BTW… re: Smut
... off my comment to this post the other day...
I'm an entertainer. Writing's a form of entertainment. (And not just for the readership: for me, too.) To be aroused by art one's experienced is (almost by definition) to be entertained, I'd say. If someone's jerking off to my erotica, then all I can do is lean back in the typing chair, smile a bit, and think, Good! I got the job done. :)
(...with the tags: #and no I'm not going to let on where the smut is#why would i deny anyone the delights of the search#and of being repeatedly mistaken#while possibly finding smut writers who're better at it than i am#:) ...)
...and then noting (with affectionate amusement) some responses:
Well, troops, better get busy filling in that bingo box. 😄
Also: I have to say (while stressing that I absolutely appreciate the humor behind "shocked, shocked, scandalized...") that the dissonance is, temporally speaking, a bit ill-founded. Because while I may be best known for the Young Wizards works these days... by no means did they come first. This did.
A soft chuckle in the darkness. “Lorn, remember that first time we shared at your place?”
“That was a long time ago.”
“It seems that way.”
“—and my father yelled up the stairs, ‘What are you dooooooooing?’
“—and you yelled back, ‘We’re fuckinnnnnnnnnnng!’”
“—and it was quiet for so long—”
“—and then he started laughing—”
“Yeah.”
Granted, from the here-and-now POV of readers with access to the hot-'n'-spicy shipfic or PWP on AO3, this sort of thing (and the numerous other lights-often-off or dialogue-only sexytiems passages in the traditionally published Middle Kingdoms works) would be seen as pretty small beer: soft, non-edgy stuff. Yet in 1979 apparently there were those who found the sex and sexualities on display in The Door Into Fire arresting enough that the book got me nominated for the Astounding Award (for best new author in the field) two years in a row.
There's no question that the broadly inclusive tone set by the Middle Kingdoms books went on to affect and underlie the YW universe in very basic ways. (There've been some scholarly works written by academics who've picked up on this, so [much to my relief] this perception hasn't been just me imagining it.) But I'll grant you that those who don't know the MK novels wouldn't be in a position to make the connection. (shrug) This is just one of those things that comes of having a lot of fragmented readerships who don't know about each other... a side effect of having done a lot of different things during a career. I can also understand how not knowing about the MK works could leave people who know me only, or primarily, as someone writing for a younger readership, a little bit disoriented (or maybe concerned) when the issue of me writing openly sexual material rears its head. But that wouldn’t be a change of direction. It’d be, to some extent, more a return to form.
Anyway: I consider erotica—and its more casually-dressed (or undressed...) cousin, smut—to be perfectly legit forms of literary expression; ones that can soar to unexpected heights if you're willing to put in the work. The sexy-stuff-writing muscle requires periodic exercise if it's to remain viable and/or useful. So I exercise it. And being a 70-year-old person who sometimes creaks audibly when she walks has done absolutely nothing to decrease my interest in the subject—the brain being, after all, the biggest sex organ, and the one least vulnerable to the depredations of time. If anything, nearly fifty years of experience (and three and a half decades of marriage to @petermorwood) have added... let's just say nuance. 😏
Now this whole concept will doubtless horrify some of the "Eww, You're Too Old To Be Writing This Kind Of Thing, Go Get A (Home) Life" types. To which all I can say is, "...Well, good!" By and large, such folks are not my readers anyway. And as for any of them who are, and can't deal…? They need to understand that (pointing off to one side) those people over there—the various kinda-straight and pansexual and bisexual humans, and the gender-fluid fire elemental, and the otherly-gendered Dragon, and the mostly-gay ones enthusiastically shouting "We're fuckinnnng!" down the stairs—are Nita's and Kit's godparents. Without the members of that extremely mixed marriage and their increasingly extended family, there might be no Young Wizards series... not least because it was the splash made by the first of the Middle Kingdoms books that got the Errantryverse crowd in through a major publisher's door. And the series’s continued (modest but still noticeable) success through the second and third volumes kept the writing of new YW books going for a good long while.
...So. For those who may have had questions: HTH. 😀
(And now back to the unending search for a more graceful synonym for “testicles”.)
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Take My Hand
Summary: Edwin writes his feelings for Selene into his diary as he struggles to come to terms with them.
