#tomluna

If you ever write about this adorable rare pair I will support read it

Hey! Yes, I do!!!

I got onto the pairing by pure chance and after stumbling upon @tunavibes 's The Astronaut, but I have pretty much read myself through the entire AO3 tag like the Hungry Little Caterpillar and then what I managed to find on FFN, haha.

But yes, it's a wonderfully fun and super interesting pairing. How these two would interact and how a romance would be believable is basically what I'm interested in and I love seeing different authors' takes on it. There bal's, obviously, there are fics that have been written before DH was published, there's AUs where the diary falls into Luna's hands instead of Ginny or after what happened with her (another ship I go nuts over, hehe), there's your timetravel stuff in general, Dark!Luna AUs, there's quite a rich buffet!

As for now, I'm not really in the headspace for HP stuff, rip, and if, I might focus on A Sunday in Late August 1899 to actually get it done so it doesn't haunt me until my dying days, haha.

what if the two strangest, loneliest children you know both sought to find acceptance and instead found each other...

tomluna is compelling to me because it is close to being one of those generic good x evil pairings (tom is "the dark lord" and luna is a dreamy silver-haired beacon of trust & strength & kindness) but it is tilted slightly slantways. it's different because they first find themselves on the mutual ground of being Outsiders. they're united in the grief of their lost mothers. they're united in the experience of spending most of their lives utterly alone...

i like that they're the two Misfits of canon. there is a very specific sort of understanding that comes from being labelled an outcast and finding someone just as strange as you. i think tom riddle could only be capable of genuinely loving someone that the rest of the world calls "loony".

luna has a tendency to see the beauty & frailty in terrifying creatures, she knows what it is like to be misunderstood— tom is like another thestral to her. he is ghostly & handsome & fascinating. he makes her learn that there is more to her (and what she is capable of) than she ever realized.

tom, a halfblood raised in a muggle orphanage who both idolizes & resents the idea of being "different", thinks this strange neglected fairytale pureblood girl-child is the closest thing he has ever seen to pure magic. he sees himself in her, when absolutely nobody else does. tom @ luna is: "how little i loved, before i loved you".

I am a lover of rare, and for many, unsubstantiated pairings (ships). It's simply two of my favorite characters, and various ideas about them are born in my head, and this is one of them.

I'm not an avid fan of Harry Potter, I rather like the universe itself. The concept of a magical school where they teach magic is very appealing. And in this saga, I fell in love with two characters: Luna Lovegood and Tom Riddle. There is something special about them, and I like the trope of a kind, sweet girl and her powerful villain boyfriend, who can only calm down a little bit around her, and she accepts his eccentricities. They are both strange, yes. And overall, I'm interested in thinking about their interactions.

Okay anyway, I wanna talk about these sillies. They're like possibly if not the most, mischaracterized depictions I have ever seen in the Harry Potter fandom. Like fine, I don't mind on the OOC sometimes, because if we made them faithful to the canon we have in store, then it's basically just the story we have already provided by JK Rowling, so I never really bashed the whole OOCness but sometimes it's like a whole different character, and I can't recognize them anymore as who I'm reading. Like be for real, is that Tom Riddle or just some other bad boy OC that you just slapstick the name there and think it'll stick?

The same goes for Luna, and that's the reason what makes me scared to even read the fanfictions or even interact with ideas in this small tight knit community because what if my ideas are actually pretty out of character to what other people think it is? And they have some more faithful rendition and suddenly I'm the hypocrite for feeling the way I do on fanfictions. Maybe that's just me.