Mise en Place is the perfect example of why Crow’s work is so fun to read. They do an incredible job of characterizations and nail both Harry and Draco’s hesitancy. Crow always writes situations that feel so real and plausible, which allows their characters come to life.
Whether you prefer cilantro or parsley (I like both, by the way) you’ll love Mise en Place as much as I did. Make your favorite comfort food, then enjoy this lovely and warm comfort read that will make your heart feel full like it’s just eaten a warm, buttery, and crisp cottage pie. And when you’re done with this fic, you should definitely check out his other stuff for dessert!
As always, if you find a fic you enjoy, please show your appreciation and leave the creator a kudos or a comment!
So glad to have @the-starryknight join me this week for our Happy Hour Rec!
I’ve long been a fan of Starry, from her own incredible writing to the lovely encouragement she gives to the Drarry fandom with her TLC Tuesdays! Just like everything else she does, her recommendation is equally amazing. Settle in, because you won’t want to miss Starry’s thoughts or this brilliant rec!
❤️ Lots of Love and Happy Friday ❤️
- The Drarry Librarian
When the Librarian reached out to see if I’d want to collaborate on a rec, I was so floored and so excited. I love seeing this blog around on my dash, spreading joy through recs and asks, and the weekly Happy Hour never fails to share brilliant pieces by beloved authors. Reccers are at the heart of community building, sharing resources and love for each other — and the Librarian does exactly that.
Today, I’ve brought a fic that is a few months old, by the brilliant @softlystarstruck When I was thinking about which fic to pick (and there are so, so many that are dear to my heart), I thought about the kinds of fics that tend to get a little less love. The Librarian has been working on some Historical AU recs, so… why don’t we go to space?
Every detail — from Starship Hedwig to Crown Prince Draco of Scorpius — fuses the world we know with this fantastical adventure in space, weaving these characters seamlessly into a believable new universe. This fic takes every Han Solo-Firefly-Trek universe fantasy and fuses it into a delicious, confident Harry. You won’t want to miss him.
“Crown prince or no, he could kill me and take my ship the second my back is turned. Though he did manage to fuck up piloting a Silver Swan, so that’s doubtful. He couldn’t handle a fraction of Hedwig. “You have to come to the cockpit with me though.”
The style is unique and sharp-witted.
Bee writes beautiful, warm love stories, with an eye for tenderness. In this fic, they manage that gentleness with a snappy edge through alternating Harry and Draco first person POVs. Each character is brilliantly developed, with subtle differences in their voices that make each shine in their own right.
“Yeah, I’m keeping him.
He just looks so lost, sitting in the chair with his fingers twisting around themselves. It’s obvious that he usually keeps his guard up– it comes across on his sharp tongue– but his facade keeps splintering and his panic spills through.
“There’s a one million unit reward on your head,” I say, and his body goes entirely still. “If you’re returned to Scorpius alive and unharmed.”
Yeah, it’s hot as hell.
There’s no other way to put it, this fic scorches! The dynamic here is hot, the way that they negotiate during sex feels sexy and charged with attraction, and really, you can’t blame Draco when Harry looks and acts like an even hotter equivalent to Han Solo.
“Poured out underneath my thighs, Draco looks like starlight made human. His pink lips are parted, and his breathing is shallow as he looks up at me. Stars, I’m going to make this good for him.”
Ahh hooray! So excited to share this rec and to collab with the amazing @thedrarrylibrarian. Thank you for sharing space with me, and for all the wonderful things you do for this fandom. And the rest of you, go read this fic
Harry Potter is just your average Parapsychologist. In conflict with his Department Head, D. Lucius Malfoy, and sometimes venturing into a paranormal world in order to help people in distress.
Who just happens to be surveilled by MACUSA and the Ministry.
This fic was bright and silly and incredibly fun. In this alternate universe, Harry is American paranormal psychologist, hunting down zombies (ahem, inferi) and ghosts and other mystical things much to the chagrin of his colleague and fellow psych professor, Dr. Draco Malfoy. After an incident, they’re forced to take anger management classes and something besides anger begins to simmer between them.
