#atramentum

[kingscrafty]

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[saintsenara]

Any meta/headcanons for the long suffering, almost extinc Bellamort nation on this Halloween. Did they bang in celebration of Halloween before Voldemort went to off little Harry? Thinking of good old Vold today

Me about Bellamort - The power that that has, the intelligence that that has, the clearance that that has, the access that that has, the influence that that has, the profile that that has, the international implication

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well... yes.

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Atramentum...

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Atramentum - Aischrolatry

[alittlefanta]

SO IM READING THIS LESBIAN (AND BISEXUAL BECAUSE THATS RELEVANT AF) ROMANCE NOVEL CALLED ATRAMENTUM BY MJ DUNCAN AND THIS. WHAT THE FUCK. I NEED TO SEND THIS TO THE SUPERGIRL WRITERS ASAP BECAUSE SUPERCORP AND FLOWERS. Okay. Minor rant, over.

[saintsenara]

atramentum bellatrix lestrange/lord voldemort teen | 1.9k words

when he ruled in majesty she would buy him an ermine-trimmed mantle, in byzantine purple with pearls at the throat. he would not wear it, but he would laugh - his soft laugh, the one you knew he actually meant - and kiss her without commanding her otherwise, and they would roll upon it like he was justinian - tyrannical and pious - and she was theodora - wanton and capricious - and they were actually in love. 

two lovers pass a halloween afternoon.

this piece was written for week eight of @ladiesofhpfest, on the theme of villainous vixens. you can find the masterlist for this week's fics here.

it's my second piece for this fest [the first - death (eaters) in paradise - is here] on one of my favourite ships: bellamort. i am obsessed with them, and the tragedy and - in my opinion - tenderness bound up in their canonical relationship.

author's notes under the cut

indeed, this piece is - sort of - the serious version of death (eaters) in paradise. both examine the same key theme - that voldemort is the only man of bellatrix's acquaintance who allows her to transcend the extremely restrictive gender roles which dictate the lives of magical women, particularly pureblood ones, and, therefore, the only man of her acquaintance who comes even vaguely close to offering her a notion of equality in his treatment of her. which, given that they are technically master and servant, is really saying something...

equally, both pieces examine the complexity of bellatrix's relationship with sex - and, in particular, the fact that she sees sex, pleasure, and her relationship with her own body as separate from the duty of wife- and mother-hood which she chafes against.

here, bellatrix is thinking, morbidly, of how passion and desire is bound up with the fact that she is a murderer; how sex and death are linked for her; and how she is in love with a man who makes her feel alive, and who offers her something much more tangible than her loveless marriage, but who is not truly alive himself.

and yet, her love for him is still authentic. that voldemort retains the habits of his working-class upbringing is a recurring motif in my writing, with his tendency to take attic bedrooms - something he's not particularly upset by if his minions take as insulting - a particular feature of this. that bellatrix finds something more real in her thirteenth-best bed [i know that the question of whether shakespeare bequeathing anne hathaway his second-best bed was insulting or not is contentious - i'm choosing to interpret it as romantic] than she does in the sumptuous furnishings of the decaying manor house she inherited as a bride.

i've always wondered how bellatrix felt about voldemort's apparent death in 1981 - certainly, she must be suitably blindsided by it to lose all sense and attack the longbottoms [an attack which is not only morally bad but also just plain clumsy, and seemingly quite far removed from how the voldemort of the first war liked to conduct his operations], but she is also convinced at her trial that voldemort will rise again.

atramentum is sort of adjacent to that wondering, as bellatrix and voldemort spend what will be their last afternoon for fifteen years together, as rain pours down.

[saintsenara]

atramentum

bellatrix lestrange/lord voldemort teen | 1.9k words read here | author's notes here

read: sonnet xxx: love is not all - edna st. vincent millay | jenny talks about massage - june gehringer | a line-storm song - robert frost

listen: sunday prokeimenon in mode one - cappella romana | black is the colour of my true love's hair - nina simone | this bitter earth/on the nature of daylight - max richter feat. dinah washington