Quibbler's Queer Quills Pride Fest Presents:

2021.03.31

Complete fics posted on AO3 this day

1. Cupboard Love by @shealwaysreads [G, 4k]

►Harry’s life, and love, in food.

2. A Face Of Stone by @drarrymadhatterstuff [T, 2k]

►After Astoria hits Draco with a rare curse, the unthinkable happens. While Draco spends his days determined to find a cure, the Wizarding World pays tribute to their fallen hero, Harry James Potter.

3. Fallen Angel by TempestEDashon [?, 21k]

►The war is coming like a speeding train but as hidden information comes to light, new ties are created, new friendships born, and Harry gets a chance to see the world around him without the blinders. How will he react to what he discovers and what changes will he make to ensure the salvation of those who need it most?

4. Ginny Doesn’t Know by @moonlitmaruader [E, 7k]

►Draco Malfoy has been secretly shagging The Chosen One for five months now. The only problem he’s having is that he can’t brag about it seeing as The Chosen one is publicly dating Ginny Weasley.

5. Who Missed Who More by Pajax [E, 4k]

►Harry loved his two-month-long internship in MACUSA but he was happy to be home. He was looking forward to being back in action alongside his partner, none other than Draco Malfoy. So what if he had a teensy-weensy crush on him?

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Fest/Exchange

★ HP Trans Fest 2021 | @hptransfest

1. Acceptance by Anonymous [T, 1k]

►Draco is dating Harry and is finally ready to come out to him as trans

2. Keep My Eyes by Anonymous [T, 5k]

►Unable to understand his own gender identity, Harry finds solace in a place where anyone can pretend to be someone else for the night, surprised he’s not the only one he knows that searches for the same release.​

3. Something Old/Something New by Anonymous [T, 2k]

►After Harry propses, Draco’s unexpected fantasies of wearing a fluffy Muggle-style dress at their wedding prompt a journey of self-discovery.

Oh the domestic vibes from this one! just such sweet fluffly love

Art: It’s A Whole Beautiful Mess

Title: It’s A Whole Beautiful Mess Creator: Anonymous Prompt: #167 Career Theme: Draco - Healer (Emergency Department) | Harry - Stay-at-home Parent Rating: General Warnings/Content Notes: Domestic Domestic, Fluff Romance, Family Family, Established Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Adopted Children, Family Dynamics, Potter-Malfoy Family, Digital Art Summary: Draco Malfoy is a healer and his life is already full when he move into a new apartment, only to discover his neighbor Harry Potter is in a complete chaos due to having adopt two newborns. After founding out his profession, Harry knocking on his door for every little thing about the twins became the normality, so much that Draco had to admit that in the end he was not upset at all. In fact, he ended up spending more and more time with the little family and eventually fell in love with Harry. Art Medium: Digital Creator’s Notes: This prompt was just too cute to pass on it! When I read it I immediately think I wanted to draw the babies so I tried to make a big, nice illustration that show all the mess and cuteness the way I imagine it.

( It’s A Whole Beautiful Mess )

Made for the Candy Hearts Challenge “Boogie”  @goodboylupin

I love Bellatrix and she’s perfectly in character

Fic: Madness in the Manor

Title: Madness in the Manor Creator: Anonymous Prompt: #33 Career Theme: Draco - Property Owner | Harry - Ghost Hunter Rating: Teen Warnings/Content Notes: Language and suggestion Summary: When Narcissa Malfoy uses a spirit board, she unleashes a negative haunting in the Manor. Fortunately, the London Paranormal Research Team, headed by Harry Potter, is here to save the day. Word Count: 4,525 Creator’s Notes: Many thanks to robinellen for the smashing beta job! ( Madness in the Manor )

Fic: Mind Your Manors - Hermione Granger/Lucius Malfoy, E/NC-17

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This entry is part of a fest posting from 6th July. Creator reveals will be posted on 1st August. Please read full tags on AO3 as some entries contain content which may be triggering. Title: Mind Your Manors  Creator: To Be Revealed Pairing: Hermione Granger/Lucius Malfoy Rating: Explicit/NC-17 Length: 5.8k Content: Dubious Consent, Rope Bondage, Hair-pulling, Vaginal Fingering, Rough Sex, Caning, Punishment, Begging, Orgasm Denial/Delay, Come Shot, Daddy Dom Summary: Hermione is caught sneaking around Malfoy Manor, Lucius decides to teach her how to behave. A/N: Beta’d by BDSM. Prompt: Self-prompt

Read ‘Mind Your Manors ’ on AO3

Draco and Harry are everything in this. Harry is gentle with Draco in a way that isn’t seen often. It’s the perfect amount of sweet.

