#forever an open book for you

[kiisuuumii]

@kiisuuumii (the more i listen to myself, the more she says curl into yourself)

[summercosmos]

you think god loves you until the very moment when you start getting obsessed with a piece of media no one in the last five years has Ever thought about

[kissmypoets-hp]

📚 Fanfic Classics: A Series

Gender-bending, kind of? It's still the Drarry dynamic we all know and love... with some gender fuckery. To quote the author lazywonderland's words, it's pseudo het (still ends up very slash, if you're particular about that!). Mind the tags/warnings, but I will say that both authors handle the subject matter deftly. What else is fanfiction for if not exploring possibilities, y'know? I enjoyed myself and maybe you will, too!

🪞 Glamour by SilentAuror_HPWorks [Rated E, 23.2k words]

Post-war: Harry is given an assignment: to assist Draco Malfoy as he carries out a month-long disguise that turns out to reveal more than it hides in the end. Warnings: EWE, gender-bending.

🧪 Aletheia by lazywonderland [Rated E, 8.3k words]

Draco finds out Daphne's been shagging Potter and it turns out it's really not that difficult to get a piece of her hair.

art credits + commentary under the cut :)

Images used (in order):

"Lili Elbe" by Gerda Wegener (1928). Used under educational fair use (source). Look at how glamorous the subject is from the details alone! I chose this work because hello, blonde hair + all the (Slytherin) green. She's giving very classy, very mindful, very demure. Draco isn't really mindful or demure in this fic (even when disguised as a girl) but! We love him anyway. I stand by the belief that if Draco were a girl he would be able to live up to his full potential as the ice queen diva he is.

"The Birth of Venus" by Odilon Redon (1912) Because Polyjuice Potion, lol. The artwork title is rather apt considering the premise... also I will never listen to The Sound by The 1975 the same way ever again /pos.

this series was inspired by zeziliazink and bubu0h’s fic covers since i want to make my kindle library look cute too :)

[youaremysunshine-court]

my final paper is on nietzsches master slave morality and all I can about is that lestat embodies master morality while louis embodies slave morality

[outlying-hyppocrate]

i have officially returned. ask me anything.

[sangfielle]

not to be an asshole but it is kind of relieving whenever i see how confidently people will show off writing that is way worse than mine

[biracy]

My favorite sub-phenomenon of the already deeply fascinating phenomenon of "queer rep" is how vaguely-allied cishet authors of accidental yaoi always go "I just wrote the character I wanted to write, not a 'gay character'... because character should always come first... but if The Homosexuals find comfort in projecting their lifestyle onto my work, I will allow them this, as they have so little to brighten up their miserable, downtrodden lives" whereas basically every gay author I've ever met, myself included, will go "oh yeah they're a big gay bitch, because I'm a big gay bitch" basically unprompted. Like there are reasons for this, obviously (gay people are used to thinking about sexuality very often, as our orientations are "non-normative," while straight people are used to not giving it a second thought) but on its own it's funny, isn't it

[suddenlymicah]

has anyone considered henry possessing glamrock freddy or am i being a little silly right now

[francesderwent]

have really been struggling with fantasy lately, can only read murder mysteries. is it because reading the Mistborn trilogy broke something in me? or is it because I don't need fantasy anymore--because I'm not pining longingly for a moment of unexpected inbreaking. I'm in a situation, quite comfortably awaiting the expected ending of simple justice.

[mermaidsirennikita]

The Master by Kresley Cole is a Lothaire mafia AU and I'm.... not mad.

[lesbian-gene-wolfe]

talking to people online is like

me: "yeah i really like the murder manga, the one with cannibalism, the one where the mother commits atrocities and its like a mystery-"

idiot who had never read a real book: "yeah i love that one it's so messed up and interesting"

me: "-the bullying flower one and also the age gap/incest romance one"

idiot: "you should fucking kill yourself that's child porn/grooming material/etc"

meanwhile i have books from the last two centuries on my shelf that cover all these topics and more into way more detail that no one seems to view as "immoral."

by the way if you view some books as immoral and needing destroyed, you're a fascist! google Bücherverbrennung. if you think some topics are only for "degenerates" or call people that, guess what! i think you get the point.

[piplupod]

life is actually so easily wonderful if the abusers are not around. heaven on earth. i can breathe for a few days <3 i've already gotten so much done and its only been 24 hours. i have 48 more hours of this relief to savour.

[silverislander]

wish i could just. work at a bookstore

[wyn-n-tonic]

also more representation thoughts... as a disabled girly who is just now getting used to feeling okay with considering herself disabled (it's not that i had any self hatred, i just didn't really know or understand that i fell under that purview before last year), i cannot stress enough how special it is to be reading a book or taking in any kind of media and the main character is just like you in some way and it's not presented in the stereotypical, 'oh this poor creature' kind of way. like, i listen to a lot of audiobooks and it actually helps me focus because i have to make sure my concentration is working and the character of one book was hard of hearing. and his hearing loss happened when he was a teenager so he from a world that he understood and which understood him to a world where he was just suddenly othered and had to reckon with that because people are not nice about it.

and i read a book where the main character was autistic and she wasn't stereotypical, 'the good doctor' autistc. she was just autistic and she was just like me. and she was also involved in sports and she also had a Husky dog. AND THAT WAS SO COOL! and honestly that was the first time i felt like i saw myself as a character. because forever i've just been using the argument of like... okay well i can empathize at least. even with characters that did look like me because subconsciously (before i knew i was neurodivergent) i knew that they weren't like me.

[ghostmaggie]

the lightning thief musical might just be perfect media

[starsailores]

im reading adsom bc of u :D its been on my radar for years but i finally got it from the library bc i want to meet this holland dude ur always talking abt lol

sitting here rubbing my hands together and grinning like an evil maniac. my work on this website is done.

in all seriousness though, i hope you enjoy it! holland vosijk is a massive bastard, but he is a bastard with a special place in my heart, and all of the characters in that series are also wonderful