appointment or family emergency, no back alleyway or friend’s bathroom.

Sometimes it’s just him and me and the inexorable tie that binds us.

A Death Eater, The Chosen One, and a bonding curse fall into bed together…

Those are the worst times.

When we’re just standing there, staring at each other, the space between us too much and not enough. I know, and I know that he knows, that we have a choice to make. Get down to it as usual–clothes off, limbs arranged, efficient but never careless. Satisfying enough to keep the pain away for however long, or–

Sometimes it’s different.

The pain ebbs away like the tide and the pleasure that flows into the vacuum, molasses slow and honey sweet, builds and builds until the both of us are shaking and breathless. Our lips haven’t even touched and we’re still fully clothed and he’s begging. Mouth full of breathy little pleases that he tries to swallow down; hands, hips, heaving chest arching against mine.

And I’m fighting every urge in my traitorous heart to give him everything I have. Every single part of me. Because tomorrow, when the life-or-death fire in our cores has been doused, he won’t want it.

Sometimes he thumbs the tears off of my face and he whispers impossible words into my skin to bracket the goodbye kisses.

If I don’t look into his stupid, beautiful green eyes, I think I can do this.

The ache in my core has been growing over the last couple of days–If I tell him now, before it becomes unbearable, maybe I can explain before it becomes too much and we lose control of ourselves. Again.

“I’m..” Shit. No. Close your eyes, Draco. “I’m going to take the potion the healers gave us.”

Did he just sigh? The condescending bastard.

“We’ve talked about this.”

“No, we did not talk about this, Potter. You expressly forbade any conversation on the topic, actually.”

He rolls his eyes and God. He’s so tired of this. Of me.

“Because I’m not going to let you–”

“You don’t let me do anything! I have a bloody choice, too!”

Fuck. Calm down. My heart is racing, and he’s breathing hard, a frown twisting his lovely face. This wasn’t supposed to be an argument.

When is it not an argument with him?

“Yeah. Yeah, you’re right. It’s your choice. Are you sure this is what you want?”

No, don’t laugh, it makes me sound unhinged. Only, I think I am unhinged. He has thoroughly and completely unhinged me.

But how can he seriously ask me if I’m sure?! Am I sure that I want to release him from the burden of this curse? Am I sure that the knowledge that he is free and happy and able to live his life with the person he chooses is worth losing most of my magical core forever?

“I’m sure.”

He’s shaking his head. Why is he shaking his head? Why is he–

“I just…want to be clear.”

He’s…so close. Fuck.

“You’re certain that the idea of being with me is so repulsive to you that you would sacrifice your magic?”

Repulsive? The word is nothing but sound to me when he’s this close and he’s looking at me like that…and I can’t even think…

“What? I–no, no–”

“Draco. You’re telling me–you are literally saying–that you would rather willingly harm yourself than…than just be with me.”

And how could there be tears on his face when I’m the one who feels like weeping? I can’t touch–shouldn’t touch–but I have to reach out and brush my heartbreak from his face with my fingers. He doesn’t deserve to be stained by it.

“Why are you crying?”

“Can I try again?”

I think I’ve forgotten how to breathe.

“Can I try to show you how I feel? One more time. Please? And if you still want…fuck, I can’t even say it…”

“Can you…tell me instead?” Breathe, Draco. “I need you to say it. Please.”

He’s so close.

God, even now that hesitant smile makes me ache. If this is the last I get of him, at least I’ll have this to keep.

“The only pain I couldn’t withstand–”

Oh.

“--is not having all of you, whole, for as long as I can.”

The soft press of his warm lips, as I meet him halfway, feels like a shove back from the precipice, like an exhilarated plunge, hand in hand, into sun-heated water.

Read on Ao3

#wheel of drarry mini exchange #wheel of drarry #drarry #drarry fic #drarry fanfiction #drarrymicrofic #drarry microfic #drarry fanfic

45 notes · View notes

thesleepiesthufflepuff · 2 years

Photo

Home is a Feeling

Rating: G

Word Count: 1.2k

Summary: Growing up, home was a place. Now, Draco knows that home is a feeling.

