#ron answers!

[cintipede]

one of my fav scenes in the show from s1 ep 65. group crying starts in 15 minutes‼️🗣🗣

[daddiesdrarryy]

Drunk Ron: Did you hear about Harry and Malfoy?

Draco: What are you talking about?

Drunk Ron: Well, right before Christmas, Hermione and Pansy walked in on them when they were doing…stuff

Draco: Where? Dorm, closet, stairway, train? Hogsmeade?

Drunk Ron: Hogsmeade?

[saintsenara]

Thoughts on Ron and Hermione as a ship?

thank you very much for the ask, @thesilverstarling!

well, i'll state my position straight away... book ron and hermione are the best of the canon couples and they'll have a long and extremely happy marriage made rich by great and stalwart love, lust, fun, and faithfulness, rather than held together by duty and couples' therapy like so many readers and authors tend to think.

and i'll state another position straight away, lest i seem like i'm just a fan with blinkers on... i think this even though book!hermione is - by far - the member of the trio [and indeed one of the main characters of the series] i'm least interested in. i like fanon!hermione - perfect and preternaturally good - even less.

but - even though i do think it's ridiculous that jkr has said that she thought ron needed to "become worthy" of hermione [hence his flop era with lavender in half-blood prince] - i don't think that he's the superior one in the partnership either. ron and hermione belong together as equals - which is what they’re set up in the narrative as being from the off - and i hate seeing that undermined.

and i especially hate seeing it undermined by ron's icon status being overlooked. hermione's talents and skills are pretty thoroughly discussed - i'm not denying she gets unfairly bashed by parts of the fandom, but it's nowhere near the same level - but he doesn't get the same treatment...

there are multiple reasons for this: ron's narrative purpose is to be the everyman sidekick, and so he's required by the text to be less special than harry or hermione [the helper-figure]; the amount of aristocracy wank in this fandom means that the weasleys' ordinariness is less appealing to writers than making harry have twenty different lordships and call himself hadrian; the way he's written in the films is literal dogshit; the narrative interrogates ron's flaws - especially his capacity for jealousy - much more intensively than it interrogates either hermione's [cruel, inflexible, meddling] or harry's [reckless, self-absorbed, judgemental]. but one i feel is perhaps more significant than is often appreciated is that ron is such a british character - who draws on so many little culturally-specific quirks - that many of his traits aren't always understood as they're intended to be by international readers.

in particular - as is outlined in this excellent meta by @whinlatter - ron's sense of humour isn't indicative of immaturity or a lack of seriousness. it's the narrative's evidence of him being the most emotionally aware of the trio.

ron is shown throughout the series to understand how both harry and hermione need to have their emotions approached - and i think there's no piece of fanfic which says this better than crocodile heart by @floreatcastellumposts:

That was what she liked most about Ron, she thought vaguely. He was very good at being suitably outraged on your behalf. For Harry, for her, for Neville. That sort of thing mattered, when you were hurt or embarrassed or wronged in some way. You needed to have someone else on your side, to be as emotional as you felt, maybe even more so, so that you might feel a bit more normal. It was very decent of him, and she was not sure he realised he did it.

ron's inherent emotional awareness is an enormous source of comfort to other people. he does the work which isn't flashy or special - he makes tea and tells jokes and is just there - but which is needed in healthy human relationships far more frequently than a willingness to fight to the death for the other person.

[as an aside, this normality - even though i think it's assumed rather than demonstrated by the text - is also what ginny provides for harry. and so i do find the little corner of the fandom which thinks that hinny are a good couple but romione aren't… unusual.]

but let's look at some specific reasons why ron and hermione belong together:

their communication styles mesh perfectly. ron is the only person hermione knows who feeds her love of being challenged and debated, and who is able to engage in this way of communicating without becoming irate when she refuses to back down. ron's good at picking his battles, but he's also good at recognising that hermione's tendency to argue isn't intended to be confrontational a lot of the time - it's just the way she works through feelings and problems. he's far more easy-going about her tendency to nag, interrupt, try to provoke arguments, or speak condescendingly than he's given credit for - and hermione evidently respects this, since when he does tell her not to push a situation [like when she's trying to needle harry into talking about sirius], she listens to him.

that ron and hermione's tendency to bicker is taken by fans to be a bad thing is because it's something harry - from whose perspective the narrative is written - doesn't understand. harry is extremely conflict-avoidant - he tends to take being pushed on his views and opinions to be insulting, and he has a tendency to assume that he's right which is just as profound as hermione's. he and ginny communicate not by debating, but by ginny having no time for his rigidity and refusing to indulge it - but ron and hermione bickering about everything isn't a negative thing within their specific emotional dynamic.

