Never laugh at live dragons

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[lilamadison11]

Sometimes I see you on my dash and that makes me happy. Hope life is good to you my old friend :*

Night! Oh how nice it is to hear from you. I sometimes see you on my dash and I just smile too.

I’m doing alright. I recently fell down the Dramione rabbit hole. Who knew? And I’m still designing every day. You? How are you? Are you staying safe?

[senlinyu]

SenLinYu’s Dramione Rec List

I’ve been meaning to put this together for a while, so I’m finally sitting down and doing it. Asterisks indicate it’s a story I’ve reread at least a half-dozen times.

One Shots

T Rated

He Becomes by @abromaposts. Rated: T. Draco fosters bunnies in the hopes that it will impress Hermione. It is the cutest, funniest concept. Just delightful to read.

***Brave Little Gryffindor by scifichick774. Rated T. Fred and George dare Hermione to kiss Draco.

The Intricacies of Marriage by kirsant. Rated: T. I don’t usually like marriage laws, but this one is all about Draco and Hermione trying to kill each other. It’s quite funny.

Amateur Cartography by worksofstone. Rated T. Hermione has reoccurring one-night stands with Draco while trying to convince herself they don’t mean anything.

Out of Order by worksofstone. Rated T. Pining Draco trapped in the lift with Hermione.

Angst

Bird’s Eye View by Optimise. Rated T. Told from Scorpius’ perspective as his parents’ marriage falls apart. Its so sad! I still hurt from this. So I’m sharing my pain.

Kiss Me, Haunt Me, Kill Me by @lovesbitca8. Rated: T. Hermione dies during the battle of Hogwarts, Draco returns to Hogwarts post-war as a professor.

So by Shiv5468. Rated T. Immediately follows the Battle of Hogwarts. Very poetic and insightful.

All I Want by blue movies. Rated T. Hermione dies in the Battle of Hogwarts. Draco grieves the only way he knows how to.

Keep reading

[lilamadison11]

It looks like he’s leaning.

[lilamadison11]

for Logan

[lilamadison11]

The boy had played her like a Stradivarius tonight; letting her do what she does best with no complaints or cross examination, helping her into his bananamobile, his hand low on her back, introducing unexpected adrenaline triggering hijinks, the soft, soft way he looks at her before kissing her again.

Unheard Music by ghostcat3000 for nightlocktime

[lilamadison11]

As soon as I think I’m just done with these two, something (or someone (damn you @mysilverylining)) drags me kicking and screaming (and smiling and sighing) back down. Damn LoVe.

[mysilverylining]

@lilamadison11   I found this video of us.  I’m the panda. Stay with US

(I’ve updated almost everything in July!

But seriously, at this point, I’m just trying to think of Rob Thomas as an abusive father.  He may have brought our characters into the world, but he’s proven himself unworthy.  

It was me, and you, and all the other fic writers and artists who’ve nurtured them over the years.  They’re OUR babies now.

[lilamadison11]

What did you to do wash the bad taste out of your mind? I’m still struggling! It makes making things or reading new stories so hard. I’d so love to wipe even the thought of S4 from my brain. Sigh.

But yes, you brilliant fic writers kept everything alive and exciting for so long before. Clearly he doesn’t really own the fandom anymore. Thank goodness....

Also, thank goodness for you. And S. And C. And all the brilliance you still bring to us all daily. You are so sweet and kind.

[nikitajobson-deactivated2024052]

I’m always grateful for fic recs so I figured I’d make a list of my own Dramione favorites (so far) which I enjoyed for one reason or another: good sense of humor, fantastic characterization, original plot or good ole smut. What you won’t find: Draco without a redemption arc or a helpless Hermione. The list will be expanding as I’m going. Beware of the tags and ratings, not all of them might be your cup of tea.

On this note: thank you to all the fanfiction authors! For all the great writing and generous sharing, you are amazing and I’ll be eternally grateful for your willingness to fix, fill the gaps, give new chances and perspectives or just explore.

Most recs are linked below. Unfortunately not all of these stories are available online anymore, but @lostdhrfics might be able to help you out with that!

