LCDrarry 2021 Master List
Dear lovely Participants, Creators, Alpha and Beta Readers, Commentors, Cheerleaders, Readers and Fans of our fest,
Our 3rd installment of LCDrarry is coming to an end, and we'd like to thank you all for taking part in our little fest, for creating so many amazing new Drarry works for us all to enjoy, for commenting on your favourite creations, for sharing and recommending the LCDrarry gems with your friends and blog followers, and for making this fest another amazing experience for everybody!
You can find out under the cut who created what ;D
~Your LCDrarry Mods Tami ( @celilasart ) and Suzi ( @erin-riwen )
PS: Please have a look at the author notes and tags on AO3 for additional information and more detailed warnings.
PPS: As always, reblogs are very much appreciated to promote all the wonderful works of LCDrarry.
Thank you! :)
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Podfic
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[Podfic] Harry Potter And The Disorder Of The Phoenix
Title: "Harry Potter And The Disorder Of The Phoenix"
Written by: postjentacular
Read by: @porcelainsalt | bluedreaming (AO3)
Word Count: 1,304 words / 8 minutes
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Summary: An exasperated werewolf-slash-professor, a decidedly not-dead drama queen, a brat, and a straight white man settle down to watch a movie. It goes as well as you’d expect.
Listen to "Harry Potter And The Disorder Of The Phoenix" on AO3.
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Art
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[Art] At the Beginning (With You)
Prompt: "Anastasia", 1997, Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
Artist: @zandragorin
Art Medium: Digital Art
Rating: Teen
Warnings: none
Summary: It's one, two, three, and suddenly he sees it a glance.
View "At the Beginning (With You)" on AO3.
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[Art] Between Your Heart and Mine
Prompt: "Crimson Peak", 2015, Guillermo del Toro
Artist: @kryptidfox
Art Medium: Digital Art
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Summary: Auror Harry Potter is called to investigate barren and isolated Malfoy Manor, home to Sir Draco Malfoy. There, he finds forgotten secrets, lingering ghosts and perhaps even love.
View "Between Your Heart and Mine" on AO3.
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[Art] Fallen
Prompt: "Chocolat", 2000, Lasse Hallström
Artists: @julcheninred & m4gOrtz
Art Medium: paper, thread, chalk, ink
Rating: General
Warnings: Food, Depression, Clergy
Summary: As Père Harry passed the window of the chocolate shop early on Easter morning, he was shocked to discover the Comte de Malfoy, who had destroyed the shop's window display and fallen asleep in his grief and exhaustion.
View "Fallen" on AO3.
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[Art] I am only one side of a coin.
Prompt: "Merlin", 2008-2012
Artist: @digthewriter
Art Medium: Digital Art in Photoshop
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Summary: The better side, obviously.
Merlin/Harry Potter fusion. Harry as Merlin & Draco as Arthur.
View "I am only one side of a coin." on AO3.
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[Art] No Sweeter Innocence Than Our Gentle Sin
Prompt: "Romeo and Juliet", Shakespeare
Artist: writingsbydestiny
Art Medium: Digital Art
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Summary: Inspired by Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare starring Draco Malfoy as Juliet Capulet and Harry Potter as Romeo Montague.
View "No Sweeter Innocence Than Our Gentle Sin" on AO3.
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[Art] The Malfoy Family
Prompt: "The Addams Family", 1991, David Levy
Author: @moondraconis
Art Medium: Digital Art
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Summary: Harry and Draco have just got engaged. Now Harry has to sit for a family portrait with his weird new in-laws.
View "[Art] The Malfoy Family" on AO3.
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[Art] The Poet's Choice
Prompt: "Portrait of a Lady on Fire", 2019, Céline Sciamma
Artist: @kairennart | Personaje (AO3)
Art Medium: Digital Art
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Summary: On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteen century, Harry is commissioned to paint a wedding portrait of Draco without him knowing, since he refuses to pose. That means a lot of staring, and a lot of time together.
Time goes by, and, inevitably, like everything in life, they fall in love.
But Harry has to finish his painting, and Draco has to get married.