[as another aside, this glaring chasm in communication styles is why the canonical harry and hermione would be a disaster as a couple.]

they each provide validation the other needs. it's clear - reading between the lines - that hermione is a tremendously lonely person. the friendlessness of her initial few weeks at hogwarts seems to be a continuation of her experience as a child, and - outside of ron and harry - that friendlessness endures through her schooldays. i'm always struck by the fact that, when she falls out with ron in prisoner of azkaban, she has no-one else except hagrid to spend time with, and that this is only avoided in half-blood prince because harry decides not to freeze her out. i don't think her friendship with ginny is anywhere near as close as fanon seems to imply, nor do i think that she's anywhere near as close to neville (not least because she is so condescending to him] as she's often written to be.

and this loneliness seems to stretch beyond hogwarts. the absence of hermione's parents from the narrative is - in a doylist sense - clearly just a device to maximise time with the trio all together, but the watsonian reading is that she doesn't have a particularly good relationship with them. hermione's obviously upper-middle-class background - the name! the skiing! the holidays in the south of france! - can be presumed, i think, to come with a series of expectations from her parents which she constantly feels she's not entirely meeting, particularly expectations attached to academic success.

[her parents - were she a muggle child - would undoubtedly have ambitions for her to attend an elite university and then go into a prestigious career. tertiary education of the type they're familiar with doesn't seem to exist in the wizarding world and this, alongside all the other divides between the magical and muggle worlds which contribute to the distance between them, would be one very obvious area in which she felt the need to prove the value of her true self to them.]

ron, too, has quite a difficult relationship with his position in the family - voldemort's locket is obviously lying about a lot of things, but it isn't wrong to point out that he seems to receive considerably less of his mother's emotional attention than some of his siblings - and he too is constrained by expectations which he doesn't know how to explain he has no interest in - especially molly's desire for her sons to achieve top grades and go into the ministry.

he also suffers while at hogwarts from being "harry potter's best friend". harry never properly appreciates this, but hermione does - she recognises ron's jealousy and never allows harry to minimise it [and she and ron are very much aligned on having no respect for harry's saviour and martyr complexes]; she appreciates ron's strengths [above all his kindness and his sense of humour] and makes him feel as though he's achieved things with them. and ron does the same for her - he's hugely observant when it comes to her, and he constantly challenges and defends her.

[him agreeing with snape that she's a know-it-all in the film version of prisoner of azkaban is a crime.]

the two of them clearly spend a lot of time together one-on-one while harry's involved in his various shenanigans [including outside of school - hermione has often arrived at the burrow days or even weeks before harry, and they seem to write to each other frequently when apart]. they do this within a relationship which is fundamentally equal. one issue with hinny is that, post-war, harry is going to have to get used to seeing ginny as a peer, rather than as someone he has to protect. but ron and hermione never have that issue - equality is baked into their relationship from the off.

because, to be quite frank, fandom overstates the role that jealousy plays in their relationship. ron certainly doesn't acquit himself well when it comes to hermione's relationship with viktor krum [it's because he's bi and doesn't know it yet, i fear...], and a tendency to externalise his insecurity into trying to make others also feel insecure is one of his primary negative traits. [hermione does this too, via her patented lofty voice when she's trying to condescend to people.]

but this is often taken as the initial red flag for how the relationship would crash and burn, and ron's toxic jealousy is often exaggerated into the trigger for him being emotionally and physically violent towards hermione.

[which, frequently, seems to drive her into the arms of either draco malfoy or severus snape… who are, of course, the first people we think of when we hear the words "not prone to jealousy"...]

but i think it's important to point out a couple of things here.

firstly, hermione evidently regards ron's jealousy as silly - she's upset by it, yes, but she's upset because she wanted him to ask her out. she doesn't think he's being possessive, she thinks he's being stupid.

secondly, hermione is equally as pettily jealous over ron's crush on fleur delacour and relationship with lavender brown, and she behaves just as cruelly when it comes to lavender as ron does when it comes to krum - the narrative just treats her actions as more sympathetic, both because harry dislikes lavender too, and because, by that point in the series, jkr has become less willing to criticise her.

but we do need to bear in mind that, outside of this teenage pettiness, ron is never jealous of hermione over things which matter. he's never jealous of her intelligence or competence or ambition or success [indeed, he defends her constantly from attacks designed to undermine her in these areas]. for someone who struggles with being overshadowed by harry, he is never upset at being overshadowed by her, and he's clearly going to be happy to support her in any of the career ambitions she can be written as having post-war.

and, on this point, I do think it's worth interrogating why so many readers still seem to feel uncomfortable with the idea of ron and hermione having a dynamic where she's the more "powerful" one - it's always a bit trite to say "but what if the genders were reversed?", but actually that's not irrelevant here... if hermione ends up taking the ministry by storm and ron becomes a stay-at-home dad or has a job which is just to pay the bills, what, precisely, is wrong with that? why, precisely, should hermione regard ron making that choice for himself as a negative thing? hermione so often seems to leave ron in fanfiction because of a lack of ambition, but in canon she's shown to not particularly care if ron and harry do the bare minimum when it comes to studying etc. she nags them to do their work so they can pass their exams and they don't get in trouble. she doesn't nag them to do it to the same standard or with the same diligence that she would.

and, actually, i think that ron being less ambitious than hermione is something which is key to how well they work. because ron provides not only emotional support, but emotional clarity.

hermione is shown throughout canon to - just as harry does - have a tendency to become obsessive to the detriment of her own health. she's also often - as harry is - emotionally or intellectually inflexible, and she finds it hard to move on when what she feels or believes is right is proven to be wrong. both she and harry are micro-thinkers, who lean towards knee-jerk assumptions and stubborn convictions.