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After The Flood – hiddenhibernian, Rating: T, Words: 150,063

Apple pies and other amends – ToEatAPeach, Rating: M, Words: 76,711

All you want – SenLinYu, Rating: E, Words: 172,268

A kingdom beside the sea – everythursday, Rating: M, Words: 104,000

Amateur cartography – worksofstone, Rating: T, Words: 20,995

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Books written for girls – attica, Rating: M, Words: 8,115

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Celestial Navigation – phlox, Rating: M, Words: 13084

Creatures of the wind – everythursday

Cherry pie – GrandeVanillaSkimLatte, Rating: M, Words: 3,124

Chronos Historia – In Dreams, Rating: M, Words: 103,497

Claiming Hermione – ilke, Rating: M, Words: 118,833

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Divination for Skeptics – olivieblake, Rating: M, Words: 98,052

Draft of living death – Maloreiy, Rating: M, Words: 11,262

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Eleven Letters – Lilian_Silver, Rating: M, Words: 1,603

Every Day, a little death by Lovesbitca8, Rating: E, Words: 67,132

Epiphany – phlox, Rating: M, Words: 25,204

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Five Days – RavieSnake, Rating: M, Words: 32,001

Fixing what you broke – LadyKenz347, Rating: M, Words: 119,156

Fuck, Marry, Avada – Lilan_Silver, Rating: E, Words: 3,106

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Hunted by Bex-chan, Rating: M, Words: 191,497

How to win friends and influence people – olivieblake, Rating:M,            Words: 386,462

Hot for teacher + An indefinite amount of forever – MotherofBulls, Rating: M,  Words: 61,722/ 79,719

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Ice – SenLinYu, Rating: T, Chapters 1

Impossible – Rizzle, Rating: M, Words: 3,975

In Flames – Lucifer’s Garden, Rating: M, Words: 4,919

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Jealousy – rainsdrabble, Rating: M, Words: 136,752

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Kiss me, haunt me, kill me – lovesbitca8, Rating: T, Words: 4672

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Love in a time of the zombie apocalypse – Rizzle, Rating: M, Words: 250,380

Lost and found – Kyonomiko, Rating: M, Words: 31,317

Looking Glass – Kyonomiko, Rating: M, Words: 105,224

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Manacled – SenLinYu, Rating: E, Words: 370,256

Memoriae – FemmeBrulee, Rating: M, Words: 35,472

Mistletoe Woes – Lovesbitca8, Rating: E, Words: 7,704

Missed connections – UnseenLibrarian, Rating: T, Words: 8,625

Mr. & Mrs. Malfoy – phlox, Rating: M, Words: 12,376

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Never Mine – RynStar15, Rating: M, Words: 102,507

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Oh my god, they were roommates – LovesBitca8, Rating: E, Words: 7,534

Operation Get Draco Laid – In Dreams, Rating: M, Words: 34,731

Out of order – worksofstone, Rating: T, Words: 4406

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Presque Toujours Pur – ShayaLonnie, Rating: E, Words: 93,911

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Revert – SUPRNTRAL LVR, Rating: M, Words: 260,266

Ridiculous – CharingCross1950, Rating: M, Words: 80,723

Room Serviced – pir8fancier, Rating: E, Words: 13,377

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Slowly towards desire – phlox, Rating: M, Words: 12,357

Sock it to me – LovesBitca8, Rating: M, Words: 953

Sugar and Spice – InLoveWithForever, Rating: E, Words: 156,233

Sweetly Broken by LadyKenz347, Rating: none, Words: 106,623

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Tender Vengeance – Margot_le_Faye, Rating; E, Words: 150,280

The art of diplomacy – Rizzle, Rating: M, Words: 14,762

The Commoner’s Guide to Bedding a Royal – olivieblake, Rating: M, Words: 500,649

The Beggar-thief – Gravidy, Rating: M

The dragon’s bride – Rizzle, Rating: M, Words: 225,164

The ferret – MotherofBulls, Rating: E, Words: 12,890

The fever – Flightglow32, Rating: E, Words: 30,273

The idea of you – Lilian_Silver, Rating: E, Words: 7,071

The initiate – phlox, Rating: E, Words: 21,790

The intricacies of marriage – kirsant, Rating: T, Words: 4,198

The library of Alexandria – Senlinyu, Rating: E, Words: 25,861

The muddy princess – Colubrina, Rating: M, Words: 62,710

The Observer + The Remedies for Love – BookishPower, Rating: M,  Words: 36,090/ 46,752

The politician’s wife – pir8fancier, Rating: M, Words: 68,629

The right thing to do + All the wrong things – LovesBitca8, Rating: E,  Words: 174,911/ 160,297

