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“I feel very strongly that if historical romance can give women a happy ending, it can give queer people a happy ending. M/f historical romance doesn’t tie itself in knots over the likelihood of the rake having syphilis, the terrible dentistry, the lice, the prolapsed uterus after multiple pregnancies, the prospect of death in childbed, or the horrifying legal discrimination against married women. We don’t close the book on the wedding scene reflecting that the heroine can now be legally raped, has just lost all her property to her husband…and would be vanishingly unlikely to obtain a divorce. Historical romance readers aren’t stupid; we know this stuff, but we choose to believe our heroine will be one of the lucky ones. And I don’t see why we can’t extend that happy glow to other stories, too. If women’s lives don’t have to be blighted by social oppression in romance, neither do those of people of color or queer people. Moreover, human nature doesn’t change. A lot of what we read about LGBT people in history is appalling because the rec­ords we have are the legal documents, the newspaper reports, the accounts of people who were victimized. We don’t generally have the hidden stories of the people who lived under the radar…. But we know…people we’d now call gay, bi, trans have always existed and [that] as a matter of statistics plenty of them must have lived and died without ever coming to the law’s attention. Which is not to hand-wave the horrors of the past but only to say that horror isn’t the only story, and it’s not an acceptable reason to deny marginalized people their happy-ever-after.”

— KJ Charles (Library Journal interview)  (via bookgeekgrrl)

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so many of you have never been 26 or 27. well one day you will. this is not a threat this is a promise. or maybe both. it will be fine, is what i’m saying. and then comes 28

#turning 28 in less than two months #27 made me realise how much I love getting older #you’ll survive it! no really

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Harry.

something something

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via indiarosecrawford

Frog Paints a Water Lily Pond 🪷🎨🐸

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ

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REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS

Too many beds

Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss

Really nice guy who hates only you

Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class

Divorce of convenience

Too much communication

True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)

Dating your enemy’s sibling

Lovers to enemies

Hate at first sight

Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead

Fake amnesia

Soulmates who are fated to kill each other

Strangers to enemies

Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating

Too hot to cuddle

Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground

Nursing home au

#accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss is genius #writing prompt #q

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I love you moss I love you mushrooms I love you morning dew I love you trees I love you rain I love you crows I love you crunchy leaves I love you autumn I love you nature

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The Gothic Cottage, Stourhead

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I fear I’m not meant for greatness. We all fear, but fear can be a gift.

The Green Knight (2020) dir. David Lowery

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“Haha mermaids were probably just sightings of manatees how lame” you fool. You don’t want to get in the water with her? You don’t want to go for a swim with her? Fuck you

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“Does it hurt?” The childish question had escaped Harry’s lips before he could stop it. “Dying? Not at all,” said Sirius. “Quicker and easier than falling asleep.”   

#WAH #prev tags

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Miller's Girl (2024)

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An “initiation well,” used in magical rites, which was excavated at the Quinta da Regaleira estate in Sintra, Portugal.  

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For Trans Day of Visibility, I asked my communities for favorite HP stories with trans characters or gender exploration themes and have compiled them here. Please add yours in the comments!

Sections: Drarry, Wolfstar, Gen, Rare Ships

Drarry:

A Good Place to Start

@jet-playin-around 💙 T 💙 2k

Harry is finding 8th year rather dull until he goes to visit Hagrid and ends up helping him deliver Draco Malfoy's baby.Now he has to protect Malfoy and keep his secrets and he might just be falling a little in love with both Malfoys just to complicate matters.

About this Place

@academicdisasterfic 🩷 E 🩷 10k

Harry left everything, including Draco. Harry’s returned to everything, including Draco. Things are never quite so simple, though perhaps they could be.

an unlit neon sign

@beyondtheclose 🤍 T 🤍 5k

Harry found a new way to contact Malfoy in an old potions textbooks and, for the first time in six years, he responded. A fic about getting closer to figuring yourself, experimenting with gender expression, and coming out for the first time. And reconnecting with someone you thought had likely died six years ago.

Eight Days A Week

@romaine2424 🩷 E 🩷 122k

This is foremost a love story and second it's about those growing up years. Becoming adults with adult lives and adult decisions. Yes, Harry's a Trainee-Auror and Draco's a Healer-in-Training after the war. Yes, Harry eventually moves into 12 Grimmauld Place. And, yes, attraction happens between Harry and Draco and they fall in love, but then there's more. Draco is now free from Voldemort, free from fear of going to Azkaban, free from his Father's beliefs, and free to be the person, the witch, the woman she always felt she should be. And for Harry, it’s time to lose the shackles of his childhood and discover who he really is and what’s truly important in life.

