Ficrec: The Bucket List by Galla Placidia
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lobelia321Title: The Bucket List
Author: GallaPlacidia
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Posted: Jan-Feb. 2020
AO3 summary: Draco will die in six months if he can't get Harry Potter to fall in love with him. Since that's not going to happen, he might as well spend his last days working through his Bucket List. Tap-dancing lessons? Rock climbing? Poetry-writing? Threesomes? Cocaine? Getting to know his adorable cousin, Teddy Lupin? Draco will try them all!
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22431970
Me: Resonant, haunting, heart-wrenching, also: snappy dialogue and fabulous writing.
I am haunted by this fic. I stayed up from 4 to 6:30 in the morning, devouring this, and by the end I was completely destroyed.
This line: "Maybe all along, Draco Malfoy was a nude-modelling, tap-dancing, mountain-climbing gay adventurer." kjhasdjfajlksjkjiwoue
I laughed out loud into my pillow. Until I started weeping into my pillow.
Some of this is strangely resonant with this lockdown / post-lockdown world we inhabit now where we are all no longer gallivanting about the world. I note this was posted just a few weeks before lockdowns started in Europe.
At one point, I was actually ugly-sobbing. Only the promise of an HEA was keeping me going. Praise fandom for headers.
This is also so tender and so true. The desperate hope of all of us that if only our love were enough to keep someone alive. My friend died like this three years ago. She knew she would die; she knew she had a year to live. She became weaker and weaker, and had to have morphine, and finally stay in bed.
Author: GallaPlacidia
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Posted: Jan-Feb. 2020
AO3 summary: Draco will die in six months if he can't get Harry Potter to fall in love with him. Since that's not going to happen, he might as well spend his last days working through his Bucket List. Tap-dancing lessons? Rock climbing? Poetry-writing? Threesomes? Cocaine? Getting to know his adorable cousin, Teddy Lupin? Draco will try them all!
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22431970
Me: Resonant, haunting, heart-wrenching, also: snappy dialogue and fabulous writing.
I am haunted by this fic. I stayed up from 4 to 6:30 in the morning, devouring this, and by the end I was completely destroyed.
This line: "Maybe all along, Draco Malfoy was a nude-modelling, tap-dancing, mountain-climbing gay adventurer." kjhasdjfajlksjkjiwoue
I laughed out loud into my pillow. Until I started weeping into my pillow.
Some of this is strangely resonant with this lockdown / post-lockdown world we inhabit now where we are all no longer gallivanting about the world. I note this was posted just a few weeks before lockdowns started in Europe.
At one point, I was actually ugly-sobbing. Only the promise of an HEA was keeping me going. Praise fandom for headers.
This is also so tender and so true. The desperate hope of all of us that if only our love were enough to keep someone alive. My friend died like this three years ago. She knew she would die; she knew she had a year to live. She became weaker and weaker, and had to have morphine, and finally stay in bed.