#corvuscrowned

Fanfic Classics Series ⏳🪐🌌 This batch of fanfiction deals with the multiverse!!! Time travel!!! Imminent thoughts about life and death!! Past lives and dreams of a future together — get ready to witness a love for the ages.

the earth from a distance by spqr

A Beginner’s Guide to the Afterlife by mcsyndrome

Us, infinite (unfortunately) by @thecouchsofa

"An Emerald In The Sky" by @corvuscrowned

In Every Universe by @skeptiquewrites

Our Little Life by @tackytigerfic

Dwelling by aideomai

there will be time, there will be time by @amywaterwings

Harry Potter and the Future He Doesn't Really Want, Thanks. by orphan_account

Everything is Relative to You by @thehoneybeet

The Star Splitter by @oflights

art credits + some cover commentary under the cut :)

Muscle Memory by corvuscrowned (E, 7k)

Tags: Curse Breakers, Memory Magic, Mutual Pining

“Well,” Malfoy says. “There certainly aren’t any now. We have the next — seven, eight hours? And whatever happens, it just gets — washed away.” And he looks at Harry so directly, so intensely, tilts his head, says: “So what do you want to do?” At no point does Harry decide what to do; he just does. It comes from the same force of habit that would tell him to pull his hand away from a burning fire. And it seems to come with the same speed — the movement he uses to close the distance between could accurately be described as a lunge. He kisses Malfoy, hungry and urgent, and Malfoy responds in kind. He presses his body into Harry’s, pushes him back down onto the couch, his hands everywhere, cold, then warm against Harry’s jaw, his neck, reaching down to his waist to pull him closer. “It took you long enough,” Malfoy murmurs, lips soft on Harry’s throat, his voice something Harry wouldn’t be able to identify as his an hour ago. “What is that supposed to mean?” Harry asks sluggishly. “I haven’t the faintest idea," Malfoy mutters, and it appears that neither of them care. He takes the opportunity to push Harry down onto the couch, a fire stirring up in Harry’s core that erases every half-answered question that lingers between them. The sofa isn’t large enough for the both of them, but Malfoy gains purchase with a foot on the floor as he reconnects their lips with a kiss hard enough to bruise, tangles his fingers in Harry’s hair tight, pulls.

[Podfic] An Emerald In The Sky by @corvuscrowned (M, 45 minutes)

The hardest part about shagging an Unspeakable is that they’re not allowed to speak of anything. All Draco knows is that Harry works in Time. Harry works in Time, and while he’s out there in all of that time, it is as unforgiving to him as it is to anyone. Somewhere along the way, Draco realizes he's been thinking in lines, when he should have been thinking in circles.

Title: Lovesick Author: corvuscrowned | @corvuscrowned Pairing: Draco/Harry Rating: Teen Length: 7.6k Genre/Content: Amortentia, Banter, EWE, Friends to Lovers, Pining, Post-Hogwarts Warnings: none Summary: People keep spiking Auror Harry Potter with love potions. Healer Draco Malfoy keeps having to pick up the pieces. But it's getting harder and harder for Draco to watch Harry fall in love with everyone except for him.

What I enjoyed:

It’s funny and sweet, with the perfect dash of mutual pining. I love Healer Draco, and Harry without a lick of sense. Harry being stuck waxing poetic about each new great Love of his Life™ until the antidote to Amortentia kicks in is just hilarious. Draco has the patience of a saint to put up with him.

The last scene, when Harry kicks the Amortentia on his own is just. . .so good. That pining resolution just hits so perfect.

“Well, I —” Harry says. “Suppose I forgot?”

Malfoy breaks into a burst of unabashed laughter. Harry feels himself going as hot as the Ashwinders’ embers.

“Sorry,” Malfoy says, making a show of wiping a tear from his eye. “But can you believe this man actually defeated the Dark Lord?”

In The Company Of Serpents by @corvuscrowned (Drarry, E, 25k)

I've been doing all the spooky things as we get closer to Halloween. Pumpkins? Check. Seasonal soup? Check. Scary movies? Check. Leggings and sweater? Check Check. Now I can check off spooky fics from my fall fun list too!

In my opinion, there's no one who does a Halloween fic better than @corvuscrowned. Whether you're looking for suspenseful or scary, Crow has you covered. I immensely enjoyed @hp-fearfest last year, and Crow's own writing was a large part of why. I thought for this year, I'd let him share what's making him happy in the world of horror! Thank you so much to Crow for being willing to join us for Happy Hour!

Hello to all of you lovely ghouls, gaunts, and ghosties! I’m so thrilled to be able to hang out at the library during this spookiest of seasons, and I want to thank the Librarian for letting me make my status as The Horror Guy everyone’s problem!! Horror has been my lifeblood since I was young, and it’s been absolutely incredible to find so many explorations of the genre in the drarry fandom. I had such a blast co-running @hp-fearfest with my co-mod and eternal soulmate @m0srael, who has carried on the torch this year with a new group of incredible mods. I absolutely recommend checking out the fest collections, but I wanted to share a few horror fics that were written outside of the fest as well. 

