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Love and Other Historical Accidents by @pacific-rimbaud on AO3

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Astoria's first time on her wedding night.

Draco: Tell me everything you want me to do... Astoria: Haven't we talked too much? Draco: I don't want you to regret waiting so long for this...

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Author: provocative_envy

11:00 AM (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) Draco grits his teeth as the town car hits another goddamn pothole.

Bite Marks (57KB - 2 Chapters - NC-17) Draco’s mouth falls open. He clutches his cookie and ignores the shower of crumbs littering his grey cashmere fingerless gloves. He can’t decide if he wants to fuck this girl or fight with her. Maybe both? Maybe at the same time? “So—you’re upset,” he says with a nonchalant nod and discreet adjustment of his slightly too-tight khaki corduroys. She blinks at him, her expression alternating between indignation and incredulity and flat-out fury. He had been right about her being pretty beneath the intimidation tactics.

Beck & Call (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) It isn’t the kind of restaurant anyone would go to twice; not on purpose, at least.

bitter/sweet (24KB - 3 Chapters - R) When I finally came, it felt as if I had been flayed open, spine exposed, a cachet of fireworks set off in half-second increments along my vertebrae as he murmured my name so reverently I could not help but think that there must be some magic to it, to me, to him.

Bleach (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) The bane of her otherwise peaceful existence.

Blow (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) Draco Malfoy was supposed to be dead.

By the Way (70KB - 18 Chapters - PG-13) It was exquisite, the way his face fell, the way his eyes grew round, the way his mouth dropped open: he was a study in disappointment, his dashed hopes cluttering the space that loomed large and noticeable in between us.

Dead Weight (11KB - One Shot - PG-13) Draco asked for a pet snake, once.

Difficult (240KB - 30 Chapters - R) “I should,” I repeated. “But I don’t want to.” And then he smiled, and I was wrecked.

Disasterology (66KB - Incomplete - NC-17) She wakes up at exactly midnight on the eve of her nineteenth birthday—She screams.

Fixed At Zero (5KB - One Shot - PG) Draco had always thought the end of the world would be a bit more exciting, truth be told.

Her name is Hermione Granger. (5KB - One Shot - PG) Draco wastes two and a half weeks watching her—from a distance, from the shadows, from behind shimmering spider-web walls and misty-eyed cigarette smoke windows—before he decides to make his move.

The History Of (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) The breakup is as amicable as it can be, considering.

Hostage Situation (5KB - One Shot - NC-17) The gold-plated analog clock sitting on the farthest corner of Hermione’s desk reads 3:45 PM when it happens.

Lightning (11KB - Incomplete - PG-13) I remembered the times he’d made me cry, warned me not to, the times our bare legs had entwined themselves in his bed sheets, and all the while I’d felt ashamed, disgusted, atrophied, in the aftermath.

A Little Piece of Sincerity (125KB - 18 Chapters - PG-13) Hermione Granger falls in love with the harshly realistic words written on a small scrap of paper she finds on her way to Potions. She loses it, only to have fate play a part in making her the victim of Draco Malfoy’s deception.

Lockjaw (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) It isn’t Ron’s hand that Hermione reaches for when she understands what she has to do.

A Mandatory Alliance (60KB - 13 Chapters - PG-13) A mandatory correspondence with a foreign wizarding school and a chance encounter with two Gryffindors start a chain of events that leaves Draco Malfoy reaching an inevitable conclusion: he is madly in love with Hermione Granger.

Penalty Shot (5KB - One Shot - PG) It’s corporate tax season, so it takes Hermione a couple of days to notice that something has gone terribly wrong.

Permanent Ink (5KB - One Shot - PG) Draco is sixteen when he wakes up to a searing, almost effervescent pain blistering across the inside of his right wrist.

Plans for the Weekend (24KB - Incomplete - NC-17) “Draco,” Lavender chirps, dipping her chin. “And Hermione! Gang’s all here!” Hermione forces herself to smile back. “Lavender. Good morning. We are not a gang.”

Prism Sounds (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) When it finally happens—when it finally blisters, and burns, and bursts into flames—it’s the fourteenth of February, and there’s a door between them.

Ready Set Go (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) Modern, non-magical, high school AU

Reset (24KB - One Shot - R) And the fear—the fear that he’s learned to swallow, choke on, bury the crushed and fragmented shards of—it’s turning the space between him and her and the last six weeks, the last six months, into a gaping yawning brutally invincible chasm; a wall to scale and a cliff to jump and a step he’s never quite been brave enough to take. She takes it for him. Of course she does.

