winchesterawesomesauce

[winchesterawesomesauce]

I was late (you were early)

These was commissioned by @dodgerkedavra for her fic “I was late (you were early)”

These scenes took place in two different time, the first and second one when they were 19 and the third one when they were 29. A portrayal of a ten years story. I’m really happy with the way the colors turns out and finally drawing the auror robes I had in my head haha.

The three small part of the fic that I used to illustrate these scene was

Malfoy pulls Harry’s other hand away from his ear and places it over the buttons of his jacket, his fingers warm over Harry’s shaking ones. His chest rises and falls under Harry’s palm, and he can feel Malfoy’s heart beating even through his uniform.

One second his hand is flat on Malfoy’s chest and the next it’s a fist. One second he’s against the wall and the next he’s crumpled forwards into Malfoy’s arms.

One last stroke, and Harry leans into Draco with a contented sigh. He inhales the scent of roses and early summer heat and Draco’s soap. Birds titter in the branches nearby. Draco’s heart beats against Harry’s back. The rhythm never falters, never stops.

There’s a second part to this story which was told from Draco’s pov which is angsty as well 🥹. It was “I’ll find you again (I always do)”

Working on these reminds me again how I loved drawing with red colors. I hope these illustrations manage to brings out or at the very least showed glimpse of the emotion these two portray in dodger’s wonderful fic ;-;

[winchesterawesomesauce]

last week of sophomore year and thank god i need a break!

i’ve been super into drarry recently cause i accidentally opened my drarry tag instead of the steddie one, so you get new recs. yay! will be posting a long list of steddie soon, i’ve got two in my drafts that i’m about to combine and add to

DRARRY

A Secondary Education by Thunderbird587

reader’s note: this is what i’m currently reading, i’m on chapter 9 and it is one of my favorite i have read in a long time

explicit

“Fleeing the aftermath of his recent divorce, Draco Malfoy takes up a post as the new Potions Master at Hogwarts. At first he believes his hopes for a fresh start are dashed when he sees that a certain boyhood rival is on staff there as well. But Harry Potter is being weirdly nice to him, leaving Draco no choice but to play along. As Draco reckons with his ex-wife's infidelity and questions about his own sexuality, he finds himself going to an openly gay Potter for guidance. As their friendship deepens, Draco realizes that there is quite a lot that Potter can teach him. And that he is surprisingly ready to learn.”

Say My Name by Thunderbird587

explicit

“Harry witnesses something unexpected in the 8th year boys' showers and starts to see Draco Malfoy in a whole new light. The question is now, what is he going to do about it?

A coming of age Drarry tale about letting go of the past and building the future.”

Starts With a Spin by Maxine

reader’s note: i think i’ve posted this before, but it is my all time favorite fic so here it is again

explicit

“It started with the spin of a bottle, and now Harry and Draco have gotten themselves so far into their own game there's almost no way out again. Except to keep playing.”

Naked by bixgirl1

reader’s note: once again i think i’ve posted this before, but here it is again because it is another one of my favorite that i often com back to

explicit

“Harry and Draco are sent on an undercover assignment to catch a Dark wizard — which might not be so bad if it weren't at a Muggle nudist resort.

Now Draco has to deal with a very interested Harry, temptation he's long-since learned to ignore, and threats around every corner — including the one to his heart.”

[winchesterawesomesauce]

H/D ERISED 2023 REVEALS

Thank you so very much to all our amazing writers, artists, pinch-hitters, readers, commenters, and reccers who once again made this fest such an amazing success!

If you haven’t had time to make it through all the fantastic works here yet, we hope that you’ll still read and leave some love for our writers and artists! Comments are appreciated all year round! ;) As are commenters—like you amazing readers and participants, including the phenomenal people who have left an incredible total of comments on H/D Erised works this year—thank you for all you do to make this community what it is!! And a special shout-out, again, to our ever-expanding list of all-star commenters who have commented on more than half (and sometimes way more!!) of this year’s works: blueheart_v, dothechachaslide, hsvh, khalulu, lq_traintracks, lumosatnight, QueenieJinny, Slowly_learning, and TheGoblinMatriarch!! Thank you!!!

We’ll be going through the works today, revealing the authors on AO3, removing the mod account as a co-author, and adding the creator names to the tumblr headers. We’ll be sending the participants a wrap-up email when we’ve finished with all the final admin things on our end.  

Thanks again for making this another brilliant round of Erised! We hope to see you all again next year!

