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Oh my gosh, I was so shocked to see Dawn + Decay on here (especially beside all of these MASTERPIECES). I love your videos and am so touched that you enjoyed it. Thank you <3

I wrote a long emotional review of this fic on here yesterday, but I guess it wasn't youtube-appropriate enough, because it's gone 😢

I’ve been a fan of yours for a while and I really appreciate your recommendations. I will say out of these Nectere is by far my favorite. I’ve been going through sad times and so I’ve been yearning for the darkest angstiest dramione. If you’re a fan of senlinyu, you should read the “A Slow Cruel Descent” series. You would probably love “Inescapable” by DMHP2014 if you haven’t already read it, 6th year start and secret relationship throughout the war. I’m definitely shocked by how much dramione you read because it seems like you can go through so many of them a day. I am a fan of all Harry Potter fanfiction and I can definitely assure you that there are so many harry potter gems in the fandom. I started reading dramione after realizing it was such a popular pairing, I never liked Manacled, but I loved Isolation until about halfway through. My favorite dramione is the Timeless series, and time travel is probably my favorite trope, mainly cause I do find it difficult to believe Draco could fall for Hermione without alterations to the timeline, and I think Dramione explores how altering the timeline can possibly cause two mortal enemies to fall in love. To be honest I wouldnt be surprised if you read every single fic I just mentioned.

YOURE TELLING ME I MISSED DRAMIONE MONTH!?!?!?!?

So your description of Nectere has me RAVENOUS to read this story. I similarly love 6th year fics so I'm on my way to read it now....ty byeeeeee! 🥰

One of my favorite things about the fanfiction world is accessibility of the superstars and potential for participation. It’s kind of like a fantasy trip to a taffy-making shop (you’ve seen the videos of how they make it, right?) where you not only get to taste the different flavors and read the pamphlet about the origin story of the shop, etc., but you actually get to chat with the proprietor and put on a hairnet and immerse for a day visit to the floor of the shop and get your hands in the process. For me, it’s so thrilling to get to make comments on a WIP and then see some of your ideas folded into the batter in future chapters-like whaaaaaat? That’s such a cool experience! And even just to get feedback from authors to your comments. Actually, it’s even cool to read the author’s published comments (author’s notes) in each chapter to get a little peek into their RL, their inspirations and obstacles, their false starts and struggles, their appreciations/acknowledgements to authors/works they admire and to contributors who have come alongside them to polish and encourage their work. I just find that really cool, those aspects of being invited and welcomed down onto the factory floor to see, touch, experience, interact with the making/process. All that to say: being mentioned in this video was like that for me, like a treasured comment from a favorite author or creator-thank you. As to the darkwood wand, I’ll put my two cents in to a tribute of this work. Funny, you mentioned appreciation for the ensemble of characters but thankfulness that the spotlight didn’t detract from our lovebirds. For me, it was a little bit different. It was almost like ho-hum, yeah, yeah, D&H fall in love 8th year, which is nice/appreciated (yawn), but . . . the stage! The set! The lighting! Music! Costumes! All the accoutrements swirling in, around, and through the story was really what I fell in love with. Here’s a sample of some of what grabbed my heart in this fic: -harlequin wand-a wand as a character in and of itself, the cheeky trickster, absolutely loved it. And that the wand came from D’s ancestry/heritage gave a sense that D’s recent generation or two of darkness, doom, gloom, ingrained hatred and prejudice was just that, the most recent of a couple misguided generations layered over what could promise/glimmer to be a more interesting, varied, colorful, vibrant, genuine, loveliness in some of the past generations. It gives Malfoy a possibility of uncovering, redeeming, and restoring some of those recently-lost characteristics from his family’s past. -rogue sentient muffins-truly the star of the show in my opinion. Although I can’t shake it out of my mind that I thought they had come from Innocent Monsters (itscometothis). I’m gonna have to re-read IM before I believe that the rogue muffins weren’t in that story, too. Although, actually, the two stories remind me of each other quite a bit in general. -rogue unchecked ravenclaws with clipboards-this aspect of the story just had me all in, just too fascinating and funny. One of my favorite characters is Luna, and this story was kind of a tribute to L in showing the whole house of ravenclaw quite a bit like her (rather that seeming that L is an anomaly/bizzare outsider within ravenclaw). I just loved the celebration of curiosity, inquisitiveness, open-mindedness/suspension of judgement, pursuit of knowledge and learning not for grades or accolades but just for sheer simple satisfaction. -crookshanks-a lot of stories use the trope of crookshanks marking hermione’s love interest as his own territory before H has even admitted her interest, so it’s not unique to this story, but I like it -ginny-THE BEST EVER version of ginny-she is just an outlandish commitment by the author to the theme and vision of the story and I am absolutely on board with the way she is portrayed. -Harry & past-I am 100% behind the backstory of Harry and Hermione’s past/backstory. I love that there is something sacred/precious about their romantic interlude that nobody can or will be permitted to tarnish or infringe on. They are frank and unapologetic about the significance of this interlude in contributing to their foundations of who they have each become and they are caring with each other in preserving the sanctity of what they offered to each other in those fleeting moments. I love that, and it’s so unique, especially in a story where that is well in the past (as opposed to a harmony story). Unrelated: -I join you in a heart-pat tribute to Maggie Smith -I appreciate how you understand and frame your view of fanfiction through the lens of the authors. You seem to deeply know and respect the intricacies of various authors in a way that I lack and want to emulate.

