Am I the only one whose internet addiction started with my parents not letting me fucking go anywhere
This but I also had no friends so I wouldn’t have anywhere to go if I was allowed
this is a thing! danah boydis a researcher who has been studying social media for over a decade and in her 2014 book it’s complicated she argues that teenage social media “addiction” (which she also contends is like…..not actually a thing) is a result of the fact that “today’s teenagers have less freedom to wander than any previous generation” because “parents argue that these restrictions are necessary in an increasingly dangerous society, even though the data suggest that contemporary youth face fewer dangers than they did twenty years ago.”
as a result, teenagers are reclaiming these lost social spaces (which their parents and grandparents had in the form of mall hangouts, drive-in theaters, after school parking lots, etc) by using social media, where they can continue to “engage in crucial aspects of maturation: self-presentation, managing social relationships, and developing an understanding of the world around them,” aka stuff that teens are Supposed to be doing
Here’s a few that I’ve enjoyed reading. Hope you like them, @slowburnotptrash
April Fool
by A is for Amy. Six year one-shot The other Gryffindors conspire to trick Ron
and Hermione into admitting their feelings for one another. Rated K.
Mental
by Penny in the sky. Gryffindor celebrates its Quidditch Cup victory. But while
Harry’s not there to ponder the influence of dimly lit rooms and Butterbeer,
Ron and Hermione are. And they experience this influence first-hand. Set during
‘Half Blood-Prince’. Rated T.
Kiss of the Fire
by Star.Flash.17. Romione one-shot set in the summer before book 7. Rated T.
The Last Summer
by HurricaneRosie. Hermione struggles to control her feelings for Ron in the
summer before the seventh book. Rated K+.
The For and Against List by Pinky Brown. Hermione tries to talk herself out
of liking a particular boy (no prizes for guessing which one) the way teenage
girls have been doing since time immemorial: she makes a For & Against
List. Rated T.
In this Firelight
by Oppugnorhr12. A missing moment from book 7 about how Ron and Hermione ended
up falling asleep holding hands. Rated K.
Eye Flirting
by RonaldandMione. Ginny convinces Hermione to try something to get Ron’s
attention during their stay in Grimmauld Place before fifth year. K+.
Not Just Handsome
by HPLives. Hermione gets confused over her feelings for Ron after she
overhears the other Gryffindor girls rating their male classmates by
attractiveness. Rated T.
Seven Simple Years
by HalfaSlug. A collection of Romione missing moments from all seven books.
Rated K+.
Chapstick
by TMBlue. Hermione intervenes with chapstick when she notices how chapped Ron’s
lips are. Set at the start of sixth year. Rated K+.
Kiss the Girl
by Weasleyismyking540. Romione AU confession. Rated K+.
Freckles, Cats and Candy by OrangeLovePerson. Ron and Hermione visit
Hogsmeade in third year. Rated K+.
The Love In His Eyes by LovingNerdLife. Over the years, Ron Weasley has
developed the habit of staring at Hermione Granger while she reads. While doing
so, he reflects on how it came to be, without being aware that someone has
noticed what he’s doing. Rated K+.
Late Night Snack
by AloeMilk. Whilst staying at the Burrow after the second war ended, Ron goes
to get food during the night, and finds Hermione in the kitchen. Adorableness
ensues. Rated K+.
Hope you like them!
Oh my God thank you so much for this, I’m gonna read them all!!!!
ron and astoria: so this is probably the ron/oc-who-is-a-slytherin ship. I like the idea of ron befriending a slytherin so brotp I guess. i read a rostoria one-shot once and I loved it so much. i’ve also read a drastoria fic where draco was jealous of ron and astoria’s friendship, and expressing his sadness about ron being better than him and I was,,,,,,living because draco’s tears are food for my soul!!!!! of course, i dropped that fic when astoria started telling him that he was better than ron. astoria, stop lying, sweetie.
ron and blaise: this ship doesn’t make any sense to me and i didn’t know it was a thing until recently. ron and blaise don’t interact at all in canon and it’s not a very good ship considering that blaise thinks that the weasleys are, “filthy bloodtraitors.” i’ve mostly seen it as a side-pairing in dra/rry fics and it’s sorted of added as an afterthought, like, “oh right, ron also exists. let’s just put him with blaise.” I call those fics OBSF (one big slytherdor family) because all of the slytherins and gryffindors are paired together. dra/rry, pans/mione, bl/on, etc…trash pairings stick together i suppose. p.s. not adding the ‘happy’ because there’s no way ron, harry, and hermione would be happy with their enemies.
