u/Crookshankspiano

I've tagged it as a discussion because I didn't know what other flair is best suited. I used to be one of those readers that got mildly annoyed at the "bullocks" (for bollocks) and other often-made typos - the 'Zambinis', the 'Legiminencies', the 'petronuses'. Even the Americanised "moms" etc.

I imagine these are young writers or simply writers with English not as a first language, but the community is always shitting on these mistakes (including on the larger sub-reddit where posts and comments making fun of these mistakes are recent and still up).

But recently I have read a bunch of pics with these mistakes and all it made me feel was happiness that this was evidence it isn't AI. Kind of like when I grade student essays full of typos and feel happy for the students lol. I read bad dialogue and I am just happy it's not that awful chat gpt three adjective sequence (not tired, not sad. Simply disappointed etc.)

Honestly, good for them. Hopefully they will eventually figure out the correct spellings and get better at their craft.

That's all. I just wanted to express this somewhere given that this is the only fanfic outlet I have.

I am curious about how others feel about this. When I started reading Dramione, I read a few Muggle AUs a few years back and enjoyed them. I think AUs sometimes bring interesting angles into the DM/HG dynamic.

But in the last year or so, I have started a couple of fics, mostly because they come from heavily promoted, big clout authors (who are good writers), but halfway through the second chapter in one recently , I just went, 'wait... Am I just reading... suspiciously US American sounding, Muggle incest smut about two people with names from my fandom and blonde and brown hair?!?' and it was a metaphorical ice water bucket dunked over me. It made me wonder if, at that point, it was even Dramione? Or was I just part of a captive readership where my addiction for things named Dramione was making me read things which otherwise, as regular fiction, I would not be reading? This says more about me than about AUs, I'm aware, but now I'm wondering what others think:

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Is there a point where, for you, the AU is so A, that it has exited the fandom? I think this limit is subjective. For me, l think, yes, there is. But I am curious about others.

Do you read all AUs irrespective, if the author/fic is good?

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If so, do you still consider it Dramione, or are you just reading regular fiction on a website? And then that author is just a regular author you like, and not someone who writes fanfics?

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If you are a writer of AUs that are realllly AU, what would you rather want your fic to be read as? Still Dramione? Or trad fiction that you want readers to know is influenced by the fandom and your love for it?

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If you don't differentiate and find all AUs Dramione, what is the core of Dramione for you? Is it just EtL? The high school bully trope? The ... blonde man trope (idk if that's a thing)?

Hey all, I'm just in the mood for something different from what I have been reading this year. Looking for fics (please, HEA only) with no Theo, no big good Slytherin gang, and no meddling friends. I got into Dramione five-ish years ago, and I have read most of the big ones (I think). So if you have recommendations that are actually from older Dramione that fit this (idk, from a decade ago?) I would love that!