#drarry mini bang

[kk1smet]

Freely Given | 18K | E

Written by InnerLilith & Illustrated by K (Yours Truly) for the Drarry Mini Bang Fest ♡

Excerpt:

“Mate. You took one look at the man and called in a life debt for swimming lessons. That doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.” — Wise words from Ronald Weasley 😌

☞ Read here.

[drarry-mini-bang]

Title: Freely Given

Author: InnerLilith

Artist: @kk1smet

Rating: E

Content/warnings: Getting together, ​​Life debt, Swim lessons, Harry learns to swim, Swimmer Draco, Draco is tall and buff, locker rooms, saunas, bars and pubs, banter, humor, a little sprinkle of angst just for fun, friendly mutual antagonism to lovers, mild D/s vibes, sub Harry, Dom Draco, dirty talk, mild praise kink, blow jobs, hand jobs, anal sex, tipsy sex, alcohol consumption 

Summary: As a young child, Harry Potter had always wanted swim lessons. He never got them. As an adult, he runs into Draco—an excellent swimmer and disconcertingly fit to boot—at a muggle pool. Naturally, he calls in his life debt for swim lessons (a totally normal thing to do, thank you very much). He gets more than he bargained for.

Length: 18k

Link to fic on AO3: HERE

[bridenore]

Drarry mini bang 2024

Here are some of my favorite fics from @drarry-mini-bang 2024. Listed in alphabetical order.

Hits Different by Storybelle [45k]

Nearly five years on from the battle of Hogwarts, Harry and Draco both fly for the same minor league quidditch team and somehow have become good friends. On the back of a win that could mean big things for them the team goes out for celebratory drinks. Draco admits he once had a crush on Harry. It was a while ago. He got over it. This shouldn’t drive Harry absolutely insane. It’s also, without a doubt, going to.

Hothouse Flowers and Hot Hot Showers by @azalealarae [101k]

The eighth-year Muggle Studies class is spending five weeks at an American Muggle university. Harry’s assigned to room with Draco. And to make things, well, harder, there’s an inconvenient side effect to not using magic for a prolonged period of time ...

Thorns by shushu_yaoi_lj / @orange-peony [68k]

Harry looks at his reflection in the mirror and starts his morning routine by putting a Glamour on. After a moment, it’s not Harry Potter who stares back at him, but Gustav Meris, renowned magical portrait artist. Too bad Draco Malfoy has returned to England after ten years to ask for his portrait to be painted.

I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I did!

[briamarie38]

Art by @navi1088

The Haunting of Hogwarts

Drarry I Mature I 85k I soul bond, angst with a happy ending, Auror Harry, Cursebreaker Draco, Sentient Hogwarts, mutual pining, married but dont realize it (not because of the soulbond but because they love eachother and are idiots), temporary main character death, HAPPY ENDING!

[Mind the tags!! Both here and inside]

amazing art by @navi1088 and @regretfulcorrine

Summary: Twelve years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter, barely clinging to his reasons for being an auror, is asked by cursebreaker Draco Malfoy, his best friend and not-so-secret crush for the last decade, to help investigate a developing case at Hogwarts. Animals are showing up dead and the ghosts are acting "weird". After some investigation, it seems the concern was all a bit alarmist until the next full moon and they've got a human victim drained of blood and essence on their hands. Before they know it, they're knee-deep in dark magic, and Harry is in a race against time to find the culprit before Draco is taken as collateral.

Huge shout out, again to @navi1088 (who made the AMAZING illustration above) and @regretfulcorrine (who has equally amazing art which will be posted for all to see V soon!!!) Thank you guys SO MUCH for making something so beautiful and putting up with so much from me!

Link to fic here!

[sits-bound]

Bound: On Our Side by @phantomgrimalkin for the @drarry-mini-bang

This was a fun collaboration! I signed up for the mini-bang (not sure what makes it mini, tbh) as a binder, just because it seemed like a cool challenge. I was in touch with the author while they wrote the fic, and then when they were done, I bound it. I mean, that sounds obvious, but it did feel rather different from taking an existing fic and binding it.