From The Same Cloth

@corvuscrowned 💙 T 💙 8k

Harry hadn’t expected it, but coming out shortly after the war has its advantages. She has no idea whether people are treating her differently because she’s a girl now, or because they witnessed her kill a maniacal wizarding fascist. She also hadn't expected that the only person who might understand it all is none other than Draco Malfoy.

Good Boy

@lqtraintracks 🩷 E 🩷 15k

This is a love story between a trans lad and his werewolf boyfriend. It’s about loving someone in their very furry entirety. It’s about being your true self and loving that self. It’s about getting absolutely railed.

In the Shape of Things to Come

@academicdisasterfic 🤍 E 🤍 16k

Existential angst and chronic boredom are plaguing Harry Potter in his cushy post-war life. However, a chance encounter with a tattooed, pierced, disgruntled Draco Malfoy in the middle of Muggle Camden seems to spark something in Harry again—and he never could stay away from Malfoy.

Mirrors Inside Me

@cavendishbutterfly 🩷 E 🩷6k

Draco’s been in love with Potter forever. And just because they work together, and they fuck, and they text and break up and get back together regularly doesn’t mean Potter needs to know. In fact, it’s a pretty good reason why he shouldn’t.

Moonlighting

@pixiedunhoff 💙 E 💙 77k

Draco takes a liking to GenderBend Blend and goes out on Halloween, which leads to an encounter with Harry Potter.

plant me in your garden (and watch me grow)

@thehoneybeet 🩷 T 🩷 6k 

Malfoy walks across the grounds to the forbidden forest nearly every night, but falls asleep in class during the day. Harry can't get enough of him. 

The Only True Goal of the Universe

Punk_rock_yuppie 🤍 E 🤍 23k

It comes up, as most juvenile things do, in a game of Truth or Dare.

Raise Yourself Clean

@hsvh-hp 🩷 T 🩷 14k

The day Harry signs off on his divorce, he runs into a woman at a Muggle playground who insists he ought to remember her from Hogwarts. What follows during their sons' weekly play dates are a series of conversations about life, love, and loss, centred on a single park bench.

Red Wine Supernova

@mono-chromia 💙 E 💙 43k

Harry is vaguely aware that he's once again staring, and there's a voice in the back of his head that sounds like Luna's that's chastising him for it, but between half a joint and some boob-temperature beer he doesn't have the wherewithal to tear his eyes away. And that’s how she finds him when she leans over the balustrade of the deck to smoke her cigarette; starstruck and staring up at her from the grass. "Watcha doin' down there, stud? You're looking awfully lonely."

what husbands are for

@softlystarstruck 🩷 E 🩷 52k

To settle tensions between werewolves and vampires, Harry volunteers for a political marriage. But it turns out he's marrying Malfoy– cold, untouchable Malfoy, who he hasn't seen in ten years. Throughout contention and politics, werewolf pub nights and grudgingly shared meals, they have to make it work. And in the midst of it all, Harry finds something he already gave up hoping for.

Wolfstar:

my jokes are my armour, my kindness is my sword

@littleoldrachel 🤍 E 🤍 28k

“My mum died last year,” Sirius says at last, perhaps more bluntly than he intended – perhaps not given the defiant set of his chin. “And we don’t have a gravestone yet, till the ground settles or whatever, so I want something I can put there to represent her and how toxic she was.” Remus blinks. Whatever he had expected Sirius to say, it hadn’t been that. He had inferred that he and Regulus had a complicated relationship with their blood family, but this was a wholly unexpected turn. Unfortunately, instead of the empathic response he knows is in there somewhere, what comes out is: “Yes, that sounds like a perfectly healthy response to grief.”

Gen:

you will seem more like being

@elskanellis 🩷 T 🩷 7k 🩷 Tonks

When you're 11, you don't really understand what it will be like to live at Hogwarts without telling anyone who you really are.

