Far and few, far and few, are the lands where the Jumblies live,

I am looking forward to taking part in H/D Remix again this year. (And you should try it too! There are now two choices of formats, so there are different ways to participate - sign up by Feb. 11.) I realized I needed to update my master list and claim a few things I wrote last year.

Last summer I took part in Round 9 of the Harry/Draco Last Drabble Writer Standing competition, which is always interesting and fun. The theme was Magical Artefacts. I lasted 3 weeks; failed to use anything close to the right voice for a Sorting Hat POV in week 3 but it was interesting to try on that perspective! There's also a little Teddy kidfic for The Hogwarts Express and a trapped-in-the-lift fic for Chocolate Frog Cards. Nothing higher than PG on the page, but implied more later. Anyway, I am finally getting around to posting my 3 "Magical Artefacts II" drabbles on AO3.

And I wrote a fic for H/D Career Fair called He Whose Hand and Eye Are Gentle (on AO3). G rated, but romance is building. 5250 words. Summary: Draco reads poems and sometimes writes them. Harry receives poems and sometimes reads them. Rutherford delivers poems via the scenic route. Wombat snores. Eventually, all comes together, with help from the foxes in red bibs and the sumo referee.

This past year was my first time writing for hd_erised, and it was a wonderful experience. dicta_contrion wrote me a truly beautiful gift, On Open Wings, and 8c left me very fun prompts to inspire the fic I wrote for her:

The Owl and the Pussy-cat.
H/D, soft R (PG-13?), about 8,000 words.
Summary: Harry, Draco, an owl, a cat, green peas, moon-cheese, an elf in a toga, a few Golden Snidgets, and some messing about in boats. Takes place 11 years after the war.

If you prefer to read in German, there is now a translation of this fic by the lovely nia_kantorka called Die Eule und die Miezekatze - that link is on AO3 - or if you prefer, you can read it here on fanfiktion.de.

This fic was initially inspired by Fum and Gebra. I dedicate it to the memory of the dearly beloved and handsome Fitz-kitty, keyboard-walker, chin-on-glasses-scratcher, and shoulder-leaper extraordinaire. Rest in peace, sweetest boy.

Very belatedly catching up on my reposting. These are the 4 drabbles I wrote for this year's H/D Last Drabble Writer Left Standing Round 7. The theme was quotations from Dumbledore, which made for interesting challenges. I usually used every word the word limit allowed. As it happens, these are all G rated. One has an established relationship, one may be pre-slash, and two are Hogwarts era canon scenes from Draco's point of view.

Week 1 prompt: "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
(Although Harry suffered more neglect, I felt the Dursleys did actively dislike him, so I wrote about Draco in this.)

Title: Father’s Son ( Read )


Week 2 prompt:"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it."

Title: Unspeak, Speak, Oddment, Tweak ( Read )


Week 3 prompt: "One can never have enough socks."
My drabble was voted "most favorite" this week! :D

Title: 'Tis the Gift to Be Simple ( Read )


Week 4 prompt: "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."
(This is the round where I was eliminated, alas. The whole thing was a great experience though, with interesting prompts and a lot of strong writers.)

Title: Dividing Line ( Read )

I hit the jackpot for sure this week - now there is a second splendid podfic of one of my fics at the hp_podfic_fest! The gifted fire_juggler has done a terrific job with Seeing Draco Malfoy (which seems to be the most popular of my fics, probably due to that tetchy Ignatius). She really makes the dialogue come alive, and distinguishes the characters' voices so well. I am honored and impressed! Give it a listen here (and admire the perfect cover art!). Thank you, fire_juggler!

I'd offered some of my fics as possibilities for the hp_podfic_fest, but I had no idea that anyone was recording Beekeeping until today, when to my surprise and delight this beautiful recording by semperfiona was posted to open the fest! It's such an honor that someone would take the time and care to make a podfic of my work, and she's done a terrific job - I especially love how she reads the dialogue. And she found and put in the music! There are scraps of songs in it, as well as the Malawian national anthem, and she put them in! I teared up when I heard the instrumental bits of it between scenes.