I wrote a bunch about my process and design decisions over on ao3. (Basically, snakes, snakes, snakes.)

[pocketlessdruid]

All the illustrations i made for the wonderful fic Thorns by @orange-peony for the @drarry-mini-bang

Please go read this fic, it's amazing

[drarryspecificrecsdaily]

2024.08.20

Complete fics posted on AO3 this day

1. devotion (my blood sings with your voice) by @lupinflowrs [M, 2k]

►draco and harry love each other so, so much that it's hard to put into words. harry tries to.

2. Kitchen dancing to bad 90’s music by Big_dog_energy [?, 19k]

►When Draco gets injured in his animagus form, he’s forced to live with Harry Potter until he recuperates. What ensues is the most unlikely friendship—and then romance— the Wizarding World has ever seen. /// Featuring a snide, sassy Draco, a soft, domestic post-war world and Harry Potter with PTSD medication in his bedside drawer and flowers on his windowsill.

3. Made for Duty by @pixiedunhoff [E, 11k]

►A one night stand will entwine the futures of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy forever.

4. The No Divorce Clause by @coffeedrgn87 [E, 144k]

►Haunted by the war’s aftermath, Harry Potter flees his old life, searching for peace in far-flung corners of Europe. But peace proves elusive when he unexpectedly crosses paths with Draco Malfoy. In a world where magic lingers just beneath the surface, their journey takes them through enchanted cities and ancient secrets, testing the boundaries between rivalry and something far deeper. With unresolved tension crackling between them, Harry and Draco face a slow-burning connection that neither can ignore. As they navigate heartbreak, danger, and the shadows of their past, they’ll discover that the hardest battle isn’t always against dark wizards—it’s against the walls they've built around their hearts.

5. you cannot save people, you can only love them by falconns [T, 3k]

►[...] They aren't supposed to find safety in each other, but that's what it feels like. He feels like a place Harry didn't think even existed anymore.

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Fest/Exchange

1. The only thing worse than heartbreak is Vermont by @jtimu [E, 31k] --- ART by @girlcave

►In the aftermath of a failed relationship, Draco Malfoy found himself with three things. His pride (tattered), Theo's luggage (stolen), and an all-inclusive couples' vacation package to Vermont (awful). ★ Drarry Mini Bang | @drarry-mini-bang

2. Seeker Practice by @poljupci [E, 1k]

►Harry Potter is a good Seeker. The fact that catching their snitch of a soulmark gets both of them all hot and bothered is just some extra incentive. ★ HP Soulmates Fest 2024 | @hp-soulmates

[xx-thedarklord-xx]

If you are like me, excited for upcoming drarry fests but suddenly feel like you are behind because there are so many, you have come to the right place. I am going to try to compile a list for the ones coming up in the next few months, if I have missed any fests please let me know and I'll add them!

Draco Tops Harry @dracotops-harry

Prompt Collection: January 06 - 20, 2024

Claiming starts: January 22 - March 17, 2024

Submissions due: March 18, 2024

Fest starts: April 1, 2024

Drarry MiniBang @drarry-mini-bang

Sign Ups: January 20th

Sign Ups Close: February 18th

Deadline for fic concept: February 18th

Fic Concepts to Artists: February 24th

Artist Claim: February 27th

Submissions Due: July 2nd

Posting Begins: August

Lights Camera Drarry @lcdrarry

Propmting: January 10-17

Claiming/Sign Ups: January 20th to March 15

Submissions Due: April 15

Posting Begins: May 1

Reveals: June 15

HD Wireless @hd-wireless

Prompting opens: Sunday, January 14th 

Claiming opens: Sunday, February 4th

Submissions due: Friday, June 14th

Posting starts: Monday, July 1st

Harry Draco Mpreg @harrydracompreg

Prompting Begins: Monday, 29 January

Prompting Ends: Saturday, 10 February

Claiming Begins: Monday, 12 February

Last Day to Claim: Sunday, 7 April

Submissions Due: Sunday, 21 April

Posting Begins: Sunday, 12 May (US Mother’s Day)

Reveals: Sunday, Sunday, 16 June (US Father’s Day)

[welurklate]

Zanatos Illustrations - Part 1

I am back after a wild summer during which I made some illustrations for Mosrael's amazing fic Zanatos. This is a collab we did for the @drarry-mini-bang. You can read the fic on AO3: Zanatos.

