hobbies include: close reading the Redwall series to answer my most burning questions. such as:
- can I replicate any of these delicious-sounding foodstuffs and would they in fact be delicious if I was able to
- corollary to the above: are we just supposed to read βoat creamβ and βnut cheeseβ every time we see the words βcreamβ and βcheeseβ? I think so. bc if not, what tha hell are their livestock animals
- what is Society like? I donβt think we ever see a Mouse City or even Mouse Town though we do see castles and obviously an abbey. are we supposed to believe that most creatures are either in wandering bands or these societies based around a single structure (castle/abbey?)
- they appear to have an idea of what currency is (the bad guys always want treasure β maybe just to have, not to sell? but less ambiguous is some dialogue I just read, βacorn for your thoughts?β βyou can have them for freeβ) but again, we never see anyone using money or making goods for the market. is this after the fall of Mouse Capitalism? are the bad guys (the idea of rat pirates gives me a headache, vis a vis the political/economic systems needed to power piracy) raiding preindustrial mouse societies for treasure/meat?
- corollary to the above: the abbey creatures have oats and wheat but we donβt see anybody farming or trading for farm goods on a large enough scale. is the abbey βorchardβ really a like an indigenous forest farm of mixed foodstuffs? is that possible if you live in the same place the whole year or only if you travel each season? I have to do some googling
- both the lack of mixed-species families and the idea of mixed-species families give me a headache. has a squirrel never fallen for a handsome otter? what is the culture shock like if you marry into a subterranean mole family?
- this is the least βimportantβ question but this read through Iβve been desperately trying to figure out What Size Everything Else Is. iβve come to the conclusion that everything other than animals are at mouse scale, given that they can make seaworthy vessels their own size (a mouse sized vessel with real-world-sized waves seems impossible) and pick and eat apples and plums. but so far it seems like theyβve avoided mentioning how tall trees are β like a person compared to a tree or a mouse compared to a tree?
[standing outside of brian jacquesβ grave with a megaphone] most societies that have had large scale ships and shipping have needed to develop a concept of insurance. is there Mouse Insurance
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Last Song: "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright," Simon and Garfunkel
Favorite Color: will accept anything on the blue-green spectrum in most tones
Last Book: I have at least ten books half-read right now which is distressing, but pretty sure I will eventually finish Ninefox Gambit; Henry, Henry; Martyr; Ink Blood Sister Scribe; and Same Bed, Different Dreams. Really gotta work on my library queue management
Last Movie: Death Becomes Her (1992)
Last TV show: English Teacher (thx @boxboxlewis u do this now ok?)
Sweet/spicy/savory: yes but we forgot salty? and sour? i demand balance!!!!
Relationship status: pretty good actually
Last Thing I googled: "goodbye frank lloyd wright"
Current obsession: I am STUMPED by this question, my interests are opaque to me. Music Leagues, potluckable foods, the differential in craft pride in various disciplines over time, what's the chat up to, HEY I have a question for you,* how to create tension out of character, local politics?
Looking forward to: the curse/gift of New Draft Season, coming in TWO WEEKS
tagging @apricitydays-lazynights, @myrtlefics, @elskanellis, @melociraptor, @sleepstxtic, @goblinmatriarch, @greattemptation, @rainstormradish, @saintgarbanzo, @starquestingfordrarry, is vera on tumblr?? veraaaaa!, and thanks to the heroic @xalandrix for the tag, I love piles of details about friends
My own favorite paintings of centaurs in mundane situations include "The Centaur Playing with Her Child" by Otto Soltau and "A Centaur Playing with His Son" by Otto Bache
How do you preserve the food from your garden so it doesn't go bad before you can eat it?
You are wildly underestimating my ability to go fucking feral about fresh produce. I don't think I even brought snap peas into the house last year. Just ate them right off the vine.
Though I did end up freezing the strawberries/blue berries as they ripened, but even those were consumed within the week.
The only tough one was the potatoes, but that was resolved by just foisting potatoes on everyone I knew. Much more welcome than Zucchinis.
Every year people see this and say, βoh but I like spinach!β And I must regretfully inform you all that perpetual spinach is another name for leaf beet, which could also be described as Worse Chard.
Leaf beet is a bit like spinach. It has many useful properties. Itβs βcut and come again,β meaning you can harvest a mealβs worth of leaves from the plant - leaving the plant standing - and it will generate another portion before you come back. Thatβs why itβs perpetual: a few plants will give you perpetual leaves, from spring until autumn, until theyβre finally killed by heavy snow. It grows regardless of heat, cold, wet and dry. Unlike tender spinach, it doesnβt bolt (flower) and even if it does, it doesnβt make a difference. Unlike tender spinach - which is tender and delicious and therefore instantly devoured by all bugs and slugs and birds - perpetual spinach is extremely resistant to pests.
