#erised 2024

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Tomorrow is December 1st, which means…. (drumroll please)....

H/D ERISED WILL START POSTING TOMORROW!!!!!

OMG are we excited!!!! And we hope you are too! All of our submissions are brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopping, spectacular, and we can’t wait to share them with you.

You can find all of these wonderful works on tumblr and AO3! We encourage you to read/view/gawk/ooh and ahh to your heart's content, and leave comments for our marvelous participants to let them know how much you enjoyed their work. We will be posting works every day starting at 7:00am PST.

A few quick reminders for participants:

Please comment on your gift as soon as you can after it’s posted! Your gifter put a lot of work into creating something extra special just for you, and they are likely waiting anxiously to see your reaction.

Please do not respond to any of the comments on your work until after reveals in January.

Remember that what you receive is a gift. These gifts might not follow your exact prompts or incorporate every like, but please assume that your gifter did their very best to make something special for you. Be sure to leave them a nice comment to say thank you!

We also want to encourage all our participants (and everyone who loves Drarry as much as we do!) to please be active and read and comment through the fest—beyond just your gift. We know it’ll make a huge difference to each and every creator; they’ve all spent so many hours crafting these stories and pieces of art, and every comment means a lot!

Erised claim: Seven-and-Sixpence

Drarry | E | 35k

It took about twenty minutes for me to abandon my convictions and sign up for Erised, and it has been a wild six months since then.

I took one look at the darker end of @oknowkiss's wants list and said infidelity and open endings? Bet. Let's throw in some statuary metaphor and a blindingly opaque Draco along the way. Let's make people hate it, and him, and let it hurt.

I DID IT, EVERYBODY.

I read The Most Splendid Thing, by our beloved @lqtraintracks, and what a thoroughly wonderful use of my Sunday. Diverting, funny, intense, searingly hot (shocking no one), and at times, achingly and unexpectedly dear, it had my heart from the get-go.

As an Erised 2024 offering, it hasn't been on my marked for later as long as some, but it's a damn good thing that we don't go in chronological order in this house, because it was absolutely PERFECT for my weekend. Just what I needed--some honest, hard-working, classic, tropey, splendid drarry fanfiction.

Thanks so much for creating such a lovely story to share with all of us.

Happy to share the second and last piece I wrote this year:

Erised claim - do you (one) better

4.2 k | M | warning: unintentional consumption of truth serum

A @hd-erised gift for @legendrarry

Summary: Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor Harry Potter abruptly loses his Favourite Hogwarts Professor title to none other than Potions Professor Draco Malfoy. He swears it’s fine, really, but the feelings boiling within him say otherwise. Until Poppy Longbottom, Pansy and Neville’s hellion daughter, forces Hogwarts faculty and staff to engage in a very controversial Pureblood family tradition.

Author comments: Legendrarry wrote in their Erised submission that they like slice of life, Drarry growing up and going through life, and my heart screamed to write about reaching your thirties. It’s that age when you’re supposed to be an adult and have your shit figured out, but you don’t.

Maybe you made a home and a routine, and it’s earth-shattering when it’s disrupted. Maybe you didn’t and taking that leap towards settling is terrifying for a million little reasons. Either way, you might be doing well, but you can’t help but compare yourself to others, others who surely have their shit together.

At its heart, that’s what this story is about. Being in that place and realizing there’s no right answer. We’re all in the dark, and finding someone to blindly stumble along with is special. After all, the best things happen in the dark, no? 😉

A million thanks to @shealynn88 for the Alpha-ing this beast. It’s nowhere near close to the original concept but the heart you helped me find is there, and it wouldn’t beat so fiercely without your help. Another million thanks to the always absolutely lovely to work with @tobeleftoutinthedark for the beta read ❤️

Here is the complete anonymous masterlist for the 2024 @hd-erised fest!

Reveals will be on Sunday, January 5th, so there's half a week left for you to catch up on all the submissions you might have missed and leave comments for our fabulous creators before reveals!

