cailynwrites:

Year in Review - Fest podfics

Care of Magical Creatures (and sequels) by @arsenicjade for @polypodweek (E, 73k, 8 hours, Hermione x Remus x Severus)

Summary:
In the aftermath of the War, Hermione finds her way.

the dogfather (and sequels) by @nonasuch for @goodgodfathersiriusblack (T, 48k, 5 hours, Remus x Sirius)

Summary:
“I’m not a reverse werewolf either,” says the man. “I’m your godfather.”

Stay by vendettadays for Femslash February (T, 21k, 2 hours, Hermione x Pansy)

Summary:
When Minerva said that Pansy Parkinson was to be the new Arithmancy professor at Hogwarts, Hermione thought she was joking. Then she remembered, Minerva McGonagall never joked.
(Or, the progression of Hermione and Pansy’s relationship as Transfiguration and Arithmancy professors during the course of the school year.)

Higher and Higher (Temptation) by birdsofshore for @dracotops-harry (E, 28k, 3 hours, Draco x Harry)

Summary:
Only Harry Potter could manage to put on a magical collar on impulse and find himself unable to take it off again. Now following Draco’s direct orders gives him intense pleasure, and Draco has a whole heap of troubles to deal with, not least the way Potter looks when the collar has him gasping with bliss. The whole situation would test the morals of a saint… and Draco’s no saint.

Silhouettes by @sweet-s0rr0w for @dronarryfest (E, 17k, 2 hours, Draco x Harry x Ron)

Summary:
Draco’s trying to fix the Burrow, Ron’s trying to grieve, and Harry… well, just what is Harry actually doing, anyway?
A tale of grief, gardening, and ghouls, bad memories, bad puns, and bad flirting, and nudity both accidental and very, very deliberate.

An Overly Considerate Friend by @the-francakes for @regulusblackfest (M, 8k, 47 mins, James x Regulus)

Summary:
“Remus help! This is your fault!” James tried again.
“I didn’t tell you to snog him, Prongs!” Moony snapped back.
“TRUE. Technically, you didn’t. You didn’t say ‘don’t snog Regulus,’ you just said not to hit on him. WHICH I DIDN’T! So maybe protect me a little here please?” James floundered for excuses. Remus debated it for a moment - hopefully that please did itself justice and saved James’ life.
“Snogging most definitely falls under flirting,” Remus decided educationally. All his friends were assholes, honestly. After tonight, James was going to start hanging out with Hufflepuffs.

One Night in the House of Black by @sleepstxtic for @ladiesofhpfest (M, 9k, 1 hour, Artemisia Black x Eunon Blackwood)

Summary:
When a stranger comes knocking on the doors of her House, Artemisia Black must make a choice. What happens that night will determine the fate of her family forever.

As You Wish by @pineau-noir for @lcdrarry (T, 22k, 3 hours, Draco x Harry)

Summary:
Draco was raised on a farm in the small country of Wiltshire; his favourite pastimes were flying on his broom and tormenting the hired farm boy. Though his name was Harry, Draco never called him that. On Harry’s forehead there was a scar shaped like a lightning bolt, so Draco called him Scarhead.
Nothing gave Draco as much pleasure as ordering Harry around
Or a story about fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, True Love, and miracles.

you’re alive by @the-houseryn for @harrydracompreg (M, 27k, 3 hours, Draco x Harry)

Summary:
The most boring shift in the world, filled with Muggle car ride games to pass the time, was interrupted by a tow-head boy begging for help to save his papa and ultimately changed Harry’s life from there on out. For the better, of course.

Where the Heart Is by @kohakhearts (T, 16k, 2 hours, Harry & Severus)

Summary:
After the events at the Department of Mysteries in June—and all that came after—Harry finds himself once again stranded at Number Four Privet Drive. With only his own thoughts to keep him company, he takes to writing letters to the only person he thinks can help, if only he were still alive to do so.
As it turns out, though, sometimes help can arrive in even the most unexpected of forms too.

Masks by Inell for DCC Monthly Microcreations (E, 1.4k, 9 mins, Draco x Harry)

Summary:
Keeping secrets is tiring.

