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Straight up LOVING THIS. On chapter 3 right now, and what a great Voldemort Wins concept, I’m just itching to continue. Harry as a slightly jaded, yet completely committed leader of a legitimised Order, and Draco as the deserter of the cause from years past, reconnecting under intrigue and mystery. Could things get any better? Knowing tackytiger fics, yes.

Drarry ~ E ~ 274k

Harry Potter defeated Voldemort at the Battle of Hogwarts on May 2nd, 1998.

But what if he didn't?

A Voldemort-wins wartime AU featuring multiverse travel, multiple Harrys and Dracos, political drama, spying, plotting, and a slow burn enemies-to-friends-to-enemies-again-to-friends-to-lovers romantic arc.

21 chapters in total (I'll be posting a chapter every two days until it's all up) - Chapter 21 is now posted!

Read from the start here

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I did this and it was great. Then I read dwelling again and it was fantastic.

I think it’s time for me to read Far From The Tree again… time for some pain and sweet sweet time travelling comfort.

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I think it’s time for me to read Far From The Tree again… time for some pain and sweet sweet time travelling comfort.

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Do you have any fics u read where the tension all culminates in one quote that just sticks in your mind forever? And it hits you like a fucking punch to the solar plexus? For me it’s “You’ve been making love to me,” he said, “all night.” from Grounds for Divorce by Tepre. I will never forget that quote. Every time I think about it it’s like I’m reliving the sensation of the way it really made me feel heartache.

OH ANON you beautiful beautiful creature, this ask is just phenomenal. I love this sort of thing. And I know exactly what you mean, you put it so well.

Ok so the short answer is that I have a terrible memory for details so I don’t ever manage to memorise actual quotes (though from some reason “I will have Cocoa Glaciers or I will have nothing” from WWPWCS is burned into my memory, which probably says more about me and biscuits than it does about anything else). However I do have FEELINGS (I’m an habitual skimreader so I absorb fics via how they make me feel, and when I think of the ones I love most I can always be transported back to That Moment of reading, and the sort of visceral physical reaction which my friends and I call the heartkick factor - which is exactly what it sounds like).

I’m going to put these under a cut but fair warning most of them will probably have spoilers for the fics involved. Here’s a small selection of my most favourite bits in Drarry! I am leaving LOADS out as it’s taken me ages but I may revisit this with some further additions, because it was so much fun.

And can I just say - I would love other people to do this one? There’s nothing I like more than seeing the bits of fics that have stayed with them. If you’re reading this and also want to answer this ask, consider yourself tagged!

First up is Transfigurations by Resonant. I read this fic at least twice a year. It’s the first fic I ever bookmarked on AO3 - it was written before the books were finished, so it is an AU, but the writing is exquisite, the characterisation is exceptional, and the “spoils of war” scene kills me every single time:

"God," he breathed, putting a possessive hand on Malfoy's hip, "what a prize you are."

"Spoils of war?" Malfoy said breathlessly.

I could quote this whole scene but I don’t want to ruin it if you haven’t read it yet. And if you haven’t, run and do so as a matter of deep urgency!

Next has to be And Save Me From Bloody Men by @blamebrampton. This whole fic gives me the heartkick, but this particular scene just hits especially hard. I cried the first time I read it, and I still get choked up each time. (This really is a spoiler as it comes near the end):

Ernie has just walked past, says he's feeling fine now, no idea what all the fuss was about. 'Chin up, Malfoy,' he says. 'Potter won't let you die in a ditch.'

I smile back at him, he's right. If Potter knew, he would be here in an instant, and he would save us. But he is busy winning a war.

I’m fine. I’M FINE.

Next up! What We Pretend We Can’t See by gyzym. Honestly, SO many bits of this just kill me. I would be here all day if I had to mention all the scenes that mean so much to me. But I’ll use this bit as it’s an actual quote and it’s quite unusual for me to remember exact wording, and that is “high pressure but low stakes”. This whole scene is the most emotionally satisfying resolution to the slowburn romance of the fic and I urge you to read the whole thing and see why that quote is so moving.

