Entries tagged with rectober

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All-Time Fave: Bond by Anna Fugazzi

I feel like I've yammered on about this fic in post after post, but somehow I've never formally recced it until now! But given that I devoted a whole post to bonding fics just the other day, I really must rec the one bonding fic to rule them all :)

Bond by annafugazzi
Originally published July 20, 2005 on fanfiction.net

Rated: NC-17
Word Count: 204,000
Summary: Yet another one of those Harry And Draco Are Forced To Be Together By Something Beyond Their Control And Then Stuff Happens Leading To Twoo Wuv stories. Because every HD writer has to write at least one.

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The author has also written two brief sequels to Bond (my favorite of which is

Not Seamus' Fault) as well as an excellent

DVD extras commentary for the fic, including deleted scenes and timelines and all sorts of fantastic material. Don't miss these!

And hey - even if you've read this before, you might not have done so on AO3. If it's a favorite of yours, here's your chance to go on over there and leave the kudos for it you couldn't leave before on ff.net :)

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Art recs: a dozen Drarry kisses

Today I'm reccing a dozen wonderful pieces of fanart featuring romantic Drarry kisses.

The little cropped thumbnails are there so you can see a snippet of what the larger work looks like. Please follow the links to the original sources to see the full size art. (Thumbnails link to tumblr if available, or LJ if not. Titles below sometimes have alternate links to deviantart or LJ.)

Please show your appreciation to tumblr artists by liking and/or reblogging (never reposting as your own)
On LJ and deviantart, leave comments. It's easy!

ile_o Moving 4-Oct-2011	mybutterflower Drarry Kiss 12-Apr-2015	wincest_drarry Morning Kiss 16-May-2011	malfoykink He’s oxygen and I’m dying to breathe 20-Jun-2015
naadi The Fine Art of Seduction 29-Nov-2014	star_sailor13 Nothing to Me 21-Dec-2013	theband Snog 19-Jan-2006	wincest_drarry Be My Valentine 5-Sep-2011
chouette-e Keep Silence 18-Jul-2012	citrus_lime The Savior 3-Aug-2015	quimvaa Candy Cane Sheets (aka Holiday Love) 18-Dec-2010	lillithium xoxo 12-Jun-2008

Curious how obvious the organizing principle is for how I arranged the art in the table. Hint: it's not by date :)

* I looked everywhere to find out the name of the artist of this piece (Snog) and found conflicting watermarks. On the site I linked to, the artist is given as "gorgidas" but on other versions, the watermark reads "The Theban Band". So I'm not entirely sure about this one. If you know better, please enlighten me!
Thanks to

germankitty for pointing me to the correct deviantart page for artist theband/gorgidas in the comments!

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Mini-theme: Eighth Year Bonding Fics

A frequent trope is an unintentional 'bond' which brings our two characters together. There are so many kinds of bonds that a comprehensive rec list would quickly become unmanageable! So I'm limiting myself here to just those bonds which

are psychic or emotional in nature (not physical ropes or tethers)
are brought on suddenly and unexpectedly (not destined soulmates)
take place in eighth year (because it's my favorite :P)

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All-Time Fave: Kailash, When it Rises by Mirabella

Rectober #9 is another classic rec, and continues my pre-slash & friendship theme from yesterday :)

Many of Mirabella's fics are unfortunately no longer available, but this one can still be found on her dreamwidth site.

Kailash, When it Rises by mirasfics
Originally published circa January 25, 2005 on theguestroom.houseofhobbits.com, so far as I can tell using the wayback machine on the parent directory. If anyone has a better way of establishing the original pub date, I would love to know. The livejournal entry has long since been removed and is inaccessible to the wayback machine.

Rated: PG
Word Count: 3,500
Summary: Harry can’t sleep.

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Rectober #8: Pre-Slash and Friendship recs

This set of recs is a little bit of a departure for me, because I'm usually all about the sex (quelle surprise!), or at the very least, the romance. But every so often you find a nice little pre-slash story, and when it's done well, it still gives you all the feels :) If only they didn't have to end so soon!

