solaine

A shipper of Dramione, Tomione and Reylo. Sometimes a writer, often a reader and procrastinator.

[excarow]

Everytime ao3 is down I'm reminded of two things:

One is that humans have and always will love telling stories, and they will continue to do so even if there is no benefit to telling these stories, but simply because we love creating things

The other is that a concerning amount of people use fanfiction as a form of escapism and we should probably look into that

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

[ectoheart]

Let's just say that reading Beginning and End by @mightbewriting kept me sane in a few rough weeks I had this month. Truly amazing.

[ginnyruin]

Fiendfyre by Nurchie

Nurchie continues to blow my mind with her masterpieces for AS, and I’m obsessed with this one and its details. Her illustration of this scene is beyond perfect! I know each one of these takes a million hours to draw, and I’m so grateful to have such an incredible artist friend whose art keeps me inspired ❤️

Nurchie’s Deviantart

Twitter: @hi_im_nurchie

Fic: Altered State by Ginnyruin

Posted with permission.

[sssolaine]

Oooooof. This is beautiful. I'm intrigued. Time to dive back in to reading i guess?

[dara-art]

Eve and the Serpent 🖤

Dramione AU

The Serpent 🐍

The seduce. The embodiment of cunning and a sharp mind with its own vision of what is good and evil. Slytherin, Draco, Dragon - all of this has led me to believe that this is the perfect image for Draco.

Eve 🌿

I see her wild (like her hair), naturally beautiful 💚 She is the epitome of femininity and sexuality. Her whole innocent look seems to be asking to be seduced 🍏

[dara-art]

"What do you need?" he asked.

"Tell me what you need, and I'll get it for you."

The Auction, Chapter 29

author @lovesbitca8

Instagram @dar.a_art

[dara-art]

A chance meeting

On a rare sunny day, Hermione Granger was returning from a walk to Hogsmeade and accidentally met Draco Malfoy in an empty corridor. They decided to succumb to a momentary weakness, despite the fact that they could be noticed.

[arcusxx]

[rzzmg]

Moving to AO3 permanently

Yesterday (24 June, 2021), Fanfiction.net (run by FreePress) decided to delete several of my fanfictions without any arbitration or opportunity to retrieve the stories for downloading. Some of their removals were legitimate, I will admit, but some have left me with the negative impression that some Fanfiction.net Standards administrators are prejudiced (homophobic and transphobic) and that is something I will not abide. I have come to this conclusion after they removed three of my fanfics that specifically dealt with the issue of Transgender and Homosexual characters and their journeys of self-discovery:

1. “Hogwarts 365: The Golden Snitch” - A drabble featuring Trans!Draco coming out to his partner, Harry, with Hermione’s encouragement (she is his counselor). The drabble contained no nudity, no sexual interplay, and no profanity. It did not break any of Fanfiction.net’s rules, and yet they decided to delete it with a note stating it contained ‘explicit content’. 

2.  “Broken” - A WIP on hiatus that features Harry finding Draco years after the war working as a sex slave in a brothel in Rome. Draco is a crossdresser and bisexual. There was absolutely no nudity or sexual content in this fanfic aside from the implication of Draco’s prostitute status, and the profanity was extremely light. It was predominantly about surviving abuse as a sex trafficked slave. There was nothing in this fanfic that broke Fanfiction.net’s Terms of Service or Ratings Guide, certainly, yet it was deleted as containing ‘explicit content’. 

3. “Make Me Whole” - A story featuring Metamorph!Theo and his years’ long quest to accept his magical abilities to change his shape at will and his romantic and sexual feelings for his best friend, Draco. In the story, Theo pines for Draco all through their youth, and after the war, disappears and takes on a new name and life as a Transwoman. Her relationship with Draco evolves from friendship into sex, but ends sadly when Draco’s family insists he marry Astoria, per the arranged marriage they’d established already in contract for him. Many years later, Theo returns to England after a whirlwind tour around the world, exhausted and just wanting his best friend back in any form he can have him. Divorced!Draco finally accepts him and it’s an HEA. The sex in this story was “R” rated, not explicit NC-17 material, certainly well within the parameters of Fanfiction.net’s requirements and no more controversial than any mass paperback romance novel on today’s shelves, yet the administrators deleted it for ‘explicit content’.

