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Process & result pics under the cut :D A friend of mine did it for me! Well, friends' boyfriend, but he's definitely a friend now cos he spent hours on this on literally the second day I met him. Which was also the first day of Pride month :DDD

GUYS I LOVE IT SO MUCH IT'S SO PRETTY

( it doesn't take an intellectual )

Ahhhh! I truly thought I’d already posted about at least some of this, but that was during the only-sort-of-internet era, so apparently not. I AM A STAIN UPON MY FAMILY’S HONOUR. On the plus side, today is the last day of Christmas so it sort of fits????

I got really lovely Christmas cards; januarium and her husband A sent me one with a hilarious and horrifying injoke inside, enchanted_jae sent me sparkly giraffes, themightyflynn sent me DELIGHTFUL cheesy Aussie Christmasness with a koala in a santa hat, kitschful sent me white-and-silver-and-blue winter elegance and wishes for a less fucked-up world, knowmefirst sent me sparkly snowflakes, wickedblonde sent me elegant little Danish children getting some Christmas greenery, and writcraft sent me the cutest little doe <3 Vix, your card appears to have vanished at some point in the un-blutacking from my walls process :( But I remember liking it!!! And someone sent me a collage-y card with a Prongs on it, but I can’t read the handwriting on the name!!! Sorry! I like it a lot!

The Christmas cards were lovely and made me smile whenever I looked at them :D Which was a lot. Thank you all.

And I also got fic, because I am spoilt rotten :D

Midnight by alafaye. Harry/Draco; ~500 words; G. Summary: It's snowing on Christmas Eve.

This is for me and it’s SO SWEET <333 I love the slight sense of the numinous and creepy, which I think is a part of all the best Christmas things, and the acknowledgement that London rarely sees snow! And a family Christmas with Teddy coming, d'awwwww!

Showing Off by titti. Ron/Draco; ~1300 words; Explicit; D/s, exhibitionism & voyeurism, humiliation, spanking, bondage. Summary: Ron and Draco in a sex club.

OMG. So titti’s fic In Which Weasley and Draco Meet in a Sex Club is one of very favourite pieces of PWP ever - it’s taut and intense and dodgy and kinky and blazing hot, and shows why they’re both getting what they need from each other. AND THIS IS IN THE SAME UNIVERSE. Only even kinkier and hotter.

They’re in a relationship and back at the sex club, and they see Draco’s good friend Theo, and Ron loves humiliating Draco and Draco loves being humiliated, so we know what’s about to happen. I love Draco's uncertainty, and Ron being so ruthless in pushing his limits and Draco knowing there's just no escape for him - but then Draco's so happy and subspacey and the fluffy D/s of it all, I looove it. And so many perfect realistic details, like the way the bondage keeps him off-balance.

Also, Ron talking to Draco's friend like they're good mates and discussing Draco's arse? I CANNOT. I CANNOT AT ALL. And omg Ron giving people permission to touch him then sending them away ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Hi guys! I know I’ve been silent for MONTHS, which is crazy for me; it’s been lots of work, then lots of social stuff, then lots of erised fic-writing. But I wanted to post about this: this weekend my BFF Miss Godfrey got married. The wedding was beautiful and sparkly and full of joy, just like her. I was a bridesmaid and it was a great day :D

I spent my Friday rushing around between work and bridesmaid errands and things still didn’t really work, because I am a flail. The zip had broken on my dress, and the dry cleaner’s I got to iron it had lost the belt, and I forgot my bouquet and didn’t realise until I was at the B&B I and the bride & family were staying in - in Norwich, the city where we went to uni and the bride and groom met, two hours by train from London. ARGH. Tiny bit of a meltdown at 2a.m. that night, however much I reminded myself that it’s not possible to ruin a wedding unless you’re one of the people getting married.

But actually ( it was a really wonderful day )

The downside of having a working sleep schedule for even a couple of days seems to be that I can’t nap. Which is sad because I love naps and I’m fucking exhausted. I have a touch of tonsillitis I think (my body is a wonderland for that particular disease - I’ve had it upwards of 15 times in my life and I’m 27) and I’ve been working a lot.

Which on one level is great - not least because I can’t think of another month in my life thus far where spending £200 on tickets to see Cursed Child one more time would be a detour on my paying-off-debt goals but totally possible as opposed to massively out of reach. BUT IT IS AND I’M GOING AND I’M SO EXCITED. :DDD The cast is changing very soon, and while I’m sure the new cast will be great, I’m so grateful I’ll be able to see them all again. Noma and Jamie Parker will be especially hard to replace in my heart.

But oh god I’m so tired. ( bit about work )

I missed you! I’m so sad to have missed the sign-ups for H/D Remix and HP Threesomes and to not have had anything in the Ron/Draco fest. But life’s been very busy. Before my epic work weeks, I’ve been Doing London all over the place. Which is nice! Because London actually has a lot of free/low-cost-for-what-it-is stuff, and doing them is part of what makes the rent and the air pollution and the noise one thousand percent worth it, so that I can’t imagine loving anywhere else like this.

I went to the British Museum’s Crick Crack Club collaboration. ( storytelling, a musical, Hidden Figures )

I saw a rock musical about Lizzie Borden and Get Out as well, but that’s another post.

That was stunning. Truly one of the best pieces of theatre I've ever seen; maybe the best. And I see quite a bit of theatre. As a production in itself it’s slick, funny, emotional, brilliantly put together. And I loved the story.

