(Beauty is in) The Eye of the Beholder

Recipient: rilla_licious
Author/Artist: ???
Title: Nobody’s Hero (Except For Maybe Yours)
Rating: PG
Pairings: Antonin/Draco, (vaguely implied) Antonin/Lucius
Word Count: 5,457
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *implied off-screen torture, vaguely implied canonical character death, age-difference*.
Summary: Narcissa asks Antonin to train Draco in preparation for his mission for the Dark Lord. Draco is reluctant and Antonin feels duty-bound. But, as Merlin would have it, things change.
Author's/Artist's Notes: Dear recipient: I’m sorry for…well for how this ends. I blame canon.
Dear mods: thank you for your patience with my constant RL interruptions and incorrigible procrastination.


( Nobody's Hero (Except for Maybe Yours) )

Recipient: scarletladyy
Author/Artist: ???
Title: Frog, Paper, Scissors
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Marietta/Millicent, Draco/Viktor
Medium: Art with watercolor and colored pencil and cut paper.
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *None*.

( Frog, Paper, Scissors )

Recipient: ragdoll
Artist: chazpure
Title: Early Moaning Bath
Rating: R
Pairings: Myrtle/Draco
Media: Pencil & Photoshop
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *[nudity, hand-job]*.
Summary: He was never happy when he came to her, but Myrtle understood woe. She'd had decades of practice at it, after all.
Artist's Notes: Gift art for Ragdoll. I hope you enjoy this, and I apologize for any wonky anatomy that may be represented!

( Early Moaning Bath )

Recipient: meri_oddities
Author/Artist: noeon
Title: Can't Stop (Try My Lies)
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Gregory Goyle
Word Count: ~5,500
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *potions abuse*.
Summary: After the War, it's a dangerous juggling act for Greg Goyle to hold a self-destructive Draco back from the brink of disaster whilst keeping his attraction to him in check.
Author's Notes: Dear meri, I hope you enjoy this. I put in one of your favourite characters and it wound up a bit angsty :) Many, many thanks to my amazing beta Femme and a billion kisses to bethbethbeth for bearing with my repeat tardiness and surprising injuries! The title is from the Elbow song, 'Can't Stop.'

( Can't Stop (Try My Lies) )

Recipient: femmequixotic
Author/Artist: snapelike
Title: The Lemniscate, or the Nature of Infinity
Rating: R
Pairings: Viktor Krum/Draco Malfoy
Word Count: 5,675
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *Implied canon character death (back story - none of the main characters).*
Summary: The war is long over, but Draco Malfoy is still caught up in the loss of the man he only too late realised that he loved. Trying to forget, he finds himself immersed in Quidditch and sex - sex for money, that is. Not all men, however, are willing to pay...
Author's/Artist's Notes: When I chose Viktor as my unloved character, I decided to leave out his accent, or at least not to try to imitate it. There is a nice post about accents here which explains better than I could possibly do the reasons for leaving it out. I hope, Femme, that you don't mind that I did. The lines from the Bulgarian folk tale comes from A Spell in Time.
A lemniscate is an ellipse whose most common form is the locus of points whose distances from two fixed points is a constant. Bernoulli, who discovered the lemniscate in 1654, described it as "...a lying eight-like figure, folded in a knot of a bundle, or of a lemniscus, a knot of a French ribbon". (A thorough explanation can be found at MathNet.) The curve of the lemniscate can be rather similar to the sign for the infinite, ∞. For beta, thanks to my beloved K.

( The Lemniscate, or the Nature of Infinity )

Recipient: Squibstress
Author: synn
Title: Walking Shadow
Rating: R/NC17
Pairings: Hagrid/Draco, with a side of unresolved Snape/Draco
Word Count: ~4000
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *A little non-sexual spanking? Maybe a hint of dub-con if you look at it sideways and backwards.*.
Summary: "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing." (Macbeth V.v.19-28).
Author's Notes: Many, many thanks to my beta L; all remaining errors are, of course, my own.
I'm afraid there's more operetta here than opera, but I tried to include hints of it without betraying my own, woefully inadequate knowledge of the art. That said, I really hope you enjoy it.
*All quoted lyrics come from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

( Walking Shadow )

Recipient: Ella Bane
Author/Artist: sweetmelodykiss
Title: Surviving the Aftermath
Rating: R
Pairings: Arthur Weasley/Draco Malfoy Secondary Pairing: Severus Snape/Luna Lovegood
Word Count: 5851
Warnings: AU, Post War, Character death (not the main pairing), rimming, virgin Draco
Summary: Out of grief springs hope.
Author's/Artist's Notes:I want to thank my wonderful beta angela_snape for whipping this story into shape and for also giving me the fabulous title.

( Surviving the Aftermath )

Recipient: ragdoll
Author: ldymusyc
Title: Dragon's Blood and Meadowsweet
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Millicent Bulstrode
Word Count: 16,500
Warnings: Language, sex.
Summary:
"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
Draco Malfoy takes an apprenticeship with a potions master after the war, and discovers the way to make a brew he never expected with a component he never considered. Side effects may occur; results may vary.
Author's Notes: Ragdoll, I was terribly nervous to have received your name for this exchange, but I hope that this will catch your attention. I tried to incorporate your likes of fluffy angst, humor, banter, and exploration into an uncertain relationship, and even though I know these aren't your favorite characters, I do hope you enjoy.

( Dragon's Blood and Meadowsweet )

Recipient: ldymusyc
Author/Artist: featherxquill
Title: Apart
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Rita Skeeter
Word Count: 15,418
Summary: After the war, Draco doesn't know who he is apart from the mark on his arm. Rita is unlike anyone he's ever known and her difference aids him in discovery.
Author's Notes: Many thanks to my beta, and also to our wonderful Mod for her patience with my Epic Deadline Fail when this fic grew a mind of its own. Hope you like it, ldymusyc!

( Apart )

Recipient: carrot
Artist: ponderosa121
Title: Fresh Meat
Rating: NC-17 (NSFW)
Pairings: Fenrir/Draco
Warnings: Extreme chan, non-con.
Artist's Notes: It always feels tougher drawing for another artist! Um, hope you like the pairing I chose, I couldn't resist throwing a helpless Draco to Fenrir. :3

( Fresh Meat )