more positively, hermione has a tendency towards total, unshakeable loyalty. this is one of her really underappreciated traits, and actually contributes a lot more to her role in the series than her intellect, but it also comes with the negative that she can have a slightly hagrid-ish leaning towards blind trust, especially in authority figures, which is always interesting to think about.

but ron is a big-picture thinker [it's why he's so good at chess] and a pragmatist. he's the least obsessive. he's the one least likely to act on gut instinct [and, therefore, the hardest to fool - i think it's worth emphasising that he clocks that tom riddle's diary is tricking harry immediately, whereas harry feels an immediate kinship with riddle because he's an orphan and hermione trusts him because he was head boy]. he's the least righteous of the three, and the one who demonstrates that faith and loyalty are more often choices rather than innate powers, and that sometimes these choices will lead to outcomes which are bad or hard.

and these traits contribute to aspects of his character which are underappreciated. ron worries about hermione making herself ill during exams, or when she's using the time-turner, and makes an effort to get her to set healthy boundaries and redirect her anxiety. ron stands on a broken leg in front of sirius and goes into the forest to fight aragog not out of inherent righteousness, but out of choice. ron takes over the burden of preparing buckbeak's defence when it's clear hermione is approaching burnout, as a way of atoning for his role in causing her distress which actually has a tangible impact on her wellbeing. ron is completely right that harry hasn't done any long-term planning for the horcrux hunt, and his anger does force harry to tighten up after he leaves the trio. ron has a clear head in the middle of battle. ron makes harry and hermione laugh. ron is unafraid of human emotion. ron arrests harry's tendency to brood over the little things by looking at the bigger picture. ron will always come back.

ron is bringing his politician wife regular cups of tea and making sure she doesn't work all night. he's helping his lawyer wife to feel less upset over losing one case by reminding her that she's won ten others. he's noticing stress creeping in and whirling her off for a dirty weekend or a takeaway on the sofa. he's teaching his daughter to be proud of her ambition and his son to treat women as equals and both of his children that wanting to be the most famous person in the world isn't really all it's cracked up to be and that all you can do when you fuck up is apologise and try to do better. he's making hermione smile on the worst days of her life and helping her strategise her long-term goals when she gets stuck on the short-term ones and telling her straight when she needs to get it together. he's seeing a misogynistic head of department call hermione a "silly little girl" and - exactly as he did aged fourteen when a teacher called her an "insufferable know-it-all" - choosing to tell him exactly what he thinks of that.

ron is the ultimate wife guy with the ultimate wife. he's a very lucky man, and hermione is a very lucky lady.

[creatorping]

Hello! I found your blog and I just want to say that your art is AMAZING! I'm a huge Wild Kratts fan and Kim Possible fan, and your art is giving me life! I love it so much! YOU ARE AMAZING!

wild kratts AND Kim possible fan???? WELL WELCOME HELLO 👁️👁️✨ I didn’t expect some fellow fans of both, thought my art would cater to fandoms separately.

THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT, here’s a doodle for ya

[neverenoughmarauders]

People act as if it was Hermione who stole her father’s car to save Harry because she was worried when she hadn’t heard from him.

[ketchupandpickles]

Do you have favourite kindergarten au(s)? And if you have, Who's your favorite design?

Hehe :3

Ones mentioned: @applesoftgaze (the Huxley twins), @malumonarchy (Ron), @lovesick-blue (Kidd), @kinderkillerau (Cindy), @kgmilgramau (Ozzy)

@kggamewithgun (Cindy), @displacedbias (Alice), @cursed-kg (Buggs), @cheeselix, @ozzyandfriends (Madison)

@kindergartenbuttiny (Austin), @good-and-evil-unveilied (Carla), @gabycantart (Witch Nugget), @sunnysunnatko (Hitman Kidd), @blues-kindergarten (Nugget)

@drfirsnogayny (Penny), @ask-teen-dorks-au (Lily and Billy), @namnwjehdjjdjd (Felix)

Ones I didn't draw but still love:

-does Huxleypocolypse count? Probably not but If so that's like all I've been able to think about for the past two months lol

-I also love @flower-color-gram! I cannot choose a favorite design I love them all and I want to draw all of them sometime :DDD

Sorry If I didn't draw your au! I have a lot of a lot of others that I love but I wasn't able to fit them 😔 perhaps I'll draw fanart for them eventually though!

[macksartblock]

If you’d indulge me for a moment (I have no idea if this has been done yet but it’s important to me lol)

This is not about who’d be a good dad to daughters, just based on general vibes

[mcytshipsandmore]

Big Ron could get it/Mumbo reference

stared at this ask for a good 3 ish minutes

-🍫

[lalalalalalala-okokokokok]

GUYS GUYS I HAVE A REALLY IMPORTANT QUESTION ABOUT HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD

SO YOU KNOW HOW THEY CHANGED THE SCRIPT TO MAKE SCORBUS CANNON??? DID THEY LIKE ALSO CHANGE THE WRITTEN PLAY THAT PEOPLE BUY??? CAUSE I WANNA BUY THE PHYSICAL COPY BUT I DONT WANNA HAVE THE OLD SCRIPT

[sergle]

Idk if you'll think of this as a compliment or not but hopefully you will. You kinda look like Chappell Ron