Art:

Brewed Awakenings for @jessixaluci [T]

The Case of the Mysterious Baker for @sorrybutblog [G]

Ceilings. for @karamelised [M]

Us, again? for @nv-md [M]

Unemployed and On Guard for @makeitp1nk [T]

No One but Me for justlikewriting [M]

Stolen Glances for @dodgerkedavra [T]

Hauntingly Familiar for @moonflower-rose [T]

Fic + Art:

A Dragon to Call Mine for @annanother-thing [E, ~24,000]

Fic:

Where Starlight Falls for @citrusses [E, ~33,700]

The magic concealing Sirius’s Last Will and Testament doesn’t reveal the full extent of Harry’s inheritance until two years after the war. When it does, it turns out that Harry has inherited more than just the Black Family vault—he’s inherited the family’s magic, too. He just has to find it first. And he needs Draco Malfoy’s help to do it.

Runaway Train for @lqtraintracks [E, ~18,100]

Harry was already keen to figure out what’s been causing a series of disturbances in the London Underground before Draco Malfoy showed up acting suspicious. Two explosions, several very confused Muggles, and a cloud of mysterious sticky powder later, Harry and Malfoy can’t seem to keep their hands off each other. Can Harry shag his way to the answer to all of his questions? Seems unlikely, but what can a man do but try?

At Night All Birds Are Black for IzRoan [E, ~51,800]

Harry loves being an Auror—the long hours, adrenaline-fuelled chases, and even the paperwork. But when a haunting leads to his suspension, he’s forced to continue his investigation in secret. As he unravels the murder of a young girl, he turns to the one person he never expected he’d need: Draco Malfoy.

The Melting Point of Wax for @vukovich [M, ~10,500]

Harry Potter is many things: captain of the Chudley Cannons, the fun uncle, a good enough friend, comfortable in the life he’s built for himself. Comfortable, that is, until a risque broom advertisement and a rumor about a fellow athlete come together to send him spiralling into the world of high-stakes broom racing, high-flying turtles, and the chaos of falling in love.

Body and Soul for @a-sentimental-man [M, ~22,200]

When the headaches became worse and it got more and more difficult for Draco to work, he was left with no other choice but to recognise his stupid problem exactly for what it was. Even if that meant realising that the best, or perhaps even only, solution could solely come from one person: the one person he hadn’t seen for months, the one person he was still in love with. The one person who should never know. Because, clearly, Harry would never be able to give Draco what he needed anyway.

The Pain From an Old Wound for @sharperthan [T, ~31,100]

Getting hit with a mysterious blood curse is all in a day’s work for Harry Potter. Having to work with his former colleague, rival, bully, and boyfriend, is not. Harry’s not sure which is going to do him in first: the curse sucking his magic dry, or Draco Malfoy, as frustrating, condescending, and painfully attractive as he’s always been.

The Most Splendid Thing for @sleepstxtic [E, ~61,200]

Star Quidditch rivals Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter become accidentally bonded. They still hate each other, but now it’s untenable to leave each other’s sides—and my, but it feels oh so good to touch. They’re either going to murder one another, or fall in love. OR: A story in which Draco finally allows himself happiness, and Harry finally learns that he deserves to be whole.

Borealis Green for @faiell [E, ~47,200]

Draco left Harry on the night of their first kiss, when they were eighteen. Ten years later, Harry, now Deputy Lead of the Norwegian Aurors, barges back into Draco’s life at the Ministry, seeking his help—both personal and professional—for a case, to re-capture Rodolphus Lestrange and Augustus Rookwood. Turns out that Draco couldn’t really get over Harry, either.

Don’t Fear the Reaper for @thehoneybeet [E, ~36,900]

Harry anticipates it’s Luna or maybe Hermione at Grimmauld Place, here to rouse him out of purgatorial listlessness once again. Instead, Harry finds an opinionated crow, a scroll with his name on it, and one exhaustingly persistent Draco Malfoy, who insists that Harry is his latest soul to Reap. The only problem is…Harry’s still alive. Or so he thought.  Quote: Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die. - Seneca

Sub rosa for @hoko-onchi-writes [E, ~37,100]

After the tragic and unexpected death of his mother, Draco Malfoy’s quiet life as Potions Master, Head of Slytherin, and Hogwarts professor gets upended—first by the manifestation of mysterious and inexplicable magic, and then by the revelation of an inheritance deliberately hidden from him his entire life.