Horror movies are my one true love, but I’ve always found short horror films to be immeasurably scarier. So instead of reccing one longer horror fic, I wanted to share a few short fics that use brevity to their advantage and let the reader’s mind fill in the blanks with the stuff of absolute nightmares.

Your Mind, A Jar by @floydig (473 words, not rated)

Instead of being sentenced to Azkaban, Draco is sent on a deep space exploration to pay for his war crimes. Or is he?

I am a huge fan of floydig’s writing, and have been from my early days in fandom – their prose is brutally sparse in the best of ways, and many of their fics have an artfully haunting quality that’s perfectly suited for horror. In fact, their fic Walk Right Through Me was the first drarry horror I ever read, and was what inspired me to try my hand at bringing horror into my fics.

But today I want to talk about something even shorter. At 473 words, you might think Your Mind, A Jar is a short fic - but the story it encapsulates is terrifying because it is utterly limitless. Immersive, unsettling, and characterized by Floyd’s usual dark humor, Your Mind, A Jar is the first space fic I’ve ever read, and might be the last I ever need to – because I’ll be thinking (and shuddering) about it for a long, long, long time. 

Lateralus by @shiftylinguini (2,108 words, rated T)

The world after the war was so big, and so untamed. Magic spilled out of every corner, creatures never seen before watching from nooks that never used to exist. There were colours in the air, in the morning dew drops on the leaves―indescribable, and new. Otherworldly, and pulled from a spectrum that shouldn't be visible in their world.

Atmosphere is so important to horror, and it’s one of many things that makes Lateralus work so well. The fic lives in an unsettling, suspenseful space that I simultaneously want to escape immediately and live in forever. I sometimes prefer to understand the bare minimum in horror – just enough to have a feel for what’s going on, like I’m reaching out in the darkness for something I know is there, but can’t quite see. Shifty nails this. I don’t fully understand how we’ve found Draco and Harry where they are – passing by each other in the darkness, communicating only in echoes and refractions – and I don’t need to. That’s where the terror comes from.

One of my favorite things about Lateralus is that, despite being eerie and unsettling, it doesn’t lose the romance. That’s what makes it so much more heartbreaking, so much more compelling, and absolutely worth a read.

Triptych by @theartfuldodger (1,821 words, rated M)

One afternoon, a feather emerges, marring already-scarred skin. But what other problems lie unnoticed beneath the surface?

Body horror isn’t for everyone, but that’s not going to stop me from trying to convince everyone to give it a try! If you have even the faintest of interests, Triptych should absolutely be your entry point. This fic takes the veela trope and brings it to its most visceral core, with needling feathers, scaly skin, and the relentless intrusion of wings. The dynamic between Draco and Harry is deliciously dysfunctional, and the weight of inheritance and choicelessness is as unsettling as the beautifully fucked up descriptions of Draco’s transformation. Theartfulldodger’s choice to write this fic in first person present was perfect – it puts us in such an immediate proximity to Draco’s experiences that we feel everything alongside him, from his terrifyingly changing body to his unsettling relationship with Harry.

I first read this fic a year ago, and I think it’s still one of the drarry fics that pops into my mind the most often – the images and tone are crafted so powerfully that they’re nearly impossible to forget. To me, that’s what makes good horror.

Making A Family Makes A Home by @m0srael (2,433 words, rated T)

Harry and Draco have been dating for years, but Draco still won’t move in to Harry’s place. Is it a case of cold feet, or cold something else?

I have to disclose my bias here. In addition to being one of my earliest and most beloved fandom friends, Mose was my co-mod for Fearfest last year, and has my entire spooky heart in their hands. But I think even if I’d never met Mose, Making A Family Makes A Home would still be one of my favorite horror fics of all time, because it is just. So. Fun.

Not everyone looks for fun in their horror, but I’m someone who really enjoys an indulgently gross, slightly zany interpretation of the genre, which is the note Mose’s fic hits perfectly. I’d say it’s best to go into this one blind, and be prepared for a wild ride. This fic feels like every campy classic 80’s horror movie that I love in the best of ways – it absolutely goes there, and I’m so happy that it does. 

Thank you again to the Librarian for letting me steal the mic for this month’s post! It’s been such a joy to reread my favs and share these fics, and I’m so appreciative I got the opportunity to do so. I hope everyone has a dark, delicious, and spooky Halloween, that you all howl at the moon, eat countless pumpkin-spiced goodies, and do something that chills and thrills you. Stay safe, and stay scary! 🖤

Thank you again to @corvuscrowned for joining us in the Library for a pre-Halloween Happy Hour!

❤️ As always, if you find a fic you enjoy, please remember to leave the author a kudos or a comment! ❤️

Hello! Yes, @corvuscrowned is an incredible writer, I love all their works. I don’t normally keep track of top/bottom dynamics in fic but I went through their Explicit fics to check for you:

The Willing Flesh (2.7k)

The Night of the Fireworks (6.3k)

Ad Infinitum (13k)

Zenith (20k)