View "The Poet's Choice" on AO3.
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[Art] there are dangerous men about
Prompt: "The Legend of Zorro”, 2005, Martin Campbell
Artist: @dragontamerdame | dragontamerdrarry (AO3)
Art Medium: Digital Art
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Summary: Two wizards engaging in a vicious duel, but make it gay and sexy.
View "there are dangerous men about" on AO3.
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Fic & Art
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[Fic & Art] One More Lantern
Prompt: “xxxHoLiC”, 2006-2010 (anime)/2013 (live action)
Author/Artist: vivi1138
Word Count/Art Medium: 8,373 words & Digital Art
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Smoking
Summary: Harry is plagued by spirits who seem intent on devouring him, and there’s only one place they can’t follow: a house hidden in wizarding London, belonging to Draco Malfoy. Harry didn’t intend to stay. He certainly didn’t foresee falling in love. Yet here they are.
A slice of life where Draco is a sap, Harry buys ice cream, and spirits keep throwing their peaceful life into chaos.
Read and view "One More Lantern" on AO3.
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[Fic & Art] In the Shadow of Your Heart
Prompt: Howl's Moving Castle, 2004, Hayao Miyazaki
Author: @fantalf
Word Count/Art Medium: 854 words & Digital Art
Rating: General
Warnings: sectumsempra scars, memory loss
Summary: When the recluded ex-Death Eater Draco Malfoy finds Harry Potter wandering around the hills, with no memory whatsoever of who he once was, he and Teddy decide to welcome him into their little family.
Read and view "In the Shadow of Your Heart" on AO3.
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Fic
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[Fic] Paging Healer Twatwaffle
Prompt: "House M.D.", 2004-2012, TV-Series
Author: @veelawings
Word Count: 1,550 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Mild dub-con and manipulation, but they’re already friends with benefits.
Summary: Healer Malfoy is an absolute wanker.
Read "Paging Healer Twatwaffle" on AO3.
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[Fic] (Let's Take Our Time) Just Moving Slow
Prompt: "Holidate", 2020, John Whitesell
Author: Melacka
Word Count: 1,886 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: none
Summary: Harry and Draco have a mutually beneficial arrangement: automatic dates for all holidays and public events, no questions asked, no obligation, no strings. It all seemed like such a good idea when they started. Harry certainly never expected to develop feelings for Draco.
Read "(Let's Take Our Time) Just Moving Slow" on AO3.
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[Fic] Jurassic Drarry
Prompt: "Jurassic Park", 1993, Steven Spielberg
Author: PhenomenalAsterisk
Word Count: 1,941 words & Digital Art
Rating: General
Warnings: Unconventional disposal of dinosaurs; fanart includes graphic image of meat
Summary: An unflappable palaeontologist, a sexy chaos theorist, and a distracted palaeobotanist are called in to tour an eccentric billionaire's pet project.
Read "Jurassic Drarry" on AO3.
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[Fic] My Saviour Won't Stop Texting Me
Prompt: "Hercules", 1997, Ron Clements, John Musker
Author: fwooshy
Word Count: 5,012 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Texting fic
Summary: Long ago, in Ancient Greece, there was a man named Draco Malfoy who sold his soul to Voldemort. Tortured by his sins, he... oh, who am I kidding? This is a Hercules AU texting fic, not some Greek tragedy! Harry and Draco get together and everyone has phones in Ancient Greece. Please enjoy.
Read "My Saviour Won't Stop Texting Me" on AO3.
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[Fic] The Malfoy Family
Prompt: "The Addams Family", 1991, David Levy
Author: floydig
Word Count: 7,088 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: All Addams Family Warnings Apply, Morbid and Dark Humor, Loving Horror, Mild Body Horror (fun), Carnivorous Plants, Blasphemy, Necromancy, Implied Sexual Content
Summary: The Malfoy Family is the Addams Family, and things are about to get interesting.
Draco and Harry Malfoy are odd, intriguing, endearingly creepy, and completely and utterly infatuated with one another. This is going to be a fun one.
