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Riverwriter

@riverwriter78.bsky.social
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I write Dramione and Harmony fanfic. I like to talk about my cats. I’m known as RiverWriter on Ao3 and Fanfiction.net, as well as on Tumblr. I’m Riverwriter78 here, on Instagram, and on Pinterest.

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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Let me be a little petty for a second- I need it. It’s just impolite to sweep detritus off of your balcony when you have downstairs neighbors, right? Because then it becomes their problem. Get a garbage bag. Yeah, it’s already been a long week. #neighbors #courtesy
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Lester @lesterlee.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I'm convinced that a sign of getting old is how I keep buying new and fancy potato chip flavours, getting 1/3rd of the way through the bag and realizing I actually just want sour cream and onion.
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I haven’t had this much trouble with my Raynaud’s Syndrome since I was a teenager. I live in a typically warm area and it’s been very cold. Any tips to keep my fingers and toes warm but still be able to use them? I’m just throwing this out there, thanks. #raynauld’s #cold
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I found a brand of sheets that instructs you on the tags how to position the fitted sheet. I’m never going back.
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Hahaha I just got blocked for the most ironic reason. #fanfic #writing
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
My annual viewing of ‘The Sound of Music’ is hitting more poignantly than usual. And my usual ends in tears so…
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This entire weekend
in the pit
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Y’all are seriously demanding spoiler alerts for something that’s more than twenty years old? #wicked
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Nebullama @nebullama.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Write like no one will read it. Edit like everyone will quote it. You'll be unstoppable! 🚀 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #BookSky #WriteSky
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Don’t make your cats angry. That’s all.
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
What is this thing about trying to convince childfree people to have kids? Like the last thing I would say to somebody who says “I don’t want a dog,” is: “go adopt a dog.” You live your life, I’ll live mine. (I’m actually asking, why are people so invested in the reproductive choices of others?)
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
As a cat owner, nothing, NOTHING, will ever deserve the term “preen” more than one of my cats stretching and purring and- possibly- prancing around while being pet. So if I use this to describe a character’s reaction to something, I mean it, because that shit is precious. #writing #cats
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
An entire Care of Magical Creatures course existed at Hogwarts and nobody thought to mention: “hey, some of you might see skeletal horses pulling your carriages. But you aren’t insane.” No mental heath issues were ever created in that castle. Nope. #hp #fanfic #plotholes
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Okay, when did asking writers to commission art for their fics become a thing? Is it a new thing, or just a new to me thing? Y’all, I’m not paying for something I didn’t ask for in the first place. I’m actually ok with a simple query, but let it go when you’re told “no.” #fanfiction #writing
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Why am I so consistently good at killing plants? My husband has started steering me away from the garden sections in stores. Can I get a new talent?
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Teddy Lupin’s first full name is Edward, not Theodore. Ted and Teddy are both nicknames for Edward. Sincerely, a woman who had a grandfather named Edward, and who chose to do a basic Google search. #hp #fanfic
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It’s too early for this nonsense, but please stop trying to sell things that don’t belong to you. In this case I’m talking fandom things that should be free anyway. I’m so sick of reporting to various sites to protect myself. This is why a lot of us have just walked away. #fanfic #hp #fandom
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
My husband: why won’t the cats let me sleep? Also my husband: (aggressively moving his hand under the duvet until they pounce) Yep, no idea. No idea at all.
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Have we lost our ability to distinguish fiction from reality? Because so much of our lives are virtual? IDK, but I’ve been getting a lot of reviews lately mad at the characters in my fics, but also saying that they’re not mad at me. Y’all, I wrote them that way, do you really not get that?
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K✨ @emberandrain.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
#Hansy It was common knowledge by now that Harry Potter did /not/ like his photo taken. He avoided the press like the plague, had even stopped going out without a disguise altogether, ...but Pansy had not expected his loathing of photographs to extend into his privet life. "Come on, Potter! -
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Nobody has ever experienced betrayal the way my cat feels it when I sneak up on her to apply her flea medication. I’ll just be over here begging for forgiveness.