Chappel Ron... she STOLE my LOOK

this does count as a compliment! it's different from the asks I usually get, which say that I look like a fatter chappell roan, which is also not incorrect

[jakekazansky]

Hi!! Can you hear me screaming?! I just read your Blue Angels post and you’ve got Jake as an ER Nurse too!!! 😭💕👏 That’s so awesome! I’ve had a Firefighter Bradley/ER Nurse Jake AU in my head for years but I’m not a writer other than little tidbits on this site, so seeing ER Nurse Jake and doting Bradley in ANY form melts my brain (in a great way!). Jake just screams ER nurse if he was in the medical field, doesn’t he?! Boy NEEDS to be wearing scrubs! Are you planning to write any of the Blue Angels AU? If you do I would be STOKED! 😁

-Overwhelmed-Alien (this is my side blog, that’s why I’m anonymous here lol)

I am planning to eventually write it!!!! It’s just gonna be awhile as I have many other fics in the work currently

I’m so glad someone else is screaming over this fic besides me!!!!!!

Jake gives ER nurse vibes so hard. In this au, he ends up doing it cause one of his uncles is an ER nurse. Also because his dads and uncles were accident prone so he got to learn a lot of medical stuff from a young age and to him that was cooler than aviation and the navy. Jake is still flys in this au despite being a nurse. His dads were aviators and he learnt to fly cause he thought it was awesome. He got his private pilots license when he was 20.

Jake is very much “what did you do now you dumbass” when Bradley injures himself. But then he’s doting on him and loving him while calling him an idiot. It’s how his dads were.

So in this au his dads are Slider, Ice, and Chris. Chris is an OC I use but he’s not originally mine. He’s @oh-surprise-its-me OC. Chris is biologically Jake’s uncle but he adopts Jake from birth from his sister. Chris is a firefighter turned mechanic. Chris’s best friend is David whose husband is Lucas. Lucas is an ER nurse and the one who inspires jake to become an ER nurse like himself.

So I absolutely love this idea of Jake telling Lucas first about Bradley and Lucas being “you’re dads are gonna rip him to shreds” cause yeah his dads are overprotective. And Jake being all “well it’s not my fault Bradley choose to fly for the navy so that’s on him”. Jake is such a little spitfire and I love him.

Not sure entirely how they’ll get together and all that but Bradley is definitely gonna be getting a lot of random visits by Admirals Kerner and Kazansky to Blue Angels trainings and shows. Like Bradley is gonna feel himself being watched.

Jake wouldn’t tell his dads right away it’s Bradley. He’d probably just go “oh I met someone at the blue angels show I worked. They’re a pilot”. Jake makes no one’s life easy outside of work.

Thanks again for asking about this!!!! I’m so glad someone else is excited for this au besides me!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[tenpintsof-sundrop]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💗

Thank you so much for sending me this!

I am proud of so many of my fics and I'm not even fully sure how to go about this, so... I guess I will just make one rec from each of the fandoms I have written for?

(Warning for some blood in gifs below - but generally there is blood and violence in this fics anyway, so...)

From DC Titans:

No Place Like Home on AO3 - Gar Logan x Fem!Powered!Disabled!Reader x Jason Todd. Friends to Lovers. (Poly Soulmates). Smut, Angst, Hurt and Comfort with a Happy Ending. 90k across 7 chapters. When Jason leaves the Titans broken and battered, he gets set on a dangerous path. It's up to you and Gar, the two people who care about him the most, to bring him home.

Oh, another day on the assembly line, everybody better march in time,

Cause the factory don't care why, you been sayin' coulda, shoulda, woulda.

(There's no place like home. There's no place like home.)

If I could recommend one singular fic and say 'this fic encapsulates my style and summarises everything I am proud of when it comes to writing fanfiction' - this would be it.

I have so much to say about this fic and a lot of it I probably have already said it - but basically, this fic is the reason I started writing. I started writing long before I actually wrote this fic, but everything I have ever sought in terms of creative satisfaction came from this fic. This feels like my orgasmic climax in terms of creating things.

And if this fic is something I could be buried with, I would be proud. If this fic is something that people remember me for, I would be so fucking proud. (Which is not likely, because it's from a very small fandom and I know people are gonna remember me for fics from bigger fandoms that are way more popular, and I wish I could shove this fic in the faces of people who read my other popular fics and make them read it lmao.)

If for some reason I had to quit writing right now - I would be most proud of this singular piece. Especially because so much of this fic, the characters, and the dynamics has been inspired by my real life relationship with my lovers, and the reader character was inspired by my struggle with disability and coping with the loss of control as I became more disabled over time - but having my lovers there for me made that loss of control easier to swallow. It's about how trauma can ruin you and letting someone love you when you are broken is one of the hardest things you can do, but one of the most radical and most rewarding. If you ever liked my writing and my style, even if you don't like Titans - please go and read this.

From The Walking Dead:

(I know this gif is sad but it fits the fic so well.)

Hold Me Tight Or Don't on AO3 - Glenn Rhee x Fem!Reader x Maggie Greene. Established Poly Relationship. Smut and Heavy Angst (No Happy Ending). Set during Season 3, Episode 4. 7k (Oneshot). You are bitten by a Walker while trying to help get Glenn and Maggie to safety, and you are facing your last hours of life. And in those last hours, you only have one wish - to have sex with your partners one last time. Luckily for you, they would do anything for you, and they can’t help but to oblige.

