People usually have Shane too paranoid to reference anything sexual in the closeted years, which I get. BUT. What about Shane who has been faking being interested in anyone like a “normal” guy this whole time finally having something to share in the locker room and back up his insistence he’s just like everyone else.
Like he’s been pulling out “oh no I’m just not feeling it tonight”, “she’s not my type”, “I’m busy” excuses every time this comes up for years. And kind of resenting it because he’s notttt a prude okay. So now. He’s like wow they’ll never clock me now! I have proof!
He’s letting guys see hickies and scratches in the locker room.
He’s changing key details of stories so he has something to contribute when it comes up.
He’s letting people catch him texting Lily when it’s generic enough not to give them away.
Ilya hears at least some of the gossip about Hollander and realizes Shane’s bragging about him but like, in reverse. Shane is MORTIFIED that he finds out. (Ilya would give him so much shit, like, no Shane, go ahead I heard you loveeee fucking some blond girl’s ass, please demonstrate).
I also love this is large part because you know Hayden and the other metros would be so proud of him. He’s giving him gross bro advice and cheering him on. And then so horrified when he figures out that they were talking about Rozanov the whole time.
Crucially I also don’t think this would be like Ilya doing something similar because he’s in on the joke. Shane’s just really desperate to pass for a “normal” straight jock bro. He’s doing a really weird job of it because he’s like “well my hypothetical straightsona that definitely could exist if I wanted it to would be classy and respectful right? But also I’m not good at making stuff up and nothing we do together is very polite. Hmmm.” Also he has no idea what is actually kinky or normal. It’s like “oh no, you guys caught me texting the woman with a vagina I’m having sex with. I shouldn’t kiss and tell, but yes she left these bruises on my ass. Oh from what? Um, riding me REALLY hard. And I was… sitting on legos at the time. Is that possible? I have to go. Away to my female secret girlfriend. Bye.”
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Rapid Fire NHL Things for New Hollanov Fans to Know When Writing Hockey Fanfic
There is no handshake line at the end of regular season games
Equipment managers are the ones managing a players gear and equipment during a season. Players aren’t taking their gear bags home from practice every day and laying out their own gear at the rink. The team handles it and does laundry
WAGs don’t ever really wear player jerseys, they would wear a custom outfit with the number (think Taylor Swift) if they do at all
Fights are a regular part of hockey culture and unless someone gets seriously injured in a fight, you’re not gonna get in serious trouble for fighting
Players actually board the private team plane on the tarmac, the show just didn’t have the budget for that
When on road trips, players take the team bus from the airport to the hotel to the rink and so on. They’re not in charge of their own transportation
Captains don’t typically run practices and set drills, the coaching staff do
Players mostly do post game media in front of their stalls in the locker room, and two teams aren’t doing media at the same time in the same room after games
The locker room is actually open wooden stalls. It’s not a physical locker you shut.
When a player is mic’ed up, both teams are made aware of who has the hot mic
Playoffs structure can be confusing, but round one and two are in your conference, round three is a conference final, round four for the cup is east vs west
They are not getting bag skated every practice please stop putting that they are getting bag skated til they puke at every practice
This is basically the exact list I’ve been keeping in my head lol but also:
When players are hurt/out for a game they sit in a private box/team box in a suit
They would know almost every person in the press scrum most of the time. They’re beat reporters, mostly, and they get to know them because they’re always covering the team
Teams often have early and late buses to get to the rink from the hotel when on road trips, to accommodate players’ habits
If you go look at teams’ social media, you’ll see they basically show up for games in a suit and with whatever is in their pockets. No bags for most of them
Players usually have a warm up routine pre game that can be short or long and a cool down routine after that can vary if they’re injured
They have a curfew on the road, a time they have to be back to the hotel. The can get excused from it if they have family in town
Most teams have 1. A complex fine system (ex. No PDA, being late for curfew, complaining about XYZ, etc.) that a veteran player is keeping track of, and 2. Several ongoing bets
So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.
Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.
The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.
They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.
The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.
The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.
The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.
Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.
Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.
The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.
Ok, but this story is sadly revolutionary even now.
That is not just a human who happens to be black, as far as every other character in this story is concerned this is the most important, maybe even the only human they ever see, who happens to be black.
As depressing as that is, but a black person just casually representing the entirety of humanity is a breathtakingly powerfull statement even today, a quarter of a century later.
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On Connor Storrie’s excellent Russian in HR (from a linguist)
Ok it’s time to put my Russian and linguistics (and Slavic linguistics) degrees to work and tell you why Connor Storrie’s Russian and accent work in this show is so freaking good. (Links added for those who want more info about stuff.) Hey other linguists — I’m playing fast and loose with notation here, ok, we’re not doing phonemes and IPA.
We’re going to go over overall mouth shape, palatalization, lack of aspiration, vowel reduction, and intonation with examples from Ilya’s dialogue! I’m going to talk about this from the perspective of an English speaker learning Russian since that’s what Connor (and I) did. Here we go.
1. Overall mouth shape
Every language has what you could think of as its own neutral or resting mouth position (aka, basis of articulation). One way to think of this is what the “I’m thinking” noise is — in English it’s uhh, in Spanish it’s often ehh. In Russian it’s mmm or ehhh or ahhh. The other thing is that the mouth typically does not open as much vertically when speaking Russian as when speaking English, but rather wider (horizontally).
Connor is doing a good job of maintaining a more Russian resting position (and I have a theory that this is one of the reasons his face looks so different as Ilya).
You can see Connor doing this when he says “ehh no” to Shane about whether this is his first time with a man in episode 1.
Also when he’s yelling at Alexei during the funeral in episode 5, we get to see him head on speaking Russian for an extended time, and you can see he is opening his mouth wider but not taller.
2. Palatalization
Every consonant has a place of articulation in your mouth, aka a place where your tongue touches the inside of your mouth or is positioned so that the air flows or is stopped in such a way as to make the sound. Making sounds is all about changing how air flows through our vocal tracts (throat, mouth, nose).
For example, in English ‘t’ and ‘d’ are both alveolar sounds made by touching the tip of your tongue to the hard palate behind your teeth. In Spanish those same sounds are dental, so you touch the tongue to the teeth to make the sound. In Russian you touch the hard palate and the teeth at once - the sounds are dental and alveolar.
In Russian consonants are sometimes palatalized. This means that there is a regular version — for ‘t’, touching the tip of the tongue to the teeth and hard palate. For regular “l”, touching the tip of the tongue to the hard palate or right behind your teeth and resting the body of the tongue along the bottom of the mouth, etc.
Then some consonants have a palatalized version, which happens before certain vowels. You lift the middle of your tongue and use it as the point of contact with the roof of your mouth instead of the tip. So for palatalized ‘t’, the middle of your tongue touches the ridge of the hard palate, and the tip of your tongue moves down to rest behind your bottom teeth. For ‘l’, the same.
In Russian the distinction is meaning bearing. So mat (regular t) and mat’ (palatalized t)’ are different words (cursing and mother, respectively). Another explanation here. Here’s an IPA chart with animation and videos of sounds being articulated. Try clicking on the ‘t’.
Connor is doing this. He doesn’t hit every single palatalized consonant but I’d say he’s hitting 85-90% of them. It’s wild! He was clearly taught by sound/phonetically which is great. But Americans often have trouble learning palatalization as a meaning bearing sound difference (I know this because I’ve taught Russian many times and there are studies) and he’s knocking it out of the park for someone who doesn’t speak the language.
You can hear it in his very careful pronunciation of I love you to Shane in ep6 - palatalized consonants in this phrase are the t, b, l, and b and l together: я тебя люблю/ ya tebya lyublyu.
Also every time he says the word хрень/ khren’ (shit/fuck) - he says this in episode 1 on the phone with Alexei twice and in the monologue to Shane in episode 5. The kh, r, and n are all palatalized, he nails it.
