[podfic] Christmas Lists

[podfic] Christmas Lists

Reader: @blue-rose-smalls​

Original Work: Christmas Lists by Anonymous

Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Length: 11 minutes, 8 seconds

Rating: General

Content: Podfic, Gift Giving, Fluff, Established Relationship, Post-Hogwarts

Warnings: None

Summary:

Harry thought he was being ridiculously clever and romantic when he proposed that for their first Christmas together they must give each other gifts from the heart - nothing store-bought. They are both wealthy enough to buy whatever they want anyway. But he never expected that it would be this hard.

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I can’t stop staring at this. They’re so frigging cute. I feel a mighty need for an 8th year fic all of a sudden...

Valentine’s Day, 8th year 💖

Look, I know I’m a small fish in a very large pond, but I’m gonna piggyback off of my betters here and just agree with all that stuff up above. Stop shaming people for their ships. Ship and let ship. It’s not hard. Don’t go into other ships’ tags and be assholes to people. That makes you a troll and a bully. It’s fine to have squicks or even hard nos when it comes to shipping. It’s not okay to attack other people for liking something you don’t. Stop it. There are real people behind these screens. You’re hurting real people when you call them disgusting for reading fiction. 

It’s not up to you to decide whether or not it’s okay for someone else to find something enjoyable if they’re not hurting anyone else. You don’t know the whys behind someone shipping a particular thing or enjoying reading a certain trope or kink. Maybe it’s their way of processing and/or coping with trauma. Maybe they find the dynamics interesting. Perhaps they just like it. No particular reason why. It doesn’t matter. They don’t have to justify their ships, same way you don’t have to justify yours. The difference is they’re not going into your tags, your posts, your fics, or your art and leaving hateful remarks. 

Isn’t there enough hate out in the real world? Why are we bringing it into fandom, too? Hell, the HP fandom in particular already has enough battles to fight with a transphobic creator and quite a few problematic issues in canon, including but not limited to: racism, homophobia, misogyny, and glorified slavery. So please, think before you type. Don’t like? Don’t read. Realize the difference between fiction and reality, and understand that shipping something does not equate to automatically endorsing it in the real world.

And in closing, if you disagree feel free to unfollow me, block me, whatever. I won’t miss antis, and I’m not interested in arguing with haters. One would think we in fandom would know better than this. That having to often justify our love of fandom to begin with, we might be just a bit more compassionate to each other. It’s always disappointing to see ship hate or shaming going on, and it makes me tired. We need to do better, folks. Be kind to each other. It matters, and it can make all the difference in the world.

Look. I don’t usually take part into complicated fandom conversations. I don’t like the drama, I don’t like the hate and asks that come after one does and I don’t feel comfortable with people taking my words and twisting them into meaning I didn’t mean (it has happened before). BUT.

I cannot stay silent anymore. I just can’t. I just saw someone in the fandom that I appreciated and admired for their talent shaming people for what they ship and…. lately it’s happening so fucking often.

I’ll take this opportunity to make a general statement: if you shame people for what they ship, unfollow me. I’m a Harry/Teddy shipper, Draco/Teddy shipper, hell I also ship Harry/Teddy/Draco as a threesome, I’ve read and loved The Evil Devil Child and the Perfect Gift by who_la_hoop which has double incest, both Draco/Scorpius and Harry/Albus Severus and enjoyed it a big deal.

I get it’s not for everyone. That’s valid and everyone has the right to ship and like whoever they want to. But just as you have the right not to like these ships, me and everyone else has the right to like them. WE DO KNOW that they’re not real people, shipping them doesn’t mean we would be incestuous in real life OR that we’re evil.

That’s what had pained me when I got that anon hate about me liking Harry/Teddy: that they said I’m disgusting. How can you throw a personal insult, a personal judgement on me based on what, a fandom ship I like reading and writing about?!

I’m finally taking a position, and writing a post about it, because I’m DEAD SICK of the vibes going around lately in fandom. About how we’re ready to judge and shame people for the ships they like or the kinks they have or like reading about.

God knows how much I suffered because I like Daddy kink as well. People are so ready to judge.

Can we understand, for once, that this is a fictional place? That we’re here to evade reality for a moment, to give a chance to our imagination to run free, to feel free for once?

STOP IT. STOP SHAMING PEOPLE IN FANDOM.

STOP.

IT.

And for the love of God, if you’re antis or have a problem with what I’m saying, UNFOLLOW me.

Part of me deeply wonders if Sirius Black hated Snape enough to attempt to murder him via werewolf (however you want to slice his motivation, the end result would have been murder, maiming, or chronic disease) because Snape didn't know his place.

