#moonflower rose

[sweatersinthesummer]

We did it! The podfic I've been dying to do, a collaboration with a few of my very favorite podficcers, of a fic by one of my very favorite writers!

[Podfic] As Easy As That (E, 30 minutes)

written by @moonflower-rose

read by @cailynwrites (narrator/Ron), @reveriepi (Harry), @thirdeye1234 (Healer 1), and myself (Draco)

Trust Potter to be the target of a rogue bonding spell from a crazed fan. Trust Draco to try and leap in front of it.

I'm just so happy we were able to make this happen! Thanks to all of my co-podficcers, this was super fun to make, and of course, to @moonflower-rose for blanket permission to record your delightful fics.

[sits-bound]

Bound: Watch the Castles Burn by @moonflower-rose

Have I mentioned I'm a fan of moonflower_rose? Maybe once or twice or a million times?

I'm also a fan of these single section pamphlet binds, so I decided to make one of this wonderful fic. I designed the cover with my new iPad and Procreate, and also created the stunning artwork within. Bet you didn't know I could draw, huh? Well okay I can't. But that scene from the fic lives rent-free in my brain and I just had to get it out, okay?!?!

I posted a process video over on Instagram, check it out!

PS the podfic by @reveriepi is so good, I've listened to it approximately fourteen billion times.

[lostdrarryfics]

Hi! I'm looking for a fic with pasta salad. Basically, everyone loves Harry's pasta salad, and he finally invites Draco over for some. The author even included the recipe, which I think had a jar of mayo plus curry powder? Thanks in advance for any help!

We believe you are looking for Poppiholla by Moonflower_Rose (12k, M)

Don’t forget to bookmark, leave kudos and comments!

[hogwartsfirebolt]

I read this today, when I really should not be reading any fic at all because I have intensely boring Real Life Obligations but listen - listen. At some point in the last couple of years Rosie became … sort of my favorite drarry author?? Seeing her name attached to one of my VERY favorite tropes had me saying to myself “I’ll just skim a few paragraphs today bc I have to focus on this other huge thing I gotta do” before opening it and of course devouring it whole. What can you do.

Not sure how to articulate everything I want to say about this fic, but god, it’s just so GOOD, the kind of good that makes you wonder how the hell someone was capable of thinking it up and then actually writing it. I’m always obsessed with Rosie’s sexy, quietly confident version of Harry, and in THIS Harry is at his sexiest, most quietly confident ever. I’m always obsessed with her noble, vulnerable Dracos and in THIS we get the noble, vulnerable Draco to end them all. And somehow, despite my soul honest-to-god melting from how good these characterizations hit me, there’s also the fantastic side characters, a plot so good it’s insane and the kind of beautiful writing that effortlessly pulls you along.

I want to live in this, I want it poured directly into my bloodstream. Read it NOW!!!

H/D Erised Fic: Nothing Gold Can Stay

Title: Nothing Gold Can Stay Author: Anonymous Recipient: @bluebutter-art Pairing(s): Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy, background Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, mention of past Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley Rating: Explicit Word Count: ~40,200 Tags:  Auror Draco Malfoy, Unspeakable Harry Potter, Auror Ron Weasley, Healer Hermione Granger, magical accident, parallel universe, mention of past mpreg, mention of potential future mpreg, mention of past canon torture, mention of past non-canon torture, mention of minor body image issues, pining, friendship, friends to lovers, established relationship, brief misunderstandings, angst with a happy ending, emotional support, vulnerability, getting together, casual affection, first time, Virgin Draco Malfoy, mutual masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, the London Aquarium, Magical Creatures that probably shouldn't be pets, cooking together, drinking, gratuitous descriptions of food and eating, best read after dinner or with a snack Summary: One summer evening, Harry Potter vanished in the middle of dinner with his friends. Four days later he came back. Sort of.  Draco Malfoy is on the case. Author's Notes: Blue, I was so honoured to write for you this year, I am an enormous fan of yours. There was so much wonderful content in your sign up and so many potential stories, but this one wanted to be yours the most. I tried to grab as many of your gems as possible. I hope you enjoy this and a very merry Erised to you! Massive thanks to c and h for the wonderful beta and wisdom, and to o and si for the top notch moral support. As always, thank you to the mods, and thank you from the heart of my bottom for your extra patience this year.  Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

[kissmypoets-hp]

Fanfic Classics 📚 The theme for today's batch of covers: atmospheric Drarry fics with islands and/or fics that that deal with magic as an uncontrollable Entity. Also, these covers looked good together, so.

