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themultilanguagenerd · 2 years

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Anime for Learning Japanese Recs

Chances are if you’re learning Japanese, one of your motivators is being able to enjoy Japanese media like anime and understand it completely. And while some people might argue against using anime as a tool to learn anime, I say it actually is a great tool to use for shadowing and listening practice IF you use the right series (and don’t entirely rely on anime alone).

My biggest pro tip would be avoid using extremely action/fantasy-oriented anime like Jujutsu Kaisen, Naruto or even Boku no Hero Aacdemia. I’m not saying to you shouldn’t watch them, but I am saying that those aren’t anime to watch for studying. Those are more like entertainment anime. Nice as those anime are, a good portion of the vocabulary wouldn’t exactly be... useful. Trust me, unless you’re talking about the show specifically with friends, ‘cursed energy’ and ‘illusion techniques’ are the last words you should be learning lol.

So I will be supplying a list of anime I enjoy and think would be great tools for aiding your journey learning the Japanese language.

Fruits Basket 2019・フルーツバスケット

Long long ago, God decided to throw a festival extending an invite to distinct creatures of the land. However, the trickster Rat lied to the Cat that the festival would be taking place the day after the intended date. The next day the Rat, the Ox, the Tiger and so on all arrived to attend God’s festivalー all except the Cat who had been tricked. Fast forward to present day Japan and high schooler Tohru Honda finds herself in a particular predicament when, through a series of events, she finds herself living with two boys her age Yuki and Kyo Sohma. The catch? Whenever embraced by the opposite sex, they, along with ten other members of the Sohma Clan, turn into one of the twelve zodiac animals.

Fruits Basket is one of my favorite series of all time, it’s literally in my top 3 anime/manga of all times. It was the first manga I read back in the early 2000s as a little kid, the 2001 anime garnered a huge fanbase, it just has a special place in my heart. It might like look like a typical love triangle series with a bland protagonist and equally bland love interests where she plays ‘which personality do I like the most’, but Fruits Basket is definitely not that. Character journeys are non-linear, the good and bad lovely and messy parts of relationships are depicted and even side characters are given justice and arcs. Despite its whimsical summary, however, Fruits Basket is a story about abuse, trauma and healing and may be triggering for some. But I assure you, Furuba handles the topic abuse with so much respect and grace and deserves every praise it receives as a character-driven story. (There is a 2001 adaptation but it isn’t entirely faithful to the manga so I recommend watching the 2019 remake first.)

Note: Despite being an early 2000s series, Furuba’s remake was adapted to modern day with smart phones and the like so outdated language isn’t really a problem. You’ll actually be getting a good mixture of formal and informal speech throughout the show thanks to our protagonist, Tohru. Contrast to the rest of the cast, Tohru consistently speaks using keigo ー a quirk pointed out by the rest of cast. So if you’re trying to work on formal speech, Tohru will be a useful character to pay attention to.

NANA・ナナ

Nana Komatsu is a naïve 20 year old with a penchant for easily falling in love at first sight. Nana Osaki is a jaded 20 year old polishing the shards of her dream to become a successful rock musician. These two young women are as different as different gets and yet they find their worlds colliding after fate brings them together on a one-way train ride to Tokyo. Once they find themselves rooming together in apartment number 707, it is clear both Nanas are in for the journey of a lifetime.

One of the most underrated josei anime of all time and another 1 of my top 3 series of all time. The characters? Amazing. The music? Ten out of ten. The Nanas have such great chemistry and both are equally amazing. Nana can be a bit to real when it comes to emotions, messy relationships and everything in between so it can be extremely personal, especially if you are in the same age demographic as the the main cast. I also have a fun little anecdote about how I share birthdays with Olivia Lufkin who provides the singing voice for the character Reira and we exchanged birthday DMs, this series is literally everything to me. If more people come to learn about it and love it through language learning, the better!

Note: NANA takes place in around the early 2000s so things like slang might be a little outdated but you’ll hear plenty of casual speech in order to talk with friends

Given・ギヴン

High schooler Ritsuka Uenoyama has a simple plan: tolerate school and rock out with his band. But a wrench is thrown into the cogs after he encounters fellow student Mafuyu Sato, a quiet boy who constantly carries around a guitar case. Weird as he is though, the kid has some pipes. Upon asking Mafuyu to join the band though, Ritsuka finds himself annoyed and stumped when the guy says ‘no thanks, not interested’.

Honestly my favorite quirk of this series is how each of the for protagonists has a kanji for one of the four seasons in their names 冬, 夏, 春 and 秋. Given is a lovely series to watch with gay and bi characters and encouraging message surrounding coming to terms with one’s sexuality. This anime does have light suicide mentions as Mafuyu’s previous boyfriend committed suicide prior to the beginning of the series, so I would like for that to be open so no one is taken aback by it. And if you’re looking for a series centered around a queer cast with a splash of music, this is the series for you.

Asobi Asobase・あそびあそばせ

Enter Olivia, an American raised in Japan who can’t speak English. Enter Kasumi who, in spite of her seemingly intellectual appearance, is absolutely trash when it comes to her English class. Then enter Hanako, an intellectual student with decent athletic skills who literally just wants to be popular. Somehow, they end up creating a club together. What kind of club? One centered around learning fun past times and hand games.

Pure chaos and girls being girls the anime, that’s it send tweet. There’s honestly not much more I can say about it, but if you’re looking for a light-hearted watch to accompany your learning this is it right here.

Aria the Animation・ARIA

In the hopes of becoming a certified gondolier, young Akari Mizunashi decides to leave her home on Earth and travel to the new blue planet of Mars to live on Neo-Venezia. Along the way, she meets other apprentices hoping for the same thing and they all train hard in order to accomplish their goals of becoming Primas.

A wholesome and slow series to use to learn Japanese that I loved watching as a kid. Aria actually have several series with the main three, in order being Aria the Animation, Aria the Natural and Aria the Origination. I recommend giving this show a watch! Each episode is its own adventure while following the overarching story of the three protagonists establishing themselves in their chosen career paths. The animation is lovely and so is the music, so I’d give this underrated classic a watch for your studies.

Carole and Tuesday・キャロル&チューズデイ

Carole is an orphan from Earth. Tuesday is a Mars native who runs away from home to escape her stuffy and sheltered rich life. The one thing they have in common? Their desire to create music and after meeting during one of Carole’s impromptu street performances, they realize that their talents combined will get them a lot farther than if they tried being solo artists.

Another music series but with some light science fiction elements since, like the previous recommendation, C&T takes place on terraformed Mars. And all things considered, C&T is a pretty diverse show with characters of different ethnicities all over and even one of the main characters being a black teen. So if you’re really looking to have some diverse cast members in your anime, give this anime a shot.

If you end up watching any of these series, definitely let me know what you think about them and if they were useful for you! さようなら！

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maximumwobblerbanditdonut · 1 year

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Whisky Talk: Malt & Music

SH’s interview at The Vaults - Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) in Glasgow. He repeats without control or invents in moderation. His problem is that don't know when he has to take off his cap inside the interiors. He takes every opportunity to recall and strengthen his whisky 🥃 and now GIN. But He hand-picked Scottish heather 💐for his botanical gin with floral notes??

SH talks more and more about GIN because it is easier and faster to make. But, will he explore gin beyond the usual limits of reality, with a price that will rise as fast as his whisky 🥃 for a rapid return??

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) is the world’s leading whisky club, offering members an ever-changing variety of rare and exceptional single-cask whiskies. The Society’s focus is on unique whiskies bottled from a single cask at natural strength without the addition of water or colouring. As hosts of the world’s most colourful whisky experiences, the Society also bring its members together to share their passion, at its Members’ Rooms, tasting events, festivals, and international partner bars.

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society is a private membership club dedicated to the appreciation and discerning consumption of the rarest single malt whiskies. At SMWS, you'll find that you can taste a rare whisky on tap, based on its flavour profile, not its brand. SH is a member of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society since 2019.

SH and Graham McTavish (MIK1) with Richard Goslan is the editor of Unfiltered, which is The Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s award-winning magazine that members receive four times a year.

The new venue is situated in the heart of Glasgow at 40 Bath Street. Scotch Malt Whisky Society officially launched its new Members' Room in March 2020.

The Vaults has a long history which dates back to the 12th century, with the current building completed in 1787. At one time it was used as a wine merchant’s bonded warehouse, but since 1983 the venue has served as a cosy bar for the whisky-loving community.

The venue really differs from the other Members’ Rooms in Scotland. The Glasgow venue has a modern look to it (and apparently, the biggest selection of whiskies of all the venues), the Edinburgh rooms are classy yet smaller on many levels, while the Vaults feel historic and cosy like a living room.

The Society releases around twenty new bottles every month, with all the whiskies bottled at cask strength without chill filtration, allowing you to enjoy the whisky in a raw, untouched way.

They have bought casks from most distilleries in Scotland, and you can even find the odd cask from ‘silent’ distilleries no longer in operation as well as the occasional whisky from Ireland, Japan and the US. They even have a few Armagnacs, gins and rums available.