I can totally see why I heard a couple of people say they thought the idea sounded silly or “like bad fanfic” but as I thought at the time, "a lot of great theatre would sound ridiculous if you just explained the plot”. And yeah. I’m now reading the script and again, I can easily imagine how that would be “meh” which I’ve seen several times, including from non-fandom people - but in performance it is honestly BRILLIANCE. The script, as a friend of mine said, is maybe 5% of everything.

Sorry, I’m aware that I’m very lucky to live within thirty minutes of the West End, and that is probably a really annoying thing to hear. But it’s true.

I’m going to assume you’ve read or seen the play, but if you want me to explain stuff in comments I totally can!

This turned out to be many many words, so I’m going to put it in two parts for all our sakes. This is the stuff about specific characters, and then the next post will be everything else.

( okay, SO MANY SPOILERS )

gracerene and alley_skywalker both tagged me in the Five Things That Make Me Happy Meme. Since I got tagged, I’m also going to do ( Five Things That Have Improved My Mood An Improbable Amount This Week )

Anyway. Those are all RL things, so more (mostly) fannish things… ( Five Things That Make Me Happy )

You guys, my Kinky Kristmas fic. It is GLORIOUS.

It's 2.5k of kinky Harry/Draco and you should check it out immediately: Hold You, Touch You, Feel You, Always by (as it turns out) unbroken_halo.

I asked for intentional ignoring/neglect with Draco pairings, because I thought that would be interesting given his love of attention. And I LOVE what Halo did with the prompts. This is kink within an established relationship, which I love to pieces (they have a routine, they trust each other completely, Draco suggests something new) and then something happens which is SO RARE in smut and so lovely: the kink, once they try it, turns out to not suit them at ALL and it’s a bit of a disaster.

And then they reconnect via hot sex :D

It’s amazing how clearly a whole relationship and dynamic comes across in such a short fic. And I really love Harry as an indulgent, sweet dom - he’s such a nice boy, I adore it - but also steely about having his way on certain things, eg making Draco come himself after having ignored Draco. (At his request, but still.) SERIOUSLY IT’S SO HOT AND LOVELY AND REAL GO AND CHECK IT OUT.

On the subject of kinky fests, there’s still time to claim a prompt (or your own) at hp_kinkfest. I’ve claimed an own-prompt, and I’m keeping some of the prompts left there in reserve in hopes of having time. Now I’m going to self-indulgently show you the prompts I left in hopes of tempting one of you terribly talented lovelies :D I forgot how fast prompting closes, so they were SUPER LAST MINUTE and therefore probably even more id-tastic than usual.

( check out the (occasionally non-consensual) kink under here )

All states of it.

kitschful asked for five things that always make me smile, and why.

1. Love memes. I mean, I always love them - there’s an email in my gmail titled ‘to cheer you up’ with a link to my thread in a previous love meme, and I have found it before when feeling low. But I am especially in favour of them right now :) I know some people may end up feeling sad and left out, which is terribly sad (and one of the major reasons I strongly encourage putting up one’s own name). But seeing everyone leave love for everyone else is just delightful - I beam seeing it - and it’s actually incredibly fun finding threads and telling friends you love them. And this one has been extra-lovely, because it’s grey and bleak and cold, and because LJ is so much quieter these days and yet - look! 650 comments and it’s still going!

2. Yo!Sushi. Delicious food, a system that caters to all my worst instincts for variety and excess, bright colours - and I associate it with happy things, like cinema trips with nixied, and hanging out with son_of_darkness and hot_jupiters or creatore_magico and drazzi, and introducing Miss Godfrey to cool stuff in London, and being back in the UK where they don’t put icky seeds all over their rice. *glares meaningfully at Vietnamese sushi*

3. Cats, especially my boy Smudge. Cats! They’re so cute, so adorable, so darling, so CUTE! And they’re often wary of new people, so if you can make friends with them it’s an extra triumph! Sometimes they sniff spicy human leftovers and sneeze! Smudge used to follow me on my paper round! CATS!

4. Singing along to Disney films with my friends. I love my friends! I love singing, despite being not terribly good at it! I love Disney films! Usually, anyway. It’s really fun :D This is why for my twenty-fourth, given the strong possibility I will still be living at my mum’s house in a month (bah) I will have a party that involves asking for my own DVDs of Disney films and having everyone hang out in my sitting room and chat and sing along to Disney for many hours. With booze!

5. Spanking. Oh, kink of kinks. A filthy grin always appears on my face when I see that warning. HELL YEAH.

This has been a fantastic, busy week. First was the Hallowe’en Weekend, known in infamy and awesome as ever. It was small this year - seven people plus a fleeting visit from the glorious silvernatasha - but as much fun as ever. Lots of communal time, and lots of chatting with people who I usually am sad not to have spent more time with, and interesting new board games made a million times more fun by the players, and lots of delicious food. Plus wickedblonde in a corset, morettaallstar bringing fandom awesome and undergrad gossip from our uni, and cthonya doing a reading of this excellent Narcissa-convinces-Lucius-to-send-Draco-to-Hogwarts fic.

tuwahine, PLZ SEND ME THAT FIC YOU’RE WORKING ON. I YEARN FOR MORE OF YOUR WORDS.

Plus we did a Sculpture Trail in the local woods, which involved exploring and looking for these cool artworks that told the Pendle Witches tale. And there was a lucky dip, and I am now the proud owner of orange socks with bats on them. FTW!

Next year looks like it’s going to be paroxysms of delight; I am left to try to justify a return flight from Ho Chi Minh City to London...

( ALSO ALSO ALSO. I HAVE LIKE, INSANELY AMAZING, GENEROUS, CRAZY FRIENDS. )