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A Statement of Solidarity from the Dramione Month Mods

An important statement as we move closer to #Dramione Month. We have included the ALT text of the images below the cut. but you can also read our full statement on our substack. With love for a safe and inclusive community, Your Dramione Month Mods ✨ ⏳ 🏳️‍🌈 (ALT text of images below)

Due to escalating attacks on the transgender community, the Dramione Month Mods would like to affirm our strong stance as anti-JKR, anti-TERFs, and anti-transphobes. We stand in solidarity with the transgender community and vehemently oppose any efforts to strip our trans friends and community members of their rights and ability to exist peacefully.

We do not endorse or condone the purchase or consumption of any HP merchandise that provides money to JKR to fund her hateful agenda. This includes but is not limited to: the Harry Potter books, merch, games, theme parks, studio tours, food, the CC stage play, the upcoming HBO show, etc.

Participation in fandom spaces is inherently free and we will continue to put in the work to keep this fandom event inclusive and free for all to participate in and enjoy. This means this space is not open to those who materially fund or actively support creating a world where our trans friends cannot exist peacefully.

For this Pride Month, we have donated $100 to Mermaids UK. Additionally, as members of the dramione and queer communities, and on account of our deep love of both, we will be making a donation to Mermaids UK after Dramione Month finishes, donating a dollar for every 10 works created up to 3000 works. We encourage you to join us in contributing to this amazing charity! We will be running a fundraiser linked on our Instagram from now through the end of October.

With Love,

Dramione Month Mods

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What an amazing ride this was.

day 1 at the communal puzzle club: i see a puzzle with a sign next to it that says "please help with our communal puzzle" and i say to myself "don't mind if I do" and did the whole thing

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The Stolen Seasons

I wrote a little thing for the 'This is War - A Wizarding War Flash Competition' and today was reveal day! Very chuffed that my fic was voted 'The Spark of Hope' (Most heartwarming).

Summary:

The wizarding war drags on. After four relentless years of fighting, Voldemort remains undefeated. Hermione is in the thick of it, serving as the primary healer at Grimmauld Place, the Order's London Safehouse.

The longer the war rages, the more she splinters. Soon enough, she will be nothing but burned-up kindling. But in the hours in between, Hermione seeks solace on the rooftop.

Sometimes, the Order's spy, Draco Malfoy, joins her.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/This_is_War/works/65088013

P.S. If you want your heart good and bruised, check out the other amazing works in the fest!

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They didn’t make it home.

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Sketch from last night of Draco and Hermione junning hand in hand along a rooftop (thinking about chapter 102 in Détraquée by Hystaracal)

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Made a fan art cover for this lovely canon re-write fic by my friend @cmvela

Memento Mori

This is a retelling unlike anything I’ve seen before. It interweaves Hermione and Draco sorted into Ravenclaw with the story of the First Wizarding War reimagined with Lucius and Narcissa waking up to the horrors of Voldemort and doing something about it.

What I love here is how the children really get to be children. They feel like kids who aren’t burdened by being child-soldiers.

But meanwhile, we have the tragic tale of Regulus Black and others of his generation who were far too young.

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Anyway… here’s a cozy Hermione

Based on a still of Anne Hathaway from Love and Other Drugs

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Iconic Duo

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Crookshanks and Draco inspired by neilistic’s hilarious oneshot Heraclitus

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The list of free resources for writing

My current list of things I keep recommending everywhere. I may expand it at some point, but I don't want to make it overwhelming.

These are the basics. This is my answer to the question "I want to be a writer, where should I start? Anybody have tips?"

Yes, I do. It's this list.

2020 Creative Writing Lectures at BYU by Brandon Sanderson

College level creative writing course, free on youtube. Go watch it and take notes. Do it now.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSH_xM-KC3Zv-79sVZTTj-YA6IAqh8qeQ

K.M. Weiland 

Website and books, specifically story structure and archetypes for characters:

https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/secrets-story-structure-complete-series/

https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/how-to-write-archetypal-character-arcs/

Structuring Your Novel https://kmweilandstore.com/b/wkAVC

Next Level Plot Structure https://kmweilandstore.com/b/next-level-plot-structure

Podcasts

https://writingexcuses.com/, especially Season 10 is a full writing course https://writingexcuses.com/category/season-10/page/6/

Ink in your veins (formerly How do you write?) http://www.howdoyouwrite.net, especially http://www.howdoyouwrite.net/episodes/259 How Do You Actually Fast-Draft a Novel?

