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《Time-out》9-17

Happy International Women's Day!

I thought for a long time about how to congratulate you, because I didn't have any art ready. I have several sketches of this girl, but I decided that I would show you this very first one.

So, I'd like you to meet HARRY AND DRACO'S BIOLOGICAL Daughter.

*applause

This is only a rough draft, but I'm already thinking that I'm definitely going to give her black hair, thick eyelashes and eyebrows from Harry, and fair skin with light eyes from Draco. I'm also thinking that she should be a Slytherin, because I don't believe that the Melfoy family wouldn't want the first child of our newlyweds. Also, if you have any questions about the conception, I'm thinking about having it be a magical ceremony where Draco comes forward to be the one to carry the child. But it doesn't have to be. It could be surrogacy or something else. It's up to your imagination.

P.S.: oh, and what are we going to name her? Does Lily Narcissa Malfoy-Potter sound too much?

P.P.S.: Forgive my English if I wrote something unclear. Or weird.

There’s a reason why enemies to friends to lovers is my favorite trope.

You don’t own fanfics. They’re inherently public domain because they aren’t your IP. Agree or disagree with AI, there are no grounds for “protection” from AI because it isn’t your IP to begin with. That’s what you chose when you chose this medium

Oh dear.

Okay, you get an answer, because at least you took the effort to write your ask out properly, even if you are hiding behind the grey, sunglassed circle.

Do I, or any fanfic author for that matter, have any legal claims to our work? No, not really, no. (Although if someone took a fic, filed off the serial number--deleted the fandom specific elements--, and then had it published for financial gain, yeah, that would be a case.)

BUT

Fandoms are built on a social contract that says we respect each others work, the effort people put into their art. We don't steal or disrespect the work of our peers. By feeding people's fanworks to AI you both steal and disprect it, and we need to make people realize that before it's too late--before fandom falls apart, because there will be no more real, actual fanworks.

Disrepectfully,

Orlissa

(i can't believe I have to say this)

Microfic May: “Pathetic”

Day 4 of the unofficial Microfic May by @peachydreamxx and @uncannycerulean Thank you to @the-forbidden-forest for the alpha read!

“You’re pathetic,” Draco says. But there’s no bite to it. It’s not like how he’d said it in school, when he’d made a sport of riling Harry up, of looking down on him and his friends. Not like in Auror training—paired together as equal-opportunity punishment by a boss who disliked them both—when they’d taken the one upmanship to a new level, but somehow Draco always seemed to best him, spurring Harry to keep aiming higher. It’s not even tenderly mocking, like on their wedding day, tears streaming down Harry’s face after Draco had slipped the band onto his finger. “Pathetic,” Draco repeats, barely a whisper, as he hooks his chin over Harry’s shoulder to gaze down at the sleeping bundle in Harry’s arms. “How long have you been sitting here?” “Since he fell asleep. I just can’t put him down,” Harry admits, running the pad of his finger under the fold of blanket to reveal the face of their newborn son, nestled inside. Draco sighs into the curve of his neck.“I love you.” “That," Harry says softly, not a bit of bite to it, "is because you’re just as pathetic for me as I am for you."

Read day 3 | Read them all on AO3

please don’t spend your life convincing yourself that love or joy is reserved for the idealized version of you that only exists in the future

Also I've said this before but advertising is an industry that should be considered as pointless and harmful as fossil fuels.

i need the clip here actually

transcript:

Gem, moving Scar and Grian's heads around in REPO: [giggle] We could- we could play with them, like they're dolls. They should get married. Or fight it out. Somewhere.

They could get married. Scar's got like a tiara on. It's perfect. [moves Grian to a corner] We'll put him there, [grabs Scar] and then he can walk down the aisle. [starts humming wedding march as she pushes them together]

Skizz: Who's getting married?

Impulse: Who's get- Aww!

Gem: These two, look!

Skizz: Awwww!

Impulse: How cute! Can I be the best man?

[Skizz continues humming wedding march]

Gem: Grian, you may now kiss the bride.

Impulse: I'm Grian's- I'm Grian's best man.

[Gem picks up Grian, pushes him against Scar and makes kissy noises repeatedly]

Impulse: Skizz, you be the maid of honor.

Skizz: I'll be... I'll be, I'll be- WOW! I'm Scar's best man.

Impulse: That works too.

Gem: How many times is it too many times to kiss at a wedding?

Skizz: You know what? It's their day.

Impulse: Like-

Skizz: You let it ride.

Impulse: Yeah. Yeah.

Skizz: I want it- I want it to get so crazy that people in the audience are like "we should maybe leave"

Impulse: Yeah it needs to get uncomfortable

XI. Forgotten

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The end of the war wasn’t long ago yet it still felt like decades had gone by. Even further in the past were his early years at Hogwarts. Every once in a while, Draco would think back to the boy he used to be. There’s lots he felt regret for. 

But deep inside, he still sometimes missed him. The way he used to not have to worry. The future, something in the distance he needn’t bother with. Back then he felt on top of the world, untouchable.

Above all he felt jealous. The way his younger self could so easily feel joy in a way he would stop being able to. Angered at how it became like letting himself stop to bask in glee would sever his presence in the present. So those jubilant moments had to be hidden away.

Later to be forgotten. 

Or were they stolen from him?

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rb with your most common recurring theme in your nightmares. mine is pregnancy