Recs and nonsense rides again

[birdsofshore]

Author/Artist: Anon
Title: Three Boxes and a Scrapbook
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, Ron/Hermione, Blaise/Ginny, Bill/Pansy
Summary: One year after being accidentally bonded to each other, Harry and Draco are free to move on with their lives. But perhaps, what they needed was here all along.
Rating: NC-17
Warning(s): Heavy dosage of flangst, mentions of divorce
Word Count: 30,500

Adding my voice to those who loved this fic! I wasn't really following hd_familyfest - I thought it was going to be all about raising children and such things that I am not especially interested in outside of RL. However this is a fabulous getting-back-together!fic, where Harry and Draco have been forced to marry, but find their problems are by no means over when the accidental bond wears off and they are able to divorce.

It's told mostly via deft use of flashbacks, with a lovely supporting cast and some wonderful humour in amongst the pining and flangsty goodness. The smut, when it comes, is fierce and delicious, and there are some great side pairings which develop through the story, too. I really recommend it.

Three Boxes and a Scrapbook

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From the sublime to the ridiculous:


-- Have you seen yaoihands on tumblr?  I don't like those blogs that basically rip fanart to pieces and so on, but this is laughing at the tropes of commercial yaoi, and  OMG, LOLOL. I had never noticed how the seme's hands are often as big as the uke's head, amongst other weird fetishy anatomy distortions. I find the hands the funniest, but there is all sorts on this tumblr, too: wtfyaoianatomy. These people are obviously competent artists, so I don't really know what is going on...?



-- DINOSAUR EROTICA EXISTS AND IT'S JUST AS AMAZING AS YOU'D IMAGINE

I think this must be one of the best examples of Rule 34 I've ever seen.

Taken By the T-Rex might be my favourite title ever.

Just wondering how to incorporate dinosaur sexing into my Harrybang or indeed, how to start writing the bloody thing, but we won't speak of that right now.

Comments

[digthewriter]

I thought it was going to be all about raising children and such things that I am not especially interested in outside of RL

I'm not even interested in that in RL, but I enjoyed this fest! ♥

Three boxes and a scrapbook really is amazing! ♥

[birdsofshore]

Sometimes I think my entire life except fandom is raising children, thus I have no desire to read about it in my spare time :D

I must investigate familyfest further - what were the criteria?

[digthewriter]

They could feature the next-gen kids or they could just be about Harry and Draco raising Teddy together. They do not necessarily have to be together at the beginning of the story, but they do have to be a couple by the end of it. The stories can be fluffy or angsty, but they need to have happy endings. It is not absolutely necessary that all the stories have to feature kids. Stories about Harry and Draco learning to be a couple and learning to live together would also be fine.

It's mostly about h/d getting together -- mine (at the risk of revealing my fic which is anon) was more about Draco dealing w/ his own issues while trying to be there for Teddy.

[birdsofshore]

Ah, that's good to know, thank you. I knew I was missing the point a bit, but I wondered why FAMILY fest if it could really refer to any situation in life that wasn't involving kids? That makes perfect sense, though.

[sara-lakali.livejournal.com]

Just wondering how to incorporate dinosaur sexing into my Harrybang?

Two words: animagus transformation.

[birdsofshore]

OMG. Hahahahahahaha! I really really hope this isn't one of those plot bunnies that won't die, or I may have to resort to forcible euthanasia.

[sara-lakali.livejournal.com]

Hey, if someone can write Harry/giant squid, you can write Harry/dinosaur.

[birdsofshore]

I want them to be in a dinosaur costume now. It makes it even funnier somehow :D

[firethesound]

Harry's animagus is a velociraptor? DONE. You're welcome.

Also, two words: pterodactyl porn. I have never laughed so hard in my life. Like, I actually went beyond laughing and started making this strange wheezing sound that had my husband running in from the other room to make sure I was okay, then he saw what I was watching and turned right around and left again, because he's no fun like that.

I really enjoyed familyfest, even though kid!fic is pretty far down my list of things I like. But a lot of it was really well done and I had a lot of fun reading. I still need to go back and leave comments, because I'm sort of a failure this week.

[birdsofshore]

I was really disappointed by the Velociraptor title. It clearly should have been Violated by the Velociraptor. Do you think I could get a job naming dinosaur erotica books? That would be cool.

I'm not sure whether to be proud or apologetic that my link gave you a near-death laughing experience :D

I can't work out what made this fic qualify for family fest as Teddy was only in it for about a minute. Or am I getting muddled? I think I am tired, I keep mixing up plots in my head!

[firethesound]

Oh, lol. Violated by the Velociraptor is a brilliant title. I would love for you to have a job naming dinosaur erotica books.

That link made me laugh, but not wheezy-death-laugh. Pterodactyl porn is a real thing. Dudes in rubber dinosaur suits with strategically cut holes for their junk having their wicked way with some girl. It's wonderful and horrifying all at once. There's flapping, just for that extra touch of realism.