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tendiaries · 1 year

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all i want for christmas is you

what is the purpose of concerts? i ask the crowd in a seinfield-esque way and wait for the feedback of a couple chuckles before continuing.

no, because, you pay a lot of money, stand somewhere for hours while deafening loud song plays and you see a handful of people on a platform. just people, normal people. and that's it. the crowd hopefully laughs a bit on this part, but probably not, as this is not very funny for reasons of it not being a joke.

there's a chance you're gonna be going through the experience surrounded by people you've picked fights with on twitter. most of them are complete strangers, just standing there with you looking at the same people. and realizing they're just people. and then it's over. nothing changes.

this is the bottom line of the mental gymnastics i've been using as an exercise routine ever since the end of 2019. it's gone through a few revisions and ended up here, and i think there's not much else we could improve on. this is, after all, me rationalizing concerts to the point of rendering them meaningless.

concerts are meaningless. that's what i keep trying to tell myself, unconvinced, but something's gotta give at some point.

i recognize that as far as being in countries that are not part of the "world" where "world tours" take place, i'm pretty lucky. i'm in the only country where we know for certain people stop by when they're touring this otherworldly continent (if they plan on performing a full concert, and not 5 songs in a festival that proceeds to get cancelled). and i'm in the only state where we know for certain people stop by when they come over to this country far removed from the world they tour. not the same city, but i can save up my 15 dollars for the trip, and i'm in a place where i can save 15 dollars. lucky

i remember pretty clearly in 2019 when the dates started being released, one new date every day, and how hopeful i was that i'd get the announcement i wanted. except one day, after the united states and europe were packed full, there was no new post. but that's ok! they do second legs of tours! so it's fine. it's tour > comeback > second leg, and chances are, if they're touring outside of the world, with the size of this country the odds are in your favor! and then that tour was postponed for two years.

they announce concerts in their country and i look up flight tickets. it's not unaffordable, but would put a strain on my finances for a while (this country is not part of the world so the conversion between world and non-world currencies is not great), but it's manageable. the problem is that we're not sure it's safe, if it's gonna get cancelled last minute, if the countries are gonna lock down again. but things are looking up so there'll definitely be a second leg announced now!

on the week of the LA concerts i mute "coming back", which i believe i still have muted to this day. i don't really check through my list of 60 muted words related to concerts (it works fairly well!). i found it a little hard to believe that there was going to be another world world tour announced before non-world got anything. for my well being (since the exercise hadn't reached its final form) i decided it was for a festival or two and for north-american promotions. it was not

the end of 2021 was particularly harsh in that regard. people were. honestly. insane. and insufferable about seeing the tour after two years. all of the concerts had streams on twitter, and people who lived in the world world were happy. i considered leaving. it was better than seeing people who had so much i wanted complain about the minor inconveniences of what they had. it's a difficult equation to make. i once heard someone say that there was a study somewhere that diminishing your annoyance improves your life more than augmenting your happiness, so according to this, leaving a thing i loved but hurt me was better than staying for the happiness it provided. i stayed then because i'm stubborn, a little stupid, and because those people who are just people who stand on platforms whom i've come to love cannot possibly improve my life by being removed from it. with them i would in one way or another let go of other people who i see on the same ground level as me, though the ground they stand on is notoriously part of the world and mine is not (this analogy sounds very self-victimizing but i just thought it was so funny and now i'm too invested in it to stop)

from the beginning of 2022 i thought that maybe if i could be In the world at the same time as the higher-ground-level people i'd be restricted on twitter a few less times (it's three so far! they were all because of this whole thing!). so some things were put in motion, but you see, i've never been In the world, which makes everything a bit harder. the main character of the world and a lot of its minor players are not very interested in letting non-world people get in, lest they enjoy too much the possibility of not being crushed by them economically and i guess spiritually and decide to stay a while. it's good thinking!! a lot of them would! a lot of them do! but to ask to just go for a quick visit and come back it demands a lot of time (which i didn't know about and therefore didn't have enough of) and a lot of money (which i don't have a lot of, but knew about). i did have a ticket to be ground level (pretty good ground level!) to see the higher-ground-level people. i know my luck well enough to never have really trusted this would lead me to being In the world at the same time as the people i wanted to see on the platforms blasting sounds that would make my tinnitus worse for a day or two, so although there was some upset it was manageable.

when i got that golden ticket i told a handful of people, a bit embarrassed of the fact that it seemed reckless to an extent, the ticket itself was almost a month's salary, not to mention transportation and all the other little things you need to stay alive and healthy and safe both in the world and outside. i also feel like the world people have no idea how it feels like, so i don't feel like the expense to see normal people, absolutely fucking normal people, for two hours standing on the platform, seems justifiable to them. i really don't know, but i've also come to realize recently that i have a tendency to think the worst of people, which i'm trying to change. to half of them i never told that it fell through, but i guess they picked up on it anyway.

the thing about the golden ticket is that i had admission for one, for one day. but when i saw other normal people getting their tickets, no one seemed happy with anything they got. some wanted seats from where they could see the platform better, some wanted to wave at the platform people from ground level but behind a glass panel (spooky). that doesn't help make concerts make any more sense. if everyone is unhappy doing something you'd spend a significant portion of your yearly earnings to do while paying only an insignificant fraction of it, it starts to seem pointless. most of the people i know had enough admission tickets in total in 2022 to compose anywhere from 1 to 3% days spent with normal people worsening their earsight from the platform

statistically, every time non-world is not part of the world in "world tour", the chances of it being part of it soon go up by a little bit (again, i'm lucky that i'm in a very likely spot amongst the unlikely), but it's the bus paradox a little bit. actually it has nothing to do with the bus paradox. you just wait because there's nothing else to do (although you did check the flight prices for many places that are not punishing you for living in the non-world by preventing you from visiting it, and you did consider taking a loan that's roughly enough to buy a brand new car just so you could've gone somewhere and watched something and you deeply regret not doing it in hindsight. which is a bit crazy)

so now they're leaving the main character of the world soon, but not before announcing the supporting cast will also be graced with the presence of these normal people. and that's fine because everyone knew it, and i did the equation again only recently, before the first world had its tour, and decided to stay once again. ah! that's the bus paradox. that i could leave now because there's nothing happening and then there'll be less annoyance, or i can wait a bit longer and take the bus i've craved for three years, which has the most comfortable seats, the best route, and all of the people on board give you a sense of belonging because they're all going to exactly the same place as you, for their slightly different and not any shallower nor deeper reasons, and they say when you get off this bus something within you might be different for the better (only applicable if ridden few times)

and that's precisely the issue now. that this particular bus has been ridden so many times by everyone around you that riding it once (non-worlders are not lucky enough to have more than one ride available) starts seeming like too little too late. there's something about the thought of people saying they're happy for me because i'm finally gonna have this thing i wanted for so long, when they all had it so many times that they had room to complain about it, that just makes it feel all the more pointless. it's weird to embark on something that is life changing when it's life changing to no one else. it feels like it's too much made out of nothing. so that's where we started, i'm not sure what the bus is for anymore, and i'm embarrassed of the fact that i want to ride it so bad, and that it would mean so much to me, and that i can only ride it once. maybe. if it comes. i'm embarrassed of how i can quote every single person who voiced a complaint about their rides because i ruminated it for so long, as to why they felt that i was the right person they wanted to share it with while seeing me just standing by the bus stop unsure if there even is a line that stops by here

i also had to sit with the thought that maybe i'm a bad person, because of course my friends would be happy for me and they're honest, and of course they wanna share their life with me and i should be grateful. but (and this is not about concerts or buses or people anymore) at some point the frustrations of those who have so little have to be enough justification for not constantly carrying the positivity and good sportsmanship that is demanded of them. that is to say, i'm unfortunately never unaware of the fact of how little i have, and how it softens the impact of all that i can't have because i'm so used to making it into something else, into concerts are pointless, and puts everything that i want on a sort of pedestal.

so i feel i'm not really unreasonable. it's hard to believe in unreasonability when i've had to toy around with this thought so much to find some angle through which i'm not so ugly on the inside

concerts are pointless. that has yet to keep me from looking up flight prices and putting numbers on the annoyance equation

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dankusner · 2 months

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Louis C.K. is back —

sort of Controversial comedian seems tentative, tired and halfway there during Chicago Theatre show

The Chicago Theatre marquee displays comedian Louis C.K.’s sold-out shows in Chicago on Friday. Lou Foglia/Chicago Tribune Louis C.K. performs in 2014 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. In 2017, the popular comedian was accused by five women — including two Chicago comedians — of sexual misconduct. Brad Barket/Invision

By Christopher Borrelli | Chicago Tribune

Who goes to a Louis C.K. show in 2023?

In Chicago, about 7,200 people. His two appearances at the Chicago Theatre this weekend were not his first in the city since being publicly disgraced in 2017 — he quietly played Zanies in Rosemont in 2019, The Vic in 2021 — but his State Street concerts were his most high profile here in six years, and nearly a snapshot of the admiration once shown for the pre-canceled, lovable slob Louis. The 12,000 bulbs on the theater’s fabled marquee screamed: ”Louis C.K. Tonight SOLD OUT.” Beneath, on the sidewalk, the crush of fans to get in were not rushing past, huddled under their coats, perp-walk style, for fear of being recognized.