Clair de Lune by @constitutionalweasleymonarchy for @ladiesofhpfest (G, 2k, 13 mins, Luna Lovegood)

Summary:
How wonderful to be seen.

Consequenses and Preparations by ChokolatteJedi for @ladiesofhpfest (T, 1.5k, 9 mins, Lucius x Narcissa)

Summary:
Narcissa finds out that Lucius not only let an object the Dark Lord entrusted him with be destroyed, but he was the reason there was a basilisk in their son’s school. She decides to prevent any further Draco-endangering stupidity on his part and disposes of him. Not that anybody guesses it’s her, of course, she is a Slytherin. And she’s going to make sure her son acts like one, too.

the residue of design by @fleurting for DCC Monthly Microcreations (E, 4k, 26 mins, Draco x Harry)

Summary:
Rita Skeeter temporarily comes out of retirement to do an exclusive interview with The Chosen One. For some reason, Draco’s friends think this has something to do with him.

Fawning Over You by @toxik-angel for @hptransfest (E, 39k, 5 hours, Draco x Harry)

Summary:
Harry’s not sure which would be worse: Ron and Hermione finding out he buys Draco Malfoy’s premium pornography and an extra gift off his wishlist every week, or Draco Malfoy finding out Harry has a horrible, distracting, embarrassing crush on him.
Alt title: Whore-ton Hears a Harry.

The Audacity of Lavender Brown by @malpal132 for @ladiesofhpfest (E, 6k, 42 mins, Charlie x Lavender)

Summary:
Ron channels his anger through the blades of his skates and the hockey stick he uses on his professional team, but embarrassment isn’t an emotion he’s quite mastered. This disparity between them starts out small, then trickles into everything.
For instance, he never kisses her with his tongue. Like, never. She straddles his lap and cards her fingers through his ginger hair, showing a bit of Victorian ankle every time she risks slipping her tongue past her own lips. It’s like his are vacuum-sealed shut. Instead of French sophistication, she’s more like a gerbil suckling from the sippy bottle attached to the side of its cage.
She is abundant with nowhere to go.

Tempus Gratiae by @charlotterhea for @harryglots (M, 24k, 3 hours, Hermione x Severus)

Summary:
Professor Snape verschwindet während Hermines 6. Schuljahr für eine Woche. Spurlos. Dann kehrt er zurück und alles ist wie vorher. Abgesehen von ein paar Details, die Hermines Neugier wecken.
Aber erst sieben Jahre später fängt das Rätsel an, sich zu lösen.

The Chaperone by @annabtg for @ladiesofhpfest (T, 7k, 46 mins, James x Lily)

Summary:
When Lily’s father won’t let her go out alone on a date with James, she has to resort to desperate measures: make it a double date with Petunia and Sirius.

Will you send me to Hogwarts? by @sleepstxtic for @ladiesofhpfest (G, 1k, 4 mins, Padma & Parvati Patil)

Summary:
A letter to the Patil twins from their mother.

Tempus Gratiae (English version) by @charlotterhea for @etl-echo-audiobooks Time Collection (M, 24k, 3 hours, Hermione x Severus)

Summary:
Professor Snape disappears for a week during Hermione’s 6th year. Without a trace. Then he returns and everything is as before. Except for a few details that arouse Hermione’s curiosity.
But only seven years later the mystery begins to unravel.

A Case of You by @epitomereally for @hd-wireless (E, 97k, 12 hours, Draco x Harry)

Summary:
Draco was doing just fine working as an Unspeakable in Paris, hanging out with his living and ghostly pals, inventing new spells, and definitely not thinking about Potter. Then, Lucius just had to break out of prison and turn his world upside down.
Now, Draco has to return to England, where he is forced to confront how family ties bind us—and one infuriatingly fit Harry Potter.

Stick Shift by @stultiloquentia for @etl-echo-audiobooks Fantastic Fandoms Collection (E, 5k, 34 mins, Buffy x Spike)

Summary:
Buffy stakes herself a vampire.

