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technically voldemort survived the killing curse too . Pls call him The Dark Lord Who Lived 🙏

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You ship Tom/ Luna? I do too... Sadly the fics are so, so less (not a surprise coz it's a rare pair and all)...

If you ever write about this adorable rare pair I will support read it

Hey! Yes, I do!!!

I got onto the pairing by pure chance and after stumbling upon @tunavibes 's The Astronaut, but I have pretty much read myself through the entire AO3 tag like the Hungry Little Caterpillar and then what I managed to find on FFN, haha.

But yes, it's a wonderfully fun and super interesting pairing. How these two would interact and how a romance would be believable is basically what I'm interested in and I love seeing different authors' takes on it. There bal's, obviously, there are fics that have been written before DH was published, there's AUs where the diary falls into Luna's hands instead of Ginny or after what happened with her (another ship I go nuts over, hehe), there's your timetravel stuff in general, Dark!Luna AUs, there's quite a rich buffet!

As for now, I'm not really in the headspace for HP stuff, rip, and if, I might focus on A Sunday in Late August 1899 to actually get it done so it doesn't haunt me until my dying days, haha.

BUT, it should be easily found in the tag if I am to post something 😅🩷

#☺️

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Will we get a new chapter this year for Astronaut?

yes that is the plan.

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quick more specific update 9/12/25:

ive been dealing with a lot of life stuff over the past several years that have made it hard to focus on completing any important projects. suffice to say, i just did not have the energy, like literal energy in my body and in my life, to devote to a big undertaking like this story. i've been working on moving, changing careers, dealing with my chronic illness and a number of other health issues, a graduate degree, doing a lot of very intense therapy, and working on my relationships with my loved ones. the gas was not in the tank, period. I thought about this story a lot and i often felt guilty for not working on it, because i didn't want to seem ungrateful for all the love it's received over the years. every word my readers have said about it is precious, and i take what i see as my responsibility to them, my duty as a creative, very seriously. i would kind of write a little here and there out of obligation but it just felt wrong. something wasn't clicking. it wasn't that i suddenly no longer wanted to finish the story or had lost interest in it but only that for me as an artist and a human being, it was not the right time to continue. i needed to take time to evolve on both levels. it took me some time to recognize this, because this story and specifically finishing it has always been very important to me for a lot of reasons and i was deathly afraid that deep down i had just gotten bored of it.

Well that is certainly not true, and some of the gas is starting to come back. I'm thinking a lot about the story again, not out of guilt and shame for taking so long to update (uncommon in recent years) but because the possibilities of it are seeming more interesting now that i am starting to have a little spare energy to devote. I am a very different person than i was when i left off writing, and I will need some time to really consider how to approach writing it in a new way as the person I am now. I want to do justice to the version of me that started writing this story with the end in mind, because I think about that ending a lot. Without it I am leaving some things unspoken that I badly want to say.

I want to learn to enjoy writing again. To be honest, I need a pause on inquiries about the story for the time being. Updates are only a matter of time, but i cannot and will not say how much time. My first thought today was that I wanted to take a crack at the story again but I felt bad because the chapter I wanted to write was not the next one, so I wouldn't be able to post it quickly. I don't like that the overwhelming feeling of pressure to update is actually inhibiting me from working on the story the way it feels natural for me to work.

tl;dr you will have to wait some more, but i am working. please be mindful of the fact that this work is for me first and foremost. i share because i love you.

Will we get a new chapter this year for Astronaut?

yes that is the plan.

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Tuna is one of those crack ships that doesn't feel very crack and I hope in my lifetime it gets more popular. The lack of fics is so disheartening ngl.

What drew me to this pairing/concept

Beneath that posturing, that brilliance and sheer power, Tom Riddle is essentially lonely. Think about it. He probably had never had anyone like him without any agenda.

Luna will probably see him as one of her beautiful but untamed creatures that can be managed with love.

Rowling portrayed love as a sacrifice in the books. But love can also be a healing force. Comfort.

Luna is rather good at healing. She's the only person who gave Harry a fresh and more optimistic way of looking at life when he was devastated after Sirius's death. Honestly, if she didn't love creatures so much, she would have made a fine Mind Healer.

Tom is familiar with aggression. But he may underestimates tenacity.

Luna braved through losing her mother, a father whose mental health was not the best, a magazine which was ridiculed by all, school bullies, getting tortured at Malfoy Manor with equanimity. Unlike Harry and Ginny she's not fire. She's not ice like Tom either.

She's steel wrapped in velvet.

Sometimes a budding teenage edgelord Darklord needs to be distracted, befuddled, amused and enamoured enough so that he gradually gets worn down from his grand world domination plans.

A girl who's empathetic, optimistic and determined till the point of lunacy (lol) has a non zero chance to accomplish this Herculean task.

Well that, and she makes a mean dirigible plum pastry.

Sometimes, dirigible Plum pastry, empathy and a spine of steel is all that's needed to turn a would-be Dark Lord into a sort-of tax paying citizen with no murderous hobbies and a wife guy.

Sorry for my rants. Have a lot to say and gush on these pairings and I would also love to know your headcanons on them...

No I love the rants! I agree, it really doesn't feel like that much of a crackship to me even though they of course have no canon relationship (it's at almost the same level as a ship like Tomarry which does have substantially more canon basis but on its face is about as implausible).

I guess the lack of fics really doesn't feel like a bummer to me because there used to be even less! Over the past decade or so I've met or just observed several people who like to create for the pairing who weren't in that space before. So it feels like progress to me even though it's still a rare pair. A ship like this is never going to have the popularity of larger ships in the fandom and I personally don't even really want that. I like evangelizing the ship to people but I don't know if I'd enjoy it the same way if it were hugely popular.

These headcanons are pretty different from the way I write them, but they're lovely! I hope you keep writing and post some of your work if you haven't already.

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Really loved The Astronaut... still hoping we have a new chapter this year..

Btw. what is Luna and Tom's song in yiur mind for this fic? For some reason Fred Astaire's Cheek to Cheek fits them :)

Thank you!! I'm working on it ☺️ I know it's been a long time now, but I've just been rewriting the same chapter over and over for the past few years (glacially slowly, because I was doing a graduate degree and was also dealing with a lot of personal stuff) because I haven't been happy with it yet and I think this time is going to be the one, so I'm excited. It's evolved to be very different each time.

Such a great question! That's a very nice pick as well. I think I'd go with something more like rachmaninoff's piano concerto #2 in c minor mvt 1 or glazunov's chant du ménestrel. Tom can't be in a situation like this without narrativizing it as the most epic and Very Serious romance of all time even if that doesn't always match what's happening :) I personally think he might be drawn to classical music over contemporary radio-friendly jazz – if there are no lyrics you can more easily ignore that a muggle wrote it, and he's got a lot of very big feelings going on that are captured by high drama. He might be into opera as well since he kind of thinks of his life like an opera in many ways. (I think he'd be drawn to something like Carmen as the tragic fate of the lead might remind him of the death of his mother.)

Thanks for asking! <3 The continued interest in this story really touches my heart because I've been longing to update it for quite a while and it just hasn't come together yet. I hope I can get it to you very soon.