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Made this graphic (thank you Canva!) for one of my all-time favorite Tomione fics: Infinite Spin by @seollem-tm

If you’re not reading this…what are you doing!!!!! Go! Read! Now!

Summary:

All the screens flashed black and white simultaneously, scoreboards blinking excitedly, the same glorious name at the top of each list.

LordVoldemort.

(90s Gamer AU)

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oh my god screaming crying throwing up 😭

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my collab with @chaiatelierr dedicated to @devdevlin and her fluffy romance story, BYAMS 🫶

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GO! READ! THIS! FIC!

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

Read here!

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Art by Peach Momoko

IG: peachmomoko60

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Whoever you are that asked this, just know that this motivated me to tap away at the next chapter ��️ The fact that someone in the world was thinking of my fic and went out of their way to try to find it means the world!

The update that will come is (partly) because of you! And boy oh boy will the next chapter be a fun one 🤩

There's a fanfic I really want to find where I remember Tom was arrested and Hermione also went and helped free him from prison (Azkaban), thinking he was innocent. From what I remember, there's a scene of Hermione watching Tom's trial and thinking it's unfair and such. Help me!! 🙏

Hey Anon

Keen eyed reade @sumerek found this for us. -Haus

Dreams of Blood and Starlight by elaia

E | WIP | 34k

AU where Tom Riddle went to Hogwarts at the same time as the Golden Trio -- In a drastic move to fight for a better world, Hermione Granger orchestrates a prison break of Muggleborns in Azkaban. In doing so, she ends up also freeing a prisoner who she believes to have been wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. A man named Tom Marvolo Riddle. With pureblood supremacy and violence against Muggleborns at its peak, the Wizarding World is on the cusp of war. Only the forces of Dark and Light aren’t quite what they seem…

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Sorry if this is too kinky but can you hold my hand and tell me i mean a lot to you.

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*heavy breathing*

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Will the "you look like him" story be updated this week?

Perfect timing - You Look Just Like Her just updated hehe :)

you can read the latest chapter here.

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me: experiences devastating, faith-shattering heartbreak

the writing team who resides in my mind palace: WE ARE SO BACK!!!

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Here we gooooooo 6-5-4-3-2-1 challenge fanfic edition! Inspired by @jinrosemoon to do this and 💀💀💀 it’s kind of embarrassing how long it took me to screenshot and format/tetris them onto the graphic. This is a mix of Tomione and Dramione, are all on ao3, and (as always) please mind the tags.

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I can always rely on @jinrosemoon to get me tapping away on Canva!! Loved seeing the books on her list and it got me wanting to make my own!

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Was inspired by @jinrosemoon to make a monthly reading wrap up! Combing through my ao3 history and tapping away on Canva took way more time than I thought it would 💀 but this was so much fun to look back on!

Reading has always provided me with escape, inspiration, and affirmation. Some other things I’ve read this month are books: The Pisces by Melissa Broder, The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon, and Babylonia by Costanza Casati.

So blessed to have read so many great works this month! (Also - most of the WIPs I’ve been following for a while, I didn’t just start them all from scratch in July 😂)

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Have been reading @devdevlin's Break Yourself Against My Stones and I AM LOVING IT.

The atmosphere, the tension, and the adrenaline I feel while reading it are magnificent.

Dev's writing contrasts Hermione's innocence with Tom's cruelty in an incredible mixture.

Go go go go read it!

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Tag Game!

Rules: You will be given a word. Then you share one sentence/excerpt from your WIP(s) that starts with each letter of your word!

I was tagged by @jinrosemoon - thank you, this was so much fun! My word was SAINT.

S:

She put aside her liquid lip creams and matte lipsticks. She put aside her smoky eye makeup and winged eyeliner. She put aside her skintight bandage dresses and tiny crop tops. She exchanged them for high street lip balms, overpriced mascara, and crisp Ralph Lauren button-downs. She told herself it was better. Subtler. Classier. She was in Draco’s world, and she needed to look the part. He was her world. All of it, all of it was for him. All for him to cut her loose anyways.

from a future chapter of "Eat Slay Love" (Tomione)

A:

And Hermione most certainly did not imagine spending her anniversary stranded in a remote part of this stupidly fucking hot park all because Ron thought it was a brilliant idea to go off-roading in a rental car.

from "Death Valley" (Tomione - Muggle AU - possible 5+ chapter fic)

I:

It was supposed to be a joke, nothing but silly fun on a Saturday evening. Lavender had been giggling behind her shoulder as they filled out the application together with the most nonsensical answers, both of them drunk off a bottle of cheap Merlot. The interview was supposed to be hilarious, the background check was supposed to be standard, the psychological evaluation was supposed to be an opportunity for a free therapy session. Hermione really, truly, honestly didn't think it would go anywhere. Until she received a phone call from a TV producer, until she signed the NDAs, until she received an email with brief biographies of the twenty-five men who would supposedly be wooing for her hand in marriage. And then it hit her. She was going to be the next Bachelorette.