Bare Moon Rising for xErised [E, ~15,500]

Potter moved towards him, sticking his hand out. “If that’s the case, we’re both doing it. You do the nude Tornados calendar, and I’ll do the Auror one. Most sales wins.”  Oh no.  “Are you backing out already?” Potter leaned in closer, voice dropping to a whisper. “Finally admitting that mine’s bigger than yours, then? Or do you want to cop a feel first?”  Charities could bugger off. Nothing good ever came of them, really.

Fighting the Chill for @bicholsdrarrysideblog [M, ~25,400]

What should have been an average and dull day for Draco Malfoy, turned rather south when he’s attacked in the middle of Diagon Alley.

palindrome for @threading-fate [E, ~25,800]

“Why did you let me kiss you?” Potter smirks.  “That’s not how I remember it. Why did you let me kiss you?”  “I’m stuck in a time loop. You’re not going to remember, so,” Draco’s tongue drags, calcified around the words. “Why not.”  Potter’s brows furrow but the smile stays intact. “That’s the best you could come up with?”

A Soft Place to Fall for @epitomereally [E, ~142,500]

When Harry arrives for his first year teaching at Hogwarts and is struck with a bizarre malignance, how on earth is he supposed to react when Draco Malfoy suddenly cares?

All These Winding Threads for @amomorii [E, ~35,400]

The tides of Draco’s accidental magic pull him under and leave him gasping. There’s a hungry ache that sits deep in his bones, growing worse every day. Soon it’s all he’ll be, a starving skeleton clawing at its throat.  He needs a solution. Unfortunately, that solution looks an awful lot like Harry Potter. 

Second Chance Resort for @elizah321[E, ~42,800]

A holiday forced on him by his friends after the latest in a long string of failed relationships might be a chance for Harry to relax, but all that is thrown up in the air by the appearance of one newly divorced Draco Malfoy. Mainly because they had been together almost fifteen years ago before Draco broke it off to marry the woman his mother chose for him… Feat. a matchmaking hotel, a spa day, an all-knowing Weasley, and friends who do try their best, but can get a little distracted.

Seven-and-sixpence for @oknowkiss [E, ~35,700]

The entire plan of Harry’s life had been defeat evil, become an Auror, marry Ginny. Not necessarily in that order, but it seemed to be going that way, the first two managed and the third in easy limbo. He can be better, though. He can be more. Draco will see to it.

Slip Slidin’ Your Way (In a Land of Fire and Ice) for @frm9pm [T, ~9,800]

How does a war-scarred young wizard recuperate and create a new identity? Harry opens himself to the magic of the land. Draco learns to wonder at the humblest of creatures. Years later, Magigeologist Evan Jameson and Malacologist Derek Black begin an enthusiastic correspondence. They’re in for a shock when they finally meet. Or: Science nerds go to Iceland and fall in love. Or: Why should kelp have all the fun?

Pillar of Salt for @agentmoppet [E, ~62,200]

From the lake in the Room of Hidden Things, Draco knows three things: 1. Mirror universes exist, and he’s going to find the best one—the one where he did the right thing. 2. Harry Potter and him are awfully cosy in some of these other universes, whereas Potter in real life is starting to act very odd around him indeed. 3. Draco’s reflection—the mirror version of him, the worst version of him—seems to be growing crueler. And stronger.

Prescription for @fantalfart [G, ~2,600]

Draco couldn’t say he hated his job, not really. In fact, he loved it⁠—and wasn’t that something surprising, a Malfoy being a Healer, when most of them hadn’t worked a day in their lives?—and most of all, he loved knowing that he was helping people heal, above anything else. (And if there was a part of him that craved the normalcy of something that helped instead of what he had been taught to do his entire life? Well. That was between himself and his journal when he remembered to write in it.) (And maybe there was another reason too.)

Old love don’t rust for @drarrydoodles [E, ~20,600]

“Why do you keep coming?” Malfoy asked at last. Harry mulled over the question. For a moment he debated trying to turn the tables and asking Malfoy the very same thing. But this time he didn’t want to hold back. “Because I can’t stop,” Harry said.

