i love a good heartless tom riddle as much as the next guy but give me a tom who takes after his mother. who does obsession better than anyone. who is consumed by it; who has a thirst that can only be slaked by unhinging his jaw and swallowing love whole.
give me a tom who does nothing by halves. who is apathetic toward the world but wants to wear his lover like skin.
(or wear his loverās skin.)
(or skin someone with his lover.)
tom, who is undone by desire. who wants everything so much, all of the time, because he knows the taste of nothing (the dry rot of wools; the absence of a fatherās hand; the clinging stench of poverty)
a tom who is nothing like dumbledore theorized. who wasnāt made incapable of love by amortentia, because amortentia never had any power over love at all.
a tom whoās hamartia is part icarus:
(seven times he split the fibers of his soul- do you think immortality felt like the sun on his wings?)
part amortentia:
which cannot create love
(nor take love away)
but is an expert on obsession.
and what is tom but a hungry little boy, running from the things that scare him (a flight from death, he called it)
turning his back on the things that made him. (Gaunt in more ways than one)
obsessed with everything he never had (tom riddleās face- the elder, the senior- looks back at them both with disgust)
i don't think people understand how hard it is not to ship tomarry / harrymort because what do you mean they're borderline canonically soulmates. what do you mean they're PROPHESIED to each other. what do you mean they're literal parallels, had the same childhood circumstances but turned out the exact opposite. what do you mean harry's the embodiment of the light side and tom's the embodiment of the dark even though they're so, so similar. what do you mean they both have common names even though they themselves are anything but common. what do you mean they have uncountable amount of bible references that apply strictly to them, what do you mean harry makes sure to mention tom's the handsomest in the room whenever he sees him and apparently likes their connection. what do you mean their wands share the core of the same phoenix and therefore literally can't kill each other even if they wanted to. what do you mean harry wanted to give him another chance despite everything he's done, what do you mean tom offered him his hand, what do you mean harry killed tom at the same age except the order of the numbers is reversed. what do you mean harry's eyes are the same colour as tom's favourite unforgivable (avada) AND the colour of his house, what do you mean TOM'S eyes are the colour of harry's favourite defence spell (expelliarmus) and the colour of his house. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY ARE EACH OTHER'S OTHER HALF. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HARRY IS LITERALLY TOM'S SOUL??? š
NOT TO MENTION THESE THINGS AREN'T EVEN FANON LIKE...? lmk if i missed something though.
Anon asked me for a rec list and I've been meaning to put it together for a long-ass time so...buckle up friends this is a long one. I had to break it into two parts because Tumblr apparently has a character limit.
FOUNDATIONAL TEXTS
These are the fics that got me hooked on the pairing. I would not be in the fandom or writing fic if not for these...
Baby, I've been running - freakydeakymoonmagic
God of Nothing - machiavelli
all your stars - lordmarvoloriddle
The Foul/The Great - merrivale
contrapasso - saidcain
Ink - EclipseWing
Too old to be this young - Nadia_Castillo WIP
The Fire, Burning - freakydeakymoonmagic
Kaleidoscope - RenderedReversed
In Your Soul is Sealed a Pleasure - mosiva
CONTINUED ->
CLASSICS
Fandom classics that either cooked my brain (positive) or are comfort fics.
What Souls Are Made Of - Emeralds_and_Lilies
The Untouchable - TreacleTeacups
Retreat - Lomonaaeren
I Can't Carry This Anymore - lemonchaseĀ
A Dangerous Game - CybridĀ
Dripping Fingers - May_May_0_0
draw me after you (let us run) - ToAStranger WIP
No Glory - ObsidianPen WIP
Holly & Yew - LovelyLotus WIP
(Going forward, the recs will be split into three categories: fics that set my brain on fire (adrenaline rush), my comfort fics (dopamine rush). WIPS that make my life worth living will be included in part 2.Ā )
BRAIN FIRE PART ONE: LONGFICS
Ills of Murder - EclipseWing
tempor Ā· al | ary - asterismal (asterisms)
Proposal Series - delightfullĀ
the pleasure, the privilege - asterismal (asterisms)Ā
Those Made of Lightning and Blood - A_Single_Cactus
the snake, the soul and the lovers -Ā jjaegerbombĀ
vita mutatur, non tollitur - UnbotheredGooseĀ
But I Can Break You - NeuroWriter14Ā
Memories of a KillerĀ - ChemFreak - Harry PotterĀ
Entwined - purplewitch156
BRAIN FIRE PART TWO: SHORT FICS/ONE SHOTS
Undoing - wynnebatĀ
Treason - AlissiaĀ
For Voldemort and Valour - AcnaraĀ
Valiance - kyriluĀ
The Tattoo - crowthingĀ
Bend - RudeHellionĀ
Sola Fide - crowthingĀ
the loneliest creature in the world - be11etrist
Hungarian Dances - eldritcherĀ
nothing left to lose - eleven_eaves
Prison Blues - exariteĀ
Pancakes - DividaĀ
BRAIN FIRE PART THREE: CHECK THE TAGS LOL (DDNE AND/OR SPANK BANK)
Surrender - Kushimani
you're a parasitic, psycho, filthy creature (finger-bangin' my heart) -Ā ToAStrangerĀ
Anabiosis - dutch (itsevanffs)
Lover's Cross - frankie01
And all my mother came into mine eyes - cannibalincĀ
