callmegri

[callmegri]

Two wizards, hanging out, about to squish faces cause they're actually definitely gay, yeah!

Happy Birthday to the one and only @callmegri 🌙

My friend, my twin, my good time pal, it's been a joy and a pleasure to know you. You've held my hand throughout the last year and change, and I owe you a lot - including but not limited to a love for these two dummies right here 👆 I hope you have the happiest of birthdays! And here's to many more 💓

#i was thinking about this quite a lot recently #love love love #look at my twin being amazing

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when you find a fanfic writer whose work just sings to you… i would read anything you write…. i would wade into a tag no matter how deranged… i would travel to the ends of the earth for you if only to soothe your little oyster shell just so you would be comfortable enough to make another pearl whenever you felt like it … i would love you tenderly and support you as you carefully place every grain of sand onto your little castle, regardless of how long it takes, if only to enjoy your words just a little longer

[callmegri]

before you ship something stop and ask yourself... Is this otp material? Make sure your characters are:

Obstinate and inflexible in their actions

Terrible for each other in most circumstances

Poor communicators

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it’s monday i’m in the labyrinth

[callmegri]

Jaime and Brienne + water

Jaime I, ASOS / Judith Taylor, The Water / Edmund Dulac, The Little Mermaid / Jaime I, ASOS / Arya III, AGOT / Clayton Anderson, Misty Morning - Smugglers Cove / Jaime III, ASOS / Gwen Benaway, day/break / Emile Martin Charles Schwabe, Fleurs-du-mal spleen et ideal / Jaime V, ASOS / H. L. Davis, In This Wet Orchard / Christian Birmingham, The Little Mermaid / Jaime VI, ASOS / Hakushu Kitahara, The Water Surface / Julia Tar, The Druids / Brienne II, AFFC / Nate Pritts, Mist Everywhere / Alexander Rothaug, Female Faun by the Water / Jaime IV, AFFC / William Fargarson, Elegy with Steam / Gennady Spirin, The Little Mermaid / Cersei III, AFFC / Mitski, Sqaure / John Longstaff, The Sirens 

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happy lesbian week of visibility here’s a new illustration 🪲🪲🪲

[callmegri]

Oh you’re tired?? Well i know a GREAT place to nap it’s called my chest with my arms holding you ever so gently yeah it’s got great reviews

#god i am so lonely this made me cry

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listen the whole golden trio is Black 🤷🏽‍♂️

like way back when I first read the books as a child I was like oh clearly Hermione is Black? In my head she looked just like me! Fluffy brown hair, big teeth, chubby. And something about her anxiety around school says Black girl with overbearing parents to me. Or maybe more like. A Black girl whose parents have drilled into her that the whole world is going to be holding her at an insanely high standard so she better be ready to perform and she better be On all the time!

And then re-reading as an adult, it just makes sense for Harry to be Black just based on the the way people respond to him. Like he’s so sweet and considerate and polite but his whole neighborhood believes he goes to St. Brutus’ Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys? The comments about his hair? The way he’s scapegoated by the Dursleys? They act like there’s something visible about him that marks him out as being unworthy to the extent that it’s like. Humiliating to be associated with him. The way Petunia was in touch with Lily enough to send her Christmas presents but barely knows the name of her husband and son (because she was ashamed that her sister married a Black man and had a Black son?)That ALL sounds like racism to me?

The Weasleys are probably the hardest sell BUT I do know a family of freckly redheads who are Black and their dynamic as a family is just so fascinating and delicious if they’re Black. Like the whole Percy situation 🤌🏽 Black Fred and George?? Black Ginny Weasley??? Be still my beating heart!!! Black Ron Weasley 🥺🥺🥺 omg Black Molly Weasley with her clock that tells her where her family is and if they’re safe???

[callmegri]

Toni Morrison at a disco in NYC circa 1974 💿

[callmegri]

I am feeling a certain way* these days and it appears that it is not enough to tell the groupchat things**, so hear me out: a student of mine added a little hedgehog to the title of their homework submission***, and it was the cutest thing ever.