ron and draco: i think this ship came into existence because tom felton said he had a crush on rupert grint. i could see it being one-sided. draco secretly liking ron. unrequited love. it’s still a notp though. i have never been a fan of shipping the bully with the victim and I despise the ‘enemies to lovers’ trope. draco did so many horrible things to ron and i will never bring myself to see past that. he nearly killed ron. he mocked him for his economic status. he fat-shamed his mother. he called the love of his life a slur. he bullied his best friend. unless writing mock-songs for someone is a sign of love, then this ship is trash. if you’re thinking along the lines of, “well, ron did mean things to draco,” then, double the reason not to ship it, honey. i’ve read some dron fics, but you can’t make it happen unless ron is extremely out of character. ron hates draco. he might feel sorry for him but he would never forgive him. having said that, i’ve written a meta about how similar draco and ron are. they are essentially mirror images of each other. ron is everything draco fans wish he was. ron is what draco could’ve been if he possessed even a teaspoon of ronald’s courage, his compassion and his heart. i can understand a frienemy dynamic between those two and if you want to explore that, then good for you, but anything more…and i’m out faster than you can say quidditch.
ron and ginny: fuck you cassandra claire. fuck you. and fuck your robot followers and anyone who supports this ship in any form.
ron and harry: now this is very promising!! all of the best love stories start with a strong friendship and ronarry is a strong friendship. although, to be honest, my opinion of this ship fluctuates because some days, i’m all for the brotp while some days, I just want them to end up married because they are,,,,,,soulmates. i ship it in an au setting because even though i’m very critical of romione, I can’t separate ron and hermione or harry and ginny. it physically hurts me to ship ron and harry in a world where hermione and ginny exist. i wouldn’t enjoy seeing how upset the girls would be in that context; both having to see the boys they like, end up with their brothers. my love for ronarry is born out of my love for ron weasley and confusion at not seeing enough appreciation for the beautiful friendship between harry james potter and ron weasley.
ron and hermione: i’ve shipped ron/hermione since I was ten and it will always have a special place in my heart. i do not ship a super duper insecure ron who will be a doormat with an abusive hermione who gets away with everything she does. it’s not the nerdy girl and dumb guy ship. it’s a beautiful relationship between two people who challenge each other; a ruthless girl with a heart of gold, who softens her edges, and a nurturing and funny guy who helps her loosen up. i’m a sucker for slow burn. i love it when two characters flirt with each other without realising it. i love it when two stubborn but smitten fools, go through the denial stage, to the point that you just want to trap them in a room and refuse to let them out until they confess their feelings for each other. I love the “oh wow things are actually getting somewhere oh wait where did this plot twist come from help me” stage, which is why half blood prince is my favourite book. I love it when two characters have a beautiful bickering dynamic, but they know that underneath the teasing and sarcastic remarks, they are crazy for each other. it may seem like i’m only here for ron. my love for romione is partially born out of my love for ron weasley, but it’s more than that. I love it for the message it delivers. for ron, it represents that your heart and your personality exceeds your fame and fortune. for hermione, it proves that (as crazy as it may sound), there might be someone out there who wouldn’t only love your positive attributes, but also be strangely into your huge, glaring flaws. i’ve always loved the fact that a normal teenage boy, fell in love with a plain-looking girl who constantly nagged and drove him crazy, instead of a pretty girl who worshipped him. it’s a love story with themes of forgiveness, and acceptance, and redemption, and healing, and growth. they represent hope and that first impressions aren’t always correct. there is no use pretending that romione is a perfect ship, and that’s great, because i don’t want it to be perfect.
ron and lavender: oh boy do I have opinions about this!!! firstly, jk rowling did not do a good job with this. harry got some romance. so did hermione. but ron’s relationship was not treated with respect. jkr tried so hard to make him look undesirable and portrayed his relationship with lavender as important as a wet shoelace. it seemed like she was punishing him for getting a girlfriend. too bad she failed because i’m not going to condemn ron for dating lavender. ron wanted to show that even he was desirable and here she was; fluttering her eyelashes, laughing at his jokes, with her arms opened. a girl showed interest in him and he reciprocated. if ginny is so cool and awesome for moving on by dating dean and michael, then why is ron worse than voldemort for trying to move on from hermione by dating lavender? i don’t get it. secondly, i loathe love triangles where one person is presented as the obvious bad option and the other person is the “”“"good”“”“ option and the middle person is such an ,,,,idiot,,,, for not picking the good option. people give ron and lavender more shit than they deserve. lavender was “clingy” but I guarantee you, if I were dating ron weasley, you’d have to pry him away from my cold dead hands. even I would consider a moment not kissing him, a moment wasted. even I would be suspicious if my boyfriend started spending time with a girl who unleashed a flock of birds on him. yes, lavender liked nicknames, cheesy gifts, giggling, and enjoyed being intimate with her boyfriend in public and so what? don’t hate her for being girly. you’re also a hypocrite if you shame ron for interfering in ginny’s love life when you’re doing the same thing to lavender brown. that being said, obviously this wasn’t a good relationship because one person gave more than the other. i have a headcanon where lavender was questioning her feelings for parvati and using ron as her beard. i like to think that later, ron and lavender had a conversation where they realised that they weren’t right people for each other. lavender confessed that she was using him because she was confused about parvati and ron admitted his feelings for hermione. they decided to be friends and nobody’s heart was broken. the end. (psa this blog stans the queen that is lavender brown and the underappreciated ship that is larvati. lavender bashing is why i dislike most romione fan fiction.)