Thirst - ObsidianPenĀ
tautological - eleven_eaves
Violent Delights - Katsitting (Nekositting)Ā
Tom's Dick and Harry - andromaxeoftroyĀ
From the Cradle to the Grave - AlissiaĀ
Machine Men - CRUXIFIXIONĀ
Monster Fucker - AnonymousĀ
A Single Love - Vee (Vera_DragonMuse)Ā
Doubt it's going to change what we are inside - Soulseeker (Laserswordtraining)Ā
Verboten Vows - A_Single_Cactus
As the French Do - exariteĀ
the thing lay dead - pwplicity (duplicity)Ā
awake from a dream into a nightmare - orphan_accountĀ
Infinite - duplicityĀ
normal schoolboy stuff - KleinaĀ
Dream to Keep You - Soulseeker (Laserswordtraining)
Š£ŃŠ¾Š“ŃŃŠ²Š¾ -Ā ArveyMammy
COMFORT PART ONE: LONGFICS
aurora polaris - AGlassRoseNeverFades
consumption - LaeveteinnĀ
An Epistolary Exchange - Ramabear (RyMagnatar)Ā
Forever, preferably - JoWithTheFlow
Nobody Special - riddlereadingĀ
At the end of every road - sassysquatchĀ
soulstice - marvohloĀ
Remember When We Ruined - mosiva
COMFORT PART TWO: SHORT FICS/ONE SHOTS/SPANK BANK
Thin Skin -Ā IseliljaĀ
uvidimsya zavtra - TreacleTeacups
Your legs give way, you hit the ground - TheOnceandFutureQueenofTarts
Hell Is Your Son and Other Stories - wynnebatĀ
The Emperor and the Star - wynnebatĀ
In Bed with the Enemy - Alissia
we who walk in shadows black - Evandar
Pureblood Omega Etiquette - temptressloveĀ
A Matter of Perspective - lemonchase
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
The first harrymort fic I ever read (saved me from dr*rry hell):
Executor - Qliphoth
My favorite fic that I have written (corny self rec):
from what I've tasted or desire - ictyn
I've read a (frankly) absurd amount of harrymort fics, scouring the ship tag from top to bottom. There are a handful that have been deleted as well as a handful that I couldn't remember enough tags to find...I love this ship and all our amazing writers and fests and artists and I'm so happy to be here FDHLKAHFKHFA.
Part Two (WIPS THAT MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING) HEREEEE
Idk if this has a name but I love the harrymort fic trope where nagini takes one look at Harry and goes "yep mine now" entirely independent of whatever the fuck Voldemort is doing. Mostly because my boy desperately deserves affection and protection and I trust Nagini to accomplish this task but also because Snake Cuddle.
I think a good chunk of the draw of tomarrymort, aside from the tastiness of darkship and all the fucking crazy parallels they've got and the way that- I digress. The draw comes from the fact that there's no way in hell Voldemort would ever chase anything he didn't desire to have with a burning passion, and oh boy does Harry fucking deserve to be wanted.
I've recently set up a Google Drive folder linking up to many deleted fics. I have a little hobby of tracking down great deleted fics and downloading them for my pleasure, and I'd say I've gotten pretty good at it tbh. I didn't realize I have so many now, so I set up a drive folder and decided to make it public.
I have it organised by author, so hopefully you can recognize the stuff. I'll put the names of the authors in the tags, and you're def gonna recognize them. People on twitter are already freaking out about everything I have lol. (P.S. ever heard of yours, in murder by May Marlow? Read it. Cuz I got it.)
So please enjoy my library of recovered fics. I also take requests if you want me to find a deleted fic of some sort. Altho be warned, my area of expertise is tomarry, but I'm sure I could still track down a few fics.
Edit: Btw I'm still adding fics to this folder. So if there's anything you're missing out on I suggest coming back to check every once in a while.
Edit 2: There's an ongoing problem that a few people have brought up to me. Turns out some people can't open the files. The reason why is because I download the webpage directly from chrome, usually, and those are html files, but when I download the webpage, the file isn't automatically recognized as html for some reason, so I end up putting it into the Google drive and it's an unrecognized file type, which is why some of you can't open it. There's an easy way to fix that. Just download the file then rename it. Add ".html" to the end of the file name and you should be good to go. And for those that don't like to read html files, you can convert it to an epub or wtv else by using free sites like cloud convert and then you're good to go.
all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again
Having a dissociative disorder feels so weird BC you just kinda go from being super smart and self aware to atfdvbvdf brain melt gfcvhugfc only one brain cell left in seconds
iām fucking sick, absolutely beside myself with the need to create and consume as many words as possible, while being repeated kicked in the back of the knees by my inability do sit down and do anything
Shinsou really is looking like Aizawa, except heās voluntarily wearing a dark button-down! Shinsou is now the hypnosis hero, Nighthide, and heās not on the hero rankings chart, presumably because heās an underground hero. (The name & eye mask seem like an homage to Nightwing, which is perfect considering Aizawa and Shinsouās found father-son dynamic and vigilante connections.) Of course, running around with Class A probably elevates Shinsouās profile and makes him better known than a 25-year-old Eraserhead, but okay!