#tomarry coded

[ambivalens999]

Harry @ Tom

I can’t fix him but I could fuck him.

[kippipies]

And I just can try to face

The dark inside my head

[silverbriseis]

Okay, I think I just found the tomarrymort theme song (this song matches them so well omg??)

[shazdemon]

[consistentsquash]

Sorry I have to scream somewhere after seeing your Reddit comment. CATULLUS 16 SHIPPED VOLDEMORT/DYLAN THOMAS. Dylan Thomas who wrote Do not go gentle into that good night. 🤣🤟

:D I feel folks get hung up on eldritcher's Tomarry or whatever but meanwhile the real deal is Voldemort crushing hard on famous poets, politicians and mathematicians. Obviously this is super reductive. These fics are incredibly hard to describe. But I love his dick thirst. Off the top of my head

Cat16 - Of course Dylan Thomas. Also everybody else. This Voldemort is the dickchaser. He just needs a dick with a pulse, ok?

EotF - Voldemort is chasing Viktor Krum's dick because he has got this crush on Vasil Levski, Bulgarian national hero. Also his crush on the Mahatma. In conclusion, his dick is into history.

Entschiedungsproblem - Alan Turing. Enough said.

Republic - the statue of Augustus. I mean.

Omphale - Agnes Sorrel the French King's sidechick with one boob fashion

I am definitely forgetting a lot of other cases of Voldemort's VIP dick thirst but yeah the only version with dick selfcontrol is the version in Pandemic probably. Which makes sense. He is a cryptobro. Cryptobros ain't getting any.

[cealesti]

i wish your mom had been a little stronger

i wish she'd stayed around a little longer

i wish your dad were good, i wish grownups understood

i wish we'd met before they convinced you life is war

i wish you'd come with me -

i wish i had more TNT

[lightningant]

Any recommendations that have similar vibes to Venom or Valor?

About to humiliate my self because I'm about to list a very limited range of fics that are significantly better than mine with very different styles from mine. But you need this information

I started writing Venom or Valor specifically because of:

Bookbinding by Asenora/ @saintsenara, tom/myrtle - at the time I was only just barely sketching out why I was so fascinated with Tom and piecing together how his grandiosity and drama and mood swings spoke to a primal longing within him and this fic didn't press my buttons so much as smack me up the skull with a 2x4.

A Learning Experience by Laeveteinn, mostly gen - incredible character study of Tom's 10 years at Borgin and Burkes. Ending made my toes curl.

yes I realize the humour that neither of these are tomarry. Sorry I only ship it because I think Harry would make Tom happy like I'm indulging my favourite child

Some other stuff I think contributed:

Strings of Fate, by dizzydreamer, Tomarry - Every chapter has me absolutely screaming in laughter because Tom doesn't know how to act. Just an INCREDIBLE parade of deranged behaviour, really unfolding his worst tendencies like a beautiful flower. Babe you gotta stop licking the book

Consumption by Laeveteinn, Tomarry - quite possibly my favourite tomarry fanfic in the whole wide world. I want to hand-feed this to squeamish newcomers. If you like my Tom Laeveteinn is basically mandatory reading

Innocent (until proven guilty) by Laeveteinn, Tom/Grindelwald - pointing this one out specifically because this fic is activating villain apologia of the likes never before seen within me. Dumbledore bashers don't have the range to write this specific texture of child neglect. I feel like I am witnessing actual family drama. Grindelwald genuinely anguished and trying to find direction in his life grooming Tom is like something my mom would tell me about my cousin. I feel like I got to drive out to see him. I got to drive out across Canada to see Tom and tell him. I got to tell him that he should probably find himself before shacking up with a 60-year-old man famous for manipulating his way out of anything. My baby cousin Tom

Lover's Spit by amelinda and k3u, Tomarry - I keep calling this unrecommendable and then keep recommending it. Cannot repeat enough times that it is about Tom Riddle being inadvertently groomed by 4chan to be an edgelord stalking and threatening to rape the boy he has a crush on in a manner so grotesque he becomes a media sensation as a figurehead of horrifying internet depravity corrupting our children. That all being said. I've never read a fic with such loving worldbuilding it makes me think "should I stop reading fanfic and get back into literary fiction". I absolutely love the cadence of Tom's thoughts and the way he code-switches to slur-regurgitating 4channer. Most importantly: good face-tearing slowburn

dum spiro spero by Asenora/Saintsenara, Tom/Rookwood - Another pseudo-hanahaki, really concretely cemented my desire to ship Tom with anyone who can make him happy. The way Rookwood talks about Tom is truly incredible. The humour is impeccable. The monologue. You know the fic is good when it makes you wail IRL. Asenora a fantastic author, not just for Tom but for character studies in general. 10/10 Merope fics

Sorry this is almost entirely two authors. As always, I am a slow reader of the likes never before seen AND I'm picky. Nothing else has contributed to how VoV reads. It really is just these fics and Thor Ragnarok.

