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CODING


You can connect with me through here, on AO3 at laraF  or Twitter (nordotheysing  is the handle) if you want to - these are the sites I'm most active on. :)

They make me happy, and that's all that matters,,,
maybe they'll make you happy too.

Who knows, maybe they'll inspire us to fall into a world of magic...


ICON DISPLAY BY TESSISAMESS

Even Draco can be satisfied with this ending, seriously.


( hit the party with a gas-can ... kiss me you animal )


End Notes:
So, I was listening to My Chemical Romance while writing this, and it shows. Not quite a songfic but the lines were harmonizing in such a perfect way with the flow that I didn't even notice and already dubbed the small chapters with them. (Hope it's not too... well, crack-y but somehow the angst got toned down a loooot in the meantime. Not the pining tho. Hah, I kept writing, deleting, writing some more, then throwing my laptop away and getting it back a million times so I have mixed feelings about this.)
But alas, here we are.

Enter a flashback of Desperate Draco.
A Very Gay Chapter.


( everybody wants to change the world ... but no one wants to die  )

Alternative Summary:
Harry doesn't like parties. Luna doesn't like being bored. Sanguini is having the time of his life.
I have too many headcanons about Peter Pettigrew to be considered healthy.

( let me tell you ... about the sad man  )

Here comes the wrapping up of the 2021 H/D Owlpost. (OMG, finally, yay) ~~~~


The Dance of the Peacocks (4404 words) by laraF
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Seamus Finnigan, Neville Longbottom, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, Pansy Parkinson, Hermione Granger, Lucius Malfoy, Rita Skeeter, Cedric Diggory, Luna Lovegood, Sanguini (Harry Potter), Horace Slughorn, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle
Additional Tags: emotionally constipated teenagers, Slytherin Harry Potter, Heir of Slytherin Harry Potter, Pining, There's so much pining, it's a whole forest at this point, loosely inspired by music, my chemical romance - Freeform, Ron Weasley is Our King, Poor Cedric, someone always out to get him, Alternate Universe - No Voldemort, Hogwarts Sixth Year, man I love Luna, Everybody Lives, Nobody Dies, for once, cursing, they are teenage boys, oh and there's underage drinking, don't drink guys, not as fun as it looks like, bad life choices, Don't Try This At Home, if there's any sign of a basilisk in your pipes call the professionals, ah the line between love and hate, is indeed thin, Lucius Malfoy is not amused, but i am, probably ridiculously op harry potter, what can i say, draco loves him, i love him too, you cannot be gay and know math at the same time, it's against the laws of the universe, "the beauty a nice male ass can provide", i want this engraved somewhere

Summary: It's one thing to be in the spotlight because of your famous parents and your talent in quidditch - and it's entirely different if it comes to light suddenly that you're the Heir of Slytherin. Fortunately for Harry Ron always has his back (along with a stash of Firewhiskey, the cure to all ailments.) Only one problem remains - making peace with Draco, who seems to hate him more than ever.

It's... a little bit all over the place, this fic is. So, apologies, if that's bothersome. (It fits me, tho.)

Chapter One:
( the aftermath ... is secondary )

As much as I'd like to clean through things so I could finally see some order and structure on this blog, it's one helluva job when you're depressed, unmotivated and you're whole life philosophy degraded into one word and one sentence: whatever and I don't care.

But I'm somehow here again. This year I'm not even trying to make resolutions and such. But I'll make one promise to myself and The Void: I'll try. To put some time and effort into things that are above mere survival. To not just read or sleep or lay down and stare, but to at least post my useless musings, if I have nothing else. I was even thinking about opening an Insta account to post some pics (without the real name and face, obviously) to just feel like I'm doing something. Even if it's just vibing. Probably I won't ever do it, but entertaining the thought sometimes is kind of okay.

A list is required if I want to move forward and I'm putting it here becuase my mind is a mess and I couldn't find a calendar suitable for outlining things in a way that my brain could work with.
So,

• Arranging my Storygraph profile --- I have a notebook dating back to maybe, 2008? Or something? (I need to find it in this mess I live in, and that thought already exhausts me...) I want to upload all the books I read to somewhere, which is not infested by Jeff Bezos and/or Elon Musk. I had a falling out with Goodreads when they vanished the option of adding books manually (Hungarian here and wow, SURPRISE, not any online English catalogue has my obscure language's books, so, I heavily depended on that feature), and I haven't even checked the site in months. Coincidentally that was the time (funny, how dumb I can be sometimes) when I realized that Goodreads doesn't just have a really good relationship with Amazon, it's basically a friendly looking trap to lure you into Jeff's orbit. And now I'm traumatized for life, actually, but that's besides the point, The point is, that Storygraph is a pretty cool looking, independent alternative to follow your reading shenanigans (I'm reduced yet again to AO3 but whatever). I feel like the most potent problem will be accurately combing through the endless depths of my want to read shelf (a whopping 811 title monster) which I synced up to Storygraph yeah, buuuut... The Syncing Process was not... a 100% accurate, so to say, and looking through all that info needs time. For time to have I'd need to quit my job. (Which I love, but like, if I'd have the option to at least reduce my hours that'd be preferable. Or you know, just living off a fortune freely from somewhere, say from the mountains of Spain without any pressing responsibilities? Even better.)

I mean, look at that stat. I do not speak Polish nor German. Honestly, what the fuck. Something definitely went awry there.
 