Still Clearly Up to the No-Good Things by @snsknene for DCC Monthly Microcreations (T, 4k, 26 mins, Draco x Harry)

Summary:
“Tails,” Harry intoned to no-one in particular.
“Harry,” Draco said kindly, “perhaps it is getting a bit too late for you. You are gibbering again.”

The Roommate by @romaine2424 for @hd-hurtcomfort-fest (M, 43k, 4 hours, Draco x Harry)

Summary:
After one year in Azkaban, and two years of home arrest, Draco is going off to college. Myrrdin College is Oxford’s magical college, where one Harry Potter is currently attending. Both are going for their teaching certificates with Draco specialising in Potions and Harry in Defence Against the Dark Arts. The Headmistress has insisted all incoming professors must be degreed. However, the Board of Governors insist that Draco also must live in a Muggle house with limited allowance and take Muggle elective courses before he can become Hogwarts’ new Potions Professor. Harry is coerced by others into helping Draco Malfoy survive in the Muggle world.

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The Mirror Cracked by @minnarr for @ladiesofhpfest (T, 4k, 23 mins, Bill x Fleur)

Summary: 2000. Voldemort and his Death Eaters have been in power for seventeen years, but the fight continues. In France, a strange man turns up on Fleur Delacour’s doorstep and turns her life upside down. In a different world, what were the odds that Bill and Fleur would still end up fighting side by side?

When You Can’t Find a Hero, Become One by @meandminniemcg for @hp-unspeakables (M, 16k, 2 hours, Draco x Harry)

Summary: After Harry Potter’s mysterious disappearance, wizarding Britain moved on. Some moved on because they didn’t care, some to keep the pieces of their lives together or to be strong for their traumatized loved ones. But Draco couldn’t move on. He decided to do whatever it takes to find out what happened to Potter. And Slytherins are good at doing whatever it takes.

Keep reading

maesterchill:

3+1 HP Wandlore recs

Raise your wands 🍆 for three Drarry fic recs containing delicious wandlore, plus one bonus non-Drarry ficlet!

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Pathless Woods by @shealwaysreads /onereader (30k, Explicit)

Harry finds himself unexpectedly reacquainted with Draco Malfoy when his work as an apprentice wandmaker takes him to Wiltshire. Amongst the trees Harry finds magic, growth, and a man who might finally be proving he’s worthy of the wand that chose him.

Hawthorn, Unicorn hair, 10 inches, reasonably pliant.

A story of found family, trees with feelings, belief in the power of growth, wandlore, and gratuitous description of Handsome Estate Owner™ Draco Malfoy swanning around in white shirts and leather boots.

Wand nerd Harry! Tree nerd Draco! Amazing wand lore and ‘forest lore’, beautifully and lushly described by Bella, the queen of magical atmosphere. Bonus points for Mr Darcy-style Draco tromping around his estate.
Quote that made me snort: “Any promotion of your business will absolutely be based on how gorgeous your wood is.” Harry smiled reassuringly, then blanched at how ridiculous his wording sounded. “Er. I mean. The wood, not your wood. The wand wood, that’s yours.”

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A Hag, A Hex, A Tale of Redemption by @aibidil (43k, Explicit)

A fuck-or-die fairytale in which Draco Malfoy lives a despicable and unapologetic life — that is, until he’s cursed to die unless he can fall in love with and fuck Harry Potter.

Not only does this fic have fabulous wandlore (wands for non-wizards!), but it’s a twenty-four carat fuck-or-die curse fic (in a CONSENT fest, so think about the implications there). It features a a deliciously unredeemed and furious Draco and, of course, is crammed full of Aib’s impeccable humour and smarts. The deft use of a folklore-y fable adjacent narrative style rounds off what is simply an excellent fic.

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Body Electric by @lastontheboat (8k, Mature)

“What could you possibly want?” Harry asks.
"Would you believe I’m here for assistance with my wand?” Malfoy replies, still refusing to meet his eyes, and Harry snorts.
“There are other wand makers,” he says tightly. “Unless you’ve slept with all of them as well.”

Packed with magical theory and both wandmaking craft AND Veela magic. The characterisations had me kicking my feet (these boys could bicker for England), and the insanely hot UST had my heart racing. Absolute banger.