Aideomai has to be featured here. I think of all the fics I’ve read, aideomai’s are the ones I have the most visceral reaction to, so much so that I don’t actually read them very often as I find them very emotionally taxing (in the best possible way!). Dwelling makes me feel physical pain, especially this scene - though the devastating emotional impact really only makes sense if you’ve read the fic:

Harry felt as though he carried the dull exhaustion and pain with him down to breakfast, like it was a heavy pack he was lugging around for no real reason. The light in the Great Hall seemed grey, uninteresting. Harry poked at his breakfast without much interest.

Then Draco dropped onto the bench beside him, sitting sideways and dropping his forehead against Harry’s shoulder.

“Merlin,” he moaned, steadying himself with a hand on Harry’s leg. Harry’s hand went up automatically, caught the back of Draco’s neck, keeping him there. “I’m so tired. I can’t even think anymore--”

I also want to mention the entirety of In the Hand but I can’t pick a favourite bit (maybe “I suppose we’d better give it a go, seeing as everyone else has”?) and the bit in Far From the Tree where Harry says, “ “You can, rougher, if you like,”)

Aaaaand I’ll wrap up with this one, from I, Ferret by curiouslyfic: “ And he's right back that first night at the Ministry…” because it makes me cry every time.

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Hi, Tacky! We're all very excited for the longfic that you've got brewing - what excites you the most about this new story? What are you the most proud of in this fic? ❤️

Hi Tee! Thank you so much for this ask - I love that you're sending these around and am so happy to have got one of my own to answer!

I'm finally finished that long fic - it's exactly three years this month since I first started writing it, so it's been a long time coming. Final edits are nearly done so that feels very good!

In terms of what I'm most proud of? I would say actually writing this much (250k-ish) and sticking with it, probably. Having come to writing quite late in life (I was in my late 30s so not ancient-ancient but old-ish to have never written anything before?) I would never have imagined being able to pick up a new hobby and put so much work into it. It's been such a huge pleasure and a steep learning curve, and I'm massively grateful to my Fandom Trumps Hate bidder for being happy for me to just have free rein with this one and run with it where it bid me go.

In terms of the fic itself, I think probably the world-building (because it's an AU I had to come up with a political system and lots of stuff about wards and time travel theory etc) or the characterisation of the two Harrys and two Dracos. I tried to make them all as distinct from each other as possible - because we have the Harry and Draco from the world of the fic, who are still fighting Voldemort, and then Potter and Malfoy from another universe (who followed the canonical events ie defeating Voldemort at the Battle of Hogwarts). It's been challenging making them different enough to be interesting! I'm writing a final sex scene now and it's so fun to play up the dynamics.

I did have to have a whole thing where they all discuss what to call each other, though—here's Harry realising Draco doesn't want to be the Malfoy of the group!

“Hang on,” Harry said to Draco, equally discomfited. “You don’t mind being called Malfoy, do you? You never said.” “You never asked. And anyway, I didn’t used to mind, when we were friends. But these days it just makes me feel like we’re back at school.” He looked wretched, Harry thought, a miserable fractured edge to his smile. “Funnily enough, I don’t really enjoy being reminded of the jolly old Hogwarts days. Though I think maybe you hate me even more now than you did then.”

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drarrargh’s fic rec list!! fics that drarrargh recs :)

‘... A Little Insecure’ by tigersilver

It’s an epistolary! Need I say more? If so, I will say more! The Draco characterization knocked my socks off! The ending put a smile on my face! The conflict of the story is super small but feels super big! It’s really really good!

Dwelling by aideomai

Do you have a hankering for the most devastating plot twist of all time? Look no further!

Nice Things by aideomai

The first time I read this fic I was stranded in Iceland due to a level three snowstorm, and it kept me warm in the cold. Yes this is a true story

The Boy Who Only Lived Twice by @letteredlettered on tumblr

Identity porn! Getting hot and heavy with identities.

