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Plot Bunnies, Plot Chickens, Etc.

As a lot of people aren’t familiar with plot creatures, I thought I’d shed some light on the members of the mental menagerie…

The Plot Bunny - Story ideas that come bounding in and start multiplying.

The Plot Chicken - They squawk, flap around, and shit everywhere, but when you actually need to do something with them, they scatter.

The Plot Sloth - Takes its sweet goddamned time turning into something useful.

The Plot Mule - When you mash two plots together and get something cool, but you can’t get a sequel out of it to save your life.

The Plot Cat - Lazy little bastards who take up your headspace, scare away all the other plot bunnies, but won’t actually do anything except lay there.

The Plottweiler - Barks loudly and viciously so you can’t ignore it, distracts you from everything else you want to write, but leaves you too paralyzed with fear to actually put words down.

The Plot Squirrel - Cute, distracting, full of nuts, and just TRY to keep up with that train of thought.

The Plot Bedbug - Shows up during the night, chews on you so you can’t sleep, and disappears in the daylight.

The Plot Tick - Burrows in, bleeds you dry, and leaves you with the creepy-crawlies. Mostly preys on horror writers.

The Plotroach - Totally unappealing, but so tenacious they’ll survive anything until you finally give up and write them.

What Plot Creatures have you encountered?

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After having the conversation multiple times about how many people (myself included) had stopped writing for years until the Sandman on Netflix came along and grabbed us by the neck.

And after watching the screaming reactions to Good Omens season 2, (and all the meta and analysis and thoughts about plot structure, and suggestions for what makes sense for season 3.)

I have decided that Neil Gaiman's secret agenda is not the screaming or the angst.

I think his secret agenda is to make us all WRITE.

hello! would you have any protective draco recs?

Hi there! Sure, hope you enjoy these:

Sharing a Pack by sugar_screw (2016, E, 2.8k)

A fight. A fuck. A smoke. A small love story.

My Hands Are Of Your Colour by @ohdrarry (2020, E, 8k)

Sometimes spilled blood lingers on guilty hands. Draco sees red and Harry washes it clean.

The Eighth Tale by @letteredlettered (2012, E, 12k)

Draco Malfoy tries to fix the past, but instead mucks it up some more. For Harry, it all becomes quite clear.

Under Pressure by VivacissimoVoce (2014, M, 21k)

Harry Potter has quit magic and left the wizarding world. Draco, a top-notch Tracker, has been hired to find him and save his life.

The Snitch-Maker by Omi_Ohmy (2014, T, 21k)

Draco is content with his Snitches, with the tap tap tap of his hammer, and the tiny gears and sharp scent of metal in his workshop - until one day Harry Potter appears, asking for help to solve a rash of Snitch-tampering in the Quidditch world.

Nice Things by aideomai (2020, M, 22k)

The first thing that happened was Theodore Nott came back from France.

At the Crossroads There We’ll Meet by @firethesound (2014, E, 24k)

Potter keeps dying; Draco keeps saving him.

On Our Way by dynamic (2016, E, 30k)

Draco is trying to spend the summer keeping his head down, but a repair project and a certain snowy owl have other plans for him.

The Wand Slipped by @unmistakablyoatmeal (2019, E, 35k)

After a messy, public divorce and a disgraceful exit from the Auror Department, Harry is trying to rebuild his life as a private investigator. But when his ex-wife ends up in St. Mungo's, and Harry's tasked with finding her attacker, he'll have to confront the mistakes of his past, and rely on an old enemy, in order to get closure and move on, and incidentally, solve the case.

(Un)wanted by aibidil (2020, E, 36k)

Ginny's pregnant, then she's not and Harry's single. Harry, again with no family, doesn't know what to do with this turn of events, or how to find a new life—post-war, post-Ginny, post-abortion—in which he belongs. He doesn't expect that life to include dancing to the Backstreet Boys with Hermione and Draco Malfoy. A story of finding belonging in the unexpected.

Breathe In (and Feel No Hurt) by Constance1 (2019, E, 39k)

A tale of love, loss, and of finding hope again. Or the story of how Draco turned into a house-cat in order to secretly bother a depressed Harry Potter until he was no longer feeling sorry for himself.

The Four Doors by @fluxweeed (2020, E, 48k)

It’s been four months since Harry lost his memory. Four months of dead ends and no answers. With time running out until his memories are gone for good, Harry agrees to a course of Legilimency therapy with a renowned specialist: Mind Healer Draco Malfoy.

