#deifiliaa recs

[deifiliaa]

I'm going down a Cho rabbit hole rn!! Do you have any Cho fic recs?? I'd love to read more Cho

hello anon, welcome to the rabbit hole, just wanted to let you know that this is one of those asks i dream about getting because cho chang? oft-overlooked-and-underappreciated-in-fandom cho chang?? why yes i would LOVE to stand on this soapbox and talk endlessly about her and my favorite writings that feature her <3

i get that a lot of the pairings featured in these fics/drabbles are very not mainstream lol but please don’t let that scare you off because honestly?? these are all a mix of fun, brilliant, stunning, transcendent stories and i have spent approximately a million hours thinking about each one of these because the character building and emotional payoff and dimensional portrayal of cho is overwhelmingly just so satisfying. so capable of filling that void canon left. so chef’s kiss.

gonna do my best to pick a line from each fic/drabble that i think does a good job of capturing its ✨ essence ✨ so. here we gooo. (mature/explicit fics noted with an asterisk * ).

record scratch * by @provocative-envy — modern, best man and maid of honor au (cho x marcus flint)

“You and Cho—my best and dearest and most precious friend in the world, Cho—you know each other, don’t you?” Marietta asks, just a bit too sweetly.

There’s a beat of awkward silence, then, and Cho very responsibly avoids the heavy, frantic weight of Marcus’s gaze, which has suddenly—coolly—intently—snapped over to her.

“so it starts at the tail end of the war...” by @provocative-envy — canon divergent au (cho x marcus flint) 

“i don’t want to get away,” she tells him, wincing at the strain on her vocal chords. “this is–this is it, can’t you feel it? this is how it ends.”

good behavior by @provocative-envy — canon divergent, postwar au, also the sequel to the above drabble (cho x marcus flint)

Well, his “muggle integration counselor” needs to be able to find him.

“marcus flint knows a lot about destruction...” by @provocative-envy — high school au (cho x marcus flint)

“I’m bad at math,” he blurts out, jaw working as he folds his arms over his chest. He feels defensive. Frustration prickles a familiar dance across his scalp. “This is, like, my third time taking trig. They always—I get lost when that fucking—when the circle thing with the dotted lines shows up.”

tick tick boom by @provocative-envy — superhero au (cho x marcus flint)

Cho Chang now works for the nonprofit across the street, a legal defense fund for superheroes who aren’t lucky enough to have corporate sponsors or full-fledged PR teams.

Marcus sees her, occasionally.

heads or tails * by @provocative-envy — thief acquaintances au (cho x marcus flint)

“We aren’t jack shit, sweetheart,” she mimics obnoxiously. “Yes, I know.”

His nostrils flare. “What’s the fucking problem, then?”

flying before falling by andtheyfightcrime — canon compliant (cho x cedric diggory)

Cho sniffs, "Maybe we just think there's more to hello than sticking your tongue down someone's throat." Cedric groans at that and says, "You shatter my illusions, Chang. We could have been in Hufflepuff together."

fifty ways by andtheyfightcrime — canon compliant (cho x cedric diggory)

Being in like with Cedric is a lot like being friends with him, only with more private smiles and demure nods.

big head boy by @cocoartistwrites — university au (cho x percy weasley)

She makes him nervous, with her shiny hair and her firm, straight brows and her piercing dark eyes and the haughty way she argues with him, and how she slams everything he says, how she sounds like his sister, Ginny, sometimes, when Ginny hears him talking, how assured she is, how angry, how sometimes she argues with their tutor – their brilliant, famous tutor – once, memorably, calling him an outdated sexist pig and –

“the thing about cho chang...” by @provocative-envy — zombie survival au (cho x cormac mclaggen)

Out of everyone? Back at camp? That he could’ve gotten trapped in a fucking abandoned Bass Pro Shop with? While a horde of fucking razor-talon zombies mashed their rotting gray faces up against the tastefully organized display windows?