He even gets it in some tricky spots:
In episode 1 on the phone with Alexei with the baby crying in the background, he says the words для/ dlya (for) and блядь/ blyad’ (fuck). These are both notoriously tricky for English speakers learning Russian because every single consonant is palatalized. He gets both right.
He says the word больше/ bol’she (more) a lot during his monologue to Shane in episode 5 and nails the tricky palatalized ‘l’ in the middle every time.
3. Lack of aspiration
In English we have some aspirated consonants. The means that when we say them we sometimes produce a little puff of air with them: p, t, k. The aren’t aspirated 100% of the time but we don’t use aspiration for meaning like some languages do (ex. In Hindi kal (no aspiration) and khal (aspirated k) are two different words (time, skin)).
In Russian these sounds (p, t, k) are not aspirated. It’s difficult for English speakers to pick up this difference a lot of the time because it’s so subtle and hard to self monitor when you’ve never had to do it before.
You can feel it by putting your hand or a piece of paper in front of your mouth and saying “tik tok” or “cat”, you’ll probably notice the little air puffs.
In Russian similar words have no aspiration-так/ tak (‘so’) and кот/ kot (‘cat’)
Connor is doing this pretty well. He struggles with non-aspirated ‘t’, which is pretty normal. He’s better with p and k.
The times his “okay” sounds really Russian? Not aspirating the k is part of that.
He does a good job not aspirating the k sound in fuck in English, which adds to his accent.
In episode 1 he asks Alexei on the phone (when the baby is crying) как папа/ kak papa (how is dad), and overall does a good job with not aspirating any of those k’s or p’s.
His non-aspiration is pretty good overall in the long monologue with Shane in episode 5.
In my experience as someone who learned Russian as a second language and then has taught it to others, it feels a little bit like swallowing back or speaking from the back of your mouth to avoid aspirating. Or try putting another sound in front of the aspirated letter. (ex. In English, peak vs speak - the p in speak is not aspirated)
4. Correct vowel reduction, mostly
In Russian, word stress affects vowel sounds. In the syllable that is stressed (emphasized), the vowel has its most typical sound. In all of the unstressed syllables around it, the vowel sounds “reduce.”
Ex. the word for milk is молоко/ ‘moloko’ and the last syllable “ko” is stressed/where you will put the emphasis. The other two o’s don’t sound like o’s as a result. Correct pronunciation of this word is more like muh-lah-koh. As you get farther from the stressed syllable in either direction, the vowels get more reduced (o reduces to “ah” and then ə (“uh”) when fully reduced). (Tricky note: in this word the first syllable, muh, isn’t as reduced as it could be because it’s first, so it gets a little boost from that.)
Connor is doing this pretty beautifully throughout. Even when the consonant palatalization or the vowel quality is a little off, he’s knocking vowel reduction out of the park, for the most part. I imagine this is because he learned it phonetically.
Every time he says отец/ otets (father), he correctly pronounces the ‘o’ as ‘ah’.
There are many good examples in episode 1, but here’s a couple that stood out to me — when he’s watching Shane speak French, he says просто отлично/ prosto otlichno (just perfect/excellent) and correctly pronounces it “prostuh ahtlichnuh”.
He says the word теперь/ teper’ (now) a couple of times, and correctly pronounces the first e more like i (и).
When he and Sveta are talking about the ASG and votes in episode 4 on the bed, he says голосовали/ golosovali (they voted) and correctly reduces all 3 o’s, since the syllable ‘va’ has the stress: “guhluhsahvali”
5. Intonation of questions, sentences
Something you might know about English is that yes/no questions have rising intonation, aka we contour our pitch/voices up at the end. Like if I asked you “do you know the way to the store?” I would raise my intonation/pitch at the end to indicate it is a question. We also use falling intonation but often differently from Russian.
In many of the situations where we use rising intonation in English (including yes/no questions), Russian uses falling intonation. So the question goes down at the end instead of up.
