Drarry Fic Rec: Part Fifteen
Faint Indirections by ignatiustrout
29,793 words, T
Draco Malfoy is the last person Harry expects to turn up in Boston, Massachussetts. But now he's here, and he won't stop requesting books from the library where Harry works.
I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor by birdsofshore
27,970 words, E
Harry felt lit up from inside as soon as he entered the bar. There were blokes dancing together, their bodies close to one another, not keeping a wary distance as Harry was always careful to do when he was near another man. God, he wanted this – wanted it so much he could taste it, a metallic tang of heat and desire. He suspected nothing would ever be the same again – especially when he saw who else was in the room.
Open For Repairs by FeelsForBreakfast
34,901 words, M
After the war, Draco works at a tv repair shop and Harry breaks things. feat. sad boys in jumpers and more ABBA than is probably necessary.
Each of these stories begins with Harry Potter encountering Draco Malfoy in an unexpected place. A library on an American campus, a gay muggle nightclub, a tv repair shop.
Themes for this Set are: navigating young adulthood, exploring sexuality, becoming someone new and seeing an old enemy with fresh eyes.
'Faint Indirections' has some hilarious banter and gives a rich environment to new and old characters, as well as a library meet cute (of sorts). 'I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor' is fun and sexy - it viscerally reminded me of my own experiences as a young queer person, which made it very personal and nostalgic. 'Open For Repairs' is very soft, but also hilarious. Harry breaking a tv with a hammer just to talk to Draco, yet somehow being in complete denial. That is peak humor to me. All of these stories are wonderfully written, witty and romantic. So, enjoy!
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Helene Delmaire
My work looks to display strength through fragility; to explore man’s relationship to the natural world as a symbol of his own inner world. I do not paint people as individuals but as symbols of humankind - a mere element of the larger whole.
The subject is often swallowed or hidden by its pictural environment; truncated or erased with a swipe of the brush. The face and the eyes, the commonly named windows to the soul, are turned away or masked, turned towards an inner world that can never be wholly communicated to another, despite a shared depth. Paradoxically, the discovery of this inner world comes when personal identity is let go of. Through the loss of the personal comes the universal.
I want to give fragileness and so-called "feminine" elements such as flowers and pastel colours an intensity; to transform the infantilising cliches they have come to represent into something meaningful and powerful.
Her website:
Interview:
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Really specific web weaving suggestion? If you can i mean<3
Loving someone and telling them and them loving you back but being too much of a coward to do something.
It's really specific i understand if you don't wanna do it
walter benjamin selected writings, vol i: 1913-1926: "one way street" (tr. edmund jephcott) (via @soracities) \\ hélène cixous the selected plays of hélène cixous: "portrait of dora" (via @theoptia) \\ in the mood for love (2000) dir. wong kar wai \\ hélène cixous the selected plays of hélène cixous: "the perjured city" (via @theoptia) \\ katherine larson radial symmetry: "almost a figure" (via @feral-ballad) \\ hélène delmaire
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Serpens' Drarry Recs: Overview
This is an overview post to provide quick access to the first fifteen Rec Lists on this Blog. I could not resist giving each one a dramatic headline and intro picture. But if you are looking for really quick links, look no further: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen.
And now, for the fun part:
Set One: Animal Transformations, Humor and 'That Moment' when Your Cute Bunny, Owl or Dog is Actually Your Childhood Nemesis.
Set Two: Two Grumpy, Traumatized Men Stuck in a Cabin: Working through their Problems and Falling In Love.
Set Three: Angsty, Toxic and Self-Destructive Romance Between Hurt Boys, Shortly After a War. The Fragile Solace of Destruction.
Set Four: Secret or Hidden Identities, Spies and Sleeping Together Without Recognizing Each Other. Drama Ensues!
Set Five: Curses, Love-Potion-Accidents, Binding Hexes and other Magical Hijinks cause a Romance. With Humor and Twists.
Set Six: Draco in the Muggle World, Harry thinking Draco Malfoy is Up To Something. Or He Feels Lost and likes to Follow Draco Around.
Set Seven: De-Aging, Memory Curses and Casework Bring Harry and Draco Together, as they Untangle their Complicated History.
Set Eight: Bound Together, by Magic or by Circumstance, they have to learn to Understand Each Other. Angst, but its Hurt with Comfort.
Set Nine: Former Enemies, now Not-Quite-Friends-With-Benefits. They are not really 'Casually' Sleeping Together, of course.
Set Ten: In Between Hogwarts Classes the Boys are Messing Around. Sixth Year, on Opposite Sides of a Brewing War. It's Angsty, naturally.
Set Eleven: Old Magical Houses are Spooky (meaning Haunted) and Proud (Semi-Sentient). But One Can Fall In Love In Them Too!
Set Twelve: Eigth Year, Dealing with Trauma through Violent Collision, with Fists and Kisses. Antagonistic Love Stories.
Set Thirteen: Eigth Year Again, but Soft and Sweet. Boys leaving the War behind them, finding new Peace and Connection in Each Other.
Set Fourteen: It's Dragons! Including Dragons as Pets, or Our Draco Transforming Into One. Many Scaly, Fire-Breathing Monsters - Yay!
Set Fifteen: Harry stumbling upon Draco in an Unexpected Place. Stories about Growing Up, Coming Out and Moving On.
The cropped artworks can be found full sized in the matching Rec List Posts with credits in the tags, but here is a complete overview of all used artists and works:
David Shrigley - Ohne Titel (Header), Susa Monteiro aka Susana Philipp Baiôa Monteiro - No Title (One), Felix Vallotton - La falaise de la grève blanche (Two), Egon Schiele - Zwei Männer (Three), Renè Magritte - The Lovers (Four), Edvard Munch - Mondlicht (Five), Harland Miller - Blonde But Not Forgotten (Six), Claude Monet - Water Lillies (Seven), Marina Abramovic - Rest Energy (Eight), Mikulàs Galanda - No Title (Nine), Unknown Etching - A lion and a Snake (Ten), René Magritte (Eleven), Denis Sarazhin - Pantomine 3 (Twelve), Vincent Van Gogh (Thirteen), Utagawa Sadahide - A dragon and two tigers (Fourteen), Helene Delmaire (Fifteen)
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