There was no shame. So I had to ask: Did they have qualms about coming? One man smiled tightly, nodded yes but said no. A woman said she got over it. A man said the ugliness was blown out of proportion.

A woman said she was sick of “all the woke idiots in the world.” A common refrain was to let Louis C.K. do his job, just move on — enough.

If only it were so easy.

About a dozen years ago, when he headlined the now-defunct Just for Laughs Chicago festival, he was seen widely as the complete stand-up package. He called to mind, I wrote then, “the deconstruction of a Carlin, the eye of a Seinfeld and the provocation of a Pryor.” His FX series was ambitious and excellent. His vibe offered sheepish decency.

Now when he walks out on stage, there’s a standing ovation, then the room grows unsettled, more awkward than expectant. He tries to get in front of this — Friday night, from behind a curtain, he announced the show was “partially canceled” and would now only be his two openers. A joke. Except “partially canceled” also seems right. In 2017, when every week seemed to bare another rancid crop of creeps, Louis C.K. was accused by five women — including two Chicago comedians — of sexual misconduct. He lost his management team and TV deals; movies he completed were shelved. He went from the most admired practitioner of his profession to practically scrubbed from it. When he did get on a stage, he described strangers flipping him off, and eating alone in restaurants.

Six years later, in a couple of weeks, he’s playing Madison Square Garden again.

Also, comic Chris D’Elia — who faced his own sexual misconduct accusations — is playing the Chicago Theatre next month. Singer Ryan Adams — more sexual misconduct accusations — played there last fall. Even Bill Cosby is trying to book a tour.

Cancel culture, predictably, carries a sell-by date.

But it leaves the residue of a freak show. At least for Louis C.K. Regardless of how you feel about him, you don’t look at him the same way — and he knows you don’t look at him the same way. He doesn’t know how to get around that yet. He sounds more tired now. He began his Friday set speaking slowly. And more surprisingly, launching into embarrassingly hacky material — jokes about farts, diarrhea, the TSA, sticking his arm inside of a cow. He never did get to the disgraced elephant in the room — to be fair, he has on a couple of comedy albums — but rather, more interestingly, he brought up the idea of “moral confidence,” the certainty that if faced with a historical atrocity (slavery, for instance), you would know better. This seemed promising, a backdoor approach to addressing what some feel is the rise of a sanctimonious choir of culture critics, eager to be offended and punish bad behavior. I sat higher in my seat. Indeed, much of his material touched on smart questions of guilt, hypocrisy, punishment, right and wrong.

But unlike Chris Rock or John Mulaney these days — whose own material lately has addressed similarly queasy feelings with self-lacerating honesty — Louis C.K. meandered and veered away from anything revealing, rarely gathering any steam.

There were flashes of the old C.K. — he brought out a Bible and did an inspired stretch on Catholicism and language and how the guy who was running the wedding where Christ turned water into wine was probably annoyed because he needed to serve some water.

The theater convulsed.

But rarely rocked.

The old joy is missing now.

Once C.K. could move you through the rough terrain of your ugliest thoughts, creating knots of scary reasoning so tightly wound, the subsequent unraveling and arrival at some horrifyingly audacious destination left you breathless with laughs. You felt rewired. That momentum is gone now; he seems uninspired — oddly.

There is six years of the knottiest material just waiting.

He could ask hard questions about his persona and himself. He could be as real about what happened to him as he once was about divorce and parenting.

Mulaney, Rock — their new material is more confessional than funny, but you don’t feel them stagnating. You feel them changing.

Louis C.K. was once the pragmatic scold of double standards and piety, the guy who joked about being a creep because you bet, deep down, he was decent. Recognizing the moral high ground in his shows counted, otherwise the jokes — and his stage persona — wouldn’t work.

What does it mean to lose that high ground?

Fart jokes, apparently.

I guess I’m waiting for Louis C.K. to transcend himself now, to take this opportunity to be as edgy as he once seemed, to truly own his ugliness and in the process, reveal something new about ourselves. The audience is there. Before the show, I was taking notes and a guy leaned over and asked if I was judging this audience for being here.

“Should I?” I asked.

“Oh, I don’t know,” he laughed. “Stones and glass houses and all that, right?”

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brookston · 7 months

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Holidays 10.3

Holidays

Brenda Lee Day (Lithonia, Georgia)

But British Day (UK)

California Clean Air Day

Dysgraphia Awareness Day

Francisco Morazan Day (Honduras)

Fullmetal Alchemist Day

Inflammatory Breast Cancer Awareness Day

International Musketeer Day

Leiden Day (Netherlands)

Look at the Leaves Day

Mean Girls Day

Mickey Mouse Club Day

Morazán Day (Soldier’s Day; Honduras)

National Boyfriend Day

National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day

National Day of Prayer for Mental Illness Recovery & Understanding

National Education Day (Kiribati)

National Family TV Show Day

National Kevin Day

National Techies Day

National Virus Appreciation Day

National Wide Awakes Day

Oktoberfest ends (Munich, Germany; began 9.16)

Oschophoria (Ancient Greece)

Relief of Leiden Day (Netherlands)

Scottish Museums Day (UK)

Semana Morazánica (Honduras)

Stevie Ray Vaughan Day (Texas)

Unity Day (Germany)

Universal Children's Day (UN)

Virus Appreciation Day

World Day of Medical Social Work

World Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Day

World Romance Scam Prevention Day

World Temperance Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Dionysus’ Day

Global Smoothie Day

National Caramel Custard Day

National No Sugar Day

National Soft Taco Day

1st Tuesday in October

Customer Experience Day [1st Tuesday]

IEEE Day [1st Tuesday]

National Advising Day [1st Tuesday]

National Fruit at Work Day [1st Tuesday]

National Night Out (Alternative) [1st Tuesday]

News Engagement Day [1st Tuesday]

Independence Days

Dershowo Musograd (Declared; 1990) [unrecognized]

Iraq (from UK, 1932)

National Foundation Day (a.k.a. Gaecheonjeol or Kae Chun Jul; Korea)

Timo (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abd-al-Masih (Christian; Saint)

Adalgott (Christian; Saint)

A. Y. Jackson (Artology)

Dionysius the Areopagite (Christian; Saint)

Eccentricity Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Ewald the Black and Ewald the Fair (a.k.a. The Two Ewalds; Christian; Saint)

Feast of Free Spirits

Festival of Bacchus

Francis Borgia (Christian; Saint)

George Bell and John Raleigh Mott (Episcopal Church)

Gerard of Brogne (Christian; Saint)

Gluck (Positivist; Saint)

Gomer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Henry Lerolle (Artology)

Hesychius of Sinai (Christian; Saint)

Maximian of Bagai (Christian; Saint)

Njord’s Blot (Pagan)

Penny Pig (Muppetism)

Pierre Bonnard (Artology)

Szilárd Bogdánffy (Christian; Blessed)

Théodore Guérin (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 19 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [19 of 24]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [19 of 24]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [40 of 53]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (TV Series; 1952)

The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series; 1960)

Black Lagoon (Anime Series; 2006)

Blood and Sand or Three for the Show (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 113; 1961)

Boston Legal (TV Series; 2004)

Bullwinkle’s Landing or Moosle Beach (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 114; 1961)

Can You Top This? (Radio Series; 1950)

Dark Angel (TV Series; 2000)

Death Note (Anime Series; 2006)

The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series; 1961)

Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (WB MM Cartoon; 1953)

The Elephant Man (Film; 1980)

Extraordinary Machine, by Fiona Apple (Album; 2005)

The Family Under the Bridge, by Natalie Savage Carlson (Children’s Books; 1958)

Father Knows Best (Radio Series; 1954)

Friday Night Lights (TV Series; 2006)

Genesis, by Genesis (Album; 1983)

Gone Girl (Film; 2014)

The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne (Children’s Book; 1929) [Winnie the Pooh #3]

Lend a Paw (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Lost in Translation (Film; 2003)

The Maltese Falcon (Film; 1941)

The Mechanical Cow (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

The Mickey Mouse Club (TV Series; 1955)

Mickey’s Delayed Date (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Milk and Money (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Film; 2008)

One More Time (WB MM Cartoon; 1931)

One-Trick Pony (Film; 1980)

Out of the Blue, by Electric Light Orchestra (Album; 1977)

Painted Rhythm, recorded by Stan Kenton (Song; 1945)

Peter Pan’s Flight (Disneyland Attraction; 1971)

Pushing Daisies (TV Series; 2007)

Real Gone, by Tom Waits (Album; 2004)

The Secret Commonwealth, by Philip Pullman (Novel; 2019) [The Book of Dust Trilogy #2]

School of Rock (Film; 2003)

She’s Not There, by The Zombies (Song; 1966)

The Stand, by Stephen King (Novel; 1979)

The Station Agent (Film; 2003)

Star Wars Rebels (Animated TV Series; 2014)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Animated TV Series; 2008)

The Temptress (Film; 1926)

Timeless (TV Series; 2016)

Underdog (Animated TV Series; 1964)

Underworld, by Don De Lillo (Novel; 1997)

Yeoman of the Guard, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1888)

