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“When someone asks you to read abt an oppressed group and then they link you a bunch of tumblr posts”
It may surprise you but the people making those posts are real people.
Is a trans women writing about transmisogyny immediately wrong because she posted her writing to tumblr?
Is a disabled person writing about ableism immediately wrong because they posted their writing to tumblr?
Historically oppressed groups have been denied the ability to publish their experiences so they turned to alternative ways to get people to listen. And right now that alternative way is social media.
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I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.
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JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.
Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.
However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.
But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.
It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.
We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something
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Lucius in books 1-6: Please stop talking about Harry Potter. I am literally begging you. I will buy you anything you want if you just STOP.
Lucius in book 7: Draco is that Harry Potter?
Draco in book 7: Who?
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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
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beyondtheclose · 29 days
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Fanfic tiktok is wild... I see so many people saying shit like "I could never read anything below 60k!!", or "What story can you even tell in under 5k words?" or "A oneshot below 10k isn't even a story!" or "I always filter completed fics by 100k< only!"
And I'm like...
A) which fandoms are you reading fics for where you have this kind of offerings on the regular?
B) have you heard of short stories? If you truly think every story NEEDS to be longform to connect with people, I sincerely feel sorry for you.
C) Average novel length is between 50k to 100k. I'm sorry, but CONSISTENTLY demanding fic writers to push out fics of that length is insane. Just think about it: YOU DEMAND AUTHORS TO PUT OUT FICS THAT COMPARE TO COMMERCIAL NOVELS IN LENGTH (AND QUALITY) AS A BASELINE.
Yall are wilding.
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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
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Harry was a lot.
And if he was being honest, he felt like he'd always been a lot. Like the burden of his company came with far too many complications, far too many challenges for his friends and loved ones to bear. His emotions were big, his sense of duty and justice were big, his opinions of the world were big.
His body and its desires (or lack thereof) were a lot. The way he loved, obsessively, immensely, deeply, every atom of his soul devoted to reshaping itself to fit that of his beloved, was a lot (too much, always too much, and still not enough).
He was just a lot. Loving him, he reasoned, must be a fairly difficult task (it was difficult for him, so surely it would be difficult for someone else).
This dilemma tumbled around in his head as he fried some eggs and potatoes, avoiding the garlic since it did something funny to Draco's stomach. Wondering how he could possibly make himself into something less, or perhaps, if he was unable to do that, how he could give Draco enough in return for his love. Was there a way to repay someone who loved him enough to give up sex, to listen to the endless ramblings in his head, to sit and cuddle with him on the couch even when Harry's most innocent of touches caused a wave of arousal that he then ignored? How-
"Morning, love," Draco murmured, wrapping his arms around Harry's waist and leaning against him.
He swallowed around the thoughts crowding into his throat, marbles rolling around in his mouth. "Hey," he rasped, light and cheerful as he could.
Draco moved so that he was at his side, arms still around him, "what's that?" he asked softly, thumb trailing over his side.
"What?" Harry asked as he flipped the potatoes.
A finger traced the frown at the corner of Harry's mouth, brushed over the line between his eyebrows, "What's going on in that marvelous head of yours?"
"Breakfast is ready," he said in lieu of answering the question that he wasn't even sure where to begin with.
Draco caught him as he started to turn toward the cupboard for a couple of plates, "Wait," he said, throwing a stasis charm over their eggs. "Tell me?" he asked softly, eyes warm and soft, curious and just a little afraid.
And Harry couldn't stand that look, couldn't bear the thought that Draco might be wondering if it was something he'd done that had upset Harry's delicate balance inside his head. "It's just," he bit his lower lip and looked down at where Draco's hands had caught his. "I'm a lot. Asking you to live with me, to share a life with me, it doesn't feel fair to you."
He chanced a glance up at Draco only to find him staring back with that particular look of affection that made Harry want to curl up into a ball because it was too much and he wanted that affection too badly. “Darling,” Draco started.
“No,” he said, shaking his head and barely resisting the impulse to cover his ears.
“Harry,” he said, a soft huff of a laugh escaping with the sound of his name. “Light of my life,” he continued, moving closer to Harry again and wrapping his arms around his waist once more, firm chest pressed solidly against Harry’s back. “My love,” he continued.
Harry squirmed, letting out a plaintive groan.
“I love you so much,” he pressed a soft kiss to Harry’s neck and Harry couldn’t help the way his head tipped to the side of its own accord to give Draco room. “You are my most favorite human being in the entire world.” He squeezed Harry’s stomach a little tighter, “better yet, the entire universe. Getting to live with you makes me impossibly happy.”
“But-”
“No buts,” Draco replied. “I choose you, Harry. I choose this life. I want this life. And nothing you can say about it will make me change my mind.”
Harry sighed and let his body relax against Draco’s, the sweetest defeat he’d ever accepted.
“That’s more like it,” he said, holding Harry tighter. “Just love me and let me love you. What else could we possibly want?”
And when he put it like that, Harry supposed there wasn’t really anything else he could ever want.
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Thoughts on autism?
From my point of view, it's both my super powers and it's my kryptonite. Your mileage (as they say sensibly) may vary.
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Shut him up, Harry.
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Harrow: my deepest darkest trauma is that my parents killed a bunch of children in order to make me into a powerful necromancer. they died for me. their blood is on my hands.
Gideon: that sucks dude. anyways I'm going to sacrifice myself to save your life. you'll be an even more powerful necromancer. pretty sick, huh?
Gideon: why are you so upset about this
Gideon: is it because you don't like me
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Fic Stats Game!
Thank you for the tag @otpcutie! Sorry that's it's been almost a month literally more than six months oops since you tagged me. I was looking through my drafts and found this. apparently I wrote it last august and forgot to post it, so here it is! (lol). I have not read through this or checked the stats again so all of it could be incorrect now + hopefully i was having good thoughts about my fics at the time
Rules: Give us the links to your fics with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and least words.
Most hits: Everything, Slightly to the Left (23k, M) - this was my advent fic last year and the first time I didn't post a fic all at once, which definitely contributed to the higher number of hits. Ft. christmas, multiple universes, trans characters, and roommates to lovers.
Most kudos: let me fade into the air (6k, T) - this was actually the first fic I wrote for drarry (though not the first drarry fic I posted, I wrote it almost 6 months before I posted it) and is still one of the fics I'm most proud of. Ft. anxiety and (unnecessary) guilt, and established relationship.
Most comments: is again Everything, Slightly to the Left for the same reason as it has the most hits. Second most comment threads is (you) find me when the lights go down (1.8k, T) - my wireless fic this year!
Most bookmarks: this one is also one I've already talked about - let me fade into the air. I'm just going to take this opportunity again to say that I truly am proud of this fic for where I was in life and in my writing abilities when I wrote it. (Even if I maybe would make some different decisions with it now).
Most words: (Dis)obedience (30k, M) - I wrote this one during NaNoWriMo 2021 so it's probably also the fastest I've written that many words as well as being the most words. 30k still seems like so much for me to have written in one story, even if it's not that much in the grand scheme of things. This one is a Ella Enchanted-esque curse with trans draco and harry.
Least words: This would technically be my art for the reverse big bang last year, since it has 0 words. But excludig that would would be whirlpool (147 words) written for the drarry server drabble challenge.
Aug23: Thank you again for the tag moss! It was interesting revisiting my old fics! Sorry it took me so long to finally get to this. Feb24: I'm not going to tag anyone because, again, it has been more than half a year, but if anyone wants to do this consider yourself tagged!
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