Oh no this isn't how our story ends,

So hold me tight, hold me tight. (Or don't.)

This fic has had some more attention lately, since I have been wanting to write for The Walking Dead again, and I just really want to re-state - I fucking love this fic. This idea came to me so randomly and struck me like lighting and I am so happy that this fic came to fruition. This fic represents so many things that I am excited about writing - poly relationships, relating the themes of sex and death, sad endings (I weirdly prefer writing sad or melancholic endings instead of traditional happy ones).

I am really proud of this fic. If you can handle angst, you should go read it.

From Criminal Minds:

From Your Lips on Tumblr - Jennifer Jareau x GN!Reader. Established Relationship. Smut, Hurt and Comfort. Set during Season 2, Episode 15. 3k (Oneshot). After JJ is attacked by dogs on the Hankel farm, you take the time to check on her and distract her flustered mind with a loving touch.

So, most of my Criminal Minds fics have done really well and don't need to be recommended just because it's a really popular fandom, but JJ fics don't really do well? Idk why she's not a popular character?

But I love this fic. I had so much fun working on this fic, and working in the religious references and imagery from the show - this fic was just so much fun for me. And I think it needs more love.

From The Last of Us:

IFHY (I Fucking Hate You) on AO3 - Abby Anderson x Fem!Reader. Enemies with Benefits. Smut and Angst. Set during the main events of Part II. 8k (Oneshot). You and Abby truly hate each other. So when you find Abby handcuffed inside an elevator, instead of being kind and just letting her out, you make her pay a certain price for the key.

I fucking hate you - but I love you.

I'm bad at keeping my emotions bubbled.

You're good at being perfect, we're good at being troubled.

There are so many fics from TLOU that I loved writing and that I'm really proud of, but this one really caught my eye on the list. I love writing about conflict, and I really love writing reader characters who are so bitchy and just cause conflict. (Maybe it's because I'm so nice irl and I never cause conflict, I get out all my internal chaos in writing characters who shit disturb and cause chaos all the time.)

I loved writing this because it's so non-traditional. It's not sappy, it's not romantic - again, it has a really melancholic ending. The characters are so toxic for each other (which is also something I love writing - because it's horrible for relationships irl, but for fiction it's so interesting to explore and observe).

I think this is one of my best, most interesting fics and I really loved doing it.

From Harry Potter:

King For A Day on Tumblr - Poly!Golden Trio x Fem!Reader. (Fem!Reader x Ron Weasley, Harry Potter, and Hermione Granger). FWB to Poly Lovers. Smut (with slight Angst). Set during Deathly Hallows. 22k (Oneshot). While Horcrux Hunting with your closest friends, the dangerous influence of Slytherin’s Locket causes Ron to snap. And it turns out - he brings on something that everyone in the tent really needed.

You told me think about it - well I did.

Now I don't wanna feel a thing anymore.

I'm tired of beggin' for the things that I want.

I'm over sleepin' like a dog on the floor.

Imagine living like a King someday - a single night without a ghost in the walls.

I have spoken about this fic at length, and how this was a spirtual awaken for me - if No Place Like Home was a culmination of everything I am as an artist, then this fic is an echo of those things. Again, I fucking love writing about poly relationships - and I think this fic has one thing that was missing from No Place Like Home. And that is exploring each individual thread of a poly relationship and how someone interacts with each person in the relationship outside of the poly group functioning as a whole. That is definitely a strong suit of this fic.

Also it's amazing filthy nasty smut, which is something I love writing, and something I am really talented at.

From Stranger Things:

I'm Still Standing on AO3 - Nancy Wheeler x Fem Disabled/Chronically Ill Reader. Best Friends to Lovers. Angst, Smut, (slight Fluff). Hurt and Comfort. Happy Ending. Set during Season 4. 37k across 3 chapters. You start having horrible waking nightmares, but you don’t want to worry your best friend Nancy by telling her. She’s already occupied trying to chase down a trans-dimensional killer wizard, and you are convinced that the two problems aren’t possibly related.

There's a cold and lonely light that shines from you,

And you wind up like the wreck you hide, behind that mask you use.

This fic is so interesting.

I wrote this fic shortly after Season 4 came out - and even though I had a few fics for Stranger Things that were pretty popular, everyone just collectively ignored this one? And I know for a fact that it is because Nancy is the love interest. I know that if I had picked Steve or Eddie as the love interest for this fic, then this fic would be just as popular as my other ST fics - but because the subject matter is so deeply personal, I connected with the scenes of Nancy kicking ass at the hospital and worked from there.

(And tbh, if I had to choose a male love interest for this concept, I probably would have chosen Billy, because I relate to him on so many deep personal levels.)

Literally everything in this fic is very personal to me - this is all about my own raw traumas. From the abusive father to the extreme medical trauma to the strained caretaker mother, to the older sister who distances herself from it all - even though this is set in the universe of Stranger Things - this is the story of my life. And idk if I would have wanted it to be a more popular fic, because it is so personal? But I am upset that I worked so hard on it and so many parts of it are so raw, and nobody really saw it. I am upset that I had the bravery to post something so personal and it was just - crickets.

