rectober #2

[nerakrose]

banner by yours truly



Open For Repairs (34902 words) by FeelsForBreakfast
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Characters: Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Pansy Parkinson

Summary: After the war, Draco works at a tv repair shop and Harry breaks things.

feat. sad boys in jumpers and more ABBA than is probably necessary

Why you want to read this: absolutely perfect slow-burn ♥ this entire fic felt like a warm jumper to curl into and be comfortable in. it's just the right amount of sweet and light angst - the angst stems mostly from talking about the past. draco is lovely, harry is lovely, and it's beautifully written. my only complaint is literally that there wasn't enough ABBA, seriously.

I also want to draw your attention to a bunch of portraits that tumblr artist waricka has been making - each and every single one makes me go "!!!! YES. THIS." particularly her drawings of sirius and regulus. these are beautiful portraits and i'm completely floored by her sirius.

azkaban!sirius

tonks

regulus black

remus & tonks

astoria greengrass

bloodied sirius

more sirius

flower crown!sirius

flower crown!sirius, this time with a smoulder

lily evans



i'm also inordinately fond of these two drawings of age!accurate sirius and remus, by tumblr artist artofpan.

train station scene

learning to cast a patronus

Comments

[besamislabios]

Oh yeah, I've seen their art, they do amazing portraits, I reblogged Remus a few days ago. Love the one of Lily. and Sirius is very sexy! and Regulus too. :D

the age accurate ones are so wonderful, something they should've respected in the movies, instead of casting middle aged actors.

[nerakrose]

i'm pretty sure i have remus in my queue :D

yeah. not that thewlis and oldman didn't do a good job, but eh. it's on of many things that bother me about the movies. *shrugs*

[liljajune]

Told you :D If you have similar fics to rec, throw them all in my direction.

[nerakrose]

I'm not getting much reading done lately tbh. This and the other fic are the only fics for months. You're more likely to come across something than me :p

[liljajune]

The problem is that I only read recs, more or less. Either that or I come across something by pure coincidence. I don't actively search for fic. Too many bad fics obscuring the good ones on AO3...

[nerakrose]

hd fanfair is posting atm and I'm seeing a lot of recs from there on my dash, I think they have a rec collection post so you could check that out? Just a suggestion. I don't even have time to read any of the rs_games fics, I can't be reading my way through fests I'm not participating in v.v