From the outgoing mods, Dicta, Fire, & Grace: it has been an absolute pleasure modding this fest over the past 6+ years, and while saying farewell is bittersweet, we couldn't be happier to be handing over the fest to such wonderful and capable mods! We know you'll be in good hands with Ali, El, & Honey, and we hope that they'll see you all again during next year's signups! <3

<3 dicta_contrion, firethesound, gracerene, epitomereally, honeybeet, and nv-md

ART

@dustmouth drew One Way To Finish A Crossword for dodgerkedavra [T]

@creeeee drew I'm Not The Person You Used To Know" for dwell_the_brave [G]

@drarrydoodles drew Fancy Seeing You Here for lqtraintracks [E]

@bicholsdrarrysideblog drew Lunch Break for rei382 [G]

@rezal-art drew Three Act Disaster for the-sinking-ship [M]

@bluebutter-art drew In His Nature for fantalfart [E]

@digthewriter drew Being Together and Loving Each Other for @dustmouth [T]

@melcarrianna drew Love Reflected for maraudersaffair [G]

@okay-sky drew Yule Ball, 1998 for orpheus87 [T]

@puncertainty drew New Neighbour for porcelainheart3 [T]

@sharperthan drew Under The Mistletoe for digthewriter[T]

@fantalfart drew The Colour of Love for iota [T]

@thehoneybeet drew Draco Meets The Dursleys for sharperthana [M]

@bluebutter-art Lovebug for Omi_Ohmy [G]

FIC

@oflights wrote we have heard on high for doingthechachaslide [E, ~35k] Summary: Reeling from the fallout of a bad breakup, Harry decides to find out who his soulmate is. The bad news: it's Draco Malfoy. The good news: Malfoy doesn't seem to know they're soulmates. The worst news: Harry might be falling for him anyway.

@fencer-x wrote How To Train Your Malfoy for the hd_erised community [E, ~94k] Summary: Good manners dictate that, when one’s best friend Apparates onto one’s doorstep holding the unconscious, haggard body of the schoolyard bully and begging for sanctuary, one ought to invite the two of them in for a cup of tea. Harry Potter sometimes wishes he weren’t so polite.

@wolfpants wrote Thickets for writcraft [E, ~17k] Summary: When Draco returns to the UK after two decades of building his career as an internationally-renowned artist to look after his ailing, estranged father, he crosses paths with his former flame, Harry Potter, in the most unexpected way. 

@kbrick wrote Draco Malfoy, Bloodsucking Fiend for cavendishbutterfly [E, ~23k] Summary: There are two things that Draco’s Auror partner, Harry Potter, must never know about him. One is that he’s a vampire. The other is that he’s been completely, pathetically, head-over-heels in love with Harry for years. But when the duo is trapped inside an old shop on Diagon Alley with no means of escape, Draco finds himself fiending for blood and unable to put even a modicum of distance between himself and the man he can’t stop lusting after. 

@lumosatnight wrote How to Lose a Guy in 10 Dates (or Less) for melcarianna [M, ~14k] Summary: Draco has a bet to win. Harry has a point to prove. How hard can it be? (Includes: snogging over lo mein, Harry’s martial arts studio, Draco’s overuse of the Floo, drunk card games, and a yellow silk shirt)

@porcelainheart3 wrote The Realm of Possibility for multiverse-of-fanfic [M, ~6k] Summary: You can't outrun your past, but you can fuck around with parallel versions of the present.

@goblinmatriarch wrote Sharper than a Sea Serpent's Tooth for khalulu [T, ~41k] Summary: Draco expects his research trip to Crete to focus on the ecology of ward design, with perhaps some cheeky visits to the elusive sea serpents and the odd sleepy beach day. Instead, he encounters a Past he's spent over a decade trying to outrun, and a familiar scowl under glasses and a scar. Featuring just so much imagining being on a hot, sunny beach for your winter pleasure.

@shiftylinguini wrote solemates for oknowkiss [E, ~17k] Summary: It starts because Harry has no self-control when it comes to meaningless and entertaining competition. Actually no, that's not quite right. It starts because Harry is absolutely plastered. (From the prompt: Workplace fic in which a benign inter-department step challenge gets out of hand, spearheaded by you know who 1 and 2)

@multiverse-of-fanfic wrote The Room that Changed Everything for the hd_erised community [T, ~18k] Summary: When a sabotaged potion lands Harry and Draco in detention, Harry must wrestle with two uncomfortable truths: One, Malfoy the nemesis no longer exists. And Two, Harry is embarrassingly attracted to him. With the war behind them, can Harry and Malfoy build something from the ashes, or are they doomed to be enemies forever? 

@khalulu wrote Eager: Born to Re-wild for inheartofwinter [M, ~7k] Summary: Harry's friends haven't seen him for a while and they're starting to worry. Draco's listless and his friends are starting to worry. Also, something's up(side down) with Theo Nott. Meanwhile, Harry's taken on a new identity and immersed himself in a project he can really get his teeth into. But has he bitten off more than he can chew? Got too far into the (water) weeds? And who (besides you, dear reader) could guess that Draco would be the one to bring him back?