Cho Chang would not have been Cormac’s first choice.

the sweet spot by @provocative-envy​ — modern, celebrity au (cho x cormac mclaggen)

His smile is authentic in ways that she doubts he’s aware of, in ways that she doubts he’s even capable of understanding, and it unnerves her a little bit, having all that energy, all that intensity, all that smug, self-fulfilling excitement directed right at her, totally unfiltered.

hiding in plain sight by @mxrcusflint — high school au (cho x cormac mclaggen)

Cormac McLaggen, she thinks, has probably broken more hearts than earned A’s.

descent (or how to stop being a national hero) by watername — canon divergent au (cho x viktor krum if you squint, but also not really)

At the second task, when the competitors dive beneath the lake, he drums his fingers against the railing and wonders what kind of person inspires such loyalty.

when the lights go out by thatdarkhairedgirl — second war resistance au (cho x viktor krum)

He missed her. He’s known her for less than a year and he missed her.

flights of fancy by namelessamelie — canon divergent au (cho x draco malfoy)

“You don’t have to defend him,” he interrupted, cutting her off. “Potter’s not as wonderful as he’d have everyone believe, and you know that better than anyone.” Then, before he’d fully thought it through, he added impulsively, “One hero isn’t a replacement for another.”

caught by blood sugar love — canon divergent, postwar, rebellion au (cho x draco malfoy)

Cho blinks. "I mean... I-I sit, and I think about it. How much you've ruined everything. It's really amazing, when I tally it all up. How much you owe. Especially if your father dies."

the sporting life * by blythely — canon divergent au (cho x pansy parkinson)

Cho wins but it's probably because on the last match point Pansy is looking at Cho rather than at the ball.

seeking * by Gelsey — postwar, ministry au (cho x charlie weasley)

“Fucker,” she said, righting her clothes in quick, economical movements, though her hands were trembling. She tossed her hair.

a moment’s silence (happens grace, happens sweet) by disinclinant — second war order au (cho x charlie weasley)

“I’ve no idea who you are,” Charlie replies, amused and vaguely charmed by this explanation of how she knows him through the process of elimination.

moon walk * by @provocative-envy — modern au (cho x antonin dolohov)

She stares at him for a minute, blatantly astonished and visibly apprehensive, and then she blushes. Hard. Gnaws on her lower lip and sweeps her eyes from his face to his chest and—very, very quickly—even lower.

even the score * by themidnightguardian — olympics au (cho x ginny weasley)

It’s a tepid rivalry at best—something that’s fierce on the field and almost entirely absent off it—and they’ve only spoken a handful of words to each other since their college days, but when it comes to women’s soccer, the Chang-Weasley rivalry is the hot gossip because it’s the only gossip.

Which is why twitter loses its shit when they both make the Olympic team.

that’s what she said by @provocative-envy — hockey au (cho x ginny weasley)

“Hey, why don’t you like me?”

Cho’s face twitches oddly. Defensively. “Why don’t I—excuse me?”

playing favourites by Slumber — postwar, healer au (cho x oliver wood)

The first time Cho catches Oliver Wood wandering St Mungo's ward nowhere near his own, he at least has the grace to look embarrassed.

#cho chang #hp #deifiliaa recs #this is a very long post and i'm probably gonna realize two hours after posting this that i've left out one or two other cho fics i adore 🤷 #oh well i'll take the L when the time comes but for now!!! enjoy all of these friends!!!! each of these have made me feel *things* #at some point in time and i want to hear all of your thoughts about them!! <3 #additionally lmao this truly is also just a campaign for me to get more people on the marcho ship looool rip that #some of these are very significant to me not necessarily because of the cho portrayal but because of how much it's stuck with me #and the SETTING and the GUT PUNCH some of these give are just. 👁👄👁 ouch man. #anyway yeah let it be known i love her your honor!!! thank u to all writers who explore her as a deep and complex character!!

[olivieblake]

KSIGJICNRJCNEHCBD HELLO HELLO WELCOME TO THE HELL THAT IS KNOWING ZUTARA IS EVERYTHING AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AS SUCH !!!! wow i love that you are as angry as i was (and am every rewatch? yikes) this is amazing i knew you're my favorite but yeah wow man this really. confirms it whew high five

yeah it’s pretty wild how I knew this was what happened and was already bracing for it and yet STILL got completely misled by the narrative??? MEN I tell you MEN. I’m also going to use this ask as a method to reply to some of the other commentary if you don’t mind since this seems like a good place for communal frustration (here is my original post for anyone scrolling around lost)

@meg-hemmings: I agree with all of ur thoughts and I would TOTALLY read anything you wrote for Zutara … your writing is among my absolute favorite ever and I think you would write the Zutara dynamic so beautifully!

@one-man-propaganda-machine: I am - begging - you to write it yourself.

