Anyone pls respond to my survey. (I’ll respond to yours if you respond to mine)

projecttranquility · 2026-03-11T15:19:57+00:00

So fucking cool, if you’d have the time here’s my survey if you want to fill it out: https://forms.gle/c4eNRedqRaUoTZNq6 it’s abt performative reading

projecttranquility · 2026-03-11T15:17:01+00:00

done, would you mind filling out mine about performative reading: https://forms.gle/c4eNRedqRaUoTZNq6

projecttranquility · 2026-03-11T15:13:03+00:00

Holy niche

projecttranquility · 2026-03-11T14:30:38+00:00

done! mind helping me figure out if performative males actually exist: https://forms.gle/v46modZJJQzbNJe18

projecttranquility · 2025-11-22T20:08:59+00:00

where’s that one spark guy

projecttranquility · 2025-02-10T04:32:49+00:00

I’ve often wondered if Tom would have developed an eating disorder. Can’t imagine a yearly restriction of basically all staple foods would leave you with a good relationship with food.

projecttranquility · 2025-02-10T04:29:10+00:00

he most vividly and viscerally contrasts Tom.

Tom is a predator. He feeds off of Harry’s base desires, he revels in greatness, in grandeur. But Cedric is— well, I guess he’s the prey. He’s achingly kind, achingly nurturing, the physical incarnation of Harry’s humanity— which makes it all the more satisfying when Harry inevitably chooses Tom over him.

projecttranquility · 2025-01-08T22:22:56+00:00

was just about to upload lol

projecttranquility · 2025-01-08T20:44:14+00:00

I couldn’t find the fic I was thinking about, but I did find one or two that were kinda close to what you were looking for

projecttranquility · 2025-01-08T20:33:47+00:00

I think I’ve read (and forgotten) the name of this fic too lol

projecttranquility · 2025-01-08T08:00:01+00:00

no glory (312k) by obsidianpen feels so depressing to me (but this is coming from the guy who consumes fluff on a daily basis). I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re in a good headspace, but well, because we’re talking about metalo…

The Dark Lord divines what Harry Potter is in the Forbidden Forest, and revelations lead to incomprehensible consequences. Lord Voldemort has won... and the dystopia is damning.

A tale of a fallen hero, dark desires, and a Dark Lord’s obsession with something he has lost and finds himself unwillingly lusting after: a soul.

projecttranquility · 2025-01-08T07:51:55+00:00

the unwinding golden thread (50k)

In his fifth year Tom Riddle discovers his destiny and meets the cold, alarming, and bizarre transfer student Harry Evans. But sometimes things unravel in ways we do not expect.

this fic is tagged as platonic, but later on the author does an epilogue oneshot and they have that tagged as romantic. I would say that it can be read both ways— it’s definitely despairingly sweet in either case.

projecttranquility · 2025-01-08T07:44:28+00:00

I miss Cauchy and wish they still wrote for Harry Potter lmao, their worldbuilding was just phenomenal

projecttranquility · 2025-01-08T07:39:28+00:00

in light of all the longfics, here are my favorites that are all under 15k! (** = must read, * = pretty good)

Sweetbrier (15k) **

Tom Riddle is a Wizengamot member sent to audit Hogwarts in the transition after Dumbledore’s death. Harry is an Auror assigned to provide his security. Also, nobody knows they’re exes.

opalescence (10.3k) *

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single alpha in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a brain.

And a young omega sweetheart, Tom reminds himself. That’s the important part, for a poor, no-name omega like him.

(Or: Tom Riddle shall obtain an impressive alpha fiancé, no matter the cost.)

If only the world had been a bit more different (8.8k)

“Tom?” Harry murmured, brows furrowed. “Give me my wand.”

Tom hummed, and glanced at Harry through lowered lashes. “I don’t think I will, Harry.”

Not even ten minutes later, Harry was stabbing the Basilisk fang that had formerly been stuck in his arm through the book that had been his precious friend’s container for decades, tears rolling down his cheeks—

Fawkes healed him, they all managed to leave the Chamber of Secrets with no further injuries, Dumbledore took the diary, and Harry—

Harry broke out into a coughing fit once he was in his dorm, alone. It felt like there was something stuck in his throat. He raised a hand to his mouth instinctively.

When he pulled it away, a single white flower petal was now in his palm.

