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people who let me wake up to this get a special place in heaven. firefly_fox how does it feel to hold my life in ur hands....

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PSA for fanfic writers

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reasons to write fanfiction (I'll start):

share a cool scene that popped into your head

evoke a particular emotion the canon makes you feel

song made you think of a character or idea from canon

make people feel the same way about a character you do

make dolls kiss for fun

explore ideas the canon hints at but doesn't do anything with

traumatize characters and make them suffer

coddle characters and let them rest

had an insane idea for a crack ship and now everyone needs to know

the author of the canon was wrong and must be fixed

use familiar characters to explore your own ideas and plotlines

canon is too short and you need to wallow in the universe of the story

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I don’t know which author needs to hear this right now but even if you never update your wip i would never regret reading it a time of joy is never wasted

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I wonder why people even bother to leave hate comments on Ao3 haha

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hooray

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someone apologized for commenting late… 2 months after the fic was posted 😭😭 girl that’s EARLY thats fresh

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Some of you would not survive waiting months to years for a WIP to update.

Look at me, listen to me: A couple of months is way too early to think a fic is abandoned or dead. A year is often too early. Internalize this.

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thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

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so rude that fantasizing about writing alone is not enough to actually get the fic done. you have to actually sit down and write it. insane.

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For Trans Day of Visibility, I asked my communities for favorite HP stories with trans characters or gender exploration themes and have compiled them here. Please add yours in the comments!

Sections: Drarry, Wolfstar, Gen, Rare Ships

Drarry:

A Good Place to Start

@jet-playin-around 💙 T 💙 2k

Harry is finding 8th year rather dull until he goes to visit Hagrid and ends up helping him deliver Draco Malfoy's baby.Now he has to protect Malfoy and keep his secrets and he might just be falling a little in love with both Malfoys just to complicate matters.

About this Place

@academicdisasterfic 🩷 E 🩷 10k

Harry left everything, including Draco. Harry’s returned to everything, including Draco. Things are never quite so simple, though perhaps they could be.

an unlit neon sign

@beyondtheclose 🤍 T 🤍 5k

Harry found a new way to contact Malfoy in an old potions textbooks and, for the first time in six years, he responded. A fic about getting closer to figuring yourself, experimenting with gender expression, and coming out for the first time. And reconnecting with someone you thought had likely died six years ago.

Eight Days A Week

@romaine2424 🩷 E 🩷 122k

This is foremost a love story and second it's about those growing up years. Becoming adults with adult lives and adult decisions. Yes, Harry's a Trainee-Auror and Draco's a Healer-in-Training after the war. Yes, Harry eventually moves into 12 Grimmauld Place. And, yes, attraction happens between Harry and Draco and they fall in love, but then there's more. Draco is now free from Voldemort, free from fear of going to Azkaban, free from his Father's beliefs, and free to be the person, the witch, the woman she always felt she should be. And for Harry, it’s time to lose the shackles of his childhood and discover who he really is and what’s truly important in life.

From The Same Cloth

@corvuscrowned 💙 T 💙 8k

Harry hadn’t expected it, but coming out shortly after the war has its advantages. She has no idea whether people are treating her differently because she’s a girl now, or because they witnessed her kill a maniacal wizarding fascist. She also hadn't expected that the only person who might understand it all is none other than Draco Malfoy.

Good Boy

@lqtraintracks 🩷 E 🩷 15k

This is a love story between a trans lad and his werewolf boyfriend. It’s about loving someone in their very furry entirety. It’s about being your true self and loving that self. It’s about getting absolutely railed.

In the Shape of Things to Come

@academicdisasterfic 🤍 E 🤍 16k

Existential angst and chronic boredom are plaguing Harry Potter in his cushy post-war life. However, a chance encounter with a tattooed, pierced, disgruntled Draco Malfoy in the middle of Muggle Camden seems to spark something in Harry again—and he never could stay away from Malfoy.

Mirrors Inside Me

@cavendishbutterfly 🩷 E 🩷6k

Draco’s been in love with Potter forever. And just because they work together, and they fuck, and they text and break up and get back together regularly doesn’t mean Potter needs to know. In fact, it’s a pretty good reason why he shouldn’t.

Moonlighting

@pixiedunhoff 💙 E 💙 77k

Draco takes a liking to GenderBend Blend and goes out on Halloween, which leads to an encounter with Harry Potter.

plant me in your garden (and watch me grow)

@thehoneybeet 🩷 T 🩷 6k 

Malfoy walks across the grounds to the forbidden forest nearly every night, but falls asleep in class during the day. Harry can't get enough of him. 

The Only True Goal of the Universe

Punk_rock_yuppie 🤍 E 🤍 23k

It comes up, as most juvenile things do, in a game of Truth or Dare.

Raise Yourself Clean

@hsvh-hp 🩷 T 🩷 14k

The day Harry signs off on his divorce, he runs into a woman at a Muggle playground who insists he ought to remember her from Hogwarts. What follows during their sons' weekly play dates are a series of conversations about life, love, and loss, centred on a single park bench.