The QuitCast for Writers is a YouTube channel and audio podcast created around the content of Becca Syme’s “What to Quit, What to Keep, and What to Question” model of coaching writers. https://betterfasteracademy.com/podcast/

Developing a story

https://www.eadeverell.com/idea-to-story/

https://www.valleyofwriters.com/writing-a-novel-using-the-three-chapter-slingshot-method/

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/seven-tips-for-intuitive-writing-the-heart-hand-connection

https://blog.reedsy.com/plot-generator/

Tools

Simple writing and formatting program in the browser: https://editor.reedsy.com/

Organizing worldbuilding: https://www.worldanvil.com/

Organizing everything: https://www.notion.com/

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Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

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Portrait 3: Turn and Face the Strange Changes

(A story of Draco Malfoy told in 4 portraits—see them all on Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61425748/chapters/158218582 )

The Howler screamed at him at the god-awful hour of seven in the morning. Narcissa Malfoy gave no quarter.

“Draco!” Her enchanted voice yelled. The delivery owl ruffled his feathers in astonishment and scarpered. “How dare you insult your father like this! After everything he has been through for this family.” The red envelope crackled and shuddered. “Have we not loved you? Have we not cherished you? Have we not worshipped you as our own special Draco?” Golden sparks exploded from its edges, ricocheting across the floor and fizzling out one by one. “I can only assume you’ve lost your mind and forgotten who you are. Have your portrait and let it remind you, selfish boy. I can’t bear to look at you right now.”

Draco flinched as her words pierced him. His grip tightened on his teacup, his knuckles, like his face, going dead white.

A puff of smoke erupted from the Howler; then it drifted down, down, down to his table. Pinching its corner between his thumb and forefinger, Draco gingerly laid it on his little stack of books. He’d been expecting this since taking possession of the flat yesterday. At least it was only a Howler and the portrait.

It loomed, a large paper-wrapped block in the corner of the room. Shrunken for transport, the frame expanded to full size the moment the owl dropped it. It landed with a heavy thud, the carved and gilded wooden frame splintering with a sharp crack.

Sipping his tea, he walked to the wall and peeled back a corner of the paper to get a better look.

It had been two years since he’d laid eyes on it. Merlin, he was young, wasn’t he? Still was, in a way, he supposed. Twenty-one wasn’t much.

An eighth year at Hogwarts, probation in an assigned flat, mandatory continued education, and now, finally, his Gringotts account had been taken off its leash, and he was free to do what he liked. What he liked, it turned out, wasn’t much different than what he’d been doing.

The flat wasn’t far from Diagon. A short walk at most. The exchange rate from galleons to pounds worked out very much in his favor, so he found himself on a lovely tree-filled square, luckily enough.

Muggle fixtures, but still connected to the Floo. He eyed the recessed lighting and the clanking radiator with mild amusement. A foot in both worlds, indeed. They thought he was mad. Maybe he was a bit. But the university courses were illuminating and there was no going back now.

Returning to the table, he picked up his last quill and grimaced. Horrible scratching sound. And all of the ink flecks—gods. Couldn’t carry that into a Muggle lecture hall, anyway. The feather spiralled into the bin before landing silently against its fellows.

Sitting down, he took another sip of his tea, lifted his brass pen, and began to write. First, his hand gripped the pen too tightly, his forearm too stiff. He took another sip, pressing on. A word. A sentence. A breath in and a slow exhale.

And the words flowed.

They washed through him like a cleansing rain.

They poured onto the page in earnest.

They spoke of everything he had been and what he wished he hadn’t. They sang of those he had never thought of before but now couldn’t put from his mind. They rushed on in long sentences and stuttered in short ones.

A name he had once cursed took shape in ink. Memory of lithe hands and brown eyes caught in the grip of a cursed necklace lingered, rewritten into something he could almost accept.

A lifetime. A hundred lifetimes. The real and the imagined. The acts and the atonement.

His limbs loosened, his body leaning eagerly toward the page.

And words set him free.

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Drunk Words and Sober Thoughts 🚨Now Complete!🚨

Chapter 4: Cumquats, Cock Ups, and One Climactic Conclusion

16k words, Rated E. Fic Vibes: Fluff, Humour, Banter, Smut

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Drunk Words and Sober Thoughts

Chapter 3: A Chaotic Kale Calamity

Only one more chapter to go, which will be posted before the week is out!