Stronger (105KB - 19 Chapters - PG-13) My whole life had been leading up to this moment, this second of tragedy. I couldn’t imagine anything less of a disaster, less of a letdown. There was nothing anticlimactic about the wrenching of my gut, the roaring of my blood.

The Science of It All (131KB - 21 Chapters - R) That clutching, awful, cold, hot, flashing, clawing, cluttering sensation curling its way through my stomach, tearing its way down my vertebrae, winding and trailing and ending up somewhere in my throat.

Skin & Bones (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) It’s a crisp, clear day in early November when it happens. Hell freezes over.

Spider Web (10KB - One Shot - PG-13) “We were discussing Draco’s latest…distraction—the girl who thinks we should dissolve tax brackets and replace Mount Rushmore with a Stalin statue.” “That isn’t what she said—” Draco snaps, just as their waitress approaches to take their order. “Yes, hi, I’ll have the eggs benedict—make sure the Canadian bacon is extra Canadian, will you?”

Summer Whatever (KB - One Shot - PG-13) Her name was Hermione Granger, and Draco was going to keep her.

Upper Body Injury (13KB - One Shot - PG-13) “Careful,” he says dryly. “Or I might think you’re trying to flirt with me.” “Oh, you’d know if I was trying to flirt with you.” “Maybe,” he concedes, flicking his hair back with a practiced nod of his head. “But would you?”

Tip Toe (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) Draco has loathed Hermione Granger from a safe, perfectly practical distance for about as long as he can remember.

Ultraviolet (5KB - One Shot -) Modern, non-magical, drummer!Draco + college student!Hermione

Universally Speaking (5KB - One Shot -) Modern, non-magical AU; tattoo parlor owner Draco, florist Hermione

Untitled #6 (5KB - One Shot - PG) Hermione’s first few weeks of school are…adequate.

Untitled #18 (5KB - One Shot - PG-13) “He’s a dick,” she retorts. “And he’s a dick who only ever shows up when you’re working.”

When Tomorrow Comes (17KB - One Shot - R) I’d wanted the rest of the world to know, the same way I did—elementally, with every last scrap of blood and plasma and grey matter that called my brain its home—that she was mine, that I’d managed to dislodge my head from my arse long enough to recognize that perfection personified had a name, and it was Hermione.

With Teeth (21KB - One Shot - R) Albus Dumbledore had been wrong about Voldemort’s horcruxes.

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due to the seemingly unstoppable monetization of fandom and the sheer volume of illegal fan bindings being sold, I will be pulling all my works within the next few days. thank you to those of you who worked so hard trying to keep fandom free and to all of you who supported my writing. it was fun while it lasted 🖤

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I'm excited to announce that I have signed a book deal with Del Rey at Penguin Random House in the US and Michael Joseph in the UK for my debut novel, Alchemised, a standalone dark fantasy set in a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy, in which a healer with amnesia is taken as a prisoner of war and must fight to protect her lost memories and the secrets hidden among them. It will grapple with themes of trauma and survival, legacy, and the way that love can drive one to extreme darkness, and it is, as you may be able to tell, a reimagined version of Manacled.

I know I’ve been rather quiet about my publishing journey, and a lot of that has been because I didn’t want to spark any concerns or worry that I might be abruptly taking away a story that is such a deep part of myself and that I know has meant so much to so many people. This process has unfolded very slowly and quietly because I have tried to be mindful as I could be in every step of the way. 

As most of you know, I have been a reader in fandom long before I ever began to write. Fanfiction is incredibly special to me, and I have tried to do my best not to undermine its legal protection or allow my works to do so either. During the last several years, there has been a growing issue with illegal sales of Manacled, putting both me and the incredible community that shares fanfiction freely in legal jeopardy. 

After consulting with the OTW as well as other lawyers, it has grown clear that as a transformative writer I have limited options in protecting my stories from this kind of exploitation, but I wasn’t sure what to do; I didn’t want to just take the story down, in part because I worried that might only exacerbate the issue, but I didn’t know what other options I had. Then I suddenly had this idea of alchemy, which was peculiarly appropriate; an academic world filled with unique transmutational abilities, and a necromantic war against people who had discovered the secrets of immortality, and I could see a path to reimagining the story while still holding on to as much of the original spirit of Manacled as possible. 