There are so many parts of this fic that I am so insanely proud of. The horror sequences are something that I worked so hard on - not just with the emotion of translating my own trauma, but I wanted to make something honestly scary and I wanted to pay tribute to the tension and emotion and visuals of all my favourite horror media - including Stranger Things and the beautifully tense horror aspects of Season 4. And this is another fic that I feel truly, absolutely represents me as a person to my core. And I feel like it's worth reading if you wanna know more about me and who I am.

(And lastly)

From misc. horror fandoms:

No Brainer on AO3 - Derek Cho (Steven Yeun) x Fem!Reader x Melanie Cross (Samara Weaving). Co-Workers to Lovers. Smut. Based on the film Mayhem from 2017. 7k (Oneshot). When you are the last person alive with an elevator key that Derek and Melanie desperately need, you agree to make a trade. Turns out, when what you're asking for is a threesome - you don't drive too hard of a bargain.

This is one of my favourite fics of all time. This is proof that I do not write for popularity - this fic is written for a fandom on AO3 with a total of five fics FIVE (including mine) and 2 of them are about characters from other media experiencing the plot of this movie as an AU, and mine is the only fic that is x reader. So I didn't just fill a niche - I looked where there was no niche and I dug a hole.

But like - Steven Yeun. Yes, I fell in love with Glenn from TWD, but this is a movie where he is also covered in blood, and rather than being Glenn's meek, reserved self (which I love) - he is outraged and swearing and killing and it makes me foam at the mouth. And I am already in love with Samara Weaving from The Babysitter - so this is literally a killer combination.

My bisexual ass did not even finish the film before I was typing out this fic on my phone.

And I am so happy that I wrote it - because sometimes you just need a self indulgent, blood covered smut.

And you guys can read it too if you want <3

[saintsenara]

One thing I find really compelling about ronmort is that the horcrux which targets ron is the one most "maternal"-- tom's mother's locket, which you so cleverly pointed out was also the one which he erected a complicated defense for in a place that was meaningful to his childhood. Everything the locket says to Ron just feels so charged? Wym you've seen his heart and it's yours? Wym you've seen his dreams and his desires? The fact that Ron can hear the locket's heartbeat before anyone else... I don't know how to explain it except that the locket's antagonism of Ron feels almost intimate in a way. The shenanigans would be sexy. Not least because Ron can apparently do a passing imitation of parseltongue (hot).

that each of the trio destroys the horcrux which most connects to something fundamental about themselves is a detail which obsesses me.

the diary

harry - an orphan, desperate to meet someone else who can understand the strangeness and isolation of his experience; searching for the truth about himself, and what in his life is inherited, but unable to ever fully uncover it - destroys the diary, not only the sole horcrux which is an explicit link to lord voldemort's upbringing as an orphan in the muggle world, but also a metaphor for the state of orphanhood itself.

the diary is a quasi-palimpsest - an object which has to be written in; an object in which a layer of text is written and then overwritten by another; an object in which these layers of text can be stripped back until only the original layer remains only with extraordinary difficulty - just like the orphan's search for meaning, trying to decipher the layers of themselves which were inherited from their parents, but only ever being able to see these partially, with the text missing or corrupted.

voldemort's creation of the diary-horcrux is explicitly connected in canon to him coming to learn about himself, his parents, and his heritage - and, connected to this, to him refusing to sit with the grief of orphanhood, refusing to understand his parents as whole, complex people, and refusing to embrace his "real" identity [which, as the text understands it, is that of a half-blood named tom marvolo riddle] by creating a fake one [that of lord voldemort].

harry destroys it after rejecting voldemort's self-constructed view of his own exceptionality - "the greatest wizard in the world is albus dumbledore" - his refusal to acknowledge the complexities of lineage and orphanhood, and his refusal to embrace his muggle heritage - "my mother died to save me. my common, muggleborn mother". he does this using a tool directly connected to voldemort's rejection of all but his slytherin heritage - the basilisk's fang - in a location similarly connected to voldemort's rejection of his muggle blood - the chamber of secrets.

the cup

hermione - an outsider, whose place in the wizarding world is unstable - destroys the cup, one of the horcruxes to which voldemort has the least personal connection, but which he selected to hide his soul because of its historical significance, anchoring him to a millennium of wizarding history and culture he was otherwise brought up disconnected from.

voldemort's creation of the cup-horcrux comes at the end of a period of his life in which he is disadvantaged in wizarding society purely on the basis of his name and background. he rejects the ministry jobs which would have made him dependent for the rest of his life on slughorn's patronage - and, therefore, pressured him to do what slughorn wanted - and ends up, as he himself puts it, as "a poor shop assistant". hepzibah smith is a pureblood, who is also descended from one of hogwarts' founders - yet she doesn't make use of this superiority ["all sorts of powers it's supposed to possess too... i just keep it nice and safe in here..."], and she doesn't realise [and he can't prove to her and hope to keep his job] that voldemort is someone she should think of as her equal [or even superior]. she - as harry observes - essentially treats voldemort as doll she can play with, posing him with her treasures and pretending his glacial politeness is really repressed affection, she speaks to him like he's an idiot, and she evidently considers him to be her social inferior.

