Ravenclaw with an Agenda

So I just worked on this as one of the permanent pages on my blog (you can find it in the sidebar menu now) and spent entirely too long on it not to post it here too…three cheers for fan fic!

I do have several Dramione fic ideas and (surprisingly long and detailed) drafts of my own floating around in the ole noggin and hard drive, respectively. For the moment, though, I’m having a blast focusing more on drawing and don’t have enough time outside of work to do both drawing and writing well.

If you’re interested in following my currently empty account on fanfiction.net in case anything cool pops up in the future, go for it and thanks in advance! If I publish I’ll post about it here as well.

To hold you over and/or win you over to this ship in the meantime, here are some amazing Dramione fics by some really amazing people.

Have Read / Would Strongly Recommend:

Clean / Marked by @OlivieBlake

OlivieBlake is truly SO talented. This is a two-part series where you need to read the first (Clean) for the second (Marked) to make total sense, and it is 100% worth every one of the 300k+ words. I laughed. I sobbed. I fell in love with Theo as a character for the first time. Lots of amazing character development all around. This is my current all-time favorite Dramione fic. Hermione is such a badass and the writing will punch you in the gut.

The Fallout by Sage / EveryThursday

This one is truly foundational to the whole ship, but somehow I completely missed it until a friend recommended it in fall 2019. Cue my descent into adopting Dramione as an OTP and creating an entire art blog mostly focused on them, oops. Lots of angst, action-driven, a bit impressionistic in its treatment of time and the progression of Hermione and Draco’s relationship, will 10 out of 10 make you cry. It’s a classic for a reason.

Breath Mints / Battle Scars by @Onyx-and-Elm

Enough angst for you, your mom, your cat, your third cousin twice removed, and the entire rest of the world for that matter. I love that both Hermione and Draco are broken and flawed yet still sharp as a tack in this fic. The storyline will keep you on the edge of your seat, or, in my case, just glued to the couch in pajamas all day binge reading. The dialogue is top notch. U will cri everytiem for Theo also.

Isolation by Bex-Chan

Another classic that’s constantly recommended for a reason. This one accomplishes the transition from enemies to lovers very believably in my opinion and does a great job branching out from a sole focus on that dynamic to a broader storyline that incorporates a lot of other characters very well. I really loved the inclusion of Andromeda especially.

Nightmares and Nocturnes by @OlivieBlake

I just like….really really love OlivieBlake’s writing, ok? And this one is extra noteworthy for me to have loved because in general I really don’t vibe with a Hermione who’s lost her mojo in fan fiction. A very creative, unique concept, and OlivieBlake always masterfully fleshes out side characters in a way that makes you care about them deeply.

Currently Reading and Loving:

The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy by Speechwriter / @BatmanSymbol

A work in progress but the writer updates regularly and also posts on Tumblr about it! The storyline is fantastic and the progression of events and writing style both feel very true to the original HP books, which perfectly fills a void left in my heart from having boycotted buying any more JKR merchandise due to her transphobic nonsense. Highly recommend! Let’s sit on the edge of our seats together waiting for more updates!

On the To-Read List / Heavily Recommended by Others:

Manacled by @Senlinyu

(I have avoided this one for a while due to being very very sensitive to descriptions of non-con situations. BUT Senlinyu is lovely, everybody I know who has read Manacled loves it, and I do in fact love The Handmaid’s Tale despite how dark it can be. Planning to dive in soon while also keeping up with Disappearances!)

The Right Thing to Do by @Lovesbitca8

Cruel and Beautiful World by @LenaPhoria (fic is no longer on ff.net or AO3 but a file can be found with some creative googling)

Wait and Hope by @MightBeWriting

The Gloriana Set by ThebeMoon

So, if you haven’t heard of these books, they’re a YA sci-fi trilogy (third book won’t come out until 2019) by claudia gray and v e r y good?? and yet i can’t find any posts about them?? No fanarts!! no memes!! no shitposts!! and I find this UPSETTING. 

These books are criminally underrated. And if we don’t have a fandom, we’ll be alone with our sobbing when the third book comes out. 

So y’all we need to start making memes and shitposts and discussions and stuff

So if we could like, spread this post around and get some discussion started, and get some tags and make them popular, that would be great 

taggos (basically everyone i’ve heard discuss this):  @jorammiireads @ablemansfield @worlds-of-ink-and-paper @fernandabarrera @readwithcindy @spacecadetstef @krsonmar @treehuger04 @negativereader @reading-out-loud @seoulitewriter 

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All the girls from Winx club in my style✨

Sirens learning sign language so they can communicate without enchanting anyone

Disabled fairies who can’t fly pushing for accessibility

Spirits helping save people from fires and other natural disasters because they can access areas too dangerous for the living

Fae snatching children from abusive homes and raising them in safety while the changeling wreaks havoc

Psychic psychologists and medical doctors who are able to figure out exactly how to help even if their patient is non-verbal, young, or afraid of being honest because they’re with an abuser

https://medium.com/@blackwomenviews/debunking-the-lies-smears-and-distortions-about-kamala-harris-1718881a0ec3

https://medium.com/@blackwomenviews/50-criminal-justice-reforms-accomplishments-by-kamala-harris-cf314eeaad2e

What I think a lot of people don’t realize is that conservatives, plenty of them, are FULLY aware of what non conservatives support and are callous and cynical enough to use what they understand their despicable beliefs are as a weapon

Plenty of conservatives KNOW that drug law in this country hurts racial minorities more

And they are NOT ABOVE turning it around and saying “this candidate is a racist because she supports this stuff I’m actively fighting to uphold”

I think people assume that conservatives wouldn’t lie in this specific way because to most decent people it would be essentially admitting the stuff they want is harmful and racist but they ABSOLUTELY do this