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MAY COFFEEHOUSE PROMPT

Welcome to the @hp-coffeehouse monthly prompt post! @hp-coffeehouse on LJ / DW (Post your works on our AO3 COLLECTION) Tag us, and we’ll reblog your work!

The prompt for today’s Drabble Challenge is : Potions.

As always, there is no minimum word count. The maximum word count is 500.

If you like to give yourself an extra challenge (optional), then the set word count for this prompt is 409.

Here is the Challenge Collection on AO3 to which you can add your drabble.

For more rules & guidelines, see this post.

Happy writing!

My Bloody Valentine 2021: 14 February - 21 February

INTRO: I don’t need to wax lyrical about how 2020 was a year and how 2021 is showing up with equal attitude. What I will tell you about instead is the return of My Bloody Valentine for February 2021, because if ever we needed a creepy and unsettling Valentine’s fest, now feels like the appropriate time. My Bloody Valentine pitches itself as an ‘anti-Valentine’s fest’ but it is a lot more fun than it sounds and you don’t have to hate on Valentine’s to participate.

ABOUT: My Bloody Valentine’s is a mini-fest welcoming all fanworks (fic, art, vids, podfic) featuring characters from the Potterverse (including Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts) focusing on the darker side of love and romance. There will not be prompts for the fest, please take the theme and use it as a jumping off point. The anti-Valentine’s theme means there should be some kind of romantic/love/ship related slant to the fanwork you produce and it should have a twist. Examples of things you might want to explore include horror, obsession, heartbreak, heavy angst, infidelity, unrequited pining, character death, hauntings, coercion, unhealthy power dynamics, creatures gone wild or whatever else you think fits the bill.

PREVIOUS RUNS: If you want to see what the fest is all about, check out the 2019 Fest Collection on AO3. The fest has also run previously on the journals.

HOW TO TAKE PART: If you wish to participate and are 18+ please feel free to start working on something whenever you wish. There is no official sign up process you can just post your fanwork to the dedicated fest collection on AO3 when it opens.

POSTING: The AO3 collection will go live at MIDNIGHT GMT on SATURDAY 13 FEBRUARY. Keep an eye on this blog for the link. You can then self-post to the collection at any point from then until MIDNIGHT GMT on SUNDAY 21 FEBRUARY. A full masterlist will go up in the week after the fest concludes.

PROMPTING IS NOW OPEN!  Prompting dates: January 18-29. READ ALL ABOUT THE PROMPTING BELOW!

TLDR (prompting is here)

For the @hogwarts365 drabble challenge, using prompt #364 ‘Marriage’.

Pairing : Draco Malfoy / Harry Potter

Rating : G

Can also be read on AO3.

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Even as a child, Draco had hated the idea of marriage. As soon as he was old enough to understand what the meaning of it was, there had been something about it that had sent the shivers right through him. The thought of falling in love, of wanting to spend the rest of his life with someone, it had made him want to be sick, it had made him want to run away and never look back. The thought of marriage alone had made him feel trapped, and he had always sworn that he would never go through the hell of it all.

People had always told him that he would change his mind as he grew older. That one day he would meet someone, and they would steal his heart. They would make him feel stupid for ever having thought that love was a waste of time.

Draco hadn’t believed them though. Not until he had met the boy who had taken his breath away from the moment he first laid eyes on him. Who had made him feel something deep inside, a stirring he didn’t even know it was possible to feel. Was it possible that people had been right about love after all?

As he drops down to his knee, before pulling the small box from out of the pocket of his jacket, he can’t help but think back to all the times he had thought about marriage when he was younger. All the times when he had told himself that he would never let himself get trapped like everyone else around him.

Yet here he is, about to propose to the man he loves, the man with whom he wants to spend the rest of his life.

There is nothing about this that makes him feel trapped. In fact, right here, right now, he feels the most free he has ever felt in his life.

So he looks up, and he opens the small box in his hand, the beautiful gold band shining in the light. Even from here he can see the shock on the other man’s face, before a big, teary smile takes over.

OCTOBER COFFEEHOUSE PROMPT IS HERE

Welcome to the @hp-coffeehouse monthly prompt post! @hp-coffeehouse on LJ / DW (Post your works on our AO3 COLLECTION) Tag us, and we’ll reblog your work!

So this month’s prompt is our prompt # 42. So naturally the prompt is:

(blank): The answer to everything!

Interpret that how you wish for coffee or tea.