ron and luna: aka the purest of them all. i lowkey ship ron with luna. she is my favourite female character and I adore her friendship with ron. they have a wicked sense of humour and ron finds her fascinating. however, i prefer them in a platonic relationship. there are many ron fans who believe that luna had a crush on ron and that’s fantastic but I don’t. it’s such a pure ship and I don’t want it to be contaminated by jealousy or crushes. but hey, if you ship it and support the ‘luna had a crush on ron’ theory, then all power to you! fun fact: back in the day, runa had a rap in the fandom because it was popular amongst harmonians and seen as “dump ship” so hermione could be free with harry. lmaoooo. i can confirm this :’) loads of harry/hermione shippers in the runa tag.
ron and mcgonagall: i don’t know what’s wrong with the harry potter fandom. no joke, this was one of the first ships i encountered when I joined the online fandom and i literally cried. I believe this ship became popular because of that dancing scene in the GoF movie. ron danced with his teacher but not with the love of his life. go fuck a cactus, steve kloves.
ron and neville: ronnev is a ship that everyone would stan. harry would be the captain of this ship. ginny would cut anyone who hurts these gryffindor softies. it would be so pure that it would remove a layer of ice surrounding hermione’s heart. luna lovegood would paint portraits of these two and everyone will be happy because that’s the power of this ship. in all seriousness, similar thoughts as runa. it’s a decent friendship in my eyes, but if you ship it then you have great taste! i also like that it’s called, “red vines.” as long as the lady characters aren’t bashed, i support your fan fiction!
ron and padma: um…..i guess this is a ron/oc-who-is-a-ravenclaw ship because we barely know anything about padma. however, this was part of cursed child and ayesha no like cursed child. i will also never forgive cc!ron for naming his child ‘panju.’ seriously, ron? was it so difficult to name your child raju? or rahul? or rancholdas shamaldas chanchat? fuck you.
ron and pansy: i don’t know why this ship exists. it absolutely disgusts me. most people only ship it so ron can get out of the way and hermione can bone her true soulmate aka snape or lucius!!!! i’ll forever be bitter that my baby is shipped with one of the worst characters in the books. ron should not be reduced to a tool to redeem pansy parkinson. ron deserves better. i don’t give a shit how misunderstood and beautiful and “redeemed” your fanon!pansy is. in the books, she is a racist, misogynist and a fucking voldemort supporter and ron would never spare her his time. i would never ship ron with a character as repellent as pansy parkinson. some people also ship them with hermione in an ot3. smh way to make a fool out of both ron and hermione. on the other hand, if we’re talking about au settings, then i have no issues, but i’ll be side-eyeing you forever because why pick pansy parkinson when luna lovegood is right there!!!!
ron and romilda: yep, this is also a thing. yes, you can cry *passes you a tissue* most people probably don’t know about this ship but i’m adding it because it was a side pairing in a fremione fic that I read a long time ago. it haunts me to this day. suuuuuure. of course ron would want to be with the girl who indirectly poisoned him. romance confirmed!!! match made in heaven!!!!
ron and snape: ….just……..why? once I found some golden snon/sneasley bullshit in the ron weasley tag and then i cried with vivi. that being said, I read their meta and I have to admit, it was intriguing, but you can explore their dynamic (ron being his potions apprentice or ron’s chess skills impressing snape or whatever) without making it romantic, you nasties. keep ron weasley out of this.
ron and susan: oh, look! a ron ship that doesn’t make me vomit. this must be the ron/oc-who-is-a-hufflepuff ship. i get a lot of sunshine and flowers vibes from this. i like susan bones; she’s an underrated minor character, henceforth, I support this ship. i have see a lot of dra/miones ship this though, so minus points for that. at least ron gets a nice person in those fics. can’t say the same for hermione!
ron and viktor: i don’t like this ship. viktor krum is a character that i don’t like for reasons I can’t explain but he creeps me out. he was just a plot device in the books and i don’t care about his friendship or romance with ron weasley. i don’t mind reblogging the fan art and it’s okay if you ship it, but it’s not my cup of tea. just don’t expect me to share vikron headcanons and we’ll get along.