This is because itβs not very nice.
Combining the properties that people cordially dislike in beetroot and spinach, itβs muddy - not like fun mud, like wet clay mud, very specific geologically - and wet, with a distant cloudy aftertaste. It tastes like a horrible summer in England. βI want to go home,β I say, despondently, eating perpetual spinach, but I canβt. Itβs a horrible summer in England and perpetual spinach absorbs that and spits it back out at you.
But the thing is: itβs so easy and thereβs so MUCH of it. Itβs fun to grow and harvest. So you grow it or let the kids grow it. Or maybe you fail to stop it from growing. And then you have it, perpetually.
One year I gave a lot to the vicarβs wife and she called me and asked if she was doing it wrong, and I had to admit, no, thatβs what leaf beet is like, and she was like: and knowing this? You gave it to me?? Which was an unexpectedly powerful argument because I had to admit that yeah, I was counting on her not being very perceptive.
She was like i tried elodie. I am a vicarβs wife and we are so broke all the time and i would leap at any free food going. And the food miles and the organicness. It was like the most ethical food going. And it sucked, elodie. It sucked balls.
And I had to entrench myself in the yep. Sorry. I knew that and gave it to you. Throw it away. The only prize for suffering would have been more perpetual spinach.
This is not a skill issue. You can cook it in any manner you please with all the skills available to you. You can stir-fry it in minced garlic all you like. You can do anything! No one can stop you. But at the end of the day you are faced with the knowledge that you could have had actual spinach instead. There is a reason that leaf beet is not commonly sold in grocery stores and thatβs because you can. Also. Just. Buy. Spinach.
And while you are resigning yourself to eating something you donβt really like, this whole time, the plant has made two more meals for you. Thatβs the other thing about it. It keeps going, and you donβt.
Life is short and time is fleeting. If a neighbor leaves perpetual spinach on your doorstep put it RIGHT back on theirs!!!
what if magic was real but it was treated the way music is now with different genres and like βoh youre still into conjuring? thats cool I guess. recently ive been getting into third-wave post-necromancy, itβs some pretty heavy stuffβ
βwhat do you mean youβve never learned FIREBALL, itβs a CLASSICβ
βidk Iβm not really into evocations.β
βhow can you not be into ANY evocations?β
βwell, itβs kind of dad magic, isnβt it?β
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while I was sitting on my couch the other day, I got raptured up to heaven for a few minutes. God told me she wanted to show me something and took me to her room, and above her bed, there was a framed napkin sketch of a cat with a plaque like a museum. she told me humanity and existence was created for the purpose of sketching this image one day, that the universe was a code she ran which was exceptionally fast for her and only millennia long to the creatures it generated. it needed to be this way in order to generate the sketch, because for the sketch to exist, napkins needed to be invented, and cats needed to evolve, and pencils and humans and all of that needed to come first, culminating in the bored person who would one day sketch this piece, which was her favorite. the plaque said it was finished in 2014. I pointed out that this would mean the universe had been pointless for several years now. she said yes. we stared at each other for a few minutes. when I woke up I could taste cranberry on my lips
are you whiny bitches seriously acting like faster and more affordable and more accessible translation is bad? itβs a bad thing? itβs a thing we should be against now? is that seriously where weβve arrived? can you people think for ten fucking seconds just ONCE?
machine translation is really good for many languages - esp the romance ones - and while its not perfect or anything, like.. i donβt know how to tell you itβs a good thing weβre able to instantly speak to people, 80% accurately, from anywhere in the world
I went through the notes on this post specifically to find this reply - or one like it. Because it has a point, and itβs a decent point for you, the person. But itβs also missing the info of the larger scale problem.
(Or it isnβt; as you rightly point out in the tags, itβs a capitalism problem. But Iβll expand on this point of βcapitalismβ. I need to rant. I need to scream.)
Iβm a professional translator. I work in video games and software, with an occasional dash of literary translation. Iβve worked in translation proper, Iβve worked on editing other peopleβs work, Iβve led a couple of translator teams. Iβve worked the occasional miracle, working around some Really Dumb Choices the developers made.
(Spoiler alert: other languages have different syntax and grammar, if you give me a list of nouns to translate, and then give me the plural βsβ to translate separately, this is not good. Even in English, woman -> womans is dumb.)
I am a fan of making things affordable and accessible. I am really happy that Google Translate and similar things can tell me the gist of what people are saying in conversations I only half care about. As the poster above says, itβs great! Not perfect, but ok!
Do you know whatβs not great? Do you know what the OP in the original image means?
The client the original image is talking about isnβt you. Itβs not some person on the internet trying to find out what someone said in a Post. The client theyβre talking about is, essentially, the corporation: the translation agency, the publishing house, the IT giant.