There’s more to it than this but you can hear Connor do this very clearly when he asks Svetlana questions.
In episode 5, he asks her if Shane is also mediocre when they’re talking about other players on the bed before the ASG. And he uses falling intonation perfectly.
In episode 2 he says “this year?” When Sveta is telling him he could win the cup that year. His intonation falls perfectly again - а этом году? / v etom godu?
He also says a word in ep1 that I don’t think gets translated (the subtitles say “speaking Russian”) and his intonation is just so good - Неужели/ neuzheli (really). (His palatalization here is also great!) He says it to Shane when Shane asked him not to tell anyone in the first hotel room together.
Anyway. Connor, as we know, is hitting it out of the park with his Russian, and here are some of the reasons why. He picked up palatalization, mouth position, non-aspiration, intonation, and vowel reduction!! Like, damn.
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I love stock photo sentences. This has been the new thing to repeat for me when things go wrong. A mentally ill man with psychological disorders is going crazy at home. The crazy man who is alone in his house is yelling.
genuinely imagine you are an in denial eighteen year old gay boy who’s like “okay i dont really care about girls whatever i just like playing hockey and i want to play hockey well :)” and then this mother fucker walks into your life
Yuna and David having watched their autistic son be so isolated all of his adult life and never having a happy relationship or close friends who understand his anxiety and then finding out that the man they’ve spent a decade hating on his behalf can casually talk him down from a panic attack in less than a minute
an X-Files Drarry fic done for the Lights, Camera, Drarry festival.
12k words of idiots to lovers with a heaping helping of (fun) conspiracy theories, bickering as flirting, angst and anxiety, and happy ( and spooky) ending.
I hope you all enjoy!
M for Mature, warning for (maybe) alien abduction, and shamelessly stolen lines from the X Files.
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Dear lovely Participants, Creators, Alpha and Beta Readers, Cheerleaders, Readers and Fans of this fest,
The 7th installment of LCDrarry has come to an end. 7! That's a whole school life at Hogwarts!
We'd like to thank you all for taking part in this fest, for creating so many amazing new Drarry works for us all to enjoy, for commenting on your favourite creations, for sharing and recommending the LCDrarry gems with your friends and blog followers, and for making this fest another amazing experience for everybody.
Fests would not exist without their participants or readers. You're all amazing! And we're so happy that you chose this fest in the vast and wonderful offerings of HP and Drarry events.
And now, you can find out under the cut who created what ;D
~Your LCDrarry Mods Tami (@celilasart) and Suzi (@erin-riwen)
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PPS: You can find a link to the "Master List - Part 1: Podfic & Art" under the cut.
Enjoy!
Part 1 of this Master List with all the lovely podfics and art can be found here.
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Things I Almost Remember
Prompt: "Anastasia", 1997, Don Bluth
Prompted by: cailynwrites
Author: slyth_princess
Word Count: 2,056 words
Rating: General
Warnings: No archive warnings apply.
Summary:
Harry grew up in the dark with no memory of who he was, only to stumble across a mystery, a rumour spread throughout all that remains of Wizarding London. Could this mysterious Lost Prince really be him? He honestly doesn't know. Nor does he know what to make of the man who discovered him.
Draco just wants freedom. A way out of the hell his world has become. So when a stranger stumbles upon the hideaway he'd made in the ruins of the Ministry for Magic, that looks shockingly like Harry Potter, who is he to turn down his best shot at getting what he wants? If only the man wasn't so hard to keep his distance from.
Read it now on AO3.
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what could this thing possibly do?
Prompt: "Zombieland", 2009, Ruben Fleischer
Prompted by: Gnarf
Authors: winchesterss & arcasra
Word Count: 2,519 words
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.
Summary: Draco works with muggle artifacts, Harry is bored, and they end up inside of a zombie film.
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The Little Merman
Prompt: "The Little Mermaid", 1989, Ron Clements, John Musker
Prompted by: Anonymous
Author: Meowfoy
Word Count: 5,286 words
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.