I... am not going to make promises, but I may have to. I want something very specific and that never bodes well for me. I doubt it would be more than a one-shot, but there are multiple scenes that could have occurred between episodes that would flesh out what was there (and of course I’d cut the final 15 seconds of the show, much like another epilogue I loathe and ignore)

@deifiliaa: omg atla discourse in 2021; olivie, i’d love to see what your character tier list looks like now that you’ve finished the series 👀

I’m going to put azula at the top. not because she’s a good person obviously but she’s FULL. OF. HITS. every time she’s on the screen the narrative gets immediately more interesting. she’s savvy and self-assured and I love it. her ending depressed me although I like that it was kind of about the loss of her two best friends? if that had been more of a focus I think I would have enjoyed it more but yeah, losing mai and ty lee could have been rightfully devastating. who among us is not totally obliterated by friend breakups. I also really loved uncle iroh; if anything that’s why I wasn’t invested in zuko’s storyline until close to the end, because watching him disappoint his uncle was very difficult (I get it, he’s a teenager, he’s growing and evolving and whatnot, but also I am closer to being his uncle than to being him so like, yeah). I also hope the peter pan revenge guy (JET that’s his name, sorry pregnancy kills my brain cells) did hook up with both katara and zuko. I love that journey for all three of them. I wanted more time with mai than we got, so there wasn’t quite enough there to love... but I was very down with ty lee interfering on her behalf. what a pivotal moment

of the core characters I think I was quickest to love sokka; the episode where he apologizes to suki and asks her to train him cemented it for me. I think it’s a big deal to show boys apologizing on-screen and owning their misconceptions. I like katara a lot—she’s what a lot of people do with fanon hermione. toph is also great, and part of me feels there is a strong basis for a ship with aang that balances their opposing energy, though I also like the idea of them being platonic besties. aang is... twelve. pretty much every time he was on the screen mr blake (a teacher) was like “man, aang is such a seventh grader,” so it was nice how convincing that was for his emotional journey, but at the same time it was hard to forget he was in seventh grade. appa and momo are STARS. I am sure I have mentioned this before but mr blake really loves animals and he was devastated by appa’s kidnapping; he hugged our dog for about ten minutes after aang found appa. after he decided I was zuko, he speculated that he is closest to aang but he’s not happy about it lol. “ugh, aang and I are such boring pacifists” was I believe his take on the subject

@libbynico, who for some reason I can’t tag: so true! katara was literally something like a mother/older sister figure to aang the entire time, but whatever

yeah, I think it really sucks that katara, as the emotionally nurturing character, felt shoved into the role of love interest. it’s everything wrong with the distribution of emotional labor in male-female relationships but sure, WHATEVER, apparently nobody thought to ask me in 2008

@touslesnoms: I liked “such selfish prayers” by andromeda3116 if you ever decide to read zutara after the series; the worst prisoner by emletish is super funny too

thanks for the recs! I will take them. I do want something very specific so I will be accepting recs until I find it lol. or until I lose composure and write it (yeah this is me WITH my composure, no wonder mr blake thinks I’m zuko, “I’m never happy” indeed)

@gaeleria: THANK YOU!!! Ugh omg that “I’m confused” kiss scene made me actively hate the ending. I knew ahead of time they were endgame, so I tried to make myself accept it early on. Like, I really didn’t like the pairing, but I wasn’t going to be emotionally invested in the romance and it was just going to be like, whatevs. AND THEN THEY WROTE THAT SCENE??! 1000% no. What was even the point of that scene? If they had written it to make Aang have some introspection and realize it’s not all about him, Katara’s feelings matter too, or even apologize, or anything… but no, there was literally no point to that scene. No character growth, it was never mentioned again. Ugh.

this is in answer to both you and beloved @zabbini: yeah this was a fuck-up for sure lol. I think it may come down to editing for time; the series is very irregularly paced, what with the majority of the action taking place in the final three episodes of a 16 episode season. or maybe it’s just because MEN CAN’T BE TRUSTED TO WRITE ROMANCE but either way yeah this was a real misstep and just truly, truly reeked of a particular (white) male attitude about how women think and what they owe. had a bad day, dudes? buy a gun, kiss your forever girl, do whatever you want and it’s fine! (I’m exaggerating but barely)

in terms of what’s so angering for me: a character like katara who previously had tons of agency was robbed of it when it came to her romantic arc, which is just really upsetting. and to be fair, I was equally upset when zuko instantly agreed to the agni kai with azula because it was like okay well katara’s extremely valuable, as you know, but now you want her to just sit on the sidelines...? (more of a story flaw than a relationship flaw, but my chest sunk a little at the idea that katara was going to sit by and watch as an accessory to zuko’s story when she’s a crucial weapon in their collective fight. what a waste, right?) 

