For The Palette Challenge I Was Thinking A Scene Of Them Cuddling Together In Front Of The Fire Or Maybe

For the palette challenge I was thinking a scene of them cuddling together in front of the fire or maybe Harry cooking and Draco playing sous chef in the kitchen! I'd love to see something in the amber safety palette. Your art is so lovely, Chuck. 😳💛

Has Santa shown up yet? What part are you at? Lemme see! Darling, I love you, but I will AK you if you interrupt me again.

Thanks, dear Maes! This was so much fun!

The Plans We Made

Author: Anonymous

Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

For: @sylvanandstarlit / sylvanandstarlit 

Word Count: 5,371

Rating: General Audiences

Content: Post-War, Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafes, Established Relationship, Domestic Fluff, Pianist Draco Malfoy, Barista Harry Potter, Snakes

Warnings: None

Summary:

After the war, it got easier for Harry to leave a few things behind and start to live with less. Luckily for Draco, Harry had already carved a place for him in his heart.

Read it now on AO3!

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may i request some drarry in the delicately palette? 👀 maybe kissing outside a pub illuminated only by a streetlight

I like when you let me feel tall.

Thank you moon! All my love!

Tag game

I was tagged by both @zzledri and @drarry-picrew! Thanks for the tags, y'all!

Favourite color: Blue! I love most shades of blue, but right now I'm really into sky blue and periwinkle.

Currently reading: Published fiction, I'm reading Meet Cute Club by Jack Harbon. It's really cheesy, but it's not too bad. Fanfic-wise, I'm reading Into the Deep by Ars_Matron. It's a Yuri on Ice fic, and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's a pirate AU! But fair warning, it's also an a/b/o fic if that's not your thing.

Last song: If We Can Get Through This We Can Get Through Anything by James Arthur

Last movie: Weathering With You (SO GOOD)

Last series: The Good Place (If you haven't watched this yet, I highly recommend it.)

Sweet, spicy, or savoury: sweet

Craving: macaroni and cheese

Tea or coffee: tea!

Currently working on: I am stalled out on a ficlet for a friend. Hopefully I'll be able to get back into it soon. It's a Drarry with the prompt: veritaserum.

This was fun! I'll tag @avaeryn, @bronwenackeley, @lastontheboat, and anyone else who wants in!

Miriiiiii. I am. A sucker. For veritaserum. Would you write me a veritaserum fic, pretty please??

My dearest Lep, it only took me a hundred years to fulfill this ask, but now that I have I thought I'd do it properly. Because who doesn't like a bit of shameless self promotion? 😁

Pairing/s: Drarry

Rating: Teen and Up

Words: 1698

Highlights: Friends to Lovers, Veritaserum, Love Confessions, lots of eye-rolling, and affectionate insults, And not so affectionate insults, And one filthy kiss

Warnings: none

Summary: Draco visits Harry unexpectedly, and he has something he needs to tell him.

Link: Read it here on AO3.

queer is literally a slur. like you’ve never been called that in a derogatory context like most lgbt people? you think your experiences escaping homophobia make it okay to justify the use of a homophobic slur?

queer is an identity.

it has also been used as a slur. there is no denying that. but using a word as a slur does not make it a slur. because before queer is a slur it is an identity. before it is derogatory it is a label. the use of queer as an identity is infinitely more important than the use of queer as a slur because the people who identify as queer are infinitely more important than the people who use queer as a slur.

say a lot of people decided they hated me. despised me. were disgusted by me to the point where my own name became a slur. would you tell me not to say it? would you tell me i could no longer be helena, and instead must come up with a euphemism for the name that belonged to me decades before it belonged in the mouths of bigots?

because that would make you an enabler.

you would tell me i can’t say my name anymore because some lowlife decided he could use it to insult me?

you would tell a gay man that he can’t be gay anymore because some teens in the early 2000’s started calling everything they didn’t like “gay”, and now he has to say “same sex oriented male identifying individual”?

does that enrage you? because it should. that’s exactly how you sound.

you are telling me i cannot use my label. you are telling me that when my great-uncle shouted until his face was red and he spat tobacco and the word queer at my feet, he was right. he was right to insult me, and i was wrong to say my name.

you are shitting on every single one of our predecessors. you are slandering every person who fought for their rights to exist and and be tolerated and be celebrated in their countries, every person who was lost to the aids epidemic, every person whose country criminalizes love and gender expression, every child whose parents abandoned them for straying from the norm, every person who was born and will die in the closet longing to be themselves. the queer umbrella is a safety net, a security blanket, the comfort of being known without being pressured to tell. it is near and dear and important as fuck to every member of the lgbt+ community and you are a blight upon the earth you walk.

how dare you speak upon my experiences with homophobia. how dare you disguise your own homophobia as activism. and how fucking dare you have the audacity to come to my blog and hide behind an anonymous ask and preach to me about how i’m oppressing myself. go look at the fucking wikipedia page for queer and read about how 1980s lgbt+ activists, especially lgbt+ people of color, fought to call themselves queer in a world that still hates peculiar things. and here you are forty years later spitting queer back at their feet.

i don’t give a fuck if people start using my name as a slur. my name is still helena. i will not change it. i chose it, i like it, and it belongs to me. it does not belong to bigots no matter how badly they want it. your discomfort with my identity is not my fucking problem.

i am helena. i am queer. die mad & go fuck yourself