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A Supremely Black Tai Affair
14 February 2019 @ 07:39 pm
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Hi, strangers. I disappeared for about a year due to my overwhelmingly taxing (but also overwhelmingly great!) job, and then I basically worked on seven different fics simultaneously. This makes it super challenging to finish anything. You know how all those productivity seminars told you that multitasking was the root of all evil? Yes. Yes, they were correct.

Happy Valentine’s Day! This is quite possibly the most hilariously dumb thing I’ve ever written. “What does one do with the dumb sexy vampire cliche in Harry Potter World?” I thought to myself, at some point, and this emerged.

1. Vampire sex needs more consent, yo.
2. I realized in the course of writing this that basically everything I write involves casual sex turning into an actual thing. Why is that? I have no clue.
3. JKR had this interview where she was comparing the dangers of Ye Old Horcrux Diary to a cell phone, and I was like, wait, wait, can I? CAN I WRITE WIZARDING TEXTING?!
4. As a corollary to #3, if you hate my dialogue only stuff, you are REALLY going to hate this fic.

Sundown, Hermione/Draco, R, 11,100 words.

“'We’ll just go on this delightful missing-persons case in the Carpathians,’ they said,” Pansy said. “'It will be the perfect opportunity to continue with our cavalier attitude toward authority and tendency toward reckless behavior,’ they said.”

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A Supremely Black Tai Affair
01 February 2018 @ 06:38 pm
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Sometimes, people leave comments on my fic, and sometimes those comments are secretly inspirational. So thanks to a) to whomever said, “I only ever read H/D/H fics where Harry and Hermione are together first, I haven’t seen the other pairings much!” and b) to the person who resulted in me commenting, “This isn’t the fic where they get together through casual threesomes!” This fic is also c) owes things to all the people who were like, “Ooh, hot sex!” at all the fade-to-black scenes in Vendetta. (I was initially like, “Sex? Where? What are you people talking about?”) So, you know, I pretty much combined all these ideas and went, “Here, hold my beer.”

Ways this is like Vendetta: there is literally only dialogue and actions. You have been warned.

Ways this is not like Vendetta: you should also be warned that I decided to write something where everyone was a functional adult. This fic is very lacking in drama and angst. It is not, however, lacking in sex. There is a lot of sex.

Voussoir, Harry/Draco/Hermione, NC-17, 13,000 words.

“So,” Draco said. “Are you coming over?”

He was leaning against the bar, watching Harry across the room.

“I don’t know,” Hermione said. “Are you asking?”

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A Supremely Black Tai Affair
02 January 2018 @ 12:28 am
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Happy New Year! I’m starting 2018 by meeting all your needs on the “pretending to be married while undercover Aurors” fic front. What can I say? I like cliches.

PS. In the Word document of fic ideas, this one was, “Hermione likes sex! SECRET AGENT SPIES!!! Beach! What the hell do wizards go long term undercover for???” I feel like this might still be a decent summary.

PPS. This fic has a fox animagus (GUESS WHO) but literally zero fox puns. None. Zip. Zilch. Do you know how much restraint that took, people? I deserve a commendation.

Dépaysement, Hermione/Draco, NC-17, 35500 words.

“We’re actually banking on the media attention,” Harry said, mildly. “I don’t want you going as someone else.”

“She’s going to have to go with someone else,” Malfoy said. “End of story.”

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A Supremely Black Tai Affair
20 December 2017 @ 12:29 am
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Merry Christmas! Here’s that Avalanche coda I kept promising. (I’m trying to finish two other things. Will that happen by Christmas? WHO KNOWS!) Also, this contains what I feel is the funniest line I have ever written. I have laughed every time I’ve done an editing read-through. (Harry being an irreverent smart ass is basically my favorite thing to write.)

Crystalline, Hermione/Draco, 4100 words, PG-13.

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A Supremely Black Tai Affair
01 November 2017 @ 11:31 pm
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Look. I did this thing. It was meant to be a, you know, writing exercise. Growth! Development! Better skills! Except now it’s a 12,000 word writing exercise, so screw it. I was trying to see how much characterization I could get across through dialogue alone! ...then I wrote an entire fic that is exclusively actions and dialogue. I don’t know, man. I really don’t.

This fic: a) spends literally no time inside anyone’s head, ever, and b) is in competition for the most off-screen sex scenes you could manage in 12,000 words.

Vendetta, Hermione/Draco, R, 12,000 words.

“Well,” Hermione said. “That was…”

“A spectacularly bad idea?” Draco said.

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A Supremely Black Tai Affair
27 October 2017 @ 12:29 am
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You know how I literally always start fic posts with, “I don’t know how this happened?” I DO know how this happened. I wrote like a thousand words of Harry/Draco, decided I didn’t like it, and then it turned into 55 thousand words of Hermione/Draco professor fic. Because that, friends, is how I roll.

A list of things you can basically expect from every fic I ever write: botany, magical architecture, at least one Jane Austen reference, and philosophical musings about Draco Malfoy. Also, witty banter. I’m good at the witty banter.

Avalanche, Hermione/Draco, NC-17, 55,000 words.

It didn’t mean she liked him, or forgave him, or particularly wanted to live in the same castle. But Slughorn’s second retirement had been more of a necessity than a suggestion. Hermione wanted someone exceptional in the position more than she wanted someone she liked.