Summary: Draco Malfoy as Ariel in this Little Mermaid inspired HP AU! Harry as a Prince, Voldemort as Ursula and some interesting twists to the Little Mermaid story as well. Also Draco just doesn't want to be a merman, he doesn't feel like it is who he is. So he doesn't just change for love. Though a hot prince definitely helps.
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A Boy, A Mouse, a Library Card, and a Stupid, Stupid Diary
Prompt: "The Owl House", 2020
Prompted by: Thel1ght6
Author: Thel1ght6
Word Count: 6,006 words
Rating: General
Warnings: No archive warnings apply.
Summary:
Harry Potter is a human boy, whose parents unfortunately died in a crash. He was left to his horrid aunt and uncle, and lived in the remnants of what his parents left behind. One day, A strange bird makes off with Harry’s stuff. It runs into a house, and Harry is teleported to a strange world called the Magic Isles. He is taken in by a wizard named Dumbledore and his demon buddy, Hagrid. He has gotten in a lot of situations; one of which got him trapped on the isles.
He’s met a lot of other people on the Isle. Hermione, Neville, Luna- his favorite being Draco. Today, and for the millionth time this week, he’s going to visit Draco at his job. However, he has a favor to ask. He needs to find something, and only Draco could know where it is.
Read it now on AO3.
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Knockturn Hill
Prompt: "Notting Hill", 1999, Roger Michell
Prompted by: Elizah321
Author: SpireaSalix
Word Count: 9,148 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:
Fifteen years after the war, Knockturn Alley — where Draco and his friends sought refuge from their tarnished reputations — has transformed into a surprisingly charming neighborhood and rebranded itself as Knockturn Hill. Draco has settled for a boring, pathetic and lonely life between his shop and an apartment with an emerald green door.
Meanwhile, Harry Potter, the wizarding world’s most famous and adored figure, has grown accustomed to a life of luxury, constant attention, and admirers eager to please him in every way they can.
When a group of reporters ambushes Harry in Knockturn Hill he is left desperate for a place to hide.
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Something Fucking Sinister
Prompt: "Jennifer's Body", 2009, Karyn Kusama
Prompted by: Trishjames
Author: Trishjames
Word Count: 9,581 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Minor Horror Elements, Creepy vibes
Summary:
Something is seriously off at The Three Broomsticks.
Harry knows it. The walls know it. The washed-up band playing definitely knows it.
But his roommate-kinda-frenemy Malfoy? Well. Malfoy is too busy flirting with danger and looking like trouble in human form to care.
This was not the stress-free eighth year Harry’d been looking forward to.
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The Legend of Tower 7
Prompt: "Tower 4", 2020
Prompted by: DrWhoIsGinnyHolmes
Author: DrWhoIsGinnyHolmes
Word Count: 9,927 words
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: Minor Character Death, Creepy, Mystery
Summary:
Losing his adoptive parents was the last straw. Harry needed to get away, so he packed up his things and left for America. He travelled out to Glencour Park and Camp Grounds, a magical forest that housed all sorts of creatures, including a Horned Serpent Sanctuary. He heard this place had a problem with missing campers and occasional fiendfyre, not to mention the Muggle forest fires that threatened the land.
He hadn't even been there one day when odd things started happening: classical music coming from the radio that no one else could hear, creepy sounds near his tower that he couldn't explain, random cold spots in the woods, and the feeling of being watched all the time. This was going to be a long Fire Season.
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Close Encounters
Prompt: “The X-Files”, 1993-2018
Prompted by: pocket_lin (ao3)
Author: LadyShipwreck
Word Count: 12,107 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: aliens, alien abductions, missing time, Draco's racing anxiety thoughts
Summary:
When Draco is transferred to the Ministry's X-Files, it seems like Potter is there to ruin his life yet again. But soon he finds himself immersed in the biggest mystery the universe can hand him: how to survive falling in love with the Savior of the Wizarding World.