The fic is an incredibly sweet and atmospheric Drarry fic, in which we have Wolfstar raising Harry, Draco standing up to his father and Pansy being and incredible friend. There is a host of interesing side characters and the writing is simply excellent. So please check it out!

I kinda missed the reveal (sorry, Mose!) And missed updating the chapter headings, which will at least be added in the binding I am working on.

[soliblomst]

Talented, amazing, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before ✨

Freely Given | 18K | E

Written by InnerLilith & Illustrated by K (Yours Truly) for the Drarry Mini Bang Fest ♡

Excerpt:

“Mate. You took one look at the man and called in a life debt for swimming lessons. That doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.” — Wise words from Ronald Weasley 😌

☞ Read here.

[drarry-mini-bang]

Title:  Hothouse Flowers and Hot Hot Showers

Author: azalea_larae

Artist: @basiatlu

Rating: E

Content/warnings: Hogwarts Eighth Year, Roommates, Muggle Studies, Bisexual Harry, Gay Draco, EWE, POV Harry Potter, Porn With Plot, Blow Jobs, First Time, Public Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, Frottage, Wet Dream, Dirty Talk, Orgasm, Shower Sex, Masturbation, Mutual Masturbation, Masturbation in Shower, Accidental Voyeurism, Flirting, Kneazles, Top Draco, Bottom Harry, Massage, Semi-Public Sex, Coming Out, College, Erections, Cuddling & Snuggling, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Sexual Tension, Come Marking, Shameless Smut, alcohol consumption.

Summary: The eighth-year Muggle Studies class is spending five weeks at an American Muggle university. Harry’s assigned to room with Draco. And to make things, well, harder, there’s an inconvenient side effect to not using magic for a prolonged period of time . . .

Length: 101k

Link to fic on AO3: HERE

[bridenore]

Recs masterlist part two : ongoing fests

I’ve been doing drarry recs posts every week for a while and it’s getting harder and harder to navigate through all theses posts. So here is a masterlist of all the posts I made so far.

Note : the masterlist is now split into three parts. I have apparently reached the maximum number of links you can include in a single post. Part one is here Favorites, authors, themes and length and part three is here Past fests.

Last updated : September 30th 2024 (Added since last update)

Previous update : March 25th 2024

Ongoing Fests (the last edition was held in 2022 or later)

25 days of Harry and Draco : 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2014

Big Bangs : HD Reverse Bang 2022, HD Big Bang 2021, HD Big Bang 2018

Draco tops Harry : 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

Drarry mini bang : 2024

HD Erised : 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

HD Fanfair : 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009

HD Fangfest : 2022

HD Kidfic fest : 2024

HD Mpreg : 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

HD Owlpost : 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

HD Suds Fest : 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

HD Wireless : 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

HP Bodice Ripper Fest : 2023, 2022

HP Drizzle : 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019

HP Soulmates : 2023

HP Trans fest : 2023

HP Unleashed : 2023

LCD Drarry : 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019

My Bloody Valentine : 2022, 2021, 2019

[briamarie38]

Art by @regretfulcorrine

The Haunting of Hogwarts

Drarry I Mature I 85k I soul bond, angst with a happy ending, Auror Harry, Cursebreaker Draco, Sentient Hogwarts, mutual pining, married but dont realize it (not because of the soulbond but because they love eachother and are idiots), temporary main character death, HAPPY ENDING!

[Mind the tags both here and on ao3!]

