fishes are nice

Final chapter! Death loop has them! btw what ever happened to Jayce?

"Took You Long Enough"

It takes a while for their gazes to meet, but it doesn't mean they weren't always looking.

My giftee was @dodgerkedavra! It was very serendipitous, because dodger had written a fic earlier in the year based off of my prompt for the HD Hurt/Comfort fest. It felt like a good way that I could get her back, so... I tried my very best to!

She asked for: "kissing, intimate times, gorgeous light, when they’re looking at each other and so in love" and "intensity? of color" and "manbun", all of which I tried to deliver on. So yes, everyone thank her for the manbun.

A bit about it

I wanted to see if I could do the equivalent of a pining/slow-burn longfic with just a sequence of illustrations--and not even big, flashy ones with varying compositions--just relatively consistent shots that focus on them and the gradual shift in feelings towards one another.

The main concept was, as the title suggests, that they keep looking at each other when the other is not looking back. Visual yearning! In each illustration, the observer and observed swap. They seem to keep missing each other's glances, until the very last illustration, where they are gazing domestically at each other hahaha.

For each illustration I also tried to work with different color schemes, lighting, and moods, depending on what was happening. Draco's hair also goes on a bit of a journey, which was fun! It was my first time giving him long hair! My favorite length is just right before the manbun, when it's probably long enough to be annoying but not long enough to be put up.

The fest/exchange was all the right things for me - fun, inspiring, and challenging. Thanks to the lovely mods for all their hard work, and for making everything run so smoothly. And thanks to everyone who already left me really nice comments.

Happy New Year everyone🎉🎇

older drarry for the new years

Drarry ~ E ~ 274k

Harry Potter defeated Voldemort at the Battle of Hogwarts on May 2nd, 1998.

But what if he didn't?

A Voldemort-wins wartime AU featuring multiverse travel, multiple Harrys and Dracos, political drama, spying, plotting, and a slow burn enemies-to-friends-to-enemies-again-to-friends-to-lovers romantic arc.

21 chapters in total (I'll be posting a chapter every two days until it's all up) - Chapter 12 is now posted!

spiked eggnog with a hint of veritaserum

awww thank you! I'm so glad that it was exciting for you! I am happy to be writing them atm. Thanks again!

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Unfaithful

After Ginevra Weasley leaves him, Potter keeps visiting. Draco still doesn’t know why.

He comes for tea and eats all the biscuits. He asks about the students, new charms. He asks, asks, asks, then listens listens listens, as though he’d meant what he’d said once, under a moonlit tree. I want to listen to you.

Draco asks, but Potter doesn’t talk much, unless it’s about kids or Quidditch. But then, he'll just say things, like, “Would you ever be unfaithful? To your wife, I mean.”

“I’m never going to have a wife.”

“Why not?”

Is this what love is? 'Cause I feel lonely