title: Draco's Delicious Dilemma

author: darkmagicalgirl

rating: T

tags/content: Not Epilogue Compliant, Future Fic, Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés

summary: Draco Malfoy bravely deals with new coffee shops, Harry Potter, low-sympathy coworkers, feelings, free muffins, Looks, and some extremely rude signage.

wordcount: 5k

rec notes: I'm not a huge fan of coffee shop AUs, so believe me when I say: if you read only one, make it this. It stands out from your usual because the characters are clueless adults, not clueless teens - no offence, but that's not my cup of tea, if you'll pardon the pun - and instead of someone working at a coffee shop to make ends meet, you have Harry running one in Hogsmeade as a retreat from the world, which he sorely needs. This is played off against Hogwarts Prof Draco, who has two braincells and has to use both of them to fight a talking sign (a lovely worldbuilding touch) and work out that Harry's into him. Laugh out loud funny, a quick read, and high reread value.
title: Plein Air for Two

author: eloiselovelace

rating: M

tags/content: Humour, Fluff, Portrait Sex

summary: Percy just wants to do his job, not another guy... at least until the portraits of Messrs. Padfoot and Moony take over his office. A tale of one man's badly faltering denial, set twenty years post-war.

wordcount: 16k

rec notes: This is a weird way to start a Percy/Oliver rec, but this is the fic that made me ship Remus/Sirius, when I first read it in about 2008. (Yes, I'm ancient.) It's a sequel to Trompe L'Oeil for Two, which is an R/S but I wasn't interested in them at the time so I went straight for the Percy/Oliver fic. (But you should read them in order!) It's a great premise - portrait!Remus and portrait!Sirius keep boning in a painting that hangs in Percy's office, which makes him super duper horny - and it's carried out with good humour, and just a little bit of angst. Well, this was written in 2006, so a lot of the angst is with the benefit of hindsight. On that note, this is a fantastic snapshot of fandom as it used to be. The fic is linked on LJ, and posted on an external archive called Skyhawke. These are the kind of places we had to look on the regular, in the days before Ao3! Even if you aren't interested in the fic, I would advise clicking through and around anyway, either to give yourself a nostalgia trip or to learn a bit of fandom history :P
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