Zenyatta Mondatta, by the Police (Album; 1980)

Today’s Name Days

Bianca, Ewald, Udo (Austria)

Dionizije, Kandida, Svjetlana (Croatia)

Bohumil (Czech Republic)

Mette (Denmark)

Eevald, Eevo, Evald, Evert (Estonia)

Raimo (Finland)

Gérard, Sybille (France)

Bianca, Ewald, Paulina, Udo (Germany)

Dionysis (Greece)

Helga (Hungary)

Gerardo (Italy)

Elza, Gudruna, Ilizana (Latvia)

Alanta, Evaldas, Kristina, Milgintas (Lithuania)

Evald, Evelyn (Norway)

Eustachiusz, Eustachy, Ewald, Gerard, Gerarda, Gerhard, Heliodor, Józefa, Kandyd, Sierosław, Teresa (Poland)

Dionisie (Romania)

Stela (Slovakia)

Francisco, Gerardo (Spain)

Evald, Osvald (Sweden)

Dennis, Denise (Ukraine)

Erskine, Esmond, India, Kali, Kallie, Kelvin (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 276 of 2024; 89 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 40 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 19 (Jia-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 18 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 18 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 6 Shù; Sixday [6 of 30]

Julian: 20 September 2023

Moon: 79%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 24 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Gluck]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 10 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 10 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Gort (Ivy) [Celtic Tree Calendar; Month 10 of 13]

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 10.3

Holidays

Brenda Lee Day (Lithonia, Georgia)

But British Day (UK)

California Clean Air Day

Dysgraphia Awareness Day

Francisco Morazan Day (Honduras)

Fullmetal Alchemist Day

Inflammatory Breast Cancer Awareness Day

International Musketeer Day

Leiden Day (Netherlands)

Look at the Leaves Day

Mean Girls Day

Mickey Mouse Club Day

Morazán Day (Soldier’s Day; Honduras)

National Boyfriend Day

National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day

National Day of Prayer for Mental Illness Recovery & Understanding

National Education Day (Kiribati)

National Family TV Show Day

National Kevin Day

National Techies Day

National Virus Appreciation Day

National Wide Awakes Day

Oktoberfest ends (Munich, Germany; began 9.16)

Oschophoria (Ancient Greece)

Relief of Leiden Day (Netherlands)

Scottish Museums Day (UK)

Semana Morazánica (Honduras)

Stevie Ray Vaughan Day (Texas)

Unity Day (Germany)

Universal Children's Day (UN)

Virus Appreciation Day

World Day of Medical Social Work

World Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Day

World Romance Scam Prevention Day

World Temperance Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Dionysus’ Day

Global Smoothie Day

National Caramel Custard Day

National No Sugar Day

National Soft Taco Day

1st Tuesday in October

Customer Experience Day [1st Tuesday]

IEEE Day [1st Tuesday]

National Advising Day [1st Tuesday]

National Fruit at Work Day [1st Tuesday]

National Night Out (Alternative) [1st Tuesday]

News Engagement Day [1st Tuesday]

Independence Days

Dershowo Musograd (Declared; 1990) [unrecognized]

Iraq (from UK, 1932)

National Foundation Day (a.k.a. Gaecheonjeol or Kae Chun Jul; Korea)

Timo (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abd-al-Masih (Christian; Saint)

Adalgott (Christian; Saint)

A. Y. Jackson (Artology)

Dionysius the Areopagite (Christian; Saint)

Eccentricity Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Ewald the Black and Ewald the Fair (a.k.a. The Two Ewalds; Christian; Saint)

Feast of Free Spirits

Festival of Bacchus

Francis Borgia (Christian; Saint)

George Bell and John Raleigh Mott (Episcopal Church)

Gerard of Brogne (Christian; Saint)

Gluck (Positivist; Saint)

Gomer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Henry Lerolle (Artology)

Hesychius of Sinai (Christian; Saint)

Maximian of Bagai (Christian; Saint)

Njord’s Blot (Pagan)

Penny Pig (Muppetism)

Pierre Bonnard (Artology)

Szilárd Bogdánffy (Christian; Blessed)

Théodore Guérin (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 19 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [19 of 24]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [19 of 24]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [40 of 53]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (TV Series; 1952)

The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series; 1960)

Black Lagoon (Anime Series; 2006)

Blood and Sand or Three for the Show (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 113; 1961)

Boston Legal (TV Series; 2004)

Bullwinkle’s Landing or Moosle Beach (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 114; 1961)

Can You Top This? (Radio Series; 1950)

Dark Angel (TV Series; 2000)

Death Note (Anime Series; 2006)

The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series; 1961)

Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (WB MM Cartoon; 1953)

The Elephant Man (Film; 1980)

Extraordinary Machine, by Fiona Apple (Album; 2005)

The Family Under the Bridge, by Natalie Savage Carlson (Children’s Books; 1958)

Father Knows Best (Radio Series; 1954)

Friday Night Lights (TV Series; 2006)

Genesis, by Genesis (Album; 1983)

Gone Girl (Film; 2014)

The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne (Children’s Book; 1929) [Winnie the Pooh #3]

Lend a Paw (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Lost in Translation (Film; 2003)

The Maltese Falcon (Film; 1941)

The Mechanical Cow (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

The Mickey Mouse Club (TV Series; 1955)

Mickey’s Delayed Date (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Milk and Money (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Film; 2008)

One More Time (WB MM Cartoon; 1931)

One-Trick Pony (Film; 1980)

Out of the Blue, by Electric Light Orchestra (Album; 1977)

Painted Rhythm, recorded by Stan Kenton (Song; 1945)

Peter Pan’s Flight (Disneyland Attraction; 1971)

Pushing Daisies (TV Series; 2007)

Real Gone, by Tom Waits (Album; 2004)

The Secret Commonwealth, by Philip Pullman (Novel; 2019) [The Book of Dust Trilogy #2]

School of Rock (Film; 2003)

She’s Not There, by The Zombies (Song; 1966)

The Stand, by Stephen King (Novel; 1979)

The Station Agent (Film; 2003)

Star Wars Rebels (Animated TV Series; 2014)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Animated TV Series; 2008)

The Temptress (Film; 1926)

Timeless (TV Series; 2016)

Underdog (Animated TV Series; 1964)

Underworld, by Don De Lillo (Novel; 1997)

Yeoman of the Guard, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1888)

Zenyatta Mondatta, by the Police (Album; 1980)

Today’s Name Days

Bianca, Ewald, Udo (Austria)

Dionizije, Kandida, Svjetlana (Croatia)

Bohumil (Czech Republic)

Mette (Denmark)

Eevald, Eevo, Evald, Evert (Estonia)

Raimo (Finland)

Gérard, Sybille (France)

Bianca, Ewald, Paulina, Udo (Germany)

Dionysis (Greece)

Helga (Hungary)

Gerardo (Italy)

Elza, Gudruna, Ilizana (Latvia)

Alanta, Evaldas, Kristina, Milgintas (Lithuania)

Evald, Evelyn (Norway)

Eustachiusz, Eustachy, Ewald, Gerard, Gerarda, Gerhard, Heliodor, Józefa, Kandyd, Sierosław, Teresa (Poland)

Dionisie (Romania)

Stela (Slovakia)

Francisco, Gerardo (Spain)

Evald, Osvald (Sweden)

Dennis, Denise (Ukraine)

Erskine, Esmond, India, Kali, Kallie, Kelvin (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 276 of 2024; 89 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 40 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 19 (Jia-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 18 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 18 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 6 Shù; Sixday [6 of 30]

Julian: 20 September 2023

Moon: 79%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 24 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Gluck]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 10 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 10 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Gort (Ivy) [Celtic Tree Calendar; Month 10 of 13]

#Holidays

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EXCLUSIVE: Ananth Narayan Mahadevan admits that Naseeruddin Shah SHOCKED him when he informed him that he liked Himesh Reshammiya's The Xpose: "'Sir, subah se koi mila nahin kya?' I joked. But he was dead serious."

Typically, filmmakers create films in a single genre. At most, they might shift between genres in mainstream or niche cinema. An exception is Ananth Narayan Mahadevan. On the one hand, he has made sensual thrillers and romcoms, but also thought-provoking and festival-friendly films. During an exclusive interview with Bollywood Hungama, Ananth Narayan Mahadevan discussed it. "I was doing a lot of television where I worked with some of the big stars," he explained. With Kabhi To Milenge, I introduced Rati Agnihotri to television. I collaborated with Satish Shah, R Madhavan, Farooq Sheikh, and others. That's when Viveck Vaswani approached me with Dil Vil Pyaar Vyaar (2002), saying it will be a film with published music.