Fic: Safe As Houses

Title: Safe As Houses Creator: Anonymous Prompt: #264 Career Theme: Draco - Magical Historian | Harry - Ward Builder Rating: Teen Warnings/Content Notes: Past Verbal/Emotional Abuse (not between Harry and Draco), Post-Hogwarts, Getting Together, Pining, Magical Theory, Pets, Magical Creatures, Epistolary (partial), Happy Ending, Protective Harry, Past Draco/Original Character Summary: After five years abroad, Harry’s thrilled to be home and working at the most prestigious ward-building firm in Britain. But everything gets turned upside down when he’s assigned to work for Draco Malfoy—who somehow grew up to be just the sort of sexy bastard Harry goes for. As if that isn’t enough, Malfoy seems strangely on edge, his wards are a mess, and Harry keeps feeling like he’s being watched in the garden. It’s going to take all of Harry’s ward-crafting skills—and self-restraint—to help Malfoy feel safe in his own home again. Word Count: 24,553 Creator’s Notes: For the loveliest @onbeinganangel, whose prompt provided the seed for this story. I hope you enjoy what grew from it. An excellent beta will make any fic better, and mine was no exception. Thank you, dear, for helping me smooth out the rough spots and untangle my convoluted sentences, and for lending me your particular expertise on a few things in the story. I’m very grateful for your friendship and support. And finally, three cheers for the wonderful mods who put on a smashing fest, year after year. ( Safe as Houses )

Its honestly so painful when the creator of something you love so deeply, rejects your very identity. It hurts. I don't blame anyone for wanting to leave the fandom at all. I keep hearing people say "if you hate j.Karen Rowling just leave the fandom" (okay, they probably don't call her that but i do 🙃) and if people want to, I get it completely. But I don't want to. Harry Potter is something that is a part of me now. It is a part of me as much as having been bullied as a child is, as much as reading to escape the real world is, as much as being queer is. It helped to shape me and I don't want someone else's hate and fear to take away something that I love. That happens enough in the real world and I don't want it in fandom. I reject that.

I've spent hours in thrift shops looking for merch (because I never buy new things if I can help it. This works out even better for me now.) I've devoted so much time to writing fic in this world and appreciating other fan creators and their works. I've got a huge tattoo on my arm showing my love of Harry Potter, a love I shared with the artist who created it. Without this fandom, I would never have met most of my closest friends. This is a big part of my life. It's something that's brought me a lot of joy and a lot of goodness, in spite of its problematic aspects.

If there's one thing I've learned from taking literature classes, its that you can be critical of a work and of its author and still enjoy it. Making that criticism, analyzing the text and the author's life and motives, can be part of the enjoyment. With literary analysis, you're free to take the pieces that have meaning to you and toss out the rest. You're free to connect dots within the story to create your own full picture. And if those dots include criticism of the author, that's OK. And if they don't include the author at all, that's fine, too. That's where I'm at right now.

Another thing that I think about with literature is that it doesn't hold much meaning for me personally unless I can put myself in it, unless I can move in and live there for a while.

Lord of the Rings is basically a story about people walking around the countryside until you feel like you're one of those people, wishing you could just stay with Tom Bombadil and ignore the rest of the world, wishing the ents would maybe be just a little bit hasty. The Stand is any dystopia until you're stuck in a tunnel heading out of NYC, hoping to get to Colorado. Or Vegas, depending on your inclinations. Hell, Ramona Quimby is any random kid until you're sitting in the lunch room with her as she smashes a raw egg on her head.

Harry Potter is just another story about magic and a child hero until you're stepping onto Diagon Alley with Hagrid, until you're brewing a potion in the dungeons and praying that Snape doesn't hate it too much, until you're kicking off on the Quidditch pitch and hoping your House wins. That kind of enjoyment doesn't come from the author at all. Their words have something to do with it, for sure, but it has more to do with our own imagination; it happens inside our heads.

And if there's one thing I learned from Harry Potter, it's that even if something is happening in your head, why on earth should that mean it isn't real?

I guess my point is that I enjoy Harry Potter by analyzing it, by being critical of the text and the author. (And I am critical of her. I hope that she gets some help for the irrational fear that she's propagating, but I don't think she will. She's not there yet, at the very least.) And perhaps more importantly, I enjoy Harry Potter by being a part of it, in a myriad of ways. By being there with Harry throughout the story, by writing about Snape, by looking at the incredible art that people create of the characters I love so much, by discussing it all with other fans. And that kind of enjoyment has nothing to do with she-who-must-not-be-named at all. It belongs to me and to the people I share fandom interactions with. That kind of enjoyment is ours alone.

