The LIST.

[bixgirl1]

The list.  The LIST.

Updating my likes and dislikes because I had a moment and... Well, fucking hell, when you fall down the fanfic hole, you end up taking a lot of things off your squicks and smacking them right into your likes list. LOL. 

 Anyway, having all of my likes and dislikes in one place appeals to me greatly, so I'm trying to keep things in check. If you want to rec me something, or write me something (?!?!?!??!?!!!!!), checking out this list is probably pretty smart. <3  So here we go, follow under the cut!

 

 

 

 

Favorite Pairings:

Harry/Draco.  Ultimate OTP.  Drarry forever.

Hermione/Ron

Other Pairings I love/like/will read:

Draco/Albus

Harry/Teddy

Harry/Sirius

James/Teddy

Albus/Scorpius

James/Scorpius

Ginny/Luna

Pansy/Anyone. (Especially in femslash. I like that she has a good time and isn’t concerned with where to get it. lol)

How I prefer to picture the characters:

For Harry, the only things I take a really hard stance on are his eye color, hair, and glasses. That may sound bizarre, but I've read some fics where his hair has been fixed and/or he no longer wears glasses and I just...don't like it. I can literally only think of one fic in which Harry not wearing/needing glasses didn't bother me. I don't care if they're the same frames or not, but glasses, yes please. And scars. I like when people remember the various scars he's gotten. I tend to think of him within an inch or two of Draco's height (slightly shorter), and kind of wiry — fleshed out as he ages, but still with a Seeker's build.

For Draco, I feel like JKR described him enough in the books that we know what he looks like, and that's the picture in my head: pale, tall and slender (almost willowy, but with lean muscle, like a swimmer or runner), silky flaxen hair, and a pointy face. I headcanon the angles of his face as softening a bit, the other he is in the fics, but remaining patrician and elegant.
 

 

Tropes:

Eighth year fics. The first Drarry I read took place in eighth year and I cannot get enough of them.

Accidental Bonding:  There are no words.  I want them all.  They are my jam and make me happy.  Gimme two idiots who are bitterly stuck together and lots of UST and I will offer to kill people for you.

Prostitution/Rentboys:  Guuhhhh.  I need this so badly in my life.  Particularly when it’s Sophisticated!Draco, who is also a bit of an emotional mess. I also like Draco when he’s been forced into the situation through awful circumstances (which tends to be the rule), and both at once.  Yes.  Yes.  Yes. It’s so yummy and I never want to stop reading.  I can cope with Harry on the other end, but I will die for Draco getting paid.  (Maybe it’s ‘cause I’d pay him, myself.)

Creature fics:  I prefer these to be on the lighter side, but I’ve read some amazing dark!creature fics, too.

Anything that involves party games:  Thank you, lq_traintracks for this, as well as my eighth year obsession.

Auror Partners: Harry and Draco would be the best team and everyone in the world knows it so there.

Professor Partners. Or, for that matter, just anything that leads them back to Hogwarts as adults.

Mpreg. I'm pickier here about content, but occasionally — when written right — it's just the thing.

D/s dynamics. Doesn't matter who's the D and who's the s.

Hurt/Comfort. (Not to be confused with disability fics)
 

 

Likes (in no particular order):

Pining.

Banter.

Humour.

UST.

Misunderstandings, particularly when it comes to each other’s feelings.

Parseltongue

Legilimency/telepathic connection. (Or veritaserum. Anything that makes it hard for them to lie to one another.)

Draco speaking more than one language. Also Draco being generally brilliant and exceptionally talented.

Sophisticated Draco (especially when he’s secretly not.  Add that he has slobbish tendencies or is scatterbrained or whatnot and I’m in love.)

Spoiled Aristocrat Draco.

Clubbing Draco.

Draco discovering/loving Muggle things.  (I like Draco a lot, if it isn't obvious. lol) Even better when Harry is showing him.

Non-partnered fics where they need each other and are thrown together. Give me Healer!Harry and Unspeakable!Draco, or Professor!Harry and Weathermancer!Draco, I don't care. I just really like them being forced to rely on each other.

House Magic.  Oh, yes. 

*cough*Blaise Zabini, somewhere, somehow*cough*

Harry and/or Draco being jealous and/or possessive.

Harry defending Malfoy at the trials after the war.  For that matter, post-war fics. 

I love it when Draco's Dark Mark is addressed in some way significant to the development of their relationship. Any kind of moment of realisation that splits him in Harry's mind from the boy who took that mark to the person he is now, is a surefire way to stab me straight in the feels.

In that vein, I like both fics where Harry's family and friends need time to accept/trust Draco, and fics where they accept him immediately (even if they don't like it), because Harry does.

Wandlore.

EWE. 

Magical worldbuilding.

Draco wearing glasses.  Or a waistcoat.  Or jeans.  Or nothing.

Harry, same. (Basically, if you describe what one of them is wearing in a way that leaves the other one drooling, I'll be happy.)