Rare Ships:

testosterone (sounds like a spell)

pauraque 💙 E 💙 8k 💙 Hannah/Justin

Justin never returned to Hogwarts after the Death Eaters came. He's found that the Muggle world offers other kinds of transfiguration — a body alchemy far more powerful than any magic spell. Sometimes he wonders if anyone even remembers that once, years ago, he was a novice wizard. As it turns out, one person does, and it's the one person he'd most want to.

gravel in my lungs

@armadilloradio 🩷 M 🩷 4k 🩷 Marcus/Percy/Oliver

"Distantly, Marcus thought Oliver knew more than he was letting on, but whenever he prompted the other man, he just shook his head and said that he didn't know for sure and that it wasn't his secret to tell, anyway. Despite that, Oliver had taken to using more gender-neutral terms for Percy, like 'partner' instead of 'boyfriend' — though, Percy called them his partners because he thought ‘boyfriends’ was childish, so maybe Marcus was reading too much into it."

Here’s Looking at You Kid

MesserMoon 🤍 E 🤍 140k 🤍 George/Blaise

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world..." George wanders into a bar. Nothing is ever the same.

I Think I  Will Stay Here for a While

@soupandsorcery 🩷 E 🩷 5k 🩷 Draco/Ron

There are rather more Gryffindors and assorted Weasleys in his life now than he’d been anticipating, but even that isn’t too bad. Well. Unless you count the Weasley currently half draped over Draco in bed, naked and snoring like a piece of Muggle machinery.

Rearrange The Stars

@imaginationxfound💙 T 💙 150k 💙 multiple💙 WIP

Nearly a decade after the second wizarding war, there's rumblings of a coming third, and Unspeakable Draco Malfoy tries warning the Head of the Auror department, Harry Potter, about the troubling signs he's seen around him, but when Harry takes an off hand comment related to Draco's research seriously, everything changes.

your seat, it’s the best seat

@the-houseryn 🩷 E 🩷 17k 🩷 Draco/Ron

In the moment, it hadn’t occurred to him that taunting Draco into sitting on his lap once would open the door for Draco to keep doing so, even when other chairs existed. Nor had he known that the consequence of becoming Draco's furniture was how hard he'd fall in love with someone who didn't fancy him back.

Thanks for your help compiling this list!: @annanother-thing @beyondtheclose @elisedonut @elskanellis @hsvh-hp @jet-playin-around nocturn @nv-md @rainstormradish @tackytigerfic @the-houseryn @themiddleofwonderland @xalandrix

#gorgeous list! thank you for including me #rec list #hp #trans day of visibility

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In honour of Transgender Day of Visibility here are a few of my fave fics with trans characters. I've limited myself to one work per creator, but I strongly recommend checking out their profiles for all their other incredible works.

The world is crazy and scary, but we have always been here and always will be. Our love will always be stronger than their hate.

A Study in Opposites by @cavendishbutterfly - E, 11k, Hermione/Harry, Drarry. Trans female Harry, gender nonconforming Draco

A Foundation On Which to Build by @beyondtheclose - T, 20k, drarry, trans Harry, genderfluid Draco, trans Lily Evans

Of Magical Beings Being - Magic by @rockingrobin69 - E, 30k, drarry, trans Harry

About This Place by @academicdisasterfic - E, 10k, drarry, trans Harry, gender nonconforming Draco

Into the Fire by @aneiria-writes - M, 4k, Draco/Charlie, trans Draco

Cherry Lips and Black Curls by @fvckyouimaprophet - E, 1.6k, Jegulus, trans male Regulus, trans female James

Love is a Dress you Wear by @deliciousblizzardshark - E, 17k, drarry, draco/harry/Severus Snape, trans female Severus, nonbinary Teddy Lupin

Intervention by Bendersalt - T, 12k, Harry/Tonks, trans female Harry

The Treehouse Near Primrose Downs by @softlystarstruck - M, 14k, drarry, trans Harry, trans Draco

They by @vdoshu - G, 1k, nonbinary Percy Weasley

The Scars You Choose by @lqtraintracks - E, 927, drarry, trans Harry, trans Draco

Umbrella Relief by @piarelei - G, 666, drarry, nonbinary Harry

The Pirate and His Gentleman by @babooshkart - G, art, drarry, trans Harry, trans Draco

The Island Assignment by @makeitp1nk - E, 10k, drarry, trans female Draco

When You're A Man by iamisaac - T, 2.4k, Jeddy, genderfluid James

From The Same Cloth by @corvuscrowned - T, 8k, drarry, trans male Draco, trans female Harry

#amazing list #thank you for including me

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Jihyun Yun, from Some Are Always Hungry; “Reversal”

[Text ID: “I so want to survive this. Please lead me whole into another season so I may dare begin again.”]

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Got very inspired by this picture, had to make it Drarry.