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happy fucken anniversary
Jul. 31st, 2022 09:34 amthis year is the 25th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Today is JKR's birthday. When I found out last year that Bloomsbury were planning a special 25th anniversary edition of the book, I resolved to write a HP fic in which everyone is trans to commemorate the anniversary. in March of this year I started actually writing it, when JKR did yet another transphobic thing. I finished it last week and I waited until today to post it, for maximum level of fuck you. Not that she'll see it, but that isn't the point anyway.
so here, have a silly fic about a silly boy with a crush on another boy.
WILL HE / WON'T SHE or THE TRANS CURSE (4414 words) by nerakrose
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Pansy Parkinson
Additional Tags: Everybody Is Trans, Everybody is Queer, Trans Male Harry Potter, Cis Draco Malfoy, Fluff and Humor, Queer Themes, opinionated narrator, Harry Potter being the most well adjusted person in the room for once, Draco overthinking: the fic, Romance
Summary: Harry keeps doing that thing with his eyes and his mouth which makes it look like he thinks Draco is funny, even if Draco isn’t actually trying to be funny which means Draco is being unintentionally funny, which means Harry is laughing at him, and really, could Draco possibly sink any lower, pining for this guy of all guys?
When I was writing this I realised that I couldn't remember when was the last time I wrote a HP fic just because I wanted to, and not because I had committed to writing one as part of a fest. I checked my ao3 and the answer is 2018. I wrote a short crack fic (Ron/Cormac) during the writing of my HDBB fic, and after was when I wrote the poly!harry one shot. before 2018 I'd have to go all the way back to 2013 to find a non-fest fic, and that fic was written in response to a prompt (or dare) from a friend I've since fallen out of touch with. I have 51 HP fics posted to ao3, and of those 51 fics only 16 are non fest fics, though 2 of those 16 are still gift fics. so let's make it 14. Still, in the past nine years, I have written only 3 HP fics just because I wanted to and not because I'd signed up for a fest.
I'm not sure how to really feel about that. Yesterday I went through my abandoned wips folder and was shocked to discover how many fics were there, some of which have been living rent free in my head for years, some of which I'd forgotten I'd even started (and couldn't remember how I'd been planning to finish). Maybe I will actually finish that Percy/Oliver wip I started in 2017 and that I last touched in 2020. or the kinky Lucius/Narcissa smutfic I wrote in 2013 and is only missing one scene to complete. I don't know. It's not that I don't enjoy the things I create for fests (and I've been doing mainly gift exchange fests for this fandom), but writing for somebody else is not the same as writing for myself, and in the past handful of years when I've been writing in other fandoms it's mostly been fic that I wanted, and that scratched an itch for me, and I want that again for HP.
so here, have a silly fic about a silly boy with a crush on another boy.
WILL HE / WON'T SHE or THE TRANS CURSE (4414 words) by nerakrose
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Pansy Parkinson
Additional Tags: Everybody Is Trans, Everybody is Queer, Trans Male Harry Potter, Cis Draco Malfoy, Fluff and Humor, Queer Themes, opinionated narrator, Harry Potter being the most well adjusted person in the room for once, Draco overthinking: the fic, Romance
Summary: Harry keeps doing that thing with his eyes and his mouth which makes it look like he thinks Draco is funny, even if Draco isn’t actually trying to be funny which means Draco is being unintentionally funny, which means Harry is laughing at him, and really, could Draco possibly sink any lower, pining for this guy of all guys?
When I was writing this I realised that I couldn't remember when was the last time I wrote a HP fic just because I wanted to, and not because I had committed to writing one as part of a fest. I checked my ao3 and the answer is 2018. I wrote a short crack fic (Ron/Cormac) during the writing of my HDBB fic, and after was when I wrote the poly!harry one shot. before 2018 I'd have to go all the way back to 2013 to find a non-fest fic, and that fic was written in response to a prompt (or dare) from a friend I've since fallen out of touch with. I have 51 HP fics posted to ao3, and of those 51 fics only 16 are non fest fics, though 2 of those 16 are still gift fics. so let's make it 14. Still, in the past nine years, I have written only 3 HP fics just because I wanted to and not because I'd signed up for a fest.
I'm not sure how to really feel about that. Yesterday I went through my abandoned wips folder and was shocked to discover how many fics were there, some of which have been living rent free in my head for years, some of which I'd forgotten I'd even started (and couldn't remember how I'd been planning to finish). Maybe I will actually finish that Percy/Oliver wip I started in 2017 and that I last touched in 2020. or the kinky Lucius/Narcissa smutfic I wrote in 2013 and is only missing one scene to complete. I don't know. It's not that I don't enjoy the things I create for fests (and I've been doing mainly gift exchange fests for this fandom), but writing for somebody else is not the same as writing for myself, and in the past handful of years when I've been writing in other fandoms it's mostly been fic that I wanted, and that scratched an itch for me, and I want that again for HP.
