Bound: The Ordeal of Being Known and The Rewards of Being Loved by louisfake

I bound these for the @renegadeguild exchange. I'm quite happy with how they came out, except there was a little bit of glue strikethrough on the covers. I made the bookcloth, and I think the quilting cotton I used was just a little too thin. But I had very specific colors in mind, and while it's frustrating, I don't think it ruined them.

The HTV is a really lovely holographic silver that was I think the Joann's store brand, so it was cheap, yay! And wasn't as nightmarish to work with as other HTV tends to be.

The Ordeal bind has flowers in the typeset, specifically different images of narcissus blossoms for each chapter header.

The Rewards bind has a simpler typeset (it was a bonus bind anyway, so I justified it that way.) (But really I just couldn't think of a theme for graphics.) (Let's just call it "elegant.")

I also sewed the endbands for these, and I'm happy with how they came out, but man, I still struggle with them. But I have a bunch of spools of silk thread, so I guess I'd better stick with it.

The endpapers are my beloved Ink Drops by Craft Consortium, these are in the Midnight colorway.

Fonts used:

The Rewards of Being Loved by louisfake on ao3 (@lou-isfake). The sequel to The Ordeal of Being Known. Cover art by @bluebutter-art, cover assembled by yours truly.

SO GOOD.

AURA READER by toxik_angel

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33987673/chapters/84529762

My absolute fave Drarry. It's rough and rly hard and painful. Basically the 6th book got rewritten by the author and therefore the whole canon got changed. Main character dearth, IT HAS A HAPPY ENDING tho.

INSIDE GREY EYES by toxik_angel

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31908952/chapters/79015036

Draco gets kidnapped by Fenir Greyback and forced to work in a stripclub, sa'ed and drugged a lot. Harry wants to help him get out. Very dark, very heavy, do not read if mentally unstable. It can trigger a lot.

WAY DOWN WE GO by xiaq

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18591952/chapters/44075971

Werewolf Harry and Veela Draco, so good.

MENTAL by sara_holmes

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5163386/chapters/11891996

Legilimecy miscast and Draco can hear Harry's thoughts. Eigth year, post war.

I'LL BE INSUFFERABLE FOR YOU by toxik_angel

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30415035/chapters/74987151

Eigth year, Harry starting to protect Draco bc Draco is rly not fine. SO he protects him from himself. (my first ever read)

THE CLAIMING OF GRIMMAULD PLACE by bixgirl1

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12693843/chapters/28945038

When Grimmauld Place begins fighting against Harry’s ownership of it, he decides he needs help to train the historic home — but little does he expect that it’ll be Malfoy who’s most suitable for the challenge.

THE ORDEAL OF BEING KNOWN by louisfake

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28864512/chapters/70806630

When Auror Potter is anonymously cursed with silence by being forced to hide his own voice inside his mind, there's unfortunately only one person in the country with the qualifications to fix it: Certified and Licensed Healer Legilimens, Draco Malfoy, specialist in Mind Curses and Afflictions.

TALES FROM THE SPECIAL BRANCH by Femme (femmequixotic)

https://archiveofourown.org/series/661862

This is so good I fell in love with the whole plot, it's rly well researched, and it all started with a oneshot: After he sees Harry Potter naked in the Auror showers once, Draco can't stop thinking about him. fell in love with a fucking OC character and felt like Harry (my fav character) doesnt deserve the oc bc he's too kindhearted. THIS FIC HAS SEVERAL BOOK LONG PARTS 5 books BUT IT HASNT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2019 but it'S fucking worth the read still.

It’s a post war fic where Harry is an auror and gets cursed by someone so he can’t speak. After being hit with said curse he’s sent to healer Draco Malfoy who uses occlumency (really hope I spelled that right) to try and figure out who cursed Harry and how to break the curse. Towards the end of the fic, after Harry is cured Draco is kidnapped and Harry finds out he had magical restraints as a part of his punishment after the war.

Sorry if this wasn’t clear enough I hope you can find it!!

We believe you are looking for The Ordeal of Being Known by @lou-isfake (146k, M)

Day 13: a rare pair

📚 Licurici  by @lou-isfake

Draco/Harry/Charlie, wordcount 133k, E

Summary:

Charlie wanted Harry, but he’d never planned on having him. He’d never planned on Draco Malfoy, either. He hadn’t planned on anything but living out his days in Romania, with his friends and his dragons and his safe, peaceful distance. Apparently, it wasn’t a very popular plan. This is a story about crumbs and flickers and roots, running away and coming home; about falling in love without meaning to (twice), and having truly good friends, and the mutually revealing recognition between two people in love with the same man.

Licurici (m) Noun, Romanian (pl licurici) - Firefly (pronunciation here!)

🐲⚡🦗

One thing you may or may not already know from my previous recs, I love, ADORE, a good poly fic and I have to say Licurici is at the very top of my list. I wasn't sure about this pairing at first, because I am a very hardcore Drarry shipper, yet this fic has demonstrated beutifully how freaking deliciously Charlie just makes sense in this dynamics. He is the calm they need, the experience, the wilderness, the absolute devotion and acceptance. He is somehow exactly what both Harry and Draco need and I just... *melting*

There are quite a few aspects that make this story exceptional, let me enlist just a few:

Charlie being an empath (!)

while Draco is an excellent Occlumens (the angst!!)

THE DRAGONS! I would die for Mathilde. I kept imagining her as Hiccups from "How to train your dragon" and I couldn’t help falling in love with her 🐉🖤

the fact that the Malfoy grounds are being repurposed for a dragon sanctuary – as in, a place of healing and safety and DRAGONS

Charlie coming home. Not a lot of works out there describe that and I absolutely loved this aspect of the story.

Last but not least, big shoutout to @phoenixortheflame who has done a stunning bind of this fic with @saijordison Challengers-inspired art on the cover no less <3

Thank you for this lovely prompt @hprecfest and of course dearest @lou-isfake for your captivating fiction 🤍

Please find a few of my favourite moments of the story for your enjoyment under the cut

Even Children Get Older by louisfake (M, 4.5k)

Tags: Teddy, first kiss, Christmas

He looked over at Draco, who was looking back at him with a tired, knowing expression, leaning his head back on the cushion. Draco had given him a similar look earlier this year, at Teddy’s first birthday, and again on Andromeda’s birthday in September; the only two times they’d seen each other. It wasn’t quite a smile, but it wasn’t anything else. It was a slight crinkling of the skin around his eyes, a gentle brightness. The corner of Draco’s lips might quirk upwards, almost accidentally. His fingers would fidget restlessly with his sleeve or the hem of his shirt, but his eyes wouldn’t leave Harry’s. It was something like gratitude, almost, simultaneous wariness and warmth—don’t wake the baby. Harry opened his mouth, but Draco held up a finger to his own lips; a silent shh. Harry couldn’t stop the smile from breaking out on his face, nestling a sleepy Teddy against his chest. “Happy Christmas,” he mouthed, and for the first time ever, Draco’s hesitant smile bloomed in a warm, secretive way that felt like it was just for Harry.

Day 4: a comfort fic @hprecfest

I have several comfort fics in many different ways, but this fic, to me, is the most comforting of them all. The Rewards of Being Loved by louisfake (sequel to The Ordeal of Being Known).

The depth of love and care and want and pining and reassurance and earnestness in this fic is absolutely everything I need. It features some of my absolute favorite drarry scenes I’ve ever read. I do recommend reading TOoBK first, but please please don’t pass this one up.