#dark side wins

[realitybitesyouknowit]

Chapters: 19/19 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Harry Potter/Voldemort, Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort Additional Tags: Sane Voldemort (Harry Potter), Alternate Universe - Voldemort Wins, Voldemort's return stays secret, Harry and Voldemort make an agreement, Voldemort takes over the Ministry, But the world is a better place, Harry has less trauma, At least due to Voldemort, harry gets kidnapped, Harry gets a family, Horcruxes, Possessive Voldemort (Harry Potter), But he tries to be reasonable, Protective Voldemort (Harry Potter), BDSM, eventually, But all skippable if youre just here for romance, Fluff, Romantic Voldemort Summary:

Harry and Voldemort come to an early accord after the Triwizard Tournament that gradually leads to curiosity, something akin to friendship, and, eventually, mutual fascination.

Or: Voldemort kidnaps Harry. It’s a surprisingly chilled out time. Voldemort is strangely reasonable, and they make a pact. And then Voldemort earns Harry’s loyalty more and more each year, by finding him a family, by protecting him, by changing the wizarding world for the better.

[ainosgarden]

me during the entire run of episode 2 of night country

[tacogoats]

Thinking about a Durge who has rejected Bhaal, and whatever person they used to be, but still secretly longs for their lost memories. A Durge that, despite the answers the man could give them, would never re-ignite that strange passion they were shown they once had for Gortash. A Durge that has, for all purposes to the others in their party, moved on. A Durge that, six months after that day atop the Netherbrain, at a party celebrating their new life, receives a strange letter with an even stranger gadget hidden inside.

The meeting at the inauguration was a strange one. Despite Gortash's very obvious elation at seeing what he'd called his 'dearest friend', the man had no hesitation very proudly detailing the Dark Urge's grand scheme; their grand design for the world to be.

In front of all their friends and 'new' lover, of course.

They were furious, and rightly so. Gortash must have known what he was doing. To isolate them, to bring them back to him. The person who accepted them for all they were, all they are, and all they could be - together.

It wasn't enough to win the Dark Urge back to him, and although they'd tentatively teamed up in the end - he had died. Not by the Urge's hand, but in some ways, his own. The group had left Gortash's body within the Prism, and simply moved on. There were bigger problems, and no one really was sad to see him go. Right?

The Urge remembers a letter found in Moonrise Towers. Gortash liked gadgets, according to Ketheric. Evidence was abundant enough with the Steel Watchers, among other things. The item is strangely shaped, entirely too small, and with a simple touch, comes to life.

It reminds them of the strange picture they had seen at the Iron Throne. Gortash's visage shone through a glass, moving, talking - warning them to leave. Answering them, praising them for listening.

What a strange contraption, they'd thought all those months ago.

And then, now, there he was again. A picture, in their hand. A moving picture. Speaking with his voice, wearing his weary face - so, so weary - but not the same as before.

This had passed already. The voice did not answer them this time. It was simply impossible - the man was dead, but not quite gone in this moment.

He speaks of the inauguration like it had just happened. His joy at seeing his favourite 'assassin' again, which he says with a sad smile and a moment of silence. A heavy sigh follows, rubbing at his eyes - which they can see are so much darker than they last remember.

He is tired.

Gortash speaks of their time together, before Orin - and how Orin torments him day and night now that they had both confirmed the Urge's return. She appears with their face, taunting him some days. Other days she sends assassins that wear the same, and he simply cannot let his guard down anymore. But he knew it was them that day.

They can see the exhaustion that pulls down his features, makes his words heavier. This is not the Archduke speaking to him in this moment - it is a tired, broken down man that has just seen a ghost.

Yet they cling to every word anyway, because even though this is a broken down man who is terrified of the ghost - the man still hopes the ghost will remember him, too.

They don't. But he doesn't know that, not this little picture of him, anyway.

The picture says that if they are seeing this recording, it means he is already dead - and although he had planned to sway them back to his side, he may not have been given the chance, and refuses to allow the opportunity to share what the two of them once had slip away.

He would gift unto them the memories that he could, even beyond death. The bloody ones, the happy ones, the painful ones.

And he talks, he smiles, he even cries.

And so do they.

[proteus-no]

Unfortunately for Gortash, my Durge imprints on the first pretty man that tries to murder him, and he did get pinned to the ground and threatened with a knife by Astarion so.....

[theconqueeror]

me, reading about emond's field boys thirsting over "Selene": pffft men, so weak and naive

me seeing Lanfear in the most recent episode: ah.... I see the error of my ways now

[norringtondeservestheworld]

ENDLESS LIST OF MY OTPS

4. Rumpelstiltskin/Mr Gold (Robert Carlyle) and Belle French (Emilie de Ravin) from Once Upon a Time.

“Once upon a time, there was a beast who took a girl prisoner, but he feel in love with her, and then he let her go, and this way the girl realized she loved him too.”