Additionally, “Iron Closets” (a story about Dhampir!Draco struggling with a mating imperative for his best friend, Theo, who is dating Hermione), “Habit” (a story about Theo/Hermione/Draco in a convoluted triad filled with misunderstandings and recreational marijuana use), and “When Love and Hate Collide” (a story featuring 6th year head canon relationship between Hermione and Draco, featuring a prophecy) were also deleted by Fanfiction.net yesterday. These three tales, however, I will agree contained explicit sexual content and so their deletion is not in debate.

To say I am deeply disappointed in Fanfiction.net/FictionPress is an understatement. Their administration of the site has always been lazy and arbitrary, and the design and function of the site has always puttered around the minimum standards. In short, it’s an ugly site with a lack of functionality compared to its competitors on the market. The only thing that makes it attractive is the number of readers who regularly patron it (ironically, those numbers have been dropping as fans jump to other, better sites for their fanfiction fix). As a corporation that makes money from generating site clicks, one would think Fanfiction.net/FictionPress would want to put in some effort to maintain a ‘hip’ presence on the internet and that they’d keep open, positive dialogue with their base customers (the authors), and that their Standards group would not allow personal political agendas to dictate revenue streams for them. Alas, none of that seems to be the case. Fanfiction.net is happy to retain their title as a junk site, and now I believe we can add the term ‘conservative cancel culture’ to their list of deeply-rooted faults as well.

Needless to say, I have been dual-publishing my stories on Archive Of Our Own (AO3) for years, slowly moving all of my fanfiction over there, as time permits. I have found it to be a much more comprehensive platform, with abilities that outpace any of its competition on the internet. It allows for videos, pictures, and text formatting functionality that Fanfiction.net’s programmers probably dreamed about adding someday to their site, but were too busy picking their noses to accomplish. Furthermore, AO3 does not childishly hide behind puritanical prudishness and they are an inclusive site that encourages diversity and the freedom of expression. I’ll be pleased to continue supporting them as a by fans-for fans network for fandom. Over the next month, I will be porting my works over there where they will find a new, more accepting home.

Fanfiction.net….. Who?

[sssolaine]

She feels his breath at the curve of her neck, then the sting as his teeth come down, piercing through the skin.

"Can I at least glamour it?”

“Don’t—“ he blurts

“𝘋𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘱,” 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴.

“𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.”

Chapter 9. Jagged by @hiccupfound

[atomtrails]

Tomione fic edits (Jagged )

“He’s not like what she learned about. Not how Harry described him from the Pensieve.”

Link to fic : https://archiveofourown.org/works/31288280/chapters/77349521

[sssolaine]

Honestly *chef's kiss

[ramonameisel]

The war rages on.

i.

To love Tom is to become his destiny.

(a hundred days and a hundred nights of fighting him down on the battlefield, till all her spells have turned dark to the core, her magic singing for his blood in her veins)

He’ll always walk away.

He’ll always leave her behind.

Keep reading

[ramonameisel]

Tom turns the stone three times in his hand.

Keep reading

[sssolaine]

Damn that hurt.

[artofcrumbs]

Kylo Ren Training

Some back muscles appreciation. Thanks to @/rohan_sol on Twitter for this Muffin Tier Patreon Request 🖤

My Twitter

[sssolaine]

Top tier 😍

[darrusha-art]

[avendell]

Ballroom Dancing

[jaxxartbox]

“Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.”

I’m facepalming right now; I forgot to post this here for all my fellow smut lovers lol

During a random NSFW stream on discord, the idea of roleplaying Priest!Draco and Demon!Hermione came to fruition, and as the art was coming together, @willhavetheirtrinkets surprised the heck out of me by writing an spicy af ficlet for it! Please, you’re missing out if you don’t read this!

Confess - written Musyc

awldkjsfhweksjdnwksbjfkj thank you, i adore you and im still dyingggggggg ❤️❤️