Fic claiming and a rec (HD erised 2015)

[omi_ohmy]

I strongly suspect this could end up being my only post this year - judging by the frequency of my posting over the past 12 months - but I'm so excited: I wrote something! It felt so good to finally be writing again. Remember my desire to write a ficlet each month? In the end I wasn't able to do that, but I did have bits of writing from it that became woven into this fic.

I wrote The Kaleidoscope Charm, or Fifty Shades of Rainbow Magic for shiftylinguini.

Title: The Kaleidoscope Charm, or 50 Shades of Rainbow Magic
Author: omi_ohmy
Recipient: shiftylinguini
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, Ron/Hermione, Pansy/Neville
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~27,000
Warnings: None (except to say there is nothing remotely 50-Shades-y about this fic)
Content/Enticements: Pining, beautiful angel statues, complex charms, colour-coding, elemental magic, dreams, mystery and more….
Summary: Getting Draco Malfoy as a boss was not the worst thing that happened to Harry; getting a crush on him was.

Many thanks to evilgiraff for working for about a week straight to beta this fic as I wrote it. You're the best, bb. <3. A huge thanks, too, to the mods for doing such an ace job. I've read about half the fest fics - I managed to keep up for the first two and a bit weeks - and look forward to reading all the rest over the next month or two. :)

FIC and ART rec:
Also I was gifted with The Deeper Significance Behind Golden Apples, by the amazing oldenuf2nb, which was a wonderful read and even incorporated some art! It has a wonderful Pansy, a sculptor!Draco (imagine how I tingled with the fact that I'd written a fic about a statue and received one about a sculptor for this year's fest), a past-fuck-buddies-who-were-more-but-were-in-denial trope (one of my new favourites), and a really well-written mystery. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and if you haven't yet, I highly recommend checking it out.

Comments

[gracerene]

So thrilled you were able to participate again this year! <3

[omi-ohmy.livejournal.com]

It was a joy to take part, it really was. :)

[khalulu]

It's so lovely to see your dandelion-against-the-sky icon! Welcome back! I myself really only post when I wrote something, and that's not much - I had a few short things this year (lots of poetry in them, but not many bees - a glow-worm though!)

And your story was utterly wonderful.

I still have several of the long erised entries to read.

[omi-ohmy.livejournal.com]

Maybe this year I'll manage to write more than one fic... we'll see.

I'm looking forward to reading more erised fics - it's so nice knowing I have them waiting for me. For a while I thought I might manage to read all of them as they posted, but alas, RL was not cooperative. :D

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

This story was such a delight! I still have some of those images in my head. What you did with color was just so, so cool!!

[omi-ohmy.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I had to draw out colour wheels and learn lots of new colour words to write this, I'm glad it was worth it. :)