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"Today, I won't say these films were a blot on my filmography," he added. In addition, I only made seven of these films. But I believe in 13 films: Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (2010), Red Alert (2010), Staying Alive (2010), Gour Hari Dastaan (2015), Rough Book (2016), Doctor Rakhmabai (2016), Mai Ghat (2019), Bittersweet (2020), Life's Good (2022), Aata Vel Zaali, The Storyteller, The Confession, and Phule. When told that his commercial pictures were entertaining and Aksar was, he commented, "That is a tragedy!" Naseeruddin Shah informed me at a book launch event, "Ananth, I enjoyed the film." Gour Hari Dastaan had not yet been released. So I was curious how he saw it. I inquired about him. 'I'm talking about the Himesh Reshammiya film,' he said! 'Sir, subah se koi mila nahin kya?' I joked. But he was dead serious. He revealed that he thought The Xpose was "stylish, colorful, dynamic, and so on." "Himesh Reshammiya then came up with another script, of Teraa Surroor (2016)," Ananth Narayan Mahadevan added. 'Nahin, ab bahut ho gaya', I told him. However, I presented my friend Shawn Arranha, who directed it. Then I saw Naseeruddin Shah in the poster. He actually bought it (smiles)! In fact, I applauded Himesh for the manner in which he promoted The Xpose. 'No film of mine has been marketed as well as The Xpose,' I told him. I get a kick out of folks asking, 'Can you make another The Xpose?'" Was he happy with The Xpose? "All I can say is that this is the genre of cinema I have left behind," Ananth replied. I will never make another formula film again. The term'mainstream film' does not bother me. I want every film to be popular. Our audience isn't well-educated or cinema-literate enough to recognize that Gour Hari Dastaan is mainstream. It is referred to as "parallel cinema." 'The kind of cinema you guys make is parallel cinema,' I responded. "This is film."

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All Too Well

Summary: right person, wrong time

Warning: sweet fluff and angst

Word Count: 4519 words

A/N: listen to ‘All Too Well’ by Taylor Swift first as there are some references throughout the fic. I also added time stamps as this occurs over the course of one year. I’m sorry if it’s confused—I tried my best to make it as coherent as possible ❤️

also, covid doesn’t exist in this au!

‘~~~’ = flashback, ‘—‘ = cut scene

November 2020

Y/N scrambled through the many articles of clothing sprawled in her drawer. The fabrics mingling with each other into a giant mess. It didn’t even include the pile of clothes sitting on the mattress and dripping on the floor.

That was the thing with Y/N. She had a habit of keeping things she didn’t need. She wasn’t a hoarder—although, Y/N did keep more things in favour of their sentimental value. It was her thing.

The fact that she could cradle a t-shirt in her palms and tell someone exactly what happened on a day that moulded the story of that specific shirt was her skill. Y/N liked to think that you could tell a lot about a person on what kind of clothes they wore—whether they were seeking affection or isolating, but not lonely.

In fact, her clothes didn’t just hold meaning for herself—it catered pieces of places she went to wearing the outfit. The things she thought of while adorning it, the emotions that she felt as it covered or—barely—shielded her skin. It was especially important to her to remember the people she spent it with.

Like that oversized, knee-length coat hung near the back of her closet. Y/N barely wore it now but seeing it beneath the splayed doors of the wardrobe, she could see flashes in her head about the last time she had worn it.

The way the pea coat flowed behind her as she twirled in a gentle circle, twisting the fabric slightly and catching tiny drops of littered snow. Y/N could picture the bulbous hat she wore on her head. A tiny pompom weighing every which way with the direction of her head. Her hands were in warm mittens that rendered her fingerless. The snow boots on her feet were crunching with every step of the crisp white snow beneath her feet.

It was truly a winter wonderland when the white weather sprinkled down on her—on them.

Y/N could just about feel the same large grin replicating her face when she snapped out her memory. The ghost of the hung overcoat literally hunted her as it rested in the shadows of her closet.

Y/N blinked twice, slouching her shoulders as she stayed frozen on her knees. The carpet wasn’t doing much to protect her taut skin, but she was in search of something and intended to find it. Except, she couldn’t find it anywhere.

She was sure that there was absolutely no way that she could lose it. It was a loud patterned scarf that frayed at the edges. It was, quite possibly, the ugliest design Y/N had laid her eyes upon. Though, a certain someone had reassured her that she looked beautiful regardless. Besides, the air was way too chilly to think about fashion choices that day.

~~~

December 2019

“Why don’t you pose for me, love?” Harry suggested, holding his phone tightly in one hand. That same hand was pulled free of the warm confines of his leather gloves as he insisted on capturing a few photos of his girl.

“You got it, mister,” Y/N replied, bending down to ball a glob of snow in her mitten-covered hand. She could just barely feel the iciness radiating off the protective layer. “Mind if I add some props?”

She lifted her hand, a raised brow quirking up her knit beanie.

Harry chuckles, “Go right ahead,”

He tilted his phone, ignoring the way his fingers lost feeling at the fingertips in favour of watching the woman of his dreams throw the patch of snow in the air. He captured the picture, admiring the way her back looked. Y/N really was beautiful from all angles. It was kind of counterintuitive, really, since it was snowing after all. But Harry was way too enamoured to question the questionable actions of his lover.

Besides, the gleaming smile on her face was enough to wipe his mind clean of anything other than her.

“Great! Why don’t you turn around?”

The woman looked over her shoulder was a subtle roll of her eyes, “No way,”

“C’mon, love. ‘S not even tha’ ugly,” Harry urged, commenting about the scarf wrapped around her neck.

She scoffed, “The fact that you have to reassure me is proof that it is ugly,”

Y/N played with the thin ends of the fabric, smiling to herself as she heard Harry groan loudly behind her. They were staying at Gemma’s house for the holidays and Y/N had purchased the first scarf she had seen at the store. She had nearly forgotten it if it weren’t for Harry calling her the night before to ensure that she would be warm during their stay. Not only was it cold, but the chilliness was just a tad too crisp to leave the cozy home without some sort of neck protection.

So, here she was dressed all cute from head-to-toe except her shoulders. It was a bit stupid to care so much about an ugly scarf design but Y/N guessed it had something to do with wanting everything to be perfect.

“I don’t think it’s ugly,” Harry quipped, sounding much closer than he had before. “‘Think it’s really nice. Especially the cutie who’s wearing it. Mind if I borrow it some time?”

Y/N couldn’t help the appearance of her love-struck eyes, smiling again when she felt his bundled arms snaked around her waist. Harry was warm, as usual, and he was sturdy as a rock both literally and metaphorically. Standing still in the snow gave her a bit of a shiver but having Harry’s body close was a breath of relief.

He cradled her between his arms, resting his own scarf-covered chin on her shoulder. Y/N knew that he must’ve been bending at the knees to reach that height. She clutched his naked hand between her mittens, directing it to a pocket in the confines of her coat to keep warm.

“Are you talking about me or the scarf?”

“How about both? Make it a two-for-one deal, yeah?” Harry’s voice was a bit hazy.

He felt as though he was captivated in a trance, watching the snowflakes rest gently on the slope of Y/N’s lashes. Her eyes glancing at their joined, mittened and gloved, hands.

She sighed, “Why not?”

Harry gave a silent cheer, leaning little ways into peck her cold cheek with his lips.

“Alright, now why don’t ya’ twirl for me, Y/N?” He instructed, taking cautious steps back in the snow.

“Like this?”

Harry nodded, thumbing the red button on his phone to press ‘record’. He watched as Y/N gracefully spun in a circle. Her pea coat flailed just at knee-level. Her boots squelched the starch white snow.

She did a full 360 before fully facing him with a bright grin. Harry couldn’t be sure how much his heart could take. He switched the setting to capture a photo.

“Exactly like that,”

He wanted to remember this.

~~~

Upon realization that Y/N would not get hold of that specific scarf—at least not for a while—because it was at Gemma’s home miles away from her, Y/N forced herself to clean up the mess she had made. Maybe it was the sudden strike of sensitivity coursing through her but Y/N felt much more emotional than she did before.

Perhaps it was the match-strike ignition of burning memories that flickered through her brain because once she started; she couldn’t stop.

It started with the frosty memory of twirling in the deep snow. Then, it was the flashback of driving from the grocery store to pick up ingredients before heading back to Gemma’s.

Y/N couldn’t deny the butterflies she felt playing that particular memory back because it was one of the moments that cemented a deep-rooted emotion in her.

The feeling of being beautiful—captivating, charming and alluring that Harry failed to notice the red traffic light switching to a reflective green. (‘Oi! Eyes on the road’)

She could still see the blush on his pale skin, realizing that he had been caught staring. And, by the way, the car behind them honked when Harry failed to move through the intersection. (‘Sorry, got distracted’).

And Y/N didn’t want to say anything but she could feel his tiny glances over her when Harry thought that she wasn’t paying attention.

———

November 2020

It has been nearly a year now.

Only a few more weeks until the dreaded date looped around to a full year passing. This time, Harry wasn’t around to celebrate the festivities with her and that ugly scarf was an article that Y/N had desperately missed. Ironically.