You, the individual, do not have the power to demand how I do my job. If you come to me and say, βSarshi, I want you to take this 300-word post, run it through Google Translate, and then charge me half of what you usually do for translating itβ, I can take it or leave it.
But I get contacted by agencies - half of them want this. βWe have a game, Sarshi! Just post-edit the results of a machine translation!β βWe have support articles, Sarshi! Weβre paying you a lot less to post-edit the results of machine translation!β
You say itβs ok to have 80% accuracy, and I feel you! Yes, sometimes it is! But companies are like βlol, this worksβ, too!
Itβs happening over and over. And these arenβtβ¦ theyβre not people, you know? Theyβre not Auntie May trying to figure out what the dough recipe she got from her niece in Indonesia says. Theyβre agencies, trying to increase their earnings by promising top quality to companies, then going, βgosh, we said weβd do it for cheap, how can we manage that?β
Or they can even be large companies themselves. Oh, youβve spent a bajillion trillion dollars trying to create the CryptoNFTVirtualRealityAI hybrid that everybody knew wouldnβt work and now you panic because your earnings are lower than usual? Oh, and you want to βcut costsβ by screwing over every contractor you have? Great. Just great.
This is going to screw you over - you, the individual. Not my client, not the translatorβs client in general - the companyβs client. The corporation is too big to really care about how you feel about their product - the employees individually might, but the companyβs only metric is if you buy it or not. And the company makes decisions based on what brings the most money for the least cost.
So your hardware manuals might be crap and you might be in tears because you have no idea how to make your new appliance do the thing. Youβll go on YouTube and youβll find a solution, and youβll eventually figure it out. And maybe youβll forget about the crap manual in time. So next time, they still wonβt get a good translator, because they already have a cheaper solution that seems to work.
So your game looks like it was translated by a bunch of rats in a bunker and you can barely understand what anyoneβs saying? Well, maybe they got a bottom-feeding agency overpromise that they totally have legit translators working for $1/hour. Pinky swear! Did you buy the game? You did. Soβ¦ the system worked! Theyβll hire the same agency again!
Itβs like the clothing industry all over again. We could have better clothes, but itβs cheaper not to. Theyβre doing us a service by selling us shoes that wonβt last a season, and T-shirts that will look like crap after washing them twice - theyβre cheap, arenβt they? Theyβre affordable. Anyone can get clothes. (So you pay more in time are are more frustrated? Whoβs counting!)
And meanwhile, itβs easy to forget things might be different. That we have the ability to create good things, pleasant things. That manuals can be easily readable, that games can sound great, that books can be awesome to read. It becomes harder to trust the market, harder to believe in quality, easier to say that this is normal, this is how things just are.
And if you speak English natively, wellβ¦ Youβre at a huge advantage. A lot of stuff is created by your people, for you. For countries like mine, that are small enough to import a lot, nearly everything is translated. I want you to imagine almost all movies subbed, every appliance made elsewhere (with menus needing translated and all), every app in a foreign language. And everybody who can cut costs will try to.
#excellent breakdown #i promise no translator worth anything is against individual people being able to use mt to understand texts and communicate #iβm a translator and iβm a big fan of machine translation in my everyday life but it should not be used commercially #machine translation in commercial products is at worst a health and safety risk #but NOBODY who actually understands the matter is saying that mt shouldnβt exist. for fuckβs sake
@spanish-blog I have an even better illustration of why machine translation sucks:
Here I asked google to translate θ·ε, a Chinese verb meaning βto tumble or fall downβ into French. The translation google provides is βautomne,β a noun meaning βfall, the season of the year between spring and winter.β
English is the only language where the word for βfallβ (to tumble) is the same as the word βfallβ (the season of the year). Neither Chinese nor French use the same word to express these very different concepts.
Google isnβt doing a bad Chinese-to-French translation here. In fact, itβs not doing a Chinese-to-French translation at all. Whatβs happening instead is google is doing a bad Chinese to English translation, followed by an even worse English to French translation. Itβs playing a secret game of telephone, wherein requests to translate between two non-English languages are getting translated into English first, and then into the target language.
this energetic and diabolical boy was rescued from a goon hoarding situation⦠he loves pulling levers, gloating, and turning cranks with great abandon. prefers to be the only goon. needs an active lair with plenty of enrichment.
now this fella comes with some baggage. his previous villain was going to have put down when he refused to perform unsedated human vivisection as a form of torture. one of our agents intercepted the execution and brought him to the goon shelter. would thrive in an environment of G or PG-rated villainry.
on the other hand, if youβre looking for something a little moreβ¦ advancedβ¦ then this fine lady over here would make a great challenge for an experienced villain able to set firm boundaries. she will NOT be released to first-time villains; proof of prior henchpeople must be demonstrated before adoption approval. high prey drive. under no circumstances should she be left alone with children or small animals. must sign waiver releasing the goon shelter from responsibility if her behavior is deemed excessively depraved.
