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Day 23: a crossover or AU fic

📚 All These Winding Threads by Anonymous

Draco/Harry, 35k, E

written for @hd-erised

Summary:

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.

I hope to God that Hogwarts Eighth Year counts as an AU because I just HAD TO include this fic. And while it’s still anonymous no less!

As you know from my day 7 rec I absolutely adore bond fics – and this one de-li-vers. It has all the elements of the trope – the forced proximity, the resulting change of dynamics, the h/c in between, the yearning later on!

The boys are actually pretty mature in this characterisation so they get over themselves relatively quickly (not without hiccups of course, not with our Harry dearest responding to Draco coming out as gay with "That's nice" xd Which is why I used the word mature; I guess you can be that and still completely clueless xd).

Relationship angst aside, we get to focus on the plot and the mistery of the magic exchange between Harry and Draco. And what an alluring take on magical theory it takes! It reminded me of Beholden by @faith2wood (which I have recced as my day 12 fic) and I mean it as a huge complement <3

One more aspect of the writing I have to highlight is the delightful way the boys feel each other’s magic is described:

His magic is a cool breeze on Draco’s cheeks.

It has his heart rabbiting, a sudden swell of magic rising in his chest. It’s less a roar this time and more a crashing wave, rushing up his spine and across his shoulders, drawing blood to his cheeks. He tries to breathe with it and finds he can—an easy breath that feels soothing in his lungs.

Potter’s magic, filling the air again now that he’s close, feels horribly like crawling into his bed at home.

His presence is like standing with your eyes closed in the warm spring air and still knowing exactly where the sun is.

And then they refer to it as „their” magic and suddenly they can feel each other’s emotions and SHARE DREAMS and I am melted into the floor. Now imagine the sex scenes with all the magic between them. You’re welcome ^^

Quotes and spoilers under the cut as I was live-commenting this fic as I was reading, I have to do this more often!

Thank you once again for the prompt @hprecfest and see you in the next one! (I'm pretending I am not a week late with these ^^)

FIC CLAIM! Thank you so much to the mods at @hd-erised for creating the magical experience that is Erised! I have been drooling over the entries for this fest, and finally felt ready to dip my toes in, and I’m so glad I did! Thank you to Leontina who came up with such captivating prompts, and I was so lucky to get to write this for you.

Thunder

The tattoos he’s familiar with—the bright oranges and reds of the feather on his forearm that wraps around Draco’s Mark. It doesn’t obscure it—because Harry knows Draco thinks of it as something he will have to carry till the day he dies—but it takes away some of the starkness, takes away its focus.

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Zina Hutton's posts at Stitch's Media Mix, especially "Whose Job Is It To Fix Fandom?", "What It's Like Being Fandom Critical While Black," the "What Fandom Racism Looks Like" series, and her new series "Fandom Racism 101."

TaLynn Kel's "America's Whiteness Problem is Part of Your Fandom," published as part of her collection Still Breaking Normal: A Fat, Black, Femme, Geek Navigating an Anti-Black World 

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Rukmini Pande's Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race (consider buying from one of these independent Black-owned bookstores)

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’ The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (those bookstores again)

@transformativeworks's Transformative Works and Cultures issue  "Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color"

@fansplaining's episodes on Race and Fandom: Part 1 and Part 2  

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Title: Lavender and Lemon for @nearly-conscious

Pairing: Draco Malfoy/ Harry Potter

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 34,162

Content Warnings: Violence, Panic Attacks, Angst, Implied Sexual Content

Summary:

A trip. To research. Fairies," Draco deadpans.

"At least they're pretty common in England, eh?" He sounds so hopeful Draco wants to smack him. "You've only ever seen them in England, haven't you, Potter."

"Haven't really been anywhere else, Malfoy," he murmurs.

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