So you’re new to DramioneAsks?
Firstly, hi! Welcome! *waves*
Secondly, we are a group of dramione obsessed fan-ladies who use our free time to help other dramione obsessed fan-people find fics they’ve seemed to forgot, get fic recommendations, and rec their own suggestions. (This blog was not started by us, but by an amazing lady named Mandy who has generously left us in charge of things.)
As mentioned above, we take care of this blog on our free time. We all have lives and jobs and school and kids etc, so we don’t always be online all day. We cannot get to the asks within a day or sometimes within a few days. So we always ask that if you send in an ask, please wait until the end of the week to see if we have answered it before re-sending in your question. (Tumblr sometimes like to eat questions, so there will be times when we just never receive any asks from you.) We close on the weekend to give ourselves a little break, and give us a chance to answer all the asks we couldn’t get to during the week. This information can be found on our sidebar.
We close on Friday around 9-11 pm EST; and reopen on Sunday around 11 pm EST. (We do not accept any questions via fanmail on the weekend.) Come Monday morning, if you do not see your ask, that means we never received it, Tumblr ate it, and you can resend it again. We have a search bar, and we always tag tumblr users’ names on posts. So you can either scroll through the previous posts, or use the search bar to find your ask. Because sometimes we may have answered your question, but you just missed it. It happens.
So as you know Tumblr has three options for asking questions to a blog. We prefer that you always use the ask option when you need help finding fics, or want fic recommendations. Use the submission option to recommend a fic or if your fic search exceeds the ask’s word limit. And use the fanmail to send us, well, fan mail.
When sending in an ask, please only inquire about one fic or one request. If you have another fic you need help finding or another request you need fulfilled, send in another ask for that one. We have an extensive tagging system, so when an ask is answered, we tag it appropriately so that in the future anyone looking under a particular tag will see your post with a relevant fic for them to read and enjoy. We also ask that if you have a request for similar fics to another fic, you tell us what exactly you liked about the original fic and what you want to read more of. This way we will be better able to give you suggestions if we know what you are looking for, because as you know all fics have multiple tropes/themes. We don’t want to assume anything. You can also use the ask option to help us with the asks we didn’t know the answers too. The best way to do this is to send us the unique ID in the URL of the original post, along with the name of the fic. Each post, has its own unique URL. So by including that ID number in your ask, it’ll make things so much easier for us to find and update that post.
Our tags, as mentioned above, are our pride and joy! We take our time to carefully add tags to each post, and to update the various lists we’ve made. The tags can be found at the top of the page.
When you click on that, you get to our various lists. We have organized the tags to make things easier for everyone who uses it.
If you cannot find the specific tag you are looking for, we also have a Tag Cloud which collects all the tags we use on the blog. Unfortunately, the specific one we use only collects a certain amount, and only shows the most recently used tags.
For some unknown reason, our links at the top of the page do not work in the Tumblr app. So to combat that, you can load our page on your phone’s web browser or use the search feature in the app.
We ask that if you are looking for a specific type of fic to read, (a specific trope, or a certain character trait, a fic with one character being heavily featured, or a fic with a special side pairing), before you come to us, check out our tags and see if we already have that listed. If we do, click on it and you will see many recommendations for you to enjoy.
You can also use our search bar to find what you want if you don’t want to go through the tags. But the search bar gives you a broader search, so if you type in a keyword, instead of posts tagged with that word popping up, every single post with the word will pop up regardless of whether it was tagged as such.
We have two sister blogs; @dramioneficindex and @dramionediscussion. Both are run by some of the admin here. So from time to time, you will see posts here about those blogs.
We also look through the #dramione tag here on Tumblr where we reblog fic information from authors who post those types of things. Or sometimes authors come to us to tell us updates on their fics. Other than that we do not have any sort of relationship with any author, so we don’t have any insider scoop nor do have any contact with authors. We do not know what happens when an author deletes their fics, or why they leave the fandom. Your guess is as good as ours.
We also no longer share downloadable copies of deleted fics. So if you are looking for a copy of a fic, you may want to check elsewhere.
On the right top of our page you will see various tabs.
Under Fic Lists, we have a list of the most popular tropes and many fic recommendations, as chosen by our followers. Under FAQ, we have our frequently asked questions. And under the Fests tab, we have a list of all the Harry Potter fests to have ever featured dramione fics, and of course we list those fics for you to read.
Annnnnnnd that’s about it! If you want anymore information about us check out our about us page and our blog features page. There you will be able to find out about some other cool stuff we try to integrate on our blog from time to time. If you are interested in us, the admins, you can find links to our personal pages under the about us link.
We are glad that you have chosen to follow us and we hope you enjoy the ride! :D
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