It would be just under a year when Harry had taken Y/N to his childhood home—now Gemma’s house as Anne had moved to a smaller place. It was where he excitedly showed her his room—the posters on his walls. The comics he used to read and the CD’s he used to listen to piled on his desk.

~~~

December 2019

“Quite an improvement,” Y/N commented, sitting on the edge of his twin-sized bed. She was referring to his King-sized bed from when she had slept over a couple of times.

“I’d say,” Harry agreed. The wood creaked under his weight as he sat beside her.

They both stared at the wall in front of them, feeling a sense of intimacy as Harry shared the remnants of his life to her.

The day continued when Anne had called the both of them down for hot cocoa, paired with a striped red, green and white candy cane dipped in the mug.

This was the part that hurt Y/N the most. It was almost too painful to remember—to reminisce because it was proof that the couple were so close to making a future together.

It didn’t happen, though.

Despite Anne and Gemma’s stories about a once upon a time, dorky Harry in his glasses (‘He still is’)—his family couldn’t stop referencing Y/N as his future.

“Hope your kids don’t take after his naked habit”

“Maybe your garden will have wild roses”

“Reckon you guys will get a small home?”

It made Y/N’s cheeks heat up. His family already thought of her as part of their family. And one sneaky look at Harry ensured her that Anne and Gemma weren’t the only ones thinking of their future because Harry caught her gaze long enough to give her the answer she was subconsciously searching for.

And when salutations had to be said, Harry and Y/N said goodbye to Gemma and Anne as they were to return to their respective London homes.

It was also the day that Harry had asked Y/N to move in with him.

——

It was exciting, to say the least. Moving in with your significant other was a big step in any relationship. The fact that Harry was a world-renowned superstar almost disappeared from Y/N’s mind because even though his home was a million times larger than her tiny flat—it immediately felt like home.

Harry wasn’t one to dwell too much on changes. In fact, he often referred to it as a sign that things were moving forward. There was no use being stuck in the same place when the universe had so much to offer. So, he was quite glad when Y/N made herself comfortable in his—their—home.

She managed to make the large place feel cozy. The decorations and tiny trinkets she had placed all over the house were really just pieces of her heart sprinkled in a home in which they’d build a life together. He would look at a pastel-coloured tea kettle and question when he had gotten the appliance before realizing that it was Y/N’s. Harry would use the tea kettle to boil water instead of using his Keurig.

___

Their schedules wouldn’t always line up. But Harry and Y/N were too loved-up to care how little time they spent with each other. There was no use in complaining when they could use that time to appreciate each other—for sticking around. For being the same when things moved too fast. For being the rock that both of them needed when times get rough.

Harry’s late studio sessions ran through the early morning when Y/N would be cooped up in their shared bedroom. Fast asleep and hugging his scented pillow. Sometimes he would find her bundled with a blanket on the living room couch. The soft glow of the television highlighting Y/N’s beautiful features. One look at her was enough to release Harry of the tension he felt on his joints and shoulders.

Y/N’s night shifts were the same too. She would return to a quiet house because Harry had fallen asleep. Despite his attempts to stay awake, he was not a night owl at all. Not only to stay up past ten in the evening unless he was out to do work. She had reassured him countless times that she would be okay on the drive home and that he should sleep when his body grew tired.

Harry tried to stay awake. He really did. And Y/N could tell because as soon as she crawls to her side of the bed, Harry’s right arm immediately pats the cold sheets for her as if sensing that she was nearby. He would mumble a quiet murmur of her name, “Y/N? Tha’ you?”

He would receive no verbal response, nor would Harry be able to see his love in the dark of the night even because Y/N hadn’t bothered to switch her bedside lamp on. Y/N was aware of Harry’s sensitivity to light, especially if he was in the dark for a long period of time. Despite that, Harry would hum in satisfaction when Y/N’s body would etch perfectly against his in a silent greeting that yes it is her.

They would fall fast asleep cuddled into one another.

If they managed to stay awake or if sleep failed to come, Y/N and Harry would trudge down the stairs for a midnight snack, squealing loudly as one playfully chased the other down the staircase.

Sometimes it was Y/N walking in on Harry munching on a few biscuits (‘Not such a health nut anymore, huh?’). Sometimes it was Harry catching Y/N making a fruit salad—an array of fruits and vegetables laying on the counter (‘I take credit for this’, he would say.)

But it would always end the same.

With both of them dancing goofily with each other. The refrigerator light was the only source of illumination because neither would be bothered to turn on an actual light. Not when the fridge served as a light source and a container of a variety of edible choices.

One night would end with Y/N slow dancing in Harry’s arms. His hands-on her waist, grazing her skin when her pyjamas too lifted. Their bodies would rest against each other like a stacked jigsaw. Harry’s chin on her head, hers on his broad shoulder. A pair of their hands clasped tightly on one another while the other found purchase with their bodies.

Harry would hum a light tune or sing softly so that they can find their rhythm. They would sway across the kitchen—slowly—crying out in pain and laughter when one would bump their hip on the marble counter. Y/N would listen to his heartbeat thrumming beneath his chest and even though she could only see a bit of him—it was enough.

One night would end with Y/N and Harry goofily flailing their limbs every which way. Boisterous laughter filling the room as Harry practically wheezed at Y/N’s admittance of performing a mean Dougie.

And with the fridge light catching the bits of it, Harry would slap his palm on the counter to catch himself before his knees gave out below him (‘There’s jus’ no way you’re that good’). She proved him wrong.

Neither of them knew when it would be the last time these moments occurred. Until they stopped completely.

——

It was the small changes that brought them closer together. And what would inevitably drive them apart.

It was the fact that even though the couple didn’t see each other much, they still cherished the time they had together because that was enough.

The relationship was built off of mutual trust, respect and honesty. Time was essential but Harry and Y/N didn’t necessarily need a lot of it. They just needed the reassurance of ‘always’. That no matter what happens, however far away they were from each other physically, however, the time they spent apart—that Harry would always come back to her and Y/N would always run home to him.

——

It was late-August when they broke up.

Leading up to it, Y/N had been promoted at her workplace and Harry was no longer spending late nights at the studio. He was sleeping in the studio instead of coming home.

Y/N was understanding. He was on a time-crunch since his second album was due to be released at the end of that year. She wanted to be as supportive as she had always been—if not, more. Harry didn’t need more pressure from her—his partner—who was supposed to be his solid ground in a cracking centre.

It was okay. It was okay. It was okay.

It was fine that they were spending less time than they normally would—not that it was a lot in the first place.

He was still trying. She was still trying. Messages, video calls—hell, even emails were there. The rare times when their schedule would actually coincide were spent peacefully sleeping on the bed. It wasn’t much, but it was enough.

Then, Y/N got promoted. More responsibilities. Training her colleagues. Interviewing assistants. Typing detailed emails. Double-checking spreadsheets.

At the same time that Harry was being pulled left and right to make decision after decision. Finalizing next year’s tour dates. Promos. TV shows. Modelling campaigns. Photoshoots. Interviews.

And like any other, answering later turned into a message left on ‘read’. A missed call manifested into an unopened voicemail. A desperate-measures email was only one of the many in each others’ inbox.

Harry wanted Y/N to come with him on tour the following year but it was a stretch waiting to be snapped.

She couldn’t.

Y/N was starting to build her life, building her career and she wasn’t going to give that up for him just yet. He could go on tour and she could visit when time allows. They knew that. Harry would buy her a ticket and she would be off to see him—when she can.

~~~~

June 2020

“I can’t go. You know that,” Y/N sighed, rubbing a palm over her face.

Harry leaned his shoulder against the doorframe of the bathroom. “I knew that. ‘Was worth a try though,”

They shared a comforting smile with each other. A hint of reassurance when uneasiness prevailed. There was something about the shift from spring to summer that simmered in their chests.

“Promise you’ll come to visit?”