@ronandhappiness I agree with you on pretty much all of these (aside from the Ron x Luna one, but only because I think Luna was crying on Ron during OOTP).
Also,
Ron and Draco: i think this ship came into existence because Tom Felton said he had a crush on Rupert Grint.
Remember that part in “Of Hearts and Heros” when Adrianna made Ron Teachers aid because he was the most approachable out of the Trio?
I just love how much faith Adrianna had in Ron.
On @pynki‘s recommendation (big thank you, by the way), I decided to check this out. It’s a lot longer than fics I normally read, but I had some free-time to spare (I know, the usually modest H&M reading a mature fic; has the world gone topsy-turvy?).
I love how Ron developed some much self-confidence from people just having faith in him! Heck, just reading about it made me feel like I could be more confident in my everyday life!
I think “Of Hearts and Heroes” gets the Ron-Hermione balance really well. It’s how I would have liked the later end of the series to be; showing that they were both teenagers making mistakes rather than proportioning all the blame onto Ron (also this version of Hermione doesn’t set a flock of birds on Ron).
Such a good story (obviously, being me, I avoided the saucy bits) and I really enjoyed reading it.
You had never read “Of Hearts and Heroes”?
Oh wow, I’m glad I made this post then. You’re more than welcome.
How much did McGonagall being impressed by Ron’s transfiguration warm your heart? God, I love that fic.
Have you read the “Hermione Granger and the OOTP” trilogy?
@headcanonsandmore – you should ask @pynki about the SPEW-RC vault. She’s a curator of some of the ancient works that have otherwise gotten lost to the annals of time.
There’s some siriusly good fic in the vault for private personal appreciation.
@pynki I only started reading fanfiction in the past year, and most of what I do read tends to be one-shots and drabbles.
I LOVED that bit! It was so wonderful to read; wished he’d gotten that level of appreciation in the books, but I’ll take what I can get. Thank you so much for the recommendation; I really enjoyed it!
You mean the trilogy by Ann Margaret? Yeah, I enjoyed it. But I didn’t like the whole ‘Hermione understands her emotions and is just waiting for Ron to catch up’ thing. I think Emmilyne makes it a lot more balanced; like the fact that both of them are being held back by insecurities (Ron thinks he isn’t worthy of Hermione, and Hermione doesn’t think she’s attractive enough for Ron), instead of just ‘Ron got’s the emotional range of a teaspoon LOL’ like so many fanfics do.
@diva-gonzo I don’t really read mature fics (even with ‘Of hearts and heroes’ I just skipped over the saucy bits), so I don’t know whether I’d be the best person to read them. But I’ll happily check them out if you think I’d enjoy the non-NSFW parts of the fanfics!
@headcanonsandmore That’s how I started reading fics, one-shots and drabbles. I too shyed away from smutty fics, it just felt weird so I would scroll past it.
Not going to lie, I’m curious to see if you’ll end up where I did, preferring novel length multi-chapter fics and yelling “IF IT’S NOT RATED M IT’S NOT FANFICTION!” I wonder if it’s a natural evolution of fic reading or if I’m just a Romione perv. (Probably a Romione Perv.)
Of Hearts and Hero’s is a masterpiece and does Ron great justice. I love that part where their jogging and Adrianna all “go easy on them” and Ron’s all “huh?” and then he realized he could run circles around them if he wanted to… I LOVE that fic. I think I’m gonna start re-read tonight.
It only falls to #2 on my all time fav list after The Hermione Granger trilogy because giving Ron special abilities is extra points in my book and Ann Margaret‘s Drunk!Ron is something to behold.
The Price of love….the whole story kinda hinges on Ron and Hermione doing the do but it is a good read despite that. There’s a bit about a door that cracks me up every time. I’m chuckling just thinking about it. I think there’s a clean version of it in the SPEW library, at least I remember getting a message asking if we had the smut-filled version, could have been for another fic but I’m 75% sure it was for the price of love I’ll double check in case you might want it.
I don’t think I’ve read those either! Added to my list!! 😍 Also is there a good tag or place to get fanfic recommendations or ask if anyone knows of a certain story we’ve read but can’t remember the name only a few details? For example, anyone know of a fic where after the war Ron is being way to gentle for Hermione’s liking since he’s so afraid to hurt her. I feel like I’ve read some but can’t find them. #Romione
@lillymay77-blog I’m sure there are loads fic rec blogs and tags out there, The ones I know of haven’t posted in ages so I won’t bother giving you those links. There’s no real organization around fic recs and asking about forgotten fics, sorry, it kinda sucks. One of the saddest things about the sites going down is the community that developed within their forums has mostly disappeared.
I’m all for expanding SPEW-RC from an archive into a fic rec/fic help blog.
This post was created out of a moment of nostalgia. Out of the blue, I started thinking about this fic decided to post about, it never crossed my mind that there were people who haven’t read it.