Featuring deadly magical creatures as house pets, recreational use of Unforgivable Curses, hungry carnivorous plants, and plenty of mayhem in between.
Also, the whole thing takes place at a Magical Multi-Purpose Store. The Malfoy Family goes shopping!
Read "The Malfoy Family" on AO3.
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[Fic] Love that Blinds
Prompt: "The Batman", 2004-2008, TV-Series
Author: aminathescorpio
Word Count: 7,245 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Brief graphic descriptions of violence, dubious consent, gaslighting
Summary: When Draco Malfoy gets accepted to work as a psychiatrist in Azkaban Asylum, he finds himself caught in a complicated relationship with none other than Azkaban's most infamous resident: Harry Potter.
Read "Love that Blinds" on AO3.
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[Fic] Sesame Seeds and the Entire Spectrum of Human Emotion
Prompt: "The Proposal", 2009, Anne Fletcher
Author: @bisexualronaldweasley
Word Count: 9,530 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Nudity, Boat Incident, references to past abuse/neglect
Summary: Faced with exile, Draco pretends to be engaged to Harry Potter, who agrees to play along for Narcissa's sake. When they're forced to spend a weekend together celebrating the engagement with the Weasleys, they might try to kill each other, or... they might just fall in love.
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Based on the movie The Proposal (2009), though you don't have to have seen the movie to understand the fic!
Read "Sesame Seeds and the Entire Spectrum of Human Emotion" on AO3.
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[Fic] Ghost
Prompt: "Ghost", 1990, Jerry Zucker
Author: @maraudersaffair
Word Count: 10,761 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: major character death (MCD), canon-typical violence, grief and mourning
Summary: When Harry is killed tragically during an Auror raid gone wrong, Draco does his best to move on. He's even a little cheered when Theo Nott starts pursuing him.
Then Sybil Trelawney visits Draco.
Read "Ghost" on AO3.
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[Fic] all in good time
Prompt: "Groundhog Day", 1993, Harold Ramis
Author: saltwatergarden
Word Count: 13,054 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: mentions alcohol
Summary: Draco Malfoy's life is boring and repetitive. He supposes he shouldn't complain, since that's better than sharing a house with Voldemort, or doing time in Azkaban.
When he gets trapped in a time loop, however, he is forced to confront the routine he has fixed for himself, and try to break out of it. It isn't all bad, facing no consequences for his actions can be fun for a bit. But after he starts visiting the Auror Headquarters and having brief but remarkably pleasant conversations with one Auror Potter, he finally has the real motivation to break out of the time loop - something worth sticking around for.
Read "all in good time" on AO3.
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[Fic] Star Crossed
Prompt: "Romeo and Juliet", Shakespeare
Author: GallifreyisBurning
Word Count: 13,615 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: none
Summary: Two Quidditch teams, alike in dignity, In fair Great Britain, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
The Wimbourne Wasps and the Appleby Arrows have been bitter rivals for centuries. When a nasty brawl ends one of their Seekers’ careers, the teams need new blood to take up the slack and divert attention from the bad publicity. And who better to distract the press than the infamous Draco Malfoy and golden boy Harry Potter? Called back from successful careers abroad, the pair are once again to be pitted against one another in an epic feud. Too bad no one told them that before they started flirting…
Read "Star Crossed" on AO3.
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[Fic] The Slytherin Host Club
Prompt: "Ouran high school host club", 2006, Bisco Hatori and Takuya Igarashi
Author: shushu_yaoi_lj
Word Count: 14,377 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: explicit sexual content, scars, non-graphic mention of past abuse
Summary: Harry is simply looking for a quiet place to finish his Potions essay.It's a pity he ends up at the Slytherin Host Club instead. Or maybe it's a blessing in disguise, since he's had a crush on Malfoy since the beginning of his eighth year...
Read "The Slytherin Host Club" on AO3.