[kingofnagging]

This tick tock that says:

“you son of a bitch”

“I’m non-binary”

“you child of a bitch— ah everyone, get h-them”

—Is so tomarry/harrymort coded, for reasons (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

[lucaswarmhotchocolate]

These are both incredibly tomarry coded and I’m going to scream about it maybe

[childotkw]

Hello! Might be a sillay question, but I recently read what you have posted for your fic you belong to me (i belong to you)... And while I know that it seems like the endgame pairing (from the author's notes, I think) is gonna b Tom/Harry. Have you considered Orion/Harry as a potential ship ? Lol love the fic tho thank u for writing

Hi there! Not a silly question at all! And thank you 🥰

I did heavily consider Orion/Harry as a pairing quite a bit, and debated with myself whether to have it more them or tomarry.

While in-story Orion is definitely the one with the most developed relationship with Harry, I do intend to bring Tom more into events as the story moves on, and hope from there that their chemistry will become more apparent.

Orion is little-brother coded in my mind for ybtm.

It's also going to take years for Harry to look at any of the current cast of Nathan's peers as anything other than children; and ybtm will end well before then.

That's why I had that one-shot sequel in mind for the exploration of romantic ships. It'll take place after a time jump.

[ambivalens999]

God, the connection you made between Tom & Deathless just rewired my brain chemistry. I revisted my annotations and I think that this quote embodies everything Tomarry:

Only do not leave me, swear that you will never leave me, and no empress will stand higher. Forget the girls in the factory. Be selfish and cruel and think nothing of them. I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I. I will have you in my hoard, Marya Morevna, my black mirror.

context: https://www.tumblr.com/ambivalens999/770149591073079296/hello-first-of-all-i-wanted-to-say-how-much?source=share

I confess, I have yet to read the source material -- and now I'm going to have to!! oooh that is delightful. "Be selfish and cruel and think nothing of them. I am selfish. I am cruel" in particular is so Tom-coded: to expect your perceived equal to have the same exact moral limitations as you do (which, in Tom's case, would be none at all). There's also a not-so-subtle fear of abandonment here that I could definitely see playing out somewhere down the line for Tom... 👀

[birthed-in-the-cosmos]

watched tbosas last night (late, ik, don't come at me), and couldn't help but see how tomarry coded the story was

Tom as Coryo, poor, trying to make it big in a world of rich Capitol kids (purebloods)

Harry as Lucy Gray, free spirirted, loved by the general public, capable of absolutely ensnaring this man that has other goals in life

Slughorn as Flickerman, because he just wants a spectacle, and well, what's a bigger one than hosting the hunger games?

Was thinking of Alphard as Sejanus, a friend Tom only made to seem normal in the Capitol, a means to an end, and perhaps got attached anyways

And then Dumbledore as Dean Highbottom, because that man enjoyed tormenting Coryo, even if there was some sort of meaning behind it

I still don't know who it would be for Gaul, because Tom didn't exactly have a mentor figure, per se...

[endlessburningdarkness]

I'd like to recommend this masterpiece of a tomarry fic. Wand Cores. Sadly unfinished, but it captures Tom Riddle so well as the traumatised psychopathic child that he is.

Harry is ten years older than him, a world-weary war hero trying to help Tom with his trauma while coping with his own. Tom's trauma has serious depth and explains why he would become the monster he does in canon. Harry is caught between helping Tom and being attracted to him, and his struggle to maintain his own moral code is delicious.

By: Lydia-kitten

Harry Potter, weathered wizarding warrior in his mid-twenties, finds himself in 1940. Albus is coming up with a theory, and an adolescent Tom Riddle, torn between feeling threatened and piqued, acquires a controversial mentor. Hallows, spell-making, horror, politics and witty banter, served with a Grindledore sidedish. Slow and slightly disturbing TR/HP. First chapters re-polished.

It's not an ao3 but I promise it's worth the read!

[cyandenial]

psychopath diary is so tomarry coded, I just can't. it's so funny

[sn-yun]

Is it just me or is the song You’ll Be Back extremely Tomarry coded (if Harry ever broke up with Tom)

[alenablack]

This is the most tomarry-coded quote I’ve ever read