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there's something suspicious about this

hey wanna see a photo of a pigeon

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.

(This is, obviously, very condensed. Also, feudalism looked different in different European nations. Here, I’m focusing more on Britain. It wasn’t the first place to introduce modern capitalism but is a big part of the story.)

what if i told u . . u don't need to give draco a complete personality transplant to make dron work . . . [gets stoned (by rocks)]

angel spotted; thought of you

i think it's probably just the perspective but she looks so small... fledgeling angel. cups her gently in my palms and smiles as four hundred thousand volts of electrical current rip through my body.

writing really is just googling synonyms. that's it. just a constant carousel of "I used this word two paragraphs ago, what is another word for this word"

Only power you ever held over me was the power of your cowardice. You were scared of being bested by a child, you were scared of not being obeyed, as if non compliance made you lose your dignity; you were scared of my independent mind and creative power, you were threatened by my intelligence and my sense to see reason.

That’s what you attacked in me. That’s what bothered you. And like a most cowardly piece of pathetic goo, you found this was worth resorting to violence over. Boo-hoo, I was smarter than you. Boo-hoo, I was okay with the way I looked. Boo-hoo, I wasn’t your propery. Boo-hoo, I could live without you. Boo-hoo, I didn’t find you worth obeying.

You think violence and torture made you more worthy? It made you unworty of existing. You think terror of you made me respect you? I was filled with nothing but disgust and desire to end you. Because you became nothing to me, unworthy of my attention or care or love, you were not worthy even being stepped over, so you forced it out of me when it was all far from your reach, far from anything you deserved.

You went against nature and justice to tear what you wanted from me, and you will be cursed with that forever. You will never again be worthy of anyone’s love. You have proven that no power belongs to your hands, you are twisted and unnatural and reaching for what isn’t yours. Rot in contempt, you powerless, disgusting rat. Nobody wants your violence.

katsuki haters are the enemies of nuance and whimsy

ever watch a funny tv show that makes you laugh™ exactly twice and you think: i'm cured!!!

but the second you stop watching it's back to being sad

i am so unbearably sad all the time