#gracerene09

♠️♣️♥️♦️ RECOMMENDATION #3 ♠️♣️♥️♦️

Title: Palace of Eternity

Author: gracerene, @gracerene09

Rating: explicit

Word Count: 27,909

Tags: Vampire!Draco, Future Fic, Angst, Immortality, Past Suicidal Thoughts, Grief/Mourning, accidental Bonding, blood drinking, getting back together

Written for the Trope "Creature!Fic" for the 2019 H/D Tropes Exchange Fest

Summary:

It had been twelve years, five months, and six days since the last time Harry had laid eyes upon Draco.

Excerpt:

The longing pressed up against the not-quite-dormant bond, the intensity of it pumping life into the weak thread despite Harry's best efforts to pull it back. The bond might be frail from neglect and disuse—and from Harry's many active attempts over the years to cut it off entirely—but it was still there, an ever-present tickle in the back of Harry's mind. It was all but stagnant with how fervently Harry blocked the connection, but there didn't appear to be any way to rid himself of it for good, no matter how hard he tried. There'd been a time when he thought the bond was a gift, but that was before he'd learned just what it, and Draco's vampiric nature, would cost him.

The bond hummed, Harry's tumultuous emotions reverberating through it like a plucked harp string. Harry could tell the moment Draco felt Harry's involuntary nudge from the widening of his eyes and the sudden shiver that rolled throughout his body, both movements so subtle that Harry was certain nobody other than himself would have even noticed them.

Draco looked up. Their eyes met. The bond sang.

Rec Notes:

I adored this. It’s a non-linear narrative, so much of the story is told in flashbacks, which makes it such an intriguing read. I love all the different ways the author played with the vampire and accidental bond tropes, and really love the characterization of Draco in this one. I also love that it deals with the concept of immortality, and Harry and Draco’s reaction to that. Also, it’s incredibly hot and hits you in all the emotions. It’s an amazing read by a spectacular author.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19900939

By my spreadsheet:

6 marked 'WIP': these have active motion on them in the last year. I'm aiming to finish at least three of them (one fairly long, two very short) by the end of 2020.

Total word count: 71,984

4 marked 'On Hold': These are things that feel like they need major rewrites or revisions before I can go any further with them. All of the stuff on this list is something I started writing before I felt like I had the skills to tell the stories the way I wanted to, and I’ve definitely grown as a writer since the first thing I posted on Ao3, so I’m not unhappy with the stories so much as I’d like to give them a major overhaul before I continued.

Total word count: 50,247

16 marked 'Wishlist': These are mostly things that don't have an ending planned; they're filed here because I liked the ideas for them, but still don't know where I'd want to go with them.

Some of these have a word count on them, anywhere from 200 words to 13,000. This is my biggest unknown pile, since it's basically just a bucket of half-formed ideas.

Hello you!! Thank you so much for the asks <3

1. Favorite fic you wrote this year. I’m going to go with my Snarry, How We Were Warriors. I never felt rushed with it and as a result I think the pacing works well. I got so immersed in the Severus and Harry of that universe and all the reading I was doing around the story. It was a really moving story to write, one that’s been on my list for some time, and I am proud of the results. I enjoyed writing it so much it was a wrench to leave it behind when I finished it.

18. Current number of wips. Ha haaaa. Oh Grace, why must you call me out like this? I’ve got so many WIPs. I’d say I have between 6 - 8 WIPs I’m actively working on at the minute and many more that I’m decidedly not working on.

30. Favorite fandom to read fic from this year. Harry Potter. My Nick muse has been wobbly but there’s also far less new Nick stuff than HP and I don’t read loads of One Direction fic outside of Gryles and Tomlinshaw, which is annoying of me because I’d have much more content if I did! I’ve read from two new (for me) fandoms this year, Good Omens and Hannibal, both of which I’ve really been enjoying, and I have read some SPN and Sherlock as I do every year. Most of my reading has been from Harry Potter fandom however and I’ve enjoyed every minute!

OWL GIFTS for the PINCH-HITTERS of @hdowlpost Fest 2018!

@candawrites @capiturecs erin_riwen @gracerene09 @knowmefirst @acciotomriddle @parkkate @maraudersaffair @nifflers-n-nargles @semperfiona @lol-zeitgeistic

The Potter Barn, by anon (NC-17 | 3786 words) Draco’s got a strange little habit of wandering into places he shouldn’t. Harry’s just the unexpected surprise inside his latest misadventure.

Lost and Found, by anon (G | 1648 words) When Harry feels lost, a sanctuary appears in front of him. A sanctuary with fluffy chairs and hot chocolate and... Draco Malfoy?

[podfic] Stopping by the Messiah on a Snowy Evening, written by burglebezzlement, read by @semperfiona (G | 31:14 minutes) When Harry Potter agreed to join Hermione’s Muggle-Wizarding Choir, he wasn’t expecting to be singing next to Draco Malfoy. Christmas, choir music, and the gaps in a Wizarding education.

Oooo, this looks fun! V intrigued by all of these, especially Draco and smoking... :D

Draco and smoking is a short and silly fic whose entire premise is that Draco is trying to give up smoking because harry asked him to (and is driving Harry spare bc nicotine withdrawal is a bitch - they’re auror partners). what happens is that draco gets kidnapped during a case they’re working, which drives harry even more spare so he picks up smoking in draco’s absence. and then when they find draco he’s all hisses (withdrawal is a biiitch) and harry gives him one of his cigarettes and draco gets through half of it before he goes ‘what the fuck is this BULLSHIT’ and then finishes the cig. literally i’m writing this entire fic for the sake of two scenes, and this is one of them. for the record, the cigarette is ‘bullshit’ because (and i did Serious Research for this), the brand harry picked up is black devils, which is...you guessed it, a black cigarette. it’s also vanilla flavoured. because harry went to a shady corner store* and just said ‘what kind of cigarettes do you have for people who hate smoking’ and the tired person behind the counter chucked those at his head. (this is the other scene.) draco, of course, smokes the campiest fucking cigarettes in existence (even if they are objectively terrible) so he smokes sobranie cocktail cigarettes because they have gold filters and pastel colours. anyway, the happy ending is they smooch and also they are both smokers now.

the reason why it’s a wip is because i’ve been struggling with getting the right ‘angle’ for it and it’s all falling a bit flat. i want it to be funny and right now it isn’t. i’m not sure i’ll finish it at all, but we’ll see.