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📻 Sports Car [ART] 

🎵 Mature, digital  ❗ Warnings/Tags: NSFW art, submissive harry potter, no other warnings?  🎵 Song Prompt: 'Sports Car' by tate mcrae 

🎵 Summary:

Visions of Drarry, inspired by Sports Car by Tate McRae

📻 Nobody Knows You 

🎵 Teen and Up, 9,030  ❗ Warnings/Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Case-fic like, draco whump, Angst with a Happy Ending, Auror Harry Potter, Unspeakable Draco Malfoy, POV Harry Potter, Fluff, Banter, Physically Scarred Draco Malfoy, Cursed Draco Malfoy  🎵 Song Prompt: I'll Believe in Anything  by Wolf Parade

🎵 Summary:

Draco Malfoy is cursed. Harry Potter refuses to let him live a life he doesn't deserve.

When The Lottery (by Shirley Jackson) was first published, tons of people wrote into the newspaper that published it to demand to know what the hell it was meant to be about

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story’s readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

So basically the story is written in such a way that the uncritical nature of the townspeople is highlighted, when it comes to their own traditions. Every year the town commits outright violent murder, but because it’s ‘normal’ to them, they don’t think of it in those terms. The reader, who isn’t part of the town’s cultural assumptions, sees the horrific nature of their actions. But the characters in the story don’t.

📻 Isle of Wank 

🎵 Explicit, 21,084  ❗ Warnings/Tags: Drug Use  🎵 Song Prompt: 'Wet Dream' by Wet Leg

🎵 Summary:

It's summer vacation. Harry drags Draco to the beach, Ron cooks delicious food, Hermione can't stop thinking about work, Luna's enjoying the fauna and flora, and Zacharias is… there. Everything is set up for a perfectly enjoyable trip, if only Draco would stop waking up with hard-ons from his trippy dreams

A Bird Towards Morning Rated: G Fandom: Harry Potter, Myst Summary: The Tuesday after their first anniversary, Draco disappears.

📻 Salt 

🎵 Explicit, 91,475 

❗ Warnings/Tags: Post-WarJournalist Draco Malfoy, Islander Harry Potter, Deaf Harry Potter, Highlands and Islands, British Sign Language, Explicit Sexual Content, Switching, Frottage, Anal Sex, Mild Breathplay, mild choking, Implied Harry/Charlie not on the page, Daily Prophet (Harry Potter), Daily Prophet Newsroom, Falling In Love, on the page, Flirting, Banter, Scottish Wildlife, puffins, Outdoor Sex, Drunk Sex, Mention of recreational drug use, a wee love letter to Scotland, very many redheads, Mild Angst with a happy ending, Found Family, Cunty city boy vs the countryside 

🎵 Song Prompt: 'Salt' by Ben Camden 

🎵 Summary:

When a lead drops on Draco's desk revealing the whereabouts of one Harry James Potter – missing from public life for over fourteen years – he knows it's exactly the career-saving scoop he's been looking for.

As for why the saviour of Wizarding Britain has holed himself up on a tiny island in the Outer Hebrides, Draco has no idea.

But he's going to find out.

Or, Draco falls in love in Scotland.

Writer: Air shot between the toes, it’ll look like a heart attack.

Serial killer: anywhere from 2 to 30 minutes

Now fast forward a bit and the author has managed to get their first book published, with loving support from the serial killer who helped them fine tune all the murder scenes, and it’s a big hit. Enough so that a detective with the local police department has noticed some disturbing similarities to several active cases, including details that were never released to the press. Obviously he brings this up to his superior and convinces him that there’s something to the theory, but it’s all circumstantial right now. He stakes out the author’s home and is super convinced that the author is the murderer, but they don’t seem to do anything??? Like they literally are at the house all day, that’s it. Most they do is leave for groceries.

“You need to stop seeing them. I think they are a serial killer.”

Ron: He was so! He was looking right at me. Draco back me up.

OP: Why couldn’t traditional Chinese Yinpiao银票/silver drafts be forged if they were merely slips of paper? (cr大明宝钞，渐越)

Traditional Chinese yinpiao/silver drafts were paper vouchers issued by private banks starting from the Song Dynasty(960–1279). People could exchange these slips for physical silver at bank branches across the country.

Silver drafts were made in multiple copies with matching serrated seal edges. One copy went to the customer and others stayed at the bank. All edges had to fit perfectly together to withdraw silver. The unique split edge marks were almost impossible to copy.

This mechanism is known as qifeng骑缝 (split-joint seal) in China. It first originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC). The Rites of Zhou records that contracts were written on bamboo or wooden slips in duplicate. Notches and marks were carved in the middle before splitting the slips, with each party keeping one half. The two halves would be matched by their notches for verification.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770–221 BC), this idea evolved into hufu虎符/tiger tally tokens. A military tally was split into two pieces with identical inscriptions carved along the split edge. Troops could only be deployed if the patterns and characters on both halves perfectly aligned, serving as a metal version of the split-joint anti-counterfeiting system.

The technology matured in the Tang Dynasty (618–907). Government documents and private contracts commonly used split-joint seals stamped across the dividing line. The Chinese character "hetong合同" (contract) was written across the middle before the paper was torn apart, so the complete characters would only appear when the two halves were put together. This split-coupon system was later adopted for Song Dynasty (960–1279) jiaozi paper money and yinpiao/silver drafts of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1912).

Official Song dynasty paper money (Jiaozi交子) was abolished in 1107. Private silver drafts issued by Qing-era piaohao票行 (ancient exchange banks) vanished completely in 1951, hit hard by modern banks and currency reforms. Nowadays silver drafts no longer circulate as currency. Their collectible value depends on their rarity and physical condition.

First they were called "chirographs", but later the word "indenture" (in its earliest meaning as just a legal document of any kind between two people) came to be used, originating from the practice of a contract being written twice on a single piece of parchment and then cut in half with serrated edges (as in dent, "teeth" -> indents -> indenture) in order for each party to take one half, so they could later piece them together and verify that there had been no forgery -- same as the Chinese silver drafts!

(Charter of the Clerecía de Ledesma, 1252, showing the serrated indents at the top -- presumably they are cutting rather than tearing because they're using parchment, which I expect is much harder to tear than wood-pulp paper like the Chinese were using)