Words: 637
Tags: @druidx, @sparrow-orion-writes , @homesteadchronicles, @warriorbookworm, @mariahwritesstuff, @ashirisu , @thesorcerersapprentice , @blind-the-winds , @philosophika , @the-down-upside-finch @flashfictionfridayofficial
Warnings: Sappy romantice feelings and angst? Also some pre-emptive grief stuff.
Notes: Written for the Flash Fiction Friday prompt 'Take My Hand' and set around a week before the events of To Heal A Broken Soul.
If you’d only place your hand in mine, I’d be able to show you how much you mean to me. But I can only watch as you push yourself ever further out to sea and leave me standing on the shore.
I can see how much you hurt. Can see the pain being inflicted on you by those with ill intent. And yet I cannot say a word about it. Not if I want to help you save the city you’ve been bleeding yourself dry for.
I want to scream and shout and whisk you away from the vipers with their fangs at your throat. But you’d never come with me. As much as my heart cries out for me to try, I have to respect the choices you’ve made.
Garden above, it’s killing me to know that you’d rather lose yourself to duty than to step back and let anyone else in. I can see how much it’s killing you too, but you’re too stubborn to acknowledge that. It’s becoming almost too frustrating to bear.
It would be enough to make me give up; were it not for the way my heart soars with every smile. The way my soul sings when you l hear you laugh. I know you do not feel the same for me, but I cannot help but continue to fall for you every time we speak. I love you, and I think I always have.
So as much as it hurts, I will sit here on the shore, waiting to jump in when the current inevitably becomes too strong for you to cope. I can only hope that you’ll take my hand when I am finally able to offer it, for I do not know what I shall do if you refuse.
Edwin heaved a sigh, letting his quill drop to the desk as he placed his head in his hands. His chest ached as he swallowed down a sob. As much as he would continue praying otherwise, he knew what Selene’s choice would be, and it was almost enough to break him utterly. He pulled out his holy symbol and ran his thumbs over the carved, wooden surface. He bowed his head to it and closed his eyes, tears streaming into his beard. He muttered a short prayer, before speaking more candidly,
“Please, watch over her. I know she is no devotee, but I cannot bear the thought of- of-”
Pre-emptive grief gripped his throat, choking off his words. Edwin felt the gentle caress of Galana on his shoulders, the touch of a mother consoling Her lost child. No words accompanied the gesture, but Edwin felt his shoulders relax as he finally allowed the dam to break.
He did not know how long it was before he was able to compose himself. When he finally stopped sobbing, he looked out of the window. The soft lights of the lamps outside the garden met his gaze, their orange glow half-blocked by the trees and hedgerows lining the garden’s edge. Edwin rubbed his face and sat upright, closing the diary on the desk in front of him and placing the quill next to the inkpot. He stood and dusted himself down. Time to try convincing the woman he loved to accept his help yet again. Not that he had high hopes right now, but he had to make the attempt anyway. Edwin blew out the candle he’d been writing by, swept out of his office and cast his Windwalk spell to catch Selene as she left the Wizard’s Tower.
Chrackle blinked slowly as he watched the Abouna leave his church from his perch on the tree just outside the window of Edwin’s office. The magpie ruffled his feathers and took off after the human man. Maybe this time his mistress would listen.
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LCDrarry 2023 Round-Up Post | Week 2
On Sundays during our posting period, we won't post a new work, instead you have time to catch up on the works that posted during the week and hopefully leave lovely comments for our creators.
Happy reading, commenting and sharing! ;)
~Your LCDrarry Mods
PS: Please have a look at the author notes and tags on AO3 for additional information. Thank you!
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Nobody Tells You How
Prompt: "Return to Me", 2000, Bonnie Hunt | fic written for LCDrarry 2019
Author: @ThirdEye1234
Narrator: Anonymous
Runtime: 3 hours 8 min (34,248 words)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Illness, Death of a Spouse
Summary: Draco never expected to find love once, let alone twice. But how does love work when your heart's still broken?
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Harry gets a heart transplant and develops feelings for Draco Malfoy, but those two things are not at all related. Until they are.
Listen to it now on AO3.
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lies! subterfuge! seething corruption!
Prompt: "Black Books", 2000, TV Series
Artist: Anonymous
Art Medium: Digital Art
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: Vague mention of alcohol, Drarry being grumpy
Summary: what if draco was bernard black? wait. what if.
View it now on AO3.
