Fic Rec! - An Inconvenient Wedding

[boundbooks]

Totally awesome story that just popped up at AO3 for Smutty Claus 2011. I give it the highest of recs!

It's Epilogue-compliant and older!Draco/Hermione, and I know that there are people out there who really like those two categories! :D

edit - Oh, and also this fic has virgin!Draco :D

An Inconvenient Wedding (19033 words) by smutty_claus
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy
Characters: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Scorpius Malfoy, Lily Luna Potter
Summary:

When Scorpius and Lily announce their engagement, it really couldn't come at a worse time for Draco and Hermione.

Comments

[boundbooks]

Oh my gosh, speaking of other things, I also just went in and editing that the fic has virgin!Draco. I know that there's a number of us out there who'd appreciate knowing that. :P

[rural_juror]

Virgin both of them IIRC? I don't think the fic had a warning for it, but obvs infidelity would be an applicable one.

I checked and it does list infidelity on the smutty claus comm header as a warning, but on the AO3 page it's placed in the additional tags field.

[boundbooks]

Yup, both of 'em were virgins.

Yeah, AO3 only has four site-level warnings: graphic depictions of violence, major character death, rape/non-con, underage sex.

If it's not one of those, it doesn't go in the warning tag. Which, I think makes sense, since those are kind of the big panfandom, roughly universally agreed-upon 'things you need to warn for'. Really, really broad categories. The default for any work posted on AO3 is 'Author chose not to use archive warnings', so AO3 is set up as a system that basically 1) defaults to 'beware, reader, anything my lurk here' or 2) lets you pick a set of warnings/'no archive warnings apply'.

So, infidelity wouldn't show up in the AO3 warning tag, because infidelity is not an archive-level warning. :)

[rural_juror]

Ohhhh this addresses confusion I was experiencing as to why so many fics had that author chose not to use archive warnings thing.

Good to keep in mind! Must say, even for its drawbacks, I've now become used to AO3 and even prefer to read stories there when given the option to choose between it and other displays.

[boundbooks]

Yes, same with me. When offered an AO3 link vs something else, I'll always take the AO3 version. Between kudos, bookmarks, and the ability to always read it in a style that I like (if I'm logged in), the benefits to reading on AO3 are just too high for me. :D

Alsooooo....

....I seeeee that community you made in your profile....


;P

[rural_juror]

I'm going to email my co-mods in the New Year. Don't want to bother them right now!

I don't think my style changed permanently with AO3. I remember people talking about skins, and for a few hours it did look different for me, but then it went back to whatever it was before and I see the same whether logged in or not.

Luckily, I like whatever it is, otherwise I would change it or read somewhere else.

[boundbooks]

Oh, with the styles, I was thinking of the public skins in particular! :)

AO3 public skins ---> a lot o them are variations on the default, but some of 'em are quite different. Figured I'd pass on the link, just in case you spotted something in the styles that you liked!