🏝️ The Isle of Ogygia by @citrusses

🛶 Beneath the Wave by @moonflower-rose

🏰 The Compact by astolat

🩸 In Our Blood by secretsalex

art credits below the cut!

Artwork used, in order:

"A lighthouse on fire at night" by Joseph Wright of Derby (1770)

"Isle of the Dead, 2nd Version" by Arnold Böcklin (1880)

"Bacchanal" by Franz Stuck (1905)

"Interior, Artificial Light" by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1909)

(classics covers are inspired by zeziliazink and bubu0h's works! i've been making more fic covers for my kindle here.)

[getawayfox]

“Harry.” Potter said, with a filthy grin. “I think if you’re going to put your cock in me, you should get used to calling me Harry all the time.” Draco stood up, and Potter’s eyes dropped down to his crotch. He grinned again. “Knew it. Massive erection.” “Shut up and get moving, Harry.”

Quote from a stunning fic that bowled me over with it's loveliness, incredible worldbuilding with details that crawled into my heart and made a nest, and the best established relationship I have ever seen: Nothing Gold Can Stay by @moonflower-rose (Drarry, E, 40k)

[dewitty1]

Carey ‘W’Recs Wednesday(｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ presents: Nothing Gold Can Stay

Moonflower_Rose @moonflower-rose

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Gawain Robards, Ginny Weasley Additional Tags: Auror Draco Malfoy, Unspeakable Harry Potter, Auror Ron Weasley, Healer Hermione Granger, Magical Accidents, Parallel Universes, Mention of past Mpreg, Mention of potential future mpreg, Mention of Past Canon Torture, Mention of past non-canon torture, Mention of minor body image issues, Pining, Friendship, Friends to Lovers, Established Relationship, Brief Misunderstandings, Angst with a Happy Ending, Emotional Support, Vulnerability, Getting Together, casual affection, First Time, Virgin Draco Malfoy, Mutual Masturbation, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, The London Aquarium, Magical creatures that probably shouldn't be pets, Bad Cooking, Drinking, Gratuitous Descriptions of Food and Eating, Best read after dinner or with a snack, Minor Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Past Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, H/D Erised 2023, Mutual Pining, Domesticity

Summary:

One summer evening, Harry Potter vanished in the middle of dinner with his friends. Four days later he came back. Sort of. Draco Malfoy is on the case.

(੭ˊ͈ ꒵ˋ͈)੭*⁺˚. * ･ ｡ﾟ☆

Excerpt under the cut due to possible spoiler...

Excerpt:

“We have three children, Draco and I.” Potter’s voice grew soft. “James, Al and Lily.”

Time seemed to slow, then, to a syrupy crawl. Draco couldn’t take his eyes from Potter. He felt like he might be making a gormless sort of face but caring about that was about as far from his thoughts as possible. Breathing was barely on the agenda.

“James is the eldest, named for my dad. We call him Jamie most of the time, but he’s about to go to Hogwarts so he’s working on a rebrand to make himself seem cooler. Wants us to call him ‘Ruby’.” Potter snorted softly. “His middle name is Rubeus, for Hagrid.”

Potter looked at Draco with a tiny smile. “I don’t know if he’s told you this here, but Hagrid saved us, really. He took me when I was a baby to my aunt and uncle, and he really didn’t want to leave me there, cried all over me, not that I remember it. Saw it in a Pensieve once. But he took me away from them too, right on the dot of midnight when I turned eleven. He was the one who told me I was magic, and told me the truth about my parents, and stood up to my shit family. Hagrid was there for me my whole life. So we named our boy James Rubeus. Hagrid cried all over me again after we told him.”

“I can only imagine the state of your shirt after that one,” Draco said mildly, and Potter huffed a small laugh.

“So. Everyone calls him Ruby at the moment, and Hagrid’s his godfather, and he’s got black hair like me, but he has your eyes.” Potter flinched, then corrected, “Draco’s eyes.”

