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[adenei]

✨🪩 I’m still a mirrorball… spinning in the dark, hoping you’ll catch my light. 🪩✨

Written for Swifty Hallows and inspired by mirrorball by Taylor Swift: a tender, introspective story about vulnerability, self-discovery, and the delicate dance of showing your true self despite the cracks. 🌙

If you love stories about healing, hidden strength, and the courage to keep glowing, this one’s made for you. 💫

🪄 Read now on Ao3 — and don’t forget to explore the full Swifty Hallows collection while you’re there. ✨

[adenei]

✨The Swifty Hallows – July Sign-Ups Are OPEN!✨

It’s time to embark on another magical, musical journey! 🪄🎶 This month, we’re diving into 1989 – and you’re invited to join the fun!

🔮 How It Works:

📜 Fill out the Google Form to sign up and receive a randomly assigned Taylor Swift song from 1989 as your prompt!

🥚 Want an extra challenge? Opt in for a mystery Easter Egg prompt for added inspiration!

📝 Write a Harry Potter-themed fic (min 500 words) and submit it by July 31st.

🏆 Want to participate in The Hallows Choice voting round? Keep your fic under 10k words to be eligible!

📅 Important Dates: 🔹 Sign-ups open: June 25th 🔹 Sign-ups close: July 14th 🔹 Stories due: July 31st 🔹 The Hallows Choice voting begins: August 1st

🪄 Open to all HP ships and crossovers! 📖 Stories must be posted on Ao3 with proper tagging.

✨ Are you Out Of The Woods and ready to claim your song prompt? Step into your Wildest Dreams and sign up here! 🎶💫

[adenei]

Truth is I can't pretend it's platonic, it's just ended

Month 3 of @theswiftyhallows: July | 1989 | Now That We Don't Talk

Read on AO3

Rating: T

Summary: Ron finds out Hermione is attending Slughorn's party with McLaggen and takes matters into his own hands.

Snippet under the cut, full fic on AO3.

“You know,” Harry says through a labored huff, “borrowing the cloak might have been an easier idea.”

Ron grunts. “No. That'd defeat the purpose.”

“Remind me what that is again?”

“If I used the cloak, she'd still be going with him.” Ron plucks a tuft of hair from an unconscious Cormac McLaggen. “Come on, we're almost there. Let's just lift him in the bed then get out of here.”

Harry stares at him for a long moment before caving. “Fine.”

They hoist Cormac into his bed in the seventh year dorm, then cover him with a blanket. For good measure, Ron casts a Disillusionment charm on him anddraws the curtains. 

“You're sure you slipped enough sleeping draught in his butterbeer?”

“Positive. He should be out until morning.” Ron glances around the room, spotting the sleazebag’s dress robes hanging on the armoire. He grabs them before gesturing to the door. “Let's get out of here.”

[adenei]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

[adenei]

✨The Swifty Hallows – July Sign-Ups Are OPEN!✨

It’s time to embark on another magical, musical journey! 🪄🎶 This month, we’re diving into 1989 – and you’re invited to join the fun!

🔮 How It Works:

📜 Fill out the Google Form to sign up and receive a randomly assigned Taylor Swift song from 1989 as your prompt!

🥚 Want an extra challenge? Opt in for a mystery Easter Egg prompt for added inspiration!

📝 Write a Harry Potter-themed fic (min 500 words) and submit it by July 31st.

🏆 Want to participate in The Hallows Choice voting round? Keep your fic under 10k words to be eligible!

📅 Important Dates: 🔹 Sign-ups open: June 25th 🔹 Sign-ups close: July 14th 🔹 Stories due: July 31st 🔹 The Hallows Choice voting begins: August 1st

🪄 Open to all HP ships and crossovers! 📖 Stories must be posted on Ao3 with proper tagging.

✨ Are you Out Of The Woods and ready to claim your song prompt? Step into your Wildest Dreams and sign up here! 🎶💫

[adenei]

Just did quick search and found 2 quotes that very much prove there's no need to worry about romione romance plot (to the anons worrying romione won't end up together)

“This new Max Original series will dive deep into each of the iconic books that fans have continued to enjoy for all of these years,” said Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO, HBO & Max Content about the project, which he also assured fans would be “a faithful adaptation.”

In a statement, Rowling said, "Max's commitment to preserving the integrity of my books is important to me, and I'm looking forward to being part of this new adaptation which will allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long form television series."

this doesn't mean they won't change small things but overall I think we will get the actual endgames in the books and movies

Excellent! Thanks for doing the digging, anon!

