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Ron would be an auror yes, not bc he's particularly ambitious or glory/thrill/danger-seeking or combat-talented or morally driven, but bc it's the closest thing to a Detective the wizarding world has and i think he'd be rlly good at that
comedic snippets from the freshly posted ch2 of inspiral!!
here's the summarizing line:
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snape my absolute king shines bright this chap:
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mkay dron nation, i present to you: the fic that stemmed entirely from the offhand thought "Ron would have more emotional intelligence than this" while reading a random mention of the sectumsempra scene™ and then summarily took over my entire life.
inspiral
[in which Sirius lives, Harry chills out (relatively), and Ron is forced (by absolutely no one) to pick up the Malfoy-stalking slack.
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Ron was growing weary of Harry and Malfoy circling each other like a pair of feral street cats gearing up for a fight. It reminded him of Mr. Mittens, the raggedy cat Ginny had smuggled home once, and his . . . friend. He sometimes worried that this all might end up like that, what with Harry throwing around wild accusations and Malfoy sneering cryptic shite at them in response. It was ridiculous, but Ron suspected whatever Mr. Mittens had going on back then wasn’t very rational either, and they’d still ended up with a cat, a corpse, and a bloody living room floor.
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Ron paused with his hand reaching for the bathroom door, debating turning back-- back to dinner and his friends and pretending he saw nothing out of the ordinary.
it's. long. this thing. so weekly updates, with ch1 up now💞
He drew in a breath before easing it open. The sound of sobbing -- choking, heaving, desperate -- was no longer muffled by the heavy wood. A high, whiny voice crooned empty platitudes like backing vocals for the world’s most depressing song, and it was with a creeping horror that Ron realized Myrtle wasn’t the one crying.
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onto the ch1 highlight reel!!
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finally posted it you guys!!!
powering thru a filler chapter rn, so here are some small funny bits released from fic-jail bc they made me laugh as i wrote
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current wip chapter has got me a lil mentally ill ngl
keeping sirius alive in my fic just to make him a fucking wreck in the bg core✨
keeping sirius alive in my fic just to make him a fucking wreck in the bg core✨
at the risk of sounding like i think ron's only likeable bc he's "special" in some way (untrue): this dude doesnt understand ron's sokka-from-atla and lance-from-vld coded 😨 (team's strategist and heart)
also
Why do people who dont like Ron and Ginny automatically get accused of classicism and anti poor bigotry? I am not saying there are no people who hate Weasleys for being poor, the fandom is huge and all stripes of folks can be found here even the most despicable.
Most people I know who don't like Ron and Gin Gin also have Weasleys they do like such as : Fred, George, Percy, Bill, Arthur and Molly. (Yeah I don't get Molly bashing. She gave Harry his 1st motherly hug, loves her family and defeated Bellatrix. What's not to love? )
I personally don't like Ron, not coz he's poor and red head and all that shite. But coz he's very unremarkable, insecure, not too bright and not charismatic.
He's a good egg but have a distinct sidekick energy and not main character vibe like Harry, Hermione, Tom, Severus, Albus, Sirius, James, does.
And he's not brilliant like Percy, enterprising like the twins or cool like Bill.
He's like the characters Jonah Hill played once upon a time: Good hearted but ordinary, goofy guys.
These characters are good in comic scenes or slice of life dramas but not as the Main Male character or love interest in epic, larger than life romantic fics.
He's good. But he's not love interest material for most straight/bi women and gay/bi men.
I am sure in real life many of us would be happy to date a guy like Ron. But when it comes to reading fics, he's just not that guy you feel interested in.
He's that good, stable, nice guy your parents hope you end up with and they are right too.
But not the type of guy you fantasize about or want to read as MC or love interest.
He's too much of an every man, he reminds many of us too much of ordinary blokes we know to read him as MC or love interest.
draco @ harry & mione as they're having a mild disagreement, post dron-relationship-reveal:
(ron is watching the interaction like a hawk and gives draco approving shoulder-pats for his self-restraint)
me whenever ron's unnecessarily mean to some rando (never his friends, bc he's loyal like that) for fun: she just wanna party [shrugs] aint nothin wrong with that
[discussing serious and unrelated overarching problem]
ron: of course, your stress levels arent helping out either
draco, very seriously: we should make out about it
ron, genuinely and seriously considering it for a moment: that would be a terrible idea
draco: drats.