Tags: Autumn, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Wandmaker Harry Potter, Established Relationship, Anniversary, Harry Potter Has a Pet Dog, Baked Goods, Diagon Alley (Harry Potter), Ollivanders Wand Shop (Harry Potter), POV Draco Malfoy

Notes: A gift for the wonderful @isamijoo! I had so much fun creating this for you 💖 Written for the @drarrymicrofic discord Wheel of Drarry Mini Exchange. Thank you @makeitp1nk for the beta! 💞

Read on Ao3!

#drarry #draco malfoy #harry potter #draco x harry #harry x draco #drarry fanfiction #my fanfiction #wheel of drarry mini exchange

25 notes · View notes

coffeedrgn87 · 2 years

Text

This year’s WoD mini-exchange was my first year participating, except I don’t think the memo about “mini” reached me because I wrote my giftee 11K of middle-aged hot mess Draco and middle-aged thirst trap Harry getting together through a giant misunderstanding that, for a change, really isn’t their fault, not completely anyway.

This fic turned out nothing like I thought it would but I have thank my precious @nv-md for talking me out of a block and supporting a do-over. I must also thank my bestie @phd-mama for some keen insights, my cactus @phoebe-delia for effortlessly improving a conversation between Draco and Pansy and giving me alliteration advice, and my hedgehog @basicallyahedgehog for their keen eyes, running commentary and endless enthusiasm. Without these four heroes my giftee would undoubtedly still be waiting for her gift!

My sweet and wonderful and patient and amazing @shealynn88, have you any idea how excited I was to get you in the exchange, to create something for you? No? Well I was (and still am) so excited that I can barely contain myself. Please enjoy your not-so-mini-mini-WoD-exchange gift. 💜💜💜

Read “Sleepless At The Manor” on AO3.

Summary: When Draco finds himself inexplicably suffering from insomnia, the kind that comes and bugs him without rhyme or reason, he (reluctantly) turns to Harry Potter for help because, of course, he does. What follows is a rollercoaster right that ends in...well, you'll just have to read to find out what it ends in. ;)

15 notes · View notes

drarryspecificrecs · 4 months

Text

2023.12 ~ Top 5 longest fics posted on AO3

1. The Man Who Forgot by @slightweasel [E, 250k]

►After ten years of marriage, Harry forgets. The more things change, the more Draco Malfoy is still up to something.

2. Conjuring Cupid by @sugarplum-senpai [M, 89k]

►Two decades after Hogwarts, Harry's toy shop is ready for the busiest season of the year. Bolstered with an ever-growing work list, plenty of tea, and a sentient puppet always looking for mischief, his life is full. Still, at the end of the day, he’s lonely, and as the boy who lived his search looking for a match is disastrous. When his friends register him for an anonymous dating service, he’s unconvinced. Then again, maybe not knowing each other’s faces right away might just give him everything he’s longing for.

3. City of Quartz by ladygoodman [M, 57k]

►[...] It's 2012, and the granddaughter of Celestina Warbeck is pronounced dead at her home in Los Angeles. Auror Harry Potter finds the case file a little too familiar with other celebrity deaths cropping up all over the UK. The Dark Mark is making an appearance on young witches and wizards as well. There are only a few former Death Eaters who haven't been locked away in Azkaban, and Draco Malfoy is one of them. On that suspicion, Harry follows his tracks all the way to sunny Los Angeles, where he's faced with an entirely new caliber of celebrity culture. Who is Caelum West? How is he mixed in with all of this? And why does he look exactly like Draco Malfoy?

4. Nervous? by @invisible-nerd-girl [T, 46k]

►Harry gets drunk at a party, only to remember a game he over heard muggles talking about. He ends up playing with Draco who doesn't back down. Much to his surprise, it doesn't end there.

5. If I win, lose, or draw, there’s a winner in us all by MystMelody [E, 41k]

►Sixteen years ago, Harry and his England team suffered World Cup heartbreak following an agonisingly close loss at the hands of a single, incorrect umpiring decision. Many years and two World Cup victories later, and Harry is (mostly) sure that he has moved on. As Harry’s final tournament before retirement looms, he is confident that his team have what it takes to lift the trophy a third time - no matter what anyone else might say. Especially Malfoy, who has reinvented himself as a successful Quidditch reporter and seems determined to write as many awful things about the team as possible. [...]