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[Fic] It is on the other side of my soul (where your name is written)
Prompt: "Call Me By Your Name", 2017, Luca Guadagnino
Author: opaleopioid
Word Count: 16,372 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: implied switching, rimming, anal sex, no age difference (HP canon-compliant age difference)
Summary: Harry’s having it all, now that the unpleasantries of being treated like a loose cannon is gone: the war is well over, and Voldemort is long dead. He’s made the choice to stay in B, an unplottable magical town in Northern Italy, whose protection wards had kept him in one piece at the height of the second wizarding war, and whose seclusion provides him with the quiet, normal life that he now lives.
Harry adores the grassy hills that enclose B like the warm arm of a mother; Likes playing the grand piano from dawn to dusk; Cherishes his current life, on the whole. He gets himself Mocaccino every morning and sometimes has dinner with the Weasleys at their cottage nearby. With the majority of his friends and family falling in love with B and gradually settling down as well, Harry feels like this is the last place he would ever want to leave.
To say that the arrival of a certain wizard—a razor-sharp, infuriating blond—makes anything remotely different for Harry would be absurd, of course.
Read "It is on the other side of my soul (where your name is written)" on AO3.
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[Fic] In Search of Our Better Selves
Prompt: "Mad Max: Fury Road", 2015, George Miller
Author: alrespirar
Word Count: 17,519 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Mentions of past torture, mentions of past rape, brief mention of miscarriage, descriptions of gun violence and injury. Sexual content.
Summary: Five times Imperator Draco saved Potter’s life and the one time Potter saved his.
Read "In Search of Our Better Selves" on AO3.
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[Fic] Where in the World is Draco Malfoy?
Prompt: "Carmen Sandiego", 2019, Series
Author: Anaxandria
Word Count: 18,029 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Minor mentions of homophobia, violence, and blood
Summary: After the war, Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter took parallel paths of fighting crime.
Draco discovered the existence of VILE, an international organisation dedicated to the eradication of Muggle-borns. With the help of his best friend, Blaise, he commits international capers to steal artifacts before VILE can get their hands on them.
Harry is the auror investigating the heists, but his instincts tell him there’s more than meets the eye.
Read "Where in the World is Draco Malfoy?" on AO3.
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[Fic] My Fair Gentleman
Prompt: "My Fair Lady", 1964, George Cukor
Author: emilattes
Word Count: 20,766 words
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: light alcohol use and mentions of child neglect by Dursleys
Summary: After an extended stay at Charlie's Dragon Reserve in Romania, Harry returns to London and makes a fool of himself at his first Ministry Gala. Minister Shacklebolt orders Harry to seven months of etiquette lessons with Draco Malfoy. Will Harry pull through and become an expert in PR? Will Draco manage to make over the biggest PR disaster the wizarding world has seen in years? Wouldn't it be loverly?
Read "My Fair Gentleman" on AO3.
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[Fic] saying yes (instead of no)
Prompt: "Schitt's Creek", 2015, Series
Author: Pineau_noir
Word Count: 21,022 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: canon typical alcohol and drug use, marijuana use, explicit smut
Summary: “It’s a general store that’s also a very specific store,” Draco grumbled. “Most people won’t realise this, but I want to market Muggle goods to the Wizarding world as well. I want something that will help boost the economy of the Hamlet and Muggles have so many amazing things we don’t have.”
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Draco sighed again. “I think it would benefit everyone.” He glared at Emily. “But there’s not a single witch, wizard, or wix who will shop at a place owned by Draco Malfoy.”
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“What if it’s owned by Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy?” Potter asked.
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“That would be preposterous,” Draco mumbled. “Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy would kill each other before the store opened.”
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“What if you didn’t?” Emily asked. Draco opened his mouth to let her know, they would indeed kill each other, but before he could say anything, she continued, “What if it turned into a lovely business?”
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“There’s only one way to know,” Potter said. “I really think this is a good idea, Draco."
Read "saying yes (instead of no)" on AO3.
