Sometime early in 2011, I started writing a Harry/Draco* fic for my oldest, bestest, fandom friend, venis-envy.

It took me two years 🤣

Finally, on the 22nd of January, 2013, I posted a fic with the following authors note:

This story was begun sometime early in 2011 for venis-envy's birthday in March of that year. I wrote about a third of it then, gave it to her with the intent of finishing it soon after. Long story short, it took me over a year to finish writing the story, and the better part of the next to edit the thing. Finally, it's done. It remains my first foray into the Harry Potter fandom, though I've written quite a bit of Harry/Draco fic since (lots of unposted stuff floating around my hard drive).

The most notable thing about it is the entirely weird POV. It was never meant to be a long fic, and the first person Draco written as if he's speaking to Harry (what I've come to think of as the I/You POV) never would have occurred to me as a good idea if it had been. Regardless, it is what it is and it was a very interesting endeavour, to say the least.

Happy infinitely-belated Birthday, my darling venis-envy.

Well, now it's time to say Happy Birthday to Desperation.

Desperation remains one of my faves, one of those fics I'm most proud of. I don't say that very often—I've certainly never celebrated a fic milestone like this before 🤣