—

※ Word count: 1k ~ 15k

※ Word count: 15k ~ 40k

The Lost Boy by @youhavemyswordandmybow [M, 17k]

Dark Artistry by @sightedkarma [E, 26k]

The infallibility of unicorn hair by mindor [E, 18k]

Just Exist by Kendra_Storm [T, 32k]

More than a Legend by @romaine2424 [M, 17k]

New Beginnings Taste Sweet (Daffodils) by corazon_san [T, 18k]

O Come, All Ye Faithful by toomuchplor [E, 19k]

Secrets Undone (the Lightning Order) by @xx-thedarklord-xx [M, 39k]

Spoils of War by instead_of_sleeping [E, 30k]

What happened at Christmases by ProseMary [?, 15k]

You're Scrooged, Draco Malfoy by @fencer-x [M, 27k]

—

Ongoing Fest/Exchange

※ Fics would be listed elsewhere.

25 Days of Draco and Harry 2023 | @slythindor100

Frottage Cottage FFF

H/D Erised 2023 | @hd-erised

Harry/Draco Owlpost 2023 | @hdowlpost

Wheel of Drarry Mini-Exchange Secret Santa 2023 | @drarrymicrofic

Dark Festivus Gift Exchange 2023 | @harrypotterfesthub

Fanatical Fam Fic Exchange 2023

HP Festival of Stars 2023 | @hpfestofstars

HP Soulmates Secret Santa 2023 | @hp-soulmates-secret-santa

HP Yuletide Bliss 2023 | @hp-yuletide-bliss

Yuletide and Mulled Wine Fest 2023 | @yuletide-and-mulled-wine

2023 Harry Potter Trans Comfort Fest | @magicaltrans

#drarry #drarry fanfic #drarry fic rec #harry potter #draco malfoy #monthly review #2023

115 notes · View notes

drarryspecificrecsdaily · 4 months

Text

2023.12.18

Complete fics posted on AO3 this day

1. Holly and Hawthorne by newshapes8 [T, 4k]

►Trapped in a cabin during Christmastime, Draco and Harry are forced to confront their feelings.

2. Memos of Originality by @xx-thedarklord-xx [T, 2k]

►Harry owns a publishing company, and his best employee is Malfoy, who sends daily updates from home, but doesn't realize that Scorpius sends his own daily updates to Harry through the Floo every morning. And Harry? Well, he knows exactly what to do with them.

---

Fest/Exchange

★ Wheel of Drarry Mini-Exchange Secret Santa 2023 | @drarrymicrofic

Help! I'm a Hopeless Romantic! by Anonymous [M, 14k]

Take A Stab At It by Anonymous [E, 3k]

Teddy's Timetable by Anonymous [T, 1k]

4. A Hand To Hold (in the dark) by Anonymous [T, 5k]

►It started small. It didn't end that way. A quick tale of falling in love while you piece yourself back together. ★ Harry/Draco Owlpost 2023 | @hdowlpost

5. Say It Out Loud by Anonymous [E, 11k]

►Eighth year was bollocks, as far as Draco could tell. ★ Harry/Draco Owlpost 2023 | @hdowlpost

6. To catch a star by @myrtlefics [M, 1k]

►“Of course I came, Potter.” He swung his broom at his side and raised an eyebrow to the precise angle most apt to get Potter flushing. [...] ★ Frottage Cottage FFF

7. We're All Mad Here by Anonymous [T, 4k]

►Draco Malfoy, a doctor, pays a visit to his boyfriend Harry Potter on Christmas Eve. Harry has been placed in a Psychiatric Hospital for delusions of a magical world. Harry Potter, an Auror, pays a visit to his boyfriend Draco Malfoy on Christmas Eve. Draco has been placed in a Psychiatric Hospital for delusions of a wholly muggle world. ★ Yuletide and Mulled Wine Fest 2023 | @yuletide-and-mulled-wine

8. À Bon Chat by Anonymous [E, 35k]

