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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

I wrote Drarry fanfic with trans Draco and a variety of other trans characters because FUCK JKR I wish to haunt her nightmares. Besides, the wizarding world as a whole has the potential to be so trans coded and she's a fucking idiot for not seeing that.

Please feel free to read it here: link

First time writing fanfic in at least six years, spite is truly my biggest motivator, and it was a whole lot of fun despite the mistakes it almost definitely has. I hope someone out there enjoys it!

Summary from AO3 under the cut:

During Draco's trial following the events of the war, the revelation of him being trans is shared with the wizarding world.

Hermione drags Harry and Ron into an initially uncertain alliance with the Slytherins in a show of support in the face of bigotry.

Harry and Draco discover a surprising ease in which their relationship develops and grows.

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“Draco. Draco Malfoy. My friends call me Draco.”

Harry felt his eyes widen in surprise. It was different, this was different. Similar, yet not. It used to be the Malfoy name first, a name that was held with pride and flaunted. A name that would reward him with what he wanted, even in spite of a sour attitude and prissy expression as a kid. But things have changed, years have passed and a maturity that was forced upon them too soon. They could both choose who they wanted to be now, and forge new beginnings even even with those who it seemed impossible with not even that long ago.

Harry smiled softly, reaching out and clasping his hand in the others. Malfoy – Draco's hand was soft, Harry was unsure whether to be surprised about that or not, and there was an unexpected clamminess to it, “Harry. Harry Potter. But it's just Harry to my friends.”

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/34983211

As some of the only eighth years to return to Hogwarts, Harry doesn't know how he and Draco will manage to be roommates for a whole year without resorting to violence. But Draco is too quiet, and too thin, and wears layers of sweaters that he tucks over his fingers. So they fall into an unspoken routine, one that soothes Harry as much as it helps Draco, one that's so much easier than Harry thought it would be.

Until it all falls apart, and Harry realizes he holds the world in his hands.

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Drarry after Pride fireworks

Decided to make this a little yearly tradition. No fic with it this year. Maybe next year, but I’ll upload it to ao3 anyway and make a little Drarry at Pride series. Also the sketch for the front view but I really wanted to do fireworks.

HAPPY PRIDE YALL. 🩷💛💙

Closeups and an extra sketch on insta

Drarry at Pride series on AO3

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Malfoy in the wrong place at the right time??

Not my best but fun to draw :)

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Hello! Youve probably read it because its quite popular, but theres a fic called Evitative, where Harry goes back to the past and is resorted into Slytherin. It's a series of works, each dedicated to a book, I've only read part one but its amazing and ongoing right now! :)

I need a fic recommendations plsss

Where harry and draco or only harry go back to the past and choose Slytherin instead of Griffen

Drarry ship maybe 🥹

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Once again:

Liking HP or reading HP fics DOESN'T make you transphobic.

SUPPORTING JKR does.

Edit: if you support JKR or hate LGBT, FUCK OFF AND DON'T INTERACT WITH ME.

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GUYS GYS GUYS SHOULD I WROT ETHIS

@jus-a-silly-little-ting @constantlymusing @kanha-ki-fangirl @clairvoyantly-yours @diddy @whythiskolaveridiii @soupdeewoop hi

i hope donald trump and elon musk both send an assassin to murder the other guy. and then i hope their assassins fall in love <3

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I’m always confused by any fanfics set post-Half Blood Prince in which Draco is surprised to learn about Harry’s Invisibility Cloak. It seems to be a somewhat common trope, yet it ignores the fact that Draco caught Harry using that very cloak to spy on him and then threw it on top of Harry on the floor of Hogwarts Express in sixth year, so by then he was fully aware of it.

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i don’t understand people who love a problematic character but get angry when people mention the evil things that character did. like, that’s your man! he’s proud he did all that, support his hobbies!

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I don't think I've ever explained why I love the Ron and Draco pairing. Since I joined the fandom, I've never been into Drarry or Dramione. The more popular a ship is, the less I like it — with exceptions, of course. But I don't ship Ronako just because there’s nothing else. I genuinely see potential.

Everyone has their own reasons for loving a ship. Sometimes it’s one glance or a moment. For me, it's a whole narrative. Ron and Draco are full of contradictions, yet oddly similar. Brave vs. cowardly, poor vs. rich, loud family vs. lonely aristocrat. And they know each other’s families. It’s not just personal — it’s ideological. Blood status, values, upbringing.

And visually — sun and moon. My aesthetic side just melts. Ron lashes out with fists. Draco insults with words, too well-mannered to get physical. Yet both are deeply insecure. Draco hides it behind arrogance. Loved but emotionally stunted, he thinks friendship is transactional — like his father taught him. He has no real friends.

Ron feels invisible - surrounded by his dazzling brothers, his beloved sister, and the Chosen One himself. Even when he shines, he’s quickly belittled. Remember when he became a prefect? His joy was crushed immediately.

Fred and George mock him. Meanwhile, Draco keeps a composed front until pressured — then he crumbles. "I'll tell my father!" — the ultimate cry of helplessness. He hides behind family because he doesn’t know how to stand on his own. He’s trapped in a cocoon of privilege.

