I think DTH may actually kill me this year

[birdsofshore]

IT'S JUST THAT GOOD. I always say I don't care who takes it up the arse. But OMG I care SO MUCH about a Toppy, Dommy Draco. And the dracotops_harry fest always delivers.

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The art and fic from the first day have just about slayed me. SERIOUSLY. Have you SEEN them? I think the rest of the fest will finish me off. There's fic and art coming from some of my favourite people. And two of my prompts got claimed and whoever is writing them, I love you already.

That first fic just has me wanting to follow the writer around forever with a soppy look on my face. I NEED AN INTERVENTION HERE.

Meanwhile, have some recs:

Newts by astolat at DTH. You should really really read it. It's a back to Hogwarts fic with Harry as a NEWTs student and Draco as the potions professor who does NOT want him to pass... until Harry bends over uses more unorthodox methods. The dynamic between them is so hot I thought I was going to have to breathe into a paper bag.

And Good Boy by apriicat at DTH. This art is NFSW. And so beautiful. It's explicit, but it's really the dynamic again that makes it so hot, the intimacy of it all, the dialogue and the body language and the breathless intensity between them.

And two more recs, not from DTH:

Not Just When You Want to Be by gracerene. This is part 1 of a series, and is epilogue compliant for H/D, so please take that as a warning that there is no happy ending... yet. I don't usually read angst, but I really enjoyed this. It was so satisfyingly heart achey, with plenty of smut, and completely (infuriatingly!) in character for both of them.

House Proud by astolat. This is a smasher. Funny, thrilling, and wildly inventive. Everything I read by this author is intimidatingly good.

I feel like I've been quiet lately; I've not been in the best state of mind and have been feeling a bit low in mood and confidence at times, but I'm trying to be around more. I'd love to hear if you've enjoyed any of these, or what you've been reading/writing, or what you're excited about, or ANYTHING.

Comments

[oceaxe.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for these recs - I went and read nearly everything Astolat has done in HP and I'm in heaven. BTW, don't you think Newts may have been written by her? Seems likely to me.

I did some stalking because that's something I do and come to find out (what you may already know) - she's a prolific published author with a long-running series called Temeraire, which I will be looking into as soon as I can get my mind out of the gutter of Draco fucking Harry fourteen ways to Sunday.

[birdsofshore]

That particular gutter is one that you should STAY IN...

Astolat is a marvel. I did hear she was a published author capitu told me when I was about to drown myself because my fics are so crap compared to hers

[oceaxe.livejournal.com]

I read the first of the Temeraire series and liked it quite a bit, tho it wasn't really my thing per se (well, in some senses it was, but overall I probably won't read more in that series). However, I also bought her latest, Uprooted, which looks quite good and sold me with a blurb from Ursula Le Guin.