I can always count on you for phenomenal recs! ❤

Lately I am so delighted when i see your new video shown on my homepage. :) After watching this rec video, I read Dawn + Decay, which I really enjoyed, but I cant believe how much I got attached to the Manor in this fanfic! D: I was heartbroken because of her!

Dawn + Decay sounds 💓👀

These recommendations are top tier 👌 Finally, reading The Darkwood Wand and it’s so great! Immediately, adding the 4 I haven't read yet to the top of my list. <3

tbh mood 🤣

Love you recommendations ! just read Best Shot and it was amazing! can you please recommend smut free/clean fics? and if you are a part of any other fandoms please start sharing your favorite fics

I'm so thankful for your recommendations, girl 🥰 Ever since you uploaded this video, 11 days ago, I've been reading Detraquee non stop. I'm absolutely loving it and I'm currently on the last few chapters (105/108). I'm already getting sad, that sadness we feel when we're about to end something we're completely immersed in. I couldn't be more thankful for the recommendation, you're the best ❤ Next one on the list is also a recommendation of yours, "I will make you proud". Keep your vids coming, I love them; I read so many awesome fics thanks to you. I usually don't comment much on RUclips, but I think I should give credit where credit is due.

Hi, thank you for your recommendations 😊. Couldn’t find Ardent Bonds on AO3 however

Starting to read this one. You’re destroying me. Waiting for a happy part.

Always can add more recs to TBR. Reading I will make you proud and loving it!

Here I am, late to the party again, haha! But I recently read Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy based on your recommendation and I loved it. Thanks again, as always, for the recs and hope you are doing well!

I’ve been reading Détraquee for the past couple months (taking it slow). It’s so good; it’s like curling up next to a fire with a soft blanket and steaming tea. I agree with all your thoughts on it.

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Of course we would want to celebrate H’s bday together! I think that in cannon and often in fannon, too, H’s bday gets shuffled to the side. We must remedy!! Equal bdays for all! Thanks for providing the space for that, & as always, you’ve added a couple treasures to my list (or I marked w/🍭 to re-read)! Um, okay, so you are always always so gracious. Have you had the chance to take a look at: -the best of me by mrsren -timeless by alexandra_emerson -aurelian by bittyblueeyes Unrelated, there was something you used to do in earlier videos that I haven’t seen in a while & would love to see make an encore appearance: I really enjoyed when you clipped or read out a favorite line or paragraph from some of the pieces!

I always love your recommendations 💚💚 Happy birthday to our girl

I didn’t find out it was Dramione month either until I was on AO3 this month! You aren’t alone!

I just love you and your recommendations ❤

Finished this in two days because of you, now I can’t stop thinking about it 🥺

I love the bear in the back! You always have the best backgrounds ❤

BR aqui, e mais fic dramione para ler

the pansy and Neville relationship in bloody slutty and pathetic was so good I was obsessed with them. and I loved Lucius seeing Hermione for what she could be

i’m so happy to see this ship acknowledged oh my GOD

I also just read this story and was immediately in a book slump. It was so great. The abuse was very hard to read about, but their love transcending every possible timeline was so beautiful.

Love your channel! I have decision paralysis when it comes to choosing fics, and end up reading nothing 😂 But I started Tremble and Depart and Trust & Lies after watching you! Also I love the vibes you have in your videos. Bedroom, natural light, soft colours - perfect for the Dramione mood!😂❤

Added all to my TBR ❤😊 Thank you for all the wonderful recommendations!

Do you listen to “audiobooks/podcasts” of dramione fics? If yes, do you have any recommendations?

