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Masterlist of Fic

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Masterlist of Recs (all H/D)
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Er....that's really the whole point of the post? Hi! On Dreamwidth!

Making the move on account of the LJ server switch. And...here! Clearly, starting on a substantive note.

If you've made the move over here from HD/Fandom circles elsewhere, please say hi!! I don't want to lose touch with people in the proccess!

Happy birthday birdsofshore!!!! You are such a source of joy and humor and kindness and encouragement and thoughtfulness and enthusiasm and brain-meltingly hot smut wonderfully moving stories, and it is a constant delight to know you. Thank you for all you do, and all you give to all of us!! Here's hoping that you've got a wonderful year coming, full of good adventures and creativity and happiness. Below, a meager offering in fandom-style celebration of your birth. Hoping you enjoy, and wishing you a very, very happy birthday!!!

Title: Suit and Tied

Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Rating: NC-17

Word Count: 7k

Warnings/Enticements: Suit Kink, Leather Jackets, Banter, mildly dubious consent in the sense that no one gives verbal consent but mostly because they are way more into it than they are willing to admit, Blow Jobs, Face-Fucking, Rimming, Anal Sex, Office Sex, Light Bondage, Tension

Summary: Harry can’t get Malfoy off his mind. Or maybe he just wants to get Malfoy off. No, wait. That definitely isn't it. He just needs a few questions answered.

A/N: Many thanks to disapparater for a speedy and thorough beta! There was some post-beta tinkering, and any remaining errors are my own. Thanks too, to shiftylinguini for ensuring my ongoing attachment to this Harry’s leather jacket! And to birdsofshore, of course, for being born and giving me a delightful excuse to skive off for a bit and write smutty, bantery fic! While this is a sequel to Moneymaker, it is mostly smut so it can probably be read on its own!

On AO3

( Suit and Tied )

trying a thing where I crosspost meta from tumblr to LJ! also stil working on tumblr posts I promise!

So I was thinking about writing some femmeslash, yeah? Working on it, actually. In part because, did you know, in the entire universe of AO3 there are four fics where Angelina Johnson is in any sort of sapphic relationship? And one of them involves a foursome with the Weasley twins. And I like Angelina a lot, and dislike that state of affairs. And then was thinking about the existence of the femmeslash and ageism panel at Leviosa and thought maybe I'd write a different pairing, with adult women.

I couldn't think of any.

I asked about it on tumblr, and got a few suggestions: Angelina Johnson, Parvati and Padma Patil, Cho Chang, Hermione, the mothers of Blaise, Cho, Parvati, and Dean. But.

( I am not convinced. )

Is that representation? Can we say there are adult WOC in the Harry Potter series if their race is never confirmed (in a series where whiteness and humanness are not written in but everything else is) and/or they never appear on the page? Is there (maybe, hopefully) anyone I'm fogetting? Or is the HP series actually completely missing confirmed, speaking, adult WOC?

Previously on: Tumblr as a Coffee Shop AU: the shape of tumbr community

This time: setting up your tumblr!! deciding whether you want a tumblr account, usernames, primary blogs vs sideblogs, themes, and settings.

This post gets into a lot of the nitty-gritty of how to fine-tune the look of your blog and your privacy and communication settings. If you're not interested in those details (which is fine - you don't need to understand it all to use tumblr) stick to questions 1-2 and 13-15, and come back next time for more about how to find the content you want and the blogs you want to follow.

( 1. Do I want a tumblr account? )

( Q2-4. How do I pick and manage usernames? (image-heavy) )

( Q5-8. What are primary blogs and sideblogs, and how are they different? )

( Q9-11. How do I change and choose my tumblr's appearance? (image-heavy) )( Q12. What settings should I be aware of? )

( Q13-15. What are tumblr savior and xkit, and why do I want them? (image-heavy) )

As always, questions welcome!

leviosa2016 has been a blast!! So many thought-provoking panels, and so many amazing, fantastic, phenomenal, creative, excited, exciting fellow fans!!

