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[dracosathenaeum]

ignore that i’m a year late in seeing this

bro this is so much better than what i envision, thank you so so so much for writing this omg 🫶

Mirror Mirror

Song here Based off of this post by @dracosathenaeum (she’s great, here’s her masterlist)

The room is musty, almost stale — a mix of mildew and cobwebs that is difficult to place. It’s unpleasant, and as you follow Draco further into the Room of Requirement, the air feels like it clings to your skin.

He walks towards the back of the room, his eyes searching the cluttered space for something that might be hiding in plain sight. After a brief moment, he stops before a decrepit old cupboard and trails his fingers through the timeworn varnish.

His shoulders hunch in a clear display of stress and his grip on the edges of the cupboard becomes tight, as if he's afraid of it slipping from his grasp. You can't tell how long he's been this way, but it's clear that something is causing him a great deal of worry.

With trembling hands, he gestures with his wand, the glow of its energy creating a fleeting light in the dim space. His expression is tense, and you can't make sense of what he's trying to accomplish.

He pulls his robe off with a sudden, abrupt motion, tossing it aside as if it means nothing. Then, with a new sense of purpose, he grips his wand tighter and speaks the words of a charm that you're not quite familiar with. Still, the result is the same – the door creaks open slowly, revealing nothing but barren darkness beyond.

In a moment of frustration, Draco lets out a yell of anguish. He bumps his head against the cabinet, and the pain etched on his features is noticeable even in the dark. His fingers wrap tightly around the edges, almost as if he's afraid the cabinet will disappear if he lets go. But the only thing that vanishes is the light in his eyes, replaced with the look of a lost and confused boy.

With a slow approach, you reach out and place a gentle hand on his shoulder. “Draco,” you say his name softly, hoping to help him find ease in this moment. But he only tenses at the sound of your voice.

His breath hitches in his throat as if your touch is a surprise to him. You've always been there for each other, offering solace in times of great sorrow, but it feels different now. It's as if you're nothing more than a mere object to him, just like the robe he had cast aside to collect dust in the corners of this room. Draco has been hiding his true intentions from you, and you're not sure if it's because he's afraid of your reaction or if he simply feels ashamed.

And then, your eyes catch the mark on his wrist; a strange skull with a serpent crawling from its mouth. You've seen it before, in your studies of the First Wizarding War. The Dark Mark. You stop him before he can slip his wand away and turn his wrist over.

Neither of you speak for a moment, but your silence is broken by a heavy exhalation from Draco. He must have realized that the secret he's been holding onto is now out in the open. You can't help but feel a sense of shock and disappointment, but you also see the underlying fear and regret in his eyes. As you stare at the mark, you begin to connect the dots, and the reason for Draco’s secrecy is now explicable.

You don’t need to ask for him to explain himself. He tells you anyway, aware of the questions that cloud your mind. “A simple charm,” he says, his eyes low and droopy with fatigue.

The gentle warmth of your fingers glides across his skin, a contrast to the cold, ink-stain symbol of the Dark Mark. He averts his gaze when you speak. “Why did you do it?” You don’t have to look at him to know that regret etches on his face.

"I had to," he answers curtly, and you wish it had more to it. You fixate on his lips and the way he licks them nervously; the silent tear gliding down his cheek shatters your heart into a thousand pieces.

He watches as you touch the golden ring slung on your necklace. It was once a simple gift, a symbol of his endearment for you. You had often fiddled with it when you were nervous or upset, but you never thought you would be in this position because of him―he’d never thought you would’ve been.

The tears gather in your eyes and the look of pain in your face makes his gut clench. He wants to tell you that everything will be alright, that the mark means nothing, but that would be a lie. And he couldn't lie to you like that.

Instead, as you bite your lip to hold back a sob, he pulls his forehead to yours, and closes his eyes. He presses a comforting kiss to your skin, and you feel a cool touch on your temple. "You mean everything to me," he whispers. “I love you.” And then with a shakiness to it, the words echo the air.

“Obliviate.”

You leave the Room of Requirement with a sense of confusion and emptiness, and Draco only tells you that you were lost before leading you out. For weeks on after, the feeling of void stays, engulfing you to the point of physical exhaustion.

There’s a blank space in your memory that feels like an important piece of you―but you don’t know what it is. You begin to hang out with your friends, trying to discover the void left behind from that moment in the Room of Requirement, but to your displeasure, you discern nothing.

You begin to tuck yourself into bed with a sense of difference; with an ache to go somewhere, to sneak out and have someone to see. But your mind remains blank, it seems you are forgetting so much these days.

“Draco, isn’t that your ring?”

You’re studying with your friends, head deep in textbooks and various pieces of parchment when someone speaks, their voice whipping against the silent air of the library. Draco watches as you flip through the pages of the book you read.