►Draco Malfoy didn’t intend to lead a life of crime after the war. It’s just that being good had turned out so incomprehensibly boring. Now he's thirty-five, a fully redeemed member of society, the darling of the wizarding social pages, and a newly minted consultant for Gawain Robards' Investigative Research division. In his spare time, he enjoys good whisky, casual sex, and moonlighting as an art thief. [...] ★ H/D Erised 2023 | @hd-erised

#drarry #drarry fanfic #drarry fic rec #harry potter #draco malfoy #daily list #2023 #2023.12

75 notes · View notes

academicdisasterfic · 2 years

Text

Threshing

drarry | 1.5k | e

A slightly late gift for the lovely @anaxandria-writes for @drarrymicrofic Wheel of Drarry mini-exchange. Thank you to my love @wolfpants for the fantastic beta.

CW for chronic/terminal illness (but with a happy ending).

Years later, Draco would think it all began when the bartender asked him, ��Would you like the shiraz, sir, or the tempranillo?’

‘Tempranillo,’ Draco said, but as it transpired, they had run out of the tempranillo, and the bartender had to dash out to the back for more, despite Draco’s protests that the shiraz would be fine.

Draco was left to tap his fingers on the wooden counter, and as he gazed aimlessly around the crowded room, he wondered whether thirty was going to feel any different to twenty-nine.

And that’s when he saw him; lingering by the door, flannel rolled up to his elbows, dark stubble covering his jaw. He looked tired, and Draco knew, knew before he even saw the string appear between them. He didn’t hesitate; it was like drawing breath, walking over to him, and Harry looked so relieved, as if he’d been waiting for this exact moment, even though neither of them could have known, as these things were never able to be predicted, not even by the most gifted Seers or centaurs.

The string shortened and drew them together, and Draco reached out his hand to cup Harry’s face.

‘You look tired,’ Draco said, and Harry leant into his neck, inhaling, grabbing Draco’s waist, drawing their bodies together, fitting Draco’s hip bones against his. Draco gasped.

‘Of course it’d be you,’ Harry muttered, and then, ‘we’re going back to mine.’

They fucked in the kitchen, over dirty dishes and piles of unread mail on the sticky counter, Harry eating Draco from behind until Draco couldn’t take it and wrestled them to the ground, sinking down on Harry’s cock and riding him against the hard wooden floor.

They fucked on the sofa, Draco opening Harry quickly and efficiently so he could take him from behind, Harry whimpering harder, harder into the cushions.

They fucked in Harry’s bed, this time slow and reverent, Harry sucking Draco’s nipples until Draco was thrashing and sobbing, arching up and begging to be touched, and then Harry pushed into him and held his face between his huge, calloused hands. That's when Draco fell in love with him; fell in love as Harry covered him and held him like a precious, beloved thing, like he couldn't believe he was allowed to love, and be loved, by him.

After, spent and exhausted, Draco looked at where the string joined them, and asked, ‘Why now?’

Harry smiled, crooked and sweet, and kissed the back of Draco’s palm.

‘Probably because I’m dying.’

…

People weren’t supposed to be Horcruxes.

When Voldemort destroyed the part of his soul that lived inside Harry, Harry’s magical core didn’t know what to do. It had spent seventeen years growing and shaping itself around something that was no longer there, and it rebelled.

Harry hadn’t noticed for the first five years or so, too lost in the aftershocks of peace. But then he noticed the exhaustion, then the heart palpitations, the weird visions, the way he couldn’t quite cast like he used to. And by the time the Healers had figured out what had happened, it was far too late.

Back then, he still had good days, and Draco took advantage of them; dragged them out to the mountains, to the seaside, to gay clubs and bars and parades. He moved into Harry’s flat and quit his job so they could spend the bad days in bed together, doing the Prophet crossword and drinking tea and watching daytime soaps. He couldn’t feel Harry’s pain exactly, not like in the soulmate stories he was told as a child, but sometimes he did think he knew Harry better than he knew himself; knew the meaning of an eyebrow twitch, or a downturned lip, or a slight hand tremor. Loving Harry had been easy, effortless; like falling through clouds, and then when Harry was writhing in spasms, or sleeping through whole days, or waking in sweats and shouts, it was more painful than Draco had ever imagined pain could be.

