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I am SO EXCITED about the new Harry Potter 24 hour porn challenge!( About wand_in_a_knot... )
( About ratings... )

Title: Unexpected
Author: birdsofshore
Pairing: Harry / Draco
Word count: 5 x 100
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Nothing really
Summary: For dicta_contrion, a little recreational hair-pulling for your birthday. Thank you for being the wonder that you are: weaver of amazing words, beta extraordinaire, brilliant commenter, and creator of the hottest, dirtiest, most deliciously brain-melting smut ever. ♥

Thank you so much to lovely lumosed_quill for the help.

( Unexpected )

An amazing person has made some fanart for Euphoria! I'm over the moon!

You can find the art here at their tumblr.  It's so darned pretty and asksdfghjklfghjklghjklsdfhgjklfghjkl! (Warnings: boys kissing, cross-gen, Albus Severus / Scorpius, Albus Severus / Draco). I love the different dynamic in the two scenes, and the characterisations of the three of them.

 *bounces madly*

Hey, capitu, does this count as a rec? :D

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:

( 2 from DTH and 2 general H/D )

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.

Title: Truth Will Out
Author: birdsofshore
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Word count: ~4300
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Er, none? Sorry about that...
Summary: Sometimes you just need a little bit of a push to say what needs saying.
A/N: A belated Happy Birthday, Happy Valentine's, and WELCOME HOME to our darling capitu. I started so many things for your birthday, dear! I tried to write filthy, I tried to write funny. I FAILED, and this happened instead, but it is sort of romantic, possibly? And it was written with love ♥

Thank you so much to writcraft and lumosed_quill for all of your help!

( Truth Will Out )

I hesitated about posting this, because it might be annoying to read if you're NOT getting comments, but I decided to go for it anyway. It's not often we hear good news about comments!

I feel like there might have been an upsurge in commenting at AO3. I was lucky and had comments for my erised fic over the last few weeks, and I'm still getting the odd one on that fic which is lovely, but in general, I'm getting one or two comments (on other fics) most days. This is NOT usually the case for me, and it's quite delightful.

Do you think there might be a swing back towards interacting with writers, rather than just leaving Kudos or navigating away? It would be super if there was. Kudos and hits are all very well, but comments - oh, nothing makes my heart go pitter-pat like a real juicy comment. ♥ Thank you so much to all of you who still leave them, whether here or on AO3.

EDITED TO ADD: this is in no way meant to make people feel uncomfortable or pressured about comments. I know some people get stressed about commenting / not commenting. DON'T WORRY! Read fic and be happy.

This was my gift for anemonen:

Title: I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor
Author: birdsofshore
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, brief Draco/OMCs
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~28,000
Warnings: Homophobia (internalised, plus verbal and physical abuse). Draco has off-screen sex with other men before he and Harry get together. Harry attempts sex with another man but changes his mind. Plenty of antagonism. Fashions and music are not necessarily contemporary to the time period of the story. I sincerely apologise to anyone who lives in Walthamstow; I hear it's quite a nice place these days.
Content/Enticements: Clubbing, the Muggle world, coming out, first times, virgin!Harry, experienced!Draco, voyeurism, semi-public sex, jealousy, antagonism, pining, UST, flangst
Summary: Harry felt lit up from inside as soon as he entered the bar. There were blokes dancing together, their bodies close to one another, not keeping a wary distance as Harry was always careful to do when he was near another man. God, he wanted this – wanted it so much he could taste it, a metallic tang of heat and desire. He suspected nothing would ever be the same again – especially when he saw who else was in the room.

I'm so so excited I can finally talk about this, and most importantly, shout my head off about the amazing ART which anemonen drew for it. LOOK AT THIS: Live here in the moment. I can't tell you how chuffed I was that Ane was inspired to create this stunning Draco. The whole picture fits my imaginings of the Tube scene from the story perfectly. And then I had to keep quiet and not say anything about it for WEEEEEKS! I nearly DIED. It's a gorgeous standalone picture of Draco so it won't spoil anything if you haven't read the fic, by the way. Please do leave anemonen all the love if you go and take a look.

( Wafflings about writing, with pictures and videos and stuff )

I promised capitu I would make rec posts before reveals and she's not even here to see this, my second post. *sniffle* But I loved this fest so much, hd_erised was absolutely mighty this year and I just wish I had more time to waffle on about all the fabulous things I read. This is a whistlestop tour of some more of my favourites. I'm still reading! Everything is amazing!

( Four fic recs )
There'll be another post if I can squeeze an extra hour into the day - with art. THE ART! *flail* I don't think I can even pick my favourites. I might have to rec EVERYTHING. O_o

WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I have no time to compose anything coherent, but I NEED to splurge feels in your general direction.

( SPOILERS and flailing )

Dear gracerene,

Wishing you the happiest of birthdays, dear! You're a fandom marvel and I don't know how you find the time to do all that you do. You mod all the things (and really, the fests we need so badly. Cross gen? Next gen? YES PLEASE). You write such delicious smutty fics - I love your 'reasons' series, and your fest fics are a real treat, too. Your recs are incredible! And you read and participate in so many different fandoms, too. And your lovely, appreciative, thoughtful comments are such a delight. I'm so glad that we're kink sisters. I love to squee with you over git!Draco and daydream together about poor Albus getting thoroughly debauched.  Thank you for everything that you share with us here in fandom. ♥

I'm so sorry I come empty-handed this year. I do have something I want to give you, but I know you and the other hd_erised mods will kick my feathery arse if I don't get cracking with my assignment, so that will have to wait a little bit longer! Meanwhile, please enjoy these virtual offerings. I hope your day brings cake, laughter, smut, fun, books, treats, and many many marvellous erised submissions ;)

( Image heavy, inc slight NSFW :) )
♥ ♥ ♥