🪄 Bonus rec

Ollivander & Thomas, Makers of Fine Wands by @rainstormradish (584 words, Gen)

“Spruce and unicorn hair, eleven inches.”
This was how Garrick Ollivander greeted Dean, voice faint and croaky, in the dungeons of Malfoy Manor. Dean nodded, before realising abruptly that the spruce wand was no longer his.

A glimpse at Dean’s life after the war, his relationship with magic and the wandmaking art he learned to master.

Utterly glorious and fascinating worldbuilding from Radish, featuring Dean Thomas as a wandmaker. This fic is the loveliest thing, chock full of feels, and you’ll fall in love with the fabulous goblin girl! 500 words of sheer gorgeousness. Why, why *thumps fist on table* WHY do we not have more Dean fic?

✨Enjoy!✨

constitutionalweasleymonarchy:

mikkeneko:

thekirammanjinx:

People can handle evil characters(for the most part–usually they twist their behavior and water it down) but people really can’t handle good characters that lose their head or lose themselves and have a moment of fallen grace. Fandom has shown this time and time again. They really look at them as worse than the initial evil.

related but tangential. there’s a really strong unexamined belief throughout a lot of fandom – and population outside of fandom, but we’re talking about fandom here – that what you do and say during your worst moments is who you really are.

And the assumptions underlying this, more or less, break down to:

1. Everybody is secretly bad deep down. They’re born that way (no, this is not original sin, wdym, it’s just an Honest and Realistic assessment of human nature!) and have to be taught to cover it up through childhood with facades of politeness. Everybody is lying all the time by pretending to be better or nicer than they really are, and this facade takes active effort to maintain. When the effort drops and the facade slips, the true underlying rottenness shows through.
2. All actions taken are rational and reasoned, at all times. Lying is always a deliberate, purposeful action meant to advance a person’s aims and goals. There is never any reason to lie except to make yourself look good. Therefore, any good or nice statement or action may be a lie, but any bad or harmful statement or action must be true.

Ergo: anything a person (or a character) says or does when in states of emotional extremity, overwhelming grief, incapacitating pain, exhaustion, illness, head injury, is Peeling Back the Facade of Goodness to reveal the True Rottenness Underneath.

This is, of course, utter nonsense. But an amazing number of people seem to believe it.

Here it is. The post I want to reblog every day until I die.

wilfriede:

etl-echo-audiobooks:

A Toast to Lord Voldemort by magnetic_pole

Our friend @wilfriede is the QUEEN of rare pairs, so it’s no surprise she’s joined us for this theme week. I’m going to keep coming up with terrible portmanteau names until someone corrects me or tells me to stop, so … enjoy this Minusta or Augurva. We love a good femslash!

A Toast to Lord Voldemort by magnetic_pole
Pairing: Minerva McGonagall x Augusta Longbottom
Rating: G
Length: 30 minutes
Summary:

Neville joins an unexpected celebration.

Listen now on AO3

And here’s the individual cover for this one :)

renncandraw:

A light hearted take on the curse prompt for @the-forbidden-forest April challenge drawing drarry! I tried to incorporate the colors below the cut (might do an angst version later)

Keep reading

the-forbidden-forest:

slyssnakes:

Drarry as Onion Articles (pt. 1?)

feel free to add on!

deathgasmic:

(via oflights)

renncandraw:

Part 1? Of Plan M

Based on this text post that I laughed at for like 20 mins

(via the-forbidden-forest)

saladscream:

dancinbutterfly:

knitmeapony:

shamebats:

This paints such a beautiful picture

“You’re not part of the itinerary, Jonathan.”

Every person I know. Every single person. Including the people in relationships.

Finally a guy who gets it. 😆👍

(via drarryspecificrecs)

iamnmbr3:

I will never forgive the mainstream media for not covering Project 2025 properly. That thing was nearly 900 pages long and almost everything that is happening now was laid out in there (as well as probably a lot of what they plan to do next). It was a LONG document. And it got barely any coverage. And no specifics. Every week there should have been dozens of articles, each about a different horrifying section. But no. Instead it was endless coverage of Biden’s stutter.

basiatlu:

Can’t be bothered.

(via andithiel)