TrulyMadlyDeeply Fest 2025

A fest that blurs the line between love and obsession.

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Claiming is now open!

Truly Madly Deeply Fest 2025 is now LIVE!

Please read through the Rules Doc, some minor things have changed from past fests.

You will also find the link to the AO3 collection to make your claim!

ADDITIONALLY!

TMD now has a discord server for writers, editors, and artists who would like to participate! We chat and have fun while writing our pieces! You'll also find the invite link in the rules doc.

Happy Festing, friends!

TrulyMadlyDeeply Fest 2025 Official Rules

— A Fest That Blurs the Line Between Love and Obsession — About TrulyMadlyDeeply Fest: TMD Fest is a HP-fandom dark romance fest. Writers

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All submissions due by 2/28 11:59PM EST!!

After submitting to the collection, please fill out the submission forms! (Artist or Writer)

Writer Submission Form - TMD Fest 2025

Thank you for writing for TrulyMadlyDeeply Flash Fest 2025! Please take a few moments to fill out this form AFTER your story is completed an

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

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Just to clarify on the rules, werewolf remus smut is against the rules, but house elf smut is allowed?

You can refer to the Harkness Test we have in the rules!

1: Must have human (or greater) intelligence

2: Must be able to talk or otherwise communicate with language

3: Must be of sexual maturity for its species

ALL 3 must be answered “yes.” If one of these answers is “no,” then it is considered beastiality and not allowed in this fest.

A writer has creative freedom to fit their creatures to these standards!

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what is this fest about, like what are the prompts theme?

Our fest is for Dark Romance works in the Harry Potter Fandom! Our prompts are song based, taking sweet love songs and turning them on their head with a dark twist. Any pairing! This year's theme is Shades of Desire, so songs that are color themed. However, fics do not need to be centered around the color.

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Pssst . . . we're back!

TMD Fest 2025 will be launching January 6th!

In the meantime, PROMPTING IS OPEN!

This year, we'd like to take prompt suggestions from our fellow fest participants & enthusiasts. Check out the link to find out about this year's theme, and submit your prompts ❤️‍🔥

TrulyMadlyDeeply Fest 2025 Prompt Suggestions

Welcome back to another rendition of TrulyMadlyDeeply Fest! If you are joining us for the first time, welcome! We're so glad you're here 🖤 T

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We're back!

More info to come soon!

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Thank you for another wonderful TrulyMadlyDeeply Fest!

We appreciate all of our readers, artists, writers, editors, & hype-persons for creating and encouraging this space in our small corner of the internet to tell our dark stories🖤

We would love it if you could help us out and take 5 minutes to fill out our exit survey so that we can assess and adapt to the needs of our fest members. This survey is open to everyone (readers and lurkers too!). It will close in about two weeks:

TrulyMadlyDeeply Fest 2024 Exit Survey

We’ll be back with another TMD Fest in 2025

(And perhaps another flash fest this summer 👀)

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Feature #48

🖤Shuttered by @newtogot (Astrangefan)

🖤Pairing: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy; Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy

🖤Prompt: Does He Love You - Reba McEntire & Linda Davis

🖤Link:

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

🖤Summary: Draco Malfoy survives being a Death Eater, the Battle Hogwarts, and being convicted. He thinks he is going to be able to share with the world the woman he has loved since Sixth Year, Hermione Granger. Instead, he has to marry Astoria Greengrass or end up in the prison he narrowly avoided.

Hermione and Draco try to stay away from each other, to no avail. And, like all good tragedies, nothing plays out the way anyone expects.

Heartbreak, death, and revenge - when the smoke clears, lives will be shuttered.

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Feature #47

🖤Ouroboros by @willowingscribe

🖤Pairing: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy

🖤Prompt: Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush

🖤Link:

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

🖤Summary: In a world in which muggle-borns have to fight ever changing horrors in weekly trials to amuse bored Death Eaters, Hermione's only hope for survival and comfort is the goodwill of her mentor, Draco Malfoy.

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Feature #46

🖤Every Night, Every Day by @goldenbuckyyy

🖤Pairing: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy

🖤Prompt:  In The Back of My Mind - Fleetwood Mac

🖤Link:

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

🖤Summary: Hermione has been on the run for two years. Only using muggle money. No wand. No friends. No family.

And absolutely no magic.

All to avoid him. She had been careful.

But he always manages to find her.

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Feature #45

🖤Chasing Darkness by @ladymorphia

🖤Pairing: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy

🖤Prompt: I Wanna Love You Forever - Jessica Simpson

🖤Link:

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

🖤Summary: Draco Malfoy had always been an expert at self-preservation. Maybe that’s why he decided to trick Granger into drinking a love potion. After all, he needed her to testify on his behalf in front of the Wizengamot.

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Feature #44

🖤The Devil in the Details by ParksandFiction

🖤Pairing: Pansy Parkinson/Neville Longbottom

🖤Prompt: Wildflowers - Tom Petty

🖤Link:

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

🖤Summary: Pansy Parkinson is assigned to Neville Longbottom under the Ministry of Magic's Post-War Repopulation Objective but people weren't the only ones lost during the war and Neville has need of her that is not marriage or children like she expected.

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Feature #43

🖤Learn to Let Go by ParksandFiction

🖤Pairing: Hermione Granger/Astoria Greengrass

🖤Prompt: The Power of Goodbye - Madonna

🖤Link:

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

🖤Summary: After discovering the extent of Draco Malfoy's lies and manipulations, Hermione Granger sets out to expose him for who he truly is with the help of the one woman he hurt more than her.

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Feature #42

🖤Angel by @forestknifefight

🖤Pairing: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy

🖤Prompt: I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) - Meat Loaf

🖤Link:

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

🖤Summary: After a Potions accident, Draco is found having sprouted feathers and large, white wings. The Department of Mysteries wants to study the phenomenon, but Hermione will do anything to not let that happen, except remove the wings.

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Feature #41 [ART]

🖤[COMIC] the real diamond castle was the friends we made along the way by @okeydokeylackey

🖤Pairing: Tom Riddle & Original Female Character

🖤Prompt: Author's Choice: Two Voices, One Song - Barbie and the Diamond Castle

🖤Link:

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

🖤Summary: Tom Riddle has one friend. The only one who didn't turn him away when he was nothing but a half-breed orphan.

He won't lose her.

No, he'll bind her to a part of his soul.

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Feature #40

🖤I Don't Really Want to Be the Queen by @byrainchance

🖤Pairing: Pansy Parkinson/Draco Malfoy

🖤Prompt: Meet Virginia - Train

🖤Link:

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

🖤Summary: Pansy is a girl from a dusty town with nothing more than a barefoot, dirt-road walk to nowhere ahead of her. Draco will help her become Virginia, instead.

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Feature #39

🖤I’m Here to Remind You by bookish_clf

🖤Pairing: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy

🖤Prompt: You Oughta Know -Alanis Morissette 

🖤Link:

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

🖤Summary: Draco and Hermione are happy in love, but find out they have a stalker.