Watching @headcanonsandmore , you and others discovering this fic for the first time is making me so giddy you’d think I wrote it. There are so many amazing fics that have fallen from public consciousness due to age, I have no problem bringing them back from the dead.
I’m sure there are enough of us oldschool fic readers still around to share the ancient text. Right @diva-gonzo?
And yes, Of Hearts and Heroes and The HG trilogy is where I stole the idea of empathy (don’t think I don’t remember you from your reviews of Home Again 😉)
@pynki Thanks again for suggesting ‘Of Hearts and Heroes’. I’m currently re-reading it for the third time. Not sure if I’ll ever get into reading nothing but mature fics, but I appreciate the recs nonetheless.
I love that bit with the jogging too! Especially when everyone starts fancying Ron and he doesn’t even realise at first. And that bit where he checks to see if someone-else (like Harry) is standing behind him is just…. so Ron. Like, of course he doesn’t immediately realise how attractive he is. And I love it when fics show Ron getting the appreciation he never really got in the books.
@diva-gonzo I’m currently working through a lot of the SPEW-RC vault. Some of it isn’t really my thing, but I’m enjoying some of the less-predominantly-sexual fanfics on there. Especially if they are funny and show Ron getting some respect, and not just falling into the ‘Ron’s an idiot who Hermione likes because he’s cute and adorable when he gets things wrong’ attitude (which I can’t stand).
Hmm. Good point. I always thought it was known to virtually all the Weasley siblings that Ron fancied Hermione, but I suppose that might be just an expectation gained from fanfiction and fanon, as opposed to canon.
Within the books, none of Ron’s siblings really make it crystal-clear that they were aware of Ron’s feelings for Hermione. However, that might be due to the fact that Harry rarely (especially after POA) spends time hanging around with the other Weasley siblings without Hermione round at the same time. True, he does hang around Ginny a fair amount in OOTP and even more so after they start dating. But, by that point, Ron and Hermione were already becoming more obvious in their feelings. Ron’s siblings never really pass comments on the matter, because they would hardly do that in front of Hermione.
Personally, I think that none of Ron’s siblings (except possibly Bill and Charlie) thought that Ron suffered from insecurities. In-canon, Harry is virtually the only person who really knows the full extent of Ron’s insecurities, because of the horcrux locket. Hermione understands Ron’s insecurities to a certain extent, in that (in GOF) she points out that Ron feels overshadowed compared to his brothers. However, I don’t think Hermione grasped that Ron believed he was loved the least by his mother.
I’ve actually got a fanfic in the works that deals with that topic, funnily enough.
Thanks for the ask, anon! Hope that answers your question!
I think that of all the Weasley siblings, Fred, George and Ginny were the ones who had zero clue about Ron’s insecurities.
Fred wasn’t a great big bro, to be honest. He’s the one who caused Ron’s arachnophobia, killed his pet Puffskein during “Bludger practice”, apparently arranged the whole Unbreakable Vow thing and gave his little brother a candy that burned a hole directly through his tongue. All that in the span of a decade. I hate to say that, because I like the twins, they’re funny, but Fred is really a rubbish big brother and he’s super cruel. I think he just didn’t realize how horrible he could act. Definitely lacked compassion and empathy.
George I see picking up on Ron’s feelings for Hermione, but being blind to his insecurities. George is the kinder of the twins, which means he must be more empathetic than Fred, so I assume he’d notice his little brother’s feelings for Hermione before the Yule Brawl confirms them. But I think he wouldn’t know how much the “taking of the mickey” affects Ron’s self-esteem.
Ginny, I feel, wouldn’t know the least bit about Ron’s insecurities because he’d be hiding them twice as hard around her – he’d want to appear like her cool big brother who can protect her. Which is why he kind of lets her walk all over him without too much protesting, because he lets her think he’s fine and it’s all in good fun when in fact he’s NOT fine at all. Ginny would know that Ron crushes on Hermione badly, but I don’t think Hermione would have gone so far as to admit her crush on Ron to his little sister. I think Hermione told her about the whole Krum thing and said “but keep it mum around Ron or else I’ll never hear the end of it, you know how ridiculous he gets” and Ginny just assumed that Hermione mostly wanted to spare Ron’s ‘unrequited’ feelings. That, until HBP happened and everyone switched into “teenage drama” mode.
Funny thing is that I think Percy could relate the most to Ron’s insecurities because Percy too feels like the black sheep of the family sometimes (only he knows that his mother loves him at least). I’m positive that this letter he sent in OoTP was his attempt to encourage Ron to be his own person, but it came accross as a little too… eh… prattish. Maybe he noticed the uncanny resemblance between Ron and Hermione and his parents, like Harry did, and had a sneaking suspicion that Ron had at least a soft spot for Hermione.