Snape, a desperately poor Northern boy, didn't defer to Potter. Sirius Black deferred to James Potter from the first, but Snape didn't. It was a coddled lordling up against the laborer's son and the trade laborer's son basically said 'Up yours, arsehole'.

And I wonder just how much that rankled, that this unkempt, poorly socialized scholarship student didn't know he was to bow and scrape to the Old Etonians? That he wouldn't accept their inherent superiority. How much of this was based in classism?

Note: I'm not super anti JP or SB. I just would rather not deal with their more rabid fans. I also find the class constructs of the Wizarding World fascinating. And if I got something wrong about classes because I'm not English, please correct me.

first line game

My thanks to @lastontheboat for tagging me! It might’ve taken me ages to get to it, but I do enjoy tag games immensely. This one was rather neat!

Rules:  List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line. Then tag 10 of your favorite authors!

1. That Sort of Man - Severus Snape did not enjoy social gatherings, and he loathed being the center of attention.

2. Devious Darling Delights - Draco stepped into his office and shut the door against the mid-morning hustle and bustle that was the bullpen of the DMLE at the Ministry of Magic.

3. Exothermic - Your laugh wraps around me like a blanket, warm from the heat of our bodies in sleep.

4. Brought Low - I remember the day you left.

5. His to Adorn, to Cherish, & to Keep - Draco Malfoy was everything that his husband, Harry Potter, was not.

6. Head Full of You - Harry paused as he caught sight of himself in the mirror.

7. Our Love Language - When I dream of fire,/ I wake to the memory/ of your hand reaching for mine.

8. These Scars We Bare - Harry swirled the solution in one of the trays at the work table in his dark room, waving his wand in a pattern he could’ve done in his sleep at this point in order to completely saturate the photograph currently soaking in it.

9. Only Everything - “What do you want?”

10. Explosions of Varying Magnitudes - “Does that hurt?!”

11. With Loving Care - Harry smiled warmly at the sight of Severus at the hob, fussing with the kettle.

12. Things Worth Doing - Harry glanced furtively over his shoulder towards their currently silent cottage, all the windows dark with Severus having gone to bed hours ago.

13. You Fill My Empty Spaces - Harry tossed back the shot, the liquid burning a path down his throat as he swallowed and slammed the glass onto the bar counter next to several of its empty fellows.

14. Contents Under Pressure - Harry knew that he and Malfoy weren’t exactly enemies anymore, but this was a bit much if you asked him.

15. My Hands in Your Hair - A stream of muttered cursing caught Harry’s ear as he was passing the door to their bedroom, so he paused and poked his head in to see what had Draco in such a snit.

16. Meant to Be - “It’s you,” Draco breathed, his eyes wide in a face drained of color.

17. Minor Adjustments, As Needed - Harry stared at Severus, blinking slowly, his mouth working but no sound emerging.

18. Gifts for Stylish Gits and Reckless Heroes - Draco was going to murder Hermione Granger-Weasley.

19. Desideratum -  Effervescent.

20. Succumb -  Shaking hands.

Some of these are poems or microfics, so any weirdness or especially short ones can be explained away by that, probably. I notice that I tend to write a lot of Harry POVs, or at least start a story with him even if I write multiple POVs within a story. It really doesn’t surprise me that much, though. I relate to Harry the most out of all the characters I tend to write, so his perspective usually feels more natural. I also tend to start off with a character action rather than dialogue, so that’s kinda neat. It’s hard to pick a favorite opening line, but I think I’m going to have to go with the one from My Hands In Your Hair because it amuses me to no end. I’m honestly more intrigued by other people’s favorites. I always wonder which one of my works affect people and how.

There’s no way I’m tagging ten people for this, but if @triggerlil, @eletriptan, @manixzen, @blue-rose-smalls, or any of the rest of y’all want to play along I’d be super interested to see what your trends tend to be, if you have any!

Omg, @crazyconglasses thank you for the tag! I love merfolk, and this was so much fun! Of course it’s going to look nothing like me in actuality because where’s the fun in that when I could look like THIS:

I’m gonna tag @triggerlil, @sunnyeclipses, @welpslytherin, @withgreatelan, @moondraconis​, and anyone else who sees and wants to be a sea creature!

Live out your most fabulous mermaid dreams with this new picrew.

Tagging @slytherco @shealwaysreads @p1013 @eva-eleanore​ @tackytigerfic​ @caroll-in​ @sitp-recs​ @stavromulabetaaa​ @fw00shy​ @onbeinganangel​ @lqtraintracks​ @fangqueen​ and anyone else who wants to play!