These two need therapy — and each other. Their confrontations are emotional explosions, and I love it.

Yes, I know Drarry is more “canon-adjacent.” Half-Blood Prince reads like Drarry fanfic. But it’s also full of Snarry hints (my guilty pleasure).

And let’s not forget: Draco once wrote a poem about Ron. Yes, insulting — but still, who writes poetry for their enemies? Draco constantly taunts Ron’s poverty, his “blood traitor” status, as if it personally offends him. "I would’ve overlooked your poverty… if not for the mudbloods." That's roughly how I feel about Draco's relationship with Ron.

Okay, now to the fantasy bit. In my headcanon, they realize their feelings mid-fight. That overwhelming, confusing tension — fists almost fly, but instead, a kiss. Chaos. Denial. Hidden corners. Growth.

It wouldn’t be easy. But if they survived the war, the trauma — I think they could’ve built something powerful. Passionate. Real.

I prefer staying true to the original personalities. I hate when Ron is dumbed down into a joke to make Draco shine — happens in both Drarry and Dramione. But Draco’s no hero either. He’s a coward. Flawed. Human.

People call him an alpha — but he’s never been one. That role fits Ron better. Brave, rough, insecure, smart — not perfect, but real. Both are intelligent but stuck in circumstances that hold them back. And that’s what draws me to them.

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Owls🦉🦉

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ground ii (42 words)

I'm disposable like discarded coffee grounds that served their purpose. I'm replaceable like the sheets in which we once— where he— I changed them. Now, insomnia and nocturnal loneliness, nightmares and wet dreams. I'm disposable useless, used-up, heartbroken. I'm old coffee grounds.

inspired by this

written for @drarrymicrofic's Drarry Microfic Madness | my Drarry microfic collection on Ao3

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"Man, what is his problem??"

Most lethal pout in human history, perhaps.

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Selden on AO3

Picture Perfect [E, 29k]

Portraits across Wizarding Britain are being attacked ... from inside the frame. Can the Auror’s Sketch Department (sole employees Messrs Potter and Malfoy) figure out whodunnit, why, and whether or not to kiss already?

At the time, filled with a horrible scrabbling kind of anger, a kind of fear new to him since the war ended, in which the worst thing was not that there might be no future but that there might be a great deal of it, years and years bunched up on great fatty haunches, lying in wait, at the time he had thought that her polite little aphorisms meant nothing at all. // Potter’s childhood home had really told him nothing that you couldn’t work out just from being around Potter — who was really, when you thought about it, quite fucked up — for more than a day.

The Loathly Worm [E, 12k]

When Draco Malfoy is forced to go undercover among the remaining Death Eaters in the aftermath of the war, the last person he expects to find there is Harry Potter.

Four months, five days, and ten or so hours before the blowjob incident, Kingsley Shacklebolt had leaned back in his chair, steepled his fingers together, and told Draco that he was about to be of real service to the Wizarding World. “I am?” Draco had said. “Dear me, what a privilege.” Then he’d shut his mouth and tried hard to look as if he was being sincere. He’d been in a grey little cell in the Ministry for quite a while by then, and the light in the Minister’s office was hurting his eyes. // “That’s a really hurtful thing to say, Ernest,” said Septimus. “Exclusionary rhetoric and, uh, judging by mere appearances is the sign of a shallow individual, unable to stand up against the sickness in our broader society.” He paused, looking smugger than ever. // The Muggles’ dungeon was lit with a single candle, its flame stunted and pale as a beansprout growing in the dark.

Memory Lane [T, 31k]

When memories from the war start surfacing in unexpected places, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy find themselves spending a surprising amount of time inside each other’s heads.

Malfoy stared at the tiny car. “Potter,” he said solicitously, “are you by any chance having what they call a crisis? Is a little trip to St. Mungo’s perhaps in order?” // “Can’t you knock Malfoy out again, Hermione?” Ron asked piteously. “I keep forgetting he’s here. Normally Harry does his most unfortunate stuff solo.” // “You’re Harry Potter,” he said, trying hard to sound as if he wasn’t even a little bit impressed. “Aren’t you?” The boy – Harry Potter – shrugged. “Yeah,” he said. “So?” “So, you’re almost as famous as Father,” Draco informed him. “And you’re very important, even if you did cause an Unfortunate Realignment in Political Realities.” // “It must be tedious, having a conscience.”

Selden is one of those writers who make you envy their experience of the world with the breadth of their imagination. Always gorgeously (and surprisingly) written, full of humor both sly and broad, wonderfully inventive, and psychologically complex, Selden's three Drarries are stories I can (and have) read again and again.

Art:

(1) Salvator Mundi (unfinished), Albrecht Dürer, c. 1505

(2) The Green Dragon, Arthur Rackham, 1910

(3) The Man of Sorrows (detail), Hans Memling, c. 1480s

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everytime I don’t (I almost do)

drarry | m | 8.1k words

Harry has a bad habit of calling late at night.

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was listening to I Almost Do after Taylor got her masters back and had the idea for the first scene in this fic. From there it took on a little life of its own! For anyone who enjoyed my little snippet of Draco’s birthday - that was taken from this fic!