Bisexual!Harry.

Coming out.

Affectionate insults.

Friends to lovers.

Enemies to lovers.

Fine, okay, enemies to friends to lovers, too.

Dirty little secrets.

Powerful Harry/Controlled Draco.

Wandless magic.

Canon sarcastic Harry makes me w e e p with joy.

Supportive Ron and Hermione.

Snarky Pansy and Blaise.

I very much appreciate mentions of the way Harry was raised in fics that explore his character. I'm very picky about PTSD mentions — I dislike fics that read like a PSA on the subject immensely, but greatly appreciate fics that manage to subtly wind his childhood and/or war trauma into the plot, because that feels realistic to me. Same goes for Draco's childhood and/or war trauma. I also tend to think of him as very close to Narcissa. I'm generally okay with whatever people decide to do with Lucius (keeping him a bastard or redeeming him a bit), as it doesn't feel like a huge reach. (Being excited Draco's dating Harry, for instance.)

Happily Ever After.

 

Dislikes:  I have read and will read pretty much anything.  I’ll even dive into my squick list on occasion if I trust the writer.  But I’m not a huge fan of—

 

Crack.

One of them losing their magic, even temporarily.

Disability fics.

Magical prep spells. (Totally fine with conjuring lube, though. lol)

Sad/Ambiguous endings.  (I have read some that are amazing, I just prefer the happy ones.)

Humiliation kink.

I’m not a *giant* fan of Established Relationship fics, but that’s more dependent on the summary and author. 

Infidelity between Harry and Draco.

Epilogue compliant stories (usually.)

Not huge on kidfics where the kids feature prominently.

 

KINKS (Ah, the fun stuff):

 

Rimming.  Do it.  Do lots of it.  Make it filthy and involved and drippy and all of that good stuff. (I am fairly certain no one will be surprised by this. lol)

Foreskin play.

Fingering.  Oh, yeah. 

Coming untouched.

Coming dry.

Post orgasm sex.

Dirty talk.  The dirtier, the better.

Consensual BDSM with aftercare, particularly when one of them is teaching the other what a healthy BDSM dynamic should be/look like. 

Dub-con that turns into full-con.

First times.  YES. 

Loss of virginity.

Awkwardly situated, uncomfortable sex that’s also really, really hot.

Frantic quickies because they can’t wait.

Power plays.

Switching. Or not. I don't have any real topping/bottoming preferences, but I tend to like the idea that they have preferences, and like it when they bend those preferences to showcase their openness and vulnerability.

Knotting.

Blow jobs.

Glove!kink.

Semi-public sex and getting caught/almost caught.  Even better if it’s by Ron.  Even better if he’s appalled but not truly angry.

Voyeurism, particularly when it involves watching/hearing the other wank.

Wanking.  Make them do it A LOT.

Hair pulling.

Demanding!Draco.

SPANKING. 

Flirting in public.

Prolonged foreplay.

Bottoming from the top.

Scar!Kink.

Praise!Kink

I love, love when one of them is less experienced than the other.

For Draco/Albus, I have a *thing* about Draco being attracted to Albus because he looks so much like Harry.  As in: Draco gets involved with Albus because he’s still pining and doesn’t realize it.  Best if there are power dynamics involved.

Guilty sex. (Particularly for Harry/Teddy, Harry/Sirius, or any incest fics. It's hugely unf to me, that sort of "I'm so nastydirtywrong for wanting this but I'm gonna do it anyway" vibe.)

 

Squicks (nothing is set in stone, but again—if these are in the tags I’m going to be a LOT less inclined to read it):

Major character death. (Not including OC's.)

On that note, one of my harder squicks is type of death - I am extremely unlikely to read something in which one of them commits suicide or even has suicidal ideation - this can and has triggered me for various reasons, so unless you know me very well, it's probably best not to write/rec something for me that has this in it. 

Same for self-harm.

Hateful Ron and/or Hermione and character bashing in general.

Muggle AU's. I really, really dislike them. Not AU's in general, as Magpie_fngrl has shown me with her brilliant series of them. But I...don't really like them without magic or fantastical circumstances? Nothing will get me bored faster than a coffee shop or college roommates au, sorry.

Unhappy endings.

Character bashing.

Graphic rape.  (I don’t mind if referenced, or even reading a scene written in. But the more graphic it gets, the more likely I am to stop reading.)

Chan.  (I've read a couple of 15 yr old Harry with Sirius and been fine, and am good with the boys at that age together, but... S'not really my thing.)

Gore.

Scat.  No.

Bloodplay (with the exception of vampire fics).

“Come” spelled “Cum.”  Idk why, but this makes me shudder.

Huge differences in height, particularly when Draco is super tall and Harry is super short.

I'm sure I have about a thousand more, but this is what I can think of in this update (on the second of June, 2018. lol), so I'll leave it for now. <3333