It's the most wonderful time of the year...

[marguerite_26]

[ART]
Head Stronger Than Heart by anon @ hd_holidays
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Summary: They say Thestrals only become visible once you accept them.
Rating: PG

Such a lovely piece to kick off the fest! This artist has a gorgeous style, beautifully done and very romantic.

[FIC]
Humbug (A Christmas Tale) by anon @ hd_holidays
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco. (With implied Draco/other men; implied past Harry/Cho; and brief, future, imagined but not-real Harry/Charlie.)
Summary: Draco has been taking his casual relationship with Harry for granted. Visits from four key ghosts the night before Christmas just might shake up his priorities in life.
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~30,000

This is an AMAZINGLY WELL DONE adaptation of A Christmas Carol. And I say adaptation because, to me, it’s an important distinction from a ‘re-telling’. I love how this is not HP characters squished into Dickens’ tale but the concept of the tale adapted to the HP world. It has a great cast of characters and charming scenes from the past, present and future – but the underlying story is Harry and Draco’s love story, and how Draco must change himself in order to accept the love he is being offered. It’s really beautifully done, Charles Dickens would be proud though I bet the EXTREMELY HOT sex scenes would have made him blush.

Comments

[ginger-veela.livejournal.com]

Argh, you make an excellent point regarding adaptation versus retelling. *headdesk*

I was so flaily when I posted my own rec, I sort of neglected that point.

ISN'T IT FANTASTIC, THOUGH???

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEe!!!1 *bounce* *bounce*

I was just going to check your LJ to see if you'd had a chance to read it! :)

I'm soooo jealous of your gift! But YAY! you deserve something so lovely.

<3

(the adaptation vs retelling... I love movie and book inspired fanfic but also... shoehorning feels like shoehorning sometimes! but a story that takes the ~feel~ of the book and the clever idea of it ... well, that can work so well. As we see here)

[ginger-veela.livejournal.com]

IKR??? I can't believe it's for me!!!

(I'm a bit over-the-moon flipped out right now, as evinced by the superfluous punctuation I would normally mock.)

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Can I just tell you that I love your rec lists? There's never yet been anything that wasn't absolute awesome on any of them. So, thanks for doing the work for me!

[hermette.livejournal.com]

ugh, thank you for reccing the christmas tale one. I had forgotten hd_hols was posting and kj;sdkfj SO GOOD. God, do I love some good Harry/Draco fic.

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

God, I loved that fic so much. It's amazing.