This fic has had fewer readers than my others, but it's close to my heart. Harry's job, home and cat in Malawi (though not, alas, his romance with Draco) are all based on the ones I had there. I was living there when book 7 came out, and I reread the whole series there while I waited for it. (There were enough Peace Corps volunteers who'd been sent copies from home that it made the rounds.) This fic was the first one I began to write (though not the first I finished), after I came home, stumbled into fandom, and got inspired reading H/D Travel Fair fics.

And maybe after this a few more people will know a little more about Malawi, "the warm heart of Africa."

Thank you, semperfiona, so much. Zikomo kwabasi.

This story began life as a drabble called "Lucky Star" (here, week 5), written for the H/D LDWS round 3 prompt "Deluminator". My dear friend and beta-buddy altri_uccelli said she could imagine Mira tracing her fingers over her name on the tapestry, and wanted to know more about her. Several years later, when the kind mods over at hd_fan_fair planted a prompt for me for this year's H/D Career Fair, I finally managed to get it written. It's a story about family, healing, old losses and new loves. And my first kid fic, though not a canon kid. I take what the muse gives me, and she gave me Mira Altair at the beach.

Title: The Tapestry of Kinship
Author: khalulu
Prompt: # 199
Rating: PG-13 (a little non-explicit sex)
Career Choices: Harry: unemployed ?budding artist?; Draco: single father, architect, acupuncturist
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Warnings/Content Notes: EWE, Draco has a daughter.
Summary: Harry is at loose ends, Draco is good with needles, and Draco's young daughter wants to see a certain tapestry repaired. The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black will never be the same.
Word Count: about 14,600
Author's Notes: Why does Draco have a picture of a goat on his mantelpiece? Why does Harry have a Dirigible Plum dangling from his doorknob? What kind of house does Narcissa have in Paris? The answers, dear reader, are within.

Many many thanks to the exceedingly helpful, gracious, patient and forbearing hd_fanfair_mods, and to my dearest and most excellent beta-buddy, altri_uccelli, without whom this fic would not exist. Also to lamerezouille for very helpful consultation on French expressions (and goats). Errors that may have crept in from post-beta tinkering are of course all mine.

You can read this story on AO3 or read it here ( on LJ )

Long past time to publicize these generous and beautiful creations that others have made from a few of my fics, and thank the makers. It is such a delight and honor for me. (I am terribly slow at posting in my own journal because I get coding-phobia sometimes, but I have loved each of these since they were created.)

Podfics! Back in round 3 of H/D LDWS, I wrote 8 drabbles about Magical Items and Artefacts. To my great delight, there are podfics of two of these by vaysh, and of the complete set (or here on AO3) by sisi_rambles! Thank you so so much for this honor, o lovely and wondrous podficcers! It is so amazing to hear someone else read my work aloud.

My story Beekeeping is set in Malawi, a small country in Africa where Harry is a volunteer teacher and Draco has come to see the spectacular fish of Lake Malawi. Shortly after they run into each other by the lakeside, Harry has a dreamy dream - and here is a lovely illustration of it, with gorgeous fish art and happy naked boys, by kalime80 - I am so happy that she did this! It's called I dreamt of a thousand scales, and it was you, and it's like a scene of an underwater Eden. (Naked boys, like I said, so maybe NSW.)

Finally, I am incredibly grateful to and in awe of phonixfeder, who has now translated all four of my longer fics into German! It's such a pleasure to get the comments from the German readers, and I always learn some new expression - like "kopfkino" (when your imagination starts making mental cinema) or "Holla die Waldfee!" or "He had the Pope in his pocket." Her translations are here:
Funken, die aus dem Schwanz eines Fuchses Kommen (Sparks from the Fox's Tail in German translation)
Das Züchten von Bienen (Beekeeping in German translation)
Abraxan Wings in German translation
Draco Malfoy sehen (Seeing Draco Malfoy in German translation)

Thank each of you so much, it is so encouraging and such a privilege for me. And thank you to everyone who reads, looks or listens!

It's a small list, but here you are! Artists and podficcers are welcome, just let me know! All these are H/D so far.