These two are pair-bonded and may only be adopted together. Up for anything, they are fiercely loyal to their employer provided their needs are met and they are permitted to hold hands. They look alarmingly similar to one another but it is undeterminable whether they are close blood relatives or lovers who choose to dress and style themselves in identical ways. Habit of finishing each otherβs sentences with rhyming couplets; we have not attempted to train this out of them. Will answer to whatever names or titles you give them so long as they are complimentary and/or rhyme.
Will you help this goon find his forevil lair? Heβs been returned to the goon shelter six times now but we refuse to give up on him. A vile little rat of a man, heβd be the perfect accomplice to someone willing to overlook his unfortunate heterosexuality. If gay-coding is not your style and you donβt expect it from a henchman, please consider giving this little guy a good home in your dastardly schemes.
This guy is not your typical goon. He was rescued from a high-kill shelter after being deemed unfit for henching. His deep baritone voice, his darkly handsome good looks, and his flair for the dramatic have made prospective employers pass over him time and time again, making him the longest resident of the goon shelter. But donβt judge a book by its coverβwhile his appearance and demeanor suggest βvillainβ, his real passion is taking orders and faithfully serving a master. If youβre secure in your villainry and not prone to jealousy, he may just be what it takes to turn your base into a lair.
At last, the day youβve been waiting for!Β Itβs the REVEALS!Β
π΅ Raise your glass if you are wrong
In all the right ways
All my Drarry fans
We will never be never be, anything but loud
And nitty gritty dirty little freaks (fond)
Won't you come on and come on and raise your glass!
Just come on and come on and raise your glass!! π΅
π₯
Time to raise our glass and toast all of the talented people who created your favourite Wireless fics, artworks and podfics!
Massive thanks once again to all the creators of our works. And thanks also to all the readers, betas and supporters of H/D Wireless!
Before we reveal, let's put our hands together for the winners of the guessing game.
π₯1st place: @tackytigerfic with 33 correct guesses!
π΅ Song Prompt: Might as Well Be Gone by PixiesΒ
π΅ Summary:Β Draco Malfoy retired from the Auror force and left England a decade ago, but he still receives the Daily Prophet. Todayβs issue provides closure on the one case he was never able to officially solve.
π» MY FRIENDS SAY I SHOULDN'T SEE YOU ANYMORE [T, Digital Art ]
βοΈ Artist: @bicholsdrarrysideblog (bichol)
π΅ Song Prompt: bad idea right? by Olivia RodrigoΒ
π΅ Summary: Both Draco's and Harry's friends don't approve of their little... dalliance. But it's so hard to stay away from each other! Could this be a bit more than just casual?
π» He Did IT! [Not Rated, Digital Art]
βοΈ Artist: @legendrarry (whileatwiltshire)
π΅ Song Prompt: No Body, No Crime by Taylor SwiftΒ Β
π΅ Summary: Harry: I think he did it but I just can't prove it, 'Mione!!Β
Hermione: And, what exactly did he do, Harry?Β
Harry: I-, I don't know! Something! He has to! It feels weird every time I look at him!!Β
Hermione: .....Β
Ron: ......Β
Ron: Mate...Β
*****Β
Or, it's sixth year and Malfoy is definitely up to something! Why else would Harry's heart beat so fast every time the stupid git so much as looks at him!?!
π» A Quiet Life [T, Digital art]
βοΈ Artist: @getawayfoxΒ
π΅ Song Prompt: A Quiet Life by Teho Teardo & Blixa BargeldΒ
π΅ Summary: After their relationship becomes public knowledge; after being hounded by the paparazzi; after Draco says enough is enough and leaves London; Harryβs more than happy to follow.Β
After all, a quiet life is all heβs ever wanted.
π» The Shape I found you in [Not Rated, Digital art]
βοΈ Artist: @veneficusposts (innifinity)Β
π΅ Song Prompt: 'The Shape I found you in' by 'Girlyman'Β
π΅ Summary: But your heart was busy within,Β
Building bomb shelters under your skin.Β
That's the shape I found you in
πΆ H/D Wireless Fic and Art πΆ
π» Trade My Heart For Honey [M, 64.170, Digital Watercolour]
βοΈ ποΈ Artist and Author: @thunderfiction (MyNameIsThunder)Β
π΅ Prompt: Water Under The Bridge by AdeleΒ
π΅ Summary:Β A Witch who thinks sheβs a Seer, a Seer who thinks sheβs a Witch, a former nemesis-turned-something-turned-acquaintance who thinks they could be friends, and a Scottish village full of Muggles who think this is as much their business as the fair folk in the woods. Draco is going to prove them all wrong.