@doingthechachaslide wrote Martyred for kbrick [E, ~82k] Summary: Harry Potter only wants one thing: to take care of the people he loves. After Teddy’s abrupt departure from his role as Andromeda’s caretaker, Harry decides it’s finally time to step up and handle the job himself. Castoff Manor, an old Black family estate, has never seemed as sinister as the stories make it sound, but it’s there that Harry stumbles upon ghosts, haunting family secrets, and a familiar, snarky blond gardener hell-bent on chasing him out. Maybe if Harry sticks around long enough, he’ll finally learn why all of Andromeda’s previous caretakers have fled without looking back.

@dwell-the-brave wrote I Will Stay If You Dare for wolfpants [G, ~9100] Summary: When Harry receives a cryptic letter from Narcissa Malfoy, he rushes to Draco Malfoy’s aid, only to find he’s not invited and definitely not wanted by the Master of Malfoy Manor. But the Manor itself seems to think otherwise… 

@mallstars wrote Sugarplum for bluefay [E, ~27300] Summary: The air crackled as it busied itself shifting around molecules, making way for a hefty slab of magic, and then there it was: the Knight Bus, squeezed neatly into a pocket of Wizarding space among stagnant Muggle buses, vibrant violet amidst a string of cherry red. The door sprang open. "Draco," said Potter, a little breathless, a little cheerful. He smelled of coconut lotion, Cockroach Clusters and a sloppy ironing charm. Lifting one hand off the steering wheel, Potter gave a small wave. He wore gloves. Fingerless, the leather black against the sunlight. Leather. In August.

@cavendishbutterfly wrote The Regret Machine for the hd_erised community [E, ~15500] Summary: Malfoy’s coming in to do fancy Legilimency work on Hermione’s mind healing machine. Harry’s his test subject—and he’s pretty sure Malfoy is still Up To Something. 

@lqtraintracks wrote Jasmine in Bloom for XxTheDarkLordxX [E, ~41500] Summary: This is not something Draco can have in his life… Potter overturning all that he’s carefully cultivated. They’re not compatible and never will be. Draco’s been playing with fire. It just so happens that he likes how Potter smoulders before being allowed close enough to burn.

@dodgerkedavra wrote Former Things Come to Mind for mallstars [E, ~64100] Summary: Harry Potter has had a headache for seven and a half years. 

@orpheous87 wrote Welcome to the Future for rezal [G, ~10100] Summary: Returning to Hogwarts, Harry isn’t surprised to find out that his roommate is Malfoy. Getting to know one another makes being back at Hogwarts bearable. Staying at school over Christmas brings surprises that neither imagined. 

@khb-writes wrote Swinging into Love for Discessio [T, ~6300] Summary: All he has is Work and Teddy. Trying to find something for himself, a way to relax, Harry stumbles into someone he never expected to see again. 

@queenie-jinny wrote Lethe for slythercrux [E, ~70900] Summary: A new form of vanishing sickness is sweeping across Britain. Healers Harry Potter and Hermione Granger are on the case. When Draco Malfoy is admitted to the isolation ward, Harry never imagines falling in love with him will be the easiest thing he’s ever done – and watching him fade away to nothing will be the hardest. 

@sorrybutblog wrote Clear Skies, Full Heart for oflights [E, ~16,000] Summary: Harry loves everything about playing professional Quidditch – the rush of flying, the rush of winning, the rush of getting off with rival seeker Draco Malfoy. Harry’s the highest scoring rookie Seeker in the history of the League. He’s also, inexplicably, obsessively, hooking up with Draco. When Draco unexpectedly quits the League and disappears from Harry’s life, Harry doesn’t stop wondering what it all meant and if he’ll ever get another chance to find out. 

@oknowkiss wrote À Bon Chat for moonflower-rose [E, ~35,100] Summary: 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. His biggest score yet is fast approaching and he's got everything planned down to the minute. Everything, that is, until the unexpected appearance of a newly-divorced Harry Potter. Now that Potter's in the picture, Draco's no longer certain if he's the pursuer or the prize.

@moonflower-rose wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay for bluebutter-art [E, ~40,200] Summary: One summer evening, Harry Potter vanished in the middle of dinner with his friends. Four days later he came back. Sort of. Draco Malfoy is on the case.

@rei382 wrote The Draco Cure for the hd_erised community[T, ~11,300] Summary: When Harry's baby dragon falls seriously ill, he turns to Draco Malfoy, a specialist in Rare Dragon Diseases, despite their complicated history. As they work together to care for the ailing dragon, animosity transforms into an unexpected connection, rewriting the story of their past. 

@writcraft wrote The Unplottable Time Conundrum for lumosatnight [E, ~45,700] Summary: When the past starts bleeding into the present at Grimmauld Place, an old academic article pulls Draco Malfoy out of his life of luxury. Haunted by the memory of a fleeting post-war kiss and thrust into the ghostly spaces inhabited by Unspeakable Harry Potter, Draco’s easy life is about to get a whole lot more complicated. 