[markedprey]

             I'm normal thinking about the fact that Johnny could probably and has probably based off his scars just been shot and still managed to take people down. How scary he is seeing the kind of scars he has and has managed to come out on top even at the worst of times. How he loves and gets riled up when his victims fight back- he's totally normal. Definitely not horrifying to see how casual and even playful he can be at times with the way he talks to his victims. Something so scary about your killer sounding so silly while he's about to spill your guts all over the floor.

             Also thinking about how scary he is when a victim barely escapes through a crack and he's just, watching, laughing on the other side, and thankfully too big to get through, but I know he will reach through and probably break away chunks of the crawl space to try and grab someone before they slip away. Once the man has a grasp there's no getting away from that. He'd definitely be one to grab hair and just drag someone. Also to know he's laughing because he knows his way around and will know exactly where a person is going and predict it. So to imagine someone thinking they are free, only to run into him immediately after. Probably there ready to grab hold of them and hear them scream out from being taken off guard. He's just a silly dude.

[hi-crawler]

PoV: you aren't a hunter right now

[tortoisesshells]

223.

[deaddcas]

ok I really hate the fact that bells hells have a time limit to save the world because how the fuck has it only been 10 in game days since they reunited? they barely said hello before rushing off and look where that has got them. they have no communication at all and I dont want to sound like a hater but I really dont see how after this final game they're all gonna be fine and trust each other. I just dont see it. they all have way too much emotional backage and none of them see that willing to work through it. I fucking hope I'm wrong and that they open up but even when they were telling secrets they were so guarded. they want to be a family so bad but they're just colleagues and at this point I'm not sure how they can change that

[realitybitesyouknowit]

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/9629508/1/Absolute-Adoration

Absolute Adoration Severus Snape reminisces late one night about the strange turn that his life took during Harry's Sixth Year and the life that followed. Slash. Severus!VeelaxHarry. Mpreg. Darkside!wins.

[mal-zoya]

finally finished jedi survivor and i was angry and bamboozled even more than before cause nothing makes sense in this game, the motives are so weak like-

you have three dudes fighting over a planet. a literal planet.

but then i realized, no, this makes sense actually.

[dramioneasks]

Hold Me Like a Knife - TristenCrone - E, WIP - The only thing worse than lost time is stolen memories. Told in alternating POV between present and past. Past: Draco tries his best to ignore his budding feelings. A war is coming and entertaining delusions about a particular Mudblood will only endanger them both. Throughout his years at Hogwarts, he struggles with what he desires and what he has to do to keep her safe. But in the face of death, he will have to decide just how far he's willing to go for the girl who hates him or the master who's shaping him into a weapon. Present: Hermione's hold on her mind is tenuous at best. Stuck between a normal life and nightmares of another, she can't shake the feeling that she's missing something. When she is captured, her worst fears are confirmed. She has to come to grips with her precarious sanity and lost memories. Her captors seem to think she's the best chance they have at luring Draco Malfoy out of hiding. What happened in the 18 months since the Battle of Hogwarts and why was it so impactful that someone felt the need to erase it from her mind? TLDR: She's Draco's biggest weakness but doesn't even remember who he is. He will stop at nothing to get her back and make those who dared to hurt her pay.

[dead-doveing]

idk but i just get unbearably bummed about spn fandom sometimes bc of all the divisions and bad blood. like i created this separate blog to firewall dark fic and "problematic" stuff from my main bc it's so contentious and i have seen some wild puritanical bullshit go down on the destiel side of the fandom.

and i will admit that my first interaction with the samdean/wincest part of the fandom was a huge turnoff and i avoided it for a while as a result of a couple of REALLY bad first interactions before circling back to it. but then it's also like. my main blog is... i guess it's primarily destiel but tbh it's gotten to be more "holy shit i love the writers, have you thought about the writers today? [marge potato gif] i just think they're neat."

but the thing is, i actually really dislike a huge swath of the destiel fandom and disagree with how they approach canon and/or writing the characters in fic! namely that it completely ignores that whether you slice it as a platonic sibling or romantic/sexual bond, samdean is an undeniable part of the narrative. it's like. it just cannot be removed. both of these relationships and their narrative dynamics are load-bearing and i hate how knee-jerk ppl get about having to pick one or the other.

it just feels very lonely out here with how polarized the fandom is.

[maledictus-maleficus]

you see winter in the distance. he sees you. you blink, and in the next moment he's right up in your face. he didn't make a single sound.

[wizardnuke]

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