[birdsofshore]

Oh my word, I am silly, I am short of sleep and was reading fast and didn't get what you meant. That is... well. I'm glad it was YOU who stumbled upon it, and not me, put it that way :D

[birdsofshore]

p.s. I really, really want fic where Harry's animagus is a velociraptor. Or art. Or both.

[firethesound]

::files that idea away::

:D

[birdsofshore]

NONONO IT HAPPENS AFTER A FANCY DRESS PARTY. tHEY GET DRUNK AND STUFF HAPPENS WHILE ONE OF THEM IS STILL IN THEIR DINOSAUR COSTUME. CALL IT VIOLATED BY THE VELOCIRAPTOR, DO IT OUT OF LOVE FOR ME.

oops, I got excited there sorry.

[firethesound]

OMG I CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

[birdsofshore]

*BEGS AT YOUR FEET LIKE ANNOYING YAPPY DOG*

[firethesound]

Mostly I just want art of it. I'm pestering my beta, who has a heck of a lot more artistic talent than I do, to draw it out if I write it. ::hopeful::

[birdsofshore]

JUST WRITE IT
she won't be able to resist once she sees the wonder that is VIOLATED BY THE VELOCIRAPTOR.

The title needs to be all caps, just like that.

[firethesound]

All caps, got it. I've made a word document for it, that means I'm committed.

[digthewriter]

*is going to learn to draw velociraptors*

[birdsofshore]

Yes, god, if fire writes it, we'll ALL draw frigging velociraptors :DD

[anemonen.livejournal.com]

Omg, that dinosaur erotica might be the most ridiculous thing I've ever read, laughed so hard!! XD I'm really crossing my fingers for a Drarry with Velociraptor!Harry :D it makes me wonder, though. Can animagus forms be extinct animals? If so, can they also be animals that have never existed? Like a tiger/cow-hybrid?

About familyfest, as far as I've understand the criteria is family life. So that doesn't necessarily have to include children.

[birdsofshore]

I am not even sure that wizard people know what dinosaurs ARE. When I wrote Draco at the cinema watching a dinosaur film, he didn't know what one was. They sort of seem too Muggle-y sciencey to me; I don't personally think that wizard folk have dinosaurs, just dragons.

[anemonen.livejournal.com]

Maybe Muggle dinosaurs were really dragons and aren't really extinct, only hidden :) (sorry for horrible grammar in that last post...)

[birdsofshore]

Yes! My eldest says dragons are real, and when challenged, asks "why not? Dinosaurs are real."

[subtlefire.livejournal.com]

Children, ew. I have to rely on the recs of others when it comes to fests with titles like that, so thank you :)

God, I have always hated anime. I mean, triangle heads that are 1/4 the size of the person's body, what freaky shit is that? But so many people seem to love it I figured it was just Not My Thing, but I find I am not alone! Bless tumblr.

The Harry Potter fandom needs a Rule 34 fest. I'm just saying.

[birdsofshore]

Lord that's a great idea for a fest. Dinosaurs would be the thin end of the wedge, no?

[blithelybonny.livejournal.com]

Aaaand now I can't stop looking for dinorotica.

[birdsofshore]

I love dinorotica. What about Velocirapture? Or the Jurassex era?

[blithelybonny.livejournal.com]

I snorted. Out loud.

[birdsofshore]

That's just what the velociraptor did!

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

BRB LOL'ing forever at Dinosaur porn. Excuse me, erotica :p

[sylvaticginger.livejournal.com]

MY EYES! MY EYES! And my stomach hurts because I can't stop laughing! VIOLATED BY THE VELOCIRAPTOR! Where will this end? *must stop drawing dinosaurs...*

And I loved the "Three boxes"-story!

[birdsofshore]

NEVER STOP DRAWING DINOSAURS.

Violated by the Velociraptor FTW!

[birdsofshore]

DINOROTICA.Oh yes.

[hazel-wand.livejournal.com]

I'm having visions of Janus Thickey ward!Lockhart writing dinoporn novels to pass the time. Dalliance with a Diplodocus. Had by a Hadrosaur. All night long with Albertosaurus etc.

I love love loved 3 boxes and a Scrapbook. That fic should win a best use of Bill Weasley award.

[birdsofshore]

Had by a Hadrosaur
ahehehe! They do have a ring of Lockhart to them!

ALSO. I found out yesterday there is a dinosaur called the Pantydraco O_o http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/dinosaurs-other-extinct-creatures/dino-directory/pantydraco.html

[geneva2010.livejournal.com]

Hi babe!

[birdsofshore]

Hello, my dear! How are you? I miss seeing you around.

[geneva2010.livejournal.com]

I'm good! I miss all of you, too. Maybe this summer I'll have time to come back to the fold.