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The Other L-Word
Prompt: "Scott Pilgrim", 2010, Edgar Wright
Prompted by: Anonymous
Artist: Anonymous
Art Medium: Digital Art
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: None
Summary: Dating Draco Malfoy comes with baggage. Baggage in the form of seven evil exes.
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Love Sees All Light
Prompt: "Love is Blind", 2020, TV Series/Show
Prompted by: @thebooktopus
Artist: Anonymous
Art Medium: Digital Art
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: None
Summary: Going into the show had not been their initial plan, but they're determined to see it to the end. While Draco and Harry had hoped to find love, they'd have never imagined they'd find their soulmates.
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Peep Show
Prompt: "Friends", 1994, TV Series
Prompted by: @lettersbyelise
Author: Anonymous
Length: 10,120 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: Auror trainees Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy are maybe-possibly-sort-of friends. When Harry moves into the building next to Draco's, they become neighbors, too. Actually, Harry can see directly into Draco's flat from his window. And as it turns out, Draco gets up to some interesting things at night.
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Let it in
Prompt: "Cherry Magic! Thirty years of virginity can make you a wizard?!", TV Series/Show
Author: Anonymous
Word Count: 11,654 words
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: None
Summary: "Thirty, huh?" Pansy asked. “My cousin told me that Japan there’s this urban legend called ‘cherry magic’. It’s basically that if you turn thirty without, you know, popping your cherry, you get magical powers.”
“Pans, I don’t know how to put this to you, but we already have magical powers,” Draco said.
Pansy laughed. “No, you dolt. New ones. Apparently the legend goes that you become a mind reader.”
Draco shivered. “Sounds awful.”
“Anyway, it won’t happen to you, will it?” she asked.
Draco shifted a little uncomfortably. “Of course it won’t,” he said. “Because you just said it’s an urban legend.”
“I meant, it won’t happen to you because you’re not a virgin.”
Draco laughed.
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Harry Potter vs the World
Prompt: "Scott Pilgrim", 2010, Edgar Wright
Prompted by: Anonymous
Author: Anonymous
Word Count: 13,943 words
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence, Cheating/Infidelity, Relationship between a 21 year old and a 17 year old (not endgame)
Summary: A year after the worst breakup of his life, some could argue that Harry is still struggling—dating his best friend's ex-girlfriend's sister. But when Draco Malfoy appears in a dream and then corporeally in front of him, Harry's life is turned upside down. The only thing standing in between Harry and the literal man of his dreams are seven people out to destroy him.
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Hole to Feed
Prompt: "The Menu", 2022, Mark Mylod
Prompted by: minty_petals Author: Anonymous
Word Count: 34,436 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Self-Harm, Blood and Injury, Fiendfyre, Explicit Sex
Summary: Draco tunes them all out, watching as they fly through the water, when familiarity on his glass catches his eyes. The writing – because it’s writing, he realises, when he brings the glass closer – is barely there, blink and you'd miss it. But he would never miss it: the writing is in his dreams, under his fingernails, in his blood. It’s runes.
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The Malfoy-Black Foundation is celebrating its 25th anniversary. But why does the whole staff consist of Hogwarts graduates? And why does Chef Evans seem familiar?
Harry Potter meets The Menu (2022)
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Through His Eyes (I Am Set Free)
Prompt: "In Your Eyes", 2014, Brin Hill
Author: Anonymous
Word Count: 134,034 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Threesome, vouyerism, minor character death
Summary: Harry and Draco have a telepathic connection that remains unexplained in both the Muggle and wizarding worlds. Draco is assigned a mission by Voldemort to locate and capture the Boy Who Lived-- the trouble is that they don't know anything about him. While Draco struggles to gather information on this mysteriously absent hero, he and Harry start communicating again for the first time since they were kids. Harry continues life as normal until he discovers information compels him to abandon his ordinary Muggle life with the endeavor to rescue and emancipate his only friend-- even if that means bartering with his own life.
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Posted January 2023. (Originally posted a couple of years back, but I accidentally deleted it when I went to update it with more fics)
A list of podfics I absolutely adore - in alfabetical order. As always, please read the tags and warnings before listening.
Title: All Life is Yours to Miss
Read by: originally reads
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~ 11h
Rating: Mature
Summary: Professor Malfoy's world is contained, controlled, and as solitary as he can make it, but when an act of petty revenge goes horribly awry, he and his trusty six-legged friend are thrown into Hogwarts life at the deep end and must learn to live, love and let go.