K, I read the story. Have to admit I would not have stuck through the first 25%+ if it weren’t for your strong recommendation. I really had to grit my teeth and power through that first, really, third of the story until I got through to the part where it was like a flower blooming, very slowly, as the story started to draw me in and captivate me. But, really, that first third of the story was like all of the heart-shredding (actually worse) of manacled without a morsel of sweet anywhere to keep you going forward. It was just hard. I imagine a story with angst/hurt/pain/suffering/sorrow, etc., for me has to be like E.T. (movie) with the trail of reese’s pieces-if there’s not a little sweet bit to pick up here and there, or at least the hope/promise/anticipation of one dangling, then I probably won’t keep going. Once I made it through the hard part, I was/am happy that I did, as the story fulfillment was . . . [can’t think of what word I want here, no one word encapsulates my thoughts/feelings but let’s just say it is a positive word]. Random string of thoughts: One of the things I liked was that the story was very unpredictable-from any point it could branch into dozens of possible lines. A couple misleads I experienced were: I was sure that Snape had was conflicted about helping H with the potion because he believed that the inevitable outcome of any world in which Draco was veered onto a better path would have been that Snape, in any iteration, would have borne the the full brunt of the burden and sacrifices necessary to bring about the outcome of Voldemort’s death at the expense of Snape’s own death, which he was willing for but conflicted. Another mislead I had was thinking how did they get from their coming together to the point of separation, severing, obliviation, and Draco’s death? I was sure it would be a matter of Draco could not stop hurting and killing people with an untamable possessiveness. To the point where it became impossible for H to stay, or impossible for her to stay with her soul intact so Draco had to orchestrate the severing to free her from the bondage of his possession. I agree with you the H/R pairing was unique. I’m a bit puzzled by it, haven’t bought it, but wonder if there is a fic out there somewhere that could sell me on it. I feel like this was a necessary pairing in this story because of Draco’s possessiveness being off the charts dangerous/volitile/toxic. If Harry/Ron hadn’t been paired, I think it would have been untenable for Draco to manage his jealousy. While I was slogging through the morass of the front of the story, I lightened the load and made my “audio” selection (I usually have two books running simultaneously, one audio) a comfort food choice-the darkwood wand (thebemoon), that one kept me laughing out loud (apologies to all the random people at whom I randomly burst out laughing on the trail), which offset the darkness. Although, funny enough, there were echos/parallels between the two. But, really, the mating and pack dominance rituals of rouge sentient blueberry muffins really helped! One of my jobs is a technical editor, so I am more highly attuned to grammar, semantics than most readers. (I purposefully dial it down/code switch when writing in comments, etc., so I make lots of grammar errors here.) I haven’t read a single fic that didn’t have some clean-up to do, it’s always a matter of degree. I can almost always suspend irritation and/or turn off my editing brain to appreciate and enjoy a fic for its assets, even in spite of grammatical issues, but I am still aware-some fics just cause more interference than others. In my opinion, this fic did not have issues that bothered me. Thank you for this rec and kicking my butt to push through-I’m glad I did.

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️to start reading the fic! Ty!

YO I JUST FINISHED READING THIS!!! I just randomly found it on TikTok. It’s heartbreaking, funny and sexy with time travel.

Ugh I looooooooooove deep dives like this!!!❤🙏🏻

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Do you read other fics or only driamone?

You make such great recs! Do you have tips on how you find them? You're one of my new fave creators to watch while working (:

YESS FINALLY GREEN LIGHTTT!!! The fic is mainly in Hermione’s POV and it’s pretty clear if Draco POV comes up, just to clarify. Also, I honestly didn’t even realise it was over 400k words when I read it😭😭 I got so engrossed in the story that I finished it in about 3 days💀

Hi!!Thank you for sharing your bast knowledge in the DM world. I started with Manacled and OH boy.... yeah. No words. So by your recommendation I started (and stoped at Chapter 33) reading The Dragon's Bride by Rizzle in AO3, but I can't find the complete work. I see there is a PDF circling around but is not in order. Do you know where I could read the coherent complete work? Thanks you so much!!! <3

Just added this! Love your Dramoine recommendations!

This will definitely be added to my tbr starting for October!! If the queen says read it consider it done!!!

Stopped at the spoilers but you made it sound so great I immediately downloaded and will start today! Thanks for the rec

Thank you so much 👑❤

I need Dramione academic rivals to lovers recs plss 😭

Did Best Shot get removed from A03? I can’t find it anywhere.

Just completed with the measure of a man it took me a week and I really loved it ❤ now I want to read some one shot stories ig I will read one of the stories you recommended. Ps - I recently found out about your channel, thank God I did ❤

Do you perhaps have a link or it saved on your drive? Coz I can't find Malfoy's Advocate anywhere. Regards. Always love your recommendations

Um, I just had a random (revolutionary?) thought . . . you know how you mentioned that the reason for the name of your channel was in reference to feeling isolated reading fanfiction because of the stigma from non-fanfiction people who maintained preconceived notions such as fanfiction is not real literature, it is second-class, not legitimate, also judgy on smut, etc., . . . especially from literature snobs who consider classical works are the only real literature. So here’s what thought randomly struck me: the joke is on them because a lot of the classics (e.g. Charles Dickens’ works) were actually written/published in monthly installments in periodicals/magazines before they were bound/marketed as books-essentially they were fanfictions!