*Maybe it’s hypomania, maybe it’s maybelline!

**This a fandom blog, your honor, but there are extenuating circumstances.

***I teach adults. This makes it cuter.

🦔

#just gri things #personal #there was a fic where harry was obsessed with draco saying extenuating circumstances andi don’t remember the title :(

[callmegri]

I can't be the only one surprised how casually you're just. Here. Mind talking about what it was like to like. Join Tumblr?

It was 13 or 14 years ago. From what I remember you just shouldered aside the mastodons, went into the Tumblr cave and carved your mark on the wall, telling people you were now signed up for tumblr, and then they would haul memes on animal hides past you. Back then it was mostly cats doing amusing things, obviously, but we would watch them by the flickering firelight, and chortle to ourselves hopefully before leaving the cave and trudging back to our lives.

#it was exactly like this

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There’s no such thing as work-life balance for neurodivergent & chronically ill people.

This is because everything in my life requires work:

maintaining friendships

keeping up with my hygiene

managing bills

making money

remembering my basic needs

sleeping regularly

outputting creatively

All requires some aspect of work for me.

And when everything in your life requires work, your balance goes out the window.

If you're neurodivergent and overwhelmed — I see you.

If you're chronically ill and overwhelmed — I see you.

You're not dysfunctional.

You're not incapable.

You're doing your best.

#things that make me cry

[callmegri]

author reclist: wolfpants

over the last few months, i've been devouring @wolfpants' works. ever since reading pages of you in two days, their rendering of harry, draco and a vast array of incredibly compelling side characters have irrevocably hooked me.

wolf is an author in enthralling motion. their fics often feature places, temporalities and contexts far removed from where canon holds & leaves us, while simultaneously being tenderly familiar, like coming home. wolf's sense of & grasp over setting leaves me breathless and dumbstruck. their different spatialities inform & infuse character in admirable ways, at various levels of craft, enjoyment and inspiration. this fandom knows and loves the draco and harry they give us, but we delight in discovering new dimensions & aspects of these characters. it's always done brilliantly believably, especially in the framework of the worlds they construct— a breath of fresh air in a forest where the trees still know your name.

wolf's works also demonstrate, sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly, a really significant political sensibility. most of their fics are set against backdrops tight with political tension bleeding into the characters' circumstances and interpersonal dynamics. whether through a spectrality haunting the narrative or the crucial central diegetic thread, wolf's works are layered, interrogating and collapsing delineations among private, public and political, between history and contemporaneity and between narrative and commentary.

in the interests of length & theme of this list, i've specifically selected some fics that, for me, showcase wolf's mastery & playfulness with setting, understood as deviations in place, time and universe. the broader recommendation is, of course, to check out everything wolf has ever written!

nightcall (E, 1k) ft. a long distance phone call

On a top secret Unspeakable misson, Harry calls Draco from a remote phone booth on the Isle of Skye.

a stunning portrait of desire, longing and familiarity that uses distance as a device to intensify every element. it's unbelievable how much character & context 1k words of (mostly) smut can pack in. the slivers of backstory demand your investment, inform the dynamic in crucial ways and set up some delicious stakes and tension. and some absolutely fantastic dirty talk. see also: @getawayfox's gorgeous art for this fic!

long haul (E, 8.6k) ft. plane rides, mile high club, nyc

The last person Harry expects to run into on a long haul flight to New York City is Draco Malfoy.

the way wolf writes movement— between places, between people— strokes its way up your spine, warms you, walks with you. draco and harry, buoyed in the air, let preconceived notions fall away, to be replaced by startlingly rapid and exquisite intimacy. the liminal settings, specifically, allow mature, open-minded, desirous characterisation & some of the most glorious, soft, tender sex to fall into like a warm bed.

look for me in the sun (M, 8.7k) ft. americana, roadtrip/on-the-run vibes

Harry and Draco are on the run in America after a mysterious string of werewolf-like attacks in the Muggle community causes the Ministry to impose new and harsh anti-werewolf legislation.