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Abby @abbykadabbra.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
*checks notes* Fandom is for everyone ✅ Don’t like it, don’t read it ✅ Ship and let ship ✅ But also anyone who doesn’t like your favorite fictional character is a clown? Do I have that right? It’s okay to personally insult people for not sharing your love of a fictitious person? 🤔 🤔 🤔
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Absolutely this, there’s so much out there you will enjoy and it’s a better use of your time to move on. Also, if it’s making you mad or uncomfortable enough that you’re tempted to be rude to the writer, it’s time to walk away. #fanfic
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
“Ugh Draco, why are you like this?” “Like what?” “So smug!” “Do you really want me to change, Granger?” He crowded her against her kitchen worktop, “or do you really want to stop pretending you don’t prefer me to be the man you fell in love with?” #dramione #hp #drabble
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Emma R. Alban @eraofemma.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Some writers want to win awards. I would like to create and sell a TV show that inspires people to make 7+ minute compilation videos of two characters saying each other's names, or every single time those same two characters make eye contact. Or both. The highest honor.
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I was going to finish this 3 years ago. I have no explanation.
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
“I don’t think I want to have kids!” Hermione blurted. “Ok,” Draco answered. “Ok? That’s it?” “Yes.” “But isn’t producing an heir supposed to be your sacred duty or something?” He cocked his head. “That applies to a lot of things I no longer believe in.” #fanfic #dramione #drabble
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom. press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst... #BookstoreDay
This essay traces the long and turbulent history of American booksellers who have faced censorship, harassment, and even violence for defending the freedom to read. Through vivid anecdotes and historical cases-from undercover stings in the early 1900s and legal battles over “obscene” literature, to FBI surveillance of Black bookstores and bomb threats against feminist and LGBTQ+ shops-the author illustrates how bookstores have repeatedly become battlegrounds in the fight for civil liberties and free expression. Despite intimidation from both government and private groups, booksellers have pushed back, shaping legal precedents and rallying communities to defend First Amendment rights. The essay ultimately calls on readers to recognize bookstores as “arsenals of democracy” and to support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.
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Maya May @mayaonstage.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Very little surprises me, but I *am* surprised, shocked, bewildered, flabberfuckinggasted that our elected officials aren’t holding emergency press conferences right now. If we continue like this, we don’t continue…they get that right? RIGHT????!!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025
yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Just a picture of my cat high as a kite because we brought our catnip plant inside to protect it from a late frost. You’re welcome.
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
They’re scared of him. How did we get to a place where we’re scared of the orange cuckoo bananas guy?
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emnreviews @emnreviews.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
For those who need #AltText, quoting original bsky post:
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Okay fellow fic writers, how do you feel about criticism? I’m okay with it but I’m also of the mind that the critic then opens themselves up to a discourse? I’ve been doing this for awhile and people are very divided on the issue. So, thoughts? #fanfic #hp
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Me: time to get up to some “good trouble” and save democracy Me: *likes a few posts, makes tomato soup*
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Okay I’m just going to put this here because I’ve gotten some interesting conversations about it elsewhere.
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Is aggressively “making biscuits” a thing or am I just exceptionally talented at pissing my cat off? #cats
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I’m late for WIPWednesday but just wanted to let you know that Calla is not forgotten!
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Sorry y’all, I’ll stop posting about politics when my brain stops imploding … so unfortunately probably not anytime soon.
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Which means the Democrats will just find a new, spectacular way to fail at it.
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“I need to walk away before I say something I regret.” “Hermione-“ “No, Draco, you promised me you wouldn’t let your father interfere in our relationship.” “I’ve been working.” “At his demand. We can talk tomorrow, I can’t right now.” She refused to look back. #dramione #ficsnippet #hp
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is probably too much to ask because we can’t have nice things. But please learn the difference between capital and Capitol. We’re still allowed dictionaries, right?
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
New chapter on FFN and Ao3.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
My husband has a sticker phobia. I bought some pimple patches without thinking. But they work so well…
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It’s totally normal to cry over my old Constitutional Law text, right?
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
>named Achilles >dies because an arrow pierced his achilles heel What kind of hack is writing this shit
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
WIP Wednesday #ficsnippet #dramione #hp
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Riverwriter @riverwriter78.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Draco grabbed her, spun her around and pressed her against the door. “When you live with psychopaths, you learn to sneak around. The rest of our training class has a bet going on about how fast they can get us thrown out, bonus for if they goad us into doing it to the other.” #dramione
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