Amazing art by @regretfulcorrine (see chapter 6) and @navi1088 (see chapter 1)!!

Summary: Twelve years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter, barely clinging to his reasons for being an auror, is asked by cursebreaker Draco Malfoy, his best friend and not-so-secret crush for the last decade, to help investigate a developing case at Hogwarts. Animals are showing up dead and the ghosts are acting "weird". After some investigation, it seems the concern was all a bit alarmist until the next full moon and they've got a human victim drained of blood and essence on their hands. Before they know it, they're knee-deep in dark magic, and Harry is in a race against time to find the culprit before Draco is taken as collateral.

Huge shout out, again to @regretfulcorrine (who made the AMAZING illustration above) and @navi1088 (who has equally amazing art!) Thank you guys SO MUCH for making something so beautiful and putting up with so much from me!

Link below!

[orange-peony]

Thanks for tagging me @emeryhall and @you-remind-me-of-the-babe!

I've been working on both my BB fics.

Here's a snippet of my fic for @carry-on-big-bang:

Simon This is a shitty idea. “This is a shitty idea,” Penny confirms, a frown on her face. She peers at me from behind her mug and shakes her head. “Simon, she broke up with you.” “I know,” I reply with a sigh, taking another biscuit and dunking it in my tea. “So what’s the point in going all the way to Watford to see her?” Penny asks, scrunching up her nose at the absurdity of my plan.

And here's some of my drarry one for the @drarry-mini-bang:

One evening, after they had sex, Draco leaned over him and kissed him slowly, his lips soft and his touch full of longing, the kiss turning languid and sweet. He looked into Harry’s eyes and brushed his curls back, then just looked at him in that intense way he had sometimes, as if he really wanted to say something but couldn’t find the words for once. “What?” Harry asked in a whisper. Draco didn’t say anything, but he kissed him again, a sensual brush of lips and tongue that left Harry reeling for more. “Do you want to go again?” Draco shook his head, but Harry still ran his fingers along the lovely curve of Draco’s back, feeling his soft skin under his fingertips as he traced his spine and then lingered on Draco’s naked buttocks.

Tagging (no pressure and sorry if you've already done it):

@bubble-gumhead, @pato-roldnart, @cutestkilla, @excalisbury, @artsyunderstudy, @thewholelemon, @hushed-chorus, @itsphantasmagoria, @regretfulcorrine, @pocketlessdruid, @alexalexinii, @fatalfangirl, @rimeswithpurple, @crazybutgood, @ionlydrinkhotwater, @ivelovedhimthroughworse, @j-nipper-95, @littlewinnow, @larkral, @blackberrysummerblog, @facewithoutheart, @martsonmars, @letraspal @okay-sky, @imagineacoolusername, @leithillustration

[drarrargh]

currently reading my author/collaborator @dracognition’s fic for the drarry mini bang and losing my gosh dang mind

[anaxandria-writes]

20 questions for fic writers!

Thanks for the tag @lumosatnight [see here]!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Technically 50 (I think) because one of them is in an anonymous collection so AO3 is telling me 49. I’m considering putting some more earlier works as anonymous so that number might change soon.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

245,593… but I haven’t written at least 100k of that because they’re collabs where I did art (such as WLW Big Bang 2022).

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling (44)

Teen Wolf (3)

Marvel (3)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Three Days, Three Perspectives [Drarry, E, 6.5k]

An Expensive Courtship [Drarry, E, 10.9k]

Petrichor [Steter, T, 2.5k]

Snapshots of a Pregnancy [Drarry, T, 3.8k]

🙀 ➡ 😻 ➡ 😽 [Stony, T, 5.2k]

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I’m terrible about doing this, so I’m very sporadic about it, but every comment means so much to me! I just see it and if I don’t respond immediately, they just pile up and then I never get to it? 100% getting better at replying with my ongoing WIP, What Large Hands You Have (The Better to Embrace You With) [Steter, M, 14.7k so far], since I’m posting as I write and the encouragement means SO much!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Half Past One [Drarry, M, 2.5k] which was a horror fic (my one and only one) that I wrote for a Wheel of Drarry mini exchange. There’s MCD. And gore.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I almost never not write happy endings, BUT I’m going to go with Pinocchio [Neville/Harry, E, 3.9k] because it’s crack-y, fun, and Harry gets off a ton of times. (Mostly unintentionally).