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[Fic] A First Look Into Resurrecting Mummies With the Aid Of the Chosen One, and Why It Should Be Advised Against (an Essay by Draco Malfoy, Assistant Archaeologist)
Prompt: "The Mummy", 1999, Stephen Sommers
Author: @cibeewastaken | Cibee (AO3)
Word Count: 21,948 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: minor violence elements
Summary: Draco hopes to find an ancient spell book rumoured to be in Hamunaptra after Astoria found a map to the lost city. If he makes this discovery, maybe the Magical British Museum will finally look at his application, and his annoying colleague will finally leave him alone. It’s a good plan, until Draco is reunited with Harry Potter for the first time in ten years, as the man is about to be hanged.
Read "A First Look Into Resurrecting Mummies With the Aid Of the Chosen One, and Why It Should Be Advised Against (an Essay by Draco Malfoy, Assistant Archaeologist)" on AO3.
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[Fic] Wicked Game
Prompt: "Jumanji", 1995 or 2017
Author: DearJames
Word Count: 22,044 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Sexual Content, Implied PTSD
Summary: Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy crossed a line during one of their late-night Astronomy Tower Bonding Sessions and neither are sure what that means. Not that they got particularly far, considering they were caught and assigned detention for their antics.
And, now, they've been sucked into a boardgame. That's just fantastic...
Read "Wicked Game" on AO3.
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[Fic] Love in Three Parts
Prompt: "Bridgerton", 2020, Series
Author: static_abyss
Word Count: 24,172 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Canon-typical content
Notes: Thanks so much to my beta, L, for all her help and her encouragement as I wrote this fic. Thanks to the mods for hosting this fest and to the Anonymous prompter who inspired this fic.
Summary: Draco has everything needed to be the diamond of the season. He has the looks, the pedigree, and if he should be short on the money end, well, it isn't up to him to convince anyone they want to marry him. And yet, he finds himself with no prospects and no suitable matches until Harry James Potter, Wizarding Britain's Most Eligible Bachelor, makes his first appearance in proper Wizarding society for the first time in five years. Together, they hatch a plan to secure Draco a husband and keep the debutantes' mothers away from Harry. And if someone should develop feelings along the way, well, the course of true love never did run smooth.
Read "Love in Three Parts" on AO3.
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[Fic] He would always win the fight
Prompt: "Killing Eve", 2018 - ongoing, TV Series
Author: Akira-kun
Word Count: 26,578 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Serial Killer, Off Screen Murders, Corpses, Political Polarity, Corruption in Government, Corruption in Justice System, Off Screen Violence, Post War Instability, Ambiguity, Dark!character, Vengeance, In a Twisted Way, Obsessive Behaviour, Crime Mystery, Open Ending
Summary: “But you were always just a puppet, weren’t you, Potter?” That voice kept haunting him, in his dreams and during his days, as if hovering over his shoulder, cold as a ghost, lost and lifeless. He wasn’t sure why it hurt like that. Maybe because it was an ugly truth that Harry hoped no one would ever throw back in his face.
Or maybe because it was Malfoy.
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Killing Eve inspired Drarry where people are getting killed, Harry is getting desperate, Draco is too sexy for his own good, and all hell will break loose.
Read "He would always win the fight" on AO3.
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[Fic] Peaches & Cream And A Little Bit Of Acid
Prompt: "Modern Love", 2019, Series
Author: shortie990
Word Count: 27,755 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: suicidal thoughts, mental health issues
Summary: In love there is no real hiding. You have to be pretty up front on who you are. The problem was though, Harry didn’t have a clue who he was one moment from the next.
Read "Peaches & Cream And A Little Bit Of Acid" on AO3.
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[Fic] Outwit, Outlast, Outplay
Prompt: "Survivor", 2000-ongoing, Series
Author: Albuss
Word Count: 30,976 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Brief homophobia, mentions of past health issues
Summary: Draco loves Survivor. Loves it. So when his job at the Dept. of Mysteries offers him the opportunity to go on as a contestant, he can't think of anything that could go wrong.
He is sorely mistaken, but a little chaos turns out to not be such a bad thing.
Featuring gratuitous descriptions of Survivor game-play, really jargon-y magical theory I got way too excited about, and Draco's best friend Isabelle being an absolute QUEEN.
Read "Outwit, Outlast, Outplay" on AO3.
