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Small artists you need to understand that when you see an artist who you think has 'made it' tells you not to worry about the numbers and to not fret about getting more likes than reblogs they are not telling you it because they think you are stupid for caring or because they dont need to network to survive they are very likely telling you that because they have witnessed first hand the way the numbers game tears people to shreds in terms of mental health and motivation

#on writing

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We all love the "becoming the very thing you sought to destroy," trope. but I have a growing fondness for "destroying the very thing you sought to become"

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no matter how the media spins it remember that the US would rather watch the region burn than give up its little pet genocidal colonial ethnostate project

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Unseen by @jackvbriefs

Harry/Draco (2020, Teen and Up, 47k)

Harry Potter finally has the chance to leave England and its expectations for The Chosen One behind for good. All he has to do is survive one Auror training conference overseas with Draco Sodding Malfoy.

The best part of working overseas was how little he ever thought of England. Yet sometimes Malfoy's attitude would strike him while he was away. It had lingered, the quiet of him. The denial of any credit. It seemed so unlike the boy that would make badges for the school and risk a Quidditch pitch for attention. Though it did seem somewhat like the one that hadn’t identified Harry at the Manor.

Happy Monday with another rec! I haven’t been this productive in forever but the reread streak is really inspiring me. This was one of my very first Sudsfest reads, and the first time I came across Jack’s writing; it was the easiest thing to explore their other works (highly recommend!) after such a banger. This fic delivered all the things I’m looking for in stories set outside the UK: not only it’s immersive and comforting with gorgeous Bay Area aesthetics but also quite introspective, with a lovely quiet atmosphere that tugged at my heartstrings. I’m surprised that a 50k Auror romance featuring down & out Draco is so underrated, but hopefully this rec will put it on more people’s radar!

I mentioned the contemplative vibe and that was the first element that impressed me here. Jack sets the tone early on in the narrative by presenting a fascinating version of Harry and Draco: both deeply affected by the war, both trying to move on and making peculiar choices while going about it. Harry desperately wants to forget; Draco can’t. I was particularly intrigued by their emotional restraint, as I’ve seen it with down & out Draco before, but to my surprise here’s an equally stuck Harry, keeping anything remotely complicated or stressful away with the L I S T (what a concept!) and torn apart by his two personas, happy and free Harry when living overseas and miserable Harry when he’s back home. I was absolutely captivated by his inner conflict and intentional blind eye to all wrong doings going around him. And the way that spills over his interactions, even with Ron and Hermione, was very interesting and cleverly executed. By the way, the Golden Trio dynamics are absolutely PERFECT - I was hit so hard by their spot-on voices (Ron my beloved!) in the opening scene it gave me a lump in the throat.

Harry’s carefully controlled world is completely changed when Draco comes along with his silent and self-deprecating yet smart and fierce personality. I love how this fic explores his scholar/investigative side and my heart ached watching them slowly open up to each other, Draco’s resolute attitude challenging Harry to leave his fragile comfort zone. The growing UST feels organic and intense all at once, perfectly quiet and tentative but it still made me shake in anticipation. I haven’t read a long T-rated fic in a while and after so much (delicious) dancing around each other I was begging for that first kiss 🥲👌🏼 the slow burn would probably hit me differently without the alluring San Francisco setting, its gorgeous landscapes and endless possibilities. I’ve been there a few times and could easily picture them sightseeing together or staying up and exploring the city’s nightlife.

If you’re looking for something gentle, mature and intimate, I can’t rec this enough. It’s light and heavy at once, but in a soothing and cathartic way. The soft romance and Harry’s arc are developed with a slight melancholy and unhurried pacing that made my heart ache, and I loved the political side plot at the Ministry too. And let’s not forget the gorgeous and intimate suds scene right at the end omg, so hot and intimate I was salivating. Go forth and treat yourself!

Read on AO3

#drarry fic rec #sitp recs

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#ceramics #printmaking

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JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.

Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.

However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.

But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.

It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.

We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something

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Malfoy was laughing then as he stepped closer, his hands coming up to cup Harry’s face. “You’re a bit of a mess, aren’t you?” Harry tried to turn his face away, but slender fingers held him in place, the pad of Malfoy’s thumb running along his cheek and catching on the start of stubble. “Mostly when you’re around,” Harry admitted softly, focused on the thudding pulse at Malfoy’s throat, the way the skin shifted around it, the freckle there under his ear.

Quote from Heart to Hearth by @jtimu, a beautiful fic with fantastic worldbuilding, competent Draco, and smitten Harry (Drarry, E, 6.8k)

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DEV PATEL as GAWAIN THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021)

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breakfast time

#adore these illustrations

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

#pride and prejudice

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the portland state university president has promised to pause taking money from boeing before protests have even begun. do not accept the narrative that students aren't achieving anything or that the demands are stupid, small, inactionable: the demands are just, thought-out, precedented, and they will be achieved. i hope everyone who thinks otherwise corrects their judgment.

