So Good. Can Say Anything Besides So Good Because My Brain Is Overwhelmed By The Sheer Goodness Of This

You know, nothing could convince me that Ginny wrote the valentine’s poem in Chamber of Secrets. Absolutely nothing. That is 100% an on-brand Draco Malfoy ‘ploy’ (okay) to ‘piss off’ (sure) his ‘rival’ (uh huh).

I mean, first of all, we pretty much always get a Dramatic & Cunning Draco Prank in the books (until he gets older and shit starts getting more real). Not so much in book one — he was still in Planning and Seething Mode™️ — but after that, Draco was like:

Year two: Stay up all night composing the perfect valentine poem to embarrass and annoy Potter

Year three: Stay up all night making Dementor costumes to scare and piss off Potter

Year four: Stay up all night making Potter Stinks badges because I’m so well-adjusted about him and barely think of him at all, actually

Also, I’ve talked about this before, but it really just doesn’t sound like Ginny. Why would she compare his eyes to pickled toads? (Meanwhile, Draco would 100% do that.) Why would she refer to the ‘Dark Lord’, when we only see Voldemort referred to as that by death eaters? And she had so much shit going on at the time, and was terrified of the gaps in her memory and what was happening — I don’t think she was writing love poems.

And really, it’s the fact that Malfoy is the one to act like Ginny wrote it. Which tells me two things:

He’s noticed Ginny’s crush and dislikes it (and is jealous/angry at her about it….. like why else would he care?? why would he notice???)

He’s deflecting attention from himself as the actual author of the poem

I can just totally see Malfoy finding out about Lockhart’s valentine idea, scoffing at Crabbe and Goyle and being like “that’s so stupid”, but then thinking about it later and telling himself “this is the perfect way to embarrass Potter.” Twelve year old Draco staying up late in his four poster bed, coming up with hilarious rhymes for his not-at-all-romantic love poem….. I see it. I see the vision.

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potter-loves-malfoy rec lists - masterlist

@drarryspecificrecs asked me if i had a masterlist of my rec lists and i did not and figured i should make one. And then like a month passed. So I’m doing it now. 

This list has EVERY SINGLE LIST IVE MADE (of 3 or more fics) starting at december 2017. I scrolled down to 2017. Because im terrible at tagging my posts.

Coffee Shop Au

Muggle Sports Au

Wet Dreams

Mind Link/Telepathic Bond

Sugar Daddy Draco

Auror Harry

Long fics (50-150k) 

Even longer fics (150k+)

Pirate AU ( + one greek myth AU)

My favourites

‘Iconic’ drarry fics (this is more like a part 2 of my favourites list)

Draco has a parseltongue kink

BDSM

sub!draco dom!harry

Fashion industry Draco

Draco meets Dudley

Podfics

Top 10 smut written in 2017

Top 10 fluff written in 2017

Veela! Draco

Beauxbatons! Draco

Self Harm 

More fluff recs

Healer Draco and/or Healer Harry

A/B/O fics

More A/B/O (i…… forgot this existed??)

long haired draco

Snape as mentor

Draco in the muggle world

Drarry as dads 

More Drarry as dads

Dating Service

fics where one or both are cold 

Draco dealing with muggle things, or fixing things (+ one flower language fic)

strong!harry

muggle AU

power bottom!draco 

Getting walked in on 

drarry as kids

eighth year drarry

48hr tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has seadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

reverse the recent image viewer update

scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting

let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely

increase efforts against spam / porn bots

make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam

let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time

commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!

(suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.

this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can't afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

Thank you so so so sooooo much to Loopstagirl for this piece, it was so cute and just amazing. If you haven’t read it then you should because it’s so good. Also thank you to glompfest and all who worked to help me and so many others get a fic/art piece that they wanted.

Title: Whispering Wings By: Loopstagirl Gift for: Alehalebane Rating: General Word Count: 4,386 words Warning(s): None Summary: Merlin couldn't leave Aithusa in the forest. But where in Camelot was he supposed to hide a baby dragon?

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54357235

you forgot the best part of the book 😂

Gwen: have you seen Morgana?

Arthur: No. Why are you asking me? I haven’t seen her. I haven’t seen any Morgan as around here. I would not kill any Morganas. Stop asking me anymore questions.

I want my Merlin back.

How did I not know that Micheal Sheen played FREAKING Aro in Twilight. Like look at this. I can only see the resemblance if I squint.

Guys what the hell? I still can’t believe that the person who played an adorable gay angel also played this mf

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Me. This is my life.