[adenei]

The Causal Chain And Why Your Story Needs It

The most obnoxious thing my writing teacher taught me every story needed, that I absolutely loathed studying in the moment and that only later, after months of resisting and fighting realized she was right, was something called the causal chain.

Simply put, the causal chain is the linked cause-and-effect that must logically connect every event, reaction, and beat that takes place in your story to the ones before and after.

The Causal Chain is exhausting to go through. It is infuriating when someone points out that an event or a character beat comes out of nowhere, unmoored from events around it.

It is profoundly necessary to learn and include because a cause-and-effect chain is what allows readers to follow your story logically which means they can start anticipating what happens next, which is what is required for a writer to be able to build suspense and cognitively engage the audience, to surprise them, and to not infuriate them with random coincidences that hurt or help the characters in order to clumsily advance the author's goals.

By all means, write your story as you want to write it in the first draft, and don't worry about this principle too much. This is an editing tool, not a first draft tool. But one of the first things you should do when retroactively begin preparing your story to be read by others is going step by step through each event and confirming that a previous event leads to it and that subsequent events are impacted by it on the page.

[adenei]

do you have a Twitter account?

I do not! I have very limited socials.

[adenei]

We do miss seeing you around tumblr 🫂

Aww, thanks anon <3 <3. Life is too chaotic to maintain too many places. Thanks for your follow and for all the support. I do love the break from reality this site gives from time to time!

[adenei]

if it was a new whole concept series I would agree yes the hero ends with the girl but it's 7 books and 8 movies with romione so I don't think anyone should worry ❤️

Thanks, anon! Totally agree :)

[adenei]

I'm not hopeful for the reboot as well but let's be real they won't write ron and hermione as just friends while make hermione end with Harry, doesn't make sense to change these type of things but yes changing scenes and giving lines from a character to another like the movies is realistic worry

We can only hope they'll learn from the movies' mistakes! For now I shall remain cautiously optimistic.

[adenei]

I get what you mean but I just don't think it would make any sense to change a Canon pairing that had 7 books of developments. even cursed child gave us solid romione. if jkr still kept romione even tho the movies team clearly pushed for Harry and hermione I think romione will be fine. and didn't jkr on Twitter reply to a fan telling them it gonna be book accurate

Like I've said in past posts, I agree. But weirder things have happened. I don't follow anything JKR says or does so I wouldn't know what she has or hasn't said nor am I on tiktok or twitter/x or whatever site it is now.

[adenei]

any romione writers new or old that are still active on Tumblr? I'm new to this site and I'm having trouble finding since there's lots of mistagging

hey anon. that's a good question. I wish I had the answer but I've noticed a lot less when it comes to engagement with romione stories. romione trope fest has lots of stories from past years if you're looking for content. There was also the seven deadly sins romione fest once upon a time as well as the romione ficlet fest.

but as far as recent and active tumblrs, I'm not on enough to scroll and see a ton. Engagement in my own posts is definitely not what it used to be so that's why I typically don't post many updates here unless I'm writing for a fest on the site. Sorry I can't be of much help!

[adenei]

guys i get worrying over hermione stealing Ron's lines and things like that but what do you mean you think there's a possibility where they will change the canon pairings?

because historically, the hero always gets the leading girl. One of the things I love most about HP is that it DIDN'T do that. But peer pressure exists and if someone on the creative team pushes hard enough it could happen (and I say could because everything is always a possibility).

I'm going to remain hopeful that canon pairings will be intact and not put any bad vibes about it into the universe. It's going to be fineeee people

[adenei]

does your friend think that could happen? changing romione and hinny?

She is....not hopeful about this reboot. but honestly the movies did certain elements of the original story so dirty, it's a valid concern.

[adenei]

I do hope the series is more true to the books than the movies. I need my book ron 😭

yessss I think honestly this would make me more upset if they do Ron dirty AGAIN. Honestly, I still have a knee-jerk reaction whenever I see Hermione's name listed after Harry's.

I'm sorry, Ron is Harry's right hand. He should always be the second listed, the second seen, the clear second most prevalent (and never in the 'second best' mindset).

BOOK RON FOREVER

[adenei]

no no i think i explained myself wrong, my worry is that they full on remove the romione ship and keep them platonicsksjkskss but that sounds so illogical and unrealistic😭

oh no, I got you boo <3 I am too, but I refuse to let it consume my thoughts. As I told a friend earlier, if that DOES happen, my reaction will not be pleasant. My husband better protect his TV. (I'm kidding, but the rage will explode).