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Unchained – LadyKenz347, Rating: E, Words: 124,629

Uncoffined – lady_of_clunn, Rating: E, Words: 33,431

Unlikely – Colubrina, Rating: T, Words: 1,995

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Viva la Revolution – Rizzle, Rating: M, Words: 11,038

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We were never here – phlox, Rating: E, Words: 21,790

What is happening? – RavieSnake, Rating: T, Words: 1,329

When the bell tolls – everythursday

Whole against a wide sky – phlox, Rating: E, Words: 9,852

[nikitajobson-deactivated2024052]

Updated! Added 7 stories :)

[lilamadison11]

The boy had played her like a Stradivarius tonight; letting her do what she does best with no complaints or cross examination, helping her into his bananamobile, his hand low on her back, introducing unexpected adrenaline triggering hijinks, the soft, soft way he looks at her before kissing her again.

Unheard Music by ghostcat3000 for nightlocktime

[lilamadison11]

As soon as I think I’m just done with these two, something (or someone (damn you @mysilverylining)) drags me kicking and screaming (and smiling and sighing) back down. Damn LoVe.

[mysilverylining]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/783278/chapters/61860367

Chapters: 31/? Fandom: Veronica Mars (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Logan Echolls/Veronica Mars Characters: Veronica Mars, Logan Echolls, Duncan Kane, Original Characters, Lilly Kane Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Best Friends, Bromance, On the Run, Forgiveness, Action/Adventure, Comedy, Camp, Backstory, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Drama Summary:

Silly Duncan stopped taking his meds. Now, one dead Fitzpatrick later, Logan and Veronica need to get him out of town. Too bad they hate each other. AU. Takes place mid 1x3 - Meet John Smith.

So I did that 👆 last night.  First chapter of two. 

Artwork by the phenomenally talented @lilamadison11​

[lilamadison11]

“And…goddamn. Logan has never been so intensely aware of the skin on his body before. Every single particulate piece of him is humming. Her tongue is tracing along the side of his, stroking hungrily. Her. Her. Her.” - Prima Facie

Happy Birthday to the talented bryrosea

all i want  |  stay  |  with me  |  prima facie  |  waste of breath  |  a quartz contentment  |  pan’s revenge  |  if i fell in love again  |  of course

[bryrosea]

THIS IS AMAZING. Jesus, I can’t handle it. You even included Reggie!! Excuse me while I have a minor meltdown.

[firelxdykatara]

okay i havent watched vm in so long & was trying to find time to watch the 4th season but your post & that gifset just gave me a giant No Thank You, It Sucks. like wtf, what did they dO TO HER, & LOGAN??????

YEAH. YEAH. IT’S….. IT’S BAD.

Like, there was so much about Veronica in particular during season 4 that I didn’t like. And it was lowkey super uncomfortable because she’s my favorite character and I had to keep doing harder and more complex mental gymnastics to get around the things I did not like, but I was willing to do it because I thought the season was gonna ultimately be about Veronica growing up, realizing her attitude didn’t work and was losing her the people she cared about. I thought it was going somewhere.

Things like Veronica looking at her boyfriend, someone she knew had a whole shitton of trauma and who struggled with anger management issues and who had gone through a whole lot to fix himself long before she came back into his life and then like…. deliberately provoking him into getting angry enough to put his fist through a cabinet which apparently turned her on because she liked him better like that???? Like, she was getting angry at him for having reasonable, measured responses to what was going on, she wanted angry mal-adjusted Logan back and tbh at that point in that episode (…. i wanna say ep 4 or ep 5) I had to walk away for a while because it made me feel vaguely ill. But I thought she was going to learn from that and realize that it was a good thing her boyfriend was getting therapy and fixing his issues and calming down (all things which, before he’d done them, had ultimately caused their relationship to fall apart back in season 3).

There were other things, too (like the drinking episode, and Veronica’s sex dream with Leo which….ugh), and they were getting harder and harder to ignore but then, but then…. Veronica accepted Logan’s proposal. And I thought finally, we’re getting the pay-off, it wasn’t all for nothing, it’ll be ok. And then they got married (after a pointless and honestly cruel gag where Veronica, Wallace, and Keith all immediately assumed Logan was leaving her at the altar via text because one of his texts didn’t send and frankly that should’ve been the final straw for me but I still naively hoped it would all serve a purpose), and I think I knew, about half a minute before it happened, what was coming. But I was in denial until the car Logan got in blew up.