Blaise speaks again, “isn’t it?”

Draco shifts in his seat. “I’m sure it just looks similar.” His grey eyes watch you attentively, and his voice comes monotone when he speaks. There’s a sense of desolation to it.

“We both know that’s the Malfoy family crest.” Blaise tells him, his eyes slightly wary of his friend’s lie. “I wondered why you stopped wearing it.”

After a few moments of silence, Draco stands, the inside of his cheeks between his teeth. He takes slow, prideful steps towards you. Your eyes are still on your paper, indulged in your reading when his voice chimes out. “That’s my ring,” he says. You look up.

Draco hovers over your slouched figure, his eyes attempting a hard gaze. There’s a glimpse of regret in his hues of grey and it doesn’t come unnoticed. But he doesn’t glare at you – and he couldn’t, even if he really attempted to. His eyes just couldn’t seem to lose their shine around you.

You flicker your gaze from him to the golden ring hanging from your neck. It feels warm under your fingertips and slippery from your sweat. It had probably been caressed from your stress as you studied. A heat travels through your cheeks.

“I’m sorry, I must’ve picked it up by accident.” Your drop your quill to untangle the lock of your necklace, but your friends stop you before you can.

“Wait, how do we know if it’s yours, Malfoy?”

He knows that your friends hate him, but he still feels that familiar pain strike his chest. He acts the part that they know so well. “My vaults could buy this castle, why would I be stealing gold from a mere student?”

He’s usually more harsh, but he can’t bring himself to insult you either. Instead, he watches as you struggle to unclasp it until you have six girls pulling at the expensive chain around your neck.

He inhales deeply, reaching to undo it himself. “Move you lot, you’re going to damage it.” His fingers brush against your cold skin, and his warmth gives you a sense of comfort you don’t understand. He unclasps the chain easily, and when it leaves your skin, Draco slips the ring off before giving you back the golden line.

“Thank you.” You tell him, but there’s an ache to say something more.

He leaves the table without another word, and you watch as his retreating figure leaves the library. Your fingers crawl to your neck, your other hand holding the golden chain. It feels weird to lose the charm. It wasn’t yours in the first place, but it felt like it should’ve been―it’s a selfish thought. You don’t even remember how it came to your possession.

It seems you are forgetting more these days.

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no complaints here 😌

not zoe randomly coming back to tumblr every 6 months and then disappearing again @dracosathenaeum

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you have me on ig, you have 24/7 access to me 🥰

not zoe randomly coming back to tumblr every 6 months and then disappearing again @dracosathenaeum

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Hii i was looking at one if ur rec lists and was wondering if you knew what happened to @/peterbenjiparker? Their acc won’t show up for me anymore and i just wanted to know but if not it’s okay ty !

honestly i dont know either but if anyone does know pls tell me, some of my favourite comfort fics were there TT

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Please I need dracoxreader soulmate au i can’t find any😭😭

hi!

I'm not currently writing but I have a soulmate 3 part au linked here if you're still looking for one <3

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dracosathenaeum’s most popular fics ♡

1. NAPS WITH DRACO | fluff blurb

2. WORDS HURT | angst one shot

3. WRONG TIE | fluff one shot

4. KINKY SHIT YOU’D DO WITH DRACO | smut headcanon

5. ATTENTION | fluff blurb

6. THE GAME | smut one shot

7. DIAMONDS | smut one shot

8. SUNDAY MORNINGS WITH DRACO | smut headcanon

9. POINT TO PROVE | smut one shot

10. COCKWARMING CEO!DRACO MALFOY | smut one shot

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(hi~ im not back im just cleaning up a lil and making some fics easier to find ☺️) 

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ZOE ??? ZOE WHAT THE FUCK HELLO HI IM STILL SCREAMING AAAAAAAA

HI <333

I REALLY SHOULDVE GIVEN YOU MY SOCIALS OR SMTH BEFORE I LEFT LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT THEM

IVE MISSED OPENING UP MY PHONE TO A NOTIFICATION FROM YOU, HOW ARE YOU ASHJBEFHJSKFLCJS

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okay but like considering i haven’t read for draco in like 7+ months, not sure i’ll ever be writing for him again... 😙✌️

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HI THOUGHT I’D DROP BY LMAO

hi <3

ZOE ?????? ZOE ???? OH MYGOD

HELLO HI !!!!

[dracosathenaeum]

Hi Zoe~ Hiw r u doing lately?

-canto anon

Hi~

it's been an age but i'm good, life feels like its starting again post covid which is why i've been gone so long

i hope you're well!

[dracosathenaeum]

Hiii I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE ON HIATUS BUTTT...

