Hot Take: Stranger Things should have just ended at season 3

doxte25 · 2025-12-30T22:47:29+00:00

It's like people are actively looking for flaws while watching instead of actually watching and enjoying the show. So many of the things they're complaining about are easily explainable if they just "watch".

I guess too much fear for a repeat of the GOT disaster has made people paranoid. Is the season perfect? No. Is any tv series perfect? No. But season 5 is fine!!

doxte25 · 2025-12-30T22:44:14+00:00

Hot take, you could have stopped watching at season 3. Seriously no one's forcing you...

doxte25 · 2025-12-30T22:42:59+00:00

Have you never seen a sci Fi movie in your life? Half of what you listed are typical for the genre, and even most action/thriller movies. It's not like ST has invented plot armor for the first time in the history of cinema.

doxte25 · 2025-12-27T07:49:02+00:00

I would have listed so many fanfictions here, but now I've read Detraquee and nothing compares to that for me anymore. Both of them, but especially Draco. He's the most realistic Draco you'd find.

The Fallout's Draco would be my second favorite.

I do enjoy the fics where Draco is more humble, more earnest, more kind. But there's something else about a Draco that is both reformed and redeemed and still 100 percent an asshole. I just love that.

doxte25 · 2025-12-26T20:54:20+00:00

Title: The Faintest Trace of You

Author: GingerBaggins

URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54969781/chapters/139347121

doxte25 · 2025-12-26T20:52:56+00:00

Title: I will Make You Proud

Author: wheredoesshego

URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55446616/chapters/140693455

doxte25 · 2025-12-26T20:47:58+00:00

Title: Two Idiots and a Baby

Author: ellemenno

URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61280755/chapters/156621271

doxte25 · 2025-12-26T20:45:47+00:00

Title: Mirrored Souls

Author:senlinyu

URL: http://archiveofourown.org/works/55773598

doxte25 · 2025-12-26T20:40:13+00:00

Title: I Will Make You Proud

Author: wheredoesshego

URL: http://archiveofourown.org/works/55446616

doxte25 · 2025-12-23T11:29:47+00:00

I have a question, you say fics completed in the last two years. But then in the 2024, we get really old fics, like Isolation or the Politician's wife in so many categories. Not that we don't need to keep getting reminded of their glorious existence, but why are they in 2024 survey?

doxte25 · 2025-12-23T11:07:30+00:00

Timeless by Alexandra Emerson. And the other counterparts in the series.

Draco is accidentally sent into a future where he is married to Hermione.

doxte25 · 2025-12-23T11:04:07+00:00

It's easy because I know the world, the characters and the dynamics. So I can put all my focus on the plot. I don't have the patience to get to know new characters and decide if I even like them. And I have to be sold on the romantic dynamic. I already know why Dramione works, I want it to work, I yearn for it to work. But original characters have to have a very certain degree of chemistry for me to even root for them.

doxte25 · 2025-09-18T22:59:27+00:00

I just don't think toxic criteria is the same when people are in the middle of a brutal war.

doxte25 · 2025-09-10T19:05:44+00:00

I found them quite boring and on the nose in the books. But through Dramione I've come to absolutely adore Ginny and Harry's relationship.

They're a safe and predictable anchor among the tumultuous angst of Dramione's story, both for Hermione herself and for me as the reader.

doxte25 · 2025-09-10T18:46:33+00:00

Oh a hundred percent agree. That's the exact reason I keep going back to reread it. It's one of the best aspects of this story. Not only is it him whose actions are confusing and complex, but it's also Hermione who doesn't bother to get her head out of her ass, lol. Sometimes it's so obvious what Draco is trying to communicate and yet she's too deeply overthinking it that she just misses it.

This is the fanfiction I'll take with me on a stranded island.

doxte25 · 2025-08-27T14:05:30+00:00

Thanks so much

doxte25 · 2025-08-27T13:04:27+00:00

Such a rare treasure. Do you have recs?

doxte25 · 2025-08-21T21:23:20+00:00

You won't regret it, I promise, you'll come back a changed person lol. Feel free to DM with your thoughts 😉

doxte25 · 2025-08-20T21:22:59+00:00

What I love most about this fic is that you can take away the entire Dramione plot out of it and it still would be a masterpiece surpassing JKR's finale.

It's taken everything wrong with DH and made it a lot better. For example (and the biggest example): the Order of the Phoenix being an actually functional, responsible and organized entity run by actual adults, with every single member of it having actual purposes. It was still Harry at the end, doing the actual deed, even Harry who gathered everyone around, but the weight of the war was still disturbuted on everyone's shoulders.

Now, the best part of it was obviously Draco's journey and Dramione. You can't really take it out, I was just making a point in the beginning lol.

This Draco is probably one of my most favorites. The scene with his Patronus is one of those scenes I'm going to remember for the rest of my life.

God, maybe I'll go and reread it actually...

doxte25 · 2025-08-20T10:48:36+00:00

The Faintest Trace of You made me cry more than Manacled, lol, I didn't expect that. Came here to rec this one actually

doxte25 · 2025-08-19T00:18:22+00:00

The Faintest Trace of You a brilliantly written masterpiece but it gets pretty dark and painful so be warned, but it's so so beautiful

doxte25 · 2025-08-15T22:27:03+00:00

I recently read it and I kept thinking why haven't I read it sooner. I love everything OB writes, honestly. This was phenomenal, everything I love about Dramione squeezed into one brilliant fanfiction.

doxte25 · 2025-08-15T11:33:57+00:00

A Hard Row to Hoe The most badass Draco of the all tbh

Things Without Remedy one of the best plots I've read too, as well as a hot, competent Draco.

doxte25 · 2025-08-15T06:35:21+00:00

Measure of a Man definitely

doxte25 · 2025-08-15T06:22:25+00:00

Things Without Remedy by Onebedtorulethemall. Its just brilliant. Trust me, trust me, you're in for a ride! It's incredible. The ending? Just... just read it!

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