it’s also especially hard to buy into the aang thing when zuko’s method of problem-solving on katara’s behalf is there for comparison. he asks her what she needs in order to find closure and then from there, does everything necessary to get it without having to be asked twice. versus aang, who is a twelve-year-old pair of rogue lips who never wins any of his fights without the aid of phenomenal cosmic powers...? ugh I’m getting off track but in the end there’s just a complete lack of understanding what female audiences want, though again, I don’t think they were really considering that at all. which I guess is... fair, it’s not the point of the show, but then why make the ending romantic at all? to show that their brand of hero gets everything he wants, I guess

in conclusion in 2008 I’m not sure the industry was capable of doing better, which sucks but isn’t surprising. still, it does fit the components of “stuff I write fics for,” which is I enjoyed most of it but find myself enraged by slivers I compulsively need to fix—WHICH IS STILL NOT A PROMISE but ugh I can already feel myself giving in 

#avatar the last airbender #zabbini

[deifiliaa]

he smiles again, and her heart does something completely, alarmingly inappropriate, something complicated and confusing that sets her pulse racing and her palms sweating, and—

God, it’s only the first day.

a cho chang x cormac mclaggen fic | story concept ; intro ; continuation ; graphics for @provocative-envy rarepair summer slam 2k19

a modern celebrity au about a bro and a babe falling for each other on and off screen.

#another thing to be added to my 'cause of death' list #i need approximately 5 more chapters of this; each chapter just a more and more detailed version of cormac's smile #and cho's realization that she absolutely likes green eyes. please. i'm so thirsty for this. #cormac mclaggen #cho chang #cho x cormac #cormac x cho #deifiliaa recs #deifiliaa phics #chormacsummerslam2k19 #hp #also lol will add in the link to the story continuation when andrea posts it up 👀

[deifiliaa]

What are the Cho/Cedric fics you were talking about? A girl needs to Feel 👀

ANON I AM SO HAPPY YOU SENT ME THIS MESSAGE 😭 all i ever want to do in life is talk about cho x cedric and how beautifully tragic and could-have-had-it-all their story is, so you’ve made me very happy. (also, i kind of wish that you’d sent this off anon so that i can be sure you get a notification and see my reply and get a chance to read these fics. also so that i can bug you for all of your thoughts once you’ve read them. please just come back to my inbox afterward and let me know what you think; i need someone to cry about these fics with me.)

anyway, there are two that top my list of cedric x cho fics (and might even possibly top the list of all-around fave one-shots), and they are:

fifty ways

flying before falling

i think that andtheyfightcrime, the genius heartbreaker behind both of these fics, writes with such talent and poetic prose that make me double-take and just sigh out of sheer adoration. also, saff characterizes both sets of characters in both fics extremely well. my fave portrayal of cedric (possibly ever?) is in flying before falling. but there’s another piece that saff has written called love and other indoor sports that is also a worthy contender for fave cedric portrayal (this fic, i think, is more of a cedric character exploration/study than it is a cho x cedric fic, so i haven’t listed it up there with the other two. still a worthy read, though, for sure). 

ANYWAY ANYWAY, i just have a lot of feelings about cho and cedric, both individually as their own characters and as a ship, and i am still giddy about seeing this message in my inbox. you’re awesome, Anon. please come back and cry about cho x cedric with me.

(also, thank you, because this ask reminded me that i still have to go and leave reviews on these fics. thaaaan q)

#*SLAMS FISTS DOWN ON TABLE* I WILL CHERISH AND PROTECT CHO X CEDRIC AT ALL COSTS #cho x cedric #cedric x cho #cho chang #cedric diggory #deifiliaa recs #anonymous

[deifiliaa]

M A R C U S  F L I N T  x  C H O  C H A N G “a few years earlier, he’d have seized the opportunity for one of his mean, stinging jokes–he’d have smirked, or licked his lips, or bent down to whisper in her ear, something about getting to know her; something about her knickers, or her mouth, or the empty changing rooms after the game. she’d have blushed. sneered. ignored the heat of his palm against her lower back as he propelled her forward, out onto the pitch.” (x) by @provocative-envy