Equipoise for khalulu [T, ~88,200]

Ten years of peace have settled over the wizarding world, leaving Harry Potter feeling strangely adrift. Teaching Defense at Hogwarts is fine and all, but when mysterious magical blackouts start sweeping across the country, he can’t help but jump at the chance to investigate. It would be the perfect outlet for his restless energy - if he didn’t suddenly find himself tangled up in an elaborate charade, pretending to date the Prophet’s most illustrious journalist, Draco Malfoy. Between hunting down the cause of the blackouts and maintaining their ruse, Harry’s beginning to think that peacetime might actually be trickier - and far more surprising - than he’d bargained for.

Victory Lap for @traylalascrisis [E, ~4,700]

“I wasn’t sure if you’d want to eat first.” For emphasis, he pinches the skin at my waist. I want to cover myself in him. I want to roll in him like a dog. I want to devolve on top of him. And he wants me to sit nicely and use a knife and fork first?

My Mate for veradubhghoill [E, ~26,300]

Harry is a new Alpha and Draco is his Omega Healer. Draco wants to help Harry but Draco struggles to control himself whenever he is around.And Harry wants to breed Draco. Desperately so.Things come to a head when Draco and Harry become trapped with one another. Draco doesn't have his suppressant and it sends them both into heat.While they wait for help, will Draco be able to avoid being claimed by Harry? Does he even want to avoid it? Harry is gorgeous and strong, and Draco would love to have him as a mate. He just can't fathom a world where Harry Potter willingly chooses him.

Just a little liquid luck for @shiftylinguini [E, ~5,400]

Tracking the movement of Potter’s eyes, Draco runs a greasy finger over the thickest of his scars. “You like them, don’t you? Pervert.”Potter tosses his head back, jostling the mass of his curly fringe from his forehead. “I bet you were into scars long before you had any of your own, Malfoy.”Yes, Draco wants to say. I want to lick yours. What he says instead is, “Fuck you.”“Fuck you,” Potter echoes, putting the same pregnant emphasis on the F.Draco bites his lower lip, wrestling down the rise of euphoria. “Your turn,” he says. “Take that off.”

As Luck Would Have It for @smehur [E, ~12,800]

In Sixth-Year, Harry and Draco both win a vial of Felix Felicis from Slughorn and, under its influence, have sex in the Room of Requirement. In the aftermath, can Draco and Harry navigate their respective roles in the war, while grappling with their burgeoning feelings for each other?

In a Year's Turning for @maraudersaffair [E, ~89,400]

It’s been nine years. Surely, Harry can handle Draco being back—for Teddy’s sake.

Storm's Eye for @jtimu [M, ~12,400]

Harry's surprised that Draco didn't have wards up preventing mortally wounded former school mates-turned-ghosted work fellows from bursting into his house.In Harry's addled mind, this seems like a great opening line to say to Draco's gobsmacked face. He doesn't get that far, though.

housewarming for @garagepaperback [E, ~6,000]

First, they had to decide where to live. It worked, until it didn’t.

Go Up to Gilead for @tessacrowley [E, ~106,700]

Harry Potter’s sense of purpose drops dead with Voldemort. So does Draco Malfoy’s freedom.Nine years later, Harry’s still a soldier. Draco’s still a sacrifice. Harry’s going to die in his Auror uniform, andDraco doesn’t deserve to live.But when the clock runs out on Draco’s sentence, a new one starts ticking.As it was, so it will be: they’ll survive together, or not at all.

do you (one) better for @legendrarry [M, ~4,200]

Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor Harry Potter abruptly loses his Favourite Hogwarts Professor title to none other than Potions Professor Draco Malfoy. He swears it’s fine, really, but the feelings boiling within him say otherwise. Until Poppy Longbottom, Pansy and Neville’s hellion daughter, forces Hogwarts faculty and staff to engage in a very controversial Pureblood family tradition.

Of Stolen Glass and Burning Clover for @saintgarbanzo [E, ~27,800]

A week long international conference. A political scandal? A Malfoy beside the fruit tarts.

Baker's Modern Wands for @starquestingfordrarry [E, ~43,600]

At Baker's Modern Wands Lavender Brown is starting a revolution, Draco Malfoy is trying his best, and Harry Potter is really annoyed about it all.

