Okay beautiful swots, it’s time to nominate and vote for this year’s categories for the Top Fics Survey!

In addition to our 15 Fixed Categories (see list below), we’ll welcome a total of 20 fan-chosen categories to the survey this year.

• Starts: 7 December 2025 at 12:00am / 00:00 EST - Check in your time zone
• Ends: 14 December 2025 at 12:00am / 00:00 EST - Check in your time zone

See full event details: Top Dramione Fics Survey 2025 - Details and Schedule

Category Nomination

To Nominate a Category

1. Check to see if your category has already been nominated
2. Make a comment that includes:
   1. Category name
   2. Any qualification criteria or rules that may not be obvious (if any)

Nomination Guidelines

REMINDER: only works that were posted or WIPs within the last 2 years can qualify for categories.

• Categories that are too specific for a reasonable number of fics to qualify won’t make it into the final list (we will research to verify).
• All categories must accept fic title nominations only (not authors, artists, or other creators)
• You may be asked to provide clarifying details. If we cannot determine how to qualify fics, the nomination will not be considered.
• Categories that are too similar will be merged into a single category (and votes combined).
• Category nominations or replies containing fic titles will be removed.

Category Voting

To Vote for a Category

• Upvote it!
• Upvote as many as you like

Voting Guidelines

By reading this, you have made an Unbreakable Vow to not downvote category nominations. 🔺🔺🔺🔺

Please help us keep the thread organised

• Keep conversation minimal
• First-level comments are for category nominations only
• Keep comment replies to category clarifications, concerns, or category-specific rule suggestions

Fixed Categories List

These don’t require nominations as they will be included automatically.

1. Hogwarts Era
2. Post-War War
3. Wartime (Deathly Hallows Era…ish)
4. Dystopian AU (Voldemort Wins, Apocalypse, etc)
5. Short Fics and Oneshots - under 15k (completed only)
6. Novella Length - 15-50k (completed only)
7. Novel Length - 50-200k (completed only)
8. Epic Length - over 200k
9. Genre: Smut-Free
10. Genre: Gratuitous Smut (Porn with or without plot)
11. Podfics (original fic year doesn’t matter, just when the podfic was posting)
12. Illustrated/graphic fics
13. Text or socmed fics
14. Underrated fics (500 kudos/likes or fewer)
15. Great Intro to Dramione fics (must include short description of why)