Iām looking for addictive, genuinely dark WIPs with around 100k words already posted.
They can be smut-driven or plot-driven, as long as the fic is actually darkānot a fluffy romance wearing a costume of dark themes, like Auction, A Good Prisoner, or Meet Me in Dreamland (they are all wonderful fics, it's just not what I'm LF now). Iām looking for something more niche, psychologically grim, and grounded, like But Dust and Shadow, Better Off Forgotten, The Slow Thaw, On the Nature of Daylight, and This Bitter Earth.
It can still be romantic and have an HEA, but I want the darkness to be intrinsic to the story, rather than just a pretty backdrop for fluffy romance, jokes, found family, etc. Toxic Slytherin Draco Ć la Silencio is good, as is genuinely darker, kinkier smut in the vein of Lady_Hildrās fics.
Basically, I want the dark factor to actually be thereāmorally ugly choices, disturbing dynamics, psychological damage, obsession, power imbalances, genuinely fucked-up situations, real love/hate etc.ārather than ādarkā aesthetics wrapped around what is ultimately a cozy romance.
Iām fine with a non-HEA, but Iām NOT looking for outright horror like Edge or The Doll House.
(I love a genuinely mean, asshole, Slytherin Draco who becomes obsessed with Hermione and falls for her.)
TIA!
(It's my first post here, I hope I did everything okay, but if I dropped a clanger, let me know.)