Charlie and Bill are kind of too old and too far away to see much happening with their little bro, honestly… They probably saw Ron and Hermione dancing at Bill’s wedding and were like “oh, they grow up so fast” before all hell broke loose. Then Bill would be able to completely confirm that Ron is in deep when he arrives at Shell Cottage all battered up and bruised and crying his eyes out one morning in November…
Ginny had no right to make fun of him in front of his friends. You don’t do that. At home, my siblings can torture me as much as they like, but never in front of my friends. That’s just cruel and unacceptable. Ginny being aware or unaware of Ron’s crush on Hermione is irrelevant.
One of my favourite bits in ‘Of Hearts and Heroes’ is when Ron starts helping out as a teacher’s assistant.
Why?
(SPOILERS)
Well….
Most of the straight and bi girls end up falling for him
All the gay and bi guys guys start fancying him
And he rapidly becomes the closet key for virtually the entire male student body
But the best bit? When he starts noticing people staring at him, he actually turns around to see if Harry was standing behind him. How perfectly Ron is that?
Here’s a few that I’ve enjoyed reading. Hope you like them, @slowburnotptrash
April Fool
by A is for Amy. Six year one-shot The other Gryffindors conspire to trick Ron
and Hermione into admitting their feelings for one another. Rated K.
Mental
by Penny in the sky. Gryffindor celebrates its Quidditch Cup victory. But while
Harry’s not there to ponder the influence of dimly lit rooms and Butterbeer,
Ron and Hermione are. And they experience this influence first-hand. Set during
‘Half Blood-Prince’. Rated T.
Kiss of the Fire
by Star.Flash.17. Romione one-shot set in the summer before book 7. Rated T.
The Last Summer
by HurricaneRosie. Hermione struggles to control her feelings for Ron in the
summer before the seventh book. Rated K+.
The For and Against List by Pinky Brown. Hermione tries to talk herself out
of liking a particular boy (no prizes for guessing which one) the way teenage
girls have been doing since time immemorial: she makes a For & Against
List. Rated T.
In this Firelight
by Oppugnorhr12. A missing moment from book 7 about how Ron and Hermione ended
up falling asleep holding hands. Rated K.
Eye Flirting
by RonaldandMione. Ginny convinces Hermione to try something to get Ron’s
attention during their stay in Grimmauld Place before fifth year. K+.
Not Just Handsome
by HPLives. Hermione gets confused over her feelings for Ron after she
overhears the other Gryffindor girls rating their male classmates by
attractiveness. Rated T.
Seven Simple Years
by HalfaSlug. A collection of Romione missing moments from all seven books.
Rated K+.
Chapstick
by TMBlue. Hermione intervenes with chapstick when she notices how chapped Ron’s
lips are. Set at the start of sixth year. Rated K+.
Kiss the Girl
by Weasleyismyking540. Romione AU confession. Rated K+.
Freckles, Cats and Candy by OrangeLovePerson. Ron and Hermione visit
Hogsmeade in third year. Rated K+.
The Love In His Eyes by LovingNerdLife. Over the years, Ron Weasley has
developed the habit of staring at Hermione Granger while she reads. While doing
so, he reflects on how it came to be, without being aware that someone has
noticed what he’s doing. Rated K+.
Late Night Snack
by AloeMilk. Whilst staying at the Burrow after the second war ended, Ron goes
to get food during the night, and finds Hermione in the kitchen. Adorableness
ensues. Rated K+.
If you show up to the polls and your name is not on the rolls as you expected say:
“I demand a provisional ballot. Give me a receipt for it so this is recorded.”
It’s your right.
“I request a provisional ballot with a receipt as required by law.”
If you’re still capable of feeling nice.
Just as a note here: check as best you can on your registration before you get there. If you have reason to believe you are registered correctly, and they tell you you need to do a provisional ballot, insist on a regular ballot. Talk to someone else if you have to to verify that you should be on the rolls. Sometimes the data they have in front of them is wrong. Sometimes they are reading it wrong. Always, they are tired volunteers who’ve been there since the wee hours of the morning and will be there very late.
I do recommend trying to be polite if you can, if only because it can help the ones who are just tired understand that you actually have a problem and you’re not just misinformed like many other people are when they show up at the polls. But either way, be firm and direct. Get a regular ballot if you can; get a provisional ballot if you can’t. Don’t walk away if you believe you’re registered. There may be a Democratic poll watcher present, who is not there to interfere with the process but has some rapport with the volunteers and can help remind them of guidelines if they’re “forgetting” (or just missed by human mistake). They also may be able to record your name and contact information, in case there turns out to be a trend of voter intimidation or disenfranchisement in your county. And yeah, Democratic, because that party has a vested interest in making sure voters can vote. As a Dem poll watcher I was trained to gently, politely remind volunteers of the rules on behalf of voters, regardless of who I thought their affiliations might be, because the brutal facts of this stupid country are that one party benefits from more people voting and the other party benefits from taking away people’s ability to vote and the comically evil party is in charge.