Away Childish Things by @letteredlettered

amazing podfic of Away Childish Things by RattleandHum

Look, look, I know. Everyone in the fandom has already read this. It’s one of The Drarry Fics of all time. But maybe somebody is new to drarry, or maybe it’s time for you to reread it. You know you want to!

The Way Down by @letteredlettered

Being friends is hard, being a person is hard. Less hard ons then you’d expect though.

Two To Shore by Lamplighter

Disregard everything else I’ve ever said. This is my favorite drarry fic of all time. Ever. They’re both in slytherin and they’re best friends.

Hermione Granger's Crammer for Delinquents on the Run by waspabi

Podfic of Hermione Granger's Crammer for Delinquents on the Run by Lazulus

Drarry road trip fic but like, everybody is there.

What We Pretend We Can't See  by gyzym

My favorite draco characterization maybe um ever.

The Loathly Worm by Selden

There’s secret identities, there’s a big monster worm. What’s not to like?

Talk to Me by Saras_Girl

My comfort fic that I cherish and adore in sickness and in health for so long as we both shall live.

It takes a Village by Saras_Girl

Drarry live in a village together, with goats and a magic trout, which I just personally really enjoy. 

Erosmancy by astolat

Erosmancy podfic by Lazulus

I come crawling back to this whenever I need a dose of raw unfiltered desperation.

Drop Dead Gorgeous by Maya

The dichotomy of extreme super silly situations and the most agonizing pining I’ve read to date.

An Emerald in The Sky by corvuscrowned

Timey-wimey

Trouble, My Old Friend by Tepre

Its important that harry faces the sexy sexy truth.

If It Takes All Night by @tackytigerfic

Draco and harry are just very good friends that are magically bonded... It gets me every gosh darn time.

Gryffindors Never Kiss and Tell by FeelsForBreakfast

This one never ever fails to pull me out of a bad mood.

hello goodbye (twas nice to know you) by tamerofdarkstars

soulmate trope!! woooo!!!

Matchmaker, Matchmaker by firethesound

Sometimes the situation is so dire that your house has to step in.

Who Shagged Harry Potter? by Faith Wood

the age old question! appropriately silly 10/10

And last but not least on this particular list,

Going Postal by dustmouth

Everything dustmouth draws is perfect and lovely. dustmouth’s ao3 account is sacred ground.

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AAAAGHHHHH, remember how great Ron Weasley was/is/will be forever? A Tall Drink of Water who Loved The World’s Two Most Annoying People So Much it Still Makes Me Want to Cry.

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OMG Zine, Please! #1: #AfterCollege

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Check, Please! told the story of Eric Bittle from Day One on the men's hockey team at Samwell University through to a triumphant graduation.

And we here at Zine, Please! were dying to know...what happened after?!?! And a lot of y'all had ideas. So. Many. Ideas.

So, after months of dedicated work from our admin team and our contributors, Zine, Please: #AfterCollege is officially here!

All of us are so thankful for the support and excitement all of you have shown, and we hope that you all love this zine just as much as we do. A special thank you to our contributors, this zine would be nothing without your wonderful art and fics!

Now come see all the chaos that ensues #AFTERCOLLEGE!!!

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🥧🏒 Read OMGZP #1 here 🏒🥧

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If you had to pick, what is that one fic you could read forever in a loop and enjoy it as if it was the first time?

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Burn

“Draco, wait!” Harry cried. “Hold— Don’t go!” Draco stopped and spun on his heels. “What more could you possibly have to say to me?” “Everything,” Harry breathed. “I could say everything to you. For the rest of my life. Please?” “Why can’t you ask people out like a normal person?!”

@drarrymicrofic

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Far From the Tree

The arrival of Harry Potter’s children—snapped back in time, the children themselves guessed, twenty or so years—was the most interesting thing to happen at Hogwarts for years.

112,572 words / 315 pages

Fic by Aideomai

Back cover art by @bluebutter-art

Cover design by me

I’m so excited to share my finished bound copy of Far From the Tree by Aideomai! This will likely be the only copy since I have not been able to contact the author.

