Hello! I just wanted to tell you how useful your blog is, and how I really love it, I have for 2 years. Sending love, Thank you!!!
I am really feeling the love tonight. Nonnie, I appreciate you so much and it brings me happiness that youve found my blog useful ☺❤
(This is going to be a long one)
Dear one of the sweetest and most generous persons, I just wanted to thank you with all my soul for your beautiful account and precious rec list. Yes, I am going to be sentimental and sappy.
Those fics changed my life. I'm not even joking. I have been reading one entire fic per day from your lists, and they have filled my heart with happiness that I have not felt since I was a child. I didn't know I could feel like this anymore.
Your tastes are exquisite. They are bursting with every type of drarry love variation that I need, and they legitimately have fed my soul. I am so
indescribably amazed and in awe of you (how did you find all of this liquid gold masterpieces?!) and just bursting to the seams with gratitude for you for sharing your discoveries with us. Your account has truly made a difference in my life.
Lumos, Heartlines, The Sleeping Beauty Curse, Sealed with a kiss, He was He and I Was Bunny, The Potter-Malfoy Problem, are what I have read so far, and they have each taken up residence within my heart. I plan to read everything ☺️♥️
Stop All the Clocks by firethesound ( I agreed it was by far the most depressing yet astounding fic I have ever read) absolutely shattered me last night, and that was actually the reason that inspired me to write to you. I wanted to talk to you because that fic made me thinking about time - I'm so glad you're still active so I can tell you, even if I can't start hugging and crying on the author's shoulders :..)
-Sending you much love and good vibes (and group hugs from me, Harry, and Draco)~
I just sat here legitimately speechless for a good while because I just.......you're so lovely?
I've not been very active the last few years (decided to go to Uni and study science) but I still think about the Drarry fandom on a near daily basis.
When I started this blog I was also reading a fic (or more) a day. I was going through a really hard time in life and honestly, Drarry, fanfiction, and the people that I met through fandom where such a key part of helping me get through it. Truly.
Fanfiction changed my life for the better in a lot of ways. It gave me an outlet, an escape and also helped me work through some stuff in a kind of indirect way.
Okay, I'm feeling g a bit emotional now, haha. It just makes me feel so happy that my rec lists have positively impacted your life in some way, especially because every one of those fics had helped me in some way or another as well when I needed it the most.
I don't know what you're going through or have been through, but I sincerely hope that the child-like happiness you've found stays with you always ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
(And sorry for the long reply 😂)
Hi! Thank you for your rec lists, I've been using them for...a looong timer, and like my brain is S O unorganized so it really helps to have everything in one place. Idk just like, you're cool, thanks, okay bye now.
No, YOU'RE cool nonnie 😎
Can I just say stumbling upon your master post for Drarry fics has done me dirty. I’ve been trying to clean up my ao3 marked for later list and now it’s at least doubled in size before I decided to just favorite your bookmark page
Ahahaha, I thought about apologising for this but then I was like, nahhh, they're all amazing fics and I hope you enjoyed them!
Hi I love your account, keep being you
You're such a beautiful soul, thank you <3
Hey I was wondering if anyone could help me find a drarry fic I read a while ago, I looked through my ao3 history and couldn't find it... I don't remember much but it was something about harry or draco showing the other this hidden magical world somehere in london I think? It was like a garden with lots of beautiful scenery and creatures and they decided to meet each other there everyday until something like happened and the other had to go searching. It was a bit similar to Illuminate but like totally different plots. It's all good if you don't know it or don't reply! I love your blog and writing! xx
I'm not sure if I've read this one, sorry, does anyone know which fic it is?
Is it just me who goes absolutely soft when Draco removes Harry’s glasses and they’re staring at each other sharing this moment of trust where Draco is just like “I can’t believe he let me do that” and Harry is just like “I trust him” or when Harry removes his own glasses and ahhh idk it just makes me so soft when there’s moments in fics. I love it too when Draco himself wears glasses and Harry is just like “you’re such a hypocrite Malfoy” hahaha. I need more glasses fics! Would love some recs:D
Omg, I absolutely ADORE it when Draco also has glasses, especially when Harry makes fun of him but he really he just thinks Draco is so adorable in his reading glasses.
