Beast Claw, Bloodborne

The Miracles

I initially just drew the young lucissa at Hogwarts, then I created a whole backstory behind it while drawing, and then wrote an entire comic around it. 🏃‍♀️

God I love Draco Malfoy.

Specifically the fanfiction one. The one who has been changing his views after 4th year, during 6th or 7th year, even the one who started to change after the war.

The endearingly pathetic one who has to take a LOT of time to stand up to his father or to break himself down. The one who has been rebellious from the school years as soon as he realized his bigotry. The soft and vulnerable one, both with the sneer and without it (looking at most 8th year and Post War pieces), although Draco without sneer and sarcasm is not entire Draco to me. The dark and morally grey and grating but still good to his core (looking at The Fallout, Manacled, Happy pills (i think it’s the name?), Rights and Wrongs series). Absolutely vile and dark and unhinged but still good and not entirely evil (Breath Mints/Battle Scars, For your protection). There are so many more but these are the ones I can name of the top off my head.

I love his character, I sympathize with his character. I still want to cry about how much more JK could have done with him in the books. I’m still angry about the deleted wand throwing scene. Give me fucking something, I will go for any crumbs you give me.

The only reasons why i’m not displeased with the supposed HBO reboot, which we haven’t heard about in a long while (which is usually not a good thing), is because i hope they would be able to DO something GOOD about him.

This would have been such a tremendous redemption arc. Instead he turned out mediocre and I guess that’s fine when you think “Well, that’s kind of realistic”. But I done want this from Draco fucking Malfoy character. Literally anyone but him.

God, i’m so thankful to fanfiction. This is my canon and you can’t change my mind.

Zack, the rat

my first try in crafting an art doll and I love him dearly

Birthday boy enjoying being more than 18 yo

If you can’t kill it, cook it

8th year, all different and still the same

If you have not read this fic, please let this gorgeous bind (not by me, but for me in an exchange with another binder, @slbindery) convince you.

The fucking quotes! I suppose you could consider this a spoiler alert so I’ll hide them.

(Need I remind you to go look at this post of @littlewinnow’s now?)

I'm actually working on a typeset of the entire twenty-two cards series as a gift for the author, so at some point I will be sharing my own version. But for now, feast on this.

Clive & cub

Not the Nargles she was looking for …

Harry is an orphan, so nothing has to be more important to him than his own sense of what is right. And having always had to rely on himself to get through life, he is self possessed and self directed enough to have a very strong sense of right and wrong. And he holds himself to that scrupulously. He always does what he sees as the right thing; he will not be talked out of it. There isn’t anybody he wants to make happy more than he wants to do the right thing.

For Draco, his obligations to others, his family specifically, is the sum total of his idea of the right thing to do. From his perspective, his social and even moral obligations are limited to safeguarding the wellbeing (and when possible the prestige) of his family.

People think of Draco as a bad boy, but he’s actually very conventional. He’s a dick, but his views are not at all controversial in his social circle. When Draco realizes that toeing the party line has brought him to a place where he has to face MUCH more violence than he is capable of tolerating, he has to start thinking for himself and. Well he gets his shit absolutely rocked.

He’s working his ass off trying to protect and uplift his family, but they didn’t show him the same courtesy, not in the ways that matter. Like he got seven top of the line broomsticks when he was twelve, but also. His parents brought home a mass murderer to live in their house and taught him that this was a consummation devoutly to be wished.

And once he meets Voldemort and gets put to work for him, it’s clear that Voldemort is volatile and capricious and his goodwill cannot be counted on as reliably as his explosive anger and vengefulness. And if Draco can see it now, he must think that his parents had to have seen it before.

He has to confront the fact that his parents will cheerfully witness and participate in a level of violence and destruction that he cannot countenance. He can’t be directed by them anymore. He can’t be like them anymore. So what’s his guiding star? Who can he be? What is he supposed to do with his life if not what they’ve asked of him?

There is such an interesting contrast between the two of them! Their characters are at odds in such a fun and fascinating way! After the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry has discharged his most significant and pressing obligation, and it’s time for him to heal and regroup and figure out what he wants to do with the rest of his life. And Draco is in the same place but arguably with an even more significant blow to his sense of self. Neither of them can go back to the way things were, but for Harry that’s a huge relief, and for Draco, it’s terrifying.

Harry is an extremely empathetic and generous person, and I think he would see himself in Draco’s rudderlessness and feel impelled to commiserate. And I think Draco would no longer have much reason to pretend that he hasn’t always found Harry incredibly magnetic, before he even knew who he was.