Chocolate and Pastry by agentmoppet, anemonen (2018, E, 50k)

When Pansy bets Draco that there is no chance he and Harry could carry out a genuine romantic relationship, he and Harry form a plan. But as their fake relationship progresses, Draco sees a side of Harry he never expected. Harry is struggling with something, pushing it far down inside him where he doesn't have to acknowledge its existence. Draco starts to worry, and then he starts to care, and then... horribly... he starts to fall in love.

Of Fates Entwined: A Story of Love Lost and Found by taradiane (2014, E, 51k)

Harry Potter vanished without a trace from his home on a warm summer morning in June 2004. This is the story of how a random visit in a cafe on the other side of the world, six years later, proved that the ties which entwine our fates together can never be broken.

Meet Me at Midnight by @the-starryknight (T, 57k)

Harry was beginning to wonder if he’d ever make anything again when Malfoy stormed through the door of Harry’s furniture shop. Now Harry’s got an impossible Ministry commission to finish, and even less energy than ever to deal with his elusive muse. That is, until he stumbles upon the surreal and beautiful world of a mysterious fae creature…

A Room Up There (And You In It) by @the-starryknight (2020, T, 59k)

When Preservationist Draco Malfoy was assigned to work on Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, he was excited to delve into the gorgeous Black family antiques. His excitement quickly ended when something in the House decided it did not like his presence one bit. Featuring a grumpy antiques lover who most certainly did not sign up for this, encounters with a vengeful apparition, and a healthy application of Christmas spirit.

I Am Not Who I Became by mab_di (2019, E, 93k)

Draco left England after the trials and has travelled the world meeting wizards and Muggles from different cultures and with vastly different relationships to magic, each other, and the natural world. Now he's a fisherman in Finland on commercial vessels. Harry has been struggling since the war and has become a recluse while trying to write his autobiography. An invitation to the Hogwarts class of 1998's 15th reunion isn't welcomed by either of them, but neither could predict how the night, and their reunion, will upend their lives.

Who we are in the shadows by @quicksilvermaid (2019, E, 100k)

What happens when you’re forced to become the very thing you despise? Ex-Auror Harry Potter, tossed out of the Ministry for something he had no control over, has been looking for a way back to his former life. When he comes across Draco Malfoy in the criminal underbelly of Wizarding London and in need of protection, Harry figures bringing him in to face the Ministry's justice is his ticket back to everything he's lost.

A Thousand Beautiful Things by geoviki (2004, M, 104k)

Draco Malfoy struggles with changed fortunes, shifted alliances, an ugly war, and an unusual spell, with the help of a concerned professor, an insightful house-elf, and an unexpected Gryffindor friend.

Any Instrument by @dictacontrion (2015, E, 131k)

Draco Malfoy wouldn't go back to England for anything less than an exceptional case. Being asked to figure out why Harry Potter can't control his magic might be exceptional enough to qualify.

By the Grace by lettered (T, 140k)

Harry is an Auror instructor. Malfoy wants to be an Auror.

Away Childish Things by lettered (2018, T, 153k)

Harry gets de-aged. Malfoy has to help him.

Hey, would you guys do me a favor and recommend your favourite Severitus fic but as found family trope on not bio dad Snape? Complete or Incomplete, it's all fine.

Thematic Rec Masterlist

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Timeline :

Book 1. Sorcerer’s Stone : Friends in early years of Hogwarts

Book 2. Chamber of Secrets : Draco has the diary

Book 4. Triwizard Tournament : Draco appears in the 2nd task  |  Yule Ball

Book 6. Sectumsempra : alternate scene

Book 7. Horcrux hunting : Draco with the trio

Hogwarts Era

Wartime

8th year   •   8th year Hufflepuff!Drarry

Draco’s birthday

Halloween

Christmas

Settings :

5+1 things

Bets & Wagers / Pranks

Breaking the Statute of Secrecy

Climate change

Clubbing

Coffee shops AU

Coming back to the Wizarding world   |   Leaving England

Different schools AU : Beauxbatons, Durmstrang

Disappearance / Missing

Everyone lives AU   |   Sirius Black Lives

Fairy-tale elements

Games : drinking games, party games,…

Historical AU

Magical theory

Movie/TV AU

Muggle life   |   Muggle things

No Hogwarts AU (joining the Wizarding world later)

Non-magical AU (& high school, college/uni)

Politics

Pureblood culture

Quidditch

Sentient house / Hogwarts

Sorting AU : Slytherin Harry | Gryffindor Draco | Ravenclaw Draco

Time travel   |   Dimension travel

Voldemort wins AU   |   No Voldemort AU

Genres / Formats :