I got some Dramionie one shots to rec

So... Maybe if you have spare time you read them and tell me wut you think (they're like bare 2 🧍‍♀️lol)

HI MARCE PLS SEND THEM THROUGH

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AMY and LAURIE in Little Women (2019)

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the absolute migraine that is this wattpad writer

I was speechless every time Amanda gave an update, no writer deserves to go through this ever.

Wattpad Stealer Published My Work

Hey everyone. I know tumblr is dead and everything but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to reach out.

It has come to my attention that user yasmineamaro on Wattpad has plagiarized my fic “Not What It Used To Be” on chapter 29 of their book “Possessive”

For reference, here are some side by side comparisons:

I have reached out to her to have it deleted, and instead of removing the story, she blocked me so I could no longer contact her.

To make matters worse, her book is published by the Lilac Publishing Company - meaning she has fully taken credit for my work and published it.

I have contacted Wattpad about the issue, however the chapter in which the plagiarism takes place was only deleted for an hour before yasmineamaro posted the chapter again.

I’m literally begging you to please share this with everyone and to report her account as well as her book. There’s a high probability someone else’s work is embedded in one of her chapters and no one has noticed yet.

This book is absolutely HUGE, as it amassed over 12.5 million reads the first time she posted it. Please take the time to look through it and make sure your work is not inside and that she has not illegally published any of your writing.

I obviously can’t take her to court, but if there’s anyway you guys can share this news and have her account terminated I will be eternally grateful.

Tagging some mutuals:

@saintlike78 @comfortscripts @drawlfoy @mellifluousart @elysian-i @magicchai @dracosathenaeum @dr4cking @war-sword @scandalous-chaos @weasleyapologist @weaselbrownie @littlemissnoname13 @leydileyla @lilyrachelcassidy @hopelessbutterfly @silverdelirium @ameliasbitvh

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“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”

—Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

(The photos aren’t mine. credit to owner.)

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okay maybe instead of taking a break from tumblr, ill take a break from writing cause its been like a week and im already basically back lmao

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ofc!!! And I just wanted to add that manacled doesn't romanticize the things per say it's mostly the fans. Like apparently there was this one girl that shifted to manacled like she was Hermione and then complained when Draco treated her like a piece of shit instead of being romantic and sweet like??? Also it's totally true that people like that are in every fandom but there seems to be a lot in dramione because it's very hated because it's forbbiden love or whtv, also no offence to you if you take it and even though I am techinally not a minor either I just feel it's very very weird that Dramione fans mostly consists of adults- Like they age up the characters just to put them through something or sexualize them.. Oh and one more thing I think Golden Boy got taken down because it's on Wattpad and it was around the time when Wattpad was bought and they were 'clensing the app' or smth, and well you can report a story on AO3 almost 99% of the time no matter if it has incest or even worst it doesn't get removed. Also also it's not just manacled. People/The author of 'The Auction' were gonna turn it into a fan film?? The story itself is pretty fucked up, and seeing people making a toxic and digusting relationship normal is to say the least very distrubing. Especially that fic were she is being literally SOLD. Anyhow I think I talked too much woops! I just never ever meet nice Dramione fans willing to talk about it.

i- what even was that first part 💀 is that person okay lmao

no worries about all about the offending part. i write for draco and recently a lot of people have been aging draco up for step!dad etc fics so i kinda get where you're coming from, it happens everywhere. with this like this, just because it makes you or i uncomfortable, it doesnt mean its necessarily disgusting or gross. if they were aging up a minor, then absolutely it's just wrong, but as Draco was 18+ by the end of the books and middle aged by the end, i don't think i could agree with you whole heartedly there.

also i have a feeling you'll never read dramione so speaking as someone who has read hundreds of dramione fics and am an avid reader (ie, i read roughly 50+ a year), having older people in the community makes the writing so damn good. some of these most well known fics were written better than half the ya books ive read. and that's something i probably can't say for many other fandoms (we are not counting After the harry styles fic remotely in the same category)

omg it was Golden Boy yes, jesus what a shit show that was.

as for your last point, there are hundreds upon thousands of books, films, tv series revolving around the topics of sl*very, m*rder, r*pe etc. you could say that Voldemort trying to murder a BABY was equally disturbing. so another work of fiction in this format doesn't change much in my opinion. fanfiction is a work of fiction ie made up. I've read The Auction and i can happily say it's one of the best works ive read and does not portray in the way you think at all. i understand that if you have just read the synopsis and have heard others talk about the premise, you could see it as such but that's simply not true when you read it.

no worries about the rant, i do it a lot ie here. if you actually read all of this than thank you! I'm sorry that you havent had many nice interactions with people who like dramione and i hope that this discussion has been useful in anyway! i know it sounds like im just disagreeing with everything you've said and partly it is but as i can see where your opinion comes from, i hope you see mine