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Title: Beekeeping
Author: khalulu
Rating: NC-17 overall; R for this part
Pairing(s): H/D
Summary: A few years after the war, Harry needs distance from the British wizarding world and volunteers abroad as a teacher in a poor rural school. Draco is a low-budget traveler, wandering wherever his curiosity leads him. Their paths cross in Malawi, “the warm heart of Africa.”
Warnings/Content Notes: No real warnings. Contains: sex, mostly not very graphic. Insects, ditto. Snide comment which does not reflect author’s real views on Snarry stories. Mention of previous feline violence against lizards.
Word Count: about 13,600 overall; part 1 is about 7,000
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Author's Notes: EWE. Harry and Draco are still wizards and retain all their powers, but magic is not used during the events in this story. This fic may not be seasonally accurate – that is, the relative timing of rainy season/ mango season/ school terms/ constellation visibility probably doesn’t line up properly. There’s a paraphrase of Walt Whitman’s line, “I sing the body electric.” The bee in the apple orchard art at the end is by Deborah Koch. Go here to see a picture of a Dragon Blood Peacock cichlid.

And here is a lovely illustration of Harry's dream, with gorgeous fish art and happy naked boys, by kalime80 - I am so happy that she did this! It's called I dreamt of a thousand scales, and it was you, and it's like a scene of an underwater Eden.

Written for and first posted here in the 2012 H/D Career Fair hosted by hd_fan_fair; a couple of very minor corrections have been made, and some new images added, to this post. Many many thanks to the mods and to my gracious, skillful and encouraging betas, thisgirl_is and altri_uccelli, without whom this fic would have languished unbalanced, unpolished and unseen. Remaining flaws are all mine.
You may also read the fic here on AO3. If you prefer to listen, here is a wonderful podfic by the lovely semperfiona! And if you'd prefer to read this fic in German translation, you may, thanks to the lovely phonixfeder! I am so grateful to both of them for giving their time and talents to my story.
This fic is brought to you by the letter Z.

( Beekeeping part 1 )

I had a lovely time writing in slythindor100's last round of H/D LDWS in August and September, and won this gorgeous banner by wincest_drarry, and then was swallowed up by real life before I managed to post the banner and repost my drabbles. (Code-wrestling not being my favorite thing to do.) I was reminded by the notice of the upcoming Round 4, which I'll be happily reading and voting on in a day or two.


art by wincest_drarry | banner by sassy_cissa


So here's what I wrote for round 3, with thanks to the mods sassy_cissa and vaysh11 (so well-run, and such fabulous prompts!) and other writers (met some terrific writers!) and readers/commenters/voters. The theme was Magical Items and Artefacts, and the drabbles run the gamut. There's wartime angst, sweet pre-slash by the seaside, snarky first seductions and established (or re-establishing) relationships. Drabbles are below cuts (and now you can also read them on AO3. Of course the boys belong to JK Rowling, and I get pleasure, not money, from them.

To my great delight, there are podfics of two of these by vaysh, and of the complete set (or here on AO3) by sisi_rambles! Thank you so so much for this honor, o lovely and wondrous podficcers! It is so amazing to hear someone else read my work aloud.

There's also a fascinating remix of Week 2 "Hogwarts Reunion", The first of all pleasures (Until the Glass Begins to Fly Remix) by megyal, who took my little wisp of a drabble and spun it into something wondrous.

Week 1: Invisibility Cloak ( Uncloaked, PG, 335 words )
Week 2: Mirror of Erised ( Hogwarts Reunion, R, 200 words )
Week 3: Time-Turner ( Turning Toward the Morning, G, 350 words ) with Vaysh's lovely podfic

Week 4: Marauder's Map ( Map Kinks / Mischief Well Managed, PG-13, 200 words )
Week 5: Deluminator ( Lucky Star, G, 450 words ) and as another lovely podfic by Vaysh

Week 6: Hand of Glory ( Outstretched, Alive, PG-13, 150 words )
Week 7: Quick-Quotes Quill ( Pen Porn, R, 210 words )
Week 8: Golden Snitch ( Quidditch for Lovers (Pillow Talk), R, 100 words )