atmospheric writing dialled up to eleven, like the smell of ozone in the air before a thunderstorm. the sense of limbo— transience, out of place and time, the complication of home— that afflicts the circumstances of draco & harry here is heart-wrenching. a taut rumination on otherness in a variety of ways, rendered through some of the most tense and subtle writing i've encountered.

under giant mountains (E, 33.7k) ft. norwegian dragon reserves & rampant escapist tendencies

Harry doesn't know where he's going. Everyone else has their life paths figured out; he doesn't even know where his map is. Who'd have thought Draco Malfoy bathing in a Norwegian forest would be the guidepost Harry needed?

opens with harry, stuck in the same place for far too long, and draco, avoiding fixity like the plague. this fic looks at both stagnation and escapism as iterations of each other & treats them with the gentlest empathy. the norwegian dragon reserve setting, whose visuality wolf's writing captures beautifully, becomes the canvas to explore both. desire, here, was simultaneously so evident from the outset and took its time to build— longing tinged every interaction & payoff, in the form of a sequence of some of the most emotionally fraught sex scenes i've ever read, was that much sweeter.

romp and circumstance (E, 35k) ft. a historical au set in the 1800s, regency era england

Since the war, Harry Potter has gone from Saviour to Scoundrel—not that he’s complaining. With a schedule full of gorgeous men, alcohol, and late nights, why would he want to change? Enter Draco Malfoy: beautiful, sharp, and completely untouchable. When Draco comes to Harry with a proposition to help him attract an engagement, Harry’s up for it—after all, how hard can it be not falling for his former nemesis? Very hard, apparently.

the very first wolf fic i read, in a brief little fandom interlude back in 2022. i remember thinking, then, what an author, i'm really missing out these days. one of my favourite post-war harry characterisations— raucous, promiscuous, messy and at heart, a hopeless romantic. also one of my favourite draco characterisations— pristine, a little uptight, cool and distant and untouchable, except what he really wants is to be unbuttoned, messed up. the transforming sentiments of their relationship were so compelling, the build of harry's feelings was perfectly achey and tender and this draco was a complex, nuanced, frightfully sexy version that i just couldn't turn away from.

pages of you (E, 101k) ft. a 1980s non-magical au

Summer, 1980. Harry is floating between university and becoming a Real Certified Adult. He's not ready. He really isn't. In a desperate attempt to have the Best Last Summer ever, he takes a casual job at his godfather's bookshop in London, starts an illicit pen pal affair with a wordy posh boy that he's catching feelings for, all while dealing with the son of Sirius's business rival, one Draco Malfoy, insufferable know-it-all extraordinaire.

gosh, what a fic. sensitive and sprawling, this work brings the spatialities of london, sirius and remus' queer comfort of a bookshop and harry's room at the residence halls to pulsing, colourful, splendid life. i can still close my eyes and imagine the spaces this fic occurs in, how important they are to the push and pull, ups and downs of the dynamic between harry and draco. a coming-of-age/sexual awakening & exploration story, summer romance and queer political fiction rolled into one, this is a fic that's hard to summarise and easy to obsess over. perfect characterisations, writing that burrows into your soul and a plot that unfolds with the slow and steady depth of gentle lake.

and lastly, a fic that's on my tbr:

terrible people (E, 52.7k) ft. cruises, beach holidays and more of @getawayfox's masterpieces

What happens when Harry and Draco end up on the same Muggle gay cruise? They certainly didn't plan for it to happen (but their friends might have). They're stuck with each other for a week, they might as well make the most of it, right?

in conclusion: vivid, descriptive, immersive storytelling from an author who understands the intricacies of different narrative elements and leverages them masterfully. can't wait to read the works i haven't, and for everything wolf writes in the future!

#yes yes yes

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Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

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a fanfic trope: the sun and the moon, and make it drarry (okay make everything drarry, really)

#drarry #drarry art #hp fanart #scribedli #harry potter #draco malfoy #they are babies your honour #my babies #this was another obsessive brainrot moment #i’m just having fun really

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#memes saved for teaching purposes

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