This one always makes me smile. It's very focused on Draco, and his journey to figuring out how to really live his life instead of just excist in it. Beautiful story that's beautifully read in a soothing voice.
Title: An Owl Named Romeo
Read by: fire_juggler
Authour: Rickey
Length:~ 3h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Draco breeds owls, Harry’s an Auror, and an owl named Romeo is going to bring them together.
This one has Auror!Harry and Owl breeder!Draco, and it’s a wonderfull mix of humour, mystery, angst and fluff. Romeo is an amazing owl, and fire_juggler reads the story wonderfully.
Title: Away Childish Things
Read by: RattleandHum (ThirdEye1234)
Authour: lettered
Length:~ 14h
Rating: Teen and Up
Summary: Harry gets de-aged. Malfoy has to help him.
Beautiful fic read so wonderfully it made me ache with all the feels.
Title: Blood Magic
Read by: houseofhebrideanblacks, Thestralsofspinnersend
Authours: houseofhebrideanblacks, Thestralsofspinnersend
Length:~ 33h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: A story of thestral magic, forest lore and recovery from all the things that haunt us.
This is a beautiful story of recovery, friendship, love and life. And in being a story about that it exlpores the darker sides of those same themes; illness, loneliness and death. The authours read the story themselves, giving different voices to Draco and Harry's POV. It's a beautiful listen.
Title: Blue Roses and Other Impossible Things
Read by: Sandstripe
Authour: Cassiara
Length:~ 3h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: After Harry saved Draco from the Room of Requirement there was a moment when Draco gave Harry a look. Harry didn’t know what to make of it, and he had a war to fight so he ignored it. Now though, they’re back at Hogwarts sharing a dorm and Harry is obsessed with seeing that look again.
I wrote this fic, but I had to rec it here anyways because Sandstripe does such a wonderful reading of it. It's an 8th year fic with coming out and first times and a little angst.
Title: Burning day: A Tale of Rebirth
Read by: fire_juggler
Authour: tealeaf523
Length:~ 2.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Looking for a bit of solitude over his winter holiday, Harry Potter rents a home in Scotland, only to end up in the middle of adventure amongst the snow-blanketed hills. There is a local in Castle Valley who looks uncannily like his Hogwarts school rival, but he has no memory of meeting Harry in the past. However, Harry is determined to find out what happened to Draco Malfoy between his disappearance and finding his new identity as a charming unicorn trainer at the Scotland Unicorn Reservation for Lost Youths.
Unicorns and memory loss and falling in love? Sign me up! fire_juggler did a brilliant job bringing this to life.
Title: Chasing Shadows
Read by: lastontheboat
Authour: manixzen
Length:~ 9.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: The murder of Lucius Malfoy seems impossible—no cause of death, no traces of spell-work, no potions in his system. The only leads Harry and his partner have are the trail of missing wizards the deeper they go. That and the help of the victim’s estranged son who now spends his time bartending at a queer-friendly Muggle pub. A case fic featuring a closeted Harry Potter, an out-and-proud, tattooed Draco Malfoy, and a murder mystery that seems to lead to more questions than answers.
This fic is so good! Harry has hidden being gay for years and years and his growth to live as who he is is beautifully interwoven with him and Draco falling in love and a thrilling crime plot.Also I just love Draco in this! He's grown so much and is so attentive and he makes the smut so steamy! The reading of it is so well done and just brings so much life to the fic!
Title: Foundations'Verse - Reparations, Foundations
Read by: 6shotsamericano
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~10h + 27.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Reparations: Harry is about to discover that the steepest learning curve comes after Healer training, and that second chances can be found in unexpected places. Foundations: When one door closes, another one opens – with a bit of a push. Life, love and complications.
This verse was one of my first ever Drarry fics, and the podfic of it was my first ever podfic experience. Both were major influences on the fact that I now love both Drarry and podfic. The fics are a masterpiece and 6shotsamericano reads them in such a wonderfull way that it's easy to immerse yourself in the story.
Title: Headlights in the Snow
Read by: magsmagicalnightmare
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~ 10h
Rating: Mature
Summary: What’s big and purple and smells like tea? Harry is about to find out. Advent fic 2016.
You can never go wrong with Saras_Girls christmas fics, and this is another great one! And it's so brilliantly read I felt like I was on the bus listening in on conversations. magsmagicalnightmare brought this fic so much life and personality and it's brilliant!
