r/TomRiddle

Art credit: Mellodee

In Honor of Tom Riddle | Lord Voldemort's 100th Birthday, You are cordially invited to The Dark Lord's Centennial.

You may pay homage to your Liege Dark Lord in the form of stories and artwork that befit the grandeur of his Supreme Majesty of the Dark Arts.

If your mental prowess is not as acute as our Venerable Dark Lord's, and you require assistance in the form of prompts for stories that would please our Lord and Master, such guidance shall be provided for you.

However, you are also welcome to come up with your own ideas, if you feel that you are up to the task.

Are there any requirements to the pairings: None! This is not a Tomione, Tomarry, Ronmort, Bellamort, Tyrtle, or Tombraxas etc. centric fest. This is a Tom Riddle | Voldemort centric fest. Any pairing is welcome. ANY. PAIRING.

Do you require there to be a ship at all? No actually! Not every story is a romance. There are plenty of wonderfully amazing stories that can be written about Tom Riddle | Voldemort that have no pairing as the focus of the story.

Are side pairings allowed? Absolutely yes! In stories that do not have Tom Riddle | Voldemort with a pairing, there are side pairings allowed. Anything goes, as long as the Birthday Boy is the main focus.

Can more than one person claim a prompt? Yes! There is no limit to how many people can claim a prompt. With the ships being open, we will have a variety of different story possibilities even with the same prompt, so there is no limit to how many people can claim it.

Can I claim more than one prompt? Yes, but make sure that you don't overextend yourself. If you are planning on making several drabbles, then you can claim as many as you like. If you're planning on writing an epic length story, maybe you should limit it to just one. If you are a prolific artist, you can claim as many as you wish.

- NO AI IS ALLOWED IN THIS FEST. This fest is to celebrate HUMAN creativity. If you are not able to create any writing or art without the use of AI, then you will not be able to share it to the collection. We would prefer stick figure drawings, and rudimentary writing to AI slop. As long as it has been written or drawn by you, we will accept your efforts. Lord Voldemort is not impressed by trying to impress the masses with soulless computer generated "art" and neither are we.

- All stories and/or art must feature Tom Riddle| Voldemort as the main character. This is a fest that is celebrating him, so let's make sure he knows that he's the star of the show.

- There are no rules for the pairings. As long as Tom Riddle or Voldemort is the main attraction, there can be any pairing for him, or even no pairing at all!

- minimum of 750 words, and there is no upper limit.

- Completed works are preferred, but WIPs can be entered as long as you feel reasonably confident that you are able to complete your story.

- No extreme underage depictions of an explicit nature. The minimum age we will allow any on-page E rated content is age 16, as this is the age of consent in most countries. If you feel like your story needs to have things happen to younger characters, they cannot be written out explicitly. Bad things happen to young people, we don't need to graphically depict that here.

- Dead Dove fics, and darker themed stories are absolutely allowed. Just be sure to tag appropriately.

- Prompts are allowed to use gifs and fan art images. However if you use fan art, you must give credit to the artist in your prompt. Ideally, you should also ask the artist for permission to use their art in your prompt, if possible. If you do not at the least give credit to the artist in your prompt, your prompt WILL be deleted.

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UPDATE: found! yes, it was the anti-heroine! Idk why i couldn’t find it when i searched but you all came through majorly, thank you to everyone who commented!

Please help! It was one of my faves and I’ve read it several times, but for the life of me I can’t find it, and now I can’t even remember what it was called or who it was by. I know I’ve reread it as recently as maybe a year or two ago, so if it was deleted or taken down it must have been relatively recently

last i recall it was a rather long wip, possibly upwards of 500k, started harry/hermione and transitioned to hermione/tom then harry/tom and finally to harry/hermione/tom. i would be shocked if it didn’t have a dead dove tag, it was pretty dark, but very well written

- it started out with hermione being orphaned and homeless after escaping a religious orphanage that abused her terribly
- she meets snape in Diagon alley for her muggleborn orientation and manages to make a good impression and fool him into thinking she just has neglectful parents
- she can tell immediately on the train that Harry is also a child that’s been abused and they bond and are sorted into Slytherin together
- together they make a lot of increasingly dark choices to keep each other safe
- she tricks Voldemort into swearing a vow to never harming Harry in exchange for collecting the philosopher’s stone for him, and he leaves the school and respects himself
- they scare the hell out of the adults by basically kidnapping Harry over the summer and running away to stay on the streets rather than with his relatives
- she ends up getting Tom’s diary when second year starts and they form a tenuous alliance, and for the rest of the fic her and Harry are in a rough triad with teenage tom
- Dumbledore’s increasing attempts at interfering with her friendship with Harry and her life outside the school force her to call on her debt with older Tom, who post resurrection has established himself as a rising politician and pretends to be her uncle and adopts her
- young diary time gets more and more possessive of both her and hermione and finds his older self’s other horcruxes and makes them wear them

- i could be conflating it with another fic in my memory but i *think* there’s a bit where they’ve sort of been grooming Neville towards getting darker and he straight up accidentally murders Ron after the Yule ball, and Harry helps him cover it up but dumbledore is convinced hermione did it and it completely coincidentally happens to be literally the one time she’s actually innocent

If you recall anything about this fic, if you’ve also read it or even just can confirm having seen it in passing, I’d appreciate any information you can remember! If you managed to snag a download I’ll love you forever if you share it. Thanks and wish me luck finding it!

The Dark Lord's Centennial

LF dark HP/HG/TR fic that may have been deleted