Hey Meg, its been awhile since you have been active. Are you alright?
Aww, you're so sweet <3 I'm actually doing amazing for probably the first time in my life but have been so busy with Uni etc so have not been active in fandom at all, lol. This really made my day though, thank you <3
These fics always have the best dynamic, since they usually end up forming some kind of a friendship before it becomes something more… Hope you enjoy:)
White as Snow (bixgirl1 / @bixgirl1) (E, 19k)
After a quick escape from danger, Harry and Draco find themselves trapped in a blizzard, a small cabin their only refuge from the storm. It’s the perfect place to recover and regroup — and to have a long-overdue conversation or two.
the first language (saltwatergarden) (M, 7k) (tw: mentions of incest+sexual assault in case, please check the tags before reading)
There are some things that Draco just knows about Potter. For instance, he hates the press. He loves his friends deeply and would die for them. He’s terrible at fending away his simpering fans and the stories about how powerful his magic is are more than just stories. He also hates being touched. Or does he?
Eye of the Storm (Mx_Maneater / @mxmaneater) (E, 25k)
A storm rages blindly around a cabin with no doors. Without magic, Draco and Harry are trapped inside.
Title of Their Sex Tape (Cibee) (T, 12k)
What are the Wizarding world’s most elite law enforcers doing when they aren’t catching criminals? It seems Auror Malfoy is often caught throwing food into Auror Potter’s mouth when he’s mid-yawn. This story isn’t about Draco throwing food at Harry. What it does have is: Undercover! Heists! Draco pining for Harry! Harry being oblivious, but also can’t help noticing how good Draco smells! Banters and jokes! That’s about it.
Cabin in the Forest (justdrarryme / @justdrarryme) (E, 23k)
Of course Harry would get partnered with Malfoy when Ron leaves the Aurors, nothing in his life could ever be easy. What he hadn’t counted on though were his feelings for the other man.
Or, Harry and Draco get trapped in a Bundling Bed and are forced to work their shit out.
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. (52.5K, Explicit)
Read it on AO3 here.
I cannot say enough thank yous!
First, to the amazing @p-a-s-m-w-a for her incredible, incredible art! It’s been a long time from her creation to mine, but it’s here!!
A huge thanks to the Sprinters on the Drarry discord, who helped me focus and finish!!
Last but not least, I also can’t thank @realitybetterthanfiction, @oceaxereturns, @helloamhere and @aibidil ENOUGH for their incredible generosity of their time and talents, and their wonderful feedback.
It has happened.
I have purchased Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus
Will provide updates
I’m going to start it pretty soon. I’m for some reason locked out of my student account and email and IT was no help as usual, so what is there to do except read a parody romance novel written specifically to spite J.K. Rowling?
Chuck Tingle has more or less become a meme because of his bizarre titles and covers and because of the Hugo fiasco, but I’ve heard relatively little about what it’s like to actually read his work and I frankly have no idea what to expect or if I should go into this with expectations at all
This book is…surprisingly easy to take seriously as a book. I don’t know what I’m trying to say. But it’s like. A Book and not just an extended joke. Like on some level it’s not particularly terribly written nor does the plot like, completely exist in service to the…whatever humor is derived from the self-aware absurdity of the premise
AFSGFBCHH??
I love that he’s not even described as a humanoid dinosaur. He’s just sexy goth tattooed Severus snape and he’s also a parasaurolophus and we are left to just figure it out
I have to talk about what is going on with the worldbuilding. Like this is a parody. Of Harry Potter. But there’s an entirely different magic system and….everything???
In summary
…Warlocks in this world get their powers from a pact with Chuck Tingle
The fourth wall break is killing me.
As much as I love skillfully crafted satire that takes deft jabs at the flaws of the thing it’s lampooning, there’s also something charming about how every character in this book has a name blatantly and hilariously derived from a Harry Potter character regardless of how most of their roles in the story barely resemble anything like characters in Harry Potter.
…You know, I’m not even sure Chuck Tingle has read Harry Potter.
I’m back to reading. Does chocolate milk have intoxicating effects on sentient motorcycles??
…sentences I never thought I’d write
um im lowkey getting feels from this like there are some genuinely emotionally resonant bits in here what the fuck
chuck tingle’s magic system is unironically better than jk Rowling’s I’m sorry
I.