Red Wine Supernova

@mono-chromia 💙 E 💙 43k

Harry is vaguely aware that he's once again staring, and there's a voice in the back of his head that sounds like Luna's that's chastising him for it, but between half a joint and some boob-temperature beer he doesn't have the wherewithal to tear his eyes away. And that’s how she finds him when she leans over the balustrade of the deck to smoke her cigarette; starstruck and staring up at her from the grass. "Watcha doin' down there, stud? You're looking awfully lonely."

what husbands are for

@softlystarstruck 🩷 E 🩷 52k

To settle tensions between werewolves and vampires, Harry volunteers for a political marriage. But it turns out he's marrying Malfoy– cold, untouchable Malfoy, who he hasn't seen in ten years. Throughout contention and politics, werewolf pub nights and grudgingly shared meals, they have to make it work. And in the midst of it all, Harry finds something he already gave up hoping for.

Wolfstar:

my jokes are my armour, my kindness is my sword

@littleoldrachel 🤍 E 🤍 28k

“My mum died last year,” Sirius says at last, perhaps more bluntly than he intended – perhaps not given the defiant set of his chin. “And we don’t have a gravestone yet, till the ground settles or whatever, so I want something I can put there to represent her and how toxic she was.” Remus blinks. Whatever he had expected Sirius to say, it hadn’t been that. He had inferred that he and Regulus had a complicated relationship with their blood family, but this was a wholly unexpected turn. Unfortunately, instead of the empathic response he knows is in there somewhere, what comes out is: “Yes, that sounds like a perfectly healthy response to grief.”

Gen:

you will seem more like being

@elskanellis 🩷 T 🩷 7k 🩷 Tonks

When you're 11, you don't really understand what it will be like to live at Hogwarts without telling anyone who you really are.

Rare Ships:

testosterone (sounds like a spell)

pauraque 💙 E 💙 8k 💙 Hannah/Justin

Justin never returned to Hogwarts after the Death Eaters came. He's found that the Muggle world offers other kinds of transfiguration — a body alchemy far more powerful than any magic spell. Sometimes he wonders if anyone even remembers that once, years ago, he was a novice wizard. As it turns out, one person does, and it's the one person he'd most want to.

gravel in my lungs

@armadilloradio 🩷 M 🩷 4k 🩷 Marcus/Percy/Oliver

"Distantly, Marcus thought Oliver knew more than he was letting on, but whenever he prompted the other man, he just shook his head and said that he didn't know for sure and that it wasn't his secret to tell, anyway. Despite that, Oliver had taken to using more gender-neutral terms for Percy, like 'partner' instead of 'boyfriend' — though, Percy called them his partners because he thought ‘boyfriends’ was childish, so maybe Marcus was reading too much into it."

Here’s Looking at You Kid

MesserMoon 🤍 E 🤍 140k 🤍 George/Blaise

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world..." George wanders into a bar. Nothing is ever the same.

I Think I  Will Stay Here for a While

@soupandsorcery 🩷 E 🩷 5k 🩷 Draco/Ron

There are rather more Gryffindors and assorted Weasleys in his life now than he’d been anticipating, but even that isn’t too bad. Well. Unless you count the Weasley currently half draped over Draco in bed, naked and snoring like a piece of Muggle machinery.

Rearrange The Stars

@imaginationxfound💙 T 💙 150k 💙 multiple💙 WIP

Nearly a decade after the second wizarding war, there's rumblings of a coming third, and Unspeakable Draco Malfoy tries warning the Head of the Auror department, Harry Potter, about the troubling signs he's seen around him, but when Harry takes an off hand comment related to Draco's research seriously, everything changes.

your seat, it’s the best seat

@the-houseryn 🩷 E 🩷 17k 🩷 Draco/Ron

In the moment, it hadn’t occurred to him that taunting Draco into sitting on his lap once would open the door for Draco to keep doing so, even when other chairs existed. Nor had he known that the consequence of becoming Draco's furniture was how hard he'd fall in love with someone who didn't fancy him back.

Thanks for your help compiling this list!: @annanother-thing @beyondtheclose @elisedonut @elskanellis @hsvh-hp @jet-playin-around nocturn @nv-md @rainstormradish @tackytigerfic @the-houseryn @themiddleofwonderland @xalandrix

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If you are hesitant to comment on AO3 because it's just fanfic and it probably doesn't matter to the writers, know that I got a one word comment ("Beautiful") on a fic nobody ever has bothered reading before and it made my night. Merry Christmas to me! Seriously, though, comments feel so good to writers! Please feed us! We're hungry!

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Fanfic reader's prayer: may my favorite author's hyperfixation on this fandom last longer than mine 🙏

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nothing will ever amaze me the way fanfiction authors do. like, you wrote silly little stories about my favorite little guys? and i can read them?? for free??? that’s fucking wild.

you poured your heart and soul and very being into your writing and then put it out there for anyone to read? insane.

you spend a truly incredible amount of time writing novel-length, high quality stories, again, FOR FREE, that anyone can read, again, FOR FREE??

shoutout to every single fic author in existence, you guys are fucking incredible and i love all of you so much