Featuring a UFO convention, some dramatic and unhelpful friends, and a possible alien abduction. Can Draco keep a cool and rational head when everything around him is getting...spooky?
Read it now on AO3.
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The Grim Barbarity of the Department of Mysteries
Prompt: "Severance", 2022
Prompted by: phoenixortheflame
Author: holygnocchi
Word Count: 12,828 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Themes of spousal loss and grief
Summary:
Harry sits and listens to the minutes tick by, and tries not to think about all the sounds that are missing: the clatter of cabinet doors and whistle of the kettle; the whoosh of an accio’d briefcase and the rustle of papers haphazardly stuffed inside it; an intermittent off-key hum along with the wireless. He’s not sure how long he sits there trying-and-failing, but without Draco there to cast a warming charm, the coffee goes cold before Harry thinks to drink it.
OR: Harry doesn't want to grieve. So instead, he forgets.
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The Drarry Trap
Prompt: "The Parent Trap", 1998, Nancy Meyers
Prompted by: meandminniemcg
Author: meandminniemcg
Word Count: 15,075 words
Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: No archive warnings apply; past unplanned pregnancy of a trans man, referenced PTSD
Summary:
You send your son to an international Little League Quidditch camp, and he comes back being like a different person. Maybe he is. At least that happened to Harry and Draco.
Read it now on AO3.
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Undiscovered Country
Prompt: “Station Eleven”, 2021
Prompted by: pocket_lin (AO3)
Author: DodgerKedavra
Word Count: 15,715 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Post-Apocalypse, Pandemics, Blood and Injury, Parent Death, Panic Attacks
Summary:
“Everyone’s dead,” Harry sobs, his voice mostly gone.
“Hey.” Uncle Pads strokes Harry’s hair. “Not everyone.”
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here, in my arms
Prompt: "Rebecca", 1940, Alfred Hitchcock; 2020, Ben Wheatley
Prompted by: MoonSmurf
Author: newskyillusion
Word Count: 18,337 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Morally Grey Harry Potter, Morally Grey Draco Malfoy, First Person POV, Fire, Murder, Gothic vibes
Summary:
Last night I dreamed I went to the Malfoy Manor again.
or, Drarry meets Rebecca
Read it now on AO3.
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Only Three Rules
Prompt: "The Holiday", 2006, Nancy Meyers
Prompted by: alexandra6727
Author: JessicaLuci
Word Count: 20,064 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.
Summary:
The son of the Duke of Wiltshire returned to dreaded England for a much needed holiday. Planning on spending the Christmas period alone in a serene cottage with nothing but books, thoughts, and an odd dog called Crookshanks. Draco did not expect those plans to be utterly destroyed by a singular (but extremely handsome) man.
Harry Potter: veteran, divorcee, and single father, returned to his sister's house for the night after getting thoroughly pissed. However, as he pounded on the door to be let in, he wasn't greeted by his sister's exasperated expression, he was greeted by a man who instantly took his breath away.
Three rules were all they had.
Three rules they quickly broke.
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Seven First Dates
Prompt: "50 First Dates", 2004, Peter Segalo
Prompted by: Anonymous
Author: qqquack
Word Count: 20,898 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, References to Depression
Summary:
When Harry ran into Draco Malfoy in a Muggle bookshop, he certainly found it odd. When he spotted him there for a second time, Harry convinced himself that Malfoy was plotting something awful. By the third encounter, he’d realized what was actually up: Malfoy had short term memory loss. He was stuck reliving the same day over and over again. Well wasn’t it just his luck that Harry was starting to fall in love.
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each fallen robin
Prompt: "The Hunger Games" (2012)
Prompted by: veradubhghoill
Author: veradubhghoill
Word Count: 21,050 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Canon-typical deaths, canon-typical child abuse, psychological manipulation, psychological torture, cruelty, implied sex work
Summary:
In the distance a cannon boomed; Harry looked down at himself, then at his opponent, who was entirely still, waves lapping at his face. Quirinus, Harry remembered. That was his name. A Career tribute. They had nodded at each other during training, maintaining some semblance of decorum—but here in the arena all Harry could think about was the way Quirinus had lunged for him, spittle flying from his mouth, spear in hand, knowing that all that stood between him and victory was a malnourished fourteen year-old.