I began redrafting the concept privately around Christmas 2022, and then as if the universe had aligned, just as I was finishing, Caitlin Mahony and Rivka Bergman of WME reached out to me and were delightfully enthusiastic about concepts and ideas for my new alchemical world and the ways I had reimagined the story. 

I'm thrilled to be working with Emily Archbold, my visionary editor at Del Rey, along with Rebecca Hilsdon at Michael Joseph in the UK, to polish this novel for publication in Fall 2025. I feel uniquely privileged that both my publishing teams are familiar with Manacled and understand how special it is to so many people, and how important it is that this reimagining captures the same spirit while also having its own wings. 

Manacled is not going anywhere at present. It will remain online throughout 2024, at which point it will, if you’ll pardon the pun, alchemise for 2025 and be removed from AO3. 

I'm so thankful to all of you who've enjoyed my works, and I hope that I can continue to rely on your support as I take my next steps as an author.

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oh the things i would do to read this

For the never have I ever game- have you ever written a greenhouse spicy scene?

No! Which is surprising given the amount of Panville I've written. I had a story idea for Pansy as a very young widow processing a lonely, humilating marriage to an emotionally abusive philanderer. She has two little girls, and hires freshly minted DPhil in Education Neville as a live-in nanny, which works well for him as he returns from studying abroad and focuses on organizing a new nature-based primary school for magical children. They would absolutely have desperate greenhouse sex in that one.

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To folks (friends, authors, and artists) I’ve promised books to, I have not forgotten about you or your books. They are all in various stages of progress, but given my schedule and time conflicts, it seems that most binding activities will be resumed by next year. Please know that I’ll work on them again as soon as and whenever I can, and that I’ll get them to you all soon!

Thank you for being incredibly patient with me <3

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Gorgeous news

I am so honoured, so full-hearted, so excited, to announce that I am now represented by Thao Le of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Yes, that Thao, the one who represents Ali Hazelwood and Thea Guanzon. (I am all nerves, I am a single nerve, I am screaming, crying, throwing up)

Thao found me through The Mortifying Ordeal, mutual fangirling ensued – and now, this is officially happening. The project we are working on will please the Dramione stans, the slow burn masochists, and the STEM girlies all at once. 

So looking forward to sharing this next chapter with you!

Warmly,

Brigitte xx

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saw a post this morning that got me thinking about bookbinding and the inherently transformative and collaborative nature of fandom, so:

edit: i guess i should have clarified: hand-bound books for PERSONAL use, not for profit or resale! i think that's something obvious to me as a bookbinder but not to writers/artists so i thought i'd clarify

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Nominations are now open for the 2023 D/Hr Advent! Nominate up to 20 of your favorite Dramione authors and artists for this year’s fest!

Fill out this form! https://forms.gle/bo1oXhTzwvmNvcLZ7

Due to limitations of the form and the necessity of ensuring one nomination set per user, a Google or Gmail account sign-in is required. Nominations will be anonymized/randomized; emails will not be kept.

Nominations will remain open until 11:59PM EDT (-4UTC) on Sunday October 1.

FAQs: https://dhr-advent.tumblr.com/post/663858211548479488/some-faqs-about-advent-a-lot-of-new-dramione

Timeline: September 24 to October 1: Nominations collected October 2 to October 8: Invitations sent October 9 to November 20: Fic and art created December 1 to December 24: Works revealed!

Questions can be sent to dhradvent@gmail.com. Response time is typically within 24 hours.

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Found some time to color my sketches :)

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A portrait of Draco Malfoy.

It’s not finished yet, but I swear to myself to post something today. So there’s that. A WIP that maybe, someday, when I am skill enough, could be completed.

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Lately I've been pondering alot on footwear in the wizarding/wixen world...

There's so much to tap into fashion wise...like what the hell does just "robes" even mean Terf-face McRowling????

And I feel like the fan base has done such a wonderful job to portray their own beautiful and unique designs and descriptions... but not so much on shoes 🤔

Like the most generic thing is for them to be walking around in muggle shoes or "loafers" or "dragonhide boots"....

Hell no. These mfs are walking around rocking THESE bad bois!!!

✨️S L I P P E R S✨️

At least for dress robes, formal wear, and those who are fun, fancy biatches on the daily......

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holy shit time flies by so fast 🥹

COMING SOON

For the thirteenth year, D/Hr Advent will be showcasing your favorite authors and artists!

Nominations will open on SEPTEMBER 24, so start making your lists. Up to 20 nominations per person!

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“heyyyy!:)!<3!”

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Hermione cat and Draco ferret

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TRHG