luke

26 | posting whatever my current hyperfixation is with no rhyme or reason | sometimes i write stuff on ao3

[filthyempire]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

“You have a chance to save everyone. Including the one you were always told could never be saved.”

Right, Harry thought. No pressure, then.

Harry can't bring himself to leave Voldemort's horcrux behind, suffering and alone on the floor of the almost-afterlife.

After the train takes him back - back to 1943, that is - he endures about five minutes of Tom Riddle's company before wondering if he should have just set the cursed thing on fire.

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i am so fucking stoked to finally be posting the chapter that's been rolling around in my head since i started this fic

[evergreen-femme]

at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.

[dividawrites]

“I should have killed you.” Potter is back, snarling ugly words from the darkness behind Tom’s door. “Then you would be here instead of me,” Tom replies. “Though, judging by your frequent visits, it seems you like the place.”

Atonement

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Explicit | Harry Potter / Tom Riddle | 8,055 | one-shot

Summary: After being caught murdering Hepzibah Smith, Tom Riddle is sent to Azkaban. His captor follows him into the dark.

Tags: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, POV Tom Riddle, Prisoner Tom Riddle, Master of Death Harry Potter, Explicit Sexual Content, Sadism, Obsession, Power Imbalance, Whump

[inkandhunger]

[starrywisdomsect]

St. Sebastian  (School of Nicolas Regnier, 17th c.)

[aglassroseneverfades]

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort Characters: Harry Potter, Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Rubeus Hagrid, Barty Crouch Jr., Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody, Cornelius Fudge, Dolores Umbridge, Vampires and Thralls and Other Dark Creatures, Various Aurors, Various Other Ministry Employees and Foreign Dignitaries Additional Tags: Soulmates AU, Vampire Tom Riddle, Alternate Universe - Voldemort Wins, Though It Looks a Bit Different Than You Might Expect, Post-War, A Rather Boring Peace Summit That Turns Out To Be Anything But, Nurmengard Castle (Harry Potter), Mourning For Something You Never Had, Dramatic Irony, Mutual Pining, Manipulative Tom Riddle, Possessive Tom Riddle, Tom Riddle is His Own Warning, Identity Porn Summary:

Looking up as the view over the mountainous path ahead of him finally starts to reveal those spiraling dark towers hidden amidst snowy white peaks, Harry reflects again on all the other little moments of his life that have led up to this one, and whether there was anything he could ever have done differently to end up someplace else. He wonders what awaits him in the sunless days ahead and whether all of the hardship he endured on this journey will have been worth it by the end.

What is possibly most damning of all is that he is not thinking of his parents right now as he trudges alongside his companions up to Voldemort’s eerie castle. He is thinking instead, as he often does, of a name that burns too brightly on his wrist in the pre-dawn light. He is thinking of what could have been, what has never been, what will never be.

He is wondering if somehow the fruitless tugging on his heart means that somewhere, some way, Tom is watching over him. He wonders what his faceless ghost would think of him if he could see him now.

[hewoweens]

u can be boiling alive in your mind for months and then on a random tuesday ur head gets so clear and life is worth living again and you're like damn what was all that about then

[lightwolf]

Editing? Oh you mean fic patching.

[lightwolf]

Protagonist now has more complex motivations.

Protagonist now remembers key facts about important people. He no longer develops convenient amnesia between cutscenes.

Protagonist now has a cooldown on certain adverbs. Adverbs have been buffed by 30% to compensate.

Developer note: Adverbs are important to writing but they are sometimes overused. This change keeps adverbs relevant while encouraging the use of adjectives and verbs.

The horse now has a name.

Deuteragonist snark power has been increased to 150, up from 75.

[mmedemerteuil]

Characters now no longer reference the previous version’s climate and have been updated to react appropriately to the currently set season.

Solved a glitch where supernumerary limbs would sometimes emerge during complex physical interactions.

Should no longer display “[insertnamehere]” during conversations and narration. All of such occurrances have been replaced with the appropriate tags.

Conversation continuity has been improved. Characters will no longer inappropriately respond with lines from previous iterations of the narrative.

All references to “Event A” have been purged to reflect changes in narrative structure.

Now with more thematically-consistent swearing.

[kedreeva]

Back-to-back repeated words that resulted from sentence rearranging or start/stop editing have been cleared.

Paragraphs which contained two or more instances of the same adjective have had their adjectives updated to accurately reflect a player’s vocabulary inventory.

Minor time traveling issues have been resolved, all characters should now exist in the same tense.

Punctuation has been improved. Commas have been reduced by half.

Characters sighing has been reduced by 30%.

Characters looking at things or people during conversations has been reduced by 40%. To make up for this, characters thinking about the conversation has been boosted and descriptive narrative has been added.

Title has been applied.

[mymami]

sketch that I will never finish...

[livinces]

[trans-girl-hank-hill]

this website is always finding new and exciting ways to prove this image true

[tomarrymorrt]

hate when I’m reading a good fic and all I can do is dread the fact that it will have to end 💔 sometimes I just skip the last chapter of a story or stop reading it completely because I just do not want it to end.

[taahko]

i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes

[taahko]

protagonists can and will be sexist, racist, insensitive, cruel, stupid, etc, especially towards the beginning of a story. these are called character flaws and they are a surprise tool that will lead to narrative fulfillment later

[mapswithoutwyoming]

And sometimes "narrative fulfillment" doesn't mean "the character overcomes their flaws" or even "the antihero is punished for their flaws"! sometimes it means the narrative says "wow was that fucked up or what? anyway i'm rod sterling"

[leafiloaf]

Harry, unable to cope with the lack of Voldemort's presence in his life, feels guilt and silently grieves since the absence in his soul became apparent. He hallucinates Voldemort looking half-dead and decomposing, haunting and comforting him at the same time.

[haughtyraban]

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

[mysticismmess]

I'm so tired of the fatalistic "well I can't do anything so I might as well not try" attitude permeating the world right now. No one is asking you to single-handedly end the war, they're asking you to be active in your local community.

We need community solidarity, not superheroes. Go help your neighbour fix their fucking washing machine or help cook a meal for your single parent friend with three kids. Pick up some fucking litter on the way to work. Whatever is within your range of possibilities, it will make a difference.

[sorryitssmudged]

just a cute little Sinosauropteryx

[nadjasnandor]

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