One theme that's come up, particularly in yesterday's H/D Panel (which...still fangirling a little, ngl) but elsewhere as well is the continuing divide between tumblr and lj. As it happens, and as some of you may already know, I'm a bit of a tumblr enthusiast, and I've volunteered to put together a "tumblr 101" post (perhaps a bit like this but in reverse) for the great many people who are interested in exploring that side of fandom but are put off by the mysteries of how tumblr works.

While I think I got a sense for what people might find helpful, I'd like to put out general questions to anyone who thought of something post-panel or heard tumblr discussed elsewhere and open it to everyone who wasn't at Leviosa.

What would you like to know about how to use tumblr? What sorts of content do you want to find? (Fan art? Fic? Fic recs? Headcanon posts? Aesthetics? Meta? Gifs and gifets? fancasts?) What sorts of interactions would you like to have? Are there particular things you find confusing about the interface, community norms, anything at all?

It'll probably take about a week (thanks, work) to get the post up, and I suspect we may need more than one (which is fine!!! I am so, so, so, so excited about more people finding new fannish content and maaaaaybe hopefully becoming more active!!! Three exclamation points doesn't really cover it!!!) but please, ask away, and I'll see what I can do!


Also, to follow up on a few things mentioned over the course of the weekend, links to: my masterlist of recs (also available, though less organized, on tumblr), daily h/d quotes (which are also recs), my (more recent) salty tumblr rants, tumblr posts about representation, tumblr posts about queerness in the HP canon, the recent discussion about the term "genderbend," and my ask box for anyone who's got questions and wants to ask them on tumblr.

More soon! And please, ask away!

Title: Moneymaker
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 16.5k
Warnings/Enticements: suits, martinis, leather jackets, Draco in the muggle world, Muggle/wizard relations, Auror!Harry, Banker!Draco, Negotiations, Banter, Mildly Dubious Consent, Kink Negotiation, Blow Jobs, Face-Fucking, Anal Sex, Office Sex, Suit Kink, Praise Kink, Dom/sub undertones, Tension
A/N: This was my fic for the always fabulous dracotops_harry fest, and since it's been, oh, two months since reveals (*headdesk*) seemed a good time to claim it! Many many thanks to disapparater for the wonderful beta and britpick and support, to gracerene for the fantastically fun prompt, to birdsofshore for cheerleading and flailing with me, and to shiftylinguini for INCREDIBLE art to go along with this! (Have you seen it? You must! It's absolutely magnificent and I was entirely agog upon seeing it for the first time and still am, really.)

Summary: As a top trader, Draco has power and money, suits and cars, houses and good champagne - everything a person could want. So when Auror Potter comes looking for help, Draco can't think of anything that might persuade him to lend a hand.

Well...maybe one thing.

Here on AO3//Return to Part 1

( Moneymaker, Pt. 2 )

SO DAMN EXCITED about Noma Dumezweni as Hermione. Unequivocally really, really excited. I love the racebending headcanons and fan art on tumblr and love how widespread they've become. I love and very much appreciate that the writers and producers of The Cursed Child made this chocie, and I'm very excited for Hermione as a black woman to become an official part of the wider HP verse.

I'm also glad that JK Rowling came out in support of it. I haven't gone fishing for it (value my blood pressure, thankyouverymuch) but am given to understand that there was a substantial backlash to the idea that Hermione could be black, to which JKR said:
( Canon: brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione. (image under the cut) )

Which strikes me as important on a number of levels. That JKR is willing to wade into this and stand behind the choice and the actress, that she's explicitly refuting racist claims that Hermione can't be black for any number of bullshit reasons, and that she's affirming the fans who think of Hermione as black.

And I love these headcanons for a reason! They're smart and they're important and I see absolutely no reason why Hermione can't be black, and think some things about the series get way cooler if she is black.

( example of awesome headcanon under the cut )

But something about JKR's response is sitting uneasily with me.

Partly it feels like shades of Dumbledore again. "Oh, did I not mention? My books were full of representation, how did you not notice that?"