Sometimes, Harry would get distant and withdraw, wracked with guilt that the bond hadn’t given Draco a choice but to care for him. Draco would get angry that Harry could even conceive of such a thing; even contemplate the thought of them not being together. Harry still wanted to put everyone else before himself, and Draco was still the same spoiled boy who wanted more than he should. He never made any apologies for that.

Sex became more gentle, with more laughter. Draco snorted into Harry’s mouth once when Harry tried to wrap his legs around him and his entire back cracked; Draco placed pillows under his head and knees instead, and sank down on him slowly, just like the first time, only now appreciating every detail; the greys in Harry’s hair that Draco actually thought were really fucking sexy, the soft dark hair beneath his navel, the dark circles beneath his eyes that refused to budge.

Sometimes Harry couldn’t finish, and Draco would try not to be upset about it. If he was, it was never in front of Harry.

…

The summer they both turned thirty five, Harry stopped being able to cast.

He was still magical; Draco could feel it, even when Harry couldn’t, could feel the golden warmth surrounding him, and could also feel its frustration, the way Harry’s magic so desperately wanted to escape and couldn’t.

Things got worse after that.

Harry’s fits were worse, and he was addled and confused after, taking hours to come back to himself. Draco could only sit by the bed and stroke his hair, read to him, watch as Longbottom and Lovegood came in with increasingly bizarre herbal concoctions which never did anything, but Draco appreciated them both anyway, the way they teased Harry, reminded him who he was.

Granger and Weasley were more distressed and less able to be funny, but they tried as hard as they could. Rose liked to snuggle next to Harry after his fits, tell him about her friends and teachers, knowing he wouldn’t remember the details but was always soothed by her voice.

Teddy didn’t visit very much, which Draco couldn’t blame him for; he’d lost enough parents.

One morning, Draco was woken up by Harry’s lips on his neck, and his hand over his stomach.

‘I want you to give the Invisibility Cloak to Hugo,’ he whispered. Draco’s blood ran cold. ‘James and Sirius’ mirror to Ron. The Potter fortune to Teddy. Everything else is yours.’

Draco wanted to scream at him. To point to the string, still a vibrant red connecting them, and ask him how he could even fathom leaving Draco; why his body didn’t love Draco enough to keep fighting, to stay alive.

But Harry had already fallen asleep again.

…

Not even Voldemort had dared approach the fae. They took more than they gave, always, but as long as the thing they gave Draco was Harry, he didn’t care what he’d sacrifice.

The Forbidden Forest was very dark, and very quiet.

‘You called,’ came a voice. The fae never showed themselves.

‘I require your help,’ Draco said, voice firm.

‘For your mate?’

‘Yes.’ Draco tried to imagine Harry, seventeen and terrified, walking to his death out here. He just had to be half as brave, and he could do this. And then he thought about Harry in their bed, skin blotchy and grey, his body shaking in pain, and everything else faded into insignificance. ‘He’s dying. And he saved you too, that day.’

‘That’s debatable.’ The voice sounded vaguely affronted, and Draco stared stonily ahead. ‘It would have taken more than a mere human to eradicate us.’

‘I know. But it would have been harder without Harry.’ Draco squeezed his eyes closed. ‘You would have had to leave the Forest.’

Something squawked overhead, startling Draco's eyes open. The stars were very bright.

‘You do have the power to save your mate,’ the voice echoed, seeming closer, and Draco’s heart soared. ‘But something must be given; energy cannot be destroyed or created. A life cannot be created from anything other than a life. Do you understand?’

Harry was never going to forgive him. Draco was okay with that.

…

Years later, Draco would think it all actually began when the bartender asked him, ‘What do you want tonight, sir?’

Draco flicked his gaze over him, and the bartender flushed. ‘Usual spot, Sebastian. Five minutes.’

Pulses thrummed in the dark, smoky room. The night smelled like sex; arousal and sweat and blood.

Harry had started by the time he got out there. Sebastian was always too keen. It was one of the things they liked about him.

‘Hello,’ Draco said, amused, and Harry unlatched himself from the young man’s neck. He was so beautiful like this; selfish and greedy and so very alive.

Or a version of it.