Draco’s heart felt like it skipped several beats, then returned with a hard thump. “Who’s next?”

Potter smiled again. “Then there’s Al—that’s short for Alphard Alastor. The first bit is after an uncle of Sirius’ who left him money after his parents disowned him. I don’t know much about him but I always appreciated him for that. And the other bit. Erm. I don’t know if you remember Mad-Eye…”

Draco’s eyes widened. “Not the ferret guy.”

Potter bit his lips and rubbed his hand over his mouth, but there was nothing that could hide his smile. “Erm, yeah. I had a bit of a soft spot for him and he died while trying to protect me from Voldemort. I’m a bit sentimental about it. But that one was slightly more of an aggressive negotiation.”

“I fucking bet it was,” Draco said.

“You came around, though.”

“I’d love to know how you convinced me. Him.”

“I have my ways.” And that was so laden with innuendo that Draco felt himself go red, and he abruptly understood how his other self could have been persuaded to name his own son after someone who had turned him unwillingly into a rodent.

“Al is like a little clone of me unless he opens his mouth, and then he’s you to the bone. I’ve never been rinsed so hard by a child since I was at school with you.” It was said with such fondness that Draco almost wanted to cry, to grab Potter, to kiss him and make a fucking baby with him right there in the becrumbed sheets. But it wasn’t this Harry that he wanted to do those things with. Not really.

“And then there’s Lily. That’s mum’s name. Lily Arabella, we nearly made it Arabella Lily but then you quite rightly pointed out that Bella would be the natural diminutive and we both decided we didn’t need that reminder for the rest of our lives. She’s the baby, only two, or she will be soon. We call her Belly, because Al couldn’t say Lily and called her Billy at first and it was just too stupidly cute to correct him, and by the time she was learning her own name she would just scream Belly at the top of her lungs and it wasn’t worth the trouble to correct her when that was also extremely fucking cute. She’s got your hair and my eyes, and your pointy chin and all my sass. She’s so naughty, Draco, it's incredible. We have so much fun.” Potter’s face crumpled. “Fuck.”

“Oh,” Draco said, as Potter’s shoulders started to shake. “Oh, I…”

“What if I can’t get back, what if I never see them again—”

He didn’t let himself think, he just slid himself closer until his arms were around Potter again.

“I’ll find a way, I promise you. I promise you.” Draco’s voice was low, soothing, his hand in Potter’s hair. “I’ve got you. I’ll do everything I can to get you home, Harry.”

“Thank you.” He felt it more than heard it, and he held Potter tightly and murmured to him.

“Your children sound beautiful. Especially the ones who are just like me.” Potter laughed wetly. “Can’t help but notice the names are very Potter-coded. Nothing even remotely astrological. More evidence of your powers of persuasion, I suppose.”

“That was all your idea, actually,” Potter sniffed, and pulled a hankie from his pocket. “You said—Draco said—when they started at Hogwarts they could choose their own constellation if they wanted to and we’d make it official with the Ministry. No more ‘burdensome gothic nonsense’, I think your words were. Ruby is going in September and he’s picked Betelgeuse.”

“That’s not a constellation,” Draco said, scandalised. “Salazar’s manky—”

“That’s what my Draco said as well, but not to Ruby’s face. He’s sticking to this autonomy thing even if it gives him hives.”

“Any early preferences from the other two?” Betelgeuse! His father would roll in his grave.

“Al wants Leo, which is so funny to me because he seems a born Slytherin, but Draco said he told him at bathtime once that it’s because he wants his initials to sound the same as his name does if you said them together—AAL. Such a typically weird and Al thing to say.” Potter smiled, and his eyes were faraway. “Belly’s too young, but her favourite page in the astronomy book has always been Ursa Minor. She’s chewed nearly the whole corner off that page. She’s also a bit partial to Sirius and I haven’t discouraged her. I think that would be pretty cool, actually.”

They sat in companionable silence for a while, and Potter sipped his tea. Draco’s shirt was wet again, but it was about the last thing on his mind. He wanted to ask to see the photographs on Potter’s mobile. No doubt there would be photographs of the whole family, and his curiosity poked at the idea like a tongue prodding the socket of a lost tooth. He didn’t ask Potter to show him that, though. It had been hard enough when Potter had looked on his own. That wouldn’t be fair.

