Yule Ball Redraw

yule ball redraw

a drarry i promised a friend weeks ago cuz shes been going thru a tough time rip 

What songs did you listen to while writing ROA?

Thanks for waiting so long for a reply. I typed out a huge playlist and then tumblr ate the post and I got very angry and had to leave it alone for a bit.

I was listening to The Jezabels’ album Prisoner on repeat at the time, and a healthy dose of their EP Cherry Pie too. If I could pick just five songs which really wrote Running on Air for me, they would all be from The Jezabels: Long Highway, Endless Summer, Deep Wide Ocean, City Girl, and Catch Me.

I got my old laptop up and running again so I could check my old playlists, and this one is from around the time I was writing Running on Air:

Song — Artist

Ages, Places — Wildlife Control

All I Know — Washed Out

All Eyes On You — St Lucia

An Ending (Ascent) — Brian Eno

Away We Go — Silver Firs

Breakers — Gem Club

Change of Time — Josh Ritter

Clair de Lune — Flight Facilities

Conductor — We Were Promised Jetpacks

Coward — Hayden Calnin

Daylight Hours — Infusion

Deserters — Rachel Zeffira

Duet — Everything Everything

Dust — Little May

Embrace — Pnau

Epilogue — The Shape of the Earth

Fall At Your Feet — Boy & Bear

Flashed Junk Mind — Milky Chance

Goodbye Serenade — The Rebel Light

Hey Now — London Grammar

Homage — Feist & Timbre Timbre

Honey (Sam La More Remix)— Lovers Electric

I Will Wait For You — Lowing

Idea for Strings — Gem Club

Into the Thicket — U.S. Royalty

Invisible — Infusion

Lullaby — Dark Mean

Marathon (In Roses) — Gem Club

Old Pine — Ben Howard

On the Nature of Daylight — Max Richter

Outro — M83

Particles — Josh Pyke

Piano & Beat — Dark Mean

Pink Rabbits — The National

Plans — Birds of Tokyo

Quiet — This Will Destroy You

Staring at the Ceiling — Arrange

Sun Showers — Arrange

The Last Day on Earth — Kate Miller-Heidke

The Miles and the Hours — Benjamin Morsberger

The Summer — Josh Pyke

The Way You Remember Me — St Lucia

They Don’t Know — White Sea

Torrent — Ásgeir

Trembling Hands — Temper Trap

We Own the Sky — M83

Wide Eyed, Legless — Laura Veirs

Waves — Magic Man

Note: I’ve done a few playlists for RoA and I know my music taste is all over the place. Most people skip the electro-rock and drum-and-bass tracks I add — I guess people don’t associate synth-pop and electro-rock with Running on Air. But if you give these songs a go, you’ll see a lot of inspiration in the lyrics. ‘Honey’ has the lyric, “We can’t accept what we do not get to choose.” And EDM song Embrace begins with, “On a night like tonight, you saved my life.” Experimental electronica song Daylight Hours has amazing lyrics: “This is the third trip in the back of your car, filled with memories flashing by like liquid sky, like electric stars that define everything we are…I’m trying too hard, I’ve gone too far, now everything keeps shifting in and out of time.” Lots of RoA inspiration!

If you want to read a good Harry/Draco fic, let me direct you to Salt on the Westen Wind by saras_girl. It starts directly after the final chapter of Deathly Hallows (epilogue be damned). Harry & co. are forced away to a safehouse, forbidden to do magic, while the wizarding world tries to round up the remaining Death Eaters and, respecting his debt to Narcissa, Harry agrees to take Draco to safety with them. In a fit of mutual stupidity, Harry and Draco end up bound together at the wrist with only the knowledge that “trust” will end the spell. It’s really beautifully written and characterized and I have read it three times now. There aren’t really any warnings to give, either. There’s a sex scene and some encounters of homophobia (not the internalized kind tho), and a lot of really terrible romance novels. Here’s the author’s summary:

When the war isn’t quite as over as it first appears, a guilt-ridden Harry is sent to a mysterious safe-house. Among sandwiches, insomnia, and Mills & Boon, he discovers something quite unexpected.

There’s a lot of my favorite things in this–extremely powerful Harry, discussion of deepest feelings and issues being the main ones–and it develops properly with a really nice pace. Ron and Hermione are really well done also and I feel like that sealed the deal for me. It is fairly long though, at 60,500 words. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do!! (And many thanks to Charlie for putting me onto this.)