‘Does he taste good, Harry?’ Draco asked. Harry and Sebastian groaned at the same time. ‘My turn.’

He did taste good, Draco thought with satisfaction. Sebastian moaned as Draco pressed his hardness against him, eyes rolling back in pleasure. Behind them, Harry was panting, and when Draco finally sent Sebastian back inside with a Blood-Replenishment Potion and a quick cleaning charm, Harry was on him in seconds.

‘Here?’ Draco asked, amused, and Harry growled softly.

‘I can’t wait.’ His voice was gruff and low and his eyes were trained on Draco’s lips. Draco smiled and lifted his hand to cup Harry’s face, string dangling between them, blood-red and taut.

‘Sweetheart. We have time.’

#drarry #wheel of drarry #drarry fic #draco x harry #cw chronic illness #soulmates #red string of fate #rooney writes

217 notes · View notes

lee-bella · 8 months

Text

HP Fest Schedule: September 2023

Just a bunch of Harry Potter fests & events dates for September; it's under the cut. I've probably messed something up or missed something. Let me know if there are any mistakes. For the full list of fest dates that goes beyond September, see here.

If you would like to know which HP fests are running right now or will be happening soon, see HP Fests News Round-up (as of September 5) on Potterfests. The post is available on Dreamwidth and Livejournal.

September 1

Marauders Omegaverse Fest: Posting begins.

Wolfstar Bingo 2023 (Discord members only): Last day to submit fills.

Drarry Let's Play 2023 (gaming): Posting begins.

Kill Your Darlings 2023 (major character death): Posting begins.

Sounds Like Dramione 2023 (Facebook members only): Awards announced.

Black Brothers Fest (DW; Sirius & Regulus): Works revealed.

Dramione Month: Challenge begins.

HP Snooze Fest 2023: Prompts released. Claiming opens.

HD Suds Lite 2023: Claiming opens.

Totally Teachers Fest: Prompting opens.

September 2

Shadows and Spells (drarryfest Twitter; Halloween, horror): Claiming closes.

September 3

Ladies of Harry Potter Fest: Challenge ends.

HoggyWartyXmas Prompt Fest: Prompting opens.

Wicked Wizards of Hogwarts: Claiming & sign-up opens.

September 4

Tomarry Big Bang (Tom|Voldemort/Harry): Posting begins.

HP Soulmates Fest (Tumblr): Posting begins.

H/D Erised 2023 (Tumblr; exchange): First check-in.

HP Cottagecore Fest: Prompt challenge begins.

HP Bard Fest: Fest announced.

25 Days of Draco & Harry (LJ, Tumblr): Challenge announced.

September 8

H/D Owlpost 2023: Sign-up closes.

September 9

Tomarry Big Bang (Tom|Voldemort/Harry): Posting ends.

September 10

Tomarry Big Bang (Tom|Voldemort/Harry): Masterpost published.

September 12

Anything But Human Fest (Tom|Voldemort/Harry): Prompting ends.

September 13

HP Socmed AU Fest (social media AU): Claiming opens.

Anything But Human Fest (Tom|Voldemort/Harry): Sign-up opens.

September 14

Unleashed Fest (Drarry, rare pairs; animals): Claiming ends.

September 15

HP Drizzle 2023 (weather): Posting begins.

Unleashed Fest (Drarry, rare pairs; animals): Works due.

R/S Big Bang 2023: Artists sign-up closes.

H/D Owlpost 2023: Assignment sent out by this date.

Totally Teachers Fest: Prompting ends.

September 16

R/S Big Bang 2023: Fic concepts available to artists.

H/D Kidfic Fest 2024: Prompting opens.

HoggyWartyXmas Prompt Fest: Prompting closes.

Totally Teachers Fest: Sign-up opens.

September 17

Snarry AUctoberfest (alternate universe): Claiming ends. Works due.

Wizarding World Kinktober Fest: Deadline for 1st group of submission.

HoggyWartyXmas Prompt Fest: Claiming opens.

September 18

Fleurmione Week 2023 (Fleur/Hermione): Challenge begins.

September 19

Tomione Trope Bingo (Tom/Hermione): Sign-up opens.

September 20

Prongsfoot Fest 2023 (James/Sirius): Claiming closes.