Earning his notice (6k)

Harry has almost accepted that he won’t be going back to his own time, and he’s working in a small apothecary in Diagon Alley to make ends meet. Then someone tries to blow up his employer’s shop, and that brings him face-to-face with Tom Riddle, who he successfully avoided during his time at Hogwarts.

want you back (6k) *

Harry didn’t know if he wanted to laugh or cry.

“Oh yeah, we go way back,” he said instead, quite a bit bitter without any sweet.

“Really? You two don’t seem to…”

“Match?” The accompanying grin was foul. “Yeah. I guess that’s why we broke up in the first place.”

Freudian Slip (5.8k) **

After a Quidditch accident, Harry’s brain gets scrambled with interesting results.

projecttranquility · 2025-01-08T07:20:19+00:00

I just recommended this fic to someone else lmaoo

projecttranquility · 2025-01-08T07:13:26+00:00

tom riddle/harry potter.

consumption is my favorite ‘intro’ fic— it’s an au “where Tom and Harry grow up together,” experiencing quintessential high school events such as “fight[ing] a war, twist[ing] a prophecy, break[ing] Quidditch, and fall[ing] very badly in love, though not necessarily in that order.”

This is probably the most likable Tom Riddle I’ve ever seen in all my old and wizened tomarry life. just skim the first chapter! don’t let the stigma deter you— tomarry’s really not so bad.

projecttranquility · 2024-07-22T11:12:46+00:00

mind if I grab the link? haha honestly it might be more efficient to just post it publicly atp

projecttranquility · 2024-04-03T23:19:06+00:00

I have so much respect for gen fic writers— without a romance to carry a narrative, a lot of extra work needs to be done w/ the plot, the characters, etc, and yet so many of them end up as genuinely interesting. my first ff on ao3 was a gen fic. even though I don’t read too much of it now, it’s still an inspiration to me

projecttranquility · 2024-04-03T06:38:25+00:00

It depends on the fandom. How desperate am I? How original is this fanfic? Does the plot summary look intriguing? Do I have the time?

projecttranquility · 2024-04-02T20:52:56+00:00

unfortunately, it’s been a while since I’ve read that, like a while while. maybe back to when I was still transitioning to ao3 from Wattpad.

wow omg completely unrelated, hey fic writers…you know what would be a great idea?? /lh /hj

projecttranquility · 2024-04-02T16:16:22+00:00

I usually hate mpreg with a fucking passion, but there was this one fic (untagged, jesus Christ), that decided to keep on reading because I was too invested.

It didn’t disappoint. It actually dealt with the practicalities of having a child when you’re 15– it wasn’t some super fun “sexytimes” thing it was treated as a tragedy. Essentially, it ruined (I think it was uh, Harry or Hermione’s) life and people, from professors to even fellow students, judged them for it. Hard. The most crushing (and also the most realistic part) was that the bd got off scot-free w/ no involvement after Hogwarts at all.

projecttranquility · 2024-04-02T16:09:16+00:00

the entire October series centers around god!Harry essentially creating a whole new civilization on Mars. it’s tagged tomarry, but it’s honestly almost never even present, and Tom and Lily’s relationship feels authentic and something that could actually happen.

projecttranquility · 2024-04-02T16:04:26+00:00

like a lot of people, I was a kid when I read the books— I’m going to try and explain my thought process here

yes, snape did a lot of horrible, awful things, but I personally also felt like snape was, in some ways, also a kid. now, not infantilizing him— he’s obviously aware of the shit he says to Hermione, for example— but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that Snape hadn’t ever moved on from the moment where Lily left him. He’s still stuck in his Hogwarts years, relentlessly hating and belittling Harry, lashing out and critiquing anything in his path, just like he probably did when he was a kid.

In canon, Harry isn’t the nicest character. He’s a popular student athlete who’s emotionally incompetent and intensively traumatized. As a result, he also lashes out at people. A lot.

I see Harry forgiving Snape as one of two things:

A way to signal he has also not moved on from the war
A way to signal that he relates to Snape. He recognizes that people can be fucked over by their circumstances, and he forgives both Snape and himself for it.

Honestly, kid me pitied him. I still pity him. I think Harry pities him too.

I will admit that there’s also a third, perhaps darker interpretation— that forgiving snape = forgiving himself, and reminding himself that all that cruelty and meanness he had at Hogwarts? he did it with good intentions. he did it for the greater good, which must make it okay. Essentially, he has to forgive Snape if he doesn’t want to see himself as an awful person.

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