I understand this fic might not be to everyone’s tastes - if it sounds wacky, well, that’s because it is! But I hope you give it a chance, not in spite of its wackiness but because of it, which makes it feel fresh and new. It reminded me of that Roger Ebert quote about The Mummy:
“…I was cheered by nearly every minute of it… I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased.”
I was unreasonably pleased by this fic, cheered by every minute of it, and laughed out loud several times, which was exactly what I was looking for.
Another highly vulnerable group in situations like these, and another one I will illustrate a Tolkien character, landscape or OC of your choice for in return for a direct donation (by donating directly to the crowdfund link, not through paying me! Just message/reply what illustration you would like, and donate independently).
See pinned post for examples of my work.
The fundraiser was organised by LLM students at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland.
If you need more motivation, I will draw a Tolkien character or OC of your choice for a donation of at least 10 pound to the Romani Ukranian refugee fundraiser I just reblogged (this one).
I’m having a bit of a stressful time in my own life right now so I can’t offer more than sketches (in pen, ink or pencil, up to you. might add some colour if I have time). I also don’t have the time to set up anything to check whether you actually did so, but I trust most people have something of a conscience to live with. If you lie about it know I despise you.
There are a lotof fundraisers going around at the moment, and you cannot expect me to reblog every one of them– this is a tolkien tumblr (on hiatus), you shouldn’t use a random tumblr as a source of news or orgs to donate to anyway, there are good journalists and organisations to follow for that.
But this one happens to support fleeing/displaced people in a very direct way, and even if they did reach their initial urgent goal their current ~2100 pounds is simply not much to support multiple displaced families for who knows how long.
it might take me 1-5 days to upload your character sketch of choice because busy. But I will get to it. You can send an ask, message, or reply to this post.
summary: A series of vignettes centered on your relationship with one Javi Gutierrez, who tears you apart in the most wonderful way after stumbling into your life ten minutes before you finish your shift at Blockbuster Video. chapter summary: In which Javi takes you on vacation. rating: E [spoiler-ish for TUWOMT, SMUT, vaginal fingering, oral sex fem receiving, mentions of BDSM, slight intimidation by an asshole] pairing: Javi G x f!reader word count: ~2.4k note: All right. It’s happening! Thank y'all for sticking with this. At this point, the movie is important for context, particularly with Javi’s family involved. This one’s a little longer for certain reasonssss. It might also help to be slightly familiar with the movie Secretary, but it’s not, like, required. ETA I love @starlightmornings for the beta always.
Mallorca is the most beautiful place you’ve ever been. There’s no other way to describe it—it’s incredible. Javi’s cliffside compound overlooks the clear sapphire waters of the Mediterranean sea, and every morning you’re served café con leche with a side of fruit on the balcony of your apartment. Twice a week, Javi takes you to the beach. He insists you need the vitamin D, despite how often you sit poolside.
You think, though, it’s an excuse to be with you. It’s something he can put on his schedule and have Gabriela explain away to his father as a meeting. You have yet to meet his father, and as Gabriela explained it, it’s better this way.
“He is a foul-tempered man,” she said. “I would advise you not to wander.”
You’ve started to suspect that “olives” doesn’t exactly cover everything Javi works with, but you’re a little afraid to ask now.
Hi, all! I’m moving soon, and I have a metric ton of books that’ve been collecting dust on my shelves over the years that I’d rather not take with me.
If you’re a mutual or on my Discord, these are pay-what-you-want (including zero), though donations to cover shipping costs are appreciated, especially if you don’t live in the US.
If you’re not a mutual and not on my Discord, you do have to pay, but prices will be negotiable (and largely based on Amazon listings), plus shipping.
As for why I’m not putting up eBay listings, truth is, I’m trying to get rid of these within the next couple of weeks, and anything that doesn’t get taken will be dumped off at Goodwill or recycled.
If you’re interested, message me or send me a Discord DM, and we’ll work out the logistics! Please note that I’ll be away from May 22 to May 28, and the giveaway’s going until June 11. All books are first-come, first-serve.
Time zone reblog with an added pic of said books (two stacks, on the floor) because I realized it’s slightly sketchy to not have pics of the things I’m giving away/offering for sale:
-same drill, feel free to recolor but don’t include the mesh, don’t reupload and don’t claim as yours -as always don’t hesitate to contact me with any issues
The pre-launch page is live on Kickstarter! You can’t pledge yet, but if you’re interested in this project, please do put in your email address so you can get notified when it launches!
