Upon looking at SKOM for the first time in 3 months, I realised I had forgotten what it was about and figured, hey, what the hell, might as well finish this completely unrecognisable chapter before I actually stop to think.

So I did. And guess what? I actually had fun for once. It was great writing without self-set length restrictions. Writing for fests is always a constant stream of shit this is too wordy got to cut out this paragraph dammit 20K OF WORTHLESS CRAP FUCK IT ALL, but when I write SKOM, I can ramble as much as I want. Everyone probably knows this, considering this damn fic is already 130k and only about 2/3 finished.

Also, I have to say it: I love writing a fic without any pressure to add sex. I suck at sex, and it shows, and the whole thing is just a very stressful endeavour. I know "you don't need to write sex for fests" blah blah blah, but tbqh, the only H/D fics rated under R I've seen on multiple rec lists are classics. I just checked my bookmarks, and out of 200 H/D fics, only 7 of them are PG-13 or less. Two of them were classics. The rest are extremely short one-shots. So there you are. I'm not sure where I was heading with this paragraph. I'll shut up now. Here's the chapter.

Title: Some Kind of Miracle (22/?)
Author: Annie (_pinkchocolate)
Pairings: Harry/Draco
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Non-DH compliant, but still contains some DH spoilers; an excess of gratuitous flangst in this chapter
Disclaimer: I just take JK Rowling's world and make it slashy.
Summary: Draco is determined to live the last nine months of his life with no regrets. But when a series of unfortunate events exposes a list of his innermost wishes, ambitions, and desires to Harry Potter’s eyes, he might find that facing his imminent death is not so easy after all.
Word Count: ~2,900
Notes: Unbetaed. Let me know if there are any glaring errors. *** ETA: I just realised that this fic's two-year anniversary was four days ago. Wow. I applaud anyone who has put up with me for that long :p ***

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Title: Potter's Wheel
Author: Annie (_pinkchocolate)
Rating: PG/PG-13
Pairings: Harry/Draco
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 318
A/N: I'M SORRY I COULDN'T RESIST. This was supposed to be a songdrabble to the Taylor Swift song I mentioned below, but it kind of... evolved into something else.

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hd_inspired reveals are up! marguerite_26 wrote my favourite fic, Burn, Burn, and predictably enough, draykonis drew my favourite art piece, Pest Control. The cool thing about the fest was that I found out a lot of interesting stuff about new and old authors that really took me by surprise. The biggest disappointment was that none of my prompts ended up getting written :(

I wrote One-Winged Angels using a_queen_bee's prompt. I probably won't repost the fic here, but I will respond to the reviews eventually. Thanks to all my fantastic betas, especially avada_k, aki_hoshi, and brknhalo241. I would've scrapped the fic long ago if it weren't for avada_k -- she forced me to keep writing every time I hated the fic so much that I wanted to toss it in a fire. I still don't like it, but at least it's finished :P aki_hoshi and brknhalo241 were both absurdly helpful in rewriting the ending and improving the fic in general. If anyone wants a taste of what the ending looked like before they brought their good sense and ideas to the table, have a look.

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OH MY GOD.



MORE HERE.

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Title: Some Kind of Miracle (21/?)
Author: Annie (_pinkchocolate)
Pairings: Harry/Draco
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Non-DH compliant, but still contains some DH spoilers
Disclaimer: I just take JK Rowling's world and make it slashy.
Summary: Draco is determined to live the last nine months of his life with no regrets. But when a series of unfortunate events exposes a list of his innermost wishes, ambitions, and desires to Harry Potter’s eyes, he might find that facing his imminent death is not so easy after all.
Word Count: ~2,400
Notes: Thanks to Vana for betaing.

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Title: With Roses in My Hand
Author: Annie (_pinkchocolate)
Pairings: Harry/Draco, implied Harry/Ginny
Rating: PG-ish
Warnings: Past infidelity, angst, established relationship of sorts
Disclaimer: I just take JK Rowling's world and make it slashy. The title, summary, and inspiration are all from the song “Dreaming with a Broken Heart” by John Mayer (yes, because of SYTYCD).
Summary: When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the giving up is the hardest part.
Word Count: 1107
Beta: None.
Notes: Just a quick something I improvised while trying to figure out what to do with one of my other fics. It started out as a Harry/Ginny songficlet to “Dreaming with a Broken Heart”, but somehow turned into more of an H/D fic as it went on.

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Title: Some Kind of Miracle (20/?)
Author: Annie (_pinkchocolate)
Pairings: Harry/Draco
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Non-DH compliant, but still contains some DH spoilers
Disclaimer: I just take JK Rowling's world and make it slashy.
Summary: Draco is determined to live the last nine months of his life with no regrets. But when a series of unfortunate events exposes a list of his innermost wishes, ambitions, and desires to Harry Potter’s eyes, he might find that facing his imminent death is not so easy after all.
Word Count: ~5,700
Notes: Thanks to Vana for betaing ♥ For those of you who are new to this fic, please note that I've been making minor grammar edits to the earlier chapters, so the headers of all the chapters I haven't yet edited (chapter 6 to chapter 19) are inaccurate.

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As promised, the coloured versions of the sketches I posted yesterday. I feel so guilty about wasting my day doing these instead of working on SKOM :(

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And a shameless ldws pimp that I forgot to add into my post yesterday: go check out the challenge 5 entries because omg, they're awesome. These writers make me jealous. I would totally get eliminated in the first few weeks if I was participating in this competition *_*

I've discovered the joys of drawing (or, more accurately, copying manga art and making it look like Harry and Draco). Thus, I present to you, two H/D sketches which I will eventually colour.

Preview:


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