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A Supremely Black Tai Affair
24 September 2017 @ 10:45 pm
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I, you know, Hermione/Draco daemon fic...? It just kind of happened. Oops, I slipped and fell and wrote 15K of random crossover? Yeah. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Proserpine, Hermione/Draco, NC-17, 14,800 words.

“God, you’re terrible at this,” Draco remarked, without any real rancor. His chin was propped on his hand as he contemplated the chessboard in the dim firelight.

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A Supremely Black Tai Affair
13 July 2017 @ 05:59 pm
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I... wrote a thing. 90,000 words of thing? This is very, very vaguely inspired by Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Company and (in a much smaller sense) Michael Gruber's Jimmy Paz mysteries. (You do not need to have read any of those things to read this. Even a little.) It, purportedly, has a Supernatural feel to it. (I'm choosing to believe this was S1 & S2 of Supernatural, back when it was good.)

For the record, Wikipedia is both a great source of ghost lore and full of things that will never let you sleep again. This is not meant to be the sort of ghost story that will never let you sleep again. Also, I find myself and Draco Malfoy very funny, but I'm solely responsible for every truly terrible joke in here.

Foxfire, Harry/Draco/Hermione, NC-17, 90,000 words.

Ghosts weren’t meant to be dangerous, they’d said. Ghosts were kind, friendly creatures who taught you History of Magic or celebrated their Death Day in the Great Hall to much cheering and applause. Ghosts gave you important hints. No witch or wizard ever told their child scary ghost stories, because the idea was less threatening than the idea of doxies in the curtains. The things that people had done to other people in the last decade far outweighed any heightened sense that there might be something more than met the eye. Ghosts were harmless. Benevolent. Typically quite cheerful.

Unfortunately, they had gotten it wrong.

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A Supremely Black Tai Affair
10 July 2017 @ 10:54 pm
Foxfire  
I... wrote a thing. 90,000 words of thing? This is very, very vaguely inspired by Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Company and (in a much smaller sense) Michael Gruber's Jimmy Paz mysteries. (You do not need to have read any of those things to read this. Even a little.)

For the record, Wikipedia is both a great source of ghost lore and full of things that will never let you sleep again. This is not meant to be the sort of ghost story that will never let you sleep again. Also, I find myself and Draco Malfoy very funny, but I'm solely responsible for every truly terrible joke in here.

Foxfire, Harry/Draco/Hermione, NC-17, 90,000 words.

Ghosts weren’t meant to be dangerous, they’d said. Ghosts were kind, friendly creatures who taught you History of Magic or celebrated their Death Day in the Great Hall to much cheering and applause. Ghosts gave you important hints. No witch or wizard ever told their child scary ghost stories, because the idea was less threatening than the idea of doxies in the curtains. The things that people had done to other people in the last decade far outweighed any heightened sense that there might be something more than met the eye. Ghosts were harmless. Benevolent. Typically quite cheerful.

Unfortunately, they had gotten it wrong.
 
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A Supremely Black Tai Affair
26 December 2016 @ 03:51 am
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Happy Boxing Day! Have a whole lot of post-Polaris codas. These skip chunks of time, obviously, but they’re in chronological order.

There are two versions of Polaris, a Harry/Draco/Pansy version and a Harry/Draco version, and these are all from the Harry/Draco/Pansy ‘verse, though they ARE theoretically perfectly readable as codas to the Harry/Draco. (Which is to say, they make complete sense following the plot of the Harry Draco Remix, and there’s no NC-17 Harry/Draco/Pansy in these. But they are pretty obviously married and raising a family together and romantically involved, so... take it as you will!) There are pieces of the epilogue and surrounding parts (like Ron and Hermione’s kids, etc) that got kept intact, there are pieces that ... er, obviously didn’t work out since it’s a little hard for Harry and Ginny to be having kids if Harry’s with other people. 

There IS a pinboard for this series - it contains casting for all the kids, other important characters, and everyone’s daemons. You do NOT need it to read the first few codas, and, in fact, I would wait, because you’ll spoil yourself. I’ll tell you where it’s probably a good idea to take a look.

You can find the whole series (including Polaris) HERE.

Here’s the order:
1. Polaris: giant, sprawling, magically complex, overly advanced 90K Harry/Draco/Pansy fic.
2. [THIS HAS A SEPARATE LINK. It accidentally got left out of the series tag.]  Both Sides Now: Hermione and Pansy talk kids. (Around 3 years post-Polaris.)
3. Come In From The Cold: Pansy’s pregnant with their daughter. (Around 3 years post-Polaris.)
4. This Flight Tonight: their daughter is getting sorted, everything is vaguely in chaos, and you get to meet the next two kids. (Around 14-15 years post-Polaris.)
5. Love Puts On A New Face: Kid four is born. (Around 15-16 years post-Polaris.)

[RIGHT HERE IS WHERE YOU PROBABLY WANT TO GO LOOK AT THE PINBOARD. START AT THE BOTTOM AND WORK YOUR WAY UP.] 

6. The Circle Game: ...this is pretty much just straight up parenting and kid hijinks. (Around 28-29 years post-Polaris. Good lord.)
7. Wild Things Run Fast: takes place literally directly after The Circle Game. (I should probably feel guilty for the name play i made here, but when I realized how I could do it, I cackled gleefully for about twenty minutes.)
8. In France They Kiss On Main Street: takes place shortly after The Circle Game. The Solstice Ball, family traditions, and catching up. (28-29ish years post-Polaris.)

I left you with a tiny bit of a cliffhanger. Oops. I’m working on the next two codas. (Secret hint: it’s me, so things turn out just fine.)



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