DRAMIONE FIC RECS + WHY YOU SHOULD READ THEM โ 100k+ words edition
hogwarts: a home by coralcollective โ reimagined horcrux hunt. draco is so down bad for hermione and the smut is crazyyy. theo/hermione friendship. pansy is the breakout character and you'll love her. there's nsfw art and inappropriate use of the malfoy signet ring. please check the tags! (it says incomplete on ao3, but it's only missing epilogues so don't be afraid of starting it)
word count: 372,978
chapters: 67/70
the commoner's guide to bedding a royal by olivieblake โ god, this fic!!!! it's a modern royal au and the ensemble of characters make this whole world feel so alive. it's inspired by will/kate and harry/meghan and it's sooo cute. theo and daphne were the breakout characters and i love them dearly. if you're looking for a lighthearted romcom-esque, occasionally angsty (because duh!) fic, this is it!!! i probably read this in two days which is insane considering the word count, but that should just tell you how lovely this whole fic was. there's a second part to this if you're itching for more afterwards (and it's just as good!)
word count: 503,570
chapters: 45/45
draco malfoy and the mortifying ordeal of being in love by isthisselfcare โ honestly if you haven't read this yet..... this is god tier. a CLASSIC. this should be taught in the schools. hermione's a magical researcher / healer and draco's one of the best aurors out there. he's assigned to protect hermione because she's in the midst of a big discovery. hermione's not happy about it and draco isn't either. slow burn!! idiots in LOVE!! forced proximity!!!!! EMBEDDED ART!!! honestly this is the fic that made me want to learn how to bind which is so serious and if you haven't read this yet you need to.
word count: 199,548
chapters: 36/36
the disappearances of draco malfoy by speechwriter โ this is my new canon. it's a deathly hallows rewrite where draco accepts dumbledore's offer to fake his death and go into hiding with the order. enemies to friends to lovers. i honestly can't even remember what happened in canon because this is IT for me.
word count: 289,780
chapters: 33/33
this world or any other series by olivieblake โ includes clean (book one) and marked (book two). anything by olivieblake should be a must-read, i swear to god. this one starts as a year 6 slow burn. draco and hermione are assigned partners for potions and it all snowballs from there. olivie writes so beautifully and her characterizations for hermione / draco are so good. slight warning for marked: this destroyed me and i pretend it doesn't exist, but it's still a must-read.
word count: 118,892 & 178,268
chapters: 31/31 & 39/39
rights and wrongs series by lovesbitca8 โ you want fluffy dramione? read the first two parts of the rights and wrongs series. you want dark and heavy dramione? read the auction, an alternate universe of the fluffy dramione, where voldemort wins and they all get auctioned off to death eaters. please check the tags for the voldy wins au! all three were chef's kiss and coming from someone who isn't a fan of dark aus, reading the first two helped me get through the auction because you know where draco's coming from / what's in his head. you can just read the auction without reading the first two parts unless you like catching parallels and having more depth / context (which i very much love).
Thereโs this thing that happens where I keep a bottle of whiskey in the house that I donโt use very often because I just donโt drink very often.
And then someone looks in the liquor cabinet one day and says โwhy do we have whiskey? Who drinks whiskey?โ and then I say โitโs mine. Itโs so I can make whiskey sours.โ
And then because my close friends and family only drink wine and beer and donโt know what a cocktail is they then ask โWhatโs a whiskey sour?โ and I say โItโs simple syrup, whiskey, and lemon juice on iceโ
Then they say โWhat does that taste like?โ and I say โKind of like gross lemonade but in a good way. I could make you one if you like.โ and then they say โNo thanks I donโt really do cocktailsโ
And then two months later the exact same thing happens again with the exact same person because they have forgotten every part of that exchange.
But see, this somehow happens with both every member of my household and every person who visits us regularly and sometimes even with one time guests.
So I have this exact exchange like once or twice a week realistically and tbh I think itโs starting to drive me insane how literally nobody in my life can hold the knowledge of what a whiskey sour is in their brain for longer than three seconds.