“Of course,”

~~~

London may be Harry and Y/N’s home but LA was calling for him. Hence, why he spent the summer on the other side of the world. On another continent, across the pond, as some people might say.

It’s just a few months. He’ll be back before you know it, Y/N thought.

Harry will be home for the holidays and they would drive up north to spend it with Anne and Gemma as they did the previous year. The year when Y/N had met them for the first time and despite that, attained their approval to build a future with Harry.

Just a few months and then Harry will be back with her. The same Harry who will gently loop an ugly scarf around her neck. Teasing her about its hideousness before reassuring her that it was ‘as stunning as the woman wearing it’. . .or something. Harry always complimented her.

Yet, Harry never came home a few weeks shy before their scheduled road trip as they had planned. And Y/N did not visit him like she had promised to do.

Though, none of them blamed the other because they were too busy with their own lives to keep up with each other. What once was a loving and caring relationship was not a liability pushed to the back burner.

One might say that Harry and Y/N’s love was a case of wrong timing. They were perfect for each other—but just not now.

Because Y/N had a lot of things going for her and expanding her career. Harry was becoming more and more popular and successful by the minute. It wasn’t like they meant to ignore each other or be oblivious that they were still very much in a relationship with each other. Both Harry and Y/N just had a lot on their plate to even think twice about a relationship.

It wasn’t anybody’s fault—really. Even though their phone call says otherwise.

——-

August 2020

“Y-you what? Y/N, love,” Harry spoke through the phone.

Y/N’s breath hitched at the sound of the beloved nickname. It had been a while since she had heard it.

“I want to break up,” She repeated.

“Why?”

The woman picked at her fingernails, distracting herself from going back to the spreadsheet in front of her. She was in the middle of a break up yet her body urged to continue working.

“What do you mean why?” Y/N sighed exasperatedly. “It’s been months since we’ve seen each other, Harry. You said you’ll be home before Christmas so we can see Anne and Gemma but—,”

“We don’t have to see them! Y’can fly out here and spend it with me,”

“You know, I can’t,”

Upon letting those slip past her lips, Y/N was starting to question if Harry had disconnected because of the eeriness over the phone.

And as he said that night months ago with the alteration of Y/N’s word, “‘Know y’cant. You promised, though.”

Harry’s voice cracked and Y/N wondered if he was gnawing on his lip like he usually would when tears overflowed the ducts of his eyes. In the distance, Y/N heard a door close shut and she wondered if he had been working—the same as her—before she had decided to call and he had decided to answer.

A knife pierced into Y/N’s chest, guilt seeping in her veins as she recalled the words she had uttered to him. A promise that she would visit if he gave her the ticket. But that was then and this is now.

She wasn’t the head of her department then. Y/N had a lot more responsibilities now and she couldn’t just up and leave whenever she wanted to.

“And you promised to come back. Did you?”

He didn’t.

“Look, can we talk about this later? ‘M in the middle of recording and—“

“When are you not?” Y/N cut him off absentmindedly, splitting her attention on the Excel sheet in front of her.

“Excuse me?” Harry quipped, faintly hearing the clacks of a keyboard. “I know I work a lot but y’do too. Barely even respond to my texts anymo’”

“Says the one who doesn’t answer my calls,” Y/N scoffed, rolling her eyes.

And there it was again. The defeat of silence that proved no matter how much they retaliated against one another—neither of them would win because both of them were at fault.

“I was busy,”

“I am, too,”

“Y/N—“

“What?”

“I-I don’t want to lose you. . .”

The ache in Y/N’s chest grew tenfold. Her fingers momentarily paused over the keys of her laptop board. There was nothing to lose. Not when they’ve already thrown it away.

“I don’t want to either, H. But don’t you think breaking up is better than waiting for something that will never happen?”

“What won’t?” He asked, genuinely curious.

Y/N pushed her chair back, staring at the view of the city from her office.

“Us. Our future. It won’t happen because you’re busy and I’m busy. There’s no right time for us to start, Harry.”

“Who says there has to be a right time, huh?”

“Says, everybody! How are we supposed to build our relationship further when there is no relationship to work on?”

The waves of emotion came crashing down. For months, Y/N had suppressed the feeling of loneliness inside of her. She missed Harry so badly that it hurt her to admit so she went with the temporary bliss of balling it up until it became too much.

“We just need time, Y/N. We don’t need to do it at the right time. Y’know that,” Harry whispered, wishing so badly that this conversation didn’t take place over the phone where he was currently locked in a bathroom stall.

He continued, “You were there, weren’t you? Barely saw you but y’were there. You know how I feel about you and I know you feel about me. We jus’ need time,”

Time.

Because time is when Harry and Y/N would slow dance in the kitchen at god-knows-hour of the morning.

Because time is when Harry and Y/N blissfully spent their time in the cold, watching her throw the bundle of snow in the air as if it was in slow-motion.

Because time is when Harry would look at Y/N and swear that it has stopped because nothing else mattered except her.

“You know it, you know it,” Harry gulped, breath hitching over the phone. Was he crying?

“All too well,” Y/N responded underneath her breath. She knew that he was right—that all they needed was a chance to reconnect and rekindle the flame put out by distance.

She hated how familiar every memory was to her. She hated how easily she was brought back to the moment it all happened with just the breath of his whisper.

There was no denying the emotion she felt wearing his hoodie and red and black plaid pyjamas at three in the morning. The affection she received wearing those pieces of clothing from the man who owned them. Her sock feet glided against the cold floor. Everything came flashing back to Y/N and it hurt because there was no way she could grant his wish.

“You’re asking for too much, Harry. I-I can’t give you that. You can’t give me—us—that,”

“W-what are you saying, love?” He whimpered, clutching the device in his hand as a last resort to hold onto something that was drifting away.

He knew that she was right. Y/N couldn’t give him that and he certainly couldn’t either.

“We can’t be together. At least, not now. We’re not the same anymore. We want the same things but we’re headed on different paths,”

“But we’ll meet again, won’t we?” Harry’s hoarse voice exemplified that he was—indeed—been crying. And Y/N’s wet cheeks were proof that she was as well.

“Always,”

_____

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Sat 19 June ‘21

Niall and Louis tweeted about football (“keep the faith!”- Louis’ ability to be over the top inspirational about pretty mundane events remains unparalleled) and LOUIS USED AN EMOJI stop the presses when was the last time we saw that, WHAT IS THIS 2015 (my ability to overreact to mundane events also remains intact TYVM!) Niall, not so dramatic as Louis and myself but definitely not shy with the emoji use, simply felt that today’s match was a “proper game of football,” but emphasized that with an exploding head emoji.

Liam boxed in the great outdoors (and we got video) and Hugo posted cute father’s day content about him and his dad- he answers some yes/ no questions about their relationship, somewhat astonishingly choosing ‘no’ for the question of whether they’d ever gone to a concert together. I guess he doesn’t count ones he’s played?

Harry Lambert said “I never want it to feel like he’s wearing a costume, I never want to feel like something is wearing him. We’re not doing it for lols — it should feel like part of the performance or part of the whole, you know?” and “it’s always been, it sounds cheesy to say, heavenly” about dressing Harry, and lots more pics of Harry definitely not wearing a costume (or much of anything) in Italy were posted.

Eleanor followed up yesterday’s post of her “watching the football game with Louis” aka the biggest most obvious blunder she’s made since… well, last time, with another hilarious nod at the fact that they never actually see each other except when they’re getting pics taken for public consumption… and possibly not even then! In the footie post Louis could be heard in the background but despite the emojis which, well there is literally no other way to understand them but as suggesting they were watching the game, the footage was definitively, indisputably, without any question or doubt, identifiable as being from when they went to Nizam’s wedding last month, ie the only time they’ve hung out in months and months. LMAO WHOOPS. Not QUITE as good but definitely on the same theme IMO, she then posted a throwback to being in Ibiza dated August 2019. That was a very brief stay there her and Louis allegedly enjoyed after his festival appearance- but the only pics of them from it were at the airport in LONDON when she got back, causing many to wonder if Louis was ever there at all (my kind of throwback, love remembering that, hilarious!) The fact that he isn’t in the pic she posted today certainly won’t change any minds about that, and if she had pics of him there it sure seems like she’d be using them today…

And in (even more) fandom discourse news, author Kaitlyn Tiffany is back if anyone wants to block her; I guess she had just privated her blog for a bit, not deleted. Do it now is my advice. I hope she’s enjoying coming up with ways to explain why Eleanor is pretending that old footage was current when her and Louis oBviOUslY live together and see each other every day, but perhaps she’s a fan of the UA that helpfully explained that Eleanor posted that hotel footage “to show how she feels about football,” HAHAHA WHAT. This is about the level of analysis I expect from her upcoming book so it would be fitting...

#Niall horan #louis tomlinson #harry styles #liam payne #eleanor #19 jun 21 #BIG thx to ******* today for eleanor gossip #and reminding me the details of that ibiza trip that wasn't lollll

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I can't find any press about the afhf doc at all. Am I missing something? No reviews. Nothing. Am I looking in the wrong place cuz I don't see even a veeps report on numbers that attended the livestream? Have we been so caught up in content that we haven't noticed a complete media blackout on a (rare these days) festival?

Hi, anon. The numbers won't be out yet because tickets were still on sale until Sept 6th 5pm BST. But no, there is no press. Just an article on the fan site Celebmix, written by Simon Jones' blogger pal who also reports on Eleanor's influencer career and every other ex-1D. She got the exclusive of the livestream's record breaking numbers, so... chances are that if any are made public, it will be through her again.

I found it significant how Louis said in the documentary that he wanted to be one of the first to bring live music back with this festival. Since, romantic notions aside, that should have been an even greater reason for it to get attention in the press.

I would hope people will not lose sight of the present situation, once past the high of the concert. Because, whatever faith in the future we might have, to date, nothing has changed when it comes to how Louis is being mistreated and his solo music career held back.