@inheartofwinter wrote Sing Me A Song for KaterineBlack [M, ~15,300] Summary: On his birthday, Draco Malfoy discovered that he was a half-siren and had a mate. The problem was his mate was none other than the famous Harry Potter, aka his sworn enemy who despised him. What would he do next? On a side note, why was Harry Potter so annoyed that a certain obnoxious blond git had stopped antagonising him? 

@xx-thedarklord-xx wrote Murder In St Mungo's for fencer-x [E, ~81,000] Summary: Murders, cults, and Ministry corruption oh my! Bodies were popping up dead all across Great Britain. Nothing connected them, no eyewitnesses, no motive, and not a single suspect in sight. Junior Auror Harry Potter was not given the cases nor asked to help, but that wasn’t going to stop him from getting to the bottom of it. Even if he had to work with the Ministry’s least favourite employee, Draco Malfoy.

@epitomereally wrote True Love Gave To Me for bichol [E, ~24,000] Summary: It’s the first of December, and all Draco wants to do is make Christmas lovely for Scorpius. But then Harry Potter shows up, asking him to save the world, and it turns out they’ve almost saved the world a couple of times before. One-hundred and forty-four times, to be exact. Or: what happens after the time loop?

@maraudersaffair wrote You Wait. I'll Have You for queenie-jinny [E, ~27,400] Summary: It's a few months after the war, and Harry travels all the way to Azkaban to get Draco Malfoy out of prison. Malfoy might have the Dark Mark on his arm, but he doesn't deserve to be locked up, thank you very much. As a trade-off, Malfoy helps Harry study for his NEWTs, but the process isn't easy. Malfoy is hot now, and Harry struggles concentrating around him. Draco struggles concentrating around Potter, too. And he's beginning to not feel like himself, like something about his magic is fundamentally changing. He can no longer control himself around Potter, but he hasn't a clue what to do about it. Draco struggles concentrating around Potter, too. And he's beginning to not feel like himself, like something about his magic is fundamentally changing. He can no longer control himself around Potter, but he hasn't a clue what to do about it.

Omi_ohmy wrote Blackbird Rising for goblinmatriarch [T, ~57,600] Summary: Harry longs to feel at home again, but he has been away for a long time, and he has a lot to contend with on his return to London: a magical mystery to investigate, a polite but prickly blond work partner with a disarming habit of blushing, a house with personality, the echoes of the war all around him, and a secret of his own. 

@thesleepiesthufflepuff wrote Last Time for okay-sky [E, ~3,200] Summary: There are eight years of hatred and seven years of tolerance behind every tease, every blowjob, and every screw. No matter how it ends, though, Draco just hopes he doesn’t lose Potter as a friend.

@nv-md wrote Always the Last to Know for chachisoo [M, ~10,600] Summary: “I’m not napping,” Harry mumbled, his face still pressed to the floor. “I’m thinking.” “Salazar help us,” Draco muttered, walking around Harry’s prone body. Out of the corner of his eye, a bit blurrily, Harry watched as Draco lay beside him. “And what, pray tell, is so difficult to ponder that it requires a lie down?" Harry took a deep breath, very much considered lying, closed his eyes, and said, “Love.”

@slythercrux wrote Cauldron Mishaps & Mayhem for puncertainty [G, ~8,000] Summary: After a string of unfortunate mishaps land Harry on the verge of failing out of Potions, he develops a tentative friendship with his enemy-turned-tutor, Draco Malfoy. 

@the-sinking-ship wrote Never Mind the Bollocks for shiftylinguini [E, ~118,600] Summary: If someone told Harry six months ago that by autumn, he would be single, living on whisky and toast, and dancing the night away with Draco Malfoy, he would have told them to get their head checked. And yet, here he was. 

[winchesterawesomesauce]

H/D ERISED 2023 REVEALS

Thank you so very much to all our amazing writers, artists, pinch-hitters, readers, commenters, and reccers who once again made this fest such an amazing success!

If you haven’t had time to make it through all the fantastic works here yet, we hope that you’ll still read and leave some love for our writers and artists! Comments are appreciated all year round! ;) As are commenters—like you amazing readers and participants, including the phenomenal people who have left an incredible total of comments on H/D Erised works this year—thank you for all you do to make this community what it is!! And a special shout-out, again, to our ever-expanding list of all-star commenters who have commented on more than half (and sometimes way more!!) of this year’s works: blueheart_v, dothechachaslide, hsvh, khalulu, lq_traintracks, lumosatnight, QueenieJinny, Slowly_learning, and TheGoblinMatriarch!! Thank you!!!

We’ll be going through the works today, revealing the authors on AO3, removing the mod account as a co-author, and adding the creator names to the tumblr headers. We’ll be sending the participants a wrap-up email when we’ve finished with all the final admin things on our end.  

Thanks again for making this another brilliant round of Erised! We hope to see you all again next year!