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I’ve had a couple rude-ish comments? Someone said that it would be better if it were longer, which was kind of ??? It was one of my first works and the mods reached out to me about it and they were super supportive and kind. (This is also the fic that is now anonymous, for unrelated reasons.)

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I’ve written some PWPs. A little of everything, really… and a fair number of my longer works include some sex scenes. I probably read more kinky content than I write (beyond the watersports fics because apparently I have multiple?), but yeah. Pro-smut here.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Nope. I’ve read a few, but it’s mostly not my thing.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yes! And I only found out because the person didn’t realize that it was stealing to repost on Wattpad and then apologized and asked how I felt about it…

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

My tango fic, The Cabeceo [Drarry, E, 1.9k], was translated into Spanish by @stargazing-enby last year for HD Owl Post. Which was such an amazing and wonderful gift to receive, especially because *tango*. I definitely feel like I’ve grown a lot as a writer since I first wrote it, but it’s very near and dear to me and having a translation (which I can read!) even more so. If it gives anyone any ideas… I can read Portuguese and Spanish!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Co-written? No. I’ve done art for various people before and participated in several big bangs/reverse big bangs as both an author and an artist. (ETA: 100% have co-written multiple fics no idea how I forgot those when I first answered)

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

Flintwood. (And yes, I’ve had full on spreads in my journal dedicated to Flintwood.) Don’t ask me why, but those are my athletic rivals to lovers absolute hands down favorite. For Teen Wolf, I started in Steter (so it remains my #1) and one of my all-time top comfort reads is a Steter fic, This Time Around by Green (and someone else who no longer is associated with the work), which I received a bound copy of last year as part of the Renegade Bookbinding Exchange.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

“Green Glows and Ginger Greens” is a Flintwood WIP that I have 20k written of, edited and posted chapter one and it’s been… 2 years. I hope to get back to it (and my other unposted Flintwood hanahaki I’ve been talking about for about as long), but it’s just… not happened.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Idea generation, maybe? I think I tend to be really good at coming up with ideas and starting writing projects that have the potential to be really interesting. I love kind of crack-y ideas, and I’ve been trying to be better at actually delving into those instead of going “this is too weird, no one will read it.” (Example: I wrote a fic from a bathroom’s POV and it still makes me laugh.)

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I tend to come up with ideas that spiral out of control, but I’m terrible at finishing things so I procrastinate and then it gets rushed and not as strong as it could be. Also not using betas that often because of said procrastination. And feeling awkward about it because I never leave enough time for editing.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I love it, especially when it’s a language I speak and am like “Yes! This adds some cultural context”, etc. But also, such an important thing to get people to double check that before just throwing it in.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Back when I was a wee bb in high school? Either Protector of the Small or Harry Potter. As an adult? Also Harry Potter.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

Completed on AO3? Herbology_Neville and DragonKeeperCW [Neville/Charlie, E, 11k] which was the fic I worked on whenever I was procrastinating on other fics. I’ve always wanted to go back to that universe and just haven’t had a chance, but… Neville and Charlie are adorable and I love them. I’m also loving the fic I’m posting now, as mentioned it’s What Large Hands You Have (The Better To Embrace You With), which was for Steter Bang because it really is reflective a lot of me as a person. Otherwise, I really loved the Green Glows/Snuggling, Smoothies, and Sons-in-Law universe (just need to finish both of those…)

Tagging (i never know who to tag!): @sugareey-makes-stuff (again, even though I know you were already tagged), @drwhoisginnyholmes, @makeitp1nk