[silence as ron tries to figure out if that was for-fun-flirting or genuine interest]
the dron interactions in my fic are boutta be wild bc they're gonna be in such a ginormous grey area where they know they're both somewhat gay + acknowledge they're acting Pretty gay rn with each other + do nothing about it
"no time to hash this out we have a mission to accomplish" type shit bc i suck :) ---
ron, annoyed, nudging a clingy draco away but not far enough to acc move him: stop it you're being so gay rn
draco, offended: i'm the one being gay?? let go of my hand!
the dron interactions in my fic are boutta be wild bc they're gonna be in such a ginormous grey area where they know they're both somewhat gay + acknowledge they're acting Pretty gay rn with each other + do nothing about it
"no time to hash this out we have a mission to accomplish" type shit bc i suck :) ---
ron, annoyed, nudging a clingy draco away but not far enough to acc move him: stop it you're being so gay rn
draco, offended: i'm the one being gay?? let go of my hand!
i learned about your dron wip 5 minutes ago and im already hyped it truely is rarepair hell out here and i cant wait to get fed
eeeeeee tysm💖💖 i'm ecstatic it isn't a barren wasteland out here lmao, i'm acc getting responses!!
an update on the fic status, it's ~15k rn and still at the baby stages, i'm gonna start posting after i finish up the current chapter tho!
i outdo myself, honestly:
powering thru a filler chapter rn, so here are some small funny bits released from fic-jail bc they made me laugh as i wrote
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social interaction is a game to ron and 9/10ths of the time he's winning, he's being a goddamn sleuth, he's having the absolute time of his life
social interaction is a game to draco and it stresses him tf out--if he makes one wrong move he keels over and dies
so, i figured, to tide over all my adoring fans [blows dramatic kiss to empty theater with 3-4 stragglers] i'd post one of my lil oneshots to ao3!!!
prototype #1993.37 "more-mini recorder thingy" v.3 exp.trial.1
this babey is a Percy Weasley-centric fic, narrated by our shayla, preteen ron, focusing on the relationship (and backstory) between percy and the twins, with a heavy heavy helping of Sibling Angst™!!
since this went over so well last time, lemme add some of this fic's comedic hits below, no spoiler edition!
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powering thru a filler chapter rn (for inspiral), so here are some small funny bits released from fic-jail bc they made me laugh as i wrote
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wanted to play the Last Line Game i've seen floating around, so had to take it into my own hands and tag myself lmao, bc i have no friends here (yet!)
currently writing chapter 4 of my 6th year Dron fic, Inspiral!!
(ask me literally anything abt it pls pls i will rant abt them forever)
i love this bit sm in deathly hallows bc they were all so sad and yk scared that seeing hermione being "back to normal" in a way made them both smile at the normality.
ps. a little before this harry points out that hermione was so focused in what was happening in the moment and debating with ron that she forgot she was mad at ron and harry also was relieved by that lmao by boi loves them both sm i wanna cry.
this book has so many tiny moments like this that i love sm.
my toxic trait is that i think anyone who hates ron weasley is just too dumb to understand him
He said fiercely, though the effort of standing upright was draining him of still more color and he swayed slightly as he spoke. HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN | 1999
everyone talks about “did you put your name in the goblet of fire” being the worst book to movie dialogue fail but lets be real the worst is where hermione answers a question in class and snape calls her an “insufferable know-it-all” and in the book ron is furious and he goes OFF and says “you asked a question and she knows the answer! why ask if you don’t want to be told?” but in the movies they just make him say “he’s got a point, you know” and i’m still mad about it
ron and hermione photographed on the steps of their first home together makes it into the Prophet
Not to be dramatic but Harry Potter would lose his fucking shit if he knew how y'all treat Ron Weasley
So I read this one quote somewhere "And now I'll have to live longer remembering you than I did knowing you" and this hurts. Because Pads was sent to Azkaban after 10 years of them knowing each other. He was there for 12 years. So during this time, Moony lived longer remembering him than he did knowing him