π΅ Song Prompt: "Dreams" by Fleetwood MacΒ
π΅ Summary: Harry and Ginny are on a break. Harry and Ginny donβt want anyone to know. Harry assumes Ginny is fucking their way through their Quidditch team. Harry punches Draco Malfoy in the face in his free time. Harry considers this a perfectly reasonable coping mechanism. Harry figures that as long as he keeps everything the way that it is, that everything will stay the same, and nothing bad will happen, and Ginny will stay with him, and Malfoy will keep quietly visiting his dreams.
πΆ H/D Wireless Fic πΆ
π» You're on Your Own, Kid [E, 44.274]Β
ποΈ Author: @thesleepiesthufflepuff (bluefay)
π΅ Song Prompt: You're on Your Own, Kid by Taylor SwiftΒ
π΅ Summary: In August of 1998, Draco leaves behind everything heβs ever known. With the help of two middle-aged lesbians, a Muggle bookshop, and a new best friend, Dracoβs future is finally looking up. That is, until Harry Potter wanders back into his life a year later, undoing everything Draco has worked towards.Β
Or, a tale about healing, forgiveness, and living for no one but yourself.
π» Heartbeat [E, 22,791]
ποΈ Author: @saxamophone (eight_of_wands)
π΅ Prompt: Heartbeat by Childish GambinoΒ
π΅ Summary:Β Harry hates Draco, and Draco hates him in return. Only it's not hate, not even a little bit.
Featuring: a cooperative independent study, golden hour on wrecked sheets, strawberries in the summer at Grimmauld Place, water from fountains of (dubious) origin, purple Mardi Gras beads, and a bird with silly legs.Β
Also featuring: heated arguments, infidelity, unquenchable desire, and heartbreak. Over and over again.
π» Long for Bliss! [E, 9,400]
ποΈ Author: @thusspoketrish (Trishjames)
π΅ Song Prompt: This Must Be It by RΓΆyksoppΒ
π΅ Summary: Harry has a tough decision to make: take the blue pill or the red pill. He chooses a pink one instead and throws caution to the wind. What blows back comes in the form of a blond fallen angel that talks like heβs the Devil and, hopefully, fucks as deliciously as he moves.
Or: Harry tries MDMA for the first time and unexpectedly encounters a mysteriously captivating Draco at KOKO London.
βDragon caught your tongue?β Malfoy asks around his candy.
Harryβs voice is an awed whisper as he feasts upon the strangely delicate, alien splendour of Malfoy. βYes, you have.β
π» Going Down Swinging [E, 4,661 ]
ποΈ Author: @sleepstxticΒ
π΅ Song Prompt: Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! by Allan ShermanΒ
π΅ Summary:Β βWho are you?β he asked, feeling around for a truly abominable pair of glasses he fixed firmly above his nose.Β
βIβm Draco,β he answered. βDracoββ He paused. It wasnβt that he couldnβt remember; it was that the memory wasnβt there.
π» The Most Heβs Ever Said [E,16,431]
ποΈ Author: @fastbrother
π΅ Song Prompt: One of Your Girls by Troye SivanΒ
π΅ Summary: It takes them twenty years.
π» Draco Malfoyβs Guide to Seduction (DISCLAIMER: not guaranteed to work on one HJ Potter) [M, 11,107 ]
ποΈ Author: skotiniΒ
π΅ Song Prompt: 'Push the button' by 'Sugababes'Β
π΅ Summary: Harry's gorgeous. Draco wants him.Β
Draco's exasperatedly trying to get him to get. the. message.
π» karma is a (cat) [E, 8,714 ]
ποΈ Author: @ravenesse
π΅ Song Prompt: Karma by Taylor SwiftΒ
π΅ Summary: Draco knew that his karma would come one to him one day and make him pay for all the mistakes he made during the war.Β
But he didnβt expect for it to have four legs, white whiskers, and a soft bushy tail.
π» Kiss and Tell [E, 27,786 ]
ποΈ Author: @drarrysworld (use_it_well)
π΅ Song Prompt: Kiss and Tell by Bryan FerryΒ
π΅ Summary: Sometimes, Harry really fucking hated being himself. All he wanted was to be left alone. That, and someone to share his life with. Was that too much to ask? Apparently so.Β
When Harryβs sex-life was plastered across the front page of the Daily fucking Prophet, he decided to get away until it all died down. Unfortunately, trouble had always known how to find him.Β
Would it be possible to forgive the unforgivable?
π» When the Flood Comes [E, 10,340]
ποΈ Author: @academicdisasterficΒ
π΅ Song Prompt: Eat Your Young by HozierΒ
π΅ Summary: Nine years on from the war, Auror Potter is upholding the Ministry of Magic's rule of law.Β
Senior legal counsel Draco Malfoy is challenging it.Β
And absolutely nothing is as it seems.