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Drabble recs from Slythindor100's LDWS 2010

This probably seems kinda random, but during this year's

slythindor100 Last Drabble Writer Standing tournament, I went back through some of the previous fests and read those drabbles too. So I have drabble recs for you from the first LDWS fest in 2010 :)

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As far as I can tell, none of these drabbles are available on AO3. Why not upload them for posterity?

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All-Time Fave: Starts With a Spin by Maxine

Since my "Best Drarry of the Year" lists start with 2007, I haven't had a chance to rec some of the classics, which is an oversight I intend to rectify. And what better time than Rectober?

Even though everyone and her sister must already have read this one, it just feels criminal to call oneself a Drarry reccer and not have recced the Grandaddy of all Harry/Draco 'Party Game' fics :)

Starts With a Spin by maxine_chan
Originally published November 11, 2004 on Livejournal

Rated: NC-17
Word Count: 120,000
Summary: It started with the spin of a bottle, and now Harry and Draco have gotten themselves so far into their own game there's almost no way out again. Except to keep playing.

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Mini-theme: Eighth Year Party Games (short fics)

Party games in eighth year are a classic fandom trope, and I love them so much! The fics I'm reccing here are all short ones where the party game is the main driver of the story. There are many other longer stories which also include party games (like Right Hand Red, which I recced the other day) but those will be recced in other posts :)

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Rectober #4: Funny, Amusing, and Downright Hilarious fics

For today's rectober post, I've picked some of my favorite humorous Drarry fics. Because pub dates is my thing, these are all from 2013 and 2014 :)

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"But snowgall," I hear you saying, "What about The Four Ds of Apparition (or: Destination, Determination, Deliberation, and Dicks) by

eidheann_writes and

firethesound? Isn't that hilarious too?"
YES IT IS. But (a) it's from 2015 and (b) I just recced it two months ago. Haven't you been paying attention? :D

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Mini-theme: What do you say after a One-Night Stand?

(Rectober #3)

One of my favorite themes is exploring the awkwardness after a one-night stand, or what everyone thought would be a one-night stand but now hopes will turn out to be more, if they can just get past the awkwardness of it all :) Here are a few Drarry fics that do a great job with this theme.

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Rectober #2: Drabbles and ficlets 2009-2010

For today's rectober post, I've got a wonderful set of drabbles and ficlets (under 1000 words) for you. I'm still stuck on pub dates as an organizing principle, so these are all from 2009 and 2010 :)

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Fic Recs from the harrybang and bottom_draco 2015 fests

I'm combining two character-centric HP fests into one rec post for rectober. Back in January, the

harrybang fest gave us Harry-focused lengthy fics, and more recently

bottom_draco gave us Draco-focused transformation fics. So what could be better than the two together?
All fics recced are Drarry, of course :)

HarryBang

Right Hand Red by lumosed_quill ( NC-17 | 73,000 )
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Kiss Me (Under the Light of a Thousand Stars) by sophie_french ( NC-17 | 115,000 )
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Bottom_Draco

My Life As A Butterfly by digthewriter ( NC-17 | 22,300 )
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Full Circle by sp_owl ( NC-17 | 14,000 )
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For those who care: All the fics above are bottom!Draco, except for Kiss Me (Under the Light of a Thousand Stars), which is switching.

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Snowgall's Best of Drarry Fanfiction: 2010

What follows is a list of my picks for the best Drarry fanfiction of 2010
(16 fics, sorted by date published)

Updated May 28, 2015

Note: There are so many lists of favorite Harry/Draco fanfiction, but I wanted to do something a little different. Rather than create a list based on genre or length or era or whatever, I've decided to do a series of "best-of X year" lists. This means the year the work was published not the year I read it.