Title: Here's the Pencil, Make it Work
Read by: teas_me
Authour: ignatiustrout
Length:~ 5.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Harry thinks, "Why is Malfoy working in a coffee shop in muggle London?" is a much simpler question than, "Are you going to accept that auror offer and, if you don't, what will you do?"
This one has Harry discovering Draco in the muggle world, a building friendship, coming out and wonderful humour. I loved all the friendships in this story, and the way ignatiustrout voices them.
Title: If the Fates Allow
Read by: lastontheboat
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~8h
Rating: Mature
Summary: What's that crackling in the walls? Harry has no clue at all. He'll eat some cake and drink some wine. Because he is completely FINE. -A story about life's disregard for our plans.
An advent story in podfic form?! I’ll be listening to this every single December.
Title: In Evidence of Magical Theory
Read by: Sandstripe
Authour: bixgirl1
Length:~ 2.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: When a hex meant for Draco accidentally catches Harry as well, they're forced to learn to understand each other in ways they previously might have thought impossible. In which Harry and Draco can't fight, so they fall in love instead.
Wonderfull read of a wonderfull story! Accidental bonding and forced proximity in a Hogwarts 8th year story hits all the spots.
Title: Keep Holding On
Read by: Thunder_of_Dragons
Authour: gnarf, with art by MaesterChill.
Length: ~3.5h
Rating: Mature
Summary: After the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry and Draco both fall into their own battles with their mental states. Draco is sent to Azkaban, and Harry turns to drinking, hoping to forget. Months later, Harry visits St Mungo’s new ward on the request of a friend, only to find Draco in a deep vegetative state. Not willing to give him up, Harry stays by his side, while simultaneously dealing with the Ministry's newest grand idea to make everything worse. Making new allies, and losing old ones along the way, will hopefully be worth it in the end.
This deals wonderfully with healing and building a bond, and it’s read really beautifully.
Title: Modern Love
Read by: lastontheboat
Authour: tackytiger
Length:~ 5.5 h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Harry Potter, of all people, knows that life isn’t always fair. And no one gets to be happy all of the time. But surely there’s something more—something better—than a rubbish Ministry job, and a lonely old house, and that feeling that everyone out there is doing a better job of living than Harry is. And it really doesn’t seem fair that Draco Malfoy is back in Harry’s life, all of a sudden, and even though he’s wandless, and living with Muggles, and making his mother cry with his lifestyle choices, he’s happy. So what's he doing right, that Harry isn’t? Because things don’t really change, do they? And if Harry can’t be happy, he’ll settle for a good night’s sleep, some posh antiques, and the opportunity to find out what Malfoy has been up to for all these years. And that’s what starts it all.
I really enjoyed this one. The story is really engaging and full of emotion, and the reader conveys them perfectly.
Title: Newts
Read by: Lazulus
Authour: astolat
Length:~ 1.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: “I’m twenty-eight!” Harry said. “I’ve been an Auror for ten years! You want me to go back to Hogwarts now?"
Title: On a Clear Day
Read by: 6shotsamericano
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~ 5h
Rating: Mature
Summary: Draco Malfoy is waiting for his real life to begin, and it appears that he’s not the only one. Coffee, charity, and the wisdom of the elderly.
I've listened to this one too many times to count over the years. Humour, falling in love and learning to live.
Title: Open for repairs
Read by: RattleandHum (ThirdEye1234)
Authour: FeelsForBreakfast
Length:~ 3h
Rating: Mature
Summary: After the war, Draco works at a tv repair shop and Harry breaks things.Feat. sad boys in jumpers and more ABBA than is probably necessary.
I forgot how much I loved this fic, but the podfic made me fall in love all over again. I loved all the voices and the portrayal of the emotions.
Title: Running on air
Authour: eleventy7
Length:~ 8h
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: Draco Malfoy has been missing for three years. Harry is assigned the cold case and finds himself slowly falling in love with the memories he collects.
This is a beautiful story and it's read just as beautifully.
Title: Secrets
Read by: Opalsong
Authour: Vorabiza (Biza)
Length:~ 44h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Beginning with Draco's unexpected arrival at the Dursleys, Harry's summer becomes filled with activity and many secrets. He generates several unexpected allies as he finds himself actively becoming the leader of the Light side. H/D post-HBP
This story is an intense alternate book 7, and Opalsong reads it so engagingly.