Read it now on AO3.
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Twenty’s Plenty
Prompt: "What's Your Number?", 2011, Mark Mylod
Prompted by: veradubhghoill (ao3)
Author: orolin
Word Count: 21,811 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply; Infidelity but not between Harry and Draco
Summary: After a string of failed relationships and a Witch Weekly article that proclaims anyone who has dated over twenty people is more likely to end up alone, Draco decides enough is enough. There must’ve been someone in his past who he missed a connection with, so there’s only one thing for it. Hunt down all of his exes and find The One.
What he didn't account for was Harry Potter coming along for the ride.
Read it now on AO3.
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Love is All Around
Prompt: "Four Weddings and a Funeral", 1994, Mike Newell
Prompted by: Anonymous
Author: ToBoldlyGeek
Word Count: 24,266 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.
Summary:
Everyone is getting married, except for Harry. Over the course of five social occasions he figures out how to change that.
Read it now on AO3.
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Nothing can keep me away
Prompt: "Sister Act", 1992, Emile Ardolino
Prompted by: apricitydays (AO3)
Author: skotini
Word Count: 24,330 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Kissing under the influence of alcohol (sacramental wine), Breaking of religious vows, Negative portrayals of religious figures
Summary:
After being witness to a terrible crime, Harry Potter must go into hiding at Netley Abbey, a magical monastery.
But that’s where Draco Malfoy has already taken vows, and he’s definitely off limits…
Read it now on AO3.
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Life As We Know It
Prompt: "Life as We Know It", 2010, Greg Berlanti
Prompted by: Anonymous
Author: use_it_well
Word Count: 25,803 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Minor character death, death from terminal illness
Summary:
When Andromeda suddenly passed away, leaving Teddy in the care of both Harry and Draco, neither of them knew how they’d manage to live together without killing each other, let along survive as parenthood was thrust upon them. Raising a ten-year-old boy would be hard at the best of times, but raising one who had just lost the only parental figure he’d ever known was another thing entirely.
Would it be possible for Harry and Draco to put aside their (very many) differences in order to provide a stable family for Teddy? And what would they learn about each other – and themselves – along the way?
Read it now on AO3.
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Treat me like a dog, Take me out back, Tell me that my hunting days are done
Prompt: "Crazy Rich Asians", 2018, Jon M Chu
Prompted by: Anonymous
Author: morningliliesmourningglories
Word Count: 29,271 words
Rating: General Audience
Warnings: Canon compliant racism, One (1) dead fish
Summary: What is lineage, if not a gold thread of pride and guilt.
The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon.
A.K.A The Drarry Crazy Rich Asians retelling in which everyone learns that to get what you need does not mean that you get what you want.
Read it now on AO3.
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Will Do So Gently
Prompt: "The Last Of Us", 2023
Prompted by: shewhxmustnxtbenamed
Author: shewhxmustnxtbenamed
Word Count: 138,444 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Depictions of war, bombing, heavy angst
Summary: Following a coup organised by Voldemort, England's society collapses. Initial attempts by the government to regain power are thwarted by Death Eaters, and a rebellion group called ‘The Order’ forms to fight against them. The country divides, people flee, and those left are trying their best to survive.
Draco Malfoy, raised since birth to believe in Voldemort, grows wiser with age and abandons his home after he realises the terror Voldemort intends to inflict on the world. Afraid of what The Order might do to a marked Death Eater, he goes into hiding where he remains for years until Harry Potter finds him and sparks his long-lost will to fight. Their paths separate, and Draco goes out to join The Order or die trying, not realising that his Death Eater status will be the least of his concerns when he arrives.
Read it now on AO3.
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