More lists:

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General notes:

The "original post" column provides links to the first place I can find evidence of the work online. However, it can be really tough to determine when and where a work was first published (see my rant here: Dates Matter). So it could be that a fic was actually published earlier somewhere else and I didn't know it. Corrections are welcome.
I've read a lot of HD fiction, but I certainly haven't read it all, so if I've left off something you think I shouldn't have, I'm happy for you to let me know.
I may continue to add works to this list but I will try to keep the total number to 25 or less. (On the challenge of maintaining lists)
My goal is to add lists for other years as well, time permitting.

How my fic preferences will skew the lists:

I tend to like fics which contain explicit sex, so the list will probably skew that way. However, I prefer that there be an actual plot, not just sex, and I read PG rated fics too--just fewer of them.
I like almost all the standard tropes, but I don't usually go for non-magical AUs, unhappy endings, dark!fic, or threesomes
I don't give a toss who's on top or bottom, so you'll find both here.
I shy away from epic-length fanfiction unless I'm very confident in the author, so most of my recs will be less than 100,000 words.

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Snowgall's Best of Drarry Fanfiction: 2009

What follows is a list of my picks for the best Drarry fanfiction of 2009
(13 fics, sorted by date published)

Updated Aug 16, 2015

More lists:

( 2009 list )

General notes:

The "original post" column provides links to the first place I can find evidence of the work online. However, it can be really tough to determine when and where a work was first published (see my rant here: Dates Matter). So it could be that a fic was actually published earlier somewhere else and I didn't know it. Corrections are welcome.
I've read a lot of HD fiction, but I certainly haven't read it all, so if I've left off something you think I shouldn't have, I'm happy for you to let me know.
I may continue to add works to this list but I will try to keep the total number to 25 or less. (On the challenge of maintaining lists)
My goal is to add lists for other years as well, time permitting.

How my fic preferences will skew the lists:

I tend to like fics which contain explicit sex, so the list will probably skew that way. However, I prefer that there be an actual plot, not just sex, and I read PG rated fics too--just fewer of them.
I like almost all the standard tropes, but I don't usually go for non-magical AUs, unhappy endings, dark!fic, or threesomes
I don't give a toss who's on top or bottom, so you'll find both here.
I shy away from epic-length fanfiction unless I'm very confident in the author, so most of my recs will be less than 100,000 words.

Snowgall's Best of Drarry Fanfiction: 2007-2008

What follows is a list of my picks for the best Drarry fanfiction of mid 2007 - 2008
(26 fics, sorted by date published)

Updated December 18, 2016

This list spans 1 1/2 years because I wanted to begin with fics published after Deathly Hallows was published in July 2007.

More lists:

( 2007-8 list )

General notes:

The "original post" column provides links to the first place I can find evidence of the work online. However, it can be really tough to determine when and where a work was first published (see my rant here: Dates Matter). So it could be that a fic was actually published earlier somewhere else and I didn't know it. Corrections are welcome.
I've read a lot of HD fiction, but I certainly haven't read it all, so if I've left off something you think I shouldn't have, I'm happy for you to let me know.
I may continue to add works to this list but I will try to keep the total number to 35 or less (for this list, 25 for other years). (On the challenge of maintaining lists)
My goal is to add lists for other years as well, time permitting.

How my fic preferences will skew the lists:

I tend to like fics which contain explicit sex, so the list will probably skew that way. However, I prefer that there be an actual plot, not just sex, and I read PG rated fics too--just fewer of them.
I like almost all the standard tropes, but I don't usually go for non-magical AUs, unhappy endings, dark!fic, or threesomes.
I don't give a toss who's on top or bottom, so you'll find both here.
I shy away from epic-length fanfiction unless I'm very confident in the author, so most of my recs will be less than 100,000 words.

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Fanfic rec (Drarry): Dirty Little Secret

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For "rectober", my plan is to try rec some less commonly recced fics.

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Fanfic rec (Drarry): Why Insulting the Boyfriend is a Bad Idea

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I've been reading an unhealthy amount of HP fanfic lately, and since it's "rectober" I figured I'd rec a few over the coming weeks. I'm going to try to rec those that aren't as commonly recced if possible. Details under the cut.

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