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Joy ([identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lettered 2007-05-19 05:26 am (UTC)

Oh, dude. I soooooo feel your pain. "Coming out about Harry/Draco" is on my interests list. I just think it's like the greatest thing since...my last otp. HAHAHA.

I have so many recs for you, it's not even cool, so I will try not to overwhelm you.

My absolute favorite writer of this pairing is [livejournal.com profile] mistful. The fic people always rec by her is Underwater Light. Finished, novel length, PG-13ish. The writing in the opening is not nearly as good as the end, and actually overall dislike the plot that doesn't have to do with 'ship stuff, but love the way she writes the characters so hard it's not even funny. So I do rec it.

Another thing that gets recced a lot is, If You've A Ready Mind. Finished, novel length, PG-13ish. I found this hard to get into because I wasn't impressed with the writing and I thought the idea was cliche, but OMG, it's funny, intelligent, witty, SAD, moving, insightful, hot, sweet, and GOOD.

But out of all her stuff, what I love most is Quality of Mercy, WIP, novel length, mostly gen for now. The Harry and Draco in this are to die for.

The other things you NEED to read are Drop Dead Gorgeous and The Way We Get By. (sorry the links are so screwy; she does NOT organize her stuff well.) DDG is a WIP (PG-13ish for now H/D), TWWGB is a gen-ish piece that takes place during DDG from a different POV. The universe has so many of the bad cliches of HP and H/D fic, but it's genius. I highly recommend it, too.

Okay, so I'm utterly her fangirl, hard, which is why I spent so long with her. Now, other stuff.

My next favorite story is Eclipse. Finished, novel length, PG-13ish, that brings together the characters slowly and intelligently.

My next favorite is possibly Invisible to See. Finished, novel-length, NC-17. It's SCHOOLBOYS REALIZING THEY'RE GAY. WITH TIES. But it also has a good plot, and a sensitive portrayal of Draco.

A Thousand Beautiful Things. Finished, novel length, NC-17. Emotioncrack. The plot is contrived, the characters go places that should be crack, but it totally pushed my buttons, somehow.

Origins. Finished, novel-length, PG-13ish. Sort of a classic in the fandom. A bit too much of Draco being too fabulous, but I quite enjoyed it. It's actually three parts but I never got to the other parts because you had to sign up for something to get to them because the rating goes up, later.

(I'm putting PG-13ish on all the ones that don't contain actual sex, in case all you want is porn. But I'm finding, amazingly, that the very best of the long shipper fics don't have porn, and long shipper fics are what I like!)

Big Dick Come Quick. Finished, novel-length, NC-17, almost pure PWP. Kinda a classic, too. I'm putting this up in case you do want straight porn. I don't like the plot, I think the characters are vastly OOC, and I actually don't think much of the writing, but this went straight to kink city for me. But these are my personal kinks so I understand if they don't apply to you.

Harsh and Honest. One-shot NC-17 DEFINITELY pure PWP. This really is straight kink, in case that's what you're looking for. My kinks. Which, again.

I Like The Way. FANVID. Usually I have a problem with the vids because even in GoF they're still just too young, but this is non-explicit, tongue-in-cheek, really funny to me for some reason, and I'm including it for fun.

I...have more. Hit me again when you need a fix.

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