Ginger Lust

Title: Turpentine and other mineral spirits
Creator: redsnake05
Rating: PG-13
Pairing/characters: Ron, background Fat Lady/Sir Cadogan
Warnings/content: Highlight to read *Undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, scenes of grieving and flashbacks, background character death, scenes of violence*
Medium/word count: 7846 fic, 13-song mix with covers
Summary: Someone has to have the task of remembering. Ron finds a way to shoulder his burdens and tell the stories that matter.
Notes: Many thanks to my beta reader for her awesome job. I am really delighted to have had the chance to write for ginger_lust again.
Prompt: 1 Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by. - A. S. Byatt

Listen and read here

Title: This Gorgeous Thing
Creator: l3petitemort
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Seamus/Ron
Warnings/content: lack of plot, language, drunkenness, seatbelt bondage, and road-head?
Word Count: 5248
Summary: This is why he agrees, then, to drive the car.
Notes: Thank you to my fantastic beta, starstruck1986, for your sharp eyes, deft hands, encouragement, and especially your brit-picking. You're marvelous. And thank you, lovely mods, for taking this thing on! So much fun! It felt great to write something porn-y and not angsty for a change!
Prompt: At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and yes. E.M. Forster

( This Gorgeous Thing )

It's hard to believe, but here we are at the last day of the month, with the last fic offering. There were a couple of people who have fascinating, intriguing stories (the privilege of being a beta reader!) but remain in that well-populated land of WIP. Hopefully the stories will be finished at a later date.

Today's vignette addresses themes of being true to oneself and courage, two themes that are at the heart of Ron Weasley. I'd like to thank you all: authors, readers, commentators, lurkers, supporters, artists… you've helped to paint with broad brushstrokes how Ron's character can be explored. Thank you so much for being a part of this journey of Rondom. It has been a privilege and honor to be the creator and primary mod for this site, but to paraphrase what Samwise says in LotR, I wouldn't have gotten very far without my co-mods, sexyscholar, stuckinsea and wolfiekins. My heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to you.
~Thevina/thrihyrne

On to the fic!

Author: satindolls
Title: A Lesson in Courage
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Ron/Harry
Summary: Ron decides he’s a coward—Harry convinces him otherwise.
Warnings: Angst
Words: 1854
Prompt: Courage is not the lack of fear— it is acting in spite of fear.
~Mark Twain
Authors Notes: Sorry to the lovely mods at ginger_lust for this being so late. Thanks to simons_flower for the beta.

( A Lesson in Courage )

With some fics and topics, it's best to let the words speak for themselves. So without further ado, here's a short but intense vignette from goneoffthelump. And it's so hard for me to believe that we're nearly at the end of the month, but what a glorious month of Ron fic this has been!

Author: goneoffthelump
Title: On This Lowly Ground
Rating: PG
Warnings: Canon!Angst. Do I warn for slight implications of Ron/Hermione?
Prompt: “At the round earth’s imagined corners...”
Word Count: 2100
Pairings: None, although you can certainly read Ron/Harry into this if you’d like to.
Betas: midnightblue88 and nathaniel_hp, who both put up with far more wibbling than any sane person should.
Summary: Perhaps today is the day when Ron’s world comes to its end.

The dialogue and events you recognise are from Chapter 36 of Deathly Hallows.

( On This Lowly Ground )

It's time again for another post! As with all Ron/Remus stories I've read, this story focuses on healing and overcoming obstacles of the past. Enjoy!

Author: nathaniel_hp
Title: Glimpses
Rating: PG, I guess
Warnings: none
Prompt: The flush of the known universe is in him. ~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Word Count: 2983
Pairings: Ron/Remus, past Remus/Sirius and Remus/Tonks
Beta(s)/Author's Notes: Dedicated to the wonderful goneoffthelump – for getting me into this trouble – and to my dear James – who was a great help in organising my ideas. Pointers in the right direction were gratefully received from goneoffthelump, Les Dowich andthrihyrne. Betaed by Zarathustra and Eleandra.
Summary: Post-War, AU. Remus falls in love with Ron.

( Glimpses )

I'll happily admit it; I enjoy reading long, plot-driven stories and if there's an adult element (or a lot of it!), then all the better. If you make that a long, plotty Ron/Draco story, I'm pretty much in heaven.

So without further ado, here's pinetranio's story. It's hosted off-site so you can read it as one story without dealing with LJ sections. Do enjoy! After mine, there's this one and a few other longer fics, so feel free to bookmark them and come back. That's the great thing about writing: it never goes bad. :)

Author: pinetranio
Title: In My Purpose Bred
Rating: R
Warnings: Depictions of violence and sex, strong language, AU
Prompt: Challenge #8, "You are so strongly in my purpose bred,
That all the world besides methinks are dead."
Word Count: 48,350
Pairings: Ron/Draco, minor Harry/Ginny
Betas: The wonderful Libellule, who has the patience of an angel
Summary: While trying to fulfill his dream of becoming a hero, Ron Weasley makes a secret deal with Draco Malfoy. One wrong decision, however, alters his future. Three years later, embroiled in a murder mystery, Auror Weasley finds a chance to make amends. But, will his efforts be too little, too late?

( In My Purpose Bred )

Borrowing from another fandom and story, in true hobbitish fashion, I'm giving out gifts. My primary gift today is fic, my own submission. I hope you all enjoy. To our authors, thank you so much for participating in this inaugural, prompt-driven, Ron-centric fest which has truly become a sumptuous feast. I've been so fortunate to read these in advance and to beta a lot of them, getting to know new authors along the way. To our watchers and readers, I do very much hope that you're enjoying the wide variety of stories and character interpretations of Ronald Bilius Weasley.

Author: Thevina (thrihyrne)
Title: Cloudscape of Ravens
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: not-exactly-drug overdose
Prompt:

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
~Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Word Count: 18,030
Pairings: Ron/OMC, Ron/Severus, Ron/OMC/Harry
Beta(s): mrsquizzical, rickey_a, readerly guidance from stuckinsea
Summary: Jaded and cynical, Ron spends his days in Edinburgh after an unpleasant breakup. When his Muggle paramour exposes him to an addictive drink — potion — Ron's life takes a truly unfathomable turn, putting him in the care of someone he believes to be dead. Or has Ron passed on, and this is his Purgatory?

( Cloudscape of Ravens )