π» Never Getting Over You [E, 4,396]
ποΈ Author: @arminaa8Β
π΅ Prompt: Attention by Charlie PuthΒ
π΅ Summary:Β Harry finally gets the push he needs to fight for what he's lost after a breakup that no one wanted.
π» Mermaid [E, 3,000]
ποΈ Author: @lettersbyelise
π΅ Song Prompt: 'Mermaids' by Florence and The MachineΒ
π΅ Summary: βYour magic,β Harry says. βItβs gone.βΒ
βItβs a curse,β Draco says, sounding wry. βCourtesy of Aunt Bellatrix. Disown a Black, and youβll take their magic away, too. Even if their family name is Malfoy.β
βWhat could bring your magic back?β
Draco laughs in his ear.
βTrue loveβs kiss," he murmurs.
And then he turns in Harryβs arms.
π» Us, infinite (unfortunately) [E, 77,287 ]
ποΈ Author: @thecouchsofa
π΅ Song Prompt: All Things End by HozierΒ
π΅ Summary:Β Itβs very fitting for how Harryβs life has gone thus far that he gets trapped in a time loop without rhyme, reason, or warning.Β
To make matters infinitely worse, the one other person stuck on the same hellish chronological ride is Draco Malfoy, git extraordinaire.
π» I made loving you a blood sport (so let's play) [E, 3,032]
ποΈ Author: @otpcutie
π΅ Song Prompt: Blood Sport by Sleep TokenΒ
π΅ Summary: They sat in an odd kind of silence, comfortable in its discomfort. In the predictability of its recklessness. The thing between them was as palpable as the thick smoke in the air, consumed with every breath, and likely just as bad for them.
π» Everything that can go wrong will go wrong [T, 5,178]
ποΈ Author: @etteishere (Etteee)Β
π΅ Song Prompt: If You Were Mine by Leon Bridges and Miranda LambertΒ
π΅ Summary: βYou can move in with me!βΒ
Shit. Apparently there was still a possibility to make a fool out of himself to his crush despite his best efforts at minimizing contact. Draco and Andromeda looked at him in record speed, showing their own expressions of confusion. Maybe at his appearing out of nowhere, maybe at his panting that made it seem like he just ran a marathon for some reason, or maybe at his abrupt and impulsive suggestion. Shit. Teddy wasnβt even here to take off the edgeβHarry was completely alone in this one.Β
After a pause, Draco fully turned to him with a manner that definitely showed his opinion of how stupid Harry was, and asked, βWhat?β
π» Antelucan Ruins [E, 29,453]Β
ποΈ Author: @rainjulyx
π΅ Song Prompt: Ghost by Justin BieberΒ
π΅ Summary: From the bloody Prophet, Draco discovers Harry Potterβs death splashed in grey ink printed on the front page. Potter is dead before Draco gets to see him again to fulfil a half-spoken promise. And yet, these days Draco has the power to bend the world to his heartβs desires, and that includes fucking Harry Potter even after he personally saw Potterβs pale, lifeless body lying in a coffin before it got buried under the soil.
βΒ
"Do you realise that you're just as pathetic and insane? You're so hung up on the idea of me that you'd fuck a ghost, Malfoy. You risked your life for it."Β
Draco puts an arm around Potter's body, "Whoever says I am sane? Certainly not me. It's calculated risk with more success rate than failure. And you are dead, Potter. You refuse to move on to the next realm because you crave for my cock."
π» I've Been There (sitting in that same chair) [Gen, 2,212]
π΅ Song Prompt: The Village by WrabelΒ
π΅ Summary: People keep knocking on Dracoβs door. Draco just wants to read his book (he doesnβt mind, really).Β
Or: Draco gets to be the supportive queer person heβd wished for when he was younger.
π» Lonely Rivers [M, 7,370]
ποΈ Author: @enparallelΒ
π΅ Song Prompt: 'Unchained Melody' by 'The Righteous Brothers'Β
π΅ Summary: Six years after the end of the war, Harry takes care of Teddy Lupin and has started to learn guitar. Hermione negotiates with foreign powers. Draco's a trainee Healer with a glam karaoke routine. And when Ron and Parvati decide to get married, they find a job for everyone...
π» How to Begin [E, 8,478]
ποΈ Author: @wolfpants
π΅ Song Prompt: Blush by Orville PeckΒ
π΅ Summary: Harry is completely, pathetically besotted with his flatmate, Draco. Fuelled by liquid courage, he finally makes his move when he's absolutely sozzled. What could possibly go wrong?
π» Oneiros [E, 13,125]
ποΈ Author: Mischievous (meandminniemcg)Β
π΅ Song Prompt: Enter Sandman by MetallicaΒ
π΅ Summary: When contact with a weird vase traps Harry in his nightmares, it's Unspeakable Draco Malfoy's task to rescue him. In order to do so, he will have to face his past and his family history and win a duel of wits against a Morpheus and try to be better than his father each step of the way...