#HEY ANDREA so i know i beat this fic to death in my graphics but it's because 1. I AM A HO FOR IT 2. marcus x cho content is so rare tbh :( #seriously though i probably think about this fic at least once a week!!! ! #marcus flint #cho chang #marcus x cho #cho x marcus #deifiliaa phics #deifiliaa recs #GET THEM TO THE SWEET SIXTEEN!! #also dang quality on mobile is yikes

[deifiliaa]

“this is a parallel universe. a paradox, if you will.” (x) @olivieblake

#dramione #draco malfoy #hermione granger #hp #deifiliaa recs #deifiliaa phics #olivieblake #okay so. if you haven't read this fic yet. please go and start. i'm serious. #this is the fic responsible for flinging and fastening me back onto the dramione ship. like full sail. #i'm still reeling from the buildup throughout this fic. wow. and i have a tendency to associate words with colors? #i had very strong green/blue/yellow/grey vibes while reading. just a little bit of red. #overall-- WOW. what a gift of a read honestly ;____; #i have so many favorite quotes that i regret not being able to all fit on here but. ah well.

[deifiliaa]

marcus flint x cho chang -- as told by @provocative-envy

• girl all the bad guys want • “marcus flint knows a lot about destruction...” • “so it starts at the tail end of the war, when cho has her back pressed against a crumbling stone wall...” • sex wax

#marcus flint #cho chang #marcus x cho #cho x marcus #hp #but everyone please look at how VERSATILE they are across all these genre types ugh #deifiliaa phics #deifiliaa recs

[deifiliaa]

deifiliaa’s grafics | 100 words in 4 pictures roger davies x cho chang

the school year doesn’t start for another month which, by extension, means that it’s junior rec league season.

when roger pulls into the pickup lot, he isn’t nervous, but he desperately hopes his little princess– who’s been scared of her scooter since she was four– loves soccer as much as he does, and he braces for the worst when she dashes across the field toward his range rover.

he doesn’t expect amelia to beg him about coming back every day of summer, please, dad, pleaaase.

doesn’t expect her coach to be high-school-memory, girl-who-lived-next-door, once-upon-a-time-ex-girlfriend cho chang.

his heart fucking stutters.

very loosely inspired by this headcanon.❤

#cho chang #roger davies #cho x roger #roger x cho #hp #i don't care if i am the only one on this ship i will go down with it and cry about it until the day i die!!! 😭😭😭 #anyway as always; if anyone feels inspired to write a fic based off of this; i definitely won't say no #in fact i will probably eat it up and sigh happily to the point of being annoying and appreciate and cherish you forever #anyway x2 i will always have a lot of feelings about roger davies and cho chang thank you! #i patiently await the day that the rest of the tumblr hp fandom also realizes their ravenclaw king + queen potential!!! #deifiliaa phics #deifiliaa grafics challenge #reposted to fix a static gif error oops

[deifiliaa]

do you have a fic rec tag?

ohhhh, hello, anon! ✨

yes, i do have a fic rec tag: /tagged/deifiliaa+recs

i’m just gonna be up front and say, though, that this tag is really just where i dump all of the drabbles and AU brain drain and fics and original writing books i’ve discovered and cherished during my time on tumblr. lbr most of the hp fandom works in this tag are works that feature cho, but if you sift through, there’s some other rarepairs or character studies or dramione works in there that, at some point in time, played some role in Killing Me Slowly. 

(additional disclaimer that the first few pages of this tag, thanks to provocative-envy’s rarepair summer slam 2k19, will probably be repeat recs as i was very insistent on making new graphics, for the same fic, for each round of voting lololol.)

there’s really no organization to this tag (imagine a playroom of cool and well-loved toys and i just kind of throw some kids in there and tell them to go buck wild), but one of the projects i’ve wanted to do for a bit (but unfortunately haven’t found the best time to do so and thus keep putting off) is to 1. introduce some sort of organization and categorization and 2. create photosets/graphics featuring fics/drabbles that aren’t published on tumblr or have been circulating for years, just so that my tag is a more accurate reflection of fics i actually truly and dearly recommend.

BUT thank you for being curious about what works i find interesting enough to recommend and for reminding me that i really need to get myself together and get it done looool. let me know if you read any of the works under my rec tag, and let me know about your thoughts on them! or just come into my ask box and ask me my thoughts on various cho pairs and i will gladly talk at length about them. 😎 a fave hobby of mine tbh.

#deifiliaa thoughts #anonymous