I literally have no idea how to describe what I’m experiencing right now. Like this is a somewhat poorly edited parody adult dinosaur romance novel but. It’s genuinely?? Creative?? In a lot of ways???? And there’s a lot of heart to it, a lot of genuine powerful messages about identity and about art and creativity and the fourth-wall-breaking device is…I can’t explain it because that would spoil it but it’s actually pulled off so well?????
This is not like, a humorous joke story this guy did for Being a Little Shit and Spite reasons, it’s like actually in its themes and message a genuine “fuck you” to j.k. Rowling’s transphobia even though it’s this absolutely wild janky batshit story and I have never experienced anything like this in my LIFE
I did not expect my adhd little heart to be touched by understanding of my fears about creativity and writing and its place in my life. Not like this. What the fuck. What the fuck.
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The chocolate milk thing is Tingleverse lore.
Hi, this is very random but I'm actually writing a dissertation on Harry Potter Fanfiction and I'm looking for the 'big' fics, i.e. fics that lots of people in the fandom read - the most popular/famous ones that might even have their own sub-fandom (All The Young Dudes for example). Do you know of any Drarry ones like this? Thanks in advance!
This is the absolute best thing ever!! And sorry for the late reply, I've been super inactive of late.
I'm hoping that anyone who sees this can add on to it as I feel so out of the loop these days.
Off the top of my head 'Turn' by saras_girl is a massive fic in our fandom (and for good reason, it's incredible!).
There's also a very big series where someone has essentially rewritten the books. I can't for the life of me remember what it's called but it gets recc'd constantly.
There are so many more though and hopefully others can help out :)
Best of luck with your dissertation!
So I took myself the liberty of adding my own list to this:
The re-writing of the entire book series is this one:
Through the Fire, by SongAngel
Fics that have gotten the most kudos:
Tea and no sympathy, by who_la_hoop
"It's Potter's fault, of course, that Draco finds himself trapped in the same twenty-four-hour period, repeating itself over and over again. It's been nearly a year since the unpleasant business at Hogwarts, and Draco's getting on with his life quite nicely, thank you, until Harry sodding Potter steps in and ruins it all, just like always. At first, though, the time loop seems liberating. For the first time in his life, he can do anything, say anything, be anything, without consequence. But the more Draco repeats the day, the more he realises the uncomfortable truth: he's falling head over heels for the speccy git. And suddenly, the time loop feels like a trap. For how can he ever get Harry to love him back when time is, quite literally, against him?"
All Our Secrets Laid Bare, by @firethesound
Over the six years Draco Malfoy has been an Auror, four of his partners have turned up dead. Harry Potter is assigned as his newest partner to investigate just what is going on.
A Big Black Sky, by my lovely and talented friend, @alxmeg
Draco shifts his head as he turns to look at Scorpius, his cheek touching the pillow. "Did you know that…" He pauses, his throat convulsing, and it sounds audible in the silence, besides Michael's steady, even breathing from the other bedroom.
Scorpius is staring back at him, in wait of something new to learn, a beautiful and intelligent child. He has Draco's mind. He has Draco's eyes and nose and mouth and hair. He is his. All his. All he has of Michael are his wild curls and the green of his eyes, and sometimes he looks into them and imagines that they aren't Michael's, but someone else's.
Draco leans his head closer, biting the quiver out of his lips before he breathes a laden and shuddering exhale, and he whispers, "You are my star in a big black sky."
My personal favourites:
Alcuinatio, again by my babe, @alxmeg
"It's... it's not good," Harry tells them lowly. "They've given him a month's time, only."
There is so much he needs to explain, but his head is foggy and exhausted and he can't think properly, can't think of how to relay all that he's learned.
"Have you heard of Alucinatio?" is what he starts with.
"The Daydream potion," Hermione says. "The person who intakes it experiences very vivid and realistic daydreams of all they could ever want, but is essentially in a severely catatonic state out in the external world, incapable of any basic functions."
Harry nods. "Somebody's given it to Malfoy." He remembers the tattered remains of a black cloak wrapped around Malfoy. "I think it might have been Professor Snape."
They take a minute to process that.
"And... the cure?" Ron asks.