Yes, she is toxic. And yes, she has hurt me. She's hurt people that I love and people that I don't know who have my love and support, nonetheless. But I don't need her. I reject her. That's not me being a snowflake or whatever you want to call me. That's just me holding on to something that is important to me. Her books, the wizarding world, would be nothing but paper and ink without the fans loving it and making it real, sharing it with our friends and building it in our imaginations. So this is me, this is us, taking our love and our imagination, taking our analyses, taking the pieces that have meaning to us, and tossing out the rest. This is us moving in and living there, free from hate, in the world we've become invested in.

And to the people who say "find another book to read"... I have. I've found a lot of them. But I like this one and I want to keep it. I divorced Anne Rice a long time ago for her treatment of fans, but I still love Lestat and Louis and Armand and Stella and Julian... This isn't new to me. It looks like ima do it again.

HP Trans Fest: Day 6 Works

For day 6, we have a total of three works!

First up we have a Cinderella AU featuring trans!Hugo, and trans!Hagrid as the fairy godmother!

Title: Only half of what I think I can be Pairing: Scorpius Malfoy/Hugo Weasley Rating: General WC: 7.5K Summary: It’s the night of the Ministry Ball to celebrate his mother becoming Minister. As hard as he tries to be the daughter his mother loves, tonight he can’t. He just can’t.  Link: AO3

Our second work is a matchmaker AU for trans!Snape and Harry Potter!

Title: Rat Skulls and Turkey Tails Pairing: Harry Potter/Severus Snape Rating: Explicit WC: 15K Summary: After a string of disastrous relationships, Harry reluctantly lets his friends submit him to a matchmaking service. He’s set up on a blind date, and is gobsmacked when his date turns out to be Severus Snape - who has changed a lot from their days at Hogwarts. Link: AO3

And lastly, a longer post war fic about Snape and her journey of self discovery!

Title: Love is a dress that you wear Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter/Severus Snape Rating: Explicit WC: 17K Summary: Ensconced in the slowly gentrifying Spinner’s End, a series of new experiences begins to make Snape reconsider who she is and who she could be. Just as she’s beginning to get comfortable with the idea of transition Harry and Draco come barging back into her life, bringing with them a love and a life she never thought would be possible. Link: AO3

Quibbler's Queer Quills Pride Fest presents....

Title: Nobody's Inn

AO3 Name: MalfoysMuggleMrs

Tumblr Name (if applicable): @malfoysmugglemrs

Prompt: "There is only one bed"

Pairing: Hermione Granger/Pansy Parkinson

Rating: E

Word Count: 6705

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Sharing a bed, Masturbation, Masturbation Interruptus, Pillow Humping, Explicit Sexual Content, Lesbian Pansy Parkinson, Bisexual Hermione Granger, Scissoring, Tribadism, Lesbian Porn, Literally and Figuratively, Cunnilingus, Enemies to Lovers, Dirty Talk, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Romantic Comedy

Summary: "There's only one bed." "I see that," snapped Hermione. Ron and Daphne's wedding weekend is far from smooth sailing. With cancelled reservations and a booked-up hotel, Pansy and Hermione begrudgingly share a space at Nobody's Inn: the adjacent Muggle motel with one room left.

Link: Nobody's Inn

Fic: Hey Spaceman

Title: Hey Spaceman Creator: Anonymous Prompt: #342 Career Theme: Harry - Astronaut | Draco - Flight Control Rating: Teen Warnings/Content Notes: Mild language, Pining while on different planets, Getting Together, Fluff Summary: Harry is one of the worlds most well-known astrophysicists. When the UK announced they were joining the space race with their own mission to Mars, Harry knew he needed to follow his dream. He just didn’t expect to fall in love along the way. Word Count: 13,012 Creator’s Notes: Thank you so much Prolix for this amazing prompt. It was basically made for me, it was my one requirement for signing up for this fest, it had to be an astronaut prompt. I thoroughly enjoyed writing this story and watching these men fall in love before my eyes. There were many times they were ready to profess their love for each other before I was ready. I listened to The Killers a lot while writing this, specifically Spaceman and Dustland Fairytale. Finally, thank you so much to my alpha and beta, without them this story wouldn’t have gotten completed. ( Hey Spaceman )