A bit late, I know, but I'm claiming my hd_fan_fair fic. \o/

Title: One Night at the Leaky
Author: birdsofshore
Inspired by Pottermore entry: #C4. Gamp's Old Gregarious Beer
Rating: PG-13
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, background Hermione/Ron, Seamus/Dean
Warnings/Content Notes: Post Hogwarts, drinking games, Truth or Dare, drunkenness, tomfoolery, UST.
Summary: Harry should have known better than to accept a drunken dare. Especially when Malfoy was sitting right there, looking like that and wearing those bloody tight trousers.
Word Count: ~12.5 k

A/N: I do love hd_fan_fair. Somehow the prompts always make me want to write something funny and light. This one came after two fics that were quite tough for me in different ways, and it was such a refreshing change. The only problem was that, after Euphoria, I had absolutely zero smut left in me. So, be warned, there is no bumming in this. No kink. Not even a hardening cock. Sorry! People very kindly forced themselves to read it anyway. :D

Thanks so much to fantasyfiend09 for her help and advice, and to writcraft for her patience and support with my last minute panics.

One Night at the Leaky

I've been waiting a month to use that title :D

Oh, Rectober! What a month it was. So full of bounteous recs in so many fandoms, pairings, genres and lengths. Some people managed to do it daily. Others just the once. THEY WERE ALL BEAUTIFUL. \o/ Each one a little poem of love for a creator, a little signpost in the dark for a lost reader looking for a happy place to go. ♥

Thank you to each and every reccer, for each and every rec! The divine capitu has made you a little token of appreciation, from all of us readers. And she even did the coding for me, because she is a true Hufflepuff. Please find them below, clutch them to your bosoms, grab the html and display on your journals with pride.

If you're looking for recs, why not browse the journals of those who took part. See the amazing list below. Many of them have a Rectober tag, to make your life easier, so you can get straight to the good stuff.

And if you didn't manage to take part in Rectober this year, don't forget that recs are loved all year round. ♥

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I have such a glorious, gorgeous treat for you! If you haven't read this already, don't resist - give yourself half an hour of pure pleasure while you enjoy this lovely fic.

Title: What the Werbelande Wind Blew In
Author: khalulu
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Word Count: 4175
Rating: R
Warning(s): none
Summary: A snowstorm blows a pale and pointy person into Harry’s coffee shop, and brings poetry (mostly medieval) into his life. And then there’s the flying cock monster, the penis tree, and the warrior rabbits.

This was just 4175 words of joy. I read it in bed and nearly woke up small people snoozing next to me because of laughing. Proper, shoulder-shaking laughing. And the romance! My heart!  I never before knew how much I needed a coffee shop fic where Draco is a mediaeval poetry student and he and Harry banter and snark divinely. And then Harry starts researching, in order to impress Draco, but of course he's completely and utterly obvious about it, and Draco is deliciously smug, and then Harry says... But you'll have to read it to find out exactly what made me hoot with laughter, past midnight, when I really should have been sleeping.

khalulu is such a wonderfully skilled writer, and this story is full of warmth and poetry and romance and intelligence and humour and delicious sauciness. That's not even mentioning the end notes about the Flying Cock Monster. I feel like I ate this fic up with a spoon and licked my lips at the end. The whole thing is so rich, and it's only 4000 words! I only wish there was another 50k of Harry and Draco flirting in coffee shops and then succumbing to the inevitable, overwhelming sexual tention between the two of them that jumps off the screen.

Excerpt: I want to quote the whole darn thing, I mean, REALLY, the whole darn thing, but I also don't want to spoil it for you. So here's just a teeny piece of its loveliness.

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Please let me know if you try this one! I'd love for it to get all the love it deserves.

Phew! I thought I was going to have to chuck myself out of Rectober for a while there*. I was aiming for a rec post a week, and time was ticking. But here I am, with 3 delicious art recs which I hope you enjoy.



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* p.s. nobody actually gets chucked out of Rectober, and you're all amazing - I see people reccing every day fgs! You're the best! But even one rec over the month is a triumph for Rectober, and if you're interested, it's not too late to sign up and start reccing. Just click on the banner for more info.

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Please join us for a month of recs!

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Why not take part in Rectober by pledging to make a certain number of rec posts during October? We also hope you'll encourage other reccers by commenting on their posts. ♥

All fandoms, pairings, genres and ratings are welcome! Bring on the recs!

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I hope you'll support Rectober here on LJ, the place where it began, by posting your recs here and not just linking to your recs on other sites. It would be wonderful to see LJ buzzing with recs this month. ♥

I'll update the list through the month as people sign up. Feel free to poke about at these reccers' journals and look for recs. Hopefully there'll be a rectober tag to assist you!
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Hello, lovely flist! It's nearly October and I wondered if anyone fancied a spot of reccing?

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Claiming my hp_crossgenfest fic \o/

Title: Euphoria
Author: birdsofshore
Pairing(s): Draco/Albus Severus, Albus Severus/Scorpius, Draco/Albus Severus/Scorpius *hides face* I'm so sorry.
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~22,500
Content/Warnings: Where do I start? It's a 22k PWP. O_O. Serious consent issues, sex under the influence of alcohol and potions, voyeurism, a threesome, jealousy, a little angst, infidelity kink, orgasm delay, powerplay, wanking, really quite a lot of anal sex, kind-of incest, a tiny bit of H/D UST, age disparity 19/45.
Summary: A fire is prickling in the pit of my belly. I feel a little like I'm watching this happening to someone else. Al's sitting there, reeking of another man's sweat and come. He looks miserable and anxious... but also well-fucked. I look at his mussed hair, his bitten lips. I've never wanted him more.
Author's Notes: Thank you so much to my wonderful betas, who_la_hoop and lumosed_quill, for bravely grappling with 20k of my perverted filth. :D Many thanks also to capitu, for sterling support from the sidelines, and to gracerene for being super-flexible with deadlines. ♥

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Euphoria

Somebody really spammed LJ pretty thoroughly, hmm?

*blinks at friends feed*

I don't even get what they're advertising? At first I thought it was an accident, like those nightmares where you post to a comm and for a second you think you've pressed 'post to ALL comms'. But it's lots of different users posting? I'm scared. What if it's somebody taking over other people's accounts to post indecipherable things? WHAT IF I'M NEXT? *clings to flist*

So how are your hd_erised feels?

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Title: Never Enough
Author: birdsofshore
Pairing: Harry/various (in fantasy), Harry/socks
Rating: R
Word count: ~500
Warnings: Unbetaed
A/N: Written for Harry's birthday. Oh, Harry. I treat you so badly. I torment you and tease you. I encourage Draco to do the most terrible things to you. Sometimes I even let Scorpius join in with the tormenting, and *hangs head* I spent an awful lot of time this year egging Draco on to molest your dear son, Albus. I'm so sorry, Harry. I love you dearly, and yet I do all that, and then, for your birthday, I write... this. Please forgive me. I'll make it all up to you.

I actually blame who_la_hoop, who, on reading this week's prompt for the slythindor100 LDWS contest, said, 'I hope you're writing Harry/wank sock?” And was dreadfully disappointed when I said that I wasn't.

( Never Enough )