I was told I needed to cast a provisional ballot this year (fall 2018) when I KNEW that I had been registered correctly on time in the county I was voting in. I had a billion forms of ID. I had checked on the Secretary of State’s website that morning. But the volunteer at the desk couldn’t find me in the database on her laptop and told me I would have to vote provisonally. I pushed, said I had verified my registration online, said no, I had not moved out of the county, yes, I believe I was on the SOS website when I checked, no, I could not recall a specific confirmation number but I would be happy to leave and bring back documentation. They referred me to the elections desk, where a nice woman looked up my name, pushed some buttons, and fixed everything. When I went back into the polling room they had zero problems finding me in the database. The woman from the elections desk said this was because of “time frame” between when I updated my address online (a few days before the deadline) and when I went to vote (first available day for absentee in-person voting). Friends, this is troubling, because it means that the people most impacted might be people who registered or changed addresses relatively late– i.e. new voters, which are statistically much more likely to be progressive voters and young people – and these are also the people most easily convinced they made a mistake in registering.
I only knew I could push because I had been a poll watcher in 2016. Provisional ballots are real ballots and are much, much, better than nothing. But also, if there is any fuckery going on, give the fuckers another chance to fuck with it and say that it’s invalid for some reason. If you cast an official ballot, it’s cast. So if you’re registered and you know it, push politely for a regular ballot. (If you’re registered INcorrectly (like you show up to the wrong place), cast a provisional ballot. That’s on you. Fix your registration the same day so it doesn’t happen again, and do whatever followup you need to to make sure your provisional ballot counts.)
I haven’t actually watched AVPM the whole way through just yet (haven’t found the time), but I’ll post my thoughts about it when I do.
So far, I like it, since it pokes fun at the way the fandom perceives him. Also, I like how many BROTP moments him and Harry get.
Thanks for the ask, anon!
Ron Weasley’s portrayal?
His b(romance) with Harry
Getting background music every time he came on stage.
His romance with Hermione.
His rivalry with Draco
His bromance with Snape.
Basically the entire, “Sidekick,” performance.
“That’s Lavender Brown! RACIST SISTER!”
“I see myself in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Hermione’s turning into a blueberry and I want to eat her.”
Just look at this…
Or maybe this?
Or how about this?
Just look at these cuties…
the love of my life with the love of his life…
This precious unicorn…
And this pretty much sums up Ron…
Joey Richter is an angel on planet earth and anything that he does is perfection. Therefore, his portrayal of Ron Weasley is perfection. Minus the casual sexism in Starkid, starkid!ron was perfect.
Was the casual sexism supposed to be ironic? Or was it just a product of the time it was made (the late 2000s/early 2010s)?
I guess it’s a bit of both. I haven’t seen AVPM in a while now (mostly, I just listen to the soundtrack and rewatch some of my favourite scenes) but some of it can be problematic. They whitewashed Cho Chang. Some of the Mama Umbridge jokes were vaguely transphobic, even though I noticed a little later because I was too busy admiring Joe Walker’s muscles. They had Dumbledore call an underage Harry a “sexy little bitch.” Most of these are just silly jokes that shouldn’t be taken seriously, but they do leave a sour taste in my mouth.
Some of the lyrics could be sexist. For example:
Different as can be:
Voldemort: (singing) You’re a sissy. A twat. A GIRL! I’m the darkest of lords.
Yes, it’s Voldemort singing, but still.
Get Back to Hogwarts:
Hermione: (singing) This year I plan to study a lot.
Ron: (singing and being a dick) That would be cool if you were actually hot!
Harry: (singing) Hey, Ron, come on. We’re the only friends that she’s got!
Seriously, Darren Criss? How could the same genius who wrote the masterpiece that is, “Coolest Girl” have written this line? 🤔
I guess it depends on how you want to interpret it. It’s true that Ron never insulted Hermione’s looks, but have you noticed that, in the books themselves, Ron spewed these random, OOC lines that made him appear shallow? For example, “No bloke in his right mind is going to fancy Tonks when Fleur’s around,” mocking Eloise’s Midgen’s acne, and not wanting to end up with a “pair of trolls.” That felt very OOC imho, so maybe, they were parodying JKR? Granted, every character could be shallow at times; Hermione insulted Viktor Krum’s appearance, Harry was an ultimate savage when describing people’s looks, Fred and George could be shallow as well.