"Tears of anyone the experiencer craves love of," Hermione answers.
Tell me a Secret, by @alxmeg
In which the bond is rooted in their emotions, everything goes even more wrong, and Harry is certain that he and Draco could never feel what the curse wants them to feel for each other.
Until Harry does.
Modern Love, by @tackytigerfic
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.
Lift Your Open Hand, by @firethesound
With Draco Malfoy as his assigned partner for the next six weeks of Auror training, Harry had been prepared for things to go poorly. But getting themselves accidentally bonded to each other in the first twenty minutes of their very first assignment seemed going above and beyond, even for them.
Of course there are thousands more, and I'm sure I've forgotten lots, but I hope you enjoy and that other people will contribute!
Cheers!
Yasss, All Our Secrets Laid Bare is my all time fav!
The re-write though, there's another one which I was thinking of, its been done book by book and I think they're just finishing off the last one now....I still can't think what ots called though....
Adding a few more:
Lamp in the Cooling Room by libby_drew (9 K)
Summary:Draco and Harry become snared in a trap, but they're not alone. Love guides our path for reasons we can't always understand.
The Price We Pay for Wings by frayach (13 K)
Summary:
So the struck eagle, stretch’d upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
View’d his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wing’d the shaft that quiver’d in his heart.
~ Lord Byron
The Boy Who Only Lived Twice by lettered (54K)
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.
In Pieces by dysonrules (85 K)
Summary: Harry returns to Hogwarts as the new DADA instructor, only to find his teaching efforts thwarted by a very familiar ghost.
Running on Air by eleventy7 (tinyhistory) (75K)
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.
Good luck with your dissertation!😊
I think the rewrite that @justdrarryme is thinking of is the Leo Inter Serpentes series by Aeternum.
Ooft, yes!! Thats the one! I feel like ot gets mentioned every other day in a Drarry FB group I'm in and I can't believe I forgot the title 😂
Thank you so much :)
Hi, this is very random but I'm actually writing a dissertation on Harry Potter Fanfiction and I'm looking for the 'big' fics, i.e. fics that lots of people in the fandom read - the most popular/famous ones that might even have their own sub-fandom (All The Young Dudes for example). Do you know of any Drarry ones like this? Thanks in advance!
This is the absolute best thing ever!! And sorry for the late reply, I've been super inactive of late.
I'm hoping that anyone who sees this can add on to it as I feel so out of the loop these days.
Off the top of my head 'Turn' by saras_girl is a massive fic in our fandom (and for good reason, it's incredible!).
There's also a very big series where someone has essentially rewritten the books. I can't for the life of me remember what it's called but it gets recc'd constantly.
There are so many more though and hopefully others can help out :)
Best of luck with your dissertation!
So I took myself the liberty of adding my own list to this:
The re-writing of the entire book series is this one:
Through the Fire, by SongAngel
Fics that have gotten the most kudos:
Tea and no sympathy, by who_la_hoop
"It's Potter's fault, of course, that Draco finds himself trapped in the same twenty-four-hour period, repeating itself over and over again. It's been nearly a year since the unpleasant business at Hogwarts, and Draco's getting on with his life quite nicely, thank you, until Harry sodding Potter steps in and ruins it all, just like always. At first, though, the time loop seems liberating. For the first time in his life, he can do anything, say anything, be anything, without consequence. But the more Draco repeats the day, the more he realises the uncomfortable truth: he's falling head over heels for the speccy git. And suddenly, the time loop feels like a trap. For how can he ever get Harry to love him back when time is, quite literally, against him?"
All Our Secrets Laid Bare, by @firethesound
Over the six years Draco Malfoy has been an Auror, four of his partners have turned up dead. Harry Potter is assigned as his newest partner to investigate just what is going on.
A Big Black Sky, by my lovely and talented friend, @alxmeg
Draco shifts his head as he turns to look at Scorpius, his cheek touching the pillow. "Did you know that…" He pauses, his throat convulsing, and it sounds audible in the silence, besides Michael's steady, even breathing from the other bedroom.
Scorpius is staring back at him, in wait of something new to learn, a beautiful and intelligent child. He has Draco's mind. He has Draco's eyes and nose and mouth and hair. He is his. All his. All he has of Michael are his wild curls and the green of his eyes, and sometimes he looks into them and imagines that they aren't Michael's, but someone else's.