from "The Right Reasons" (Tomione - Reality Dating Show AU - possible 10+ chapter fic)

N:

No, no, no, no, no. She would not come, she would not, she would not, she would not.

from a future chapter of You Look Just Like Her (Tomione)

T:

“The name’s a bit macabre, don’t you think?” Hermione commented. “Might give people the wrong idea.” Tom smiled politely. “Would you like your coffee hot or iced?”

from "Espresso & Entrails" (Tomione - Golden Trio AU - possible 3+ chapter fic)

Tagging @tomioness @ohthatbunnygirl @piquanteye @haruspicina @thumbs-on-the-irises and anyone else who wants to give this tag game a try! The word I give you is HINGE. (you know...because Tom is unhinged? welp i tried.)

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Dev, please don’t let the noise get to you.

Those claiming “they didn’t know what they were getting into”—that’s simply not true. It’s disingenuous at best and abosolutely bizzarely absurd at worst. You’ve made it abundantly clear—through tags, content warnings, and thematic cues—what kind of story readers were stepping into. To act shocked now, after willingly consuming the narrative, is nothing short of willful ignorance.

And I say this as someone who has personally survived SA/attempted rape.

I knew what I was getting into. I read the tags. I made the choice to read your story—and I did so willingly. And what I found wasn’t romanticized trauma. It wasn’t glorified abuse.

What I found was a brutally honest, psychologically sharp portrayal of manipulation, power, and how deeply blurred the line between consent and control can become—especially when you're being gaslit, coerced, or emotionally entrapped.

For example some of the girls did enjoy what’s happening at first—because that’s how abusers manipulate. Believe me, I know what I am talking about.

And your story isn't a celebration of abuse (Collen Hover mentioned) ; it makes it a mirror to how abuse operates.

You are an extraordinarily intelligent and talented writer, both emotionally and academically. Your scientific background alone speaks to your analytical clarity—and your prose speaks for itself. You don’t glorify the dark; you dissect it.

The people attacking your work clearly missed that. But you already made your stance clear. You gave us all the tools—disclaimers, tags, trigger warnings—to make our own decision. If someone ignored that, that’s on them. Not you.

And let’s be real: the majority of us do understand. We're not here to romanticize rape or dismiss consent—we're here, in a safe space, processing dark fiction that handles dark themes with intelligence and integrity. We are readers who can distinguish between fiction and reality. Frankly there’s nothing shameful about exploring these themes within the safety of a fictional space.

Some of us even find healing through fiction like this—because it allows us to feel seen. To feel understood. To process things through a narrative that doesn’t sanitize trauma or force it into a neat moral framework.

As a victim myself, I saw myself in Hermione.

She didn’t willingly desire what was happening to her—but she felt it. Desire. Because that’s what happens. The body can respond to unwanted touch with arousal—and that doesn’t equal consent. That doesn’t mean it was okay. That’s what makes it all the more painful, confusing, and real. This is something too many people don’t understand unless they’ve lived it.

There’s a scene where Tom gropes her in public and no one helps her. No one sees. That hit like a punch to the gut. Because that’s the reality for so many of us. It’s not just the abuser—it’s the silence of everyone around you. The invisibility. The loneliness.

No also believes her for she becomes isolated.

And at the end of it all, Hermione is still alone.

There’s no rescue or savior coming for her.

Still she doesn’t flee from her abuser, because sometimes you can’t. Sometimes you’re trapped. And if telling others doesn’t work, if no one comes for you, then all you have left is yourself and your rage. Your will to survive. Your fire. BYAMS’s Hermione doesn’t submit—she adapts, she resists, she survives, even when survival looks like going toe-to-toe with the devil himself.

It’s not romantic. It’s not clean.

It’s honest.

To those who are offended: no one forced you to read it. You had every opportunity to step away. But to tear down an author for writing something that makes you uncomfortable—even after being warned? That’s not critique. That’s projection.

Reading dark fiction—especially stories that confront power, violence, and control—is a personal, adult choice. And we deserve the right to choose what we engage with, just as authors deserve the freedom to write without being silenced by moral panic.

Dev, don’t let them silence your voice.

You’ve already proven your care, your intelligence, and your artistry. The majority of us are here because we see you, and we respect the hell out of what you're doing.

We’ve got your back. Keep creating.

You’re brilliant. You’re brave. And you are not alone.

With all my heart,

—A survivor and long time reader of your works who stands with you.