I really went back and forth with the overall design of this book, but in the end I let myself lean into the high fantasy vibes. This story is actually pretty fluffy, BUT there are swords and magic fights and spooky woods and so that’s the direction I took it!  The case is covered in midnight blue cloth and the design is finished in silver metal foiling. I foiled endpapers with copper foil using a design of trees, swords, and wands. Finally, I carried the front cover design throughout in the chapter headers. 

The front of the dust jacket was designed by myself and the art on the back is from the amazing @bluebutter-art who was kind enough to allow me to use it!

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WIP Snip

Not my current longfic for a change, just a little piece about kisses that I started as a gift a few months back, and got stuck on. Umm I think the embarrassing kiss was going to be Sirius... anyway I am tagging anyone who fancies doing this, and please tag me so i can have a peek at what you're working on! Unedited. CW for discussion of Weasley genitalia.

They were talking about kisses, of all things, when everything went wrong. Harry at rest, lying back in the shadowed grass, face turned up to the sky, and Draco looking out at the night so he wouldn’t have to look down at Harry’s face, feeling scooped out or stardrunk or maybe just sick of wanting.

“You lucky bastard,” Draco said up to the sky, and below him he heard Harry laughing. “He is definitely the best Weasley. My Weasley wasn’t half so good.”

“Percy has his charms,” Harry murmured, and Draco managed to kick him gently in the ribs before he started laughing properly. “Or so you told me at the time. At great length.”

“So to speak.”

“Indeed,” Harry said. “And that obviously runs in the family, if Charlie and Ron are any indication.”

“Don’t make me think about Weasley cock any more than I already do,” Draco protested, and he felt Harry’s hand clasp neatly around his ankle, just at the point where the hem of his trousers met the top of his Ministry-issue boots; it was only a brief reassuring squeeze, but it had the potential of so much heat that it made Draco want to drop down into the grass beside him and roll him over and over, muddy him up, press him down, take him over.

“Okay, so that was your first,” Draco said, “but what was your worst?”

“Well,” Harry answered, voice slow and confiding, a low amused slide from baritone to bass growl that Draco could feel in his toes, and Draco really did look down at him then, thinking, wondering, surely he didn’t think—

But no, no one could say that kiss had been bad, the opposite in fact, Harry’s hand cupped around the back of Draco’s neck, Draco with his fists stuffed full of fabric where he was pulling Harry in by his shirt, Harry’s lower lip between Draco’s teeth as though he knew he had to take while he still could.

It had just ended badly—and before Draco even got Potter’s kit off too, oh woeful day—with an emergency call-out charm that had both their wands vibrating urgently, Potter’s still in the thigh holster that Draco had only just begun to undo. And after the raid was over, Draco a bit queasy from the adrenaline and all the effort it had taken to very much not think about this kiss, there had been a moment when it could all have tipped over again, a moment where they didn’t look at each other, and then looked at each other a bit too much, and then like the moment when a Finite is cast, the wild magic of it all subsided and they had to have a completely earnest and awkward conversation about what a bad idea it had been, work colleagues and friends and the messiness of their hopelessly intertwined personal lives. It had never happened again.

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Week 22: What We Pretend We Can't See by gyzym

Summary:

Seven years out from the war, Harry learns the hard truth of old history: it’s never quite as far behind you as you thought. Word Count: 131086

Link to Fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9794657/chapters/21995357

My Thoughts: Oh my god, what a fantastic fic. I feel healed, refreshed, and reborn after reading it. Draco's dialog had me laughing alone in my room, and Harry's ruminations had me rethinking my life. This story's approach to adulting up (or more like watching your friends become adults while you're trying to figure things out) is truly gold.

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“Ethereal”

im not too fond of this one but i spent too long on it to leave it in my drafts 

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“Have a biscuit Potter. And sit down.”

@buginateacup

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wanted to try something new hehe so here’s post-war snape fully comfortable with his muggle side and buying flowers at the corner store on easter morning. is it for someone special or does he just want to usher in spring? 💐

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snape celebrations - new beginnings