From the outgoing mods, Dicta, Fire, & Grace: it has been an absolute pleasure modding this fest over the past 6+ years, and while saying farewell is bittersweet, we couldn't be happier to be handing over the fest to such wonderful and capable mods! We know you'll be in good hands with Ali, El, & Honey, and we hope that they'll see you all again during next year's signups! <3

<3 dicta_contrion, firethesound, gracerene, epitomereally, honeybeet, and nv-md

ART

@dustmouth drew One Way To Finish A Crossword for dodgerkedavra [T]

@creeeee drew I'm Not The Person You Used To Know" for dwell_the_brave [G]

@drarrydoodles drew Fancy Seeing You Here for lqtraintracks [E]

@bicholsdrarrysideblog drew Lunch Break for rei382 [G]

@rezal-art drew Three Act Disaster for the-sinking-ship [M]

@bluebutter-art drew In His Nature for fantalfart [E]

@digthewriter drew Being Together and Loving Each Other for @dustmouth [T]

@melcarrianna drew Love Reflected for maraudersaffair [G]

@okay-sky drew Yule Ball, 1998 for orpheus87 [T]

@puncertainty drew New Neighbour for porcelainheart3 [T]

@sharperthan drew Under The Mistletoe for digthewriter[T]

@fantalfart drew The Colour of Love for iota [T]

@thehoneybeet drew Draco Meets The Dursleys for sharperthana [M]

@bluebutter-art Lovebug for Omi_Ohmy [G]

FIC

@oflights wrote we have heard on high for doingthechachaslide [E, ~35k] Summary: Reeling from the fallout of a bad breakup, Harry decides to find out who his soulmate is. The bad news: it's Draco Malfoy. The good news: Malfoy doesn't seem to know they're soulmates. The worst news: Harry might be falling for him anyway.

@fencer-x wrote How To Train Your Malfoy for the hd_erised community [E, ~94k] Summary: Good manners dictate that, when one’s best friend Apparates onto one’s doorstep holding the unconscious, haggard body of the schoolyard bully and begging for sanctuary, one ought to invite the two of them in for a cup of tea. Harry Potter sometimes wishes he weren’t so polite.

@wolfpants wrote Thickets for writcraft [E, ~17k] Summary: When Draco returns to the UK after two decades of building his career as an internationally-renowned artist to look after his ailing, estranged father, he crosses paths with his former flame, Harry Potter, in the most unexpected way. 

@kbrick wrote Draco Malfoy, Bloodsucking Fiend for cavendishbutterfly [E, ~23k] Summary: There are two things that Draco’s Auror partner, Harry Potter, must never know about him. One is that he’s a vampire. The other is that he’s been completely, pathetically, head-over-heels in love with Harry for years. But when the duo is trapped inside an old shop on Diagon Alley with no means of escape, Draco finds himself fiending for blood and unable to put even a modicum of distance between himself and the man he can’t stop lusting after. 

@lumosatnight wrote How to Lose a Guy in 10 Dates (or Less) for melcarianna [M, ~14k] Summary: Draco has a bet to win. Harry has a point to prove. How hard can it be? (Includes: snogging over lo mein, Harry’s martial arts studio, Draco’s overuse of the Floo, drunk card games, and a yellow silk shirt)

@porcelainheart3 wrote The Realm of Possibility for multiverse-of-fanfic [M, ~6k] Summary: You can't outrun your past, but you can fuck around with parallel versions of the present.

@goblinmatriarch wrote Sharper than a Sea Serpent's Tooth for khalulu [T, ~41k] Summary: Draco expects his research trip to Crete to focus on the ecology of ward design, with perhaps some cheeky visits to the elusive sea serpents and the odd sleepy beach day. Instead, he encounters a Past he's spent over a decade trying to outrun, and a familiar scowl under glasses and a scar. Featuring just so much imagining being on a hot, sunny beach for your winter pleasure.

@shiftylinguini wrote solemates for oknowkiss [E, ~17k] Summary: It starts because Harry has no self-control when it comes to meaningless and entertaining competition. Actually no, that's not quite right. It starts because Harry is absolutely plastered. (From the prompt: Workplace fic in which a benign inter-department step challenge gets out of hand, spearheaded by you know who 1 and 2)

@multiverse-of-fanfic wrote The Room that Changed Everything for the hd_erised community [T, ~18k] Summary: When a sabotaged potion lands Harry and Draco in detention, Harry must wrestle with two uncomfortable truths: One, Malfoy the nemesis no longer exists. And Two, Harry is embarrassingly attracted to him. With the war behind them, can Harry and Malfoy build something from the ashes, or are they doomed to be enemies forever? 

@khalulu wrote Eager: Born to Re-wild for inheartofwinter [M, ~7k] Summary: Harry's friends haven't seen him for a while and they're starting to worry. Draco's listless and his friends are starting to worry. Also, something's up(side down) with Theo Nott. Meanwhile, Harry's taken on a new identity and immersed himself in a project he can really get his teeth into. But has he bitten off more than he can chew? Got too far into the (water) weeds? And who (besides you, dear reader) could guess that Draco would be the one to bring him back?