Partly it bothers me for the same reasons that the post-canon Dumbledore-is-gay proclamation bothers me: because if you're going to claim to have written representative characters, and you're going to claim brownie points for representation, you need to do the work of representation.

In the same general way that Dumbledore's sexuality changes the story, I can't imagine* that Hermione's race wouldn't change the story. There are some ways - like those mentioned in the headcanon above - that would give the story more depth and significance. But even if JKR is open to Hermione being black, I don't think she intended that originally** and there are parts of the book that read differently to me, not necessarily in a good way, if she's actually intended it all along. Things like
( what it means that Hermione is Muggle-born, her reaction to being called a Mudblood, what motivates her to fight Voldemort, S.P.E.W and house-elf activism, and hair-straightening at the Yule Ball. )

I'm not sure where all that leaves me. Still feeling really very excited that Noma Dumezweni will be playing Hermione Granger. Glad that people are being asked to question the assumption that the default is white. Happy that the qualities I think of as being most associated with Hermione - incredible intelligence, loyalty, conviction, skill, and moral integrity (and, for/from the audience, relatability and lovability) - are being assigned to a black character. That a black actress was picked to play a character who has all those qualities, and in a role that will almost undoubtedly be commercially successful. This is a powerful, important thing, and exactly as it should be.

But also, not believing that JKR really meant to leave Hermione's race open to interpretation. Feeling like if JKR did mean to make Hermione's race open to interpretation, she didn't really do the work of thinking through how race would have affected Hermione in important ways - like the source of her ideological convictions, her motivations for fighting, and her conception of her own desirability. And feeling like this kind of post-hoc representation doesn't work. That you can't retcon race, or sexuality, or any other number of identities, because those aren't boxes you check, they're real identities that affect the way we see and move through the world.

Maybe my tl;dr here is that while Hermione should be black, and definitely should be able to be black, Hermione wasn't meant to be black, and retroactively superimposing blackness on her character isn't as simple as waving a magic wand. (pun totally intended) Making as though representation is as simple as changing a character's skin color after the fact undermines the complexity and centrality of having a marginalized identity, and gives white audiences another reason to embrace the idea of colorblindness instead of having to examine how racial experience change one's experience of the world. At some point it becomes an act of erasure instead of representation, by reducing race to skin color (or any other number of identities to other attributes) instead of exploring the ways that living with specific identities, in a world where those identities create or limit our opportunities, changes who we are, what we do, and why we do it. I still want Noma Dumezweni to play Hermione. I still want to have a black Hermione. I want that very much. I just hope that as the team behind The Cursed Child shape the character, they consider what that means, in all its complexity.

But I don't know that I really do final thoughts on this. I am, however, very curious to hear what other people make of the casting choice. Thoughts?


( footnotes: why I think Hermione was intended to be white, Are Muggle-borns a disadvantaged group?, hat-tips, the role of class, epistemic privilege, things that suck are still real )

Title: Leather Bound Histories
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 9k
Warnings/Enticements: established relationship, Quidditch, uniforms, oral sex, face fucking, facials, dirty talk
A/N: My dear, dear birdsofshore, I have been looking forward to your birthday for ages for the excuse to jump back in to this universe, which was such a delight to create. I hope it brings some extra happiness to an already fabulous day, and that the year ahead is full of wonderful things. Happy birthday!!

Huge thanks to disapparater for multiple rounds of thoughtful and quick above-and-beyond type beta-ing, and to eidheann_writes and firethesound for brainstorming, tea, all commentary on tender loving face-fucking, and serious patience every time I needed just another half hour for blow jobs. And birdsofshore again, for being born, being wonderful, and serving as perpetual inspiration to make things just a little bit dirtier.

Summary: “Like the time you Vanished your favourite cock ring?”
“More like the time I Vanished my old Quidditch leathers.”
“The first time or the second?”
“The first.”

A timestamp to The Vanishing Department, occurring halfway between Chapter 8 (drinks, Dickens and bedrooms) and the Epilogue.

On AO3

( Leather Bound Histories )