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[Fic] Advantage Rule
Prompt: "The Queen's Gambit", 2020, Series
Author: @ziezie13
Word Count: 42,738 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Character death, Parental neglect, Brief references to eugenics, Sexual content, Mild homophobia, Alcoholism, Drug abuse
Summary: Draco's life has been struggle after struggle. He was exiled as a baby, his mother died, he was forced to live with muggles... Need I go on? Quidditch was supposed to be his escape, but how is he supposed to beat Victor Krum and take the world title if he can't even beat Harry Potter?
~No knowledge of The Queen's Gambit required~
Read "Advantage Rule" on AO3.
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[Fic] (This Will Be) An Everlasting Love
Prompt: #12 (also fulfils #6) | "While You Were Sleeping," 1995, Jon Turteltaub
Author: @drarrelie & @janieohio
Word Count: 45,139 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Summary: Life doesn’t always turn out the way we plan. That’s what Draco’s mother always used to tell him, but Merlin, who could have predicted how right she would be?
A story about feisty dragons, loneliness, family, and friends — and finding love in places you least expect.
Read "(This Will Be) An Everlasting Love" on AO3.
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[Fic] In a Field of Chrysanthemums and the Woods
Prompt: "The Untamed", 2019, TV-Series
Author: @outstandingmoralfiber
Word Count: 83,399 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: Three notes, and yet they made all the difference. Draco could feel it, the slight magic and wavering notes, washing over him in a brief but calming wave that lit his soul and it was then that he knew that he was going to learn how to play this guqin no matter what.
Little did he know that, like dominos, this one simple decision would diverge him onto a path he would've never imagined.
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Wizarding world in the Untamed setting, (but you don't need to know anything about the Untamed). Drarry AU starting from Goblet of Fire. Rated E for the smut scene in Chapters 13 & 14, but is otherwise rated T.
Read "In a Field of Chrysanthemums and the Woods" on AO3.
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Fic Tropes Game!
The lovely Pie tagged me for this game -- and since she followed the rules and only tagged one (1) person - me - I now feel obligated to actually do this thing ;D Thank you for tagging me @potteresque-ire :*
Rules: Copy/paste and bold your fic preferences because why not, gotta choose one (near impossible, but go with your first gut instinct), and tag someone because, again, why not.
slow burn or love at first sight
(oh, gimme hundreds of thousands of words of build-up, thank you very much!)
fake dating or secret dating
(I mean in both something is going on that the rest doesn’t know about, but i find secret relationships just so much more interesting <3)
enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers
oh no there’s only one bed or long-distance with correspondence
(I love getting to know the characters in-depth, and reading their letters or text messages or chats - and again all the pining - is very relatable ;D)
hurt/comfort or amnesia
fantasy au or modern au
(I don’t really know what to answer here ... I’m reading fic a lot in three fandoms: Harry Potter, Merlin, and Voltron (VLD) (a tiny bit of Yuri on Ice) -- all of them have magical/fantasy elements? while I absolutely adore well-writen modern Merlin AUs where prince meets student or they’re just two students at uni, or co-workers or in the military, I also love it when canon gets re-written. And my favourite “modern” Merlin/Arthur AUs are: 1) they’re both in special ops and magic exists; 2) they’re both students and Merlin has magic and keeps saving Arthur; so it’s a compromise ;D HP plays in the 90s up to now and could go into the future depending on how old the characters are that you’re writing about, but that’s all quite modern to me already -- maybe they mean technology-wise? While I do love a well-written texting fic (see above), I enjoy it much more when the author dives into magical theory and comes up with the most amazing ideas (and not everything is just solved with muggle technology ;)) and I don’t think I’ve ever read a non-magical HP fic? Unlike Merlin fics, where non-magical AUs are quite normal, but I do prefer the ones with magic <3)
mutual pining or domestic bliss
(Yes! Give me enough pine to shame Ikea!!) <-- that’s what Pie wrote and I just have to keep it ;D it’s so funny and so true! <3
smut or fluff
oof, what a question.. I probably have to go with smut. I love fluff, but you can only read so much fluff without a story getting boring (if there is no tension ... or climax of any kind haha). and smut - whether explicit or not - can give you a lot of build-up and tension, interesting situations and definitely diverse outcomes, from declarations of love (there’s your fluff) to spectacular fall-outs, especially when I think of our favourite boys and their inability to communicate ;D)
canon compliant (missing scenes) or fix-it fic
(that one is much easier to answer for me [and it’s the first one where I choose a different answer than Pie ;D]. In VLD I want to disregard all of the last season, but especially the epilogue - completely - season 8 just doesn’t exist. in HP, I love 8th year fics or anything where the boys don’t marry Ginny and Astoria respectively right after school - which again can be viewed as disregarding the epilogue. In Merlin, I either read magical modern AUs anyway, or the fics in canon-era that I do enjoy disregard episode 5-13 completely and definitely ignore the epilogue/last 5 minutes of the series. So all my fics can be regarded as fix-it fics, and especially in Merlin & VLD that is a very common tag).