@doingthechachaslide wrote Martyred for kbrick [E, ~82k] Summary: Harry Potter only wants one thing: to take care of the people he loves. After Teddy’s abrupt departure from his role as Andromeda’s caretaker, Harry decides it’s finally time to step up and handle the job himself. Castoff Manor, an old Black family estate, has never seemed as sinister as the stories make it sound, but it’s there that Harry stumbles upon ghosts, haunting family secrets, and a familiar, snarky blond gardener hell-bent on chasing him out. Maybe if Harry sticks around long enough, he’ll finally learn why all of Andromeda’s previous caretakers have fled without looking back.

@dwell-the-brave wrote I Will Stay If You Dare for wolfpants [G, ~9100] Summary: When Harry receives a cryptic letter from Narcissa Malfoy, he rushes to Draco Malfoy’s aid, only to find he’s not invited and definitely not wanted by the Master of Malfoy Manor. But the Manor itself seems to think otherwise… 

@mallstars wrote Sugarplum for bluefay [E, ~27300] Summary: The air crackled as it busied itself shifting around molecules, making way for a hefty slab of magic, and then there it was: the Knight Bus, squeezed neatly into a pocket of Wizarding space among stagnant Muggle buses, vibrant violet amidst a string of cherry red. The door sprang open. "Draco," said Potter, a little breathless, a little cheerful. He smelled of coconut lotion, Cockroach Clusters and a sloppy ironing charm. Lifting one hand off the steering wheel, Potter gave a small wave. He wore gloves. Fingerless, the leather black against the sunlight. Leather. In August.

@cavendishbutterfly wrote The Regret Machine for the hd_erised community [E, ~15500] Summary: Malfoy’s coming in to do fancy Legilimency work on Hermione’s mind healing machine. Harry’s his test subject—and he’s pretty sure Malfoy is still Up To Something. 

@lqtraintracks wrote Jasmine in Bloom for XxTheDarkLordxX [E, ~41500] Summary: This is not something Draco can have in his life… Potter overturning all that he’s carefully cultivated. They’re not compatible and never will be. Draco’s been playing with fire. It just so happens that he likes how Potter smoulders before being allowed close enough to burn.

@dodgerkedavra wrote Former Things Come to Mind for mallstars [E, ~64100] Summary: Harry Potter has had a headache for seven and a half years. 

@orpheous87 wrote Welcome to the Future for rezal [G, ~10100] Summary: Returning to Hogwarts, Harry isn’t surprised to find out that his roommate is Malfoy. Getting to know one another makes being back at Hogwarts bearable. Staying at school over Christmas brings surprises that neither imagined. 

@khb-writes wrote Swinging into Love for Discessio [T, ~6300] Summary: All he has is Work and Teddy. Trying to find something for himself, a way to relax, Harry stumbles into someone he never expected to see again. 

@queenie-jinny wrote Lethe for slythercrux [E, ~70900] Summary: A new form of vanishing sickness is sweeping across Britain. Healers Harry Potter and Hermione Granger are on the case. When Draco Malfoy is admitted to the isolation ward, Harry never imagines falling in love with him will be the easiest thing he’s ever done – and watching him fade away to nothing will be the hardest. 

@sorrybutblog wrote Clear Skies, Full Heart for oflights [E, ~16,000] Summary: Harry loves everything about playing professional Quidditch – the rush of flying, the rush of winning, the rush of getting off with rival seeker Draco Malfoy. Harry’s the highest scoring rookie Seeker in the history of the League. He’s also, inexplicably, obsessively, hooking up with Draco. When Draco unexpectedly quits the League and disappears from Harry’s life, Harry doesn’t stop wondering what it all meant and if he’ll ever get another chance to find out. 

@oknowkiss wrote À Bon Chat for moonflower-rose [E, ~35,100] Summary: 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. His biggest score yet is fast approaching and he's got everything planned down to the minute. Everything, that is, until the unexpected appearance of a newly-divorced Harry Potter. Now that Potter's in the picture, Draco's no longer certain if he's the pursuer or the prize.

@moonflower-rose wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay for bluebutter-art [E, ~40,200] Summary: One summer evening, Harry Potter vanished in the middle of dinner with his friends. Four days later he came back. Sort of. Draco Malfoy is on the case.

@rei382 wrote The Draco Cure for the hd_erised community[T, ~11,300] Summary: When Harry's baby dragon falls seriously ill, he turns to Draco Malfoy, a specialist in Rare Dragon Diseases, despite their complicated history. As they work together to care for the ailing dragon, animosity transforms into an unexpected connection, rewriting the story of their past. 

