💌 Matters Of The Heart By Nerakrose (G, 5k)

Welcome to the second instalment of G to E, a series where I share themed drarry fic recs. Each list has four entries, to cover the four main content ratings used on AO3.

Today’s list theme is epistolary!

💌 Matters of the heart by nerakrose (G, 5k)

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Married drarry! Draco and Harry’s lives feel so lived-in in this fic; there’s career busyness and yearning for closeness and above all else, affection. Deeply romantic, I particularly love that their letters also reference the letters of historical couples (magic & muggle, both), positioning letter writing as a longstanding queer tradition!

💌 Per my last letter (I hope you choke on it) by @fluxweeed and @lastontheboat (T, 10k)

Dear Mr Potter, The answer is, and will remain, a no. Sincerely, Draco Malfoy Accounts Manager, Phoenix Press Or: the one where Harry has writer’s block and Malfoy isn’t helping.

I deeply relate to this author Harry, who’s trying to avoid working on his new novel. Arguing with Draco, of course, is the ideal distraction! This fic is delightful, and the epistolary format hints at the state of the wider magical world in a super clever way; through scribbles on napkins, fruitless job applications, and fun with anagrams.

💌 AITA for being "obsessed" with my childhood nemesis? by @rainstormradish (M, 4k)

Alrakis • I [24M] attended a small boarding school in the UK. There was a boy in my year, a couple of months younger than me, and he became my nemesis after we developed an intense rivalry. My friend [25F] told me recently that our dynamic was "weird back then" and that "it’s even weirder" that I still think about him today. She argued that I talk about him all the time, but I believe the amount I talk about him is reasonable. AITA? prongymcprongface • i completely get what you mean. i had a nemesis (like a school one, separate to my other nemesis) and we had a dynamic super similar to what you are describing. having a nemesis is a very cool and normal thing dw about it. NTA In which Draco asks the internet if he's being reasonable. Only one commenter is sympathetic. They start talking.

What would happen if Draco and Harry got internet access? They’d alienate everyone on Reddit apart from each other, of course! This is such a funny, brighten-your-day fic, told entirely through Reddit posts and text messages. It shows that Harry and Draco are weird about each other in the same way, and always have been. No one matches your freak like a nemesis!

💌 Pages of You by @wolfpants (E, 101k)

Summer, 1980. Harry is floating between university and becoming a Real Certified Adult. He's not ready. He really isn't. In a desperate attempt to have the Best Last Summer ever, he takes a casual job at his godfather's bookshop in London, starts an illicit pen pal affair with a wordy posh boy that he's catching feelings for, all while dealing with the son of Sirius's business rival, one Draco Malfoy, insufferable know-it-all extraordinaire. A story about trying to figure out who you are, where you're going in life, and who you want to take along with you.

Wolf’s epic non-magical AU has so much to offer (queer community in the 1980s! The trials of new adulthood! Background wolfstar!) and the epistolary element is no exception. The letters in this fic are used really skilfully to explore identity and expectations, and Draco and Harry’s personalities are perfectly reflected in the way that they write. The slow build of intimacy and trust is gorgeous!

Metamorphosis

When Draco awoke in the morning, he found that he was a beetle, and not a particularly dazzling one at that, with a dull black coat and ridged legs so brittle that he almost snapped one trying to get up.

“This was going to happen sooner or later,” Pansy said when she caught him scuttling down the hall toward the bathroom. When he made no word of response except to clack his claws together, she picked him up and asked, “What are you going to tell Potter?”

Potter was Draco’s parole officer, and he didn’t find it funny at all. He harangued Draco to “transform back” for five solid minutes before taking out his wand to cast Finite Incantatem over and over and over, as though it was sheer lack of will and not some bloody blood curse that confined Draco to his hard-bodied shell.

“I wish you’d say something,” Potter said an hour later, his throat dry.

Potter took him home that day, handing him off to Pansy before Flooing the rest of the way to his own home.

A week passed with no change. Pansy left out a bit of milk and bread for him every night. On Saturday, she asked if he couldn’t set her up with a weekly allowance from his vaults for his expenses. “Nothing big,” she said smoothly, presenting him with crisp scrolls fresh from Gringotts and an ink pad for him to press his forked claw into, to sign.

“How long is this going to last?” Potter asked Pansy when he dropped Draco off again the following week.

Pansy frowned. “What do you mean?”

“This — thing. This insect thing.”

“It’s a blood curse, Potter. It lasts forever,” Pansy tutted dismissively.

Draco rather agreed with Pansy’s assessment, but still, Potter came by, week after week, neverending with his questioning: “Black or Malfoy? Are there any records? What species—” as though Draco’s condition wasn’t so hopeless as long as he didn’t stop trying to change it. As though, after all these weeks and years, Draco could still change.

It filled Draco with an idiotic kind of hope.

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For today’s @drarrymicrofic prompt, metamorphosis!

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1 month ago

and i will be loathing

for forever loathing

truly deeply loathing youuuuuu

my whole life long!!!!

it’s been a Long time since i last posted…. so sorry guys

i made this when i was going a little crazy about elphaba and this song and i had to draw something or i would’ve combusted

i love fem drarry… i’m obsessed with them so expect more drarry yuri fanart

also here’s the unfinished yaoi version that i made just a few days after because i just couldn’t get it out of my head 😭 but i don’t like it that much because draco looks too much like lucius for my liking…

today the song is a repeated one… next fanart there’ll be a new one trust 🤞🏻

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3 months ago

SNOGGING !!! ;3

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3 months ago

environmental storytelling

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abandoned wip, but I still find it cute (fem drarry)

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why would you attribute draco being unable to cast a patronus to him having an awful childhood and therefore no happy memories to pull from when it is soooooo much more interesting to explore the idea that he's someone who was so uncomplicatedly happy for so long that he didn't value those moments enough and when he DID finally gain perspective through suffering he was so traumatised that he struggled to remember anything except the bad things

like is it easier to say lucy bad draco sad case closed yeah but is it also the most boring shit in the world. mmmyeah

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