“I always thought,” Draco found the words spilling out without thought. “If I had a son, I’d call him—”

“Scorpius.” Potter smiled when Draco looked at him. “Yeah, I know. I’ve been working on you for just one more. I think you’re coming around.”

“Your Draco is,” Draco said gently. “Potter—”

“Could you please call me Harry?” Potter interrupted. “Please. I promise you I understand that you’re not him, I know I keep getting the words muddled up. It would just be a comfort to me, if you could call me Harry.”

“Of course I can,” Draco said, and his heart tore into ever more numerous pieces. “Harry.”

Potter closed his eyes and smiled.

ʚ♡⃛ɞ(ू•ᴗ•ू❁)

[sitp-recs]

Wobble Week, and the Soft Serve Celebration of Slumberous Schlongs

Greetings! Today is the anniversary of the birth of my homie @shiftylinguini and in a very restrained and normal fashion, I have written the first in a series of fics to celebrate her.

But I didn’t just do that very normal and restrained thing - I also created a collection on AO3 to capture other stories which are on similar themes, and my good friend and yours @maesterchill has christened it with her wonderful work An anticlimax? - go read it! 

If you know of or have written a story that features soft penises and you’d like to add it to the collection PLEASE DO! It’s open to all fandoms and pairings.

My contribution is Snug, which will be the first of seven stories about soft penises (not necessarily related to one another). If you too are partial to a soft penis, or even if you are just curious about what barmy shit I’ve written this time, check it out and don’t forget to wish Our Shifty many happy returns.

[unasirenita]

Dreamy pics I look this year 😇

[fournets]

do you think tim has a garden? like he never really liked flowers before mh but jay fucking loved gardening, and brian always loved the flowers in rosswood so tim started a garden after mh with flowers

do you think he has lilies and forget-me-nots and roses and all their favourite flowers?

do you think he keeps them because it's the closest thing he'll have to a grave? there were no bodies after all

[crescentmoonsandroses]

I'm sick right now and I can't really draw or write very well, which is annoying, but here's some old art. It's from a while ago, and my style's changed a little since then, but I think it's still not terrible.

This happened when I discovered moonflowers existed, and Nightmare was the first thing that popped into my head. Then I did Dream with morning glories as well. I reckon Nightmare turned out better, honestly.

Dreamtale belongs to Jokublog Flowerfell (inspiration for the whole flowers-growing-on-characters thing) belongs to Siviosanei

[sweatersinthesummer]

[Podfic] Poppiholla by @moonflower-rose (M, 1 hour, 15 minutes)

A lovely story of pining from Harry's POV.

(Part 2 to come!)

[sits-bound]

Bound: Nothing but you on my mind by @moonflower-rose

You may already know that I love this fic to a ridiculous degree, so when I wanted to quickly typeset and bind a short-ish fic, this was an easy choice.

I got a color printer, so this was a test for that, though I didn’t use that much color. But the cover was also a bit of an experiment, I’ve never done this kind of cover, with a fabric spine and paper. (I forget what it’s called.) It was great for using up a small amount of book cloth.

The best part about using paper for the cover is that I was able to use adhesive vinyl instead of HTV for the title! I mean, it’s a pain in the ass for other reasons, but way less stressful.

Anyway, if you haven’t read this fic, you really should. Or you can listen to my podfic of it (I told you I loved it!)

The fonts used for the title and chapter heads and drop caps are all in the Goodlife family. Even the little frame around the title on the cover.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Flower Family Au

Imagine some adult getting mad at Dandelion and saying that he doesn't belong with his family because he is named after a weed and not a flower and not even 2 seconds later, his 14 ft tall mother is standing behind the looking ready for murder with her custom made real sword that was gifted to her on her wedding day. Eclipse is standing right next to his mother figure with a metal baseball bat also ready for murder. Rose has a gun and is waiting for the go ahead. Daisy and Moonflower both have shovels and are in charge of getting rid of the body and evidence. Aster comforts his oldest sibling.

-Cry

The whole family is always down for a good murder if someone makes fun of Dandelion.

[graviconscientia]

Moonflower. Purple hydrangea. Blackthorn. Orange rose.

[skeptiquewrites]

Happy birthday!

Thank you Rose! Appreciate it 💖