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Harry in imminent danger of a brutal death: ok first things first. let's check out exactly how tall draco is. and gotta get one last look at that amazing hair too.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#reblogging for the additions #choking #breathplay

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Things Draco Malfoy has Done in the Muggle World During His Postwar Probation

Attempted to order from a menu by speaking to it

Almost breached the Statute of Secrecy due to mistaking someone using clap-on-clap-off lights for a muggleborn using wandless magic

Got into a heated argument with the actors in a commercial because he thought the people in the tv were talking to him

Refused to walk in front of a car for fear of bumping into the invisible animals that obviously pull it

Panicked and responded "I have no idea what you're talking about" when asked what the "magic word" is

Complained that his telephone is broken because it periodically emits a loud ringing sound for no apparent reason

Run into Harry Potter unexpectedly in a pub, dropped everything he was holding, and automatically caught it with wandless magic without thinking, thus breaching the Statute of Secrecy in front of 47 muggles and the most famous Auror in Britain

Run into Harry Potter again in the same pub, thanked him for getting him out of those misuse of magic charges and apologized (again) for all of the more unpleasant bits of their history

Accidentally on purpose run into Harry Potter yet again in the same pub to find out why he comes to muggle London so often and how he's doing and to let him know that he's not remotely interested in whether the rumors in the Daily Prophet that he's split up with Ginny Weasley are true (they are)

Met Harry Potter in a pub for drinks to chat about old times except not the sad bits at least until they've had a few

Taken his muggle friends out to a pub that he definitely chose at random but which coincidentally Harry Potter also happens to be walking into so they might as well all sit down together

Had to admit that he may have mentioned him a few times when Harry is shocked to discover that all of Draco's muggle friends seemingly know his name despite the fact that he isn't famous in the muggle world

Met Harry and Harry's friends for drinks and somehow actually had a good time and not been vengefully poisoned by Ron Weasley or cursed by Hermione Granger or stabbed by Neville Longbottom or anything else dreadful

Had to explain to several bemused people that when Luna Lovegood says that they used to live together she doesn't mean they were involved romantically

Invited Harry Potter back to his flat and proudly shown him that he now knows how to make a telephone stop ringing (you just lift it up for a moment and then slam it back down and that fixes it) and then told him off for laughing

Visited Harry Potter at his flat, also in muggle London though protected by the Fidelius Charm for extra privacy, met a very small and excitable owl and had a protracted but good natured argument about which of them was actually better at Quidditch (because obviously if Draco had had a Firebolt he would have won every match)

Got his wand back and immediately transfigured everything in his flat just because he can and because it feels so good to use magic again and then cast Rictusempra on Harry because clearly Draco is the superior dueler and also because he likes the sound of Harry's laugh

Kissed Harry Potter.

#draco malfoy everybody

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wip snip! ✍🏻 (dron)

Thank you for tagging me, @kember-writes! Here's something from my in progress Dron eighth-year fic. Hopefully posting soon...

Draco looks up sharply. His glasses have slipped down to the tip of his nose and his quill is dripping ink onto his textbook. He swears, potting it back into its glass bottle. He pushes his glasses up with the edge of his wrist.

Ron hovers over him, both hands on the desk, his read hair swinging forward off his shoulders.

“Hello,” he says. “What’re you thinking about?”

Draco looks around quickly. His desk is towards the back of the room, and all the surrounding rows are empty.

Ron slots in to sit beside him.

“I’m revising.”

“Really hard, by the looks of things.”

Draco rolls his eyes. “Where’ve you been? You smell like…” He leans closer. Ron’s lips curl into a slow smile. “… I don’t know.”

“Herbology stuff,” Ron says, tapping his nose.

Draco wrinkles his brow. “Do you want… I don’t know. To revise a little? Mocks start on Monday.”

Ron shrugs. “It’ll be fine. You swot.” He reaches up, touching the edge of Draco’s glasses. “I love these so much.”

Draco’s cheeks heat. He looks around again, but they’re still completely alone.

He slides a hand under the table, hooking his fingers over Ron’s thigh. “I’ve decided: I’m finished revising.”

Ron smirks and leans in to brush a little kiss against the corner of Draco’s mouth.

Draco shivers, squeezing Ron’s thigh, inching his fingers higher. Ron’s knees fall open and he groans a bit, tilting his head closer, rolling his forehead against Draco’s temple.

“Fuck, are you gonna…?”

A creak from the shelves two rows down startles Draco. He pulls his hand back.

“No,” he says primly. He closes his book. Gathers his quill and ink pot. “Let’s get out of here.”

tagging @hoko-onchi-writes @peachydreamxx @apricitydays-lazynights @arminaa8 @sleepstxtic @citrusses @jtimu and anyone else who's working on something and wants to share! tag me!

#oh this is so good #please tell me that was harry watching I beg you #but also I fully love the dron dynamic #love them both already #wolfpants