Anything But Human Fest (Tom|Voldemort/Harry): Sign-up ends.

September 22

2023 HP Podfic Mini Fest: Last day for submission.

Truly, Madly, Deeply Spooky Flash Fest: Last day to spin the TMD Wheel of Terror.

September 23

HP Dead Dove Fest: Claiming closes.

D.I.L.F. Fest (sexy dads): Claiming closes.

Harry Potter Canon/OC Fest (canon/original character): AO3 collection opens.

September 24

D.I.L.F. Fest (sexy dads): Assignments due.

Fleurmione Week 2023 (Fleur/Hermione): Last day of challenge.

Wizarding World Kinktober Fest: Deadline for 2nd group of submission.

September 25

HP Dead Dove Fest: Works due.

Harry Potter Rom Com Fest (AO3): Claiming ends.

2023 HP Podfic Mini Fest: Reveals begin.

September 27

Prongsfoot Fest 2023 (James/Sirius): Works due.

September 28

HP Halloween Fest (AO3): Claiming ends.

Harry Potter Rom Com Fest (AO3): Works due.

September 29

D.I.L.F. Fest (sexy dads): Works revealed.

Dramione Teratophilia Fest 2023 (love for monsters): Claiming ends.

H/D Kidfic Fest 2024: Prompting closes.

September 30

R/S Big Bang 2023: Writer first draft due, sent to beta.

HP Halloween Fest (AO3): Submissions due.

H/D Career Fair 2023 (Tumblr): Submissions due.

Dramione Month: Last day to participate.

Peter Pettigrew Fest: Claiming closes.

Remembrall September Fest (Neville): Last day to submit works.

Harry Potter Canon/OC Fest (canon/original character): Last day to post to AO3.

Truly, Madly, Deeply Spooky Flash Fest: All fics and art are due.

Dramione Teratophilia Fest 2023 (love for monsters): Works due.

Harry Potter Kink Meme (Tumblr): Round 1 ends.

25 Years Later Fest (Draco/Hermione): Claiming closes. Works due.

HoggyWartyXmas Prompt Fest: Claiming closes.

Totally Teachers Fest: Sign-up ends.

#harry potter fests #hp fests #hpevents #hp events #potterfests

18 notes · View notes

hogwartsfirebolt · 2 years

Photo

i stay

Drarry - 9k - The darkening sky is dangerous for the shape of Harry’s desire, it makes it seem reasonable, as though it were a natural conclusion of having Draco once again within reach, rather than the mirage it actually is.

Hi, I wrote this for @tackytigerfic for the Wheel Of Drarry Mini Exchange. It’s a fic about reunions, about coming from entirely different backgrounds and it not mattering one bit when gravity itself brings you together, about building. The whole time I was writing it I kept having flashes of it in this cinematic way (with bloom by the paper kites playing in the background) and I decided to make that the graphic theme for it. Hopefully this looks a little bit like how the fic feels.

If it sounds like your thing, I’d appreciate it if you gave it a shot. Love you all.

Read on AO3

#drarry #drarry fic #drarry fanfic #draco malfoy #harry potter #mywriting #mine

192 notes · View notes

anaxandria-writes · 6 months

Text

20 questions for fic writers!

Thanks for the tag @lumosatnight [see here]!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Technically 50 (I think) because one of them is in an anonymous collection so AO3 is telling me 49. I’m considering putting some more earlier works as anonymous so that number might change soon.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

245,593… but I haven’t written at least 100k of that because they’re collabs where I did art (such as WLW Big Bang 2022).

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (44)

Teen Wolf (3)

Marvel (3)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Three Days, Three Perspectives [Drarry, E, 6.5k]

An Expensive Courtship [Drarry, E, 10.9k]

Petrichor [Steter, T, 2.5k]

Snapshots of a Pregnancy [Drarry, T, 3.8k]

🙀 ➡ 😻 ➡ 😽 [Stony, T, 5.2k]

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I’m terrible about doing this, so I’m very sporadic about it, but every comment means so much to me! I just see it and if I don’t respond immediately, they just pile up and then I never get to it? 100% getting better at replying with my ongoing WIP, What Large Hands You Have (The Better to Embrace You With) [Steter, M, 14.7k so far], since I’m posting as I write and the encouragement means SO much!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Half Past One [Drarry, M, 2.5k] which was a horror fic (my one and only one) that I wrote for a Wheel of Drarry mini exchange. There’s MCD. And gore.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I almost never not write happy endings, BUT I’m going to go with Pinocchio [Neville/Harry, E, 3.9k] because it’s crack-y, fun, and Harry gets off a ton of times. (Mostly unintentionally).