@writcraft wrote The Unplottable Time Conundrum for lumosatnight [E, ~45,700] Summary: When the past starts bleeding into the present at Grimmauld Place, an old academic article pulls Draco Malfoy out of his life of luxury. Haunted by the memory of a fleeting post-war kiss and thrust into the ghostly spaces inhabited by Unspeakable Harry Potter, Draco’s easy life is about to get a whole lot more complicated. 

@inheartofwinter wrote Sing Me A Song for KaterineBlack [M, ~15,300] Summary: On his birthday, Draco Malfoy discovered that he was a half-siren and had a mate. The problem was his mate was none other than the famous Harry Potter, aka his sworn enemy who despised him. What would he do next? On a side note, why was Harry Potter so annoyed that a certain obnoxious blond git had stopped antagonising him? 

@xx-thedarklord-xx wrote Murder In St Mungo's for fencer-x [E, ~81,000] Summary: Murders, cults, and Ministry corruption oh my! Bodies were popping up dead all across Great Britain. Nothing connected them, no eyewitnesses, no motive, and not a single suspect in sight. Junior Auror Harry Potter was not given the cases nor asked to help, but that wasn’t going to stop him from getting to the bottom of it. Even if he had to work with the Ministry’s least favourite employee, Draco Malfoy.

@epitomereally wrote True Love Gave To Me for bichol [E, ~24,000] Summary: It’s the first of December, and all Draco wants to do is make Christmas lovely for Scorpius. But then Harry Potter shows up, asking him to save the world, and it turns out they’ve almost saved the world a couple of times before. One-hundred and forty-four times, to be exact. Or: what happens after the time loop?

@maraudersaffair wrote You Wait. I'll Have You for queenie-jinny [E, ~27,400] Summary: It's a few months after the war, and Harry travels all the way to Azkaban to get Draco Malfoy out of prison. Malfoy might have the Dark Mark on his arm, but he doesn't deserve to be locked up, thank you very much. As a trade-off, Malfoy helps Harry study for his NEWTs, but the process isn't easy. Malfoy is hot now, and Harry struggles concentrating around him. Draco struggles concentrating around Potter, too. And he's beginning to not feel like himself, like something about his magic is fundamentally changing. He can no longer control himself around Potter, but he hasn't a clue what to do about it. Draco struggles concentrating around Potter, too. And he's beginning to not feel like himself, like something about his magic is fundamentally changing. He can no longer control himself around Potter, but he hasn't a clue what to do about it.

Omi_ohmy wrote Blackbird Rising for goblinmatriarch [T, ~57,600] Summary: Harry longs to feel at home again, but he has been away for a long time, and he has a lot to contend with on his return to London: a magical mystery to investigate, a polite but prickly blond work partner with a disarming habit of blushing, a house with personality, the echoes of the war all around him, and a secret of his own. 

@thesleepiesthufflepuff wrote Last Time for okay-sky [E, ~3,200] Summary: There are eight years of hatred and seven years of tolerance behind every tease, every blowjob, and every screw. No matter how it ends, though, Draco just hopes he doesn’t lose Potter as a friend.

@nv-md wrote Always the Last to Know for chachisoo [M, ~10,600] Summary: “I’m not napping,” Harry mumbled, his face still pressed to the floor. “I’m thinking.” “Salazar help us,” Draco muttered, walking around Harry’s prone body. Out of the corner of his eye, a bit blurrily, Harry watched as Draco lay beside him. “And what, pray tell, is so difficult to ponder that it requires a lie down?" Harry took a deep breath, very much considered lying, closed his eyes, and said, “Love.”

@slythercrux wrote Cauldron Mishaps & Mayhem for puncertainty [G, ~8,000] Summary: After a string of unfortunate mishaps land Harry on the verge of failing out of Potions, he develops a tentative friendship with his enemy-turned-tutor, Draco Malfoy. 

@the-sinking-ship wrote Never Mind the Bollocks for shiftylinguini [E, ~118,600] Summary: If someone told Harry six months ago that by autumn, he would be single, living on whisky and toast, and dancing the night away with Draco Malfoy, he would have told them to get their head checked. And yet, here he was. 

[winchesterawesomesauce]

I will not be silenced.

#ao3 #kudos #let me leave more #archive of our own #fanfiction

[winchesterawesomesauce]

Wait…what’s dni?

Stop putting DNI on your tags and stop bringing shipping discourse into AO3

AO3 hid the story and asked OP to remove the tag (the fanfic is not even removed) due to the inflammatory tag. That's deserved. AO3 is not a social media for people to fight over ship and chronically online discourse. It's a library. If people keep bringing DNI and discourse into AO3 it'll make the place toxic for writers and reader.

What are you trying to accomplish with putting DNI? Do you think people actually care about DNI? No, it's just making you looking like an asshole doing this

Also AO3 was founded by a Wincest and Thorki shipper. Astolat made AO3 because FF net and other sites keep purging nsfw fanfic. AO3 is literally made for problematique shipper that op don't like.