Angst

Canon rewrite

Case fic / Mystery

Dark fic / horror

Epistolary   |   Social media

Fluff   |   Fluff (Hogwarts era)

Humour

Hurt / comfort

Kid fic   |   Raising a child

POV Outsider

Serialized fics

Slow burn / slow build

Song fic / song-inspired fic

Relationship status :

A/B/O Dynamics

BDSM

Bodyswap

Bonding

Boss/Employee relationship

Casual relationship

Childhood friends

Counselling

Courtship

Domestic!Drarry   |   Pet names

Enemies (to Friends) to Lovers

Established relationship

Fake/Pretend relationship   |   Arranged marriage

Flirting

Friends to Lovers

Friends with Benefits

Infidelity

Marriage proposal

Misunderstandings / Miscommunication

Reconciliation

Roommates   |   Sharing a Bed

Secret identity

Secret relationship

Slavery

Soulmates

Stalking

Strangers to Lovers (with various AUs)

Teacher-student relationship / Tutoring

Ties switching

Unhappy ending (between H/D)

Unrequited love

Occupations :

Arts : artist, dancing, music, musician, pianist!Draco

Auror   |   Military

Breakup specialist!Draco

Chef

Healer!Draco   |   Mind healer

Matchmaker

Minister-for-Magic!Harry

Model

Odd jobs

Pirate

Potions Master!Draco

Professor (at Hogwarts)

Prostitution / Sex Work   |   Stripper

Secretary / PA!Draco

Seer!Draco / divination

Unspeakable!Draco

Wandmaker!Draco   •   Wandmaker!Harry

Writer

Characteristics :

Chubby!Drarry

Dark!Drarry

Determined!Drarry

French!Draco

Insecure!Draco

Jealous!Draco   •   Jealous!Harry

LGBTQIA+ : asexuality, coming out, crossdressing, fem!Drarry, transgender

Manipulative!Harry

Master-of-Death!Draco   •   Master-of-Death!Harry

Oblivious!Drarry

Older!Drarry (+ divorced)

Pining!Draco   •   Pining!Harry

PoC!Drarry

Possessive!Drarry

Powerful!Draco   •   Powerful!Harry   •   Powerful couple

Protective!Draco   •   Protective!Harry

Reckless!Harry

Recluse!Harry

Sassy!Harry

Shy!Drarry

Silly!Draco

Snarky!Draco

Spy!Draco / Redeemed!Draco

Sweetheart!Draco

Tall !Harry

Troubled!Draco   |   Exiled!Draco

Magical / physical situations :

Abusive relationship

Age difference

Amnesia

Animagus

Captivity : Draco in Azkaban   |   Harry in Malfoy Manor

Creature!Drarry (vampire, veela, werewolf)  |  merman  |  phoenix

Dark Mark

De-age

Disability (+blind, deaf)  &  mute

Drunkenness / Intoxication

Ghost

Illness   |   Hanahaki disease

Injury

Internalized homophobia

Life debt

Love / Lust potion

Mental health issues / PTSD   |   eating disorders

Mpreg!Draco   •   Mpreg!Harry

Occlumency

Parseltongue

Patronus

Sectumsempra

Substance abuse

Suicide implied/referenced

Tattoos (magical)

Sexual details :

Bottom!Draco   •   Bottom!Harry   •   Switching

First time / Virginity   |   Awkward first time

Non-Con (Dub-Con) elements

Smut : (specialized) dildo, hate sex, hospital sex, ice play, piercings, praise kink, (semi) public sex, riding (Draco), sex toys, size kink, slut, wanking

Interaction with other characters :

Animals / Pets

Draco & his parents

Draco & Luna friendship

Draco & Ron friendship  |  Draco friends with Hermione/Ron first

Draco & the Dursleys

Draco & the Weasleys : Molly  |  George  |  Ginny & others

Draco has a sibling

Drarry & Scorbus

Drarry & Scorpius

Drarry & Snupin

Drarry & Teddy

Drarry & Wolfstar

Harry & Narcissa friendship

Harry & Pansy friendship

Harry & the Malfoys / Meeting the Parents

Harry & the Slytherins friendship

Harry has a sibling

Harry reconciles with his Muggle family

Matchmaking / Meddling from family, friends, professors…

Mentor!McGonagall

Mentor!Snape

Sex Ed class

The Golden Trio broken up

Misc.

+ podfic

uncategorized themes (aka Suprise me!)

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