Actually, I was in denial for the rest of the episode, and right up until the one year later time skip where it was confirmed Logan was dead I was positive he hadn’t actually died, because the way the scene was framed and shot was like any other show where someone ‘dies’ in a car bomb except it cuts away with enough time for the victim to get away. There are still people who believe Logan somehow escaped and would come back in another season, but Rob Thomas said that Logan needed to die so that Veronica could go back to being a PI, solving mysteries, and “doing that with a boyfriend or a husband just felt less interesting, less sexy, less noir.” (his exact words, from this interview and honestly, i’m still seeing red about it) Proving that not only does he not know what noir really is, he doesn’t know who Veronica is.

Anyway…….yeah, just. Save yourself the pain. The entire series is on Hulu and I really, genuinely hope that some day I can go back and watch the original series without this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, because the first two seasons especially were so amazing and still stand up as some of the best hours of television I’ve ever seen in my life.

But right now, it’s all tainted, and I hate it so much I can barely breathe.

[lilamadison11]

“He is a good guy underneath it all.”

- Jason Dohring

[scabopolis]

Fun fact! 

I can’t hear Gravity by Sara Bareilles without immediately saying “FUCK YOU, SARA BAREILLES!” – it is a quote from @mysilverylining‘s brilliant Logan x Veronica fic Neptune and one of the first times I remember laughing out loud while reading a fic. 

[allthevmff]

Art by @lilamadison11​

[destielbaited]

i miss logan echolls

[marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer]

What bothers me is that RT is going to say the reason they’re not letting him do s5 is because we’re a bunch of fangirls who only care about the ship. I hate it. He’s not going to take responsibility for his shitty writing.

I get where you’re coming from because for longtime fans Logan’s death was the proverbial nail in the coffin of a season that was worlds away from the show we used to love - they missed the mark on the writing and the characterization of most characters, except for the character they were so adamant to dispose of in such an awful and careless manner, which makes the whole thing even more bewildering. 

However, I literally couldn’t care less about what excuses the basic bitch makes as long as the show dies a slow and painful death. 

If he thinks stupid fangirls are the reason the show died, then he’s got it right. After all, stupid fangirls are the reason the show was raised from the dead time and again, we were bound to be the reason for its demise. I’ll proudly take responsibility for that. 

Marshmallows giveth, marshmallows taketh away. 

[absolutelyiris]

Since the cancellation of Hulu’s Veronica Mars will inevitably bring about the blaming of “entitled fangirls” for its demise, I’d like to helpfully set some reminders: • Those “entitled fangirls” were responsible for keeping the franchise alive for fifteen years, as well as reviving it. They did the work. • Instead of doing the work and repping for a season five, pro-s4 folks instead chose to spend their time mocking, complaining about, and fighting with those “entitled fangirls.” Should have done the work of those fangirls y'all took for granted. • Also, about those “entitled fangirls?” They weren’t the only ones angry. Even casual fans were checking out once they found out about the ending. Rob Thomas pinned his hopes on the new hulu viewership, stupidly forgetting these new viewers would also be binge watching the old seasons and movie, and thus the new season that stripped away everything that made VM special IS NOT WHAT THEY SIGNED UP FOR. • And it’s not just fangirls- FANS’ ANGER WAS DEEPER THAN LOGAN’S DEATH. People were very upset about Veronica’s characterization and treatment of trauma survivors. And are we really forgetting “Veronica is a Republican?” • And perhaps the most important thing: VIEWERSHIP IS NOT OWED. The fans who are angry are not obligated to watch or support something that they feel wasn’t what they signed up for. Entertainment is a give and take place. It’s a business and transaction. Viewers are not under an obligation to give their eyes and money to something they didn’t want. And in this case, the fans spoke up. • And finally, this cancellation may not be what Rob Thomas expected, but it’s definitely what he needed. You pay the most loyal of fans dust, don’t expect them to fund your temper tantrum. Better make a kickstarter. So that’s it! I hope I’ve helped answer any questions or support any debates or whatever. Fuck you, Rob Thomas!

[acessy0420]

Mood since S4

[lilamadison11]

Charcoal of Logan Echolls from Veronica Mars

[jasondohringnews]

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[troublescout]

I hate Season 4 of Veronica Mars so much.