Insta-rec: Haute Allure by zeitgeistic

[birdsofshore]

Title: Haute Allure
Author: zeitgeistic
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Prompt #: #45. Harry is sure Draco is a Veela because he goes a lot crazy whenever Draco is around. But then it turns Draco is really a Veela, only males don't possess any allure, so it's just Harry being crazy about Draco all on his own.
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 12,500
Summary: Harry is famous for his menswear now. Malfoy is the inside leg that he loves running his tape measure up.
Warning(s): None

Why I loved this:
This was all kinds of fabulous. The haute couture setting should be ridiculous, but zeitgeistic totally goes for it with both barrels and it works - my word, does it work. The descriptions of Malfoy as Harry's model and muse are absolutely smoking hot. Harry's obsession and longing are a joy to read, and it's funny, too. In fact, I told zeitgeistic that I thought I was in love with her for writing what basically amounts to a literary wet dream, but I've changed my mind. I think I hate her. How is this fic so hot and funny and hot and perfect and hot and glamorous and hot and perfect and FUNNY? Gah! I will have to reread the NC-17 scene from part 1 (which is the hottest and funniest and most perfectest thing I have read for ages) and see if I can forgive her. WE'LL SEE.

Now, you know what I am going to say. We need art of this. WE NEED ART OF THIS! I'm putting in my cosmic order right now.

If you haven't read this yet, you really do need to, preferably now, so you can come back and squee with me. If you've read it already, please come and roll around in my comments so we can flail together.

Haute Allure, at do_me_veela

Comments

[playing-perfect.livejournal.com]

I second all of that :-D I read it before work this morning and it's just - well, everything you've said really. I shall roll around and squee as much as you like.

And art, yes art to go with it!

[capitu]

Ha ha! I TOLD YOU you were going to love it. XD

DRACO!!!!!!!!!

The wanking scene!

Harry's “Are we Mated now that you’ve fucked me?”


OMG. Everything. XD

[birdsofshore]

How can she write so funny? I vote we jump on zeitgeistic and smother her before she can write any more funny, hot, perfect fics like this one.

[birdsofshore]

THAT SCENE. O_O You know sometimes you're reading something and your body temperature actually goes up about 5 degrees? I nearly melted. I was saying to her, it could have been so sleazy and porny, but she just got it so right. Super-hot, but not so you felt grubby afterwards :DD

[capitu]

And what about the dirty talking? The 'fashion dirty talking'. That killed me dead. :D:D:D:D

[birdsofshore]

Lord. yes! It was your prompt, too! When I read the prompt, I thought, oh, we are in for some fun here :D

[playing-perfect.livejournal.com]

I know, it's unfair. But I'm not sure about the smothering her bit, because reading her stuff is pretty good fun isn't it :-D. The things poor foolish Harry was thinking, and gad the hotness!

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

*hides*

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

Noooo don't hate me. I lofffffffff you! *begs* *bro hug icon for you*

But seriously ty so much for this rec! It is so nice! I am so glad everyone's digging the facial scene because it was so vivid in my head that I'd feel like a total creeper if y'all were all like "Eww gross". haha!

*wishes Draco would stand there and let me dress him and have his pubes showing* And the facial part is optional but encouraged...

[birdsofshore]

Yes, but she needs to be stopped. Or anything could happen. She might carry on writing really excellent smut and then WHERE WOULD WE BE?

[birdsofshore]

I see you there! You're not fooling anybody. You stop writing these fabulous fics, OK, or there'll be trouble.

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

Yes, ma'am...

[birdsofshore]

Bloody hell, no, that's such a massive kink of mine, but it's not usually written in romantic and funny fics, only sleazefests. Not that there's anything wrong with those, of course, but this is really more to my liking. A more elegant style of facial, with cucumber sandwiches, ahehehe.

I approve of the begging, and the loffing, and the bro hugs. I MIGHT reconsider. I'll have to see.

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

Maybe I could tempt you by taking one of your prompts in an upcoming fest?

[playing-perfect.livejournal.com]

LOL Bloody happy in my case :-D. Do you have anything against really excellent smut that also makes you laugh? 'Cos I see it as brilliant. As far as I'm concerned the more the better.

[playing-perfect.livejournal.com]

Birds if you don't reconsider with an offer like that I may have to classify you as insane (and not in a good way!) :-D

[birdsofshore]

Ahhhh.... well, I suppose that MIGHT make it up to me. Yes, you could quite probably console me about writing brilliant hot fic by writing MORE brilliant hot fic, to my specifications :D

I don't know if I have any prompts in upcoming fests *sniffs* I have a ton of them I have been saving up for career fair, though. Gosh, how I do love career fair.

[birdsofshore]

(Ssshh, I'm playing hard to get. Just like Malfoy.)

[sophie-french.livejournal.com]

Oh god, you're kidding me??? I just LOVE this scene!!! It was absolutely amazing!
The only other time I've read a facial was in this Lucius/Harry fic and it was pretty hot too! :)

[sophie-french.livejournal.com]

Great rec!!! I can't write one for my life but this is perfect!!!

And it's so hard to write funny!!!

[birdsofshore]

Glad you liked the rec. C: What a fic! When I write funny, Mr Birds says it hits you over the head, because I've just clanged all these jokes in. This was seamlessly funny, and you just got swept along with it.

[playing-perfect.livejournal.com]

That's all right then, I was worried there that you'd taken leave of your senses, LOL

[birdsofshore]

Well, the hotness nearly sent me round the twist, but other than that, I'm just as sane as you are ;-)

[awickedmemory.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh, this fic is fun. ♥ Work is probably the last place I should be reading it, but I just can't resist, I feel like I haven't read Drarry in weeks... XD Thank you for the rec! ♥

[birdsofshore]

You are welcome. It's soooooooo fun. And bad. And delicious. That Malfoy! In those clothes! *swoon*

[altri-uccelli.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you recced this! I wouldn't have seen it otherwise and it was fabulous.

[birdsofshore]

Oh, I'm delighted to hear that. I recced it rather selfishly, so that I would have people to talk to about it. :D The thought that I encouraged someone to read it who would have missed it otherwise is making me beam!

[lijahlover.livejournal.com]

I agree with this rec of yours.


One of the best :))))))))

[birdsofshore]

I know! I've decided, this is zeitgeistic's work of staggering genius. Forget brilliant 90k fics about alchemy, this is where it's at. ;-)