Actually Severus was a fucking chad. The guy didn’t know how to fly properly on a broom, so he said yeah? Then I’ll learn to fly without any fucking gadget, just on my own. Fuck you all.

and he did

Dec. 21 - A fic rated G or T

According to my spreadsheet 🤓🤓🤓, about 52% of the fics I've read in the last couple of years were G or T. I don't pay much attention to ratings and it all blurs in my brain, but I sought out a few that I remember being quite lovely. And they've all got podfics!

Ship of Theseus by gallaplacidia (podfic by @sweatersinthesummer)
Pairing: Draco x Harry
Rating: T
Length: 2 hours
Summary:

When Harry gets amnesia and forgets he and Draco were ever married, he refuses treatment to remember.

SitS is the GOAT for amnesia fics. I think she's recorded all of them. And this one features two versions so you can see how much she's grown as a narrator. I've linked the new version from this year so as not to anger her, but I listened to the original one and it was GREAT. The text is not available for this fic because Alice Winn pulled her fics when she published the incredible novel, In Memoriam (go read it), but if you're intrepid and can't listen to SitS for some strange reason, you can find it on the internet.

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knead, then let rise by @softlystarstruck (podfic by lastontheboat)
Pairing: Draco x Harry
Rating: T
Word count: 7,230
Length: 43 minutes
Summary:

Malfoy stumbles back into Harry’s life via the laundry room.
 
A story about baking bread and tripping over words and falling in love.

A sweet, low-stakes, small and domestic story about baking. My description doesn't do it justice, it's warm and fuzzy and full of feelings.

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Along the Way by @edenfalling (podfic by me)
Pairing: Hermione x Ron
Rating: G
Word count: 5,946
Length: 37 minutes
Summary:

Idealism is hard to balance against the rest of life. Hermione, post-DH, epilogue-compliant, mostly gen. Written for Femgenficathon 2007.

This fic is beautiful. It's all canon compliant and quite bittersweet. I can't really describe how it makes me feel as a woman around the same age as the book characters, but it struck a certain chord that made me sad and a bit of feminist rage.

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The Perfect Tree by @danpuff-ao3 (podfic by me)
Pairing: Neville x Percy
Rating: T
Word count: 9,043
Length: 1 hour
Summary:

Percy is looking for the Christmas tree. Neville helps him find it.

Dani is a treasure in fandom. She helped pick up @hprecfest when the creator passed away. She puts up with a lot of bullshit from weird people trying to police fandom. And she writes such a compelling Snape, as well as a variety of adorable rarepairs, several of whom are contained within this story (plus Snarry). In the spirit of Christmas, go read all of her Christmas stories (I've recorded more than half of them!) and leaver her some love in the comments.

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- You came to the party? I wasn't sure if you would come. I was beginning to think you didn't care and would let me down alone in here.

- I don't care about some Halloween party, Potter. I care about you...

- For a man who don't care, I love your costume...

- It's not a costume, Harry.

- oh yeah? I think you're lying.

- What if I tell you I'm a real vampire?

- Don't be silly Severus, I can sense your heartbeats right now. But I won't stop you if you wanna bite me.

- Idiot... You shouldn't tempt me.

Every time I draw Snape he looks different. Here we have version: cluster headache from a student asking a question.

I love the very idea of the paris catacombs like. yeah sure the real-life city of paris has a straight-up megadungeon sprawling under it. Why not.

damn that’s wild. Maybe the solution is gay sex