Then OP doing this? For what? People want to enjoy reading their fanfic not seeing DNI and online discourse on AO3. I hate using the word virtue signaling as it's often used to demean progress but this is what a real virtue signaling looks like 🤦🤦‍♀️

(I bet op wrote more inflammatory tags on their fic other than 'proshitter DNI get a life' because it take a lot to get your story hidden or removed)

#ao3 #fanfic #shipping #archive of our own #shipping discourse #proship #antiship #writing

[winchesterawesomesauce]

Having an hour long discussion about Supernatural today at work and trying to explain 15 seasons in that hour, along with my own personal theories on the show was the highlight of my week. I had my coworker so interested he was looking up stuff while I blabbered on about it just to try and keep up.

Best part?

“What’s with these nephilim?”

“Well, when a human and an angel love each other very much…”

#supernatural #spn theory #spn headcanon #nephilim

[winchesterawesomesauce]

Accurate.

#writing #writing memes #writers on tumblr #writers #writing humor #art meme #meme #artists on tumblr #fanfiction #ao3

[winchesterawesomesauce]

The Stars Will Remember

fic by @casblackfeathers & art by @diminuel

Being a hunter was all Dean knew ever since his mother had been killed by a demon when he was four. Hunting, offing monsters, and then jumping to the next case was his life. Then he met the most alluring and breathtaking omega he had ever seen and spent the next five years loving the hell out of Cas, their life together filled with the domestic lovey-dovey stuff Dean had never thought he would dig so much. When a simple salt-and-burn goes sideways, it ends up with Cas’ memories stolen from him. Dean is left to pick up the pieces of the life they built together, his ‘make it up as he goes’ strategy to prove to his mate that Dean’s still worth a damn, his only chance at getting Cas back. He’s done a shitty-ass job at keeping Cas safe before, but he will pull out all the stops now to woo his mate again and stir the memories Dean knows are still there buried deep inside Cas’ mind.

Genre: amnesia, established relationship, alpha/beta/omega dynamics, alpha!dean, omega!castiel, hurt!castiel, protective!dean, romance, case fic Pairing: Dean/Castiel Rating: Explicit Word count: 60k

READ ON AO3

[winchesterawesomesauce]

I read this in one sitting, staying up until 3 in the morning. Fantastic read!

touch starved harry and practiced casualness draco is nailed, taped, stapled, laminated, into my brain.

scene from: 9-1/2 Days by magpie_fngirl!

#9 1/2 days #drarry #drarry art #harry potter #draco malfoy

[winchesterawesomesauce]

Goroffo.

Porpooso

This is fun

Rigor

Dog

[winchesterawesomesauce]

Do you like seeing your favorite couple thrown into different fandoms? Would you like to experience the Dean and Cas' profound bond while our boys experience different lives from your favorite shows or movies? This is what next week is all about.

Starting tomorrow and for over a week, each day we'll review a different Crossover/Fusion featuring our favorite dorks.

If you like this type of content, check our tag other media for other fics we've reviewed in the past that feature different crossovers or fusions.

We sincerely hope you have fun!

[winchesterawesomesauce]

One hundred percent yes

ao3 commenters PSA: even on older fics with a ton of comments the authors still get the notifs for every single comment

re: the person who just left a multi paragraph comment on one of my older fics talking about how much they disliked the ending and detailing several alternate endings they came up with instead that they thought would be better, and ending the comment with "no one is going to see this but oh well" authors see your comments yes even on old fics and it really doesn't feel good to see a comment like that even years after I finished the fic

[winchesterawesomesauce]

Afro does realize that all of the things listed in their uneducated post happened during Biden’s predecessor’s term, right? Just because I don’t like Biden doesn’t mean I don’t do my research.

#twitter #joe biden #palestine #trump

[winchesterawesomesauce]

2023 DCBB Masterlist

The 2023 DCBB has officially completed posting! You can find a masterlist of all our stories sorted by story here and sorted by date here.

Despite the show ending three years ago, we continue to be delighted by the passion and creativity our participants bring to this challenge. Along with providing dozens of new stories with art for the fandom, we love seeing the way our authors and artists support each other. From DCBB veterans to those completing their first ever challenge, we see you asking questions, sharing knowledge, and lifting each other up. Seeing such positivity keeps us going year after year!

To those of you who supported the DCBB by writing, making art, and beta reading: we couldn't do this without you! To those of you who read and commented and shared links: you play a vital role in keeping this challenge alive.

We'll be back again next year, but in the meantime, sign-ups for the 2024 DCRB will be opening on November 15th!

Cheers,

diamond, Violethaze, and Aceriee

[winchesterawesomesauce]

the title of the last song you listened to is the epitaph on your tombstone

#walking in memphis

[winchesterawesomesauce]

Oh definitely. There are some fics that I have read more than my favorite books. They’re comforting like a warm blanket and cup of tea.

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

#writeblr #ao3 #archive of our own #writing #writers #writer #fanfic #fanfiction