 

• Updating my playlists. I wanted to have cute little widgets on this site, that are, you know, telling more about me than any words could. Make this place feel like home through and through. My playlists are talking loud and clear about the sad, sad soul I am. But I couldn't find a good enough option some months ago (the last time I managed to put in any effort to edit this blog lol). But I'd still love to do this. A whole other round of searching for hours upon hours, probably. Again with the time... Maybe if I wouldn't sleep through half of my off-days, that'd help. Yeah.
• I not as much as decided, but was kinda forced into the task of looking for hungarian subtitles to Wang Yibo's latest series: Being A Hero. And if I can't find any, naturally I should make some. I'll... may as well look into it, like, right now? Maybe someone already trasnlated it and I won't have to...? Fat chances to that happening. *internal sigh* Like, I love translating. I love doing it. It's just that I'm in a phase. A long, terrible phase of being pretty much nothin, doing nothin and... Enough of that, alright. Moving on.
• Translating fics. Enough said. Also, I will, for a friend of mine. To English. And I look forward to it, so there's that, at least? Gotta familiarize myself with the material tho, because I'm not in the fandom, but it's just video watching and research. I'm mighty good at that. I'll share links probably, if I'll have permission.
• Post my ALREADY TRANSLATED GIFT-FIC (Monda és Ember közt) to Merengő. Seriously. Gah.
• Write the extremely gay gay gay BTS fic that I have in my sad list of unfinished ideas. It's very much a summer thing, so it'd be great to post it, I dunno, to their 10th anniversary. In June. Pride Month-fitting, really, so. Celebrate and all that. (Hahahahaha, post it, right. You have to write it for that to happen, don't you, dummy? Hahaha)
• Write the advent Tom/Harry fic. Really, now, maybe if I'll look into it right in January I'll be actually ready with it for Christmas...? Last time I checked in I made a TON of progress with outlining, really, I did. I was proud... I'm still proud. (Ridiculous.)
• Finish editing the Intro page of my blog. I have all these intro panels and still nothing behind them. Sad. [The Dragon Shrine is probably the easiest, and I've had the coding page for it open for ages but damn. Maybe Imma do it in this milennia...?]

Annnnd, I think that's enough for now. Stop the anxiety a little with not building unrealistic expectations for yourself. Haha, right.
I love making lists, so this is probably gonna be a habit here. If I can stick to sticking my head above the water long enough, that is.

In the next post, I'm bringing along the fifth gift from that long-looong time gone Drarry fest, which I'm still terribly fond of.



P.S.: Yeah, no one's made a hun sub for that series and it's DUCKING 32 EPISODES LONG. Rip me, like seriously. For Yibo, I'll do it anyway. But Imma curse the whole time.

P.P.S.: I should really move to Spain, don't you think? I miss the sunshine.

Okay, so for the fourth gift... I gotta say I love editing. Gifs, pics, moodboards, icons, little magazines etc. But compared to what I used to make some... huh, many years ago what I love the most NOW is how much better these little pieces come out from my hand XD Ohhh, I'm not a visual artist, by far - for the life of me I cannot draw anything more difficult than an elephant from the back (you know which one) and PhotoShop is way too complicated for an easy-going user like me, who has basic needs and who needs to be treated like a curious five-year old.

Anyway. I made some fic banners! For maraudersaffair ! Who is totally lovely and I just reread your intro on DW and why are we not friends? I'm an avid (obsessed) reader of published works?!? Is anyone out there reading real books? Imma actually cryy?!? And I really don't know readers irl either and that always makes me sad cuz I have no one to talk to about my reading adventures... (one of the few things I'd actually talk about with a real human being lol -- except for fannish things, of course.)

Well, now, this is not the time to be wistful - let's read, my dudes (saying respectfully without giving a shit to gender as it is way too much of a social construct).

THE FICS aaand my banners for them ~~~ (click the pics for bigger size and the story titles for some good stuff)
(seriously, read these masterpieces!)

H.A.G.S. (Hogwarts Alliance for Gender and Sexuality) (9516 words) by maraudersaffair
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, Anthony Goldstein, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Millicent Bulstrode
Additional Tags: Hogwarts Eighth Year, Sexuality, Fluff and Humor, Jealousy, Misunderstandings, First Time, Semi-Public Sex, Snogging, Hand Jobs, Rutting, LGBTQ Themes, Coming Out, Duelling, Gay Harry Potter, Pining Harry Potter, H/D Sex Fair 2020
Summary: When Hermione decides Hogwarts needs a LGBTQIA+ club, of course Ron and Harry are roped into helping. After a rocky start, Harry begins seeing the club as an opportunity to educate students and celebrate diversity and sexuality at Hogwarts. He also starts seeing it as an opportunity to snog Draco Malfoy.


KUDOS: like, loads and loads. Firstly, an LGBTQIA+ themed Hogwarts Drarry???? Do I even have to say anything more, this is just a pot of gold. The humor, the setting, the characters...!!!!

I tried to capture it all Fantastic Beasts-style (the book, not the movies XD):





The Bodyguard (3807 words) by maraudersaffair
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, Pansy Parkinson
Additional Tags: Top Draco Malfoy, Famous Draco Malfoy, Model Draco Malfoy, Bodyguard Harry Potter, Sexual Tension, Pining, Jealousy, Jealous Harry Potter, Bottom Harry Potter, Misunderstandings, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, First Kiss, Getting Together, Semi-Public Sex, Voyeurism
Summary:
Draco is the most famous man in Britain. Harry is his bodyguard.
They both are desperate for each other, but Draco refuses to accept it until one day he thinks Harry has run off to marry someone else.


KUDOS: fair warning - things are getting HOT. (P.S: I'm sooo tired of putting up that age-restriction stuff on my DW, I'm thinking about leaving it out and just issuing a general warning somewhere. Be safe guys, and consume with responsibility.)
THIS STORY IS HOT AND CUTE AND HOT and Draco is to die for and the tension is just *chef's kiss*. I loooove this!

Here's my beloved, favorite aesthetic ~~~





PSS: I love shouting out into the void.

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