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I’ve had a couple rude-ish comments? Someone said that it would be better if it were longer, which was kind of ??? It was one of my first works and the mods reached out to me about it and they were super supportive and kind. (This is also the fic that is now anonymous, for unrelated reasons.)

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I’ve written some PWPs. A little of everything, really… and a fair number of my longer works include some sex scenes. I probably read more kinky content than I write (beyond the watersports fics because apparently I have multiple?), but yeah. Pro-smut here.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Nope. I’ve read a few, but it’s mostly not my thing.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yes! And I only found out because the person didn’t realize that it was stealing to repost on Wattpad and then apologized and asked how I felt about it…

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

My tango fic, The Cabeceo [Drarry, E, 1.9k], was translated into Spanish by @stargazing-enby last year for HD Owl Post. Which was such an amazing and wonderful gift to receive, especially because *tango*. I definitely feel like I’ve grown a lot as a writer since I first wrote it, but it’s very near and dear to me and having a translation (which I can read!) even more so. If it gives anyone any ideas… I can read Portuguese and Spanish!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Co-written? No. I’ve done art for various people before and participated in several big bangs/reverse big bangs as both an author and an artist. (ETA: 100% have co-written multiple fics no idea how I forgot those when I first answered)

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

Flintwood. (And yes, I’ve had full on spreads in my journal dedicated to Flintwood.) Don’t ask me why, but those are my athletic rivals to lovers absolute hands down favorite. For Teen Wolf, I started in Steter (so it remains my #1) and one of my all-time top comfort reads is a Steter fic, This Time Around by Green (and someone else who no longer is associated with the work), which I received a bound copy of last year as part of the Renegade Bookbinding Exchange.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

“Green Glows and Ginger Greens” is a Flintwood WIP that I have 20k written of, edited and posted chapter one and it’s been… 2 years. I hope to get back to it (and my other unposted Flintwood hanahaki I’ve been talking about for about as long), but it’s just… not happened.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Idea generation, maybe? I think I tend to be really good at coming up with ideas and starting writing projects that have the potential to be really interesting. I love kind of crack-y ideas, and I’ve been trying to be better at actually delving into those instead of going “this is too weird, no one will read it.” (Example: I wrote a fic from a bathroom’s POV and it still makes me laugh.)

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I tend to come up with ideas that spiral out of control, but I’m terrible at finishing things so I procrastinate and then it gets rushed and not as strong as it could be. Also not using betas that often because of said procrastination. And feeling awkward about it because I never leave enough time for editing.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I love it, especially when it’s a language I speak and am like “Yes! This adds some cultural context”, etc. But also, such an important thing to get people to double check that before just throwing it in.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Back when I was a wee bb in high school? Either Protector of the Small or Harry Potter. As an adult? Also Harry Potter.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

Completed on AO3? Herbology_Neville and DragonKeeperCW [Neville/Charlie, E, 11k] which was the fic I worked on whenever I was procrastinating on other fics. I’ve always wanted to go back to that universe and just haven’t had a chance, but… Neville and Charlie are adorable and I love them. I’m also loving the fic I’m posting now, as mentioned it’s What Large Hands You Have (The Better To Embrace You With), which was for Steter Bang because it really is reflective a lot of me as a person. Otherwise, I really loved the Green Glows/Snuggling, Smoothies, and Sons-in-Law universe (just need to finish both of those…)

Tagging (i never know who to tag!): @sugareey-makes-stuff (again, even though I know you were already tagged), @drwhoisginnyholmes, @makeitp1nk

#Tag game #asked and answered #ok I’m going to go hide out again because I feel weird talking about my own writing #I’m just an anxious and self-conscious bean

7 notes · View notes