π» Say When [E, 24,545]
ποΈ Author: @lqtraintracks
π΅ Song Prompt: Undisclosed Desires by Muse
π΅ Summary: When Auror Harry Potter is sent in undercover to determine if Draco Malfoy is laundering money through his BDSM club, will he be able to keep up the ruse and close the case? Or, more to the point, will he keep from falling in love?
π» crawlin' helpless on the floor [M, 1,525]
ποΈ Author: @stationintern
π΅ Song Prompt: Cure For Pain by MorphineΒ
π΅ Summary: It doesn't take much to torment a man when he's three broken contracts away from being out of a job and down a newspaper.
π» Hell is the talkin' type [E, 7,309]
ποΈ Author: @avigethblogs (avigethwrites)
π΅ Song Prompt: Dinner and Diatribes by HozierΒ
π΅ Summary: βMorgana, I need a drink,β Draco sighs. βWhy did I let you convince me to participate in this torture again?βΒ
Harry chuckles. βBecause Iβm your husband, and you love me?β he offers.Β
βBah. Remind me not to let myself be so sentimental next time.β
π΅ Song Prompt: βMr. Blue Skyβ by βElectric Light OrchestraβΒ
π΅ Summary: Mr Blue Sky, please tell us why, you had to hide away for so long...Β Β
After five years, Malfoy had finally escaped house arrest, and he moved in just a few streets down from Grimmauld Place. Overnight, the Daily Prophet seemed to fall in love with him. For his charity work, and his charming smile, andβHarry was sureβhis prattish fucking personality. No matter how hard Harry tried, he couldn't stop running into him.Β
He had bigger problems, though. His best friends in the world were having a baby together, which was fantastic, except that they weren't sure he could hold it together well enough to be Godfather.Β
But despite being flat broke, with a dead dad, and no one willing to risk hiring him, Malfoy appeared to be completely in control of the narrative surrounding his newfound freedom. Maybe Harry could learn a thing or two from the best of the best.Β
After all, he had the entire pregnancy to convince Ron and Hermione he was perfectly, entirely, 100% fine. If sometimes he had to fistfight Malfoy about it, well, that was nothing new.
π» 'tis the damn season [M, 2,892]
ποΈ Author: @phoebe-delia
π΅ Song Prompt: 'tis the damn season by Taylor SwiftΒ
π΅ Summary: He doesnβt know why the universe seems to keep placing him in Potterβs proximity every time he returns to London. He doesnβt know how they keep falling into bed, every year, like clockwork.Β
Draco has tried not to question it.
π΅ Song Prompt: Levitating by Dua LipaΒ
π΅ Summary: It's Friday night and Harry Potter is relaxing with a good book in front of a crackling fire.Β
But he should be at the club.
π» Music to my ears [E, 13,190]
ποΈ Author: MissQuigley
π΅ Song Prompt: River flows in You, YirumaΒ
π΅ Summary: Harry is completely captivated by the beautiful music played on a street piano at a park in Cambridge. He is, however, unprepared for whom the pianist turns out to be.
π» Pancakes for Dinner [T, 2,176]
ποΈ Author: @kittycargo
π΅ Song Prompt: Pancakes for Dinner by Lizzie McAlpineΒ
π΅ Summary: Dracoβs on a trip to visit Harry in his new city at his new job. Heβs not brave enough to say how he really feels.
π» Seasons [E, 9,314]
ποΈ Author: @greattemptation
π΅ Song Prompt: Γguas de MarΓ§o (Waters of March) by AntΓ΄nio Carlos JobimΒ
π΅ Summary: Seconds pass, and itβs like he can see Draco worrying the sliver of glass in his heart, looking for a way to press it out, to expose the wound to the sun. Itβs life; Harry can be patient.
π» Two Houses [E, 11,498]
ποΈ Author: @tackytigerfic
π΅ Song Prompt: Social Cues by Cage the ElephantΒ
π΅ Summary: Two households, both alike in... meddling Floo connections, apparently?Β
Draco Malfoy is a highly professional and well-respected Ministry official, with a demanding schedule, a loving son, andβthrough no fault of his ownβa faulty Floo connection that keeps regurgitating the Minister for Magic through his fireplace.
π΅ Song Prompt: Perpetual Motion, Perpetual Sound by LoversΒ
π΅ Summary: Harry Potter canβt sleep.
π» Closing Time [E, 18,406]
ποΈ Author: @sweet-s0rr0w
π΅ Song Prompt: 'Closing Time' by 'Semisonic'Β
π΅ Summary: Dracoβs been invited to Nevilleβs stag party in Bristol, and he's confident he knows what to expect. Thereβll be too many Gryffindors, for starters, plus a few humiliating team-building activities, some dodgy clubs, and a truly preposterous level of alcohol consumption.Β
Butβ¦ a drunken Harry Potter climbing into Draco's bed when heβs having a wank?Β
No, he definitely didn't see that coming...