alternate universe or future fic
(definitely the future fic -- though it all depends on your definition of “alternate universe”, i love cross-overs ;D there are some between my favourite fandoms, like Merlin going to Hogwarts during the lightening era, or the VLD characters also going to Hogwarts. It’s so much fun. but those are exceptions in the vast landscape of fics. if you define “AU” as not canon-compliant, I guess everything could be viewed as an AU as soon as I disregard epilogues? But if we just don’t count epilogues, I love reading stories where the characters are a bit older, have found their place in life, or have tried things and failed and are now figuring things out or are at least realizing, that failing is part of life, but it’s much less stressful with the right partner <3).
one-shot or multi-chapter
(weird question.. If the definition of “one-shot” is still that it’s a fic that has been written in one sitting (let’s disregard editing), then i’d definitely go for multi-chapter. because i love longer fics. that said, i don’t have any problem at all with a 50k fic that is only 1 chapter. but I wouldn’t use the number of chapters to define whether a fic is a “one-shot” or not, so there’s that ;))
kid fic or roadtrip fic
(definitely the kid fic!! aaah, so cute ;D)
reincarnation or character death
(oof, I don’t like reading MCD >_< and reincarnation would imply that one or both of the characters also died at some point .. and in Merlin fics that would just mean that canon happened and Merlin has been waiting for 1000 years for Arthur to show up again... and aaah no, thank you, I read a few fics like this and they’re just too heart-breaking ugh. so yeah, no, both not for me ;D)
arranged marriage or accidental marriage
(if i’m forced to choose, maybe accidental bonds that can be reversed, like magical accidents or something like this? but in general, it’s not something i gravitate towards. I’d much rather read a soulmate AU <3)
high school romance or middle-aged romance
(see above, I love when characters have had time to learn from their mistakes in the past, I love seeing how many different ideas authors can have for the same characters and their decisions in life. so yes, let them grow up a bit ;))
time travel or isolated together
(Time travel is … difficult to get right. I’m picky about it.) <-- what Pie said
neighbours or roommates
(what question is this? OMG THEY WERE ROOMMATES!!! ;D)
sci-fi au or magic au
(I guess that is for fandoms that are in neither of those categories? like Sherlock or Yuri on ice? since HP and Merlin fall into the magical category and VLD is sci-fi and I do love crossovers, I guess I have to say: Both?! Both is good! ;))
bodyswap or genderbend
angst or crack
(well written crack is so much fun, but the problem is the well-written part. there is much more well-written angst, so i have to go with this ;))
apocalyptic or mundane
(definitely mundane here. apocalyptic just stresses me too much after a while, same goes for dystopian or any mix thereof. I don’t mind angst with a happy ending (note the happy ending ;)) - throw everything you have at the main characters, but don’t just let them barely survive and then have a bleak or no future.. that’s just ... na, thank you. i read fic to escape my worries, not to have even more ;))
~~~ I’m tagging the fab four ;D @sassy-cissa @erin-riwen @lettersbyelise @maesterchill if you’d like to play, just know that you don’t have to write anything, you can just bold your choice and move on ;D and if anyone else wants to play, please tag me in your answer <3
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