hermione destroys the cup after seven books in which the discrimination she faces on account of being muggleborn is explicit. obviously, she's the victim of violent bigotry - she's petrified, she's called a mudblood, she's the only one of the trio who also has to worry about the muggleborn registration commission - but she's also the victim of seemingly benign, genial bigotry too - the muggle world is treated as a quaint side-show, even by characters like the weasleys; she's praised for her intelligence by slughorn, but this intelligence is still considered in some way unusual for someone with muggle heritage. she gets spoken to by many wizards in ways which aren't far removed from the way hepzibah speaks to voldemort.

as a result, she - like voldemort - spends a lot of time trying to acquire enough knowledge of the wizarding world that she appears to be native to it [this is why she's so obsessed with hogwarts: a history]. but - unlike voldemort - she then embraces her heritage and refuses to hide it - "mudblood and proud of it!".

and - shortly after this - she destroys the cup, in a place - the chamber - and using a tool - the basilisk's fang - which are both directly connected to the bigotry she experienced, since they're part of slytherin's belief that people like her should be driven out of hogwarts and out of the magical world more broadly, and therefore send a big "fuck you" to voldemort's blood-supremacy.

the locket

and ron... whose greatest desire is to be recognised for his individual achievements, who has a complex and uneasy relationship with his place in his family [simultaneously longing to be something other than "one of the weasleys" and fiercely loyal to his parents and siblings], who is the only pureblood of the trio, whose childhood we hear the most about in canon, and whose childhood appears to have been happy...

destroys the locket, which is voldemort's only link to his mother, and the only horcrux for which he constructs an elaborate defence in a place meaningful to him from childhood.

we don't actually know who voldemort kills to create the locket-horcrux [jkr has said in interviews that it was a muggle tramp, although this contradicts dumbledore's statement in half-blood prince that voldemort created his horcruxes from murders which were significant to him], which is a neat metaphor for how little he knows about merope - since he doesn't know morfin's name, for example, we can assume he doesn't know hers; everything he ever tells harry about her is something he's invented [especially his belief that his parents' marriage was consensual, and that tom riddle sr. abandoned her because she was a witch].

the horcrux attempts to torture ron with his insecurities about being a mammy's boy who's always been afraid that he's a bit of a flop at the task - especially when compared to siblings like ginny, bill, and percy. and ron is so susceptible to it because voldemort is also an inherent mammy's boy [ronmort nation, rise up] who never got a chance to have a mam, and who responded to the grief this caused him by suppressing it, pretending it never existed, and convincing himself that the only viable thing to be is unique.

ron destroys it after he returns to the trio - having attempted to strike out on his own [the thing he's wanted since philosopher's stone, when he sees himself standing alone in the mirror of erised] - and accepts his place as part of a group. he does so using the sword of gryffindor, which again represents him embracing not being exceptional - his entire family have been in gryffindor, something he's shown to feel simultaneously proud of and uneasy with right from his first appearance.

[bcbdrums]

Kim: Give up! We're taking you in! Shego: Sorry, I'm allergic to prisons. Drakken: And synthetic fabrics! Shego: ....Dr. D.... Kim: Ron: Wait, then what exactly is your suit made of?

[galaxostars]

last line game

thank you for the tag @the-invisibility-bloke and @wolfpants !! so excited to read what you’re both cooking <3

have been the busiest bee lately but I’ve just started writing out (like 500 words lol) my fic for dronarry fest, so here is the infamous last line I wrote :

“My dick won’t rest as long as it remains in ignorance, Potter. I need answers.”

tagging @microdamage @arviyya @shoopsthereitis @starsworth @bluedahlia912 @lilacfiresoul @wolfpadx if you want to share!

[cherry-pop-elf]

I don’t really like putting all of the Weasley’s in Gryffindor. I was thinking, Percy and Ravenclaw, obviously, and maybe Ginny in slytherin? I don’t know. I could see Charlie in Gryffindor, but he also gives Hufflepuff vibes from what I’ve read of him. (I have not read the books.)

I’d like to know your thoughts do you agree with these? Do you disagree? Do you have any additional ones? Or do you just prefer all of them in Gryffindor?

Nah nah I totally agree on this.

I think with how the story is that there was a feeling of expectation for them to all be in a house, like how the Weasleys went crazy when Ron became a HeadBoy, and needing to give insight to the reader the Weasley’s morals and personality’s.

Especially since there are so many Weasleys to keep track of, and we don’t really interact with much. Like Charlie being cut out of the film entirely, and the fact Bill was introduced was soon as year 4 and that’s when he met Fleur like ugh

So I guess here are some little headcanons about possible alternative houses for the Weasleys

Alternative Houses For The Weasley Siblings

Bill Weasley/Ravenclaw

From what we have learned from Hogwarts Mystery ((which I’m trying to play through but fuck the game play sucks. FOR THE WEASLEYS!)) We learned that he pretty much was taken into Gringotts as soon as he finished school

THATS NOT EASY!

Gringotts is the best and safest bank in the world for a reason. They take in ONLY THE BEST. But over here we have a 17-18 year old working there.