Maybe I’m overestimating Starkid, but yeah. I’ve always felt like the musical was poking fun at the fandom and the films’ perception of the characters (Draco having a crush on Hermione, Lucius’s beautiful hair, Harry being full of himself, Ron eating all the time, Ginny being excessively weepy, etc etc) so maybe they were mocking the fandom who only perceive Ron as this sexist, and vulgar dude? That line still makes me cringe, though. (And so do those lines from the books.)
That being said, for me personally, the good moments of AVPM outweigh the bad moments. That doesn’t mean I’m going to turn a blind eye on those problematic moments, of course, but that won’t stop me from enjoying the musical. It’s also good to note that the Starkids are really cool and liberal and they are getting better. I’m sure I could’ve mentioned more aspects that annoyed me, but I didn’t want to spoil it for you.
I see what you mean. Yeah, that’s pretty problematic. I have noticed the casual expression in the bits of AVPM I’ve seen so far. I hope it’s ironic, but it does seem quite in-keeping with the time it was made as well.
I always thought that those weird lines of Ron’s in the books (like the ones you mentioned) were due a few reasons;
JK Rowling was very deliberately writing Ron as a teenage boy, who (in the 90s) weren’t exactly known for being progressive in their attitudes to girls.
While it does seem odd that the normally-tactful Ron would say those lines, Rowling had to create some form of reason as to why Hermione didn’t automatically suggest to Ron that they go to the ball as friends.
Rowling didn’t have any first-hand experience of being a teenage boy (for obvious reasons) and as a result, took inspiration from how teenage boys are expected to act in those situations (i.e with not much tact)
By GOF, Rowling was starting to take inspiration from Steve Kloves version of Hermione, and (as a result) got rid of most of Ron’s tact and emotional sensitivity in GOF. Meaning that Ron behaves like a douche who’s only interested in what a girl looks like. After-all, it couldn’t be Hermione’s fault that Ron didn’t pick up on her hints that she wanted to go with him.
Also, I think the Eloise Midgen thing was something of a running joke in the books. We never actually meet her; all we know of her is that she suffers with appalling acne, and isn’t considered physically attractive (at least, from the male population).
It’s weird that Ron would say those things, but those are just my thoughts on the matter.
Personally when I was younger, I too suffered from acne (it’s gotten a whole lot better) and already thought myself as ugly & that comment from Ron really hit my self confidence. Reading this felt even worse as Ron is my fav
@fullyunabashedpeach@headcanonsandmore I made a mistake. Ron didn’t make fun of her acne. He made fun of her nose (“her nose is off-center” when Eloise tried to use a curse to get rid of her pimples.) Obviously, that does not make it okay, but I don’t want to spread false information.
Ron has said in two instances that he likes pretty girls, but it just felt like Rowling was trying so hard to make him look shallow by shoving these anti-male cliches into him. She tried to make Hermione look so mature and intelligent because oh my god look at her she doesn’t care about looks at all unlike stupid, shallow ron, and conveniently forgot that even Hermione had a terrible crush on a man who was good-looking but lacked brains (Lockhart, anyone?) Of course, all of that crap happened after Uncle Steve.
HM, I’ve thought about J.K Rowling’s biased writing, and how unfair it is to Ron Weasley’s characterization. I know that Rowling is biased AF and extremely gullible. I agree with your points but they don’t make me feel better. What does make me feel better is knowing that even though Ron was shallow in his teenage years (just like everybody else), him falling in love with Hermione Granger; someone who was not the prettiest girl in the room (which is okay), and someone who rarely cared about her appearance, proves that appearance was NOT his main priority. It proves that Ron Weasley is clearly into intelligence. It proves that he is not this materialistic, shallow dude that people think he is. Therefore, I wish people would stop making him out to be one in their fan fic, simply because of some cheap, out of character one-liners.
It does seem very odd that JK Rowling forgot that. Having said that, she’s gone on record saying that she didn’t really re-read her previous works, which explains some of the inconsistencies in the narrative (like how Hermione wasn’t that good at Defence compared to Harry in OOTP, but suddenly knew loads of defence spells he didn’t in DH).
I personally think Rowling was very biased in her writing of the Romione pairing. That might partially be based on Steve Kloves’ interference, as well as Rowling basing Hermione off herself and Ron on her childhood best-friend (a bloke called Shaun Harris, apparently).
It’s my personal headcanon that Ron is actually sapio-romantic on some level, as in he finds intelligence an incredibly attractive trait in a potential romantic partner. Aside from him eyeing up Madam Rosmerta (who was fancied by most of the male student body) and getting affected by Fleur’s Veela heritage (which was neither Fleur’s fault nor Ron’s, since it was unintentional on both their parts), Ron doesn’t really have much interest in girls outside of Hermione.
Yes, like many teenage boys, Ron did eye-up attractive women, but that’s hardly the end of the world. And he grows out of it, after all.
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