Title: Stately Homes of Wiltshire
Read by: Lazulus
Authour: waspabi
Length:~ 5.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Malfoy Manor has mould, dry rot and an infestation of unusually historical poltergeists. Harry Potter is on the case.
This fic is so lovely, both the story and the reading has made me laugh on several occations. It's a mystery with love and friendships and figuring out what you want from life.
Title: Temptation on the Warfront
Read by: Sandstripe
Authour: alizarincrims0n
Length:~ 14h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Draco Malfoy is forced into hiding with the Golden Trio and dragged into their search for horcruxes. What ensues is a journey of redemption, unexpected friendships and an unwanted, turbulent romance with Harry Potter. Warnings for swearing, sexual content, and dark themes.
Title: The Boy Who Only Lived Twice
Read by: TheOneCalledEli
Authour: lettered
Length:~ 6h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Harry Potter is an Unspeakable. Draco Malfoy is the wizard who shagged him. Adventure! Intrigue! Secret identities, celebrities, spies! It's all right here, folks.
Drarry as secret spies is so much fun and excitement, and the slow falling in love and wanting but not knowing was just so perfect. And TheOneCalledEli reads it so brilliantly, it made me fall in love with this fic all over again!
Title: This Summer
Read by: RattleandHum
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~ 3.5
Rating: Teen
Summary: This is a summery romantic comedy featuring my favourite ensemble cast, in which Harry is confused, Draco is Draco, and Hermione attempts to eat all the things.
Costume parties and pining and all the good things! This fic is sweet and funny and listening to it made me smile.
Title: Turn
Read by: Queenie_Mab
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~ 37h
Rating: Mature
Summary: One good turn always deserves another. Apparently.
This story is a classic, and the reading of it fully lives up to the quality of the written fic; absolutely wonderfull! Another one I've listened to more times than I can count.
Title: (Un)wanted
Read by: aibidil
Authour: aibidil
Length:~4h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Ginny's pregnant, then she's not and Harry's single. Harry, again with no family, doesn't know what to do with this turn of events, or how to find a new life—post-war, post-Ginny, post-abortion—in which he belongs. He doesn't expect that life to include dancing to the Backstreet Boys with Hermione and Draco Malfoy. A story of finding belonging in the unexpected.
This one is so good. It's about being lonely and feeling unwanted, but finding family and learning to accept love when offered as well as loving oneself. I love Harry and Hermione's relationship in this. Actually, the women in general are awesome.
Title: What We Pretend We Can't See
Read by: FayJay
Authour: Gyzym
Length:~ 13h
Rating: Mature/Explicit
Summary: Seven years out from the war, Harry learns the hard truth of old history: it’s never quite as far behind you as you thought. (Auror Potter is summoned to a break-in at a rather eccentric little museum in the house he used to own.)
This is one of those fics where I can finish listening and just start it over again immediatly. It's got magical houses, house elf magic, friendships, humour, and I absolutely love how Draco and Harry are both written in this. FayJay gives amazing life to the charachters, and this one is just so wonderful.
Title: When Times are Dire
Read by: aibidil
Authour: aibidil
Length:~ 14h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Magical Britain is screwed, and it's once again up to Harry to save it. This time, by marrying Draco Malfoy.
This fic is so interesting. It's fake relationship but done differently to anything else I've read. It's political in a way that rings true for so much that's going on in the world and it was lovely to see the characters I love fight for things I believe in!
Title: Who we are in the shadows
Read by: Sandstripe
Authour: Quicksilvermaid
Length:~ 7h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: What happens when you’re forced to become the very thing you despise? Ex-Auror Harry Potter, tossed out of the Ministry for something he had no control over, has been looking for a way back to his former life. When he comes across Draco Malfoy in the criminal underbelly of Wizarding London and in need of protection, Harry figures bringing him in to face the Ministry's justice is his ticket back to everything he's lost. But nothing is exactly as it seems. Not even Harry himself. And as he gets drawn further and further into Malfoy's world of honour and deception he finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew—about his childhood nemesis, the Ministry job he misses so much, and most of all, about himself. What happens when you’re forced to see that you were wrong?
This fic feels a little like a healing bruise. By which I mean that it hurts, a little – but in a good way. Sandstripe does a brilliant job of making all the emotions come across and I'll definetly be listening to this many times.
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