Kiss Me, Fuck Me, Love Me for @doingthechachaslide [E, ~5,100]

Harry and Draco are running very late—they’ve got shirts to find, puppies to save, and champagne to buy.They’re also terribly, ridiculously, extraordinarily in love.

Equally Cursed and Blessed for @thecouchsofa [E, ~18,200]

Hi phenomenal @hd-erised community! Our Anonymous Masterlist posted yesterday, and reveals will be up on Sunday, January 5th, so there's still plenty of time to catch up on any of the submissions you might have missed before then! While we're all waiting eagerly to find out who did what, may we interest you in some stats for the 2024 fest? :D

This year we had a total of 44 submissions: 8 beautiful pieces of art, and 35 fantastic fics, and one lovely submission which did both!! Let's dig into the details, shall we?

Fanart Stats:

This year we had 8 gorgeous digital art pieces. The average submission from our amazing artists this year was ~12 pages, with our longest comic coming in at 44 pages!! The total number of pages we had between all of our art submissions was 109, so definitely loads to enjoy! We're so impressed with all of the fantastic art we've had this year, and we hope that you are too!

Fanart Rating Breakdown:

1 General Audiences

4 Teen & Up

3 Mature

1 Explicit (fic + art!!!!)

Let's hear it for our amazing artists! Please go leave them some love if you haven't already, because wow have they earned it! <3

Fanfic Stats:

This year we had a total of 35 total stories created for this wonderful fest, for an astounding total of:

~1,249,000 words!!!

That's way more than one million words of Harry and Draco loving on each other and getting up to all sorts of shenanigans! Are you impressed with the dedication of our spectacular writers? Because we sure are!

Our shortest fic this year was 2.6k, while our longest was ~143k! The average fic length this year was ~30k, which is a bit lower than last year, and 17 of the fics this year were below 25k—a perfect size for a day's read! :D

Of those 35 stories, we had:

1 General Audiences

1 Teen & Up

7 Mature

27 Explicit

And once again, the smut has come out on top! (Or on the bottom, as the case may be…)

In those stories, Harry and Draco got up to all sorts of activities in all sorts of places. We had facials and fingering and frottage, wanking and rimming, hand jobs and blow jobs, and of course anal sex (sometimes with gagging or felching or monsterfucking). Of the fics where there was penetration, Draco bottomed about 1.5x more than Harry, but, as always, they certainly were versatile!

And that versatility isn't limited to the bedroom (or any of the other places these boys got up to their shenanigans!); we also saw it in their careers. As we've seen in years past, Harry's most popular career of choice was Auror (12 fics—though sometimes we saw a career switch for him!), but he also had a variety of other jobs, including: man of leisure, magical landscaper, woodworker, professional Quidditch player, professor (or PE teacher, thank you very much), and a magi-geologist, amongst other things!

Draco, on the other hand, as usual held a much wider variety of careers. His most popular career was an Quidditch player/coach (at only 3 fics!). He was also a Sanguinologist, professor, barrister, wandmaker, Mala-cologist, magical preservationist, and a DRAGON among the rest!

Once again, our most popular time period by a landslide was Post-Hogwarts EWE with 31 fics set after the boys have left Hogwarts and ignoring (or mostly ignoring) the Epilogue, with 3 set in 8th year and 1 canon rewrite. That's 88% set post-Hogwarts!! 

Incredible, right? We're so impressed with all of our marvelous participants!!

We'd like to give a great big THANK YOU to each and every single one of you, all of our incredible writers and artists who devoted their creative energies to this fest, and another great big THANK YOU to all of our readers, commenters and reccers – you make @hd-erised the wonderful event and community it is, and we are so, so grateful to mod this fest for you.

Thank you for your support, your contributions, and all the love you've shared with one another! 

Hello from your friendly neighborhood Erised mods!

Our participants are hard at work on their gifts, and we're starting to get questions about betas and where to find them. 

That's where you come in! We are looking for beta readers & artists & sensitivity readers/artists to help our participants polish up their pieces. If you are interested, the link to sign-up is below. Since this is an anonymous fest, it can be helpful to have a list available for our participants to peruse.

All of you have our eternal gratitude for being so fucking awesome. 

Link to beta sign-ups.

Link to list of betas.

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