most dramione fanfiction i read because it’s fun and it is a good story to fill the void or i’m waiting, chomping at the bit, for the happy ending.
i’ve never read to remember, because each is so unique and but so similar, it would be impossible to keep them all straight. characterizations, settings, past traumas, all vary widely from fic to fic, however, with each new one, you have to clear your head to for the author to paint you their picture. you have to forget.
(also maybe i want to forget because this is not a part of my life that i talk about with the real world, except for my husband)
but there are fics that i can’t quite forget like
1. manacled by senlinyu (because the horrors and the AU of it all truly scared me, but was so well done and highly regarded…)
2. isolation by bex-chan (a hallmark of dramione, and also highly regarded, but i remember it because it’s long enough that i go back to it time and time again, and because it scratched an itch i have for 8th year fics)
3. all you want also by senlinyu (first omegaverse fic i’ve ever read)
4. season pass to this ass (a unique take on draco’s character)
among others.
HOWEVER:
there is one that has recently taken the cake:
Remain nameless.
this one made me reconsider how i view fic: it’s a novel, a work of art, something entirely new and the characters are their own and the story could stand alone. i loved it truly. and i loved how it made me rethink fic.
the question is: will i remember it?
maybe, but i plan on doing a more diligent reread to commit it to memory.