π» every scrap of you (you left them all to me) [E, 54,191]
ποΈ Author: @peachydreamxx
π΅ Song Prompt: marjorie by taylor swiftΒ
π΅ Summary: Twelve years on from the war, Harry finds himself in an endless cycle of bedding Draco Malfoy, and waking up alone. Desperate to understand why Draco won't give him a chance to be something more, he commits to courting the slippery blond git.Β
But there's a reason Draco can't fall for him, and Harry will go to the darkest depths to change that.
π» What are you doing Sunday, baby? [M, 12,034]
ποΈ Author: @badwolfblues
π΅ Song Prompt: Disco 2000 by PulpΒ
π΅ Summary: Draco needs a respectable husband to strengthen his reputation before his in-laws try to take Scorpius from him. Who better than his ex, the independently wealthy, out and proud single father, Harry Potter?
π» Too Good At Raising Hell [E, 87,462]
ποΈ Author: @the-sinking-ship
π΅ Song Prompt: 'Too Good At Raising Hell' by 'The Struts'Β
π΅ Summary: When Harry Potter walks into Dracoβs nightclub looking like trouble, Draco canβt stop staring. He really ought to train his dick not to react so enthusiastically to red flags, but where would be the fun in that?
πΆ H/D Wireless Podfic πΆ
π» [Podfic] Move, move [T, 54:30 ]
π€ Podficcer: @sweatersinthesummer
π΅ Song Prompt: Bar Italia by Pulp
π΅ Summary: She grabbed Harryβs hand, slipping something small into it and pressing his fingers around it.Β
βDilectio. Itβll cheer you up. Make you feel like dancing.βΒ
Harry gaped at her. Drugs. Ginnyβs fucking giving me drugs?Β
At Stasis nightclub Ginny does indeed give Harry drugs. But it's all good: Malfoy looks after Harry, and Harry grapples with newfound enlightenments, not to mention a newfound fascination with all things Malfoyβone which persists even when he finds out what Malfoy's up to.
π» [Podfic] A Different Kind of Meaning by p1013 [E, 01:42:57]
π€ Podficcer: @reveriepi
π΅ Song Prompt: 'Outnumbered' by Dermot KennedyΒ
π΅ Summary:Β The ceiling doesn't hold any answers, but there are cobwebs scattered across the corners with shadows tangled in their threads. The rug against his back is rough and scratchy, threadbare and devoid of colours other than various shades of brown. Harry takes it all in, absorbs the dingy and depressed state of his home. There's a pointed moment of decision, a note about to be played, a silence about to end, and then he rolls to his feet and sets to cleaning.Β
It's the first constructive thing he's done in years.
π» [Podfic] Case of You [Et, 11:48:56]
π€ Podficcer: @cailynwrites
π΅ Song Prompt: Case of You by Joni MitchellΒ
π΅ Summary: Draco was doing just fine working as an Unspeakable in Paris, hanging out with his living and ghostly pals, inventing new spells, and definitely not thinking about Potter. Then, Lucius just had to break out of prison and turn his world upside down.Β
Now, Draco has to return to England, where he is forced to confront how family ties bind usβand one infuriatingly fit Harry Potter.
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You canβt really know someone from consuming their fiction and never meet your heroes and blah blah blah. But like.
When you read the work of someone you know personally and itβs just bursting with their beautiful soul and their words are enhanced by their spirit. Itβs like. A sublime experience.
We gonna talk about Crater Lake, and Wizard Island and not mention the Old Man of the Lake?
The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It's roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first 'offically' recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.
The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.
So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange'? Let's get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that's strange.
So now let's get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it'd be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes...again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.
As a kid, I spent my summers with my family who lives like... 40 some odd miles from Crater Lake National Park so I had this knowledge just kinda buried in my head somewhere.
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Thanks for the tag @annanother-thing. I've missed these games during my tumblr break.
Put your Spotify library (or app of choice) on shuffle and put the first 5 songs in a poll so people can vote on which one they like the most:
Which song form my chaotic favorites playlist do you like the most?
Woman In Red - San Fermin
Criminal - Fiona Apple
Touch-Tone Telephone - Lemon Demon
The Cult of Dionysus - The Orion Experience
More Than a Friend - girli
Voting ended onJul 15, 2024
Tagging @enparallel @moonmanateee @pixiedunhoff @romaine2424 @rainstormradish @girlcave @nanneramma @shealynn88 @elisedonut @basicallyahedgehog and anyone else who would like to play! Tag me, I love finding or rediscovering songs.