It's so funny to me that Mary Shelley, her husband, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story and she wrote fucking Frankenstein. Imagine losing a competition that badly. Imagine just doing a silly little competition with your friend and she basically invents a new genre and creates one of the most famous characters in fiction. Imagine being proud of your little story and then she shares one that people will still read every day in 200 years. Imagine doing a writing competition with your wife and she becomes so recognizable that you'll always be known as Mary Shelley's husband
this is Ampersand Island. every time I come across a beautiful, interesting, or unusual ampersand in my archival travels I take a screenshot and place it neatly in this little pile on my desktop
'Then I must leave my own people, man of Gondor?' she said. 'And would you have your proud folk say of you: "There goes a lord who tamed a wild shieldmaiden of the North! Was there no woman of the race of Numenor to choose?"
'I would,' said Faramir. And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
รowyn & Faramir
THE LORD OF THE RINGS โ2001โ2003
My husbandโs job primarily employs adult men but there is one (1) teenage girl and my husband said originally he worried she might be a bit of an outcast but instead every man on the crew was like โhuh guess I am a dad/older brother now.โ
She was in a car crash on the way to work one morning and called my husband to let him know sheโd be late and he was like wtf guess Iโm gonna be late too because Iโm coming to pick you up and then he told his team and they were like I think you mean WE are coming.
Imagine you are a teenage girl probably rushing to get to work and you crash your probably new car and feel absolutely miserable and now youโll be late to work but then suddenly in the distance a car full of all the adult men you work with just pulls up and is likeย โwe came all the way here to pick you upโ the mental image right now is fr.
Apparently she tried to call her dad but it was 3am and he was obviously sleeping so she called my husband and he not only came to find her but fished her glasses out of the hood of the car (sheโd dropped them while looking inside), drove her to the hospital, and told her to take the day off. She insisted on coming back to work so he used his lunch break to watch TV with her to make sure she didnโt doze off (concussion risk).
Youโve heard of the Mom friend but my husband is very much the Dad friend. He said when he answered the phone she said โhey please donโt be madโ and heโs never felt such powerful Fatherhood energy in his life.
Synopsis: You were born with a silver, no, gold spoon in your mouth. The typical American girl, a city girl from the D.C. area, until your father received a tip-off on suspicious activity in the quiet town of Hawkins, Indiana. Despite the move, youโre still arguably the most popular girl, captain of the volleyball team, excellent grades, dozens of friends, everything. You were also a babysitter of a young Will Byers and his friends until a simple ride back home to the Byers residence ends up going upside down, literally. HEAVILY FOLLOWS MAIN STORY PLOT/SCRIPT!
Pairings: Steve Harrington x popular!reader (main, enemies to lovers) + others ish (Nancy [frenemies], some Jonathan, some Eddie in s4 and Billy in s2)
Notes: I'M NOT GONNA LIE READER IS SO MESSY LOL. reader is lowkey a spoiled brat like to a tee as well as snarky. Every chapter is one episode of the series. this is kinda like a revamped Pride and Prejudice if you will
summary :: You never asked to be part of this world; monsters and babysitters with big hair and even bigger egos. But the more times you dance with death = the more you open up. Enemies to reluctant allies. Reluctant allies to something youโre definitely not ready to name, but it might just be the best thing that ever happened to you.
note :: season two steve is lit my favourite, thereโs SO much more tension between you and steve this season itโs INSANE. Also Billy hargrove WANTS you in this season..but not enough for it to clash with your long going thing with steve donโt worry. ENJOY AND THANKS FOR READING!
A Steve Harrington x Henderson reader Stranger Things rewrite.
This is a real slow burn fic written primarily from the reader's perspective, but I do like to change it up sometimes. I use gender neutral language for the reader most of the time and don't plan on writing any smut.
Title based on Rock and Roll Suicide by David Bowie
Warnings: canon universe level violence/gore, use of Y/N
All chapters are also on AO3 here and tagged on this blog as #wait on your song.
eventual james potter x fem!reader; inevitable angst and annoyance as james slowly matures over his time at hogwarts. slowburn. total word count: 56.3K
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