The festival and streaming event were yet another display of Louis' brilliance, talent, passion, and determination as an artist, as a singer. But then, this has been evident in everything he has done since he started out on XF. And yet.

Just thinking of how his biggest press in 2020 was about Freddie, and for now in 2021 about a hypothetical, future management company. His IG went inactive for four months after he had the third biggest livestream of the year. How many times was he not seen for weeks this year except on Eleanor's account? The tabloid press he got in July didn't even include the word studio. Not to mention the situation with radio and playlisting.

And after watching the film are there still fans who think he would choose not to have press on it? Louis works hard and is proud of his music, and the work he does with other creatives, musicians, etc. Why would he not want it featured even on his platforms beyond one post on the date? Who can believe he is content being reduced to the personal life he wants to keep private? Can anyone still argue he does not want his music to be heard, does not want to be known as an artist? [And again, if it were a matter of focusing exclusively on his established fanbase, it still would not be like this.]

In the documentary Louis spoke about waiting for a break from bullshit and stress, for something to be easy, for once. In 2019 he expressed his frustration with the delay in releasing music due to XF. It upset him that interviewers in the US were not aware of a single before WMI. There is so much that makes it obvious the situation has not been and continues not to be, normal or good or fair - or one he is happy with either.

It's... :|

The film showcased him as the gifted, dedicated, genuine, gentle artist and individual he is. And if nothing else, I hope that will at least stick with fans - though I've been here too long to bet on it. But more people than his fanbase should have heard about it, should have [had] the chance to see it, and to know him.

#anon #if you sent a second ask - I don't know how long you've been here. but... precedent suggest no :|

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Wizards Hearts Smut Recs: Semi-Public Sex

Wizards Hearts was a four-month-long Drarry reading fest. Players were given a playing deck of 52 tropes, and were asked to find 52 different fics to read and comment on to fill their decks. To prevent the same few fics from being read, fics were restricted to only being used for the game three times before being considered ineligible for further points. The tropes and submissions list can be found here. Players could opt in to an additional suit of 13 cards, all themed around various popular smut tropes.

Check out the masterlist of fics for this trope below the cut!

📜 (We'll Call This Fixer-Upper) Home by phdmama Rated: Explicit Words: 52520 Tags: Rock Star Draco Malfoy, Artist Harry Potter, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Post Traumatic Growth, mental health, Original Character(s), Original Character Death(s), (all those are in the past), Recreational Drug Use, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Hooking up, Dating, Semi-Public Sex, Growth and Healing, Mention of Suicidal Ideation, Getting Together, Boys Kissing, Falling In Love Summary: Draco Malfoy hasn’t set foot on English soil in ten years. After the war, he fled to America, where he found himself in a community, and healed himself through following his heart into music. He’s now the lead singer and songwriter for an internationally known band, who have come back to headline the Wiltshire Music Festival. But as Draco is about to learn, his past isn’t as far away as he might have believed, and his future may hold more than he ever could have dreamed. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Under the Cover of Darkness by manixzen Rated: Mature Words: 2046 Tags: Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, Making Out, Snogging, Frottage, Clothes On, Post-Hogwarts, Party Games, Seven Minutes In Heaven Game, Sort Of, Minor Pansy Parkinson/Ginny Weasley, HP Kinktober 2020, One Shot Summary: Thanks to Pansy, Draco's stuck at a party with a whole bunch of drunk Gryffindors. And now they want to play party games. If only Draco can slip out unnoticed before this gets any worse. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Starkissed by Zigster Rated: Explicit Words: 32631 Tags: Digital Art, Fated Markings, Tattoos, But Not Tattoos, Italy, Venice, Vacation, Beaches, Crashing Waves, Deception, Intrigue, Carnevale di Venezia, Muggle Photography, Slow Burn, Sexual Tension, Body Worship, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Rimming, Enthusiastic Giving of Head, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Tattooed Harry Potter, Pining Harry Potter, Harry Potter is Obsessed with Draco Malfoy, Snarky Draco Malfoy, Draco Malfoy With Pink Hair, Original Characters as Draco's Flatmates, They Have Lots of Plants, Minor Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, H/D Sex Fair 2020 Summary: “Your tattoos!” The intruder says, boldly stepping over Ron’s chaise and crossing in front of Hermione to get to Harry, eyes wide and hungry. Harry immediately sits up, pulling the towel draped across the back of his chair down over his shoulders. “No! Don’t cover them. They’re beautiful.” Harry hopes an indulgent trip abroad will help shake him out of the doldrums of his life. What he finds once he gets to Venice is more than he ever expected. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Ardour of Karma by XxTheDarkLordxX Rated: Explicit Words: 17118 Tags: Post-Hogwarts, Post-Second War with Voldemort, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Auror Harry Potter, Ministry of Magic Employee Draco Malfoy, Getting Together, Cursed Harry Potter, Scents & Smells, heightened sense of smell, Porn With Plot, Erections, Inappropriate Erections, Sexual Fantasy, Fantasizing, Masturbation, Dirty Talk, Mutual Masturbation, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Switching, Face-Fucking, Dildos, H/D Erised 2019 ,Office Sex, Desk Sex, Semi-Public Sex, Comeplay Summary: “Malfoy knows something is going on with you and unless you both want to go back to fighting and death glares, you should fix it.” “How do I do that? Just waltz up to him and say, ‘I know I’ve been a prat but your scent makes my dick swell. How’s your day?’” “Mind repeating that?” The familiar drawl had Harry’s throat clamming up as his blood ran cold. Oh no. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Brighter than the sun by migrating_coconut Rated: Explicit Words: 3490 Tags: Humor, Fluff and Smut, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Explicit Sexual Content, Getting Together, Harry Potter in a swimsuit, Gay Disaster Draco Malfoy, Semi-Public Sex, Mutual Masturbation, Inappropriate Erections, HP Drizzle Fest 2020, Community: hp_drizzle Summary: Draco was promised a relaxing day at the beach. This was certainly not it! ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 the best treasure is up Harry’s arse by bafflinghaze Rated: Explicit Words: 2891 Tags: Established Relationship, Smut, Consensual Somnophilia, Anal Fingering, So Much Fingering, Top Draco Malfoy, Bottom Harry Potter, Light Dom/sub, Prostate Milking, Anal Plug, Light Dom Draco Malfoy, Bratty Sub Harry Potter, Sassy Harry Potter, Post-Hogwarts, H/D Sex Fair 2020, Porn with Feelings, Dirty Talk, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot Summary: Harry and Draco probably had a tumultuous time getting together, filled with angst and denial and pining and brooding. However, this is not that story. Here, Draco makes Harry come (more than once). ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Touch Me Fall by lq_traintracks (lumosed_quill) Rated: Explicit Words: 23380 Tags: Rentboys, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Semi-Public Sex, Shower Sex, Top Draco, Switching, Exhibitionism, Barebacking, Prostitution, Foot Massage, Atrocious Texting Summary: Malfoy was such a ponce. And he was a complete snob. And he was so fucking fit Harry wanted to jump him where he sat. It would be too easy to forget his objective tonight: to really, really, really get Malfoy out of his system. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 I guess that's just me, honey, I guess that's how I'm built by crimsonheadache Rated: Explicit Words: 4048 Tags: formal wear, Semi-Public Sex, Sub Harry, Dom Draco Malfoy, Blow Jobs, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Getting Together Summary: The way they adorned Potter’s body like they were made for him made him want to kiss his seamstresses’ feet. The lines, the colors, brought out his skin tone like nothing ever could. Well, except perhaps the ropes Draco keeps in the bottom drawer of his bedside table. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Catching the Niffler by keyflight790, tsundanire Rated: Explicit Words: 10377 Tags: Party, Party Games, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Accidental Voyeurism, Flashing, Fellatio, Fellating an Inanimate Object, Frottage, Orgasm, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Simultaneous Orgasm, Kissing, Boys Kissing, Girls Kissing, Everyones Kissing, Masturbation, Public Masturbation, Hand Jobs, Public Hand Jobs, Public Sex, Rimming, In Public, Everythings in Public in this Fic, Top Harry Potter, Bottom Draco Malfoy, Cunnilingus, Dry Humping, Anal Sex, Second Base, Neville makes it to Second Base, We're so proud of him, and Hannah, Boys In Love, eventually, Happy Ending, more than one, wink wonk, Friends Writing Together, This is what happens when BFFs write together, we make no apologies, except for Terry Boot, sorry Terry, eighth year Summary: “Tonight, we’re going to play Catch the Niffler.” Harry heard a couple of squeals from around the room and he let out a breath. Last week they had played Spin the Bottle, and Harry could count on more than one hand the witches that had spelled the glass to point to him during their turn. Harry had tasted enough sticky lip balm and cherry chapstick to last a lifetime. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 in and out by M0stlyVoid Rated: Explicit Words: 2217 Tags: Public Sex, Exhibitionism, Semi-Public Sex, Coming In Pants, Politics, Hand Jobs, Anal Fingering Summary: The exact nature of Harry and Draco's relationship might not be public, but that doesn't mean nothing about it is. You just need to know when to pay attention. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 knickers in a twist by technicolourbeat Rated: Explicit Words: 86461 Tags: Hogwarts Eighth Year, Reconciliation, Smut, Crossdressing, Boys in Skirts, Bottom Draco Malfoy, Top Harry Potter, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Semi-Public Sex, Riding, Topping from the Bottom, Draco Malfoy in a Skirt, Rimming, Lace Panties, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Public Sex, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Secret Relationship, Fuckbuddies, Shameless Smut, Sexual Roleplay, Fluff and Humor, Porn With Plot Summary: Draco loses a bet to Pansy and Blaise which leaves him wearing a skirt for a whole week. Harry discovers something about himself. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 To Change the Subject by gracerene Rated: Explicit Words: 1252 Tags: Established Relationship, AurorsAuror Partners, Auror Harry, Auror Draco Malfoy, Blow Jobs, Semi-Public Sex, Under-Desk Blow Jobs, Office Sex, Face-Fucking, POV Harry, Post-Hogwarts, HP: EWE Summary: Harry comes up with a more enjoyable alternative to arguing. ❤️ Read on AO3

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