Draco leans his head closer, biting the quiver out of his lips before he breathes a laden and shuddering exhale, and he whispers, "You are my star in a big black sky."
My personal favourites:
Alcuinatio, again by my babe, @alxmeg
"It's... it's not good," Harry tells them lowly. "They've given him a month's time, only."
There is so much he needs to explain, but his head is foggy and exhausted and he can't think properly, can't think of how to relay all that he's learned.
"Have you heard of Alucinatio?" is what he starts with.
"The Daydream potion," Hermione says. "The person who intakes it experiences very vivid and realistic daydreams of all they could ever want, but is essentially in a severely catatonic state out in the external world, incapable of any basic functions."
Harry nods. "Somebody's given it to Malfoy." He remembers the tattered remains of a black cloak wrapped around Malfoy. "I think it might have been Professor Snape."
They take a minute to process that.
"And... the cure?" Ron asks.
"Tears of anyone the experiencer craves love of," Hermione answers.
Tell me a Secret, by @alxmeg
In which the bond is rooted in their emotions, everything goes even more wrong, and Harry is certain that he and Draco could never feel what the curse wants them to feel for each other.
Until Harry does.
Modern Love, by @tackytigerfic
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.
Lift Your Open Hand, by @firethesound
With Draco Malfoy as his assigned partner for the next six weeks of Auror training, Harry had been prepared for things to go poorly. But getting themselves accidentally bonded to each other in the first twenty minutes of their very first assignment seemed going above and beyond, even for them.
Of course there are thousands more, and I'm sure I've forgotten lots, but I hope you enjoy and that other people will contribute!
Cheers!
Yasss, All Our Secrets Laid Bare is my all time fav!
The re-write though, there's another one which I was thinking of, its been done book by book and I think they're just finishing off the last one now....I still can't think what ots called though....
Ruth Bell by Sebastian Kim for Harper’s Bazaar US June/July 2019
when you’re right you’re right
for @drarrymicrofic prompt 'curiosity'
Harry has a mandatory peer assessment of Professor Malfoy. But he ends up just watching Draco interact with the first years. Draco encourages them to ask questions, challenges them to think about why things work. He peers in cauldrons and says, "take your time." It's...attractive, Harry realizes with a jolt.
Hi, this is very random but I'm actually writing a dissertation on Harry Potter Fanfiction and I'm looking for the 'big' fics, i.e. fics that lots of people in the fandom read - the most popular/famous ones that might even have their own sub-fandom (All The Young Dudes for example). Do you know of any Drarry ones like this? Thanks in advance!
This is the absolute best thing ever!! And sorry for the late reply, I've been super inactive of late.
I'm hoping that anyone who sees this can add on to it as I feel so out of the loop these days.
Off the top of my head 'Turn' by saras_girl is a massive fic in our fandom (and for good reason, it's incredible!).
There's also a very big series where someone has essentially rewritten the books. I can't for the life of me remember what it's called but it gets recc'd constantly.
There are so many more though and hopefully others can help out :)
Best of luck with your dissertation!
AU where Harry remains a parselmouth and becomes a snake breeder
he names his clingiest and rudest little snake after Draco
Draco: You're on a speakerphone, behave
Harry: Or what? You'll spank me?
Draco, on a meeting with half of the ministry:
for the doodle ideas: maybe drarry + a reunion of some sort? a hug? orrrr ginny + a muggle sport of your choice 💘
I added some desperation to that reunion hug. For free. Hope you enjoy! <3
(Just..any excuse to draw a nose. Is all I need.)
Absolutely 100% smashing beautiful 🌈
OMG 😭😭
im sorry but writing enemies to lovers on ao3 is so fucking funny. one of them will go a whole paragraph saying how much they hate, absolutely despise, have genuine burning contempt for the other and we’re all here knowing damn well that enemies to lovers tag is just sat there. like we already know what’s coming bro you’re just embarrassing yourself
the appeal of enemies to lovers though is less “oh will they ever get together?” and more “at what exact point does he go from wanting to kill the bitch to the oh in italics?”
That ‘oh’ in italics though? That’s the good sh*t right there.
