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Sometimes I think how funny it is to think how notoriously affectionate Harry could be when he likes someone and how easy it is for Draco to not be able to resist spoiling his crush (as well as how spoiled he becomes).

Like a lot of other authors/content creators in the HP fandom, I am feeling a sense of heaviness over the rulings that happened in the UK and feel the need to speak on my (albeit very complicated) feelings.

What JKR is doing is terrible. It will ruin lives. It will end lives.

If you feel like that is being hyperbolic, please go look up the suicide rates for the trans community. It's a staggering number and it only grows as people seeking information, comfort, and support are locked out of proper resources due to heinous legislations like the one passed yesterday.

It saddens me too because I know that so many in the LGBTIQA+ have found characters/stories in the HP universe that have spoken to them and helped to understand their personal journeys---only to have that comfort ripped away by the very person who created them.

If you can permit me to be personal for a second: My brother is trans and before/during his transition (this was early 2010s) he always cited Remus Lupin as one of the foundations for coming to terms with his trans identity because he saw some of his own internal struggle in Lupin's character. He even went so far as to write a letter to JKR (which, thank GOD he never sent...) thanking her for creating a character that aided him with the complicated feelings he had when there were no other resources for him.

My brother is now a psychologist specializing in the young trans community and speaking to him recently, he has said that he comes across this same story constantly and each one ends in tragedy because that little piece of solace and comfort was not just taken from them, but told them that no, actually. You thought wrong to see yourself in this character. You don't matter.

Watching what happened yesterday and knowing the long history of bigotry JKR has spouted for years now weighs heavy on my heart every time I step into this fandom and often I question if I should still contribute to it. I know it's not much, but I would like to share some of the things that keep me going--even when it all looks really fucking bleak:

Fanfiction and fanart are, at their foundation, anticapitalist works--and can be used to fight JKR's agenda. By consuming fanfic/fanart zero money goes towards JKR. None. And further, JKR has no say in how you use her characters in these spaces. So, if you want to use these creative outlets to uplift trans voices, please do! Support trans writers/artists and urge them to PERSIST--because I promise you nothing is going to tick off the ole' bitch more than trans bodies/ trans supporters writing her characters.

Just because the writer is the devil, doesn't mean the art has to be. I won't go into the concept of "death of the author" because I think it can be pockmarked to hell with various examples, but what I DO subscribe to is that once the art is out in the world, it is now owned by the person who consumes it. To put it simply: when I read HP I am POSITIVE I imagine characters/settings differently than the person next to me. It's the beauty of the imagination: the creator can give us the blocks but how it is built is contingent on how WE perceive it.

Did I mention money? DON'T GIVE IT TO HER. Buy the books/movies second hand. Pirate the media you wish to consume around the fandom. Don't give her any reason to give any more hate funding and instead send that money to trans communities and groups who need it (they REALLY need it.)

Maybe I'm naive to say this, but I don't think interacting with the story as an art form is bad. She invented it, sure, but she isn't in charge of what goes on in my brain. If anything, this fandom NEEDS the trans community and supporters within it because not only can they push back, but they can educate those who otherwise are listening to the author. Don't let her win the space even though she's the author. It's no longer hers to have.

If you are someone who wants to leave the fandom because you can't bear to watch her continue to destroy it--I completely understand. But, as someone who has been in this fandom for over 20 years, the one thing I've learned is: besides monetarily she doesn't own shit. Don't let her take what you love from you and don't let her get away with scaring people out of their community spaces. Support and love our trans brothers and sisters and enjoy your HP despite it all. The things you love are worth fighting for.

Alone and together living the day looking to the future

|| I dusted off this drawing that I had of them and that for some reason I lost and couldn't finish it completely, but seeing it I thought that the sketch is cute and I hope to do something with it in the next few days. I miss doing some comics, if only I were a writer, but I hope to find more nice jobs to which I can give my love. Maybe now I'll be encouraged to reread it.

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It is not the first drawing of the year, but it is the first one that I finish. It is based on a photo from a trip that I saw and liked, at the same time I remembered reading a Harry and Draco using the subway in London, Where did it go?

Anyway, smile for the camera

I finally made the cover for one of my favorite fanfics "The Ordeal of Being Known" by louisfake (@lou-isfake), which is currently being translated into Ukrainian by the wonderful DrAri!

Ah, this fic feels like going to therapy~ And the relationship between these two is developing nicely there~ I love it!

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So I'm following "Agatha (Everywhere(?)" or something like that and I thought of a little story, one of those stories that never ended : D

Some divergence in the cannon, as it occurs in their sixth year in which Draco is somewhat strange to how strange he already is for Harry, As for Harry and the need to excel in potions class leads him to have to study with Draco, which is unexpectedly accepted by him because, well Well, it is something that the teacher asked him for and it serves him well to approach this.

So classes begin, being quite boring, but it is still surprising to see Draco in a role of teacher who, to Harry's surprise, knows everything about potions. It's not that Harry didn't know he was good, but it's a little disturbing that he's reminded of Mione.

(⁠｡⁠ﾉ⁠ω⁠＼⁠｡⁠) BUT THEN, Harry inexplicably and unsurprisingly, begins to feel attracted to Draco Fucking MalfoyCould it be due to reaching that age? To all the experiences that overwhelm him in the middle of a war? Or is it too much intimacy for two rivals to agree to be there? It is not known.

The only thing that is known is that, well, whatever is emerging is remarkably something that does not happen to just one person.

I've been reading fics almost daily lately that I kind of lost track of what the origin for this was. However, the vague answer is just OH NO, LOVE IS UNCONTROLLABLE!

Soooo... Draco has realized and Harry just lets himself be, I need more of that, of fear and faith.

(My strokes may overflow, sometimes I feel like those labels "Not beta, we will die as men", it's almost the same, just jump in and I feel it)

it feels something like this🤭🤲💖

Harry + Draco