Recently went through and edited/updated my very first fic!
Thought I’d share it here to spread the love! <3
Summary:
Draco and Harry both return to Hogwarts for their 8th year hoping to gain different things after spending the summer taking a personal inventory of themselves. When Harry is drawn to a softer and less rigid Malfoy, he can’t keep himself from his old habits and finds himself seeking him out….through various moments of gazing at one another, and irrational decisions too engage in conversation the boys end up bonding through novels and Harry learns what created the softer, more thoughtfully spoken Malfoy, and of course love ensues.
**I do want to note that I was inspired a lot by “Call Me By Your Name” by, André Aciman. However, I definitely tried to write it in a way that wouldn’t prohibit anyone who hasn’t read the book or seen the movie from understanding the references! If you haven’t seen the movie, or more importantly read the book you definitely should it is so achingly amazingly beautiful!! **
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the thing about cracking open a long-established popular ship tag on ao3 is that it allows you to be extraordinarily picky, and i think it must be the closest thing i will ever experience to being filthy rich. i scroll along at super speed like no today i am only interested in fics with this precise range of words and one of these three tags. only authors i’ve heard of, please. hmm, i suppose i could consider an unknown quantity given its apparent popularity with the people, but… no, no, this summary doesn’t do it for me. no particular reason, it’s just… eh, i don’t need to explain myself. bring me 50 more like this for me to choose from and we’ll see.
someone just lamented that their new pairing has only 5000 works (“where’s the rest of them?”) which is approximately the size of the pairing i was celebrating in the original post, and it really threw into relief that it’s impossible for us to even conceptualize the extravagance of a true scrooge mcduck fandom if we’ve never been in one. i am a reasonably well-off dentist who takes her family to cancun once a year.
state of the union update at 45k. my unscientific analysis reports a fairly even breakdown between:
people crying in the gutter
people crying in a 2-bedroom bungalow
the nouveaux riches (steddie fans)
these guys:
bonus shout out to:
very picky people crying from their summer home in the hamptons
all these posts about people clutching their pearls about seeing bare titties at pride make me laugh because at last year’s pride i met a cishet guy who had no idea what was going on and had joined because he saw bare titties and thought “those people look like they are having fun, and also i can see tits for free” and he asked me about what was happening and let me explain LGBT struggles for some time before telling me he had a transgender cousin and he was going to make sure to be there for her in the future. bare tits will be the beacon to world peace