To give you something interesting to induce you to reblog, I present my answer to a question based on an unhinged Twitter thread: Were women’s pockets made small after the French Revolution to prevent assassinations?
Inspired by a rejection of perceived “artifice” in favor of “nature”, women’s fashion underwent a long period of simplification from roughl 1775 to 1805. Wide, boned skirt supports (paniers) were changed to simple pads by the end of the 1770s (except in English and French court dress), and the pads then shrank over the course of the early 1790s; bodices transitioned from having the decorated and highly visible stomacher inserted in the front opening to meeting edge to edge down the front and fastening with numerous pins or hooks, and then the closure shifted to the back, using drawstrings at neck and waist; sleeve construction slightly complicated between 1775 and 1780 to incorporate fitting around the bent elbow, then changed to a straighter and looser shape, while the shape of the armscye (armhole) went from a difficult-to-describe odd shape to a plain circle around the shoulder. And of course foundation garments shifted from fully-stiffened, low-waisted stays to lightly-boned and high waisted soft corsets, the waistline of the gown following. Essentially, it went from this (“A Lady in the Newest Full Dress”, The Lady’s Magazine, 1778) to this (“Afternoon dress for June 1800”, The Ladies’ Monthly Museum).
This shift began with a preference for styles considered “rural” - some based on what the English aristocracy wore on their country estates, some more fanciful - but then went into overdrive on inspiration from Classical artwork, resulting in the predominance of gathered and draped white fabric … and the contours of the figure being revealed when that fabric was moved by normal actions or light breezes. Large pockets could be worn with paniers or “false rumps”, but once the skirt became narrow and figure-revealing at the end of this period, they became awkward for the fashion-conscious. (The working-class woman continued to use the tie-on pockets for some time.) This is where we see the emergence of the reticule - the external pocket, or handbag. A conspicuously-carried reticule could be a great signifier of the owner’s wealth, taste, and devotion to fashion! One needed money to keep up with new styles, the construction and decoration of the bag showed off design sensibilities, and in its early days the reticule (also spelled “ridicule”) was mocked and might not be held by someone trying to play it safe.
To take this claim seriously, we would have to ignore the way that the simplification of the construction of women’s dress occurred over decades and that there was a broader cultural interest in visual Neoclassicism, as shown in architecture and furniture design in the same period. We would also need to accept that a sudden fear held by men would have a widespread impact on women’s dress. This latter doesn’t seem like too difficult of a proposition if you subscribe to the view that male opinions have controlled women’s fashion throughout history - that corsets were developed just to make women more sexually appealing, for instance, or that long skirts were devised to keep women dependent on men. But the thing is, that view is very outmoded and no fashion historian would support it. So this theory has arisen (or the similar one that inspired this, that men were concerned about women carrying seditious correspondence or literature concealed on their persons) among people who have not actually studied fashion history and are just considering what seems likely based on their impressions of women’s dress, gleaned from period dramas and ill-informed docents.
Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi x Female Reader (no y/n, no she/her)
Rated: E for Explicit, 18+ only
Word Count: 2.245k
Summary: A generous gift bestowed upon a very pretty desert hermit
Song Inspo: I Saw You Close Your Eyes by Local Natives
Warnings: female masturbation; cumplay if you squint (i have a brand to uphold here); female orgasm; male orgasm; clothed male naked female; that’s it for this one!
Author’s Note: I haven’t written in like 85 years. Anyways, this is set between Obi-Wan arriving and the events of Kenobi. So he’s not *completely* broken yet but… you know, he’s getting there. He deserves this :) Enjoy, share what you can, and be well ~
Hey guys, so I’m thinking about starting a new blog to promote fanart, fanfics, edits, and any other fan content from whatever fandoms I’m in/come across my dash. I think we need to support our writers and artists more because they are the backbone of all fandoms and they don’t get enough love and support
If anyone is interested in modding it with me, pls let me know! For this to have round the clock content and content from a bunch of different fandoms, I would need a little help dm me if you’re interested!! (It wouldn’t be a lot of effort, mostly reblogging stuff)