Much like with Luna for her open mindedness for knowledge and her special interests for magical animals Bill shows that with Cursebreaking

Ravenclaws are special for being utterly brilliant for the special interest they have. Bill has a clear passion for history and Cursebreaking. Enough to show he was worthy to work at Gringotts

He clearly is very brilliant, open minded, curious, quick witted, and has so many quirks that show Ravenclaw would have supported him perfectly

To be a curse breaker you really need to be passionate to learn more and more. It’s a ever changing career that will introduce new things, and you need to think outside of the box to handle

There is also the fact you’ll need to know a shit Tom of History to handle a job like that. And we all know every gay kid had a phase of either Egyptian History or Greek History (ha jokes on you mines Norse! But uh. Yeah I also dabbled in Greek and Egyptian rip-!) And will you look at that he was stationed in Egypt for a while

Very Ravenclaw

Charlie Weasley/Hufflepuff

We don’t really get much info on him ((also forgive me I haven’t been able to play through much of Mystery because the gameplay just. Sucks so bad)) But we know for a fact he is passionate as hell about Dragons

On one hand that could mean he’s a Ravenclaw, but I argue Hufflepuff.

He is part of a Dragon Sanctuary after all. He takes care of dragons, new born dragons, and helps run it. He clearly has the passion and nerve to make sure he has what it takes to care for such dangerous beasts

Very much a Newt 2.0

You need to be patient, hard working, open minded, well rounded, and as loyal as a dragon to handle such a job like that

He even went as far as to come save Norbert(a) by the drop of the hat from Ron. Clearly a sign of loyalty and compassion to do whatever it took to take care of dragons. We even know that from how Norbert(a) is still alive and well by the time of Deathly Hallows

You really need to have a strong heart to have the time and energy to care for baby dragons and the loyalty to jump at the sound of Ron asking for help. To pull off this insane heist to practically break into Hogwarts to collect the baby

So Hufflepuff coded

Percy Weasley/Slytherin

This almost feels self explanatory

Percy is extremely ambitious about his goals. His goals are at the forefront and he is willing to push whatever buttons he needs to reach them. Which, as shown, put quite the divide with his family. A sub plot point really we are shown through out the books

Also he kinda has pure blood society standards a little bit don’t lie

He also has quite the perfectionist attitude, rather intense, and just really has a heavy focus on self image. To be seen a certain way by people. Much to the expense of his family

He really radiates the toxic traits that Slytherin have. Slytherin have good traits, just as much as Hufflepuff’s will have bad, so don’t worry about me type casting here.

Just take a moment to think it over and well…..

Percy really is a Slytherin

Fred And George Weasley/Slytherin

Now the twins show plenty of Slytherin traits as well, but in a different way compared to Percy

They also are very determined to reach their goals. To the point they took a hella massive risk with leaving school before they could finish. They took a calculated risk and won

They are very ambitious, and if they have a goal they’ll find a way to reach it. Very much how they are so successful. They don’t let the haters keep them down. Even with how unsupported their own mother was they knew they could do it

They also have that edge all the same. They know how to pull that charm to get what they want, and aren’t scared to get their hands dirty.

And we know there’s lots of dirt on those hands

Very much able to win over crowds with ease, and are very aware of how they can use what they have to reach their end goals

They have that edge and we know they would be unstoppable if they had Slytherin’s under their wings

Very much Slytherins

Ron Weasley/ Gryffindor

Nah Ron is as true to a Gryffindor as they come

Even as early as his first year he got it proven quickly

He’s very bold, blunt, and brave. Willing to stand his ground. Sometimes even when he’s wrong, but hey he’s willing to speak his mind and not be afraid of what he has to say. Not willing to be swayed to easily

Sure he can have rather low self confidence but the moment someone like Hermione, Harry, or his family members are insulted or done wrong he’s jumping out of his chair and throwing hands

He’s willing to face the unthinkable for the sake of others. Aka when Bellatrix was torturing Hermione. He loved her entirely and his brave heart was willing to face insanity for her sake

If he’s gonna die it’s gonna be standing. Never on his knees. Time and time again he was facing his fears head on when he hated it. He was willing to follow those spiders despite how crippling his fear was. To face death even as young as eleven because his moral code said it had to be done

He is a TRUE Gryffindor

Ginny Weasley/ Gryffindor or Hufflepuff

Honestly? This is a toss up. She shows very strong elements from both. So this could very well be a case of her being in Gryffindor for more so to follow her siblings but not have it really affect the end goal

She shows very strong traits for both so it’s really hard for me to really give a concrete yes or no to which house

She’s very much a brave girl, living in the moment, stubborn as all hell, and will stand her ground

She also has shown she can be rather caring and comforting. Such as in the deathly hallows when students had to take refuge in the Room Of Requirments. We don’t get much on that aspect specifically but to help take care of her fellow frightened students had to involve a lot of patience and gentleness.

She also has a strong friendship with Luna. Best friends really. Something like that leads me to think she would be very open minded then and well rounded to be able to look through such a different lens compared to her own

It’s really a tight toss up. She can fit in either house very well

So if I had